- Keyword = Mystery, suspense and detective fiction, mysteries:historical, bibliomystery
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ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of suspense, set during the Christmas season, and featuring Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-684-857839.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82982More details Price: $14.50 -
PLOT COUNTER-PLOT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Walker, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book a mystery involving two novelists. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-53205.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket. (rather severe toning to the pages, price-clipped, rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket.)
Book ID: 51882More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DEAD BEAT SCROLL: An August Riordan Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Lutz, FL: Down & Out Books, (2019) dj. SIGNED - The seventh mystery in this noir series featuring jazz bass-playing private investigator August Riordan, who has returned to San Francisco to avenge the death of a friend and former partner, but finds himself caught up in a string of murders involving a previously unknown manuscript purportedly by the beat writer Jack Kerouac. INSCRIBED on the title page. 265 pp. plus ads. ISBN: 978-1932557534.
Condition: Very good (some minor wear to the covers) .
Book ID: 87293More details Price: $20.00 -
ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A very funny first novel, a story of literary fraud - satire combined with gripping suspense. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0194170.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 62610More details Price: $30.00 -
A SHROUD FOR AQUARIUS: A Mallory Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel set in Port City, Iowa, featuring Mallory, a writer of detective stories, who somehow finds that real life crime distracts him from his fictional crime. SIGNED on the title page. 174 pp. ISBN: -802756298.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 78701More details Price: $25.00 -
A SHROUD FOR AQUARIUS: A Mallory Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel set in Port City, Iowa, featuring Mallory, a writer of detective stories, who somehow finds that real life crime distracts him from his fictional crime. SIGNED on the title page. 174 pp. ISBN: -802756298.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82528More details Price: $30.00 -
GALLOW'S THIEF.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1817 London, where a portrait painter has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he was painting. Author's note. 297 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-00-7127944.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72504More details Price: $17.50 -
GALLOW'S THIEF.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Harper Collins, (2001.). Novel set in 1817 London, where a portrait painter has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he was painting. Author's note. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-00-7127944.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 56793More details Price: $12.00 -
GALLOW'S THIEF.
Edition: First printing.
London: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1817 London, where a portrait painter has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he was painting. Author's note. 281 pp. Illustrated map endpapers. ISBN: 0-00-7127154.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 77519More details Price: $21.50 -
COLD HAVANA GROUND.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Akashic Books. (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel to be published in English by one of the three "fathers" of Cuban crime fiction - "Cuban Noir" mystery based on actual events in Cuba involving three Afro-Cuban religions: Santeria, Palo Monte, and the Abakua Secret Society. Based on the Havana police records, this is quthentic look into little-known aspects of Cuban society: when a Chinese cadaver is stolen from a cemetery in Havana, the Cuban police are stumped. Their investigation leads to a priest in the Abakua Secret Society. Translated from the Spanish by Marjorie Moore. Dust jacket praise from Martin Cruz Smith, Lawrence Block and others. Map endpapers. 300 pp. plus 2 pp of publisher's advertisements. ISBN: 1-888451521.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 35964More details Price: $20.00 -
THE KILLING SEASON: A Summer Inside an Lapd Homicide Division.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a nonfiction account of a team of homicide detectives - veteran Pete Razanskas and Marcella Winn, a street smart young black woman who grew up in the 'hood herself - and their day to day work in South Central Los Angeles. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Photographs, notes. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-68480235X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64485More details Price: $30.00 -
WAKING SAMUEL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bloomsbury, (2003.). First edition - The author's first novel (second book), a story of pychological suspense, set in Seatle and Alaska. 262 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 37916More details Price: $15.00 -
DYING VOICES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery novel set at a small college in a small town in Texas - a world Crider knows well as the chair of English literature at Texas college. Features the perpetual worrier, Professor Carl Burns, who has been assigned to head up a seminar organized to honor a former professor, turned Hollywood celebrity. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-312033281.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82661More details Price: $17.50 -
NO WORD FROM WINIFRED
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth literate mystery featuring English professor/sleuth Kate Fansler. ISBN: 0-525-244328.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21164More details Price: $18.00 -
NO WORD FROM WINIFRED
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth literate mystery featuring English professor/sleuth Kate Fansler. ISBN: 0-525-244328.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 21165More details Price: $20.00 -
SWEET DEATH, KIND DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 7th literate mystery featuring English professor/sleuth Kate Fansler. ISBN: 0-525-242414.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 26925More details Price: $18.50 -
A TRAP FOR FOOLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - LIterary murder mystery featuring Kate Fansler, professor-cum-amateur sleuth. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-525-089357.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61776More details Price: $18.00 -
THE JAMES JOYCE MURDER.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Dutton, (1982.) dj. Hardcover - Reissue of the second literary murder mystery featuring Kate Fansler, and involving a cache of papers from D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce (including an unpublished manuscript), and other eminent writers found in the estate of a recently deceased publisher. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-525-241019.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (several short closed tears to the dj).
Book ID: 36911More details Price: $13.50 -
THE PLAYERS COME AGAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - LIterary murder mystery featuring Kate Fansler, professor-cum-amateur sleuth. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-394-587855.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but a small spot to top edge of textblock)
Book ID: 63324More details Price: $18.00 -
THE JAMES JOYCE MURDER.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Dutton, (1982.) dj. Hardcover - Reissue of the second literary murder mystery featuring Kate Fansler, and involving a cache of papers from D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce (including an unpublished manuscript), and other eminent writers found in the estate of a recently deceased publisher. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-525-241019.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (glue remnants under dj flaps and on rear endpaper but no library markings.)
Book ID: 50507More details Price: $12.50 -
THE QUESTION OF MAX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - LIterary murder mystery featuring Kate Fansler, professor-cum-amateur sleuth. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-525-089357.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71436More details Price: $19.50 -
THE QUESTION OF MAX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - LIterary murder mystery featuring Kate Fansler, professor-cum-amateur sleuth. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-525-089357.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped).
Book ID: 60314More details Price: $18.00 -
POETIC JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third literary murder mystery featuring Professor Kate Fansler, and her fiance Reed Amhearst of the District Attorney's office. This one finds her in thrall to the poetry of W. H. Auden. 177 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74403More details Price: $35.00 -
THE JAMES JOYCE MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of the second literary murder mystery featuring Kate Fansler, and involving a cache of papers from D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce (including an unpublished manuscript), and other eminent writers found in the estate of a recently deceased publisher. 176 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (original price of 3.95 on dj flap) Uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 74402More details Price: $60.00 -
GOLDEN BUDDHA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Berkley, (2003.). First edition - First novel in the Oregon Files series, featuring Juan Cabrillo. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-425-191729.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 41680More details Price: $12.50 -
UNDER GROUND.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (1997). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "Transit cop Jack Swann travels the New York subways day after day, catching the occasional fare-beater or mugger. One day, as he is tangling with a thief, a shot is fired and a boy lies dead.. . [this] single violent incident has changed his life and his outlook." Daly is a journalist in New York City, so he knows it well. 415 pp. ISBN: 0-316217093.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76199More details Price: $17.50 -
THE DEVIL YOU SAY.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Avon, (1993). First edition - The author's first novel - "Satan has risen. and just in time for tea". Set in London, psychic Audrey Arbuthnot is hired to bid for the mysterious Book of Shadows at a Sotheby auction. 182 pp. Cover art by James Warren. ISBN: 9780380769933.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 58158More details Price: $10.00 -
BLOCK 11.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82172More details Price: $25.00 -
MAMA ROCKS THE EMPTY CRADLE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, 1998. First edition - African American mystery featuring Simone Covington - in this story, she goes back to South Carolina to help her mama after an operation.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (publisher's letter laid in.)
Book ID: 11553More details Price: $15.00 -
MAMA ROCKS THE EMPTY CRADLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American mystery featuring Simone Covington - in this story, she goes back to South Carolina to help her mama after an operation. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-553-107038.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73923More details Price: $30.00
