- Keyword = Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, mysteries:historical, bibliomystery, African American Mystery
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THE EXODUS QUEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second suspense thriller featuring archeologist Daniel Knox and linguist Gaille Bonnard. "On a dusty market street in Alexandria, Egyptologist Daniel Knox stumbles across a Dead Sea jar, a unique find that puts him on the trail of an ancient Jewish sect and a possible explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of all time." 326 pp. ISBN: 978-0446563208.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (light toning to the pages, remainder line)
Book ID: 63348More details Price: $15.00 -
A CAT ON JINGLE BELL ROCK: An Alice Nestleton Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring professional actress, semi-pro cat-sitter and amateur detective Alice Nestleton. ISBN: 0-525-943757.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 53562More details Price: $12.50 -
A CAT ON STAGE LEFT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. Hardcover - An Alice Nestleton mystery. 166 pp. ISBN: 0-525-941192.
Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket (chip to upper edge of dj.)
Book ID: 21212More details Price: $12.50 -
A CAT OF ONE'S OWN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. Hardcover - An Alice Nestleton mystery. ISBN: 0-525944281.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 19146More details Price: $12.50 -
A CAT ON JINGLE BELL ROCK: An Alice Nestleton Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring professional actress, semi-pro cat-sitter and amateur detective Alice Nestleton. ISBN: 0-525-943757.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 15806More details Price: $13.50 -
A CAT ON STAGE LEFT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Alice Nestleton mystery. ISBN: 0-525-941192.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 15805More details Price: $12.50 -
A CAT ON JINGLE BELL ROCK: An Alice Nestleton Mystery.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, 1997. dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring professional actress, semi-pro cat-sitter and amateur detective Alice Nestleton. ISBN: 0-525-943757.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53525More details Price: $12.50 -
DROWN ALL THE DOGS: A Neil Hockaday Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84170More details Price: $30.00 -
GRIEF STREET: A Neil Hockaday Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday set in Hell's Kitchen. SIGNED on title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-671519867.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88098More details Price: $30.00 -
THROWN AWAY CHILD: A Neil Hockaday Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday who has traveled to New Orleans, the hometown of his new wife, black actress Ruby Flagg. SIGNED on title page 340 pp. ISBN: 0-671519859.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81201More details Price: $30.00 -
DEVIL'S HEAVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gritty novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday who is now, he hopes, a recovering alcoholic. Still on furlough, he investigates a series of grisly murders in the gay community. SIGNED on title page 322 pp. ISBN: 0-671897780.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81084More details Price: $30.00 -
AMERICAN QUARTET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Features Fiona Fitzgerald, homicide detective on the Washington DC police force who is investigating 3 random murders - and links these to the deaths of 3 American Presidents - and a 4th?. ISBN: 0-87795-365-1.
Condition: Very good+ in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 17229More details Price: $16.50 -
AMERICAN SEXTET.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Homicide Dectective Fiona FitzGerald returns in a novel about the carnal link between six marked Washington officials." 256 pp. ISBN: 0-87795-4143.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 71434More details Price: $16.50 -
THE SCARRED WOMAN: A Department Q Novel.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh thriller by this award-winning Danish writer in the Department Q series. It features chief detective Carl Morck, who was one on Copenhagen's best homicide detectives, until a bullet almost took his life and left one of his teammates dead, the other paralyzed, and who is now running Department Q, a special investigations division formed to look at cold cases. Translated by William Frost. 470 pp. ISBN: 978-0525952480.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (a bit of crinkling to the upper corner of the front endpaper and several pages)
Book ID: 84725More details Price: $19.50 -
THE WASHINGTON DECREE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel, a political thriller about an America in crisis by this award-winning Danish writer, best known as the author of the Department Q Novels. Originally published in Denmark in 2006 and set in what then would have been the near future. Translated by Steve Schein. SIGNED on the title page. Appendix 589 pp. ISBN: 978-1524742522
S.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89352More details Price: $40.00 -
THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first thriller by this award-winning Danish writer to be published in the US, and the first Department Q Novel. It introduces chief detective Carl Morck, who was one on Copenhagen's best homicide detectives, until a bullet almost took his life and left one of his teammates dead, the other paralyzed. To solve the problem of what to do with him, he is "promoted" to run Department Q, a new special investigations division to take a look at cold cases that turns out to be a department of one (and his assistant/driver, a Syrian immigrant named Hassan). Translated by Lisa Hartford. Definitely worth reading. 395 pp. ISBN: 978-0525952480.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78146More details Price: $30.00 -
REDEYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a suspense story involving twin brothers.
Condition: Very good+ in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 13269More details Price: $25.00 -
CASTLE BAREBANE
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Viking, 1976. dj. Hardcover - A novel of suspense set in London and Scotland in the 1880's.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 10113More details Price: $12.50 -
AMENDMENT OF LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Detective novel featuring Inspector C. D. Sloan of the Calleshire County Constabulary and his assistant, D. C. William Crosby A body of a young woman is found in the center of a maze at a stately home. Aird's novels have been described as witty and literate, straddling the line between cozies and police procedurals. She received the Crime Writers' Association 'Golden Handcuffs' Award for lifetime achievement. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-333-593839.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72592More details Price: $25.00 -
AFTER EFFECTS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
London: Macmillan, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Detective novel featuring Inspector C. D. Sloan of the Calleshire County Constabulary and his assistant, D. C. William Crosby. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- with good wishes from the author" and SIGNED and dated in the year of publication. Aird's novels have been described as witty and literate, straddling the line between cozies and police procedurals. She received the Crime Writers' Association 'Golden Handcuffs' Award for lifetime achievement. 167 pp. ISBN: 0-333-660102.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71205More details Price: $50.00 -
THE EDGERSON AUDIT, a Bahamian Adventure.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual mystery based on off-shore banking in the Caribbean by this Canadian historian. ISBN: 0-8027-09915.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 3968More details Price: $20.00 -
THE FEBRUARY TROUBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second highly praised Dave Garrett mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 235 pp. Walker is known for its small printings. ISBN: 0-8027-12444.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 62129More details Price: $35.00 -
TANGLED JUNE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett. Based on the author's own search for his birth parents. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-802733050.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62297More details Price: $28.50 -
THE JANUARY CORPSE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery - introduces disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett - suspenseful, and with a surprising ending. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32062.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58969More details Price: $35.00 -
THE JANUARY CORPSE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery - introduces disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett - suspenseful, and with a surprising ending. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32062.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual flaws, including some spine slant, but a good reading copy of a really good mystery, and in a near fine dustjacket (value is in dj.)
Book ID: 6981More details Price: $16.50 -
BURNING MARCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-525-937188.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58926More details Price: $16.50 -
CRUEL APRIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-525-957196.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62358More details Price: $28.50 -
THE JANUARY CORPSE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery - introduces disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett - suspenseful, and with a surprising ending. SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32062.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82770More details Price: $50.00 -
APPOINTMENT IN MAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32798.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52167More details Price: $25.00 -
AN UNTHYMELY DEATH and Other Garden Mysteries.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Berkley, (2003). First edition - "A Treasury of Stories, Herbal Lore, Recipes and Crafts." Ten stories, including four written especially for this book, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs, featuring lawyer turned herbalist, China Bayles. SIGNED on the title page. Includes introductory notes, and boxed recipes, gardening tips and herbal lore scattered throughout. xiii, 254 pp. ISBN: 0-425190021.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87306More details Price: $21.50
