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THE DAY HE LEFT: A Violent Crime Investigations Team Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2022). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in this highly praised police procedural series set in California - a middle school teacher disappears on his way to work, and as the investigation proceeds, more and more secrets surface. SIGNED on the title page. 373 pp. ISBN: 978-1464214219.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89219More details Price: $24.50 -
BOUND: Book One in the Doyle Witch Cozy Mystery Series.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Misterio Press, (2016). SIGNED first edition - "Bound by magic, bound by love, bound by murder... The Bonheim triplets live seemingly ordinary lives, hiding their magic from their neighbors in the small, mountain town of Doyle, California." But when a body is found in Jayce's coffee shop, and the sheriff with a grudge, no-nonsense Karin must prove her sister innocent. The first book in the Doyle Witch trilogy, each will be told from a different sisters point of view. SIGNED on the title page. 207 pp. ISBN: 978-1944767167.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (upper corner bumped).
Book ID: 86077More details Price: $21.50 -
WANTED FOR KILLING.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - A sometime secret agent, hiding out on the island of Corsica, is asked by his friends to help with threats and harrassments from an unsavory crew. 190 pp.
Condition: Ex-library, but overall tight and clean without any specific markings (slight spine slant, "mystery" stamped on ffep, and tape marks on boards ) in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58337More details Price: $13.50 -
CRIME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2008.). First edition - After a child-murder case, Edinburgh Detective Inspector suffers a mental breakdown and is given time off to recuperate. He heads to Miami with his fiance only to find himself in the middle of an even nastier case, and the only protector of a 10 year old girl. 344 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55928More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BULLET TRICK.
Edition: First printing.
Edinburgh: Cannongate, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel set in the seedy underground world of Berlin's cabarets. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated endpapers. 363 pp. ISBN: 1841958034.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60945More details Price: $35.00 -
THE CUTTING ROOM.
Edition: First North American edition and first hardcover edition.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88271More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GIRL IN THE CELLAR.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: HarperPerennial, (1992). A classic Miss Silver mystery, originally published in 1961. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0974451.
Condition: Very good (usual light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 72813More details Price: $9.50 -
POISON IN THE PEN
Edition: Pocket paperback.
New York: Bantam, 1985. A Miss Silver mystery.
Condition: Near very good (single crease on spine.)
Book ID: 12361More details Price: $10.00 -
THE CATHERINE WHEEL.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: HarperPerennial, (1991). A classic Miss Silver mystery, originally published in 1949. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0974419.
Condition: Good overall (usual light toning to the pages, crease on front cover)
Book ID: 72814More details Price: $9.00 -
NO HIDING PLACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth Tamara Hayle mystery, set in New Jersey. SIGNED on the title page 207 pp. ISBN: 0-399-143181.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (rem dot).
Book ID: 72982More details Price: $25.00 -
DEVIL'S GONNA GET HIM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring African American sleuth Tamara Hayle, set in New Jersey. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140271.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.(a new copy, but with a remainder mark,)
Book ID: 51775More details Price: $16.50 -
DEVIL'S GONNA GET HIM.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Avon, (1996.). The second mystery featuring African American sleuth Tamara Hayle, set in New Jersey. ISBN: 0-380-724928.
Condition: Very good (minor wear to covers, usual toning to pages.)
Book ID: 51820More details Price: $8.50 -
DEVIL'S GONNA GET HIM.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - The second mystery featuring African American sleuth Tamara Hayle, set in New Jersey. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140271.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52291More details Price: $12.50 -
DEVIL'S GONNA GET HIM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring African American sleuth Tamara Hayle, set in New Jersey. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140271.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 35562More details Price: $25.00 -
EASIER TO KILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery featuring African American sleuth Tamara Hayle, set in Newark, New Jersey. 193 pp. ISBN: 0-399-144455.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 35566More details Price: $16.00 -
DEVIL'S GONNA GET HIM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring African American sleuth Tamara Hayle, set in New Jersey. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140271.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 38817More details Price: $18.00 -
DEVIL'S GONNA GET HIM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring African American sleuth Tamara Hayle, set in New Jersey. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140271.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (some sunning to the dj, tear at upper corner of fold.)
Book ID: 39638More details Price: $13.50 -
EASIER TO KILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring African American sleuth Tamara Hayle, set in Newark, New Jersey. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-399-143181.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64988More details Price: $16.50 -
WHERE EVIL SLEEPS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Tamara Hayle mystery; this is set in Jamaica rather than in New Jersey. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-399-141456.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 66027More details Price: $16.50 -
THIS FAR NO FURTHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel, a crime thriller. Sue Grafton called it one of the most exciting mystery debuts in years. Introduces Harding, former private investigator in Chicago, until a case turned on him, and now an ex-con working off the books, 333 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814633.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52689More details Price: $22.50 -
THIS FAR NO FURTHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel, a crime thriller. Sue Grafton called it one of the most exciting mystery debuts in years. Introduces Harding, former private investigator in Chicago, until a case turned on him, and now an ex-con working off the books, 333 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814633.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj) .
Book ID: 87926More details Price: $19.50 -
KISS IT GOODBYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Chicago ex-con, unlicensed private detective Harding and his fearless girlfriend, Allison. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-684-870630.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89121More details Price: $19.50 -
PRETTY BALLERINA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Chicago ex-con, unlicensed private detective Harding. ISBN: 0-684-814641.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (signs of having been read.)
Book ID: 34923More details Price: $15.00 -
A SUGGESTION OF DEATH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pocket Books, (2000). First edition - Second legal thriller featuring Cinda Hayes, set in Boulder, Colorado, where the author is a law professor and a former federal prosecutor. Bibliography. 341 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers (a preliminary cover, very different from the final trade edition).
Book ID: 71885More details Price: $18.00 -
A SUGGESTION OF DEATH.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Headline (Hodder), (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second legal thriller featuring Cinda Hayes, set in Boulder, Colorado, where the author is a law professor and a former federal prosecutor. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-747220085.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81314More details Price: $40.00 -
THE MEDICI DAGGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of adventure and suspense which ranges between California and Tuscany in Italy, as Reb Barnett seeks da Vinci's Circles of Truth, a coded 15th century map that reveals the hiding place of the Medici Dagger, "a legendary weapon made of an alloy so light and indestructible it is worth a fortune to today's arms dealers." SIGNED on the half title page. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-20357.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 43806More details Price: $25.00 -
CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
DLSIJ Press, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A lesbian legal suspense novel featuring business attorney Meg Stryker. INSCRIBED on a blank preliminary page and dated in the year of publication, 175 pp. Promotional book mark laid in. ISBN: 9781932014280.
Condition: Fine in glossy black wrappers.
Book ID: 69796More details Price: $15.00 -
RIVER CITY DEAD: An Aggie Mundeen Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Henery Press, (2017). SIGNED first edition - Advice columnist Aggie Mundeen and SAPD Sam Vanderhoven plan to get together on San Antonio's River Walk during Fiesta Week - but murder gets in their way. SIGNED on the title page and dated in March 2018. 213 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1635111330.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76965More details Price: $20.00 -
FIRST CLASS MALE.
Edition: First edition.
Deerfield Beach, FL: Lighthouse Press, Inc., (2001). SIGNED first edition - Set in upstate New York, this is the story of "a small town postmaster who triumphs over a ruthless District Attorney, a mysterious adversary, an unsympathetic public and finally his own heart." SIGNED on the title page. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-971191530.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (appears unread, lower corner slightly bumped). Promotional card laid in.
Book ID: 77162More details Price: $18.00 -
ALMOST LOVE, ALMOST DEATH.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
1stBooks, (2001.). SIGNED - Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by this Northern California author. A novel of romance and suspense, involving Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-759604894.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 35931More details Price: $15.00
