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THE HIDDEN PORTAL.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: P. F. Collier and Sons, Ltd, (1946.). Hardcover - A "Crime Club" edition. A vintage mystery. 284 pp.
Condition: Good condition in a rather attractive dark blue binding with stylized tree on front, gilt titles on the spine. (prev owner's name stamp.)
Book ID: 56130More details Price: $12.50 -
CROOKS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Walker, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Harry Sommers adventure.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 14279More details Price: $12.50 -
SWORN TO DEFEND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-425-163032.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66509More details Price: $16.50 -
WHERE NOBODY DIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson (the first in the series was nominated for an Edgar). 277 pp. ISBN: 0-312-86700x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, some rubbing to edges of dj)
Book ID: 66510More details Price: $16.50 -
MEAN STREAK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-425-153177.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62390More details Price: $16.50 -
FRESH KILLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson. SIGNED on the title page. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-425-147851.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63550More details Price: $30.00 -
THE WOWZER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy black and white wrappers.
Book ID: 53737More details Price: $12.50 -
SOME MUST WATCH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1941) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller, originally published in the UK in 1933, which creates an atmosphere of growing terror and suspense. A young girl, who has not been able to speak since childhood, has taken a position as a "lady help" in a remote mansion and finds herself threatened by a killer who has a penchant for strangling handicapped young women. Basis for several films including the classic 1946 RKO suspense movie, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, and Elsa Lanchester. 319 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in maroon cloth in a like dustjacket. The book is missing the front free endpaper, has a slanted spine and somewhat bumped corners, rear hinge cracking. The dustjacket has significant edgewear, some minor loss at the ends of the spine, rubbing and wear to the folds, original price of 2.00 still present. A flawed, but still readable and possibly restorable copy of a very scarce book in dust jacket.
Book ID: 78819More details Price: $400.00 -
DEATH NOTES.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Severn House, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in San Francisco and featuring private investigator Ronnie Ventana. INSCRIBED on the title page. 220 pp. ISBN: 978-0727861986.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64560More details Price: $30.00 -
HUSH.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A stand-alone thriller - an ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder, and realizes it is not just the law hunting her. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 9780061576614.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder dot).
Book ID: 62169More details Price: $25.00 -
A BODY TO DIE FOR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. As editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine, White knows the world she writes about from the inside. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-446-531480.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 62170More details Price: $25.00 -
LETHALLY BLOND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. As editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine, White knows the world she writes about from the inside. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-446-577952.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some toning to the edges of the textblock.)
Book ID: 62171More details Price: $25.00 -
SO PRETTY IT HURTS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2012 dj. SIGNED hardcover - Mystery featuring Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. As editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine, White knows the world she writes about from the inside. SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-446-577952.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62176More details Price: $20.00 -
IF LOOKS COULD KILL.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first mystery - it introduces Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-446-530239.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 29083More details Price: $24.50 -
IF LOOKS COULD KILL.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first mystery - it introduces Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-446-530239.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32013More details Price: $15.00 -
OVER HER DEAD BODY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Warner, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Fourth mystery featuring Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. As editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine, White knows the world she writes about from the inside. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-446531766.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages).
Book ID: 77494More details Price: $19.50 -
'TIL DEATH DO US PART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-446-531758.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 42845More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DARK BONES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Seattle: Montlake Romance, (2019). SIGNED first edition - "When Detective Rebecca North left her rural hometown, she vowed never to return. Her father's apparent suicide has changed that." SIGNED on the title page. 464 pp. ISBN: 978-1503941212.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75234More details Price: $21.00 -
A BROTHER'S BLOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Macavity awards, set in rural Maine near a former World War II German Prisoner-of-War logging camp. 40 years later, after the fall of the Berlin Wall makes it possible for East Germans to travel, a man arrives in the U.S. to try to learn the details of his brother's death - supposedly by drowning after an escape attempt - and a woman who worked in the camp occasionally while a young girl becomes caught up in the search for the long hidden truth after her brother is killed. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-060186674.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80984More details Price: $35.00 -
DEAD SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery feauturing Florida marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp. Map endpapers of Sanibel and Captiva Islands. ISBN: 978-0399155406.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73295More details Price: $30.00 -
NIGHT MOVES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2013.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 20th thriller feauturing Florida marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford and his friend Tomlinson. 352 pp. Map endpapers of Sanibel and Captiva Islands. ISBN: 978-0399158124.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new)
Book ID: 68037More details Price: $17.50 -
SHARK RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 8th mystery featuring marine biologist Doc Ford, set on the Gulf coast of Florida. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-399147292.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57780More details Price: $17.50 -
BLACK WIDOW.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2008.). First edition - Mystery set in Florida, feauturing marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. 342 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60882More details Price: $25.00 -
DEEP BLUE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2016.). First edition - Thriller set in Florida and Mexico, feauturing marine biologist (and deepcover operative) Doc Ford. 316 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69431More details Price: $20.00 -
TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2000.). First edition - The 7th mystery featuring marine biologist Doc Ford - set in the labyrinth of mangrove trees, sawgrass and swamp on the Gulf coast of Florida called the Ten Thousand Islands. 320 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 39325More details Price: $25.00 -
TAMPA BURN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2004.). Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Florida, feauturing marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 50939More details Price: $20.00 -
NORTH OF HAVANA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery feauturing marine biologist Doc Ford. SIGNED on the title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-399-142428.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (fore-edge of front board slightly bumped, corner of rear endpaper torn.)
Book ID: 52222More details Price: $30.00 -
DEAD OF NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Florida, feauturing marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-399-15244x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 52236More details Price: $30.00 -
NORTH OF HAVANA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery feauturing marine biologist Doc Ford. SIGNED on the title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-399-142428.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52241More details Price: $35.00 -
TAMPA BURN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Florida, feauturing marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-399-1515818.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line)
Book ID: 52397More details Price: $25.00
