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BUY BACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A noir crime novel set in New York's underworld - "Tom Davin is a Brooklyn investigator in a jam. His girl friend split and stuck him with four cats and a debt to a ruthless loan shark. He arranges an art theft to cover his debt - only someone swipes the paintings from his crew." 309 pp. ISBN: 9780312601881.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57811More details Price: $17.50 -
DEADLY STAKES.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Walker, 1989. Hardcover first edition - First mystery featuring computer genius Jason Reddy and martial arts devotee Jessica Munroe written under the Wiser pseudonym by husband and wife team, Harry and Linda Friedman.
Condition: Fine in a fine dusjacket.
Book ID: 3986More details Price: $18.00 -
23 SHADES OF BLACK.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Signet, (1998). SIGNED - An unusual first mystery, featuring a New York street smart cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela. Nominated for the Edgar. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-451-197488.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 66573More details Price: $14.50 -
BLOOD LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a former New York street smart cop originally from Ecuador, turned private investigator. In this novel, she takes her young daughter back to Ecuador to see their extended family, and a priest, who had helped her in the past, is gunned down in front of her. SIGNED on the title page. Highly recommended. Glossary, 324 pp. ISBN: 0-312-281862.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a fine, unmarked, dust jacket .
Book ID: 67049More details Price: $16.50 -
SOFT MONEY: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a New York street smart investigator, and former cop, originally from Ecuador, who has traded in her uniform for single motherhood. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945458.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77275More details Price: $30.00 -
THE GLASS FACTORY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 2000. SIGNED first edition - Mystery, featuring a New York street smart investigator, and former cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela - and is now a single parent trying to raise her 3 year old daughter in a city full of toxins. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp.
Condition: Fine in pale green printed wrappers.
Book ID: 60867More details Price: $28.50 -
23 SHADES OF BLACK.
Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing.
New York: Signet, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover - An unusual first mystery, featuring a New York street smart cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela. Nominee for the Edgar. Originally published as a paperback original by a small press, so this book club edition is the first hardcover edition of this title. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to upper edge of front cover of dj)
Book ID: 62075More details Price: $23.50 -
RED HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a former New York street smart cop originally from Ecuador, now an apprentice to a private investigator. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-312-28182X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62076More details Price: $30.00 -
THE GLASS FACTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring a New York street smart investigator, and former cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela - and is now a single parent trying to raise her 3 year old daughter in a city full of toxins. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945458.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62077More details Price: $30.00 -
23 SHADES OF BLACK.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
East Setauket, NY: TIP/The Imaginary Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - An unusual first mystery, featuring a New York street smart cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela. Nominee for the Edgar. SIGNED on the title page. 270 pp. Cover illustration by Angela Bocage. ISBN: 0-965681416.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58075More details Price: $18.00 -
RED HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a former New York street smart cop originally from Ecuador, now an apprentice to a private investigator. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-312-28182X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 62663More details Price: $25.00 -
BLOOD LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a former New York street smart cop originally from Ecuador, turned private investigator. In this novel, she takes her young daughter back to Ecuador to see their extended family, and a priest, who had helped her in the past, is gunned down in front of her. SIGNED on the title page. Highly recommended. Glossary, 324 pp. ISBN: 0-312-281862.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62664More details Price: $30.00 -
WATCH ME GO.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (tanning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 83218More details Price: $18.50 -
THE SALAZAR GRANT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Rinehart, (1959.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a mystery set in the old mining towns of New Mexico. 253 pp. Dust jacket design by Bill Feder.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (tanning to the pages, edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 45079More details Price: $18.00 -
WODEHOUSE ON CRIME.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: International Polygonics, (1990) dj. Hardcover - "A Dozen Tales of Fiendish Cunning" originally published in 1981 on the hundredth anniversary of Wodehouse's birth. Edited and with a Preface by D.R. Benson. A title in the Library of Crime Classics. xvii, 282 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 89267More details Price: $16.50 -
MacKINNON'S MACHINE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A literate thriller involving a forner SAS trooper and a San Diego librarian.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 5213More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HARBINGER EFFECT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.). First edition - Her second novel, an international espionage thriller which begins when a Soviet photojournalist sneaks into an American embassy in West Africa asking for asylum. 322 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 48946More details Price: $15.00 -
MURDER AT LA MARIMBA: A South Bronx Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book (Carson Wolfe is a pseudonym for a NYC criminal lawyer). Combines courtroom drama with a witty Puerto Rican detecting couple - Maria and Carolito are the Nick and Nora Charles of the South Bronx. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-312-552858.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 53839More details Price: $17.50 -
PRIVATE PRACTICES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel (2nd book), a psychological thriller about two brothers, both doctors. ISBN: 0-671-22858-7.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (rem mark.)
Book ID: 16746More details Price: $12.50 -
MURDER AT THE PTA LUNCHEON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first mystery, introduces Susan Henshaw. ISBN: 0-312-014805.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (light edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 28304More details Price: $20.00 -
SMASH CUT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second mystery, featuring Jack Lynch and set in New Orleans. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-312-064675.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52665More details Price: $25.00 -
THE PROPHETESS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the very near future at the time this was written - in 1999 in a world gripped by milennial fever, and where a young archeologist has just uncovered a cache of papyrus documents in the Sinai desert. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-316816523.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small black line on bottom edge)
Book ID: 67794More details Price: $13.50 -
DOLL'S EYES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Basis for the film In Dreams starring Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr. ISBN: 0-688-124402.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (two spots blacked over on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 20100More details Price: $18.00 -
WE ALL FALL DOWN.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Leisure Books, (2008). SIGNED first edition - His third novel, SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0843960532.
Condition: Near fine (light crease on spine, sticker inside front cover)
Book ID: 64777More details Price: $13.50 -
DID NOT FINISH.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Great Britain and US: Severn House Publishers, LTD / Creme De La Creme (2011). SIGNED - The first novel in the Aidy Westlake series. As a former race-car driver himself, Wood knows the world of auto racing well. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 978-1780295077.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65992More details Price: $18.50 -
WE ALL FALL DOWN.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Leisure Books, (2008). SIGNED first edition - His third novel, SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0843960532.
Condition: Good overall (creasing to spine, some spine slant)
Book ID: 67121More details Price: $9.50 -
ACCIDENTS WAITING TO HAPPEN.
Edition: First thus- a pocket paperback.
New York: Leisure Books, (2007.). SIGNED - A suspense novel, SIGNED on the title page by the author. 337 pp plus publisher's advertisements. ISBN: 9780843958300.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 39220More details Price: $10.00 -
FLASHBACK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Police chief Reid Bennett and his German shepherd Sam, set in the one-policeman town of Murphy's Harbour. 224 pp. Dust jacket illustration by James Sullivan. ISBN: 0-684-194147.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58292More details Price: $15.00 -
LIVE BAIT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Reid Bennett mystery, set in Toronto, Canada. 212 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-684183307.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66635More details Price: $15.00 -
WHEN THE KILLING STARTS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Police chief Reid Bennett and his German shepherd Sam, set in the one-policeman town of Murphy's Harbour. 278 pp. Dust jacket illustration by John Gampert. ISBN: 0-684-183315.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63462More details Price: $17.50
