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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 -
NIGHT SUMMONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sacramento author's first book, a mystery set in academia, and introducing Athena Dawes. ISBN: 0-312-146914.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22595More details Price: $25.00 -
NIGHT SUMMONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sacramento author's first book, a mystery set in academia, and introducing Athena Dawes.SIGNED on the title page with the words 'Best wishes.'. ISBN: 0-312-146914.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 26533More details Price: $20.00 -
GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Morrow (Harper Collins), (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A taut suspenseful novel by the author of 'Chocolat ' - set at an English prep school (not unlike the one Harris used to teach at), and told in the alternating voices of two teachers, one a symbol of the school's long tradition, the other a newcomer. Nominated for the 2006 Edgar. INSCRIBED on the title page. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0559144.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 37964More details Price: $40.00 -
CRUEL AS THE GRAVE.
Edition: First printing.
[Johnson City, Tennessee:] Silver Dagger Mysteries, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set featuring grad student Maggie McClendon set in a small town in Mississippi. SIGNED on the title page. 202 pp. ISBN: 1570722668.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61926More details Price: $25.00 -
CLOSER THAN THE BONES: An Ernestine Carpenter Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press / Silver Dagger Mysteries, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Ernestine Carpenter, recently retired after teaching high school English for 40 years, and, as she admits, more than a bit nosy. She is also good at solving problems. SIGNED on the title page. 202 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 1570721823.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68083More details Price: $25.00 -
IN THE SHADOW OF KING'S.
Edition: First printing.
London: Collins, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel, introducing Gillian Adams, an historian who has returned to Cambridge Universtty for the first time she took her doctorate 15 years earlier - only to find herself doubly involved in the murder of a professor, as witness and as friend of Scotland Yard detective Edward Gisborne. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-002313960.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages) in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83745More details Price: $20.00 -
WHY AREN'T THEY SCREAMING?
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's 2nd mystery featuring Loretta Lawson, scholar and feminist, set in Oxford. . British reviews called her first book in the series "a suberb first, intelligent & literary...drily witty.... a real discovery." 200 pp. ISBN: 0-684-190281.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 24514More details Price: $18.00 -
WHY AREN'T THEY SCREAMING?
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's 2nd mystery featuring Loretta Lawson, scholar and feminist, set in Oxford. . British reviews called her first book in the series "a suberb first, intelligent & literary...drily witty.... a real discovery." 200 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-684-190281.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63983More details Price: $21.50 -
NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian-born author's 4th mystery, set during May Week at Cambridge University in England, and featuring Laura Principal (whom Ian Rankin called "one of contemporary crime fiction's most intriguing and satisfying sleuths.") Spring lived and worked as an academic in Cambridge, so she knows the area well. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-752824783.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73844More details Price: $21.50 -
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (1994). Hardcover first edition - Canadian-born author's first novel and first mystery, introducing Laura Principal who has left an academic life at Cambridge University for a career as an investigator. Ian Rankin called Prinicpal "one of contemporary crime fiction's most intriguing and satisfying sleuths." Like her protaganist, Spring lived and worked as an academic in Cambridge, so she knows the area well. Short-listed as Best First Novel for both an Anthony and an Arthur Ellis Award. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-857972414.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (no price on the dj, indicating that this copy was printed for the export market)
Book ID: 73845More details Price: $25.00 -
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Canadian-born author's third mystery, featuring Laura Principal who left an academic life at Cambridge University for a career as an investigator. Ian Rankin called Prinicpal "one of contemporary crime fiction's most intriguing and satisfying sleuths." Like her protaganist, Spring lived and worked as an academic in Cambridge, so she knows the area well. In this novel she investigates the case of an eleven yerar old boy who was convicted of murdering his foster mother. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-752804499.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73941More details Price: $40.00 -
RUNNING FOR SHELTER.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian-born author's second mystery, featuring Laura Principal who left an academic life at Cambridge University for a career as an investigator. Ian Rankin called Prinicpal "one of contemporary crime fiction's most intriguing and satisfying sleuths." Like her protaganist, Spring lived and worked as an academic in Cambridge, so she knows the area well. In this novel she becomes involved in the plight of foreign born domestic workers. 216 pp. ISBN: 1-857976460.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73943More details Price: $25.00 -
DEATH BY DEGREES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery - set in the academia at a university in Monterey, California - a world the author knows well, as a former college president. Wilson was also the founder of the Clarion Writers' Workshop. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-312-134622.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (several edge tears to dj).
Book ID: 63858More details Price: $15.00
