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DEATH IN A PROMISED LAND.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Pocket Books, 1993. Hardcover first edition - A novel of conspiracy linking the King assassination with the Russian KGB.
Condition: F/F (as new.)
Book ID: 5427More details Price: $15.00 -
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SHADES OF BLACK: Crime and Mystery Stories by African American Authors.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Berkley, (2005). SIGNED - The first anthology consisting entirely of stories by African American mystery writers. Preface by Lerone Bennett, Jr. Introduction by Eleanor Taylor Bland. Contributors include Frankie Y. Bailey, Jacqueline Turner Banks, Chris Benson, Eleanor Taylor Bland and Anthony Bland, Patricia E. Canterbury, Christopher Chambers, Tracy P. Clark, Evelyn Coleman, Grace F. Edwards, Robert Greer, Terris McMahan Grimes, Gar Anthony Haywood, Hugh Holton, Geri Spencer Hunter, Dicey Scroggins Jackson, Glenville Lovelll, Lee E. Meadows, Penny Mickelbury, Walter Mosley, Percy Spurlark Parker, Gary Phillips, and Charles Shipps. SIGNED by TWO authors: Gary Phillips at his story ""Beginner's Luck" and Walter Mosley at "Bombardier." Notes on the authors. xii, 353 pp. ISBN: 0-425200140.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 67161More details Price: $27.50 -
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SHADES OF BLACK: Crime and Mystery Stories by African American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first anthology consisting entirely of stories by African American mystery writers. Preface by Lerone Bennett, Jr. Introduction by Eleanor Taylor Bland. Contributors include Frankie Y. Bailey, Jacqueline Turner Banks, Chris Benson, Eleanor Taylor Bland and Anthony Bland, Patricia E. Canterbury, Christopher Chambers, Tracy P. Clark, Evelyn Coleman, Grace F. Edwards, Robert Greer, Terris McMahan Grimes, Gar Anthony Haywood, Hugh Holton, Geri Spencer Hunter, Dicey Scroggins Jackson, Glenville Lovelll, Lee E. Meadows, Penny Mickelbury, Walter Mosley, Percy Spurlark Parker, Gary Phillips, and Charles Shipps. SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Gary Phillips, Gar Anthony Haywood and Frankie Y Bailey. Notes on the authors. xii, 353 pp. ISBN: 0-425194027.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 67236More details Price: $50.00 -
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BLACK NOIR: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Stories by African-American Writers.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pegasus Books, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Anthology containing 15 stories ranging from 19th and early 20th century authors like Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Rudolph Fisher, Ann Petry and Chester Himes to modern authors including Gary Phillips, Robert Greer, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Walter Mosley, Paula Woods, Edward P. Jones and Gar Anthony Haywood. SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories: Gar Anthony Haywood, Gary Phillips, Walter Mosley and Paula Woods . Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. 349 pp. ISBN: 978-1605980393.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 62558More details Price: $55.00 -
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BLACK NOIR: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Stories by African-American Writers.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Pegasus Books, (2009). SIGNED first edition - Anthology containing 15 stories ranging from 19th and early 20th century authors like Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Rudolph Fisher, Ann Petry and Chester Himes to modern authors including Gary Phillips, Robert Greer, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Walter Mosley, Paula Woods, Edward P. Jones and Gar Anthony Haywood. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Paula Woods and Gary Phillips . Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. 349 pp. ISBN: 978-1605980577.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63051More details Price: $20.00 -
A DEAD MAN'S HONOR.
Edition: First printing.
Johnson City, Tennessee: Silver Dagger / Overmountain Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring crime historian Professor Lizzie Stuart, who is spending a year in Virginia as a visiting professor researching a 1921 lynching that her grandmother witnessed as a twelve year old girl. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 218 pp plus 2 pp ads. ISBN: 1-57072170X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77444More details Price: $30.00 -
SCREAM IN SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Eighth mystery in the highly praised series featuring African American homicide detective Marti MacAlister, who is settling in to her new marriage and a larger family. Set in a formerly rural but changing area outside Chicago. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203780.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84179More details Price: $30.00 -
WINDY CITY DYING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tenth mystery in the highly praised series featuring African American homicide detective Marti MacAlister. Set in Chicago. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-312-300980.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40177More details Price: $18.50 -
SEE NO EVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery in the highly praised series featuring African American homicide detective (and widowed mother) Marti MacAlister, who is investigating the death of a young Chicago woman found on the shores of Lake Michigan. Dust jacket praise from Sara Paretsky who commented "Marti MacAlister. brings a complexity to the personal side of police work seldom presented in fiction." 274 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203780.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 87390More details Price: $16.50 -
GONE QUIET.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Signet, (1995.). Third mystery featuring African American homicide detective Marti MacAlister. Set in Chicago. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-451-182677.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 39545More details Price: $11.50 -
TELL NO TALES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh mystery in the highly praised series featuring African American homicide detective Marti MacAlister. Set in Chicago. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312-200676.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 66397More details Price: $16.50 -
SCREAM IN SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eighth mystery in the highly praised series featuring African American homicide detective Marti MacAlister, who is settling in to her new marriage and a larger family. Set in a formerly rural but changing area outside Chicago. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203780.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's address label, short tear and crinkling to bottom edge of dj)
Book ID: 87389More details Price: $16.50 -
SHADES OF JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a suspense story featuring Gwen Parrish, the first black female prosecutor in Harris County, Texas. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-525-944249.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 51800More details Price: $18.00 -
COQ AU VIN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1999. dj. Hardcover - The second mystery featuring street saxophonist Nanette Hayes. ISBN: 0-89296-6785.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17083More details Price: $12.50 -
DRUMSTICKS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 3rd mystery featuring street saxophonist Nanette Hayes, once again back on the funky mean streets of New York City. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-6793.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 44713More details Price: $16.50 -
RHODE ISLAND RED.
Edition: First printing.
London & New York: Serpent's Tail, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A very funny and enjoyable debut mystery, introducing a truly unique detective, a smart 28 year old black woman ("A Grace Jones lookalike") with a masters in French literature, who plays the sax on street corners of New York City for money. SIGNED on the title page. Praise from George Pelecanos, Lisa Cody and others on the back cover. 170 pp. ISBN: 1-85242-5644.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards, no dustjacket as issued.
Book ID: 60930More details Price: $35.00 -
DRUMSTICKS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 3rd mystery featuring street saxophonist Nanette Hayes. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-6793.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder line, toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 53584More details Price: $13.50 -
COQ AU VIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery in the highly praised series featuring street saxophonist Nanette Hayes,set in one wild April in Paris. SIGNED on the title page. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-6785.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60932More details Price: $30.00 -
DRUMSTICKS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - The 3rd mystery featuring street saxophonist Nanette Hayes. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-6793.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (some toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 17084More details Price: $12.50 -
JERICHO'S FALL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this Yale law professor. Cover praise from Lincoln Child who calls it 'the best espionage novel I've come across in twenty years.' 355 pp. ISBN: 9780307272621.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50554More details Price: $15.00 -
BORROWED TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second mystery featuring former Chicago cop turned PI Cass Raines who is asked to investigate the death of a man found floating in Lake Michigan - the scion of a wealthy family, but who was terminally ill. Who would want to kill a dying man? SIGNED on the title page. 373 pp.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.) Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 88599More details Price: $40.00 -
BROKEN PLACES.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Kensington, (2019). SIGNED - Author's first mystery introducing PI Cass Raines "who took a bullet two years ago after an incompetent colleague screwed up a tense confrontation with an armed suspect. Deeply traumatized by the incident, Cass resigned from the Chicago PD, leaving one less female African-American on the force. Now sheÕs the head of a one-woman private investigation agency." SIGNED on the title page. Includes a preview of the next book in the series. 436 pp. ISBN: 978-1496714886.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79320More details Price: $17.50 -
WHAT A WOMAN'S GOTTA DO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this African American writer (who was already an award winning children's writer). Introduces Atlanta journalist Patricia Conley. Tananarive Due called it 'a gutsy, honest, intelligent and darkly comic thrill ride of a novel.'. ISBN: 0-684-831759.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22481More details Price: $20.00 -
THE PARCEL EXPRESS MURDERS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Philadelphia: Bee-Con Books, (2002.). First edition - Second mystery by this African American writer, featuring female pyschiatrist Samoa Tate. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-971583811.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 35967More details Price: $12.00 -
UNDER THE BONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this writer of Haitian and French descent - both a political thriller and a vivid picture of post-Duvalier Haiti. ISBN: 0-374-28066-5.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 16805More details Price: $30.00 -
MAMA STALKS THE PAST.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, (1997) dj. Hardcover - The fifth book in the Mama series, set in Otis, South Carolina. ISBN: 0-553-106627.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 19650More details Price: $14.50 -
MAMA STALKS THE PAST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth book in the Mama series, and the first to be published by Bantam, set in Otis, South Carolina. Mama makes her living as a case manager for Social Services, but she is known for cooking the best food in Otis. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-553-106627.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (lower corner bumped)
Book ID: 68417More details Price: $17.50 -
MAMA STALKS THE PAST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth book in the Mama series, set in Otis, South Carolina. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-553-106627.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 73921More details Price: $30.00 -
MAMA ROCKS THE EMPTY CRADLE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, 1998. First edition - African American mystery featuring Simone Covington - in this story, she goes back to South Carolina to help her mama after an operation.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (publisher's letter laid in.)
Book ID: 11553More details Price: $15.00 -
MAMA CRACKS A MASK OF INNOCENCE.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (2001). First edition - The eighth and final mystery in the Mama series, featuring Grace Covington aka Mama ("the African American Miss Marple") and set in a small town in South Carolina. Published as a paperback original. 186 pp.
Condition: Fine in cream printed wrappers. An uncommon advance issue .
Book ID: 56282More details Price: $20.00
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