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DON'T POINT THAT THING AT ME!
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: International Polygonics Ltd, (1991.). Novel of crime in the art world, originally published in 1972 and winner of the first John Creasey Memorial Award. A title in the Library of Crime Classics series. 190 pp. ISBN: 1558820752.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55538More details Price: $12.50 -
THE OTHER DAVID.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Dodd Mead, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, introducing art restorer and amateur sleuth Andrea Perkins.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 2073More details Price: $17.50 -
APPEARANCE OF EVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set at the Huntington Museum in Los Angeles featuring art restorer and amateur sleuth Andrea Perkins, and introducing police detectives Eduardo Lopez and Tina Roberson. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-092431.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33753More details Price: $15.00 -
LOOT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - Suspense novel featuring ex-curator Ben Revere - half a century after a truck laden with masterpieces stolen by the Nazis disappeared in a mountain snowstorm, one of the paintings shows up in a seedy Boston pawnshop. 354 pp.
Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the title page "To ... may the good guys always win." Fine (a new copy)
Book ID: 32668More details Price: $30.00 -
OLD SCORES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Seattle art curator Chris Norgren, set in Southern France. Winner of the Nero Award. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-684-195518.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42591More details Price: $30.00 -
OLD SCORES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Seattle art curator Chris Norgren, set in Southern France. Winner of the Nero Award. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-684-195518.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (spotting to edge of textblock)
Book ID: 66010More details Price: $25.00 -
A GLANCING LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Seattle art curator Chris Norgren, set in Bologna, Italy. SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-684-192780.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60092More details Price: $30.00 -
A CHANGE OF HEIR.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in red boards in a very good example of the distinctive Gollancz yellow dust jacket (2 short tears along the folds, with tape reinforcement on the verso of the dj)
Book ID: 89099More details Price: $250.00 -
HONEYBATH'S HAVEN.
Edition: First printing.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Honeybath - and amateur detective who considers himself an art expert. Stewart was an Oxford academic who wrote his literate and witty mysteries under the Innes pen name. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-575023643.
Condition: Very near fine in red boards in a fine example of the distinctive Gollancz yellow dust jacket.
Book ID: 83552More details Price: $25.00 -
THE 7TH KNOT.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, (2007). First edition - Historical mystery for older children set in 1896, winner of an Agatha Award. "Wick and Miles, two brothers touring Europe in the 19th century, become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet." 149 pp plus author's historical note. ISBN: 978-0761453680.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85715More details Price: $14.50 -
FALSE DAWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd mystery featuring Miami trial lawyer Jake Lassiter, involving art theft and murder. SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-553-08995-1.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (sticker with date on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 48652More details Price: $28.00 -
FALSE DAWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd mystery featuring Miami trial lawyer Jake Lassiter, involving art theft and murder. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-553-08995-1.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Very good in very good dust jacket. (prev owner's rating - good - on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 17154More details Price: $24.00 -
THE WRONG IMPRESSION: A Tim Simpson Mystery.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1990) dj. Hardcover - The 7th mystery featuring art expert and amateur sleuth Tim Simpson. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-684-192527.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83600More details Price: $15.00 -
THE VIRGIN KNOWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Wyatt / St. Martin's, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set among the Italian immigrants of Boston's North End. A mystery involving stolen art, a "combination of magic realism, earthy faith and sly comedy." 309 pp. ISBN: 0-312-132034.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 43729More details Price: $15.00 -
GHOST HERO.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 62045More details Price: $30.00 -
THE HEIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2014.) dj. Hardcover first edition - International thriller set in Italy - a mystery featuring art restorer (and sometime spy) Gabriel Allon. Author's note, 475 pp. ISBN: 978-0062320056.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (light crease on front flap and back cover of dj).
Book ID: 63549More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ESTUARY PILGRIM.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery by this painter and art historian, a novel of suspense involving a Monet painting stolen by the Nazis, and thought destroyed. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-333474821.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 83829More details Price: $25.00
