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RISK FACTOR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A psychological thriller set in Boston - the second novel by this author who is a practising psychiatrist. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-209207.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68377More details Price: $25.00 -
THE REMBRANDT PANEL
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this art historian. Introduces Amos Hatcher. An art dealer and a down-at-the-heels art runner are found murdered in a gallery on Charles Street in Boston,. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-316-080217.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52544More details Price: $35.00 -
THE REMBRANDT PANEL
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this art historian. Introduces Amos Hatcher. An art dealer and a down-at-the-heels art runner are found murdered in a gallery on Charles Street in Boston,. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-316-080217.
Condition: Very good+ in a very good dustjacket (dj is price-clipped, some light wear.)
Book ID: 11424More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SNAKE TATTOO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second in the Carlotta Carlyle mystery series, set in Boston. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-026439.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (appears unread, but signs of handling.)
Book ID: 9283More details Price: $20.00 -
DEEP POCKETS
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-282710.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 69872More details Price: $14.50 -
A TROUBLE OF FOOLS
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning first book in the mystery series featuring 6 foot 1, ex-cop, part-time Boston cab driver and new private investigator, Carlotta Carlyle. INSCRIBED on the title page. "for -- with best regards from Carlotta and me" 208 pp. ISBN: 0-312-011008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 74406More details Price: $50.00 -
THE SNAKE TATTOO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second in the Carlotta Carlyle mystery series, set in Boston. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-026439.
Condition: Good in near fine dust jacket (crinkling to edges of some of the pages)
Book ID: 53555More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SNAKE TATTOO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second in the Carlotta Carlyle mystery series, set in Boston. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-026439.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 41033More details Price: $23.50 -
THE BIG DIG.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2002.). First edition - Mystery featuring Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle, and the construction of multibillion dollar Central Artery/Harbor Tunnel highway project. 275 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly curling)
Book ID: 40343More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BIG DIG.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2003.). Mystery featuring Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-312-989695.
Condition: Good condition (some creasing to spine.)
Book ID: 39556More details Price: $10.00 -
DEEP POCKETS
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-282710.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37461More details Price: $16.50 -
A TROUBLE OF FOOLS
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning first mystery featuring 6 foot 1, ex-cop, part-time Boston cab driver and new private investigator, Carlotta Carlyle. The debut novel in a great series. ISBN: 0-312-011008.
Condition: Poor condition in a just about fine dustjacket (while the book is still readable, the binding is totally broken just before the title page.)
Book ID: 36413More details Price: $12.50 -
THE TENTMAKER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, an unusual mystery introducing Episcopalian priest Lily Connor who takes over as interim pastor of a wealthy Boston church. SIGNED on a blank prelim page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-399-14577x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52473More details Price: $30.00 -
FACE VALUE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Heinemann, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel (sixth book) - "When Jasper Whiting, a successful plastic surgeon, leaves his family to live alone in a run-down block of houses in Boston's North End, he does not imagine how his life and what he has lived for will be transformed by his relations with the people he meets in that unpromising setting. . . when the physically handicapped of the city begin to band together under a charismatic leader who means to make a revolution with these "wretched of the earth," Jasper too is forced to declare himself - a novel at once comic, troubling, and passionate." 346 pp. ISBN: 0-434075523.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66950More details Price: $20.00 -
DRIVEN TO MURDER.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in the Boston area.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (closed tear.)
Book ID: 5521More details Price: $15.00 -
DEAD WRONG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel involving real estate on the South Shore of Boston (the author lives in Norwell, Massachusetts.) 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-050682.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43798More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BABYSITTER.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Norton, (1979.) dj. Hardcover - The author's second novel, a horrifying tale of a couple who come home and discover the babysitter bludgeoned to death and their child missing. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-393-011895.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (tear to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 46904More details Price: $12.50 -
HACKED.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The fourth Tucker mystery, set in the Boston area. SIGNED on the title page. 351 pp. ISBN: 978-0738751108.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72169More details Price: $18.50 -
BEACON STREET MOURNING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th Fremont Jones mystery, set in 1909 San Francisco and Boston. In this book, Jones, still recovering from her badly broken legs, travels to Boston to be with her dying father. INSCRIBED on the title page. Author's note. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-385-486103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59681More details Price: $30.00 -
BEACON STREET MOURNING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 6th Fremont Jones mystery, set in 1909 San Francisco and Boston. In this book, Jones, still recovering from her badly broken legs, travels to Boston to be with her dying father. ISBN: 0-385-486103.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27726More details Price: $15.00 -
BAG MEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York Norton, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Boston in 1965, where the body of a murdered priest is found on a snow-covered runway and narcotics detective Manny Manning is searching for the source of a deadly heroin that has hit the streets - and of a new drug called 'acid.' The author, a native of Boston and a federal prosecutor, wrote his second book, the National Book award nominee ,'The Big If' ,under his own name. ISBN: 0-393-03998.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket. (prev owner's address sticker on front free endpaper.)
Book ID: 28484More details Price: $25.00 -
VANISH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller by this former doctor, set in Boston, and featuring Detective Jane Rizzoli. Stephen King called her books 'an automatic must-read in my house...[she is] even better than Crichton.' SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Nero Award. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-345-476972.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51323More details Price: $28.50 -
THE KEEPSAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Boston, featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli.SIGNED on the title page. 349 pp. ISBN: 978-0345497628.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65748More details Price: $28.50 -
DIE AGAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2014.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Botswana, where all except one member of a wilderness safari are murdered and in Boston, where a big game hunter and taxidermist is found gutted and hung. Features medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0345543851.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75208More details Price: $30.00 -
BODY DOUBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Medical thriller featuring Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Isles finds herself performing an autopsy on a woman who is a "dead ringer" for herself and dna evidence reveals that it is her twin sister. Stephen King called her books 'an automatic must-read in my house...[she is] even better than Crichton.'ISIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-345-458931.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75059More details Price: $30.00 -
BLUNT DARTS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Walker, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Authors first book, introducing Boston dectective John Francis Cuddy, who is hired to find the missing son of a noted Massachusetts judge. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-55704.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 46213More details Price: $50.00 -
BLUNT DARTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Authors first book, introducing Boston dectective John Francis Cuddy, who is hired to find the missing son of a noted Massachusetts judge. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-55704.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 46222More details Price: $175.00 -
THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in the award winning detective series featuring private investigator John Cuddy, set in Boston. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-671-009532.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 74974More details Price: $16.50 -
YESTERDAY'S NEWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth John Francis Cuddy mystery, set in the Boston area. SIGNED by author on title page. ISBN: 0-06-0159227.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46223More details Price: $30.00 -
RIGHT TO DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th John Francis Cuddy mystery - set against the background of the Boston Marathon. SIGNED by author on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-671-708090.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (sunning to the spine of the dust jacket).
Book ID: 60031More details Price: $25.00
