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THE BRAHMINS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic historical novel that follows the generations of one Boston family. "Explores the undaunted hearts of four women who made society's rules and went on to break them." 404 pp. ISBN: 0-44000313X.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (small hole on the spine of the dust jacket and on the cloth spine underneath.).
Book ID: 55750More details Price: $15.00 -
STRAY CAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Summit, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, and the first Charlie Gamble mystery. Charlie, a dropout from the world of computer sales, is subsidizing his life aboard his sailboat by doing odd jobs around Boston Harbor. ISBN: 0-671-641123.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 18807More details Price: $30.00 -
THE EASY WAY OUT.
Edition: First printing.
New York Simon & Schuster, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel from the author who wrote 'The Object Of My Affection' featuring a cast of "amiably eccentric characters" Praise from Armistad Maupin, among others. \. ISBN: 0-671-70818X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 28482More details Price: $15.00 -
FLYNN'S IN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery involving Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn of the Boston Police Department, and the first to be published in hardcover. A literate 'novel with murder.'. ISBN: 0-89296-085x.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slightly bent, small chip, edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 27071More details Price: $12.50 -
FLYNN'S IN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery involving Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn of the Boston Police Department, and the first to be published in hardcover. A literate 'novel with murder.'. ISBN: 0-89296-085x.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (peeled spot on spine of dj.)
Book ID: 42427More details Price: $13.50 -
DEAD ON YOUR FEET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Stan Kraychik, a gay Boston detective as well as a sassy Newbery Street hairdresser. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-312097816.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 70385More 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 -
WHERE THE LAND AND WATER MEET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story told by Felix "Lefty" Murray, the younger son in an Irish-American family in the greater Boston area, and focusing on his 16th year, the summer before America entered World War II. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-688034462.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (corner of one page creased, some toning to the back cover and interior of the dust jacket).
Book ID: 67919More details Price: $18.00 -
WHERE THE LAND AND WATER MEET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story told by Felix "Lefty" Murray, the younger son in an Irish-American family in the greater Boston area, and focusing on his 16th year, the summer before America entered World War II. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-688034462.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80170More details Price: $20.00 -
MIRACLE CURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A medical thriller from an author who knows this world from the inside. In addition to being a fast moving and entertaining novel, this deals with serious medical ethical issues. SIGNED on the title page. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-553-10523X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57334More details Price: $28.50 -
PERISH TWICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second mystery featuring female Boston private eye Sunny Randall. ISBN: 0-399-146687.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26685More details Price: $12.50 -
NOW AND THEN.
Edition: Large print edition.
New York: Doubleday - Putnam, (2007.) dj. Hardcover - A Spenser novel. Map of Boston. 356 pp. ISBN: 9780739488645.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52486More details Price: $15.00 -
EARLY AUTUMN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte Press, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sevnth Spenser nove, set in Boston and Maine. Winner of the Maltese Falcon Award, for hardboiled mysteries. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-440-022487.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74429More details Price: $50.00 -
SMALL VICES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Spenser mystery, set in Boston and Manhattan. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-399-142444.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 37588More details Price: $14.50 -
RUN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in one 24 hour period, this is a novel which weaves several stories into "one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed . . . a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility and the lengths we will go to protect our children." 295 pp. ISBN: 9780061340635.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43260More details Price: $17.50 -
THE DANTE CLUB.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Random House, (2004). The author's first novel, both a wonderful historical mystery and a paean to Dante. In Boston in 1865 a series of murders occur, inspired by scenes in Dante's inferno, and it is up to a group of Dante scholars - led by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - to solve the mystery. Historical note. Includes a Reader's Guide. 380 pp. ISBN: 0-8129-71043.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 51025More details Price: $11.50 -
PAINT IT BLACK: A J. D. Hawkins Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring wheelchair bound, mystery author Jack Hawkins. Great Boston setting. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-312-029624.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (short tear, edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 70534More details Price: $15.00 -
ICE FOR THE ESKIMO: A J. D. Hawkins Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Beaufort, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring wheelchair bound, mystery author Jack Hawkins. Great Boston setting. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-8253-04032.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (bookseller's black line to bottom edge.)
Book ID: 45269More details Price: $14.50 -
THE CATHOLIC.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this highly praised expatriate American writer, an exploration of guilt, religion and a gay relationship set in Boston in the 1960s. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-689-117884.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42862More details Price: $25.00 -
THE OTHER WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Boston and featuring reporter Jane Ryland and Detective Jake Brogan. SIGNED on the title page. 413 pp. ISBN: 978-0765332578.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to top edge)
Book ID: 78899More details Price: $28.50 -
THE OTHER WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Boston and featuring reporter Jane Ryland and Detective Jake Brogan. INSCRIBED on the title page. 413 pp. ISBN: 978-0765332578.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Promotional bookmark and business card laid in.
Book ID: 65652More details Price: $30.00 -
THE HAZZARDS OF GOOD BREEDING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - New England author's highly praised first novel, a look at the disintegration of an old Boston family. Dustjacket praise from Ann Beattie and Jill McCorkle, among others. ISBN: 0-393-051323.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a new, unread copy, but a crease on the front endpaper - a publication flaw.)
Book ID: 26843More details Price: $20.00 -
IN THE CUBE: A NOVEL OF FUTURE BOSTON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Science fiction thriller set in Boston a century from now - Boston is like no other place on earth, an enormous cube containing millions of human and cybernetic beings. It has seceded from the United States after a long and bloody war, but is slowly sinking into the ground. . 286 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85448X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 45829More details Price: $20.00 -
EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). First edition - A novel of psychological suspense, set in Boston on Beacon Hill, and featuring bookseller Malcolm Kershaw. "Years ago, Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack - which he titled 'Eight Perfect Murders' - chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History." Now a serial killer is using that list, and the FBI is on his doorstep. 270 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78948More details Price: $21.50 -
DEATH AT CHARITY'S POINT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first novel introducing Boston attorney Brady Coyne, who has a reputation for discretion and so he is asked to investigate a death caused by a fall from a cliff top - a possible suicide or was it murder? Winner of the Scribner Crime Novel Award. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-684180561.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some rubbing to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 77133More details Price: $65.00 -
A VOID IN HEARTS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Scribner, (1988.) dj. Hardcover - The seventh mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing - Coyne finds himself trying to unravel the story behind the hit-and-run death of a private eye. 185 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47013More details Price: $12.50 -
LOYALTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Boston, this is the author's first novel, introducing private investigator Fina Ludlow, the black sheep of a dysfunctional family of attorneys, who is retained by her family's firm as an investigator after she drops out of law school. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the Shamus award. 405 pp. ISBN: 978-0399162121.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76989More details Price: $35.00
