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THROWN AWAY CHILD: A Neil Hockaday Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday who has traveled to New Orleans, the hometown of his new wife, black actress Ruby Flagg. SIGNED on title page 340 pp. ISBN: 0-671519859.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81201More details Price: $30.00 -
GRIEF STREET: A Neil Hockaday Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday set in Hell's Kitchen. SIGNED on title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-671519867.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88098More details Price: $30.00 -
GRAVEYARD DUST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - Author's third historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1834, this revolves around voodoo. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 315 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in wrappers (small chip to lower corner of back cover.).
Book ID: 39225More details Price: $30.00 -
DIE UPON A KISS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835, during the Carnival time. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note on opera in New Orleans. 333 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in plain printed wrappers with illustrated cover bound in.
Book ID: 47582More details Price: $30.00 -
A FREE MAN OF COLOR
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first mystery - an historical novel set in New Orleans in 1833, introducing an unusual detective, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-553-102583.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47766More details Price: $18.00 -
DIE UPON A KISS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835, during the Carnival time. Author's note on opera in New Orleans. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57489More details Price: $30.00 -
WET GRAVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835. Author's note on the island of Grande Terre, haunt of Jean Lafitte. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-553-109359.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67330More details Price: $30.00 -
SOLD DOWN THE RIVER.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001). The fourth historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1834. Plantation map and partial glossary of Creole and Afro-Creole words. Author's notes on work songs and spirituals, and masters and slaves. vii, 409 pp. ISBN: 0-553-575295.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 79338More details Price: $10.00 -
MERRICK.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel centered around the beautiful witch Merrick, a descendant of the gens de coleur libre, the New Orleans society of quadroons and octaroons steeped in the lore and traditions of voodoo. Frontispiece. Striking wraparound dust jacket art based on a detail of the painting 'The Snake Charmer' by Henri Rousseau. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454489.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27226More details Price: $16.50
