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THE CHEERIO KILLINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (although he had already won several awards for his short stories) introducing Hispanic homicide detective Lupe Garcia. Set in Detroit's music world, one Allyn knows well as a co-leader for a Midwest rock group. SIGNED on the title page. Laid in is a brief typed, signed letter to collector Larry Owens. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-312033028.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82087More details Price: $60.00 -
MOTOWN UNDERGROUND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel in this interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Detroit cop Lupe Garcia. Kirkus Reviews called this a "carnage caper - heavy on sex, ammo, showdowns, and car chases." SIGNED and dated opposite the title page. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-312088515.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82083More details Price: $35.00 -
THE VANISHING MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Archipelago, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning poet's first novel - an insightful look at the American working-class and the strength and strain of family bonds. "Set in Cleveland and Detroit, the novel chronicles two generations of the Tollman family, opening at the start of the Great Depression and moving forward through five decades to the Vietnam War." 330 pp. ISBN: 0-972869204.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76417More details Price: $16.50 -
EVERY BRILLIANT EYE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-395394287.
Condition: Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (signs of water stains at bottom of textblock, 'not for resale' stamped on endpaper.)
Book ID: 12470More details Price: $12.50 -
EVERY BRILLIANT EYE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. SIGNED and dated on a preliminary page. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-395394287.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81938More details Price: $30.00 -
PEEPER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing down-at-the-heels Detroit private eye Ralph Poteet. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-553-053639.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81047More details Price: $27.50 -
SUGARTOWN: An Amos Walker Mystery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. SIGNED first edition - The fifth suspense novel featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker. SIGNED on the half title page. Winner of the Shamus Award. 220 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed glossy cream wrappers.
Book ID: 81023More details Price: $35.00 -
THE WITCHFINDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker. SIGNED on the title page and dated on the year of publication. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-892966637.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80142More details Price: $30.00 -
STRESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in his Detroit series, set in Motown in the early 1970s when it has earned the reputation of the Murder Capitol of America - a city where a police crackdown squad (STRESS) had been formed, but the result was more dead young Black men, and a Black community outraged and aggrieved. Although set 50 years ago, the problems this deals with are still occuring today. In his afterword Estleman notes that one of Coleman Young's - the city's first Black mayor - first acts was to disband STRESS and the following year the murder rate declined for the first time in 13 years. SIGNED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 0-892965533.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80141More details Price: $30.00 -
GENERAL MURDERS: Amos Walker Mysteries.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Ten short stories set in Detroit and featuring detective Amos Walker. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-395410711.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to rear flap of dj)
Book ID: 79196More details Price: $21.50 -
SILENT THUNDER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. SIGNED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-410754.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. (some toning to the dj flaps)
Book ID: 79086More details Price: $28.50 -
KING OF THE CORNER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final book in his Detroit trilogy. Set in 1990, in a city on the brink of disaster where big auto has been replaced by big crime. Doc Miller, a former major leaguer who has just gotten out of prison and driving as an unlicensed cabbie to get by. SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-553089269.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 79043More details Price: $30.00 -
PEEPER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing down-at-the-heels Detroit private eye Ralph Poteet. SIGNED and dated in 1997 on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-553-053639.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79030More details Price: $28.50 -
EVERY BRILLIANT EYE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-395394287.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79029More details Price: $21.50 -
NEVER STREET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twelfth mystery featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-892966335.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79015More details Price: $30.00 -
MOTOWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in his Detroit Trilogy, set in 1966. "Hired by a big car company to spy on a consumer advocate group calling for stricter safety standards, Detroit ex-cop Rick Amery becomes involved in a vicious street war between the mob and a tight-knit African-American community." SIGNED and dated on the title page. Author's historical postscript. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-553074210.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79014More details Price: $30.00 -
KILL ZONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in the series featuring Peter Macklin, a "fixer" working for a Detroit Mafia family, who finds himself working with the FBI to secure the release of hundreds of hostages aboard a tour boat on Lake Erie. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-892960655.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79009More details Price: $30.00 -
WHISKEY RIVER.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Bantam, (19900 dj. Hardcover - Novel by this award-winning writer, set in Detroit during into the violent era of prohibition, when rum runners ruled and machine-gun toting hoods turned Detroit into a modern-day Dodge City. The first novel in The Detroit Trilogy. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-553070428.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (line on bottom edge of textblock)
Book ID: 78253More details Price: $14.50 -
MOTOR CITY BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Detroit private investigator, Amos Walker. SIGNED on the title page. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-395294479.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65789More details Price: $100.00 -
SWEET WOMEN LIE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel featuring private investigator Amos Walker, set in Detroit, Michigan. SIGNED on the title page. 193 pp. ISBN: 0-395-537673.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79027More details Price: $28.50 -
EVERY BRILLIANT EYE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-395394287.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 12469More details Price: $18.50 -
KING OF THE CORNER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final book in his Detroit trilogy. Set in 1990, in a city on the brink of disaster where big auto has been replaced by big crime. Doc Miller, a former major leaguer who has just gotten out of prison and driving as an unlicensed cabbie to get by. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-553089269.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 12472More details Price: $17.50 -
EVERY BRILLIANT EYE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-395394287.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 12471More details Price: $15.00 -
THE NATURE OF SMOKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a high-tech near future, and featuring Magnolia, who had grown up in the burnt-out remains of a Detroit slum. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85286x.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 58002More details Price: $17.50 -
WAKE ME WHEN IT'S OVER: A Charlie Mack Motown Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Ann Arbor, MI: Bywater Books, 2018. SIGNED first edition - The second in the series of books featuring Black and lesbian Detroit private investigator Charlie Mack - "Born and raised in the city that America forgot, Charlene 'Charlie' Mack has built a highly respected private investigations firm through hard work, smart choices, and relentless ambition - and a crack team of investigators who are highly skilled and trustworthy bolsters her successes. Then Charlie and her team are asked to take on a seemingly impossible task - to identify and thwart an attack on the upcoming Detroit Auto Show." SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 978-1612941158.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85015More details Price: $25.00 -
D E A T H W E A R S A R E D H A T .
Edition: First printing.
K a n s a s C i t y: A n d r e w s a n d M c M e e l , I n c . , (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Father Koesler mystery, set in Detroit, Michigan. 3 0 4 p. ISBN: 0-8362-61119.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (closed tear to lower edge of dj.)
Book ID: 47035More details Price: $15.00 -
OUT OF THE MADNESS: From the Projects to a LIfe of Hope
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, 1994. First edition - A memoir of growing up in the housing projects of west Dallas, among the drug dealers and the abandoned apartments, with a mother who was addicted to heroin.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 20255More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MERCY: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (corner of one leaf creased)
Book ID: 91375More details Price: $40.00 -
HER.
Edition: Original edition, the trade paperback issue.
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, (1990). Novel set in Detroit in the 1950s and 1960s, where many Black men and women have come north to work the line at the Ford Motor plant. This focuses on the many and varied relationships between these Black women, their struggles and how the support each other. 179 pp plus a 2 pp glossary. ISBN: 1-879960028.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83389More details Price: $14.50 -
THE RISE OF LIFE ON EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New Directions, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon short novel by Oates, one set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the 1960s and 1970s, and which draws us into the secret life of a nurse's aide, overworked, underpaid and quietly overzealous. 135 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-11711.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53659More details Price: $17.50
