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12 DRUMMERS DRUMMING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this former US Foreign Service Officer, an international thriller set in a world she knows well. Introduces Casey Collins. 284 pp. Sticker with 'compliments of the publisher' on the half title page. ISBN: 0-380-976102.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48318More details Price: $16.50 -
A HOUSE TO DIE FOR: A Darby Farr Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2010.). First edition - Mystery set on the Maine coast, introducing hot shot real estate agent, Darby Farr. 328 pp. ISBN: 9780738719504.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 51545More details Price: $12.00 -
THE RAINY CITY.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Avon, (1985). First edition - The first mystery featuring ex-cop, now private dectective Thomas Black. It was killing weather, dismal and gray, in Seattle. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-38089517X.
Condition: Very near fine (very faint crease on spine)
Book ID: 66995More details Price: $12.00 -
A BEAUTIFUL BLUE DEATH.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012). SIGNED - The author's first novel, a mystery set in 1865 and featuring Charles Lenox, a Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, and his friend Lady Jane. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-1250000453.
Condition: Near fine (usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74976More details Price: $25.00 -
A BEAUTIFUL BLUE DEATH.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007). SIGNED - The author's first novel, a mystery set in 1865 and featuring Charles Lenox, a Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, and his friend Lady Jane. SIGNED on the title page. 324pp. ISBN: 978-0312386078.
Condition: Near fine (usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 65011More details Price: $25.00 -
THE RED THUMB MARK.
Edition: Reprint.
Bath: Lythway Press, 1970. Hardcover - The first Dr. Thorndyke mystery originally written in 1907. A Haycroft Queen Cornerstone title. Freeman, himself a medical doctor, actually performed in his own laboratory all of the tests which Thorndyke uses in the mysteries. 248 pp. plus 4 pp list of other books by this publisher. ISBN: 0-85046-1030.
Condition: Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in a rather attractive home-made paper jacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 60810More details Price: $25.00 -
THE RED THUMB MARK.
Edition: First thus.
Condition: Very good in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, black on the front cover.
Book ID: 59167More details Price: $65.00 -
UNBALANCED ACCOUNTS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a parody of the traditional hard-boiled private investigator novel, set on the mean streets of Trenton, New Jersey and introducing Nick Magaracz trying to fill the steps of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-316302880.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83201More details Price: $21.50 -
BLOODY WATERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first Lupe Solano mystery, by an author who is Cuban, and who was a private investigator in Miami. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-399-14157x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 24843More details Price: $32.50 -
BLOODY WATERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first Lupe Solano mystery, by an author who is Cuban, and who was a private investigator in Miami. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-399-14157x.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (remainder line)
Book ID: 59317More details Price: $16.50 -
DETAILS AT 10.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery featuring Chicago television news reporter Georgia Barnett, and the first book by Joe under this pen name. This story of a missing child, in the midst of gang warfare in a poor black community owes much of its authenticity to the fact that Joe was a newswriter at CBS in Chicago for 12 years. ISBN: 0-684-873753.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27427More details Price: $25.00 -
DETAILS AT 10.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery featuring Chicago television news reporter Georgia Barnett, and the first book by Joe under this pen name. This story of a missing child, in the midst of gang warfare in a poor black community owes much of its authenticity to the fact that Joe was a newswriter at CBS in Chicago for 12 years. ISBN: 0-684-873753.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 28775More details Price: $20.00 -
DEAD RUN
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery set in the world of sailing, by an author who has written many non-fiction works in that area.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 7431More details Price: $16.50 -
THE GRANDFATHER MEDICINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing half-Cherokee Police Chief Mitch Bushyhead, set in modern Oklahoma Cherokee society. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-029233.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 74181More details Price: $45.00 -
UNDER COVER OF DAYLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The poet and short story writer's first novel, an excellent mystery set in the Florida Keys. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-393-024849.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80949More details Price: $65.00 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. INSCRIBED on the title page "To Moms who like to be swept up in books. I hope you enjoy Eve's first adventures. Best wishes." 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71961More details Price: $25.00 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78196More details Price: $16.50 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48273More details Price: $30.00 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. INSCRIBED on the title page "To Moms who like to be swept up in books. I hope you enjoy Eve's first adventures. Best wishes." 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 48442More details Price: $28.50 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Very good+ in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 49008More details Price: $25.00 -
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TENANT FOR DEATH.
Edition: 2nd printing.
London: Faber & Faber, (1946.) dj. Hardcover - Early printing of this author's first mystery, an Inspector Mallett detective story, originally published in 1937. P. D. James named one of Hare's later novels, 'Tragedy at Law.' as one of her five favorite dectective stories and the book she considered the best English legal crime novel - however, all of Hare's books are well-worth reading, and most are classics in their own right. 200 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket. - a little fading to the edges of the cloth, the dustjacket has a loss of about 3/4 of an inch at the top of the spine, but the striking front cover illustration by Victor Reinganum is still bright and attractive.
Book ID: 34721More details Price: $75.00 -
PUSHING UP DAISIES: A Dirty Business Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book featuring Paula Holliday, a former media exec who has moved from the big city to the suburbs to start her own gardening business. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-312369670.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 62805More details Price: $15.00 -
HEARTSHOT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (1991). First edition - An extremely uncommon advance issue of the first mystery featuring Posadas County, New Mexico, Undersherriff Bill Gastner. 246 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed red wrappers (publicist's card stapled inside front cover).
Book ID: 61972More details Price: $100.00 -
BREACH OF IMMUNITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, and first mystery, a police procedural with a fresh twist. Introducing Lieutenant Anna Blessing and the Hinton Third Precinct . ISBN: 0-312-06893x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26562More details Price: $15.00 -
SO DEAR TO WICKED MEN
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The authors' first mystery featuring husband-and wife restaurant owners Nick and Julia Lambros of Delphi, Georgia, who have to figure out who poisoned a local businessman in their cafe in order to save their business. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-312147406.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 88533More details Price: $19.50 -
A VERY PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The uncommon hardcover edition of this author's first book - a mystery involving the theft of Tibet antiques and the murder of a collector, set in New Delhi. The author was a British "diplomatic spouse" who hid her identity for many years. Winner of the CWA Creasey award for Best First Crime Novel of the Year. Glossary. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-340352698.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to the pages as is usually found in inexpensively produced UK editions)
Book ID: 77134More details Price: $60.00 -
THE ROSARY MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery novel by this former priest - introducing Detroit Roman Catholic priest Father Bob Koesler and homicide lieutentant Walter Koznicki. Basis for the film of the same name. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-8362-61216.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (Hollywood literary agency's stamps to endpapers, edgewear to the dust jacket) Hard to find in the first edition.
Book ID: 49886More details Price: $30.00 -
A GRAVE TALENT
Edition: 5th printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first mystery, winner of the Edgar for best first crime novel of the year. Introduces homicide detective Casey Martinelli. INSCRIBED by King on the dedication page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-088043.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket. An attractive and reasonably priced alternative to the very expensive first printing of this novel.
Book ID: 74249More details Price: $45.00 -
MURDER OFF MIKE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - Author's first novel, an award-winning mystery introducing Sacramento talk radio host and amateur sleuth Shauna J. Bogart. Winner of the 2002 Malice Domestic Contest for best traditional mystery. 290 pp,. ISBN: 0-312-310269.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53089More details Price: $12.50 -
QUIT MONKS OR DIE!
Edition: First printing.
Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first mystery by this Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet, a story rooted in the animal rights' movement, set in a small southwestern town, which houses the Graysmith Research Laboratory, where two bodies have been found - and where the Latino chief of police is the most powerful figure in town. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as Les Standiford, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and James Hall. 183 pp. ISBN: 1-885266774.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84957More details Price: $30.00
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