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A CARRION DEATH: Introducing Detective Kubu.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket: "A memorable detective makes his debut in this gritty, mesmerizing thriller. Set amid the beauty and darkness of contemporary Africa, [this] is the first entry in an evocative new series cutting to the heart of today's Botswana - a modern democracy threatened by unstable neighbors, poachers, and diamond smugglers. Those trying to expose the corrupt ringleaders will gind themselves fighting for their lives." SIGNED on the title page. Recommended. Glossary. 467 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1252409.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81068More details Price: $40.00 -
STILL WATERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery - introduces photojournalist Libby Kincaid. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0165294.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (rem mark, bump to bottom edge of rear board)
Book ID: 48627More details Price: $20.00 -
NORTH OF THE BORDER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Virago Press, (1990.). The first Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 170 pp. ISBN: 1853812471.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to the pages, minor wear to covers.
Book ID: 57400More details Price: $10.00 -
IF LOOKS COULD KILL.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first mystery - it introduces Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-446-530239.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 29083More details Price: $24.50 -
SLOW DANCE IN AUTUMN: A Hank Prince Mystery Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Introduces former AAA baseball player Hank Prince, "Atlanta's most engaging private eye." 255 pp. ISBN: 0-934601-569.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 48803More details Price: $15.00 -
SLOW DANCE IN AUTUMN: A Hank Prince Mystery Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Introduces former AAA baseball player Hank Prince, "Atlanta's most engaging private eye." SIGNED on the title page and also INSCRIBED on the facing page to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-934601-569.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76413More details Price: $30.00 -
DEATH BY DEGREES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery - set in the academia at a university in Monterey, California - a world the author knows well, as a former college president. Wilson was also the founder of the Clarion Writers' Workshop. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-312-134622.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (several edge tears to dj).
Book ID: 63858More details Price: $15.00 -
OUTSIDE CHILD: A Novel of Murder and New Orleans
Edition: First printing.
Walnut Creek, California: Komenar Publishing, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel, a gripping story set in pre-Katrina New Orleans, by a woman who grew up in the Magnolia Housing Project and later worked at the Delta Queen Steamboat Company, and whose background lends authenticity to the story, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-0977208128.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 39393More details Price: $28.50 -
OUTSIDE CHILD: A Novel of Murder and New Orleans
Edition: First printing.
Walnut Creek, California: Komenar Publishing, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel, a gripping story set in pre-Katrina New Orleans, by a woman who grew up in the Magnolia Housing Project and later worked at the Delta Queen Steamboat Company, and whose background lends authenticity to the story, INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-0977208128.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64325More details Price: $30.00 -
23 SHADES OF BLACK.
Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing.
New York: Signet, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover - An unusual first mystery, featuring a New York street smart cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela. Nominee for the Edgar. Originally published as a paperback original by a small press, so this book club edition is the first hardcover edition of this title. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to upper edge of front cover of dj)
Book ID: 62075More details Price: $23.50 -
23 SHADES OF BLACK.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Signet, (1998). SIGNED - An unusual first mystery, featuring a New York street smart cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela. Nominated for the Edgar. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-451-197488.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 66573More details Price: $14.50 -
INNER CITY BLUES: A Charlotte Justice Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First in this series featuring a black female homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department Set during the LA riots - nominated for the Edgar award and winner of the Macavity award. SIGNED on the title page. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-393-04680x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44270More details Price: $28.50 -
THE ORPHANMASTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel preceded by several non-fiction books on the history of New York going back to the New Amsterdam days of Dutch settlers - the setting for this historical mystery. "Its 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond." Maps. Author's historical note. 418 pp. ISBN: 978-0670023646.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84663More details Price: $17.50 -
LAUTREC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Southwestern writer's first mystery novel, set in Albuquerque. New Mexico. Lautrec is a defense attorney some consider "past his prime, one who can't resist taking on the most hopeless cases." 234 pp. ISBN: 0-525-24784X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 79103More details Price: $15.00
