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THE NIGHTINGALE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Meg Langslow humorous mystery, set in Virginia, where Meg's mother is one of twelve designers participating in a Christmas themed open house. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 978-1250049575.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87985More details Price: $30.00 -
STORK RAVING MAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Meg Langslow humorous mystery, set in Virginia, where Meg is expecting twins "any minute." SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 9780-312-621193.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87853More details Price: $28.50 -
PERFECT FOOLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring the wealthy, irascible but charming septuagenarian, Dearborn V. Pinch, who finds his life once again interrupted by murder. This time his ne'er-do-well son is suspected in the killing of a Cuban official, and so Dearborn finds himself in old Havana. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-525-241221.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (spine slightly sunned, wear to ends of dl)
Book ID: 84714More details Price: $16.50 -
CAT IN A TOPAZ TANGO: A Midnight Louie Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twenty-first title in the Midnight Louie mystery series, featuring a tough-talking,twenty-pound,tomcat PI. Public relations hotshot Temple Barr is promoting a charity fundraiser - Dancing with the Celebs - in Las Vegas, but death is also stalking the dance floor. SIGNED on the title page by both Douglas and Midnight Louie. 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0765318626.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 78744More details Price: $25.00 -
CAT IN A SAPPHIRE SLIPPER: A Midnight Louie Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twentieth title in the Midnight Louie mystery series, featuring a tough-talking,twenty-pound,tomcat PI. "Temple Barr's romance novelist aunt Kit has wound up in a romantic plot of her own. She's snagged one of the most eligible bachelors on the Strip, one of the elder Fontana brothers, a silver-tongued reputed ex-mobster with a heart of gold. Things go disastrously wrong when the entire party is hijacked and taken to a remote ranch out in the Nevada desert, a place where the women are wild and the sex is legal." SIGNED on the title page by both Douglas and Midnight Louie. 396 pp. ISBN: 978-0765318619.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78743More details Price: $25.00 -
HERBIE'S GAME: A Junior Bender Mystery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: SOHO Press, (2014). First edition - The fourth book in this off-beat crime series featuring Junior Bender - "burglar turned private investigator for Hollywood crooks." Author's afterword. Winner of the Lefty Award for best humorous mystery. 387 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77755More details Price: $18.50 -
THE HEN OF THE BASKERVILLES: A Meg Langslow Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifthteenth mystery in this humorous and award winning series, set in a small town in Virginia, where preparations are being made for Un-fair, to replace the bankrupt state fair . SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-1250007513.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77299More details Price: $30.00 -
NO NEST FOR THE WICKET.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A mystery in the humorous and award winning Meg Langslow series, set in a small town in Virginia, where extreme croquet is the current rage. SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-312-329407.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77288More details Price: $21.50 -
LITTLE ELVISES: A Junior Bender Mystery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: SOHO Press, (2012). SIGNED first edition - The second book in a new humorous crime series by the author the Poke Rafferty and Simeon Grist series. Features Junior Bender - "burglar turned private investigator for Hollywood crooks." SIGNED on the title page. 343 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75464More details Price: $31.50 -
HERBIE'S GAME: A Junior Bender Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth book in this off-beat crime series featuring Junior Bender - "burglar turned private investigator for Hollywood crooks." SIGNED on the title page. Author's afterword. Winner of the Lefty Award for best humorous mystery. 387 pp. ISBN: 978-1616954291.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 75203More details Price: $28.50 -
THE FAME THIEF: A Junior Bender Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book in this humorous crime series featuring Junior Bender - "burglar turned private investigator for Hollywood crooks." SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-1616952808.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (spine slant)
Book ID: 75202More details Price: $24.50 -
CRASHED: A Junior Bender Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in a new humorous crime series by the author of the Poke Rafferty and Simeon Grist series. Introduces Junior Bender - :burglar turned private investigator for Hollywood crooks." SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-1616952747.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75200More details Price: $28.50 -
HIGH FIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth in the award winning series featuring New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203039.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73894More details Price: $40.00 -
HIGH FIVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (1999). First edition - Fifth in the award winning series featuring New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. 292 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73467More details Price: $15.00 -
HIGH FIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth in the award winning series featuring New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203039.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70986More details Price: $35.00 -
FEMMES FATALE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Ellie Haskell mystery, now the mother of infant twins who feels like the magic has gone out of her life. The fifth mystery by Cannell. INSCRIBED on the title page "To -- all the best" and dated in the year of publication. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-553-088467.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68550More details Price: $25.00 -
SNEAKS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring the wealthy, irascible but charming septuagenarian, Dearborn V. Pinch, who takes off for Florida in search of a murderer. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-525-206329.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (spine slant)
Book ID: 67253More details Price: $13.50 -
SWAN FOR THE MONEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery in the humorous and award winning Meg Langslow series, set in a small town in Virginia, and involving a rose show where the competition turns deadly. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-377175.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67088More details Price: $27.50 -
COCKATIELS AT SEVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 9th mystery in the humorous and award winning Meg Langslow series, set in a small town in Virginia.. SIGNED on the title page. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-377151.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67087More details Price: $27.50 -
DYING FOR A DAIQUIRI.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Spring, TX: L & L Dreamspell, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The 3rd mystery in this humorous series featuring Laurel McKay - who leaves Northern California to attend a wedding on the Big Island of Hawaii. SIGNED on the title page. Includes cocktail recipes. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-1492746843.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66116More details Price: $17.50 -
DYING FOR A DANCE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Spring, TX: L & L Dreamspell, (2013). SIGNED - The 2nd mystery in this humorous series featuring Laurel McKay, set in Northern California. SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-1492717225.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66031More details Price: $17.50 -
COCKATIELS AT SEVEN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The 9th mystery in the humorous and award winning Meg Langslow series, set in a small town in Virginia.. SIGNED on the title page. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-377151.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62659More details Price: $16.50 -
THE PENGUIN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 8th mystery in the humorous and award winning Meg Langslow series, set in a small town in Virginia..SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-312-329426.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to the pages).
Book ID: 62658More details Price: $24.50 -
SKATING OVER THE LINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second humorous mystery set in small town Indian Falls, where Rebecca Robbins has inherited a skating rink. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 9780312606626.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61994More details Price: $25.00 -
DYING FOR A DATE.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
Spring, TX: L & L Dreamspell, (2010.). SIGNED - Author's first mystery: newly divorced mom Laurel McKay joins a match-making service touted as a 'safe' alternative to online dating - but her dates seem to keep dropping dead. Very funny romantic mystery set in the Sierra foothills of Northern California. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author "to ---- To another Nancy Drew fan. Enjoy!" . 269 pp. ISBN: 9781603182485.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61954More details Price: $16.50 -
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRIET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Ellie Haskell mystery - and the tenth mystery by Cannell. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-670-886297.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61868More details Price: $25.00 -
KAT SCRATCH FEVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 8th mystery featuring Sacramento private investigator Kat Colorado. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-399-142542.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59344More details Price: $30.00 -
WILD KAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth Kat Colorado mystery, set in Sacramento, California. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-385-468512.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53494More details Price: $16.00 -
WILD KAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth Kat Colorado mystery, set in Sacramento, California. SIGNED by author & dated March 1994, when it was first published. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-385-468512.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53493More details Price: $30.00 -
THE HEARSE YOU CAME IN ON.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Hyperion, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - Author's first novel, and the first Hitchcock Sewell mystery, featuring Baltimore's most eligible undertaker. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-65709.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to dj.)
Book ID: 50486More details Price: $12.50
