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BODILY HARM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth legal thriller by this former attorney, set in Seattle, a story of corporate greed and industrial espionage in the cut-throat toy business. SIGNED on the title page. 406 pp. ISBN: 978-1416592969.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62749More details Price: $30.00 -
TAKE MY BREATH AWAY.
Edition: First printing.
London: Allison & Busby, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A psychological thriller featuring lawyer turned writer Nic Gabriel and the young lawyer Roxanne Wade. INSCRIBED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-749005181.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78724More details Price: $35.00 -
LIFE SENTENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a legal thriller set in an unnamed Chicago (his first novel won the Edgar Award.) SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Rahm Emmanuel (who knows something about big city politics) and others. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-399-149791.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48653More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE COMPANY OF LIARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel, a legal thriller, by this Edgar Award winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. 378 pp. ISBN: 0-399-152474.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48923More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BONE VAULT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring New York assisant DA Alexandria Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, set partially at the American Musuem of Natural History. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-23543.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (prev owner's address label, tape repair to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 43959More details Price: $14.50 -
THE BONE VAULT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Scribner, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring New York assisant DA Alexandria Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, set partially at the American Musuem of Natural History. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-23543.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 38321More details Price: $12.50 -
TERMINAL CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring New York assistant DA Alexandria Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 379 pp. ISBN: 978-0525953883.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82597More details Price: $30.00 -
HIGH CRIMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a legal thriller and basis for the 2002 film of the same name, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-688-149626.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 48721More details Price: $28.50 -
HIGH CRIMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a legal thriller and basis for the 2002 film of the same name, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-688-149626.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82368More details Price: $31.50 -
HIGH CRIMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a legal thriller and basis for the 2002 film of the same name, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-688-149626.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87749More details Price: $18.50 -
THE MONARCHS ARE FLYING.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, (1987). First edition - The first novel by this Canadian author, a courtroom drama of a woman charged with murdering the woman who was her ex-lover, set in an intolerant small town, with a homophobic police detective. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-932379338.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79469More details Price: $12.50 -
AGAINST THE WIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Freedman's strong debut novel, the story of a defense lawyer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who must save his outlaw biker clients from Death Row at the same time as he puts his crumbling life back together. Enlivened with a healing, a riot, a revival meeting, and a trial. 423 pp. ISBN: 0-670-841153.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36154More details Price: $18.00 -
A CLEAR CONSCIENCE.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Pantheon, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth in the series of suspense novel featuring Crown Prosecutor Helen West. Fyfield is an attorney in the Crown Prosecutor's office, so she writes of a world she knows very well. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 223 pp,. ISBN: 0-679-426663.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60190More details Price: $30.00 -
SHADOW PLAY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, 1993. First edition - Novel featuring Crown Prosecutor Helen West. 208 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 35006More details Price: $12.00 -
THE LONG RAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Jason Dark has managed to salvage his marriage, restore the family vineyards and create a satisfying life for himself as a small town lawyer - but driving late one night, he hits and kills a teenage boy, and decides to say nothing about it. When another man is arrested for the death, he takes the case pro bono, but is that enough? Michael Chabon called this "at once dark and radiant, moving and chilling. It tells a harsh story in seductive, irresistible prose; it explores the most universal human weaknesses." 298 pp. ISBN: 0-312155719.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83787More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LONG RAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Jason Dark has managed to salvage his marriage, restore the family vineyards and create a satisfying life for himself as a small town lawyer - but driving late one night, he hits and kills a teenage boy, and decides to say nothing about it. When another man is arrested for the death, he takes the case pro bono, but is that enough? Michael Chabon called this "at once dark and radiant, moving and chilling. It tells a harsh story in seductive, irresistible prose; it explores the most universal human weaknesses." SIGNED on the title page. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-312155719.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82252More details Price: $30.00 -
THE CASE OF THE DUPLICATE DAUGHTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Perry Mason story. Foreword by Gardner on legal medicine.. 256 pp. Cover art by Bill Hughes.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Original price of 2.95 on dj flap. Previous owners' stamp on front endpaper and some checkmarks in the list of titles, but otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Book ID: 71694More details Price: $25.00 -
IN DEFENSE OF JUDGES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third crime novel, a legal thriller featuring defense attorney Bino Phillips, former basketball star and the toughest lawyer around. SIGNED on a bookplate on the front endpaper. Review copy with material laid in. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-525248757.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72827More details Price: $25.00 -
IN DEFENSE OF JUDGES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third crime novel, a legal thriller featuring defense attorney Bino Phillips, former basketball star and the toughest lawyer around. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-525248757.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81735More details Price: $28.50 -
THE LETTER OF THE LAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A legal thriller set in New York City. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-446-522996.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (date stamped on top edge of textblock.)
Book ID: 54194More details Price: $15.00 -
A KING'S RANSOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller featuring Miami attorney Nick Rey whose father kidnapped and held for ransom by Columbian revolutionaries. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 426 pp. ISBN: 0-060192410.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82695More details Price: $30.00 -
UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fifth thriller, set in Seattle, where the wife of a successful young lawyer has disappeared after dropping off their 6 year old daughter at school. The Seattle police propose two possiblities - that she is either dead or the accomplice of a serial killer. A story of success and betrayal and a look at the darker side of humanity. SIGNED on the title page. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-060192402.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82697More details Price: $30.00 -
A KING'S RANSOM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2001). SIGNED first edition - A legal thriller featuring Miami attorney Nick Rey whose father kidnapped and held for ransom by Columbian revolutionaries. SIGNED on the title page. 425 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82696More details Price: $30.00 -
THE RUNAWAY JURY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Doubleday, (1996.) dj. Hardcover - Legal thriller involving a landmark tobacco trial in Biloxi, Mississippi. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-385-472943.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52593More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BRETHREN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Doubleday, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Legal thriller involving three former judges - one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi - who create a little mail scam that goes awry. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-385-496466.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket. (prev owner's mailing label)
Book ID: 52595More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CLIENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a legal thriller with a twist - the hero is a streetwise 11 year old boy, who witnesses the suicide of a New Orleans attorney. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-385-42471x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50053More details Price: $16.50 -
THE RUNAWAY JURY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Legal thriller involving a landmark tobacco trial in Biloxi, Mississippi. 401 pp. ISBN: 0-385-472943.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41784More details Price: $13.50 -
THE LAST JUROR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller set in Mississippi in the 1970s and 80s where a man sentenced to prison for a brutal rape and murder manages to get paroled - and begins his retribution against the jurors. SIGNED on the half title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-385510438.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 88361More details Price: $60.00 -
EQUIVOCAL DEATH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2001). First edition - The author's first novel, a legal thriller.. Harvard Law grad Kate Paine is on the fast track at a powerful law firm - only to have the partner who is her mentor brutally murdered. 350 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 81566More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BAXTER TRUST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first mystery written by Parnell Hall under this pseudonym and introducing maverick lawyer (and cab driver) Steve Winslow. INSCRIBED on the title page and signed by the author as both Hailey and Parnell Hall. 256 pp. ISBN: 1556110901.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some bleeding/dampstaining to the upper edge of the interior of the dj - not visible on the exterior) .
Book ID: 66538More details Price: $28.50