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A CITIZEN OF THE COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, a story of mystery and witchcraft, set in pre World War I French Flanders. INSCRIBED by the author on the t i t l e p a g e , complete with a small drawing "For --- and thanks for a fun evening at the House of Mirrors, Best." On page 406, she added a m i s s i n g w o r d and an "anti-curse bookmark" (along with a more typical erratum slip. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-345-433025.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (faint 'x' on bottom of text block.)
Book ID: 47685More details Price: $30.00 -
CHILD 44.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very powerful and highly acclaimed first novel, set in Stalinist Russia, in the years after World War II, this is the story a Russian secret police officer who is framed by a colleague, imprisoned, demoted and banished to a small town, but who risks all to solve a series of child murders. Winner of the Thriller Award for best first novel. 439 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-402389.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 47932More details Price: $17.50 -
CHILD 44.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very powerful and highly acclaimed first novel, set in Stalinist Russia, in the years after World War II, this is the story a Russian secret police officer who is framed by a colleague, imprisoned, demoted and banished to a small town, but who risks all to solve a series of child murders. Winner of the Thriller Award for best first novel. 439 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-402389.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 48089More details Price: $17.50 -
THE SECRET SPEECH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring former MGB officer Leo Demidov, set in 1956 Russia: Stalin is dead and the violent regime is beginning to fracture, An equally gripping sequel to his award-winning 'Child 44.' 403 pp. ISBN: 9780446402408.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 55082More details Price: $18.50 -
AGENT 66.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2012.). First edition - The final novel in the award-winning Child 44 trilogy. Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his family to the US as part of a "Peace Tour" and when that ends in tragedy, he is forbidden to investigate. An epic novel ranging from the 1950s and 1960s to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. 467 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (some toning to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 80493More details Price: $18.00 -
HANGING CURVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Kensington, (1999.). First edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57670More details Price: $20.00 -
HANGING CURVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp. ISBN: 1-575664550.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 73187More details Price: $16.50 -
APRIL THIRTIETH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, a police procedural set in Napoleonic Paris,introducing Chief Inspector Blanc, and involving the murder of a courtesan. ISBN: 0-06-013707x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 32749More details Price: $17.50 -
APRIL THIRTIETH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, a police procedural set in Napoleonic Paris, and involving the murder of a courtesan. ISBN: 0-06-013707x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 45475More details Price: $16.50 -
APRIL THIRTIETH.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - A police procedural set in Napoleonic Paris, and the second mystery featuring Chief Inspector Blanc, who is involved in a case of seven bodies, sitting upright but with their throats slit. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-06-013707x.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (very faint remainder spray to bottom edge, discoloration to front cover of dj,)
Book ID: 87353More details Price: $16.50 -
CITY OF GHOSTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page. 3268 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-603601.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87914More details Price: $31.50 -
CITY OF DRAGONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second book, a 'roman noir,' set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-603601.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (inscription on front endpaper)
Book ID: 57269More details Price: $27.50 -
CITY OF DRAGONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second book, a 'roman noir,' set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the month of publication. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-603601.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63352More details Price: $31.50 -
CITY OF DRAGONS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Her second book, a 'roman noir,' set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-603601.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 66019More details Price: $18.50 -
CITY OF DRAGONS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.). SIGNED - Her second book, a 'roman noir,' set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-668792.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66020More details Price: $18.50 -
THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING: Henry Gresham and the Shakespeare Conspiracy.
Edition: First printing.
London: Little Brown, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second Jacobean thriller featuring gentleman spy Henry Gresham, set in 1612 and Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, is dying. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-316860026.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to pages and edges of textblock as usual with UK editions)
Book ID: 80616More details Price: $35.00 -
THE TAINTED SNUFF BOX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery, featuring Beau Brummel and set in Regency England. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-425-179486.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80905More details Price: $25.00 -
DEATH ON A SILVER TRAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, featuring Beau Brummel and set in Regency England. SIGNED on the title page. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-425-174689.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77039More details Price: $25.00 -
GIRL WAITS WITH GUN.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The first novel featuring the real life Constance Kopp, one of the country's first women deputies, and her charming, steadfast, but also rather eccentric sisters. Based on real events, complete with newspaper sources, this is an account of a woman "forging her own path, tackling crime and nefarious criminals along the way." SIGNED on the title page. Historical and sources note. 408 pp. ISBN: 978-0544409910.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77404More details Price: $25.00 -
GIRL WAITS WITH GUN.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2016) dj. SIGNED - The first novel featuring the real life Constance Kopp, one of the country's first women deputies, and her charming, steadfast, but also rather eccentric sisters. Based on real events, complete with newspaper sources, this is an account of a woman "forging her own path, tackling crime and nefarious criminals along the way." SIGNED on the title page. Historical and sources note. 410 pp. Excerpt from next book in series. ISBN: 978-1328799210.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 77438More details Price: $19.50 -
MISS KOPP JUST WON'T QUIT.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Kopp Sisters Novel. Set in 1916, in New Jersey, this is the fourth novel featuring the real life Constance Kopp, one of the country's first women deputies. Based on real events, complete with newspaper sources, this is an account of a woman "forging her own path, tackling crime and nefarious criminals along the way." Author's note. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-1328736512.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84326More details Price: $18.50 -
GIRL WAITS WITH GUN.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel featuring the real life Constance Kopp, one of the country's first women deputies, and her charming, steadfast, but also rather eccentric sisters. Based on real events, complete with newspaper sources, this is an account of a woman "forging her own path, tackling crime and nefarious criminals along the way." Historical and sources note. 408 pp. ISBN: 978-0544409910.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86142More details Price: $21.50 -
MISS KOPP JUST WON'T QUIT.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2019). A Kopp Sisters Novel. Set in 1916, in New Jersey, this is the fourth novel featuring the real life Constance Kopp, one of the country's first women deputies. Based on real events, complete with newspaper sources, this is an account of a woman "forging her own path, tackling crime and nefarious criminals along the way." Historical note and sources. 309 pp. plus a preview of the next book in the series 'Kopp Sisters on the March.'. ISBN: 978-1328736512.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89111More details Price: $13.50 -
THE CORAL THIEF.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, third book, set in Paris in 1815, right after Napoleon surrendered at Waterloo, and featuring a young medical student from Edinburgh. A "mix of history, philosophy and suspense." Author's note, suggestions for further reading. 286 pp. ISBN: 978-0385531467.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76209More details Price: $17.50 -
THE PIGEON PIE MYSTERY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1912) dj. Hardcover first edition - A murder mystery set in Victorian England - "When Indian Princess Alexandrina is left penniless by the sudden death of her father, the Maharaja of Brindor, Queen Victoria grants her a grace-and-favor home in Hampton Court Palace. Though rumored to be haunted, Alexandrina and her lady's maid, Pooki, have no choice but to take the Queen up on her offer.. . But when General-Major Bagshot dies after eating said pie, and the coroner finds traces of arsenic in his body, Pooki becomes the #1 suspect in a murder investigation." 313 pp. ISBN: 978-0385535564.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 84536More details Price: $16.50 -
THE SHADOW OF THE SHADOW.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1922 in post-revolutionary Mexico, described as "a blending of roman noir with magic realism, a cross between Raymond Chandler and Gabriel Garcia Marquez." Translated by William I. Neuman. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-670831178.
Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, underlining on the first couple of pages) .
Book ID: 80071More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH ON TELEGRAPH HILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1882 in San Francisco (where Oscar Wilde is appearing during his tour of America), this is the fifth mystery featuring Sarah Woolson, the daughter of a judge who is herself an attorney with her own practice, defying the expectations of a woman's "proper" role in society. 341pp. ISBN: 978-1250010438.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71764More details Price: $21.50 -
SCANDAL ON RINCON HILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1880s San Francisco, this is the third mystery featuring Sarah Woolson, the daughter of a judge who is herself an attorney with her own practice, defying the expectations of a woman's "proper" role in society. 340pp. ISBN: 978-0312386979.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71973More details Price: $18.50 -
THE SUFFOCATING NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth mystery set in Lydmouth and featuring Detective Inspector Richard Thornhill and reporter Jill Francis, both outsiders in the village. Set against the backdrop of the Korean War and the fears of Communism, this opens with a group of squatters who have taken over a disused military base from World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-340695978.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 72671More details Price: $45.00 -
AN UNPARDONABLE CRIME.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical thriller set in early 1800s England, and featuring a young Edgar Allan Poe, who has been sent to a small village to be educated. Winner of the 2003 CWA Historical Dagger. Author's note. 485 pp. ISBN: 1-401301029.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75683More details Price: $16.50
