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RAT CITY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Los Angeles: Uglytown Productions, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The first book in this series set in Seattle in the years after World War II and featuring private investigator Jake Rossiter and his assistant Miss Jenkins (who is eager to be an investigator herself). A young Negro jazzman has gone missing and his proud father will not give up hope. "SIGNED on the title page. 361 pp. ISBN: 0-966347358.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (in a protective cover).
Book ID: 74124More details Price: $25.00 -
SAYONARAVILLE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps (in a protective cover).
Book ID: 73920More details Price: $21.50 -
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS MURDER.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 79264More details Price: $24.50 -
BYE BYE, BABY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1962, and Nate Heller who was hired by Marilyn Monroe to record all calls on her phone, finds himself in the midst of a dangerous investigation when she is found dead of an apparent drug overdose. SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0765321794.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78740More details Price: $30.00 -
ANGEL IN BLACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh mystery in his award winning series featuring sleuth Nathan Heller - in this, he tackles the Hollywood murder known as the "Black Dahlia. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note - "I Owe Them One." 340 pp. ISBN: 0-451202635.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (book "over-opened" before title page).
Book ID: 77318More details Price: $25.00 -
THE TITANIC MURDERS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Berkley, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The first novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Jacques Futrelle, the author behind "the Thinking Machine," the popular fictional investigator who solves mysteries using formidable logic (Futrelle did not survive the sinking of the Titanic) . SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-425174093.
Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 79287More details Price: $23.50 -
THE HINDENBURG MURDERS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Berkley, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Leslie Charteris, author of "The Saint" mystery novels. SIGNED on the title page. 257 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-425174093.
Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 78517More details Price: $20.00 -
MAJIC MAN: A Nathan Heller Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring sleuth Nathan Heller, set in post World War II Washington, D. C.. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note - "I Owe Them One." 293 pp. ISBN: 0-525937587.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77319More details Price: $30.00 -
ROAD TO PURGATORY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Sequel to the Academy Award winning "Road to Perdition" this is the story of two good men, one in 1942 and one in 1922, trapped in bad lives. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0540273.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 62504More details Price: $20.00 -
ANGEL IN BLACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh mystery in his award winning series featuring sleuth Nathan Heller - in this, he tackles the Hollywood murder known as the "Black Dahlia. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note - "I Owe Them One." Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-451202635.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82527More details Price: $40.00 -
MURDER BY THE NUMBERS: An Eliot Ness Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Eliot Ness and the Cleveland Mob Wars" Historical novel, which combines fact - the exploits of the real life lawman, Eliot Ness - with fiction. It is 1938 and the Mafia is moving in on the Black mobsters who rule the Bucket of Blood, the slum made famous by Chester Himes. SIGNED by author on title page. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-312088566.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85676More details Price: $30.00 -
TARGET LANCER.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2013). SIGNED - Suspense novel set in 1963, surrounding a plot to kill JFK - in Chicago! The sixteenth novel in the Nathan Heller series. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0765361479.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 67358More details Price: $11.50 -
THE LUSITANIA MURDERS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Berkley, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is S. S. Van Dine, and the Pinkerton detective on board is Philomena Vance, the inspiration for Van Dine's hero, Philo Vance. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. xv, 254 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-425186881.
Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 79259More details Price: $24.50 -
THE PEARL HARBOR MURDERS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Berkley, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The third novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan books and his son. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-425174093.
Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 78902More details Price: $21.50 -
NEON MIRAGE
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel featuring Nathan Heller, ex-cop turned private investigator set in 1946 as rival factions are fighting for control on gambling nationwide and Bugsy Siegel begins the transformation of Las Vegas. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-312014848.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78591More details Price: $45.00 -
FLYING BLIND: A Novel of Amelia Earhart.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78358More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LONDON BLITZ MURDERS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Berkley, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The fifth novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, set in 1942, it is Agatha Christie. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-425198057.
Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 78518More details Price: $21.50 -
ANGEL IN BLACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh mystery in his award winning series featuring sleuth Nathan Heller - in this, he tackles the Hollywood murder known as the "Black Dahlia. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note - "I Owe Them One." 340 pp. ISBN: 0-451202635.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78219More details Price: $35.00 -
CARNAL HOURS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring sleuth Nathan Heller, and based on the puzzling murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas in the 1940s. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-525937587.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77263More details Price: $30.00 -
DAMNED IN PARADISE: A Nathan Heller Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel featuring Nathan Heller, inspired by the Massie case in Hawaii, a trial in which Clarence Darrow argued for the defense. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-525942254.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78590More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOOD AND THUNDER: A Nathan Heller Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel featuring Chicago private investigator Nathan Heller. Set in 1935, after Heller delivers a bulletproof vest to Huey Long, the former Louisiana governor, he is hired to investigate death threats from political rivals. "When the charismatic politician is shot down by a seemingly crazed doctor, Heller gets a new employer - the insurance agency fighting a double-indemnity claim from Longs widow. Was the Kingfish truly the victim of assassination, or accidentally killed by his own bodyguards? A classic P.I. thriller built on historical fact, [this novel] deep into the heart of the deadliest swamps of Louisianas mob-infested politics." SIGNED on the title page. Author's historical note - "I Owe Them One." 320 pp. ISBN: 0-525937595.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 78985More details Price: $30.00 -
STOLEN AWAY: A Novel of the Lindbergh Kidnapping.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small spot to lower corner of front flap of dj)
Book ID: 74144More details Price: $125.00 -
THE TITANIC MURDERS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Berkley, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The first novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Jacques Futrelle, the author behind "the Thinking Machine," the popular fictional investigator who solves mysteries using formidable logic (Futrelle did not survive the sinking of the Titanic) . SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-425174093.
Condition: Near fine (foxing inside covers, light crease on spine)
Book ID: 79355More details Price: $20.00 -
FLYING BLIND: A Novel of Amelia Earhart.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87658More details Price: $18.50 -
DYING IN THE POST-WAR WORLD: A Nathan Heller Casebook.
Edition: First printing.
Woodstock, Vermont: Foul Play Press, (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes a novella and five short stories set in Chicago in 1947, after World War II, all of which take a fresh look at some of the city's most famous unsolved crimes. SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-881502103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80451More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER ON GOOD FRIDAY.
Edition: First printing.
Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing. (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel. When a child is found murdered in a field, with his body marked in imitation of the crucifixion of Christ, Lord Godwin, ex-Crusader and Bailiff of Hexham, in the service of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is summoned to the scene. . . "Soon a rumor begins to spread that the Jews had murdered young Albert, and a mob seizes all the Jews in Hexham, an extended family of nine. Godwin's first task is to prevent the Jews' murder by the mob, his second to find the person guilty of the horrible murder." INSCRIBED on the title page. Map, glossay. 311 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 1-581821883.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76710More details Price: $28.50 -
DAUGHTERS OF SUMMER: A Lord Godwin Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing. (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second medieval mystery featuring Lord Godwin, ex-Crusader and Bailiff of Hexham, in the service of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the late summer of 1221, just as the fair is beginning, a wealthy merchant has been found, poisoned. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Map. Excerpt from the first book in the series. 204 pp. ISBN: 1-581823401.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76711More details Price: $28.50 -
SUSPENSION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an historical thriller set in 1883 where the newly constructed Brooklyn Bridge becomes a target for a group of former Confederate soldiers, , and led by a fanatical captain determined on revenge for the death of his brother at Gettysburg. Detective Tom Braddock's investigation into a murder uncovers hints of the conspiracy and puts his own life in jeopardy. SIGNED on the title page. 436 pp. ISBN: 0-312203713.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81298More details Price: $28.50 -
THE CHASE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An historical thriller featuring detective Isaac Bell, ranging from 1906 San Francisco to 195's Montana. The first book in the Isaac Bell series. SIGNED on the title page. Map endpapers. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-399-154386.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 73296More details Price: $35.00 -
THE STRIKER: An Isaac Bell Adventure.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth historical thriller featuring detective Isaac Bell -it is 1902 and Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship, is hired to hunt for radical union sabateurs in the coal mines. Instead he witnesses a terrible accident which makes him realize that it is not the union members who are the problem. SIGNED by Cussler on the facing title page. Pittsburgh map endpapers. 375 pp. ISBN: 9780-399-161773.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73300More details Price: $50.00