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THE CIRCLE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Time Warner, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel featuring Inspector Henrietta Mallin - when a publisher is killed in a house fire, the members of a writer's circle are determined to track down the killer. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Welcome to my circle" and dated in the year of publication. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-316729450.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (usual toning, otherwise fine) .
Book ID: 91352More details Price: $30.00 -
DEATH IN BRESLAU.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 91118More details Price: $25.00 -
EVERY MAN A MURDERER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1994). Set in Austria shortly after the first World War this is "a novel of obsession and self-revelation encased in a murder mystery. A successful business man, Conrad Castiletz, is lead to investigate the death of his wife's sister, Louison, on a train several years before." Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. 373 pp. ISBN: 1-55713183X.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some penciled notes on last blank pages).
Book ID: 91043More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MERCEDES COFFIN: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus. A cold case turns red hot when a second victim turns up 15 years later. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. ISBN: 978-0-061227332.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (toning to pages)
Book ID: 90935More details Price: $25.00 -
FINDERS KEEPERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, and the second in the mystery series featuring publishers and amateur sleuths Ben and Carrie Porter. They take a working vacation to a recently deceased author's Riviera home, hoping to get the rights to his last novel, only to find that he has set a final challenge for his heirs. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312050062.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 90748More details Price: $16.50 -
THE DOCTOR'S WIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of four people - two couples - and "the cataclysmic intersection of their lives." Dust jacket praise from Dorothy Allison, David Corbett, Ruth Ozeki (who commented that it is "a tense and compelling psychological thriller, but its more than just a page turner. In her dark depiction of small-town intolerance, Brundage invites us to question our moral assumptions, social responsibilities, in short, our engagement with the world.) and more. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-670033162.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 90515More details Price: $18.50 -
COYOTE AND QUARTER MOON: Western Stories.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Waterville, Maine: Five Star / Thomson Gale, (2006) dj. Hardcover - First book appearance of these fifteen western detective stories, written over a period of more than thirty years, including one co-written with Marcia Muller, and another with Jeffrey Wallmann. 215 pp. ISBN: 978-1594144059.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 90190More details Price: $16.50 -
MR, GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 90123More details Price: $16.50 -
YELLOWFIN: A Ben McMillan Hawaiian Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Woodbridge, Connecticut: Ox Bow Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, featuring Kona detective Ben McMillan, who becomes involved in the mysterious death of an elderly Japanese man who had been a spy during World War II - and soon others are murdered and Ben's life is threatened as he uncovers a surprising act of heroism in the days just before Pearl Harbor . 297 pp. ISBN: 0-918024935.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89963More details Price: $18.50 -
MILK AND HONEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel and the third featuring LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-688-086039.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89459More details Price: $21.50 -
WE LIVE IN WATER: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperPerennial, (2013). First edition - First collection of short stories by this award-winning author, which "veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once hip Seattle to never hip Spokane" and more. Issued as a trade paperback original, 177 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 89039More details Price: $17.50 -
DOWN THESE STRANGE STREETS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - An all-new collection of urban fantasy stories - strange cases of death and magic in the city - by Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Diana Gabaldon, Simon R. Green, S. M. Stirling, Carrie Vaughn, Glen Cook, Bradley Denton, M.L.N. Hanover, Conn Iggulden, Laurie R. King, Joe R. Lansdale, John Maddox Roberts, Steven Saylor, Melinda Snodgrass, and Lisa Tuttle. Introduction by George Martin in which he describes urban fantasy as the "bastard stepchild" - the heroes have their roots in hardboiled mystery, while the villains are straight out of horror. xii, 478 pp. ISBN: 978-0441020744.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacke (short tear to fold of dj).
Book ID: 88993More details Price: $19.50 -
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1977) dj. Hardcover - Posthumous publication of a book which Christie began writing in around 1950, when she was 60 years old. Illustrated with photographs. xii, 519 p. ISBN: 0-396075169.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor wear to top edge of dj)
Book ID: 87858More details Price: $22.50 -
AKHNATON: A Play in Three Acts.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although written back around 1937 when Christie was writing 'Death on the Nile' this play was never performed nor published until this edition. Based on the story of Akhnaton and his wife Nefertiti, and his attempt to replace the old religion of Egypt with one of love, this is a carefully researched story. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-396-068227.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87841More details Price: $85.00 -
UNDERGROUND AIRLINES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance copy and especially so signed.
Book ID: 87456More details Price: $45.00 -
UNDERGROUND AIRLINES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 87446More details Price: $21.50 -
AT SEA.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87372More details Price: $19.50 -
THE LATIMER MERCY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1985) dj. Hardcover - Author's first mystery introducing journalist, playwright and amateur sleuth Gus Maltravers, who is determined to discover who stole a rare 16th Bible from the Vercaster Cathedral. Winner of the John Creasey award for best first novel. Full page cover praise from P. D. James who compliments this novel for its sense of place and "the intriguing contrast between ordered normality and the corruptive terror of murder." 184 pp. ISBN: 0-312-472676.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some wear to dj at ends of spine)
Book ID: 87307More details Price: $16.50 -
THE LOST GLASS PLATES OF WILFRED ENG.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel -the story of Robert Armour, a Seattle photo dealer and art historian with a failing career, who discovers a collection of long-lost glass negatives by a great Chinese-American photographer - the story of Armour's "descent is interspersed with passages from Wilfred Eng's writings, as well as from Ellen McFarland's diaries detailing her passionate affair with, and eventual betrayal by, Eng. As Robert's life unravels, he reluctantly recognizes certain parallels between his own actions and those of the unhappy photographer. . a tale that is part love story, part thriller, and wholly engrossing." (Alix Wilbur). SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 243 pp. ISBN: 1-582430233.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 87298More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DEAD BEAT SCROLL: An August Riordan Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Lutz, FL: Down & Out Books, (2019) dj. SIGNED - The seventh mystery in this noir series featuring jazz bass-playing private investigator August Riordan, who has returned to San Francisco to avenge the death of a friend and former partner, but finds himself caught up in a string of murders involving a previously unknown manuscript purportedly by the beat writer Jack Kerouac. INSCRIBED on the title page. 265 pp. plus ads. ISBN: 978-1932557534.
Condition: Very good (some minor wear to the covers) .
Book ID: 87293More details Price: $20.00 -
THE MISCHIEF OF THE MISTLETOE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in the Pink Carnations series, a "lighthearted, romantic and suspenseful novel about the most elusive spy of all time." A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Recipes, author's historical note. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-0525951872.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87118More details Price: $18.00 -
THE FT. LARNED INCIDENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring the healer Tay-Bodal, set in 1868 following the signing of the Medicine Lodge Treaty. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-312-208782.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86839More details Price: $24.50 -
WITCH OF THE PALO DURO: A Tay-Bodal Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring the healer Tay-Bodal, set in 1866 when the Rattle Bands returns to Palo Duro Canyon, the Kiowa's traditional winter camp, for the first time since the attack by Kit Carson two years earlier. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-312-170653.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86829More details Price: $24.50 -
THE GEOGRAPHER'S LIBRARY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Penguin, 2005. Hardcover first edition - A highly praised debut novel, one which moves between the twelfth-century where a Sicilian cat burglar snatches a sack of artifacts from the king's geographer's library, and these alchemical tools and objects are soon scattered all over the world. Nine hundred years later that a young reporter investigating the suspicious death of a local professor stumbles upon evidence that someone is collecting them again. Alan Furst called this 'magnetic and sharply written, with excellent history, a strong narrative, and a mind of its own.' 374 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86640More details Price: $19.50 -
THE MYSTERY OF AGATHA CHRISTIE.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - :"An Intimate Biography Of The First Lady Of Crime" based on accounts by people who knew her. Illustrated with black and white photographs.Appendix, index. xiii, 247 pp. Jacket by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-385126239.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (small stain affecting the lower edge of the rear board and the final few pages) .
Book ID: 86276More details Price: $20.00 -
LEONARDO'S BICYCLE.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86187More details Price: $20.00 -
OFF THE RECORD.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by a veteran political journalist. "When the body of an up-and-coming politician is found in a harbor one morning, Dublin journalist Seamus Ryle scents the makings of a story that could revive his flagging career. Drawn further into a case laced with political scandal and police bungling, Ryle is determined to solve the mystery." 343 pp. ISBN: 0-393-028291.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85926More details Price: $18.50 -
THE 7TH KNOT.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, (2007). First edition - Historical mystery for older children set in 1896, winner of an Agatha Award. "Wick and Miles, two brothers touring Europe in the 19th century, become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet." 149 pp plus author's historical note. ISBN: 978-0761453680.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85715More details Price: $14.50 -
THE MYSTERIES IN THE COMMUNE.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1982) dj. Hardcover - The fourth young adult mystery featuring Robin Green, who befriends a frightened girl from a commune and finds herself in the middle of two mysteries. Illustrated by Robert Handville. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-396080766.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (small peeled spot from sticker removal) .
Book ID: 85688More details Price: $16.50 -
THE ABORTIONIST'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, about a murder in a small Colorado town - "Two weeks before Christmas, Diana Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, is found floating in her pool, a bruise the size of a golf ball visible through her dark curls. A national figure, Diana inspired passion and ignited tempers, never more so than on the day of her death." 285 pp. ISBN: 0-307263665.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85419More details Price: $21.50