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A CHRISTMAS MEMORY.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, (1966, c 1956.). Hardcover - Autobiographical story from his childhood in Alabama and of his relationship with one of his elderly cousins - Miss Sook Faulk, who died in 1938 when he was away at school. 45 pp. Designed By George Salter
Condition: Very good in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 91274More details Price: $15.00 -
CITIES OF THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Michael Spraggue mystery, set in New Orleans. SIGNED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-312-139403.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant, a bit of wear to the top of the dj spine)
Book ID: 90956More details Price: $28.50 -
1-900-DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fifth mystery, set in New Orleans. A sword has skewered a New Orleans psychic known as the 'Mystic Delphine' and that is only the beginning of the confusion. SIGNED on the title page. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-312-104758.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90316More details Price: $27.50 -
DEAD ABOVE GROUND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Prize-winning African American novelist's third book, a story drawn upon his own heritage and set in his native New Orleans right after World War II - in a city and a world that no longer exists. SIGNED on the title page and dated 1-29-2000, in the month of publication. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-671-034685.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82986More details Price: $35.00 -
SKIN DEEP, BLOOD RED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, nominated for an Anthony Award. Set in 1936 New Orleans, this introduces Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, who walks the shadowy line between worlds defined by skin color, whose Creole mother died when he was very young, and who never knew the white man who was his father. 247 pp. ISBN: 1-57566-092x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81710More details Price: $20.00 -
CONJURES: Book Two of the Tempest Trinity Trilogy
Edition: Trade paperback original.
By the author, (2016). SIGNED - The second book in this young adult series, featuring three gifted teenage sisters - in this one, they are drawn to New Orleans and the bayou country in search of a heirloom book and the answer to a family mystery. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2016. 180 pp. ISBN: 978-0996704625.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80308More details Price: $15.00 -
CITY OF BEADS.
Edition: 1st paperback printing.
New York: Berkley, (1996.). Second mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-425155781.
Condition: Very near fine (crease to corner of 1 page, no creasing to covers or spine)
Book ID: 79131More details Price: $10.00 -
THE WHITE LEAGUE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New Milford, CT: Toby Press, (2005). SIGNED first edition - A novel about guilt, privilege, and racism in New Orleans by this author who is best known for the Kurt Muller series set in Aspen, Colorado, although actually grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast and in Louisiana. A story involving blackmail, a secret organization, and a white supremacist running for governor of Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. 477 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78805More details Price: $28.50 -
CAT-EYED TROUBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, who walks the shadowy line between worlds defined by skin color, whose Creole mother died when he was very young, and who never knew the white man who was his father. The first in the series was nominated for an Anthony Award. Set in 1938 New Orleans. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in New Orleans in January, 1998 (a month before the official publication date) 247 pp. ISBN: 1-57566-2507.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77350More details Price: $30.00 -
TRICK QUESTION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Faithful Reader." 230 pp. ISBN: 0-399-141847.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74484More details Price: $30.00 -
CITIES OF THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Michael Spraggue mystery, set in New Orleans. INSCRIBED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-312-139403.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of wear to the top of the dj spine)
Book ID: 74428More details Price: $30.00 -
SHELTER FROM THE STORM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet, set during a chaotic Carnival deluge. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Stay on the high ground.' 226 pp. ISBN: 0-399-143017.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74326More details Price: $30.00 -
CITY OF BEADS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- from down by the river.' 225 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140816.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74325More details Price: $30.00 -
CROOKED MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (preceded by four nonfiction books) and first mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. INSCRIBED on the title page "For ---Thanks for reading about Tubby's New Orleans." 224 pp. ISBN: 0-399-139737.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 73938More details Price: $30.00 -
THE RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986). Hardcover first edition - 'A Novel of Suspense Featuring Private Investigator Nudger' set in the seedy underside of New Orleans. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-312682352.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71015More details Price: $18.50 -
CONJURES: Book Two of the Tempest Trinity Trilogy
Edition: Trade paperback original.
By the author, (2016). SIGNED - The second book in this young adult series, featuring three gifted teenage sisters - in this one, they are drawn to New Orleans and the bayou country in search of a heirloom book and the answer to a family mystery. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2016. 180 pp. ISBN: 978-0996704625.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69047More details Price: $17.50 -
JASS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery (the first won the Shamus award) set in New Orleans. "In 1909 in the rowdy red-light district of Storyville, four players of the new music they call 'jass' have turned up dead. When Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to investigate, he discovers that every one of the victims once played in the same band, and the only one left alive has gone into hiding." SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-151010250.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69010More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LONG-LEGGED FLY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first crime fiction novel, set in modern New Orleans, and introducing black private investigator Lew Griffin. Selected by the LA Times as one of the 10 best mystery novels of the year. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-88184-8107.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66141More details Price: $25.00 -
MOTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Lew Griffin novel, set in New Orleans. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-88184-9456.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66140More details Price: $25.00 -
FRENCH QUARTER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Kensington, (1998). First edition - Novel of romantic suspense, murder and deceit, set in New Orleans. 371 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65065More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WRECKED BLESSED BODY OF SHELTON LAFLEUR.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Granta Regional Finalist, set in New Orleans, Louisiana during the Depression. His first novel Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, was the winner of the Lyndhurst Prize in 1993 and the 1994 Lillian Smith Award. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-395729882.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64959More details Price: $18.50 -
ELEANOR RUSHING.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book, set in New Orleans - a story of a young woman's obsession with a married minister is both a novel of pyschological suspense, and a look at the wilfulness of obsessive love and the power of memory to damage the soul. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 1582430039.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64937More details Price: $25.00 -
DEAD ABOVE GROUND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning African American novelist's third book, a story drawn upon his own heritage and set in his native New Orleans right after World War II - in a city and a world that no longer exists. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-671-034685.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63802More details Price: $16.50 -
PALE SHADOW.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1940 New Orleans, this is the fourth novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, a mixed blood Creole "living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment." SIGNED on the title page. . 226 pp. Dust jacket art by Alan Fore. ISBN: 1890208663.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63545More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOOD TO DRINK.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1939 New Orleans, this is the fourth novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, a mixed blood Creole "living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment." SIGNED on the title page. . 251 pp. Dust jacket art by Alan Fore. ISBN: 1890208337.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63544More details Price: $30.00 -
DADDY'S GONE A-HUNTING.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1938 New Orleans, this is the third novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, a mixed blood Creole "living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment." SIGNED on the title page. . 306 pp. Dust jacket art by David Bowers. ISBN: 1890208175.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63543More details Price: $30.00 -
SINNERS AND SAINTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring forensic nurse Chastity Burns, set in New Orleans, where her sister has gone missing. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-0312330682.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 63455More details Price: $15.00 -
MALICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller, set in New Orleans, featuring detective Rick Bentz. 424 pp. ISBN: 0-75821393X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (proof of purchase still intact)
Book ID: 61910More details Price: $16.50 -
JAZZ FUNERAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on title page. The third novel in the series featuring New Orleans homicide detective Skip Langdon. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-449-907422.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 59720More details Price: $35.00 -
REBELS OF BABYLON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery in the award winning series featuring Welshman Abel Jones, set in 1863 in New Orleans during the Civil War, an occupied and impoverished, but still defiant, city. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0513926.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56176More details Price: $18.00
