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THE CHALK GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2011.). First edition - A Kathy Mallory novel, set in New York City. 373 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57293More details Price: $20.00 -
KILLING CRITICS
Edition: First printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first edition of the third mystery in the unusual and highly praised series featuring NYPD dectective Kathleen Mallory. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-399-141685.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 60581More details Price: $40.00 -
WICKED DESIGNS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring New York private investigator Mici Anhalt, who is asked to investigate the death (apparently by a drug overdose) of a respected dowager. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-399-12523x.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear and light edgewear to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 39648More details Price: $15.00 -
FALLING STAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring New York private investigator Mici Anhalt, who is asked to investigate a murder in a famous theatrical family. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-399-124071.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61735More details Price: $17.50 -
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Police procedural featuring New York City Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-399-13316X.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some toning to the pages, remainder mark, short closed tear to dj)
Book ID: 61736More details Price: $15.00 -
A GOOD NIGHT TO KILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Police procedural featuring New York City Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-399-134034.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages, remainder mark) The hardcover first edition is surprisingly uncommon.
Book ID: 61737More details Price: $18.50 -
NOWHERE MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Hardcover first edition - Mystery novel set in NYC, where NYPD detective Neuman has come out of retirement. ISBN: 0-06-0157127.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustacket.
Book ID: 14841More details Price: $15.00 -
NOWHERE MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery novel set in NYC, where NYPD detective Neuman has come out of retirement. ISBN: 0-06-0157127.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (an unread copy with some signs of handling or shelfwear.)
Book ID: 17950More details Price: $12.50 -
FIXIN' TO DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Oster's eleventh mystery novel, featuring Detective Joe Cullen of the NYPD Internal Affairs Department. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-553-080377.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50828More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BODY IN THE BIG APPLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A prequel to the Faith Fairchild mysteries, when Faith is just getting established with her catering business in New York City. . ISBN: 0-688-157483.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58140More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LARKSPUR CONSPIRACY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in New York City featuring crusading reporter Peter Styles, the tenth novel in this series. In 1973, Philips, who also wrote under the pseudonym Hugh Pentecost, received the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master award. 187 pp. Dust jacket design by Tim Gaydos. ISBN: 0-396068375.
Condition: Very near fine in very good dust jacket (some rubbing to the dj, price-clipped)
Book ID: 71911More details Price: $16.50 -
BUT I WOULDN'T WANT TO DIE THERE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1993). dj. Hardcover first edition - A Jenny Cain mystery set in New York City. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-671-723308.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55453More details Price: $15.00 -
BUT I WOULDN'T WANT TO DIE THERE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1993). dj. Hardcover first edition - A Jenny Cain mystery set in New York City. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-671-723308.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 59306More details Price: $14.50 -
THE WICKED PAVILION.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1990). A "novel of Washington Square" - the story of the habitues of the Cafe Julien in Greenwich Village. Introduction by Gore Vidal who called Powell "one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death; we are catching up to her." xxi, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-679726853.
Condition: Near fine (remainder line, light toning to pages)
Book ID: 83298More details Price: $12.00 -
THE WHITES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel written by Price using this pseudonym. Story of a "New York City police detective under siege - by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge. . . in the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime unit known as the Wild Geese, he made headlines by accidentally shooting a ten-year-old boy while struggling with an angel-dusted berserker on a crowded street. Branded as a loose cannon by his higher-ups, Billy spent years enduring one dead-end posting after another." Now he finds himself involved in a murder investigation that will tear apart old friendships. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0805093995.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70046More details Price: $19.50 -
THE WHITES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in white printed wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 70582More details Price: $24.50 -
ETERNAL CURSE ON THE READER OF THESE PAGES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in New York City in the 1970's, this is the first book written in English by this Argentinian writer. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-394-52151X.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (small nick top edge, crease on dj flap.)
Book ID: 14650More details Price: $28.00 -
RECKLESS LADY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of romantic suspense by this prolific author, set mostly in New York City and in Arizona. When When rich, beatiful and flambyant Kay Spaulding is found dead, the police quickly realize that it was murder, not a mugging, and suspicion falls on Kay's half-sister, Martha - but then someone tries to poison Martha, she realizes she is in great danger. A Red badge novel of suspense. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-396068537.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a few spots of foxing on front endpaper, mild lamination flaw to dj)
Book ID: 85799More details Price: $19.50 -
STAND-UP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Miles Jacoby mystery, set in New York City. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31961.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corner of front endpaper clipped)
Book ID: 58395More details Price: $27.50 -
THE INVISIBLE BOY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel featuring the 'acerbic and memorable voice of ex-debutante Madeline Dare' who discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three year old boy in her family cemetery outside Manhattan. 418 pp. ISBN: 9780446511346.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64744More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GOLD SOLUTION.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1983) dj. Hardcover - A funny and fast-paced locked room whodunnit. "Meet Norma and Alexandra Gold Ð New York Sleuths with an old-fashioned solution to murder. They solve it - itÕs as simple as that.. .. One of AmericaÕs top architects, Roger Talbott, had been mysteriously killed in the locked studio atop his New York townhouse." 183 pp. Dust jacket by Terry Fehr. ISBN: 0-312331673.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 70003More details Price: $12.50 -
THE GOLD GAMBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery featuring Norma and Alexandra Gold Ð New York Sleuths with an old-fashioned solution to murder. Norma Gold and her friend Pearl are co-producing a Broadway arrival, until murder threatens its success. 248 pp. Dust jacket by Bob Scott. ISBN: 0-312022158.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72578More details Price: $16.50 -
THE GOLD CURSE: A Whodunit.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Norma and Alexandra Gold Ð New York Sleuths with an old-fashioned solution to murder. As they are attending a $1000 a seat benefit opera performance, one of the principal singers is murdered in front of them and 2000 other witnesses. 227 pp. Dust jacket by Terry Fehr. ISBN: 0-3123367880.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85637More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GUILTY CLIENT.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Parsippany, NJ: Deadly Ink Press, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The first novel in a series featuring the 1870 New York law firm of Pettigrew and Roth. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes. 237 pp. ISBN: 9780978744274.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 48545More details Price: $21.00 -
THE ROOT OF MATTER.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Parsippany, NJ: Deadly Ink Press, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in a series featuring the 1870 New York law firm of Pettigrew and Roth. SIGNED on the title page. 238 pp plus Author's notes. ISBN: 9780982653739.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 48546More details Price: $21.00 -
NECESSARY EVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery by this husband and wife team set in New York City. "Madge Erskine expected her perfect wedding anniversary party to be capped by a perfect crime, the murder of her husband. Her hired killers were professionals, prepared for any emergency except one - a witness who got away." A Red Badge Mystery. 185 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (slight spine slant, hint of foxing to endpapers, creasing on front cover of dj, sunning to spine).
Book ID: 62548More details Price: $25.00 -
TO THE PRECIPICE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel from the author best known for 'Looking for Mr Goodbar.' 384 pp. Dust jacket by Ellen Raskin.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket, with some rubbing and edgewear and chipping.
Book ID: 46948More details Price: $20.00 -
IN THIS RAIN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Delacorte, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Suspense novel set in New York City, featuring former city investigator Joe Cole and his partner Ann Montgomery. SIGNED on the half title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 978-0385338042.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62119More details Price: $19.50 -
NO COLDER PLACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - New York private investigator Bill Smith, with the help of his fellow PI Lydia Chin, goes undercover as a mason on a Manhattan construction site plagued by problems. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-312-16811x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small spot to lower edge of front board)
Book ID: 71142More details Price: $27.50 -
IN THIS RAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in New York City, featuring former city investigator Joe Cole and his partner Ann Montgomery. SIGNED on the half title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 978-0385338042.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72092More details Price: $25.00
