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UPGUNNED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A rather violent noir novel by this award winning writer and screenwriter described as "A riveting Hitchcockian thriller. . . Elias McCabe is having one hell of a night: He gets kidnapped at gunpoint by a professional hit man and is forced to shoot blackmail photos of a prominent politician. Things go wrong with the shootÉ very wrong. When the night is over, Elias is scared to death É and ten thousand dollars richer.
If he keeps his mouth shut. " SIGNED on the title page. End credits. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-0312571375.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 69541More details Price: $35.00 -
CHASING THE DRAGON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a hard-boiled novel set in San Francisco and introducing Dante Mancuso who is leading a double life. He " works for The Company, a nebulous security organization operating just this side of the law. Dante wants out, but it's a hard life to leave behind-rich with its own seductions, its own dark attractions." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-312324677.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84249More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BIG BOOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a noir novel set in San Francisco featuring private investigator Dante Mancuso who has been hired to find the missing daughter of an old North Beach Italian family. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312324707.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84250More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LAST DAYS OF IL DUCE,
Edition: First printing.
Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in the old Italian neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco - one which flashes back and forth between their childhood days in the 1950s and events thirty years later. Although this begins with the murder of Nick's brother, Joe, and his determination to get revenge, it is more about the secrets of the past than it is about the sins of the present. Finalist for the Edgar Award and the Hammett Prize. SIGNED on the title page. Blue endpapers. 168 pp. ISBN: 1-579620043.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (light crease on front endpaper)
Book ID: 84295More details Price: $30.00 -
NAKED MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a noir novel set in San Francisco featuring private investigator Dante Mancuso. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-0312364540.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88347More details Price: $35.00 -
SHOVEL READY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Crown, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A hardboiled noir novel set in a dystopian near future - "Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell of its former self. Now hes a hitman. In a near-future New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to tap in to a sophisticated virtual reality, and those who are left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets." INSCRIBED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 978-0385348997.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84430More details Price: $25.00 -
LEONARDO'S BICYCLE.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86187More details Price: $20.00 -
DARK PARADISE.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2009. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a stand-alone noir thriller set on Hawaii's Big Island which focuses on the battles over who will control the island's lucrative drug trade. In the middle of the muddle is criminal investigator Geronimo Souza, who simply wants to keep the collateral damage to a minimum. A book which draws a devastating picture of drug-induced carnage. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Striking dust jacket and interior artwork by Michael Kellner. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-0939767618.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 83433More details Price: $40.00 -
CONS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: SOHO Press, (1992). First edition - Uncommon advance issue of this author's first book -set in North Carolina, this is a noir novel about an ex-con trying to go straight. 231 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed lime green wrappers.
Book ID: 83429More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DIAMOND BIKINI.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
London: Simon & Schuster, (1988). A title in the Blue Murder series. A hard-boiled noir mystery by one of the masters of the genre - two Chicago hoodlums and a beautiful nightclub singer hide out in the bayous of the deep South, but then she disappears wearing nothing but a G-string encrusted with diamonds. Originally published as a paperback original in 1956. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-671652753.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (usual toning to pages)
Book ID: 88207More details Price: $14.50 -
I MARRIED A DEAD MAN.
Edition: First thus.
Pleasantville, New York: ImPress Mystery, (2003). Hardcover first edition - A novel originally published in 1948 under the pseudonym of William Irish, a story of mistaken identity by the "father of noir fiction." A title in the Best Mysteries of All Time series. Includes 3 pp about the author. 263 pp. Brochure laid in. ISBN: 0-762188901.
Condition: Very near fine in burgundy boards with silver lettering and copper decorations on the front cover, copper lettering on the spine (previous owner's name).
Book ID: 84636More details Price: $17.50