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  • UPGUNNED. by Schow, David J.
    Schow, David J.
    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: 69541
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  • CHASING THE DRAGON. by Stansberry, Domenic.
    Stansberry, Domenic.
    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: 84249
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  • THE BIG BOOM. by Stansberry, Domenic.
    Stansberry, Domenic.
    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: 84250
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  • THE LAST DAYS OF IL DUCE, by Stansberry, Domenic.
    Stansberry, Domenic.
    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: 84295
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  • NAKED MOON. by Stansberry, Domenic.
    Stansberry, Domenic.
    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: 88347
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  • SHOVEL READY. by Sternbergh, Adam.
    Sternbergh, Adam.
    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: 84430
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  • LEONARDO'S BICYCLE. by Taibo II, Paco Ignacio.
    Taibo II, Paco Ignacio.
    LEONARDO'S BICYCLE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Mysterious Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Latin noir by this writer, born in Spain, but who lived in Mexico since 1958. Second novel featuring his investigator-novelist Jose Daniel Ferro, who is stuck, with a deadline for a new book looming. He becomes obsessed with a young Texan basketball player, whom he sees on stateside TV in his slummy Mexico City apartment. When she disappears after a teammate is murdered, he learns she has been found in Ciudad Juarez, near death after having had one kidney removed. Also included is the saga of a CIA man who escapes from Saigon and searches for a Bulgarian with whom he left a trunkload of heroin; 1920s Barcelona, with…

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    New York: Mysterious Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Latin noir by this writer, born in Spain, but who lived in Mexico since 1958. Second novel featuring his investigator-novelist Jose Daniel Ferro, who is stuck, with a deadline for a new book looming. He becomes obsessed with a young Texan basketball player, whom he sees on stateside TV in his slummy Mexico City apartment. When she disappears after a teammate is murdered, he learns she has been found in Ciudad Juarez, near death after having had one kidney removed. Also included is the saga of a CIA man who escapes from Saigon and searches for a Bulgarian with whom he left a trunkload of heroin; 1920s Barcelona, with anarchists and cops shooting it out in the street; and of course Leonardo's apparent invention of the bicycle. Violent, surrealistic, and told at a headlong pace. Winner of the Latin American Dashiell Hammett Award for the best crime novel of the year (the third time Taibo won this award.) Translated by Martin Michael Roberts. 453 pp. ISBN: 0-892965894.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86187
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  • DARK PARADISE. by Waiwaiole, Lono.
    Waiwaiole, Lono.
    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: 83433
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  • CONS. by Watts, Timothy.
    Watts, Timothy.
    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: 83429
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  • THE DIAMOND BIKINI. by Williams, Charles (1909-1975)
    Williams, Charles (1909-1975)
    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: 88207
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  • I MARRIED A DEAD MAN. by Woolrich, Cornell (William Irish)
    Woolrich, Cornell (William Irish)
    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: 84636
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