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EAKIN'S MISTRESS: A Jamie Ramsgill Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Philadelphia, this is the third mystery featuring architect Jamie Ramsgill. 169 pp. ISBN: 0-312155182.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 68055More details Price: $12.50 -
KILLER SMILE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Legal thriller featuring Philadelphia lawyer Mary DiNunzio by this Edgar award winning author. In this one she takes on a case involving reparations for the internment (and suicide) of an Italian immigrant during World War II, a story inspired by the fact that Scottoline's Italian-American grandparents had to register as "enemy aliens" during that war despite having lived in the US for over 30 years. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0514957.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 45517More details Price: $30.00 -
RUNNING FROM THE LAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third book, but the first to be published in hardcover. Her first two books were both nominated for Edgars for Best Original Paperback. A legal thriller from a woman's point of view -- and with a sense of humor - highly recommended. SIGNED on the title page. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176598.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 59709More details Price: $30.00 -
THE CATTLE KILLING.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in plague-ridden, late 18th century Philadelphia, where a young black itinerant preacher is searching for an endangered African woman. Both a love story and a novel about racism, this was the winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Award for Historical Fiction. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-395785901.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 40041More details Price: $17.50 -
THE CATTLE KILLING.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in plague-ridden, late 18th century Philadelphia, where a young black itinerant preacher is searching for an endangered African woman. Both a love story and a novel about racism, this was the winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Award for Historical Fiction. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-395785901.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to margin of one page, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 51236More details Price: $12.50