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THE SKELETON ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
London: Piatkus, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh mystery featuring Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson and his boss Gerry Heffernan. An interesting series both for its combination of historical mysteries -in this book 17th and 18th century wreckers who led ships to destruction off the rocky coast of Devonshire - which parallel the contemporary story and for its protagonist: Peterson is the son of two Trinidadian doctors who emigrated to England, a university graduate with a degree in archeology and a young married father trying to balance the demands of his job with the needs of his family. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-749906200.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to pages).
Book ID: 76663More details Price: $24.50 -
THE MERCHANT'S HOUSE.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77138More details Price: $25.00 -
THE HAND THAT TREMBLES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth crime novel by this award-winning writer to be published in the US, featuring Inspector Ann Lindell. Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. 312 pp. ISBN: 978-0312605056.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 76848More details Price: $17.50 -
THE CRUEL STARS OF THE NIGHT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second crime novel by this award-winning writer featuring Inspector Ann Lindell. Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. 312 pp. ISBN: 978-0312366674.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 69303More details Price: $17.50 -
THE CRUEL STARS OF THE NIGHT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second crime novel by this award-winning writer featuring Inspector Ann Lindell. Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. 312 pp. ISBN: 978-0312366674.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75431More details Price: $19.50 -
OPEN GRAVE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - Crime novel by this award-winning writer featuring Inspector Ann Lindell. When an elderly former Professor wins the Nobel Prize in medicine, long buried secrets are uncovered and what should have been a triumph results in murder. Translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlen. 280 pp. ISBN: 978-1250025494.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75326More details Price: $17.50 -
THE TWELVE APOSTLES.
Edition: First printing.
Sutton, Surrey & New York: Severn House, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 15th mystery in the series featuring Detective Chief Inspector David Webb. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-727854941.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78239More details Price: $17.50 -
A NECESSARY END.
Edition: First printing.
London: Collins / Crime Club, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second police procedural featuring Chief Inspector David Webb. SIGNED on the title page. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-002319756.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small spot to bottom edge of textblock, a bit of rubbing to dj)
Book ID: 78700More details Price: $45.00 -
ONE IS ONE AND ALL ALONE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Harper Collins, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 13th mystery in the series featuring Detective Chief Inspector David Webb, who is investigating the murder of a friend and fellow police inspector. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-002325888.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (the usual toning to the pages, else fine).
Book ID: 78179More details Price: $17.50 -
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Harper Collins, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 14th mystery in the series featuring Detective Chief Inspector David Webb. The discovery of a body in a pub car-park is strikingly similar to an unsolved murder 6 years earlier. A criminologist who is writing a book focusing on that case complicates the issue. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-002326329.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (the usual toning to the pages, else fine).
Book ID: 78178More details Price: $17.50 -
THREE, THREE, THE RIVALS
Edition: First printing.
London: Harper Collins, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 10th mystery in the series featuring Detective Chief Inspector David Webb. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-00232380X.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (the usual toning to the pages, else fine).
Book ID: 78327More details Price: $17.50 -
THE EVERGREEN DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Herbert Jenkins, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, introducing Detective Inspector Aveyard, the youngest DI on the Birton force. The body of a young girl has been found strangled and mutilated under an evergreen tree in the garden of the Manor. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-25766744X.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, rubbing to the dj).
Book ID: 77217More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring French police inspector Henri Castang mystery. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-670-143987.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58291More details Price: $13.50 -
THE DEATH OF AN IRISH SEA WOLF.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr mystery. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-688-141838.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69853More details Price: $17.50 -
BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this serving police officer with 25 years on the force in California. Set in his native Wisconsin, this exposes the dark underbelly of policing in a small town. SIGNED on the title page and dated April 12, 2015. 348 pp. ISBN: 978-0765338501.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66446More details Price: $40.00 -
BY HIS OWN HAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2018). Hardcover first edition - The first novel set in small town Newberg, Wisconsin, and featuring Tia Suarez. the only female - and Latina - on the force. 335 pp. ISBN: 978-0765395580.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 77596More details Price: $18.50 -
McCAFFERTY'S NINE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York & Sutton, Surrey: Severn House, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - Another in the excellent series of police procedural mysteries featuring Jake Hines - now a Captain, married and expecting their first child. Set in Rutherford, Minnesota r. SIGNED on the title page. 216 pp. ISBN: 9781847510150.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner of front cover slightly bumped).
Book ID: 57711More details Price: $21.50 -
SKELETON AT THE FEAST.
Edition: First printing.
London: Allison & Busby, (2000). Hardcover first edition - Crime novel set in West Yorkshire featuring reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray. With his career in the balance after a subordinate is shot on an arrest gone bad, Thackerey is sent to Oxford (which he attended as an undergraduate) to take a course in in police work. Upon arriving at his old college of St. Frideswide's (aka Friddies), Thackeray is besieged with disquieting memories of his unhappy days there and summoned by a former tutor, Hugh Greenaway, now the Master of the College, who asks Thackeray to look into the disappearance of a don named Mark Harrison. An excellent, rather complex and engrossing novel. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-749004819.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79610More details Price: $20.00 -
DEEP FREEZE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Allison & Busby, (2001). Hardcover first edition - Crime novel set in West Yorkshire featuring reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray. Demonstrations at a private local clinic, one which both offers abortions and is involved in fertility treatments, lead to the deaths of two people. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-749005211.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79611More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HOLLOW MAN.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Harper Collins, (2012). First edition - The author's first novel, an unusual police procedural, introducing Detective Nick Belsey Val McDermid called it "A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London, and a beguiling bastard of a hero what a recipe for a great read." 470 pp. ISBN: 978-0062136718.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70250More details Price: $16.50 -
BLOOD LINES: An Inspector Bill Slider Mystery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner's, (1996). SIGNED first edition - Fifth mystery featuring Dectective Inspector Bill Slider, a police procedural set in London. SIGNED on the title page. 281 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59948More details Price: $27.50 -
GRAVE MUSIC: An Inspector Bill Slider Mystery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner's, (1994). SIGNED first edition - Fourth mystery featuring Dectective Inspector Bill Slider, a police procedural set in London. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59947More details Price: $27.50 -
DEAD END: An Inspector Bill Slider Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
London: Little Brown, (1994). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring Dectective Inspector Bill Slider, a police procedural set in London, where a famous conductor has been killed at a rehearsal in a church. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-316-909815.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 74281More details Price: $35.00 -
WASTED YEARS.
Edition: First US edition.
New York: Henry Holt, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery in the very highly praised series featuring Inspector Charlie Resnick. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-805020446.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77640More details Price: $30.00 -
UNDER A SILENT MOON.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2015). Her fourth novel, but her first police procedural novel, introducting DCI Louisa Smith and her team. 359 pp plus an excerpt from the next book in the series, 'Behind Closed Doors.'. ISBN: 978-0062276049.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66787More details Price: $10.00 -
THE FANATICS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - When a planned assassination by two young terrorists is thwarted by the police, they barricade themselves with their hostages in a flat in Hampstead and it is up to Commander Alan Dice to resolve the situation. The third novel by an author who spent 14 years in the police CID. 150 pp. ISBN: 0-395275431.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (line on top edge)
Book ID: 87900More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH'S JEST-BOOK.
Edition: First printing.
London: Collins Crime, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel featuring Dalziel and Pascoe. "Three times DCI Pascoe has wrongly accused dead-pan joker Franny Roote. This time he's determined to leave no gravestone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad, bad, and dangerous to know." SIGNED on the title page. 558 pp. ISBN: 0-007123396.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 81174More details Price: $35.00 -
DEADHEADS: A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel.
Edition: Book club edition.
London: Collins, (1983.) dj. Hardcover - A relatively early mystery featuring Superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe. ISBN: 0-002313693.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 65635More details Price: $60.00 -
DEATH'S JEST-BOOK.
Edition: First printing.
London: Collins Crime, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel featuring Dalziel and Pascoe. "Three times DCI Pascoe has wrongly accused dead-pan joker Franny Roote. This time he's determined to leave no gravestone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad, bad, and dangerous to know." 558 pp. ISBN: 0-007123396.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket ( toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 85492More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BIG GOLD DREAM.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, (1996). Classic novel originally published in 1960, featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, two Black police detectives in Harlem in New York City. 156 pp. ISBN: 1-560251042.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89178More details Price: $14.50
