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LADY, DROP DEAd.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Abelard-Schuman, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon vintage mystery by this Edgar award-winning writer who is credited as being the first to write police procedurals. This novel features a private investigator and a patrolman trying to get back onto the homicide squad, both of whom are convinced that the other one is guilty of the murder of the former movie queen Vivian Vixen. 191 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with somel markings, spine slant, tape ghosts and missing front endpaper in a good only copy of the rather fragile dust jacket (spine label)
Book ID: 78472More details Price: $27.50 -
FAIR FRIDAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in this highly praised police procedural series, set in Glasgow, Scotland and featuring the officers of the P Division. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-312-058136.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (wear to the top edge of the typically fragile St. Martin's dustjacket.)
Book ID: 81672More details Price: $18.50 -
TUMBLEWEED.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: SOHO Press, (1992, c. 1976.). A Grijpstra and de Gier mystery novel, set in Amsterdam, involving the murder of a high class prostitute. 215 pp. ISBN: 1-56947-0189.
Condition: Near fine condition.
Book ID: 34774More details Price: $9.50 -
OUTSIDER IN AMSTERDAM.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in the series of mystery novels featuring Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam police. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-395-207053.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (spine slant, tears to edges of dj)
Book ID: 46961More details Price: $30.00 -
STREETBIRD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel featuring Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam police. SIGNED on the title page. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-399-128085.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bottom edge of boards bumped, remainder mark, short closed tear to dj.)
Book ID: 50310More details Price: $25.00 -
THE MIND-MURDERS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. First edition - Mystery novel featuring Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam police. 186 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed salmon-colored wrappers. Publisher's slip laid in.
Book ID: 66748More details Price: $20.00 -
THE MIND-MURDERS.
Edition: Small trade paperback.
Amsterdam: W L Books, (1981). Mystery novel featuring Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam police. 186 pp. ISBN: 90-67560855.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrapper (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 75911More details Price: $8.50 -
A CASE OF LOYALTIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986). Hardcover first edition - Her first novel, set in Oakland where a young girl and a friend are picked up in a stolen car - the same car from which a shot had been fired, killing a man who "was not a nice man." Three detectives from the Oakland police force are determined to get to the bottom of his life, just in case Tricia really was as innocent as she claimed to be. ISBN: 0-312123329.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some rubbing and edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 69777More details Price: $15.00 -
LEVINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of six novellas - most written between 1959-1964, but including one first published in this book- which examine the life of a Brooklyn cop. SIGNED on the title page. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-0639.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68682More details Price: $28.50 -
SWITCHBACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31043.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (appears unread, but rem line top edge, an "80" in corner of front endpaper.)
Book ID: 6159More details Price: $13.50 -
THE PARIAH
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 14th mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2801.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 6162More details Price: $15.00 -
SWITCHBACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31043.
Condition: Very near fine in like dustjackets (an unread copy.)
Book ID: 10043More details Price: $14.50 -
THE PARIAH
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 14th mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2801.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34028More details Price: $14.00 -
SWITCHBACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31043.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52348More details Price: $28.00 -
HIDING PLACE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Robert Hale, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Police procedural featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings - the body of a teenage girl has been found in Golden Gate Park. Rather uncommon in the UK first edition. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-709145144.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some very light foxing to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 75432More details Price: $18.50 -
A DEATH BEFORE DYING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. The day before her murder, Frank Hastings, now co-commander of the homicide squad had a chance meeting and lunch with Meredith, now a beautiful woman who seemed to have it all - but whom he remembered as a little girl who used to trail after him in the old neighborhood. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-805009795.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 76165More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WATCHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings, one in which he and his son plan a vacation in remote Northern California. ISBN: 0-394412567.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76172More details Price: $21.50 -
DEAD CENTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings - a killer begins executing members of Rabelais, a private club for San Francisco's elite, putting pressure on Hastings to discover who is responsible quickly. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-805016155.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76358More details Price: $17.50
