- Keyword = policier
-
RAVEN BLACK.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: St Martin's, (2007). The first mystery in her Shetland series, introducing detective Inspector Jimmy Perez. 376 pp. ISBN: 978-0312359676.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88490More details Price: $13.50 -
THE FOURTH MAN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book to be published in the US, "a tangled web of art theft, blackmail, torrid sex and double crosses." Winner of Norway's Riverton Prize for Best Crime Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. 276 pp. ISBN: 978-0312375690.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacke (price-clipped).
Book ID: 70336More details Price: $17.50 -
NEVER END.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this award-winning Swedish author to appear in English. Chief Inspector Eric Winter, now a father at 41, and his team search for a serial killer of young women as the coastal city of Gothenburg bakes in an unprecedented heat wave. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-670037664.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (year '2000' on front endpaper)
Book ID: 88251More details Price: $20.00 -
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 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 -
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 -
BECAUSE OF THE CATS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - The uncommon second Van der Valk novel, set in the Netherlands in a smug new seaside town outside Amsterdam. 218 pp..
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66365More details Price: $65.00 -
LOVE IN AMSTERDAM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's uncommon first novel, introducing Inspector Piet Van der Valk of the Amsterdam police. Basis for the 1968 film 'Amsterdam Affair.' 180 pp..
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66736More details Price: $60.00 -
DOUBLE BARREL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth Van der Valk novel, set in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. "Cast in the form of a police investigation, this is very far from being a simple whodunit. Beginning as a seemingly minor and squalid inquiry into an outbreak of poison pen letter-writing, it develops startingly into something monstrous." 217 pp..
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81458More details Price: $40.00 -
SCAVENGERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring former deputy and now Posadas County, New Mexico, Undersherriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-25203x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. A surprisingly uncommon title in this series, especially in this condition.
Book ID: 72314More details Price: $35.00 -
SCAVENGERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring former deputy and now Posadas County, New Mexico, Undersherriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman. The former sheriff, Bill Gastner, is still "prominently in the background" as a state livestock inspector. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-25203x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. A surprisingly uncommon title in this series, especially in this condition and signed.
Book ID: 77614More details Price: $45.00 -
DETECTIVE FIRST GRADE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (1993). First edition - The first novel by this former Captain with the NYPD, a day-by-day account of how the police department handles a local crime that could have international terrorist complications. Introduces Detective Brian McKenna. 375 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 63063More details Price: $20.00 -
KILLER'S CHOICE.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Perma Books / Pocket Books, (1959). First edition - Perma M-3108. The fifth 87th Precinct novel, featuring Steve Carella. 168 pp. Cover illustration by Robert Schulz. 149 pp. Color foldout ad for Time bound in at rear of book.
Condition: Very near fine (usual toning to the pages, but otherwise a straight and tight copy) Note: All vintage paperbacks are very fragile and need to be handled with care.
Book ID: 70719More details Price: $40.00 -
CROSSFIRE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Kodansha, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third to be published in English by this award winning writer. Young Junko Aoki has "an extraordinary ability - she can start fires through sheer force of will. When she begins using her gift of pyrokinesis to take the law into her own hands and punish violent criminals, her executions attract the attention of two very different groups: the Guardians, a secretive vigilante organization that tries to recruit her, and the arson squad of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department." Translated from the Japanese by by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Anna Husson Isozaki. 188 pp. ISBN: 4-770029934.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (upper corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 86874More details Price: $21.50 -
SHADOW FAMILY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Kodansha, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - Murder mystery focusing on the world of internet chat rooms. The second novel to be published in English by this award winning writer. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. 188 pp. ISBN: 978-4770030023.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62339More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MARSHAL'S OWN CASE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Collins Crime Club, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel in the Marshal Guarnaccia series, set in Florence, Italy. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-00232217X.
Condition: Very near fine in red boards with gilt lettering on the spine in a like dustjacket. Original price of 11.95 net on dust jacket flap.
Book ID: 85028More details Price: $65.00 -
BORKMANN'S POINT: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although this is not the first novel featuring Van Veeteren, it was his first book to be published in the United States. Winner the Swedish Crime Writer's Best Novel Award in 1994 for this work. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. A well-written and absorbing policier which describes the search for a serial killer, an ax murderer, in a small seaside town, it is uncommon as a Nordic mystery in that it is set in a fictional country, which is not quite Sweden or any other Northern European country. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-375421963.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 82851More details Price: $18.50 -
GLASS HOUSES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017). First edition - Novel in the award winning series featuring Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache, centering on the village of Three Pines. Author's note. 391 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72371More details Price: $25.00 -
GLASS HOUSES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017). Hardcover first edition - Novel in the award winning series featuring Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache, centering on the village of Three Pines. 391 pp. ISBN: 978-1250066190.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72041More details Price: $20.00 -
GLASS HOUSES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017). Hardcover first edition - Novel in the award winning series featuring Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache, centering on the village of Three Pines. 391 pp. ISBN: 978-1250066190.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (tear and creasing to bottom edge of back cover of dj).
Book ID: 88498More details Price: $17.50 -
MURDER MOST STRANGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 32nd novel in the highly acclaimed police procedural mystery featuring Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and the Robery and Homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-688003788.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88689More details Price: $18.00 -
JUSTICE.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1985]. First edition - A psychological portrait of the little man - a petty crook and part-time gigolo - confronted by an insurmountable system when he is accused of murder. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. 147 pp. .
Condition: Very good in printed blue wrappers.
Book ID: 67461More details Price: $18.00 -
MAIGRET'S FIRST CASE
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1958). Hardcover first edition - A crime novel which looks back to Maigret's first case in 1913, before the beginning of World War I. Translated from the French by Robert Brain. 191 pp.
Condition: Very good in black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine (sunning to the spine, but a clean, tight copy), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85517More details Price: $30.00 -
REEL OF DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Geoffrey Bles, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Chief Inspector Wace and Sergeant George Crow - Wace resents being sent to Scotland to investigate the bizarre circumstances surrounding the death of a notorious fence. 217 pp. Striking dust jacket art by C.W. Bacon. ISBN: 0-713802715.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (very slight sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 68232More details Price: $60.00 -
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 -
WHO WATCHETH.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2016). An Inspector Irene Huss investigation, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. 291pp plus 15 pp preview of 'Protected by the Shadows.". ISBN: 978-1616958657.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72192More details Price: $12.00
