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THE CASHMERE KID
Edition: First printing.
Woodstock, VT: Foul Play Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, a mystery set in a picture-perfect small town in Southern Vermont, and featuring Tish McWhinny, a "gutsy and audacious older women." When two murders occur after he niece imports a pedigreed Australian cashmere goat for her goat farm, Tish decides to investigate. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-881502545.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper).
Book ID: 66792More details Price: $12.50 -
A FATAL VINEYARD SEASON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Recipes. Map. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855445.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 62954More details Price: $21.50 -
CLIFF HANGER: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner's, 1993. SIGNED first edition - The 4th Martha's Vineyard mystery with J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - and also set in the Colorado mountains. SIGNED on the title page. Surprisingly uncommon in any edition, and especially so as a signed proof. 227 pp. .
Condition: Fine in printed tan wrappers.
Book ID: 80554More details Price: $50.00 -
A VINEYARD KILLING: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Map, recipes. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-7632-05243.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (some spots to the fore-edge of the textblock).
Book ID: 52536More details Price: $16.50 -
A VINEYARD KILLING: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Scribner's, 2003. dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting -. ISBN: 0-7632-05243.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27900More details Price: $14.50 -
A FATAL VINEYARD SEASON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Recipes. Map. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855445.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 44567More details Price: $17.50 -
A CASE OF VINEYARD POISON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." 253 pp. ISBN: 0-684-196166.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 44568More details Price: $35.00 -
VINEYARD STALKER: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." Includes three soup recipes. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-70452.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47688More details Price: $20.00 -
MURDER AT VINEYARD MANSION: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." Map. Recipes. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-46764.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line, some toning to the pages.).
Book ID: 56405More details Price: $16.50 -
VINEYARD SHADOWS: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." 253 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855453.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 62440More details Price: $16.50 -
VINEYARD STALKER: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." Includes three soup recipes. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-70452.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages)
Book ID: 71583More details Price: $16.50 -
THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO THE SEA: A Jeff Jackson / Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Craig's third novel and the rather uncommon second mystery in the series featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." 215 pp. ISBN: 0-684-192284.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (stamp on front endpaper, otherwise clean and tight)
Book ID: 74353More details Price: $35.00 -
DOWNRIVER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-395-410738.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47675More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WITCHFINDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker. SIGNED on the title page and dated on the year of publication. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-892966637.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80142More details Price: $30.00 -
SILENT THUNDER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. SIGNED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-410754.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. (some toning to the dj flaps)
Book ID: 79086More details Price: $28.50 -
NEVER STREET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twelfth mystery featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-892966335.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79015More details Price: $30.00 -
KILL ZONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in the series featuring Peter Macklin, a "fixer" working for a Detroit Mafia family, who finds himself working with the FBI to secure the release of hundreds of hostages aboard a tour boat on Lake Erie. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-892960655.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79009More details Price: $30.00 -
SUGARTOWN: An Amos Walker Mystery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. SIGNED first edition - The fifth suspense novel featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker. SIGNED on the half title page. Winner of the Shamus Award. 220 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed glossy cream wrappers.
Book ID: 81023More details Price: $35.00 -
DON'T LOOK FOR ME: An Amos Walker Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Norman, OK: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twenty-third mystery featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker by this award-winning writer, and the final book in the Charlotte Sing trilogy. SIGNED on the title page. 283 pp. ISBN: 978-765331212.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79008More details Price: $30.00 -
GOING LOCAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Blue Deer mystery, featuring Jules Clement, the sheriff of this small town in Montana. ISBN: 0-7868-61088.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 18474More details Price: $18.00 -
GOING LOCAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Blue Deer mystery, featuring Jules Clement, the sheriff of this small town in Montana. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61088.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60489More details Price: $30.00 -
KILLING COUSINS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 4th mystery featuring Edinburgh police inspector Faro - Victorian Scotland background. ISBN: 0-312-17008X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22590More details Price: $25.00 -
THE SHORTEST DAY: MURDER AT THE REVELS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1995). Hardcover first edition - The eleventh suspense novel featuring Homer Kelly, Thoreau scholar, professor of American literature and ex-lieutenant detective for Middlesex County. It is Christmas in Cambridge, time for the annual revels. Illustrated by the author with line drawings.Author's afterword. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-670847100.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81229More details Price: $16.50 -
THE MEMORIAL HALL MURDER.
Edition: First printing, first issue
New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Langton's third mystery set at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and featuring scholarly detective Homer Kelly, who happens to be on hand when someone bombs Memorial Hall during rehearsals for a Christmas performance of Handel's Messiah.. Illustrated with drawings by the author. SIGNED by Langton below the drawing facing the title page with "Kaboom!" printed above the illustration. First state with the 4 lines of garbled text on p. 11. 265 pp. plus a final drawing. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-060125071.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the pages)
Book ID: 85929More details Price: $45.00 -
GOD IN CONCORD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Homer Kelly mystery set in the land of the transcendalists. A shopping mall is planned for the shores of Walden Pond. Illustrated with drawings by Langton. Author's note. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-670842605.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 87821More details Price: $18.50 -
SCENT OF EVIL
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third in the Joe Gunther series, set in Brattleboro, Vermont. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-4715.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small nick to upper edge of back cover of dj)
Book ID: 75825More details Price: $23.50 -
DEAD ON YOUR FEET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Stan Kraychik, a gay Boston detective as well as a sassy Newbery Street hairdresser. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-312097816.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 70385More details Price: $15.00 -
DEATH IN A SERENE CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic mystery set in Venice - the author's first book, introduces American ex-patriate Urbino Mcintryre. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-688-091806.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corner of a few pages bumped, price-clipped)
Book ID: 66026More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH IN A SERENE CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic mystery set in Venice - the author's first book, introduces American ex-patriate Urbino Mcintryre. ISBN: 0-688-091806.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 22573More details Price: $20.00