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WHEN OLD MEN DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Truman Smith mystery, set in Galveston, Texas. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31953.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (name on front endpaper.).
Book ID: 55371More details Price: $24.50 -
DYING VOICES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery novel set at a small college in a small town in Texas - a world Crider knows well as the chair of English literature at Texas college. Features the perpetual worrier, Professor Carl Burns, who has been assigned to head up a seminar organized to honor a former professor, turned Hollywood celebrity. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-312033281.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82661More details Price: $17.50 -
WINNING CAN BE MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. SIGNED on the title page. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-312-14072X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52669More details Price: $30.00 -
OF ALL THE SAD WORDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes, 265 pp. ISBN: 978-0312348106.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85001More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH BY ACCIDENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-312-180802.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 51335More details Price: $15.00 -
POETIC JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third literary murder mystery featuring Professor Kate Fansler, and her fiance Reed Amhearst of the District Attorney's office. This one finds her in thrall to the poetry of W. H. Auden. 177 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74403More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ALPINE YEOMAN: An Emma Lord Mystery.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2014) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring Emma Lord, editor of the only newspaper in a small logging town in the Cascade Mountains, and Sheriff Milo Dodge. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0345535337.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74266More details Price: $12.50 -
BOHEMIAN HEART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Screenwriter's first novel, a mystery set in San Francisco, and introducing Private Investigator Frank Fagen, a long haired former cop best known for his unconventional methods. SIGNED on the title page, and dated in the month of publication. . ISBN: 0-312-097565.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64617More details Price: $35.00 -
BOHEMIAN HEART.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Screenwriter's first novel, a mystery set in San Francisco, and introducing Private Investigator Frank Fagen, a long haired former cop best known for his unconventional methods. SIGNED on the title page. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-312-097565.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 43840More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CEREAL MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 3rd culinary mystery, set in Colorado 303 pp plus an index of the recipes in the book. ISBN: 0-553-091513.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 60827More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LAST SUPPERS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (1994). First edition - The 4th culinary mystery, set in Colorado, featuring caterer and amateur sleuth Goldy Bear, who is about the marry homicide detective Tom Schultz, when the Episcopalian priest who was to perform the ceremony is murdered and Schultz disappears. 253 pp plus an index of the recipes in the book.
Condition: Fine in gold printed wrappers.
Book ID: 86379More details Price: $18.00 -
DOUBLE SHOT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - The 12th culinary mystery, featuring Aspen, Colorado caterer and amateur sleuth Goldy Schultz. SIGNED on the title page. Decorative borders on recipe pages. 308 pp. including 25 pp of recipes.
Condition: Very good overall (some wear to covers, curling to corners).
Book ID: 38386More details Price: $20.00 -
DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON THE OCEAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th novel in the award-winning series featuring Oakland private investigator, Jeri Howard. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-449-90766x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (upper corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 48579More details Price: $25.00 -
WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48576More details Price: $30.00 -
TAKE A NUMBER.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993.). SIGNED first edition - The 3rd novel in the award-winning series featuring Oakland private investigator, Jeri Howard. SIGNED on the title page. An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. 336 pp.
Condition: Very good in yellow printed wrappers.
Book ID: 48578More details Price: $30.00 -
TAKE A NUMBER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd novel in the award-winning series featuring Oakland private investigator, Jeri Howard. SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-449-907651.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48577More details Price: $30.00 -
NOBODY'S CHILD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th novel in the award-winning series featuring Oakland private investigator, Jeri Howard. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-449-001989.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66006More details Price: $25.00 -
NOBODY'S CHILD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th novel in the award-winning series featuring Oakland private investigator, Jeri Howard - this one is set among the homeless of Berkeley, California. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-449-90976X.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43322More details Price: $28.00 -
CLIFF WALK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island (the first in the series won the Edgar) 317 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short tear at fold of dj flap)
Book ID: 64113More details Price: $16.50 -
CLIFF WALK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island (the first in the series won the Edgar) SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72696More details Price: $27.50 -
PROVIDENCE RAG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Inspired by a true story. SIGNED on the title page. 351 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62156More details Price: $35.00 -
ROGUE ISLAND.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover - First suspense novel by this author, introducing Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island, Winner of Edgar Award for best first novel. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a brief introduction in which he describes how he came to write this. 302 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72697More details Price: $24.50 -
SWIFT EDGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery, set in Colorado Springs and featuring the investigative team of Charlie Swift and Gigi Goldman. "When world-class figure skater Dmitri Fane goes missing, his partner knows just whom to hire. It's up to Swift Investigations to find the missing Fane, and fast." The Olympics trials are just days away. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0312624446.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78488More details Price: $17.50 -
ALMOST MIDNIGHT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85057More details Price: $35.00 -
ALMOST MIDNIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-1250063700.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot to bottom edge)
Book ID: 87741More details Price: $35.00 -
ALMOST MIDNIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2019). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1250102416.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 83292More details Price: $35.00 -
DEAD MAN'S WAKE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch - this begins with Mike and Stacey witnessing what appears to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash but instead turns out to be a coldly calculated murder. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87740More details Price: $35.00 -
DEAD BY DAWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch, one which finds him battling for survival -and for the survival of his wolf-dog. Author's note. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1250235107.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88435More details Price: $21.50 -
HATCHET ISLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. A call for help from a former colleague of Stacey leads them on a sea kayaking trip to an island off the coast of Maine, a sanctuary for endangered seabirds, where they discover two of the researchers bludgeoned to death and the third missing. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1250235138.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88164More details Price: $40.00 -
EPITAPH FOR A LOSER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second mystery, features Tampa, Florida PI Paul Broder. ISBN: 0-8027-57138.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 4623More details Price: $18.00
