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THE FIRST LAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy and Police Lieutenant Abe Glitsky. SIGNED on the title page. 403 pp. ISBN: 0-525-947051.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82500More details Price: $28.50 -
THE 13TH JUROR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Donald Fine, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - A courtroom thriller featuring San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy. SIGNED on the title page. 484 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82028More details Price: $28.50 -
THE MERCY RULE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A courtroom thriller featuring San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy. The title refers to a rule in semi-pro softball and to the fact that one of the issues in this case was assisted-suicide - mercy killing. 466 pp. ISBN: 0-385-316585.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 61846More details Price: $16.50 -
THE FIRST LAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy and Police Lieutenant Abe Glitsky. 403 pp. ISBN: 0-525-947051.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62607More details Price: $17.50 -
THE OATH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - A courtroom thriller involving murder at an HMO and pitting San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy against homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky. SIGNED on the title page. 412 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82538More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MOTIVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (2005.). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A courtroom thriller featuring San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy and homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky. 418 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82557More details Price: $28.50 -
GUILT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Delacorte Press, (1997.). SIGNED first edition - A courtroom thriller featuring San Francisco police detective Abe Glitsky. INSCRIBED on the title page "To - - My main man in Minneapolis, Your pal." 462 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82562More details Price: $30.00 -
IF ONLY IT WERE TRUE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Fourth Estate, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a unique love story, set in San Francisco. Basis for the film "Just Like Heaven" starring Reese Witherspoon. Translated from the French. SIGNED on the title page. 216 pp. ISBN: 1841153966.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 54274More details Price: $27.50 -
CLOUD MOUNTAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her epic second novel, based on the true story of her grandparents' marriage - set in San Francisco in 1906 and Shanghai in 1911. SIGNED by the author. Chronology, 574 pp. ISBN: 0-446-519871.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37585More details Price: $25.00 -
A RELATIVE STRANGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - California author's first novel, introduces private investigator Jessica Randolph and set in San Francisco. INSCRIBED on the title page "To . . . Hope you enjoy meeting a Relative Stranger - and Jess Randolph, a fictional sister in crime! Best always." 295 pp. ISBN: 0-312-063075.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43252More details Price: $25.00 -
A RELATIVE STRANGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - California author's first novel, introduces private investigator Jessica Randolph and set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page . 295 pp. ISBN: 0-312-063075.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43553More details Price: $25.00 -
A RELATIVE STRANGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - California author's first novel, introduces private investigator Jessica Randolph and set in San Francisco. INSCRIBED on the title page "To . . . Hope you enjoy meeting a Relative Stranger" and dated in 1992. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-312-063075.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61957More details Price: $24.50 -
JUMP.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in San Francisco by this Macavity Award winning author. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Winner of the ForeWord Award for best mystery. 280 pp. ISBN: 9781590585740.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 45386More details Price: $30.00 -
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, a legal thriller set in San Francisco. INSCRIBED on the half title page "To --- with fond best wishes" 439 pp. ISBN: 0-671-890948.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52569More details Price: $30.00 -
SUMMER OF LOVE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Bantam, (1994). First edition - Her second novel, a finalist for the P. K. Dick award, a story of time travel from 500 years in the future to San Francisco in 1967. Drawings by Tom Robinson. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-553-373307.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72291More details Price: $20.00 -
PRIOR CONVICTIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco attorney Willa Jansson. Nominated for the 1992 Edgar. ISBN: 0-671-685600.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23434More details Price: $18.00 -
PRIOR CONVICTIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco attorney Willa Jansson. Nominated for the 1992 Edgar. ISBN: 0-671-685600.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 27335More details Price: $16.00 -
THE GOOD FIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring attorney Laura di Palma, set in San Francisco.Dust jacket praise from Sara Paretsky and Robert B. Parker, among others. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-671-685619.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34379More details Price: $18.00 -
PRIOR CONVICTIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco attorney Willa Jansson. Nominated for the 1992 Edgar. Presentation copy boldly INSCRIBED by the author on a preliminary page: "To.... I love you guys. Thanks for everything. Good luck, Love..." 204 pp. ISBN: 0-671-685600.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38869More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER LOVES COMPANY.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Boulder, Colorado: Rue Morgue Press, (2004.). Reissue of this mystery originally published in 1940 and set at the 1939' San Francisco World's Fair, the Golden Gate Exposition. When James Yeats Biddle, the youngest professor at Berkeley sees two Japnese laborers hurled from a speeding car crossing the newly constucted San Francisco Bay Bridge, he is upset, but he was even more irked when someone killed his beloved olive trees. With the help of attractive reporter Kay Ritchie and Inspector Angus McDuff, Professor Biddle turns detective. A great picture of a long-vanished San Francisco. This edition includes a new introduction by Tom and Enid Schantz. 157 pp. Cover art by Rob Pudim. ISBN: 0-915230-690.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 43906More details Price: $12.00 -
CUTDOWN: A Claude McCutcheon Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1997). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by an award-winning collection of short stories), a thriller with its roots in 1943 when a German POW escaped from a camp in Virginia, killing three men - and introducing San Francisco attorney - and former paratrooper - Claude McCutcheon. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-67156904X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76405More details Price: $30.00 -
WINTER'S EDGE.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: The Crossing Press, 1985. SIGNED first edition - Novel about 'two wonderful old women whose relationship is feisty, tender and deep' (May Sarton.) Praise also from Tillie Olsen who calls Miner 'a poet of the everyday urban life.' SIGNED on the titlepage. ISBN: 0-89594-1759.
Condition: Fine. (appears unread.)
Book ID: 25300More details Price: $15.00 -
THE POISON ARTIST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. First edition - The author's very highly praised third novel - a story of obsession and deadly mystery - Dr. Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain, who becomes entangled in a serial-murder investigation. Lee Child called this Patient, stylish and incredibly suspenseful. while Stephen King said it "is an electrifying read, building from shock to shock. The final chapter is an absolute stunner." 273 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85948More details Price: $20.00 -
CINNAMON KISS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Easy Rawlins crime novel, set in San Francisco during the 'Summer of Love'. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-07302.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59469More details Price: $30.00 -
WHILE OTHER PEOPLE SLEEP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1998). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Sharon McCone, considered the first of the female P. I.'s. SIGNED on the title page by Muller. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-6505.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's small stamp.)
Book ID: 15521More details Price: $25.00 -
LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR WILLIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth in Muller's ground-breaking Sharon McCone series, set in San Francisco. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-312-477287.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (very short tear at upper edge of dj)
Book ID: 71039More details Price: $40.00 -
DEAD MIDNIGHT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A Sharon McCone mystery, set mostly in San Francisco, and involving the world of new internet businesses, venture capital and the boom and bust cycle. SIGNED on the title pabe. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-765x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 28047More details Price: $18.00 -
WHILE OTHER PEOPLE SLEEP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1998). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Sharon McCone, considered the first of the female P. I.'s. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-6505.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 59710More details Price: $30.00 -
WHILE OTHER PEOPLE SLEEP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1998). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Sharon McCone, considered the first of the female P. I.'s. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-6505.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59795More details Price: $27.50 -
LOCKED IN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Sharon McCone mystery, Winner of the Shamus Award for best PI novel. 281 pp. ISBN: 9780446581059.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61218More details Price: $17.50
