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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 -
TERMINATION INTERVIEW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Free-lance photographer Ingrid Hunter, is supplementing her erratic income with office temp work, at a San Francisco law firm, where she discovers that the personel director is a former high school classmate - who soon winds up dead - jumped or pushed from a window. The author's first novel. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-312-015186.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 54200More details Price: $16.50 -
AFTER THE PARADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, second book (her first book, a collection of short stories won the Flannery O'Connor award, the Edmund White award and many more honors.) Ostlund describes her writing style as "digressive" and this book definitely meanders down many side paths as it tells the story of a man who has left his long time partner in Santa Fe to start a new life in San Francisco - successive chapters go back and forth between his childhood in Minnesota and his current life in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp. ISBN: 978-1476790107.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 64965More details Price: $35.00 -
AFTER THE PARADE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2015). First edition - The author's first novel, second book (her first book, a collection of short stories won the Flannery O'Connor award, the Edmund White award and many more honors.) Ostlund describes her writing style as "digressive" and this book definitely meanders down many side paths as it tells the story of a man who has left his long time partner in Santa Fe to start a new life in San Francisco - successive chapters go back and forth between his childhood in Minnesota and his current life in San Francisco. 337 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67226More details Price: $21.50 -
MORTAL MUSIC: A Silver Rush Mystery.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2020.). SIGNED - The seventh novel in this award winning series of historical mysteries set in the old West., featuring Inez Stannert, former saloon owner in Leadville, Colorado, now striving to succeed as a reputable business owner in 1881 San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note and related readings. 426 pp. ISBN: 978-1492699484.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87909More details Price: $21.50 -
THE SECRET IN THE WALL: A Silver Rush Mystery.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2022.). SIGNED first edition - The eighth novel in this award winning series of historical mysteries set in the old West., featuring Inez Stannert, former saloon owner in Leadville, Colorado, now striving to succeed as a reputable business owner in 1882 San Francisco and to make a home for the teenage daughter of a local fortune teller who was orphaned by her mother's murder. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note and related readings. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-1464214943.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87910More details Price: $24.50 -
4TH OF JULY.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth thriller featuring San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club. 392 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-316-710601.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, but a bit of toning to front edge of textblock)
Book ID: 59976More details Price: $18.00 -
THE 8TH CONFESSION.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Women's Murder Club tracks a killer with a taste for the super-rich. 352 pp plus a preview of Witch and Wizard and a list of books by Patterson. ISBN: 9780-316-018760.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62895More details Price: $15.00 -
DEGREE OF GUILT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller and suspense novel set in San Francisco, where a woman has been accused of killing an eminent novelist: her defense is that he was attempting to rape her. SIGNED by the author on the first page of the first section. 548 pp. ISBN: 0-679420649.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (very short tear to bottom edge of front cover)
Book ID: 71908More details Price: $25.00 -
BLINDSIDED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery, a thriller involving a serial killer who is targeting police, set in San Francisco and featuring homicide Inspector Jane Candiotti. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-688171540.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (bookplate mostly hidden by front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 41702More details Price: $16.50 -
FALL FROM GRACE: A Noir Thriller.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, featuring San Francisco Homicide Inspector Jane Candiotti. INSCRIBED on the title page " --- thanks for being a partner in crime" and dated in the year of publication. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-688157440.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61636More details Price: $27.50 -
BLINDSIDED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery, a thriller involving a serial killer who is targeting police, set in San Francisco and featuring homicide Inspector Jane Candiotti. SIGNED on the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-688171540.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81424More details Price: $30.00 -
FALL FROM GRACE: A Noir Thriller.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, featuring San Francisco Homicide Inspector Jane Candiotti. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-688157440.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76951More details Price: $28.50 -
SACRIFICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third mystery, a thriller set in San Francisco and featuring homicide Inspector Jane Candiotti and her husband detective Kenny Marks. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-066212375.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81373More details Price: $30.00 -
ON THE EDGE.
Edition: First printing.
Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - When he fails the California bar exam, Frank August becomes an investigator by default - but then he finds himself confronted by a difficult conflict of interest when he is asked to investigate an old friend accused of involvement in a major drug case. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-86538-0872.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60498More details Price: $25.00 -
SCATTERSHOT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. The eighth "Nameless Detective" mystery, set in the San Francisco area. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-312-700466.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to spine of the dj, as usual)
Book ID: 35477More details Price: $28.00 -
MOURNERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "Nameless Detective" mystery, set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 285 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52453More details Price: $30.00 -
DRAGONFIRE.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (1982). First edition - The ninth 'Nameless Detective' mystery, set partially in San Francisco's Chinatown. 195 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated orange wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 71558More details Price: $18.50 -
DOUBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery from this husband and wife team featuring their two detective characters - Pronzini's 'Nameless' dectective and Muller's San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-312-218079.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (light foxing to top of textblock, slight sunning to spine, small nick on top edge of dj.)
Book ID: 56249More details Price: $35.00 -
DOUBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery from this husband and wife team featuring their two detective characters - Pronzini's 'Nameless' dectective and Muller's San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-312-218079.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 70953More details Price: $40.00 -
THE ULTIMATE RUSH .
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel. "The sole rollerblading courier in San Francisco, messenger Chet Griffin finds himself trapped in a deadly struggle to save his own life after he innocently delivers an already opened envelope containing a computer disk with billion-dollar information to a ruthless customer." 354 pp. ISBN: 0-688152708.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77030More details Price: $17.50 -
THE YEAR OF FOG.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Bantam, (2018). SIGNED - Author's second novel, third book. "Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason, photographer, fiancee and soon-to-be-stepmotherlooks into her camera and commits her greatest error. . . Six-year-old Emma vanished into the thick San Francisco fog. Or into the heaving Pacific. Or somewhere just beyond: to a parking lot, a stranger's van, or a road with traffic flashing by. Devastated by guilt, Abby refuses to believe that Emma is dead." SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 978-0385340120.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76468More details Price: $18.50 -
THE JUGGLER AND THE PRINCESS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., (2001.). First edition - The author's first novel, set in San Francisco: 'All Max really wants to do is practice his juggling, drink iced tea with his friends and get over the death of his wife in a car wreck' - but he is called back to his detective work - among the characters in this offbeat mystery are a reclusive bibliophile neighbor and a gun-savvy Bible-quoting waitress. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-887393446.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 38353More details Price: $10.00 -
AUNT JANE MCPHIPPS AND HER BABY BLUE CHIPS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket. (some overall edgewear to dj, with several small chips, a bit of toning to the spine, original price of $3.50 on flap. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 70107More details Price: $65.00 -
NO SIGN OF MURDER
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Walker, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first mystery and the first featuring private investigator Stuart Winter, who is hired to find a beautiful deaf young woman, one who had been involved in a project to teach gorillas to sign. Set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57677.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.(name on front pastedown, partially hidden by dj flap)
Book ID: 6063More details Price: $21.50 -
NO SIGN OF MURDER
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Walker, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first mystery and the first featuring private investigator Stuart Winter who is hired to find a beautiful deaf young woman, one who had been involved in a project to teach gorillas to sign. Set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57677.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57776More details Price: $27.50 -
NO SIGN OF MURDER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery and the first featuring private investigator Stuart Winter who is hired to find a beautiful deaf young woman, one who had been involved in a project to teach gorillas to sign. Set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57677.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77108More details Price: $35.00 -
SECRET LOVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Viking Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Author's second novel - 'An evocative and diversely populated novel of race, politics and identity in civil-rights era San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 275 ppl
Condition: Very good+ in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 40253More details Price: $21.50 -
SECRET LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - 'An evocative and diversely populated novel of race, politics and identity in civil-rights era San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 275 ppl. ISBN: 0-670894923.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81979More details Price: $30.00 -
BEAUTIFUL INEZ.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Shaye Areheart / Harmony/, (2005). SIGNED first edition - Author's third novel, the story of a brilliant violinist with San Francisco Symphony and of an infatuated fan. SIGNED on the title page. 345 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74962More details Price: $25.00
