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  • Babjak, Marisa.
    WHITE LIES: A Paloma Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    Low Country Publishing, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Debut mystery introducing Paloma, a transplanted Southerner living in California as the novel opens, half Brazilian and half Polish, who works as an expert on security systems for computers. When her best friend, African American police officer Dixie Hightower, is imprisoned in Hilton Head, South Carolina, Paloma returns home to help her friend. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-9675528-0x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 30817
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  • THE HARD TO CATCH MERCY. by Baldwin, William
    Baldwin, William
    THE HARD TO CATCH MERCY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1993 dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming-of-age story set in 1916 in a tiny low country Carolina town. Winner of the the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction. Map endpapers. 457 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-0256.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 41379
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  • THE FENNEL FAMILY PAPERS. by Baldwin, William P.
    Baldwin, William P.
    THE FENNEL FAMILY PAPERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's second novel set in South Caroline, "a wickedly funny academic satire, grafted onto a manic plot featuring murder, madness, incest, a ghost and spirit possession. Ambitious, reclusive history professor Paul Danvers, desperate to achieve tenure, starts an affair with his student, Ginny Fennel, in order to gain access to the private papers of her notorious family, lighthouse keepers since the American Revolution, whose ancestors include slave dealers, black marketers and adventurers." A book which takes "publish or perish" literally. 284 pp. ISBN: 1-565120698.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82178
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  • THE STAR OF SUTHERLAND. by Breaznell, Gene.
    Breaznell, Gene.
    THE STAR OF SUTHERLAND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of a college professor with his life hitting rock bottom (his wife left him, he is living in a third-rate boarding house) who comes across what just might be the largest uncut diamond every found in the US. Set in South Carolina. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-802757545.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 66791
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  • THE WHITE ROAD. by Connolly, John.
    Connolly, John.
    THE WHITE ROAD.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Atria, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth thriller by this Irish author. Detective Charlie Parker is finding some measure of peace in his Maine farmhouse, when an old friend in South Carolina who is defending a young black man accused of raping and murdering his white girl friend calls for his help. SIGNED on the title page. 390 pp. ISBN: 978-0743456388.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 62448
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  • THE WHITE ROAD. by Connolly, John.
    Connolly, John.
    THE WHITE ROAD.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atria, (2003). SIGNED first edition - The fourth thriller by this Irish author. Detective Charlie Parker is finding some measure of peace in his Maine farmhouse, when an old friend in South Carolina who is defending a young black man accused of raping and murdering his white girl friend calls for his help. SIGNED on the title page. 390 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 62449
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  • MAMA STALKS THE PAST. by DeLoach, Nora.
    DeLoach, Nora.
    MAMA STALKS THE PAST.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Bantam, (1997) dj. Hardcover - The fifth book in the Mama series, set in Otis, South Carolina. ISBN: 0-553-106627.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 19650
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  • DeLoach, Nora.
    MAMA STALKS THE PAST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth book in the Mama series, set in Otis, South Carolina. Mama makes her living as a case manager for Social Services, but she is known for cooking the best food in Otis. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-553-106627.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 23432
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  • MAMA STALKS THE PAST. by DeLoach, Nora.
    DeLoach, Nora.
    MAMA STALKS THE PAST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth book in the Mama series, set in Otis, South Carolina. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-553-106627.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 73921
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  • MAMA CRACKS A MASK OF INNOCENCE. by DeLoach, Nora.
    DeLoach, Nora.
    MAMA CRACKS A MASK OF INNOCENCE.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Bantam, (2001). First edition - The eighth and final mystery in the Mama series, featuring Grace Covington aka Mama ("the African American Miss Marple") and set in a small town in South Carolina. Published as a paperback original. 186 pp.

    Condition: Fine in cream printed wrappers. An uncommon advance issue .

    Book ID: 56282
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  • MAMA STALKS THE PAST. by DeLoach, Nora.
    DeLoach, Nora.
    MAMA STALKS THE PAST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth book in the Mama series, and the first to be published by Bantam, set in Otis, South Carolina. Mama makes her living as a case manager for Social Services, but she is known for cooking the best food in Otis. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-553-106627.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (lower corner bumped)

    Book ID: 68417
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  • MAMA SAVES A VICTIM. by DeLoach, Nora (1940-2001)
    DeLoach, Nora (1940-2001)
    MAMA SAVES A VICTIM.

    Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

    Los Angeles: Holloway House, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Her fourth book, and the third in the series featuring Simone Covington and Mama Candi (Grace). In this one, Mama gets involved when a beautiful young girl darts in front of her car, but later disappears from the hospital. Set in South Carolina. SIGNED and dated in March 2001 on the title page. 176 pp plus author photo.. ISBN: 0870678744.

    Condition: Fine (usual light toning to the pages, but otherwise appears unread) Uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 71153
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  • MAMA STANDS ACCUSED. by DeLoach, Nora (1940-2001)
    DeLoach, Nora (1940-2001)
    MAMA STANDS ACCUSED.

    Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

    Los Angeles: Holloway House, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Her fourth book, and the third in the series featuring Simone Covington and Mama Candi (Grace). In this one, Mama, a social worker, is accused of stealing her client's food stamps. Although Mama has been referred to as an "African American Miss Marple", one of the ways in which this series differs from the typical Holmes or Miss Marple books is that Mama is not just an investigator but - reflecting the reality of African American life- she is often working to prove her own innocence or that of those around her. Set in South Carolina. SIGNED and dated in March 2001 on the title page (just three months before DeLoach's early death). 157 pp plus author photo.. ISBN: 0-870678736.

    Condition: Fine (usual light toning to the pages, but otherwise appears unread) Uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 71154
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  • MAMA PURSUES A MURDEROUS SHADOW. by DeLoach, Nora (1940-2001)
    DeLoach, Nora (1940-2001)
    MAMA PURSUES A MURDEROUS SHADOW.

    Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

    New York: Bantam, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The seventh in the series featuring Simone Covington and Mama Candi (Grace). In this one, Mama is convinced that an apparent suicide was not really one and she is determined to find the real answer. Set in South Carolina. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2001. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-553577220.

    Condition: Fine (usual light toning to the pages, but otherwise appears unread) Uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 76955
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  • A LITTLE CLASS ON MURDER. by Hart, Carolyn G.
    Hart, Carolyn G.
    A LITTLE CLASS ON MURDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Annie and Max Darling. Annie is the proprietor of the Death on Demand bookstore. In this book she agrees to teach a class at a nearby college on the three grande dames of the mystery - Christie, Sayers and Rinehart, 215 pp,. ISBN: 0-385-264526.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63504
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  • Hart, Carolyn G,.
    SOUTHERN GHOST

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in South Carolina and featuring Annie Darling , the owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore. ISBN: 0-553-073923.

    Condition: Very good+ in a very good+ dustjacket (prev owner's name.)

    Book ID: 9455
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  • DEAD BY MIDNIGHT. by Hart, Carolyn G.
    Hart, Carolyn G.
    DEAD BY MIDNIGHT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Annie and Max Darling. Annie is the proprietor of the Death on Demand bookstore, located on a small island off the coast of South Carolina. 282 pp,. ISBN: 978-0061914973.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 73575
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  • SOUTHERN GHOST by Hart, Carolyn G.
    Hart, Carolyn G.
    SOUTHERN GHOST

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Putnam, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery set in South Carolina and featuring Annie Darling , the owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore. ISBN: 0-553-073923.

    Condition: Very good+ in a very good- dustjacket (some edgewear to the dj.)

    Book ID: 48476
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  • HIGH WATER. by Hightower, Lynn.
    Hightower, Lynn.
    HIGH WATER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt, (2002.). First edition - A stand-alone thriller by the author of the Sonora Blair mysteries. Set in a small South Carolina town, this is the story of a family ripped apart by the deaths of their parents. 302 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on back cover.)

    Book ID: 50827
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  • Hooper, Kay.
    HUNTING FEAR.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Bantam, (2004). SIGNED first edition - Thriller introducing Lucas Jordan, the latest addition to Noah Bishop's Special Crimes Unit. He has an extraordinary psychic skill - he locates missing people. But when he's called in on what appears to be a series of ordinary kidnappings-for-ransom, he realizes the situation is far from ordinary - and more deadly than anything he's ever faced before. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 81372
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  • THE FIREMAN'S FAIR. by Humphreys, Josephine
    Humphreys, Josephine
    THE FIREMAN'S FAIR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern writer's third novel, set in Charleston, SC just after a hurricane struck. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-670-839078.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder line)

    Book ID: 7464
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  • RICH IN LOVE. by Humphreys, Josephine.
    Humphreys, Josephine.
    RICH IN LOVE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, (1987). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning Southern author's second novel, set in South Carolina, this is the story of how the Odom family fell apart and then reconfigured itself in a new pattern, as told by their 17 year old daughter. Basis for the 1992 film of the same name starring Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise by Louise Erdrich and Gloria Naylor, among others. 261 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-670818100.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 80795
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  • THE BRIDE WORE BLOOD, by Hunnings, Vicky.
    Hunnings, Vicky.
    THE BRIDE WORE BLOOD,

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Avalon / Thomas Bourgey, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The first book in a series of mysteries set in Hilton Head - "Beaufort County, South Carolina, 'death investigators' William 'Shark' Morgan and Dell Hassler are charged with determining if wealthy Marcus DeSilva, shot through the heart as he stood outside the church on his wedding day, was murdered or the accidental victim of a deer hunter with bad aim." SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-803495498.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75545
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  • Lott, Bret.
    THE HUNT CLUB.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Villard, (1998.). First edition - The first thriller by this highly praised literary author - described as the Southern 'Snow Falling on Cedars' it is set in rural South Carolina.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 31131
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  • SLIPPY McGEE, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man. by Oemler, Marie Conway (1875 -1932)
    Oemler, Marie Conway (1875 -1932)
    SLIPPY McGEE, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man.

    Edition: Early printing.

    New York: The Century Company, 1920. Hardcover - Southern author's first novel, the story of a priest in a small and poor South Carolina town, who takes in the notorious safe-cracker Slippy McGee after he barely survives the loss of his leg from a train accident. Basis for two films, in 1923 and again in 1948. 405 pp.

    Condition: Good condition in dark green cloth with black lettering.

    Book ID: 72730
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  • Sanders, Dori
    HER OWN PLACE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this African American author, set in South Carolina in the years before and after World War II. 243 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-0272.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 35812
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  • THE J. ALFRED PRUFROCK MURDERS. by Sawyer, Corinne Holt.
    Sawyer, Corinne Holt.
    THE J. ALFRED PRUFROCK MURDERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel, introducing the septuagenarians, Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate - 'spirited, fearless, grey-haired sleuths' - living in a California retirement community who are galvanized into action when one of their own is found murdered. 264 pp. Dust jacket by Loretta Trezzo Braren. ISBN: 1-556114125.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant, bookstore stamp on front endpaper, toning to pages and dj)

    Book ID: 85639
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  • MURDER HAS NO CALORIES. by Sawyer, Corinne Holt.
    Sawyer, Corinne Holt.
    MURDER HAS NO CALORIES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Angela Benbow/Caledonia Wingate mystery - the 4th featuring these 'spirited, fearless, grey-haired sleuths.' Nicely INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: 'To.... All good luck on your first mystery. I look forward to reading it.'. ISBN: 1-556114125.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 25374
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  • Seaman, Augusta Huiell.
    THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL.

    Edition: Probable first edition.

    New York: The Century Co., (1927.). Hardcover first edition - The last of Seaman's mysteries to be published by Century. Mystery involving an antebellum mansion known as Pettigrew's Folly near the South Carolina coast - and a broken sundial, treasure buried to hide it from Sherman's raiders, and a hurricane. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted plates by Manning de Vere Lee (illustrator not identified on title page, but the plates are signed.) 224 pp.

    Condition: Good overall in aqua cloth with black and yellow illustrated front cover - frontispiece has been tipped in, loss of a crescent-shaped piece of cloth at bottom of spine, front board is slightly bent, but clean contents. A decent copy of a hard-to-find book.

    Book ID: 35292
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  • Seaman, Augusta Huiell.
    THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL.

    Edition: Probable first edition.

    New York: The Century Co., (1927.). Hardcover first edition - Gift inscription dated January, 1928, so if not a first, a very early printing. The last of Seaman's mysteries to be published by Century. Mystery involving an antebellum mansion known as Pettigrew's Folly near the South Carolina coast - and a broken sundial, treasure buried to hide it from Sherman's raiders, and a hurricane. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted plates by Manning de Vere Lee (illustrator not identified on title page, but the plates are signed.) 224 pp.

    Condition: Fair copy only in aqua cloth with black and yellow illustrated front cover - all the flaws one would expect to find in a children's book which has been read many times: hinges cracked, some corners dogeared, soiling and wear to cloth covers, some fraying at ends of the spine, closed tears on pp 11-12, 33-36, but still a good reading copy of one of Seaman's more difficult to find books.

    Book ID: 35291
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