Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 433 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY FORBES on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. N Y, Random House, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Previous owner's sticker, name blacked-out on front end papers. Spine with light fade. Internally very good.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription, bookplate. Clean copy. Classic early 20th century Crime Club mystery series volume, this set in England with the opening chapter at the narrator's "club", "In Which I make Drummond's Acquaintance".
Hardcover. NY, Avon Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pen note to owner on front flap. Very good, clean condition.
New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Dust jacket worn very slightly from previous use. Otherwise in very good condition.
Softcover. Berkeley, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the 1954 Goodis classic. A nice copy of this Black Lizard reprint.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BURKE. Like new condition.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BURKE on title-page.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRAFTON. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 143/177 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-285. Previous owner's markings on first page of each novel. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.
Softcover. Chicago, IL, Century Publications, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Scarce copy.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, rep, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Paperback. Pocket Book #71. Laminate starting to peel on wrappers, gutter cracked, and moderate edgewear. Ink "X" on spine.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 554. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear. Front hinge cracked.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #168. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Map on back.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #833. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. First page partially separated.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B191. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by robert McGinnis.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #899. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile. Spine cocked lightly.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1064. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. Small ink notation on 1st page.Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #909. Cover art by Arthur Sussman. Light warping and creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, New American Library of World Literature, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Signet Book #1654. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light crease to covers. A Carter Borwn Mystery Series.
Softcover. New York, Popular LIbrary, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Popular Library Eagle Book #EB96. Spine edge tanned. Ink notation on first page. Creasing to cover wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thriller, featuring 'Limpie' and a wealthy Emir.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark blue cloth with light blue lettering. No dust jacket. A young English scholar is driven by recurring dreams to become a classical scholar, which later enables him to save a woman in Greece who, during a revival of ancient pagan rites and beliefs, is falsely accused of witchcraft. Mild shelf wear, spine shows fading, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Co., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's third novel, the first featuring Brad Axx, like Huber himself, a transplant to the West coast of Florida.
London, MacDonald, 1st UK, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering on spine. Classic period detective novel involving three apparently unlinked sudden accidental deaths. No dust jacket, name on front leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A thriller set in the world of big business and high finance featuring the murder of a bridegroom-to-be on New York's upper west side.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 251 pages. A story of murder and family intrigue set in Ireland.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. Formerly a Marine sniper in Vietnam, the man known professionally as Quarry has spent the past decade killing for money, first in the service of an agent called the Broker, and then as a freelance hitman. But he's always been on the right side of those contract kills--until now It seems someone has taken out a contract on Quarry himself. But who? And why? And how does a mysterious figure from his past figure in? Quarry will find the answer--or die trying. Since his first appearance in 1976, Quarry has been the star of a Cinemax TV series, a graphic novel (Quarry's War), and a dozen other novels. But he's never faced an assignment deadlier or more personal than this... Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman, Robert Maguire. Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON--at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print. Among those books were the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. In 2016, Hard Case Crime brought out the first new Cool and Lam novel in decades, THE KNIFE SLIPPED, lost for 77 years after Gardner's publisher refused it. Now here's the book Gardner wrote to replace it, often considered the best in the series: TURN ON THE HEAT. Hired by a mysterious "Mr. Smith" to find a woman who vanished 21 years earlier, Donald Lam finds himself facing a sadistic cop, a desperate showgirl, a duplicitous client, and one very dogged (and beautiful) newspaper reporter--while Bertha Cool's attempts to cut herself in on this lucrative opportunity land them both hip-deep in murder. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Tim Gabor. When Navy Lieutenant David Young came to in a hospital bed, his face was covered with bandages and the nurses were calling him by a stranger's name. But David's nightmare was only beginning. Because the man they believed him to be was suspected of treason--and had driven his wife to murder. Now David's got to make his way through a shadow world of suspicion and deception, of dirty deals and brutal crimes, and he needs to stay one step ahead of enemies whose identity he doesn't even know--since if he can't, his impersonation of a dead man is about to become a lot more realistic. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence. Unavailable for 40 years, THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY is an eloquent, terrifying, heartbreaking exploration of madness by one of the most acclaimed authors of the past century. This definitive edition for the first time pairs the original novel with a never-before-collected companion novella by Joyce Carol Oates, unseen since its sole publication in a literary journal nearly half a century ago, which examines the impact of Gotteson's killing spree on a woman who survived it, as seen through the eyes of the troubled young man hired by a private detective to surveil her. Like new.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 185 pages. Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.
Softcover. NY, Fawcett Gold Medal, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 255 pages. A lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes a few shots at him. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain, the intrepid Travis McGee finds himself arrested and charged with murder. And he can't help but ask himself, is this what they call southern hospitality...? Mild wear to covers, otherwise VG, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts into early Cold War violence. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY TROCHECK on the title page. The second mystery featuring cleaning lady and sometime sleuth Callahan Garrity Set in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. In Victoria's England, a rowdy crowd boards the Great Western Excursion train on their way to an illegal bare-knuckles fight in Maidenhead north of London . A brutal murder on the train brings Scotland Yard's Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck to stop the train murders, by a murderer who uses a noose as a death weapon--is this a 'public execution, a retribution killing? Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED AND DATED BY DAVIDSON on the half-title page. Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless threats. Determined to take control, Goldy moves her business to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club. Soon she's preparing decadent dinners and posh society picnics--and enjoying the favors of Philip Miller, a handsome local shrink, and Tom Schulz, her more-than-friendly neighborhood cop. Until, that is, the dishy doctor drives his BMW into an oncoming bus. Convinced that Philip's bizarre death was no accident, Goldy begins to sift through the dead doc's unpalatable secrets. But this case is seasoned with unexpected danger and even more unexpected revelations--the kind that could get a caterer killed. Clean copy
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell visits three elderly women, the bridesmaids from her late grandmother's wedding, who have informed her that her grandmother needs to communicate a message to her from beyond the grave.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Someone is looking to wreck the nation's economy, and they're spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn's most dizzying logic is put to the test. The remarkable undercover agent and Boston detective Francis Xavier Flynn returns in this second installment of the darkly comedic series. Out on ''medical leave'' from the Boston police department, Flynn has actually been called up once again by his longtime friend and handler, N. N. Zero, to solve a most perplexing occurrence. Someone has been picking small towns throughout the United States and delivering packages of money -- $100,000 to be exact -- to every man, woman, and child in residence. As Flynn flies to Texas to start investigating the first incident, even more people begin to receive large manila envelopes full of ''cash money,'' including an entire department at the Pentagon. Now under pressure from the president, Flynn is up against the clock to crack this crisis before the US economy is propelled into total disarray.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The sequel to A Real Shot in the Arm which won the 1989 John Creasey Award for best crime novel. It features the heroine Chris, a middle-aged housewife turned local journalist/sleuth, determined to uncover a murder mystery. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first Edwina Crusoe, R.N., medical mystery at the venerable Chelsea Memorial Hospitalin New Haven, CT. The heated custody battle between two couples over the true parentage of 10-year-old Hallie Dietz takes an unexpected turn when, minutes after the remarkable results of a tissue match are in, the lab technician and a teenage volunteer are shot and the records disappear.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, red textured boards with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket present in fair to poor condition with chipping, tape repairs. Tommy Hambledon is back, and again he's in Germany, posing as a camera- toting tourist while trailing renascent Fascists. The investigation started in Cologne when a corpse was found hung out like a batch of wash from the bare girder of a ruined building. Bookplate on inside front cover, no markings.
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