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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1997. 1ST ED. fine in price clipped dust jacket. AGATHA AWARD WINNER & a DILYS AWARD NOMINEE. The 4th and last in historical mystery series featuring Julian Kestel. This one takes place in Italy in the 1820s. The author died shortly after this book was published.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Headline, 1996. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Italian Renaissance mystery featuring Sigismondo. Historical. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1989. 1st ed. Light soiling else near fine in lightly used dust jacket. The author is the former director of Metropolitan Museum of Art. 301 pages. A pair of curators unearth a discovery more intriguing than the Tomb of Tutankhamen or the Temple of Aphrodite: The Palace of Tertullian pride of the lost city of Herculaneum, buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1995. 1st pbk printing December 1995, so stated, complete number line beginning with 1. Paper beginning to age tone, else near fine copy. The 3rd title in the series featuring Venice Police Commissario Guido Brunetti. Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera--a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before night is out, Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless, death.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Saksa, Cathy. Book.

London: Century, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 8th book in Falco sries of Ancient Rome. A Marcus Didius Falco historical mystery. Jacket by Colin Hadley. Nobody was poisoned at the dinneer for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite surprising...One one night, a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies is left for dead. Soon sleuth Marcus is plunged into the fiercly competitive world of olive oil-production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood, all add to Falco's troubles.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Blakeney: Glos. UK: Scorpion Press, 1996. 1st ed. Fine . ONE OF 15 LETTERED (this being letter "K") COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH DAVIS and PETER LOVESEY who wrote appreciation. Fine in navy blue goatskin with blue , black and green marbled paper sides, blue top edge and green end papers in transparent dust wrapper. The 8th book in Falco series of Ancient Rome. Laid in is a note on Scorpion Press letterhead describing the De Luxe Specifications : "The de luxe presentation copies are produced in small numbers as they are intended primarily for the use of the author, contributor, editor, publisher and others associated with the authors work. These books are given a letter rather than a number and are especially handsome, bound in goatskin rather than bonded leather with five raised bands. The spine blocking is horizontal because of the raised bands. In addition these books contain the signature of the contributor. Prices vary slightly due to the costs involved, the difficulty of… Leer más

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 8th book in the Marcus Didius Falco series of Ancient Rome. Jacket by Colin Hadley.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Garde: Doubleday Crime Club, 1987. First edition, so stated. Near Fine in fine dust jacket, very lightly soiled, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Italy. Murder at the ancient, abandoned Benedictine monastery of San Donato--where a group of Rome-dwelling English/American ladies (bankers' wives) have gathered to admire the frescoes and hear another smashing lecture from aging, charismatic art-historian Charles Mowbray.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1995. 1st printing, July 1995. Reading creases, spine slant, ex-lib copy with just stamp at bottom of page edges. The 2nd Commissario Guido Brunetti. Aggressively investigating an American's murder in tranquil Venice despite his superior's order to keep things clean and quiet, Commissario Brunetti finds himself knee-deep in a toxic waste cover-up with political ties.. First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 1st ed . Page edges lightly soiled else about fine in dust jacket. A bibliomystery by an English bookseller. Bookseller Mathew Coll's fifth adventure. While in Verona to do some research on Romeo and Juliet, Coll becomes involved in the murder investigation of a bibliophile and scholar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Soho Press,, 2001. 4th printing. Near fine copy of the trade paperback. Introducing Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia, a Sicilian stationed in Florence. He wants to go south for Christmas to be home with his family for the holiday, but is laid up with the flu. At this awkward moment, the death of a retired Englishman is reported. Guarnaccia must discover the identity of the criminal and the motive for the crime before he can take the train home for the holidays.. Later Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. 1st. Ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Leon at title page. Venice. Signed by Author. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1995. 1st printing, December 1995. Light reading crease, else about fine. Third title in the series. "Commissario Guido Brunetti lacks the comfort of his adoring wife and two children in this one because they go off on vacation to get away from the stifling heat of August in Venice. Brunetti has to battle the unbearable heat and go toe to toe with the powerful and sanctimonious head of the local morality brigade. A group that "sit around talking about how good they are and how bad everyone else is." Even his nasty boss Patta doesn't bother him much on this case because Patta's wife has deserted him for a notorious pornographer. This is the novel that introduces the computer-savvy and attractive Elettra, Patta's secretary, who becomes the Commissario's ally in the police department. The body of a transvestite in his fifties in a bright red dress and red shoes is found in back of reeking slaughterhouse in Marghera outside of Venice. Brunetti,… Leer más

NY: Morrow, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 2nd in the series to feature American expatriate writer Urbino Macintyre, set in Venice during Carnivale. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2014. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition, due out April, 2014. 304 pages. When the bodies of two men are found, shockingly posed, in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples’ decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances, but also those of the city as a whole. A riveting and poetic exploration of the violence that lurks in the heart of beauty.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. 1st ed. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. The ninth Marcus Corvinus historical thriller. Licinius Murena, a fish farmer, has been found murdered in one of his own eel tanks. The trouble is that a whole slew of people, from his wife downwards, were not shedding any tears at his departure. Marcus Corvinus is the man to find out. With the help, of course, of his clever wife, Perilla if she can spare the time from her newly acquired passion for gambling. As we follow the Byzantine thought-processes by which our hero solves the crime, we are entertained with enriching accounts of pisciculture and "Twelve Lines," the Roman precursor to backgammon. Review Slip and sheets from the American distributor laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008. 1st American edition, so stated and with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Venetian map endpapers. When a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti’s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work in Africa, calls on him with a request, Brunetti suspects the man has hidden motives. An American-style Christian group has begun meeting in private homes in the city, and it’s possible the priest is merely wary of the competition. Nevertheless, Brunetti and his wife, Paola, decide to go undercover. But when a girl’s body is found floating in a canal, Brunetti must put everything aside to investigate But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewelry that she carries. So Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order… Leer más

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1997. 1st U.S. edition, March 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The second entry in the great Carlo Arbati series. Italy. An ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "Cops in crime novels should know better than to take vacations. When Florentine poet and police inspector Carlo Arbati (Adam Dalgliesh, Italian style) agrees to accept a literary award in nearby Lucca, you know he's walking into trouble. First an American is impaled by the bronze spear of a Mycenaean warrior, and then another American mysteriously drops dead at the reception following Arbati's award ceremony. Arbati agrees to assist his friend and fellow cop Giorgio Bruni in the investigation, which soon uncovers an elaborate art-fraud scheme involving members of the Luccan expatriate community. This second Arbati mystery, following The Last Castrato (1995), clearly establishes Hill's series as… Leer más

London, United Kingdom: Constable Crime, 1997. First edition. Page edges beginning to age tone else fine in dust jacket. The second and last entry in the great Carlo Arbati series. Italy. An ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD NOMINEE. "Cops in crime novels should know better than to take vacations. When Florentine poet and police inspector Carlo Arbati (Adam Dalgliesh, Italian style) agrees to accept a literary award in nearby Lucca, you know he's walking into trouble. First an American is impaled by the bronze spear of a Mycenaean warrior, and then another American mysteriously drops dead at the reception following Arbati's award ceremony. Arbati agrees to assist his friend and fellow cop Giorgio Bruni in the investigation, which soon uncovers an elaborate art-fraud scheme involving members of the Luccan expatriate community. This second Arbati mystery, following The Last Castrato (1995), clearly establishes Hill's series as a contender in the growing European procedural sweepstakes. Arbati… Leer más

London: UK: Pushkin Vertigo, 2016. 1st pbk printing, remaindered stripe at bottom of pages, one crease, else near fine. Trade paperback.(Originally publisherd in Italy in 1936). The shady Hotel of the Three Roses is home to an assortment of drunks and degenerates. Inspector De Vincenzi receives an anonymous letter, warning him of an imminent outrage at the guest house. Shortly after, a macabre discovery is made—a body is found hanging in the hotel's stairwell. As De Vincenzi investigates, more deaths follow, until he finally uncovers a gothic and grotesque story linking the Three Roses' unhappy residents to each other. De Angelis was an Italian novelist and journalist, most famous for his series of detective novels featuring Commissario Carlo De Vincenzi. His cultured protagonist was enormously popular in Italy, but the Fascist government of the time considered him an enemy, and during the Second World War he was imprisoned by the authorities. Shortly after his release he was beaten… Leer más