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N.Y.: The Vanguard Press, 1958. 1st edition, May 1958, near fine in unclipped dust jacket, $3.50 price intact. lightly soiled, rubbed at spine edges, spine lightly sunned. Author's 1st book. "The clash between primitive Africa and civilized justice is tellingly illustrated when Chief Phimri orders his second son Lepontane and some of his tribe to perform the brutal ritual murder of an enemy. The intended victim, warned by his mistress, tricks Phimri's eldest son and he is murdered. Horrified, Lepontane tells the truth and becomes a King's witness, not realizing this given him amnesty. Phimri and the murderers are hung and Lepontane, knowing the grief the old customs have brought to himself and his people, plans to be a chief according to civilized justice which seems to him the only humane way to live. Short, dramatic, and simple, this book is both timely and timeless in its theme and presentation." -- Kirkus Review. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Quartet Crime, 1981. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Her 1st book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1952. 1st ed. edgewear, slight spine slant, pages browning, else very good in dust jacket, not price clipped ($2.50 price still intact), a few closed tears, spine lightly sunned. Author's first book.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1987. First edition, so stated. Author's 1st book .. Fine in fine dust jacket, small nicks at head and foot of spine, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Rancho Esquon was a quiet little community in Northern California's vast Sacramento Valley. With its green neon palm, the Oasis Diner attracted tired truckers passing through on the long stretch of highway. The downtown movie theater was open only on Friday and Saturday nights to show films in Spanish to the migrant farm workers. And a small airstrip on the outskirts of town serviced crop dusters and private pilots who gave flying lessons to bored ranchers' wives. Then one blustery afternoon Michael Morrissey's Cessna Skyhawk plummeted to the runway in a blaze of sparks, and Rancho Esquon would never be the same. Donny Cannon knew Morrissey wasn't going to make it when he pulled him out of the plane's wreckage. But it wasn't the crash that took his best friend's… Leer más

NY: TURTLE BAY BOOKS, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first book. "Hunter's debut novel is a serial-killer thriller with a fresh, mildly feminist twist. When five young women are raped and murdered in New York City, 24-year-old New Jersey housewife and amateur sleuth Zelly Wyche assiduously follows accounts of the crimes, until she slowly realizes that her husband Pat's late work hours and strange behavior make him a prime suspect...The most intriguing questions are why and how Pat Wyche, father of a six-month-old daughter and owner of a fledgling electrical wiring business, becomes the vicious "Symphony Slasher," so named because of the references to classical music in the letters he sends to newspapers...." ---Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Harper & Row, 1989. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Minute soiling at page edges else fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book. San Francisco. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1996. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Miami based PI Lupe Solano. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1996. Fine in dj. Author's first book. Miami based Cuban American PI Lupe Solano. 1st ed. Jacket shows atrace of wear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 1996. 1st ed. Spine edge lightly rubbed else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original. This is the fourth Paperback Original in the Dead Letter series. His first mystery featuring Ruby Dark, a fiesty fifty-year old bail bondswoman who is a Denver institution. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

London, United Kingdom: Orion, 2000. 2nd ed. Near fine in dust jacket. The highly acclaimed first novel (the first of a series) set in the Middle Ages. Sir Richard Straccan is a bone-peddlar, meaning he deals in retrieving and finding stolen relics and new artefacts. It is 1209 and Richard is pressed into investigating the appearance of a rare icon. Danger presents itself on every front as his daughter is subsequently kidnapped, and Straccan must save her and solve the mystery. H. P. Lovecraft's Mad Arab, Abdul al Hazred and some of the nastier creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos appear herein.. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Viking Penguin, 1988. 1st ed. very light soiling at page edges else about fine in dj. Author's 1st book. Paul Marston is a free-lance corporate investigator--the guy they call when the books look funny or the deals smell fishy. (Enron; World Com). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first book introducing Tuscon reporter Nate Bowman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1992. 1st edition, January 1992, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at title page. Winner of the Mysterious Press Discovery Contest for best first novel. "This won the publisher's Mysterious Discovery contest for best first crime novel and for the most part the story moves winningly indeed. In a city very much like Worcester, Mass., detective Lenore Thomas is teamed with a Chinese linguist as part of a police task force tracking down the makers and dealers of a new drug that induces murderous rage. Another detective, the mayor's mistress, is told to give inside info on the force's progress to her lover. Lenore's twin brother, Ike, a mailman, starts to find grisly objects in an unused P.O. box. As Lenore closes in on Cortez, boss of the city's tenderloin, she and the linguist begin a torrid affair. There's some… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1987. 1st edition, October 1987, with complete number line beginning with 1. Reading crease, very light wear else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original mystery featuring Jerry Zalman, L.A. lawyer. Author's first mystery. Nominated for an EDGAR AWARD for Best Paperback Original.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket very light wear, one small crease. Highly regarded first book as it was an AGATHA; an ANTHONY and a MACAVITY AWARD FINALIST. This is the first in the Claire Sharples series of mysteries. "While this first novel has a satisfying mystery at its center and enough potential villains to keep both its heroine and readers guessing, its real charm lies in the less-than-perfect romance that blossoms between microbiologist Claire Sharples and her often enigmatic co-worker Sam Cooper. Claire flees her stifling life as a research scientist at MIT for a job at an agricultural research center in central California, a region she soon concludes is a cultural outback. Her growing attraction to Sam, a field scientist who seems to resent her, is also frustrating, but their relationship becomes warmer as they try to solve the problems of a Mexican farm family whose crops seem immune to any chemical remedies for… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The debut culinary mystery featuring Chas Wheatley written by the Washington Post food and restaurant critic. AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE. Washington's finest French chef, Laurence Levain, is dead, and all of D.C. thinks the culprit was too much foie gras. All, that is, except for Chas Wheatley, the city's most famous restaurant critic. Still carrying a torch for Levain after having had a passionate romance with him years before, she's convinced that his death was more than a simple case of too much cholesterol -- it was a case of murder. Enlisting the aid of detective/gourmand Homer Jones, she launches an investigation into this fiendish crime and soon finds herself in more trouble than she bargained for.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1997. 1st ed. Page edges lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket. This is the first novel, written under a psuedonym, of Mark Costello, recently short-listed for the National Book Award for "Big If". New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, consecrated by Pope Paul VI, meant to be given out to the faithful at the first English-language mass in America later that year, to soothe their disquiet over these epochal changes in the liturgy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1997. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. This is the first novel, written under a psuedonym, of Mark Costello, recently short-listed for the National Book Award for "Big If". New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, consecrated by Pope Paul VI, meant to be given out to the faithful at the first English-language mass in America later that year, to soothe their disquiet over these epochal changes in the liturgy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1997. 1st edition, June 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine,as new, in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publishers sheet laid in. The author's critically acclaimed first book, an EDGAR AWARD Finalist. "This jaunty, humorous, and captivating first novel features a cast of quirky California characters and their misadventures. Lush-bodied Marianna picks on middle-aged co-worker Harold?who wrote a tell-all book about used cars?for help when a car salesman cheats her. Thus begins an itinerant tale of scam and counterscam, car distribution corruption, tender-hearted strippers, attempted murder, accidental murder, car chases, outwitted hoodlums, vituperative ex-wives, pot-smoking brothers, and incipient love. Quick shifts of scene steadily increase the suspense, but this is one of those books that ends too soon." --- LIBRARY JOURNAL. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's first novel. When detective Joe LaLuna is called in to investigate the death of his high school sweetheart's husband, he finds himself trailing three suspects, including a dangerous young woman who could get him killed. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.