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Ace Charter #09162, 1981. 1st ed. First Ace Carpenter title; very lightly soiled else near fine, unread copy; Paperback Original. California. Author's first book. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Walker, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Advance copy one month prior to publication, with publisher's letter laid in. Author's 1st book. After Donald Jasen and his wife are found dead in a burnt-out car, Donald's brother, Jay, has custody of their two children and finds himself involved in a mystery surrounding thousands of dollars in cash hidden in the trunk of Donald's car. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Wheaton: IL: Victor Books, 1993. 1st ed. A fine copy of this trade paperback original. First in series featuring Phoenix detective Jose Mario Jesus Rodriguez y Smythe. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St Martins Press, 1991. 1st. U.S. Edition, July 1991, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. First Prof. John Dobie; Dr. Kate Coyle title set in Wales. "An amiably goofy puzzler from veteran Cory (The Circe Complex, Bennett, etc.) that takes absent-minded Cardiff math prof John Dobie from the inquest on his barely remembered former student Sammy Cantwell--where he meets attractive pathologist Kate Coyle--to an appointment the same evening at the house of his wife Jenny's friend Jane Corder, where he's drugged, tied up, and made to witness her murder, and then freed by the police. Back home, Dobie finds Jane's body in Jenny's bed--or is it?--because when the police investigate, what they find is Jenny's body in place of Jane's (which obligingly washes ashore next morning). The ingredients of this lightheartedly intricate romp include industrial espionage, primly… Leer más

N.Y.: Tor 1992, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. 1st Midnight Louie title. Murder at the Las Vegas ABA Book Convention. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribners, 1987. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Small sticker remains at inside cover else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. ANTHONY AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel. . Author's first mystery and 1st in the Amanda Pepper series. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Boulder: CO: Rue Morgue Press, 2000. 1st paperback printing. Fine copy. The first series to feature a Chinese-American female sleuth, Lily Wu. Set in post WWII Manhattan (1949). The housing shortage in NYC forces novelist, Janice Cameron, newly arrived from Honolulu, to share a bedroom in a Washington Square rooming house with Lily Wu, a comparitave stranger. Lily needs Janice to front for her because she's afraid the other roomers may not want to rent to a Chinese-American Woman. But it soon becomes apparent that Lily has an ulterior motive for wanting to live in this converted old mansion. Critic Anthony Boucher proclaimed her as one of the best female sleuths of the era-- and the only one he was devotedly in love with, citing his respect for her professional skills and delight in her personal charms.. First Printing. Pictorial Cover. Fine. Trade Paperback.

NY: Kensington, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first novel. Features pet store owner Robin Light.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Brownsville: OR: Story Line Press, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book and the 1st Stuart Mallory, PI, title. Michigan setting. "Featuring two-fisted PI Stuart Mallory, this first novel launching a planned series fails despite some welcome fresh elements. The locale is new--the city of Lansing and the lakes and dunes of western Michigan--and Mallory is also studying for a graduate degree in sociology. Kathy Whitman, a sexpot with as much honesty as Hammett's Brigid O'Shaughnessy, gets in touch with him for the first time in 15 years. She wants protection from her mob-financed lover and boss, Sam Pendergrass, who has threatened to kill her. She has stolen Sam's computerized books, she says, and testified against him before a grand jury. Before Mallory learns Kathy's secret, he has slept with her, been in a number of fights, faced murder charges and almost… Leer más

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2005. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. In custom slipcase and still in originial shrinkwrap as issued. True 1st printing of Connelly's first Bosch cold case mystery. LIMIITED EDITION, one of 300 copies, [this being #234], bound in Brillanta cloth NUMBERED and SIGNED on the limitation page by Connelly. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2008. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Flaxborough is a "high-spirited town .. .like Gomorrah." It's Inspector Purbright's job to keep its citizens on the straight-and-narrow in this comic romp. He hasn't got a chance. There were surprisingly few mourners at Harold Carobleat's funeral, just his widow and a handful of prominent Flaxborough citizens, including newspaper publisher Marcus Gwill. When Gwill' s naked body is found electrocuted some months later, its mouth stuffed with marshmallows, Inspector Purbright and his cherubic assistant, Sergeant Love, begin to suspect the two deaths are connected. But what are they to make of a series of peculiar coded advertisements that has been appearing in the Flaxborough newspaper? And why is the doctor's surgery so busy after hours? Remember, this is Flaxborough, a "high-spirited town .. .like "Gomorrah," where anything can happen, and… Leer más

Headline London 1999 1st ed. Fine in dj. First book in the Robert Fairfax Georgian mystery series set in the vibrant age of 1760's London - Tom Jones and Moll Flanders. Set in London's Covent Garden, we find a pupil of Robert Fairfax is accused of murdering a woman. It's up to him to prove his pupil innocent.otherwise he will die on the gallows. Hannah March is a pseudonym for crime writer Tim Wilson.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: UK: Headline, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dj. First book in the Robert Fairfax Georgian mystery series set in the vibrant age of 1760's London - Tom Jones and Moll Flanders Hannah March is a pseudonym for crime writer Tim Wilson.. "He once had a bright future ahead of him but when his father committed suicide, his estate and fortune was forfeited to the crown. Now Robert Fairfax, after a period of dissipation, has finally got his life together and is working as a tutor for Matthew Hemsley, a young man who comes from a powerful and rich family. To give the student some polish, he is taking him to London to introduce him to the people who will one day be a part of his future. Matthew finds himself more interested in the social whirl of London and finds himself in love with the toast of the London Theatre Miss Lucy Dove. When she sends him a letter asking him to meet her at her home, he sneaks away from Robert to meet her. When Robert tracks him down, he finds Lucy dead and Matthew unable to… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 1982. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Recipe endpapers The First Eugenia Potter title. In Harrington, Iowa, for her yearly hometown visit, dignified and down-to-earth Mrs. Potter becomes involved in the slashed-throat murder of a student in an advanced cooking class attended by the elite of Harrington's. As Mrs. Potter muses, "Everything that happens in New York happens here. The only difference is that here you know the people." . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Berkley, 1997. 1st edition, November 1997, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. Sutton McPhee, a reporter for one of Washington D.C.'s most important newspapers, must solve the murder of her sister, a secretary for the Bread of Life Church, thereby placing her own life in danger. First book in series.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Paperback Original.

NY: St Martins Press, 1996. 1st edition, July 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. Author's first book. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at half-title page. Chloe Newcomb is a Victim Witness, a volunteer social worker in an Arizona desert town who helps soften the bad news after an accident or crime. Called to a suicide scene, she recognizes the dead man as a figure from her East Coast activist past, a former lover she hasn't heard from in 20 years. In her first novel, Thornton manages to make Chloe both original and recognizable, the kind of person you'd expect to find liking country music (her title comes from a George Strait song), enjoying diner food and flirting with good-looking cowboys. And her descriptions of the desert under various conditions of time and weather make you understand why people choose to live there.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1994. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Author's first book. New Orleans setting. ..."Tubby Dubonnet is a lawyer who likes fishing, beer and off-track betting. His clients include a cross-dresser referred by the very doctor he's suing for a botched skin-creolizing, and a lakefront bar owner who has held on to a nearly $1 million payoff after a shrimpboat marijuana bust. The bar owner hands over the money locked in a gym bag to Tubby, then is murdered, leaving behind a death scene portrayed with jarring comic understatement. Tubby grapples with the temptation of riches and the threats of claimants, and, as he sorts out the rogues from and among the buttoned-downs, he dispatches the villain and finds a home for the cash in a conclusion that's as cleverly convoluted and amusing as the rest of this tale, the first in the series. " --PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, 1999. 1st edition, August 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy of this Trade Paperback Original. SIGNED and DATED August 1999 by the author at title page. First title in the series. "Designed to delight both crossword puzzle enthusiasts and mystery readers, this pseudonymous novel, the first in a projected series from the husband-and-wife team of Cordelia Frances Biddle (Beneath the Wind) and Steve Zettler (Double Identity), features adroit wordplay and high society intrigue. Wealthy Thomas C. Briephs is a crossword puzzle editor for the Newport, Mass., Herald, and a man-about-town whose immoral private life has made him an easy target for blackmail. Yet when he dies under unusual circumstances (strangulation in his bed), the police declare the death accidental, the result of a kinky sex game gone wrong, and try to hush up the affair in order to protect the reputation of Briephs's uncle, a U.S. senator. Briephs's mother,… Leer más

NY: Crime Club Doubleday, 1973. 1st ed. remainder spray at bottom of pages, near fine in dj, a few small closed tears, lightly soiled. Her 1st Mystery with bookstore owner Conan Flagg. SIGNED by Wren and Meg the cat. Oregon setting.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st edition. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Author's first book in award-winning mystery series introducing Lydia Chin and Bill Smith. " It's always exciting to read the first novel of a newcomer with a distinctive voice and the talent to put a new spin on an established genre. Such is the case with this page-turning mystery introducing Lydia Chin, a Chinese American private investigator living in New York City's Chinatown. When the Chinatown Museum is robbed of a set of rare porcelains, the chair of the board of directors calls in her friend Lydia, despite the opposition of Lydia's brother, Tim, a board member embarrassed by his sister's occupation (not suitable for a respectable Chinese woman) and afraid that her failure to solve the crime will make him lose face. Working with her sometime partner Bill Smith, Lydia finds a connection between the shadowy underworld of the tongs (Chinese gangs) and the black market in stolen art, which leads in… Leer más