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NY: Mysterious Press, 1986. 1st edition, October 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author at title page. British cozy. "The Nick and Nora Charles of the church set, lawyer David Middleton-Brown and artist Lucy Kingsley star in Charles's fifth Book of Psalms mystery (A Dead Man Out of Mind, etc.). Walston is a "small, rather undistinguished Norfolk village" whose landscape is dominated by the spire of the magnificent church of St. Michael and All Angels. Apparently, it's only the landscape that the church dominates, for the inhabitants practice most of the deadly sins and a few that are just plain annoying. First, there's the less than warm welcome given the new minister, earnest and sensitive Stephen Thorncroft, by his new parishioners, and the overly heated one his young bride Becca endures from an obscene phone caller. Enid Bletsoe raises busybodyness to a murderous… Leer más

St. Martins, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's, 1996. 1st edition, March 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Murder at the Philadelphia Flower Show. SIGNED COPY..For successfully delivering her mother’s friend, fierce competitor Iffy Bigelow, to the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show in time to perfect that day’s entries, Ginger Barnes and mother Cynthia are rewarded with Iffy’s extra maintenance passes. Unfortunately, while they roam the amazing displays with elbow room to spare, Iffy is in a storage room behind the Tastee Freeze booth getting strangled with her own scarf. The remaining Grand Prize contenders seem relieved to have lost their toughest rival, but surely they aren’t all murder suspects! What about Iffy’s husband? The police favor the victim’s mentally unstable niece for the crime, but Gin’s mother will have none of it.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2005. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. The Golden Age of detective fiction was known for elaborate plots. This may well be the most ingenious one of them all. Emma Betony was content to live out her remaining years in a home for decayed gentlewomen when she receives an urgent appeal for help from a former student. Grace Aram is running Makeways, a struggling boarding school for girls, newly relocated in a former nursing home in Dorset far from the falling German bombs. But Grace isn't interested in Miss Betony's teaching skills. She needs someone she can trust to expose the culprit behind a series of troubling events, induding the possible poisoning of one of the two remaining nursing paitents. What Miss Betony finds is an overwhehning sense of fear on the part of the Makeways' inhabitants. Miss Betony follows a series of clues that eventually lead her to The Great Arnbrosio, a charismatic, extremely handsome fortune… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 1st edition, February 1990, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. An AMERICAN MYSTERY AWARD WINNER for Best Traditional Mystery . A SIGNED business card of MacLeod's laid in. When detective Sarah Kelling's aunt finds her life in danger on Pocapuk Island, to which she retreated for relaxation, she summons Sarah and her detective husband Max Bittersohn to help track a murderer. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

St. Martin's, 2001. Winner of the St. Martin's/ Malice domestic Award for Best first Mystery. Orkney Islands, Scotland. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2001. 1st prt., a fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Once again, sheila Pim paints a vivid and affectionate portrait of life in a small Irish town in this 1952 novel as death strikes beekeeper Jason Pendergast. Jason Prendergast built his fortune taking minerals from the earth near the Irish town of Drumclash, but bees became the real passion of his life once the mines gave up the last of their riches. When he dies after dining on honey from one of his own hives, village beekeepers suspect local bees are feasting on poisonous plants and infecting hives with deadly nectar. But the Civic Guard prefers to look for a human hand and suspicion falls on Phoebe Prendergast, a niece who gave up a promising career on the stage to look after the old man. The dead man's solicitor can't believe in Phoebe's guilt and conceals from the police the fact that the old man was about to add a codicil to his will disinheriting her should she return to the stage --… Leer más

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2002. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy. Introduction by Tom & Enid Schantz. This marvelously funny and utterly charming tale of three children who "help" their widowed mystery writer mother solve a real-life murder and nab a handsome cop husband along the way made just about every list of the best mysteries for the first half of the 20th century, including 'Haycraft-Queen' and James Sandoe's 'Readers Guide To Crime'.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

NY: Avon Twilight, 2000. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. 14 stories with one, "Nothing To Lose" by Robert Barnard being NOMINATED for an AGATHA AWARD for Best Short Story of the Year and two winning awards--"The Man in The Civil Suit" by Jan Burke WON the AGATHA AWARD for Best short Story while "The Man Who Never Was" by Charles Todd WON the HERODOTUS AWARD for Best Historical Short Story.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. New. Paperback Original.

NY: Avon Twilight, 2000. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. 14 stories with one, "Nothing To Lose" by Robert Barnard being Nominated for an AGATHA AWARD for Best Short Story of the Year and two winning awards--"The Man in The Civil Suit" by Jan Burke Won the AGATHA AWARD for Best short Story while "The Man Who Never Was" by Charles Todd Won the HERODOTUS AWARD for Best Historical Short Story.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2003. 1st prtg (originally printed in 1945 in England as Green December fills the Graveyard). A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Flikka Ashley and her outspoken Aunt Bee Chattock live in the ruins of a formerly great manor house called Shots Hall. thirty-six-year-old Flikka brings in some money as a sculptor, but so far her talent far exceeds her commissions. When Molly Pritchard, an old family retainer, is murdered, a loathsome local policemean--whose attentions were spurned by Flik--sets out to measure her neck for a noose. Scotland Yard's Lane Parry doesn't think Flikka is guilty, but has to admit that she is doing little to prove her innocence.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Three successful young women, Edwina, Cassie and Alice form an inseparable trio, but a series of violent and ominous occurences force them to share the experience of being murder suspects. English village.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Signet, 1999. 1st ed. Page edges age-toned else near fine. Paperback Original. Colorodo. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

NY: Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st ed, with complete number line beginning with 1. . Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Sara Kelling title set at the Wilkins Museum.."The latest in MacLeod's series of Sarah and Max Kelling mysteries more than meets the standards of her earlier works, filled as ever with touches of comedy, eccentric characters, and mild suspense, all in a neatly depicted Bostonian setting. Left on her own, while her art-detective spouse Max Kelling is in Argentina on a job, Sarah holds down the office, nearly gets herself killed, secures child care for her son (whose nurse is ill), probates an estate, and solves the murder of the woman who named Sarah her executor. Sarah is impressively competent, but she is aided by her houseman/butler Charles and a local police detective, both of whom are wise to the adventures that beset the Kelling family. MacLeod's tendency to restate the case, via Sarah updating relatives and police… Leer más

N.Y.: Walker and Company, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Country mansion in American Midwest at Christmas, isolated by a snowstorm. 4th Peter and Kori Brichter mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Walker, 1992. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Vivid characters and romance dominate this charming mystery (the first in a projected series) set in a retirement home in Norman, Oklahoma. Single mother Laura Michaels, studying for her master's degree in social work and making a living as assistant manager of the Timberdale Retirement Center, is dismayed when she finds resident Cora Chandler dead in her apartment. Although Cora had been very sick, little things bother Laura, such as the lingering smell of cigarette smoke in the non-smoking woman's bedroom and the overpowering odor of Ben-Gay in the living room. Handsome deputy sheriff Aaron Lassiter decides that Cora died of natural causes, but Laura feels she must use her group sessions with various residents to find out if the dead woman had any enemies or if there might have been reasons for killing her. Laura gets a threatening note… Leer más

Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2004. 1st prtg. A fine , unread copy of this trade paperback. Inspector Oscar Piper was off on a junket to Mexico in the summer of 1937 (surrounded by a bunch of Democrats, huffed Miss Withers) when a customs inspector on a train headed for Mexico City sniffs a very potent bottle of cheap perfume and promptly drops dead. Quite naturally, Oscar telegraphs Hildegarde in Manhattan about the perfume and quite naturally Miss Withers packs her bags and heads south of the border, figuring Oscar is out of his depth if he has to rely on deductive reasoning rather than a rubber hose. Why any of the occupants of the train should want to kill a harmless Mexican customs inspector is so puzzling that everyone assumes that the real intended victim is a self-made rich American woman who seemingly has rededicated her life to shopping. Her husband ought to be the prime suspect but he seems devoted to her, although he was spotted giving cash to a pretty young redhead when he… Leer más

NY, NY: The Mysterious Press, 1988. First edition, so stated, January 1988 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "As funny and exciting as The Palace Guard and The Bilbao Looking Glass, MacLeod's new novel features Sarah and Max Bittersohn sleuthing again. Sarah's Brahmin but rather improper Bostonian kin, the Kellings, ask for the couple's help when Dolph and Mary Kelling's Senior Citizens' Recycling Center is in danger. One of the street people supported by the Center is killed and scandal threatens when Max finds heroin in the victim's distinctive tote bag, which has been provided by the Kellings for the cans that the elderly collect for recycling. There is a hilarious scene as Max and Sarah (now heavily pregnant) join gypsy cousin Theonia and other relatives, all in disguise, as they in spy on suspects in the Boston Public Gardens. Later, the villain strikes again, at an auction to benefit… Leer más

Wichita, KS: St. Kitts Press, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A cozy set in a country mansion featuring Manziuk and Ryan. Toronto setting. Author's first mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

St. Martin's, 2001. 1st ed. fine in dj, a couple of very light scratches at rear panel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.