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N.Y.: Putnam 1991, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. His first book. CHICAGO. "This impressive mystery debut grabs attention with its opening chapter and never lets up. With both a penchant for trouble and the ability to handle it, Vietnam vet Cooper MacLeish, after completing college on the GI Bill, is drifting through life as a Chicago cab driver. Reading of the apparent suicide of a woman he'd been in love with during his college years, he decides to attend her funeral. Although she hadn't returned his feelings, the two had shared one night of passion. A simple calculation suggests that Cooper might be the father of her teenage son. The youth has disappeared following his mother's death but Cooper finds him, and his argument that his mother was murdered gains added weight when someone seems determined to kill him as well. Cooper eventually pinpoints a surprising… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Weidenfeld & Nicoloson, 1988. 1st edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Evelyn Wade's first call from Atlanta for American Opinion Research connects her with a young man in Chicago whose murder she then overhears. Action, excitement, and masterful suspense ensue. First novelist Sutton alternates between events in different locations and Atlanta, where Evelyn, an unlikely 72-year-old, cane-toting heroine, does what she can to help find a murderer. Low-life descriptions of Chicago abound, replete with nasty meanies involved in car theft, child pornography, drugs, and sex. The drug-crazed killer eventually kidnaps Evelyn and her 69-year-old friend Englander, but with surprising results. As protagonists in a new series, these sympathetic oldsters inhabit a region fraught with possibilities for further adventure." -- Library Journal. First Edition.… Leer más

N.Y.: Walker, 1991. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. "In order to get a claustrophobic reporter friend out of jail (he refuses to divulge sources, etc.), rugged p.i. Quint McCauley (Error in Judgment, 1990; Murder in Store, 1989) agrees to meet the ``Blue Fox,'' and decide for himself whether the activist/environmentalist is guilty of the murder of real-estate developer Leonard Novotny. There were many, it seems, who wanted him dead, including his chilly wife; his alcoholic, banished (for undisclosed reasons) son; his crooked, blackmailing business partner; and most of the membership of SOW (Save Our Wetlands). Meanwhile, someone's putting snakes in Quint's car; a state senator is killed; the Blue Fox is framed again; and tales of Novotny family incest emerge. When the showdown comes, some mob types move in, the current Blue Fox disappears, and Quint learns the identity of the original ``Fox.'' Sturdy, carefully worked-out plot,… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1994. 1st ed. top edge of pages dampstained very lightly else near fine in fine dust jacket. Third book in the Paul Whelan series of mysteries set in Chicago. Chicago private eye Paul Whelan is looking for some much-needed cash, when a cagey lawyer hires him to find a missing person. Sam Burwell was last seen running a booth at Maxwell Street's open-air flea market, a place where tires, tools, trinkets, and the odd treasure are sold alongside food of every ethnic description. Whelan's search leads nowhere until Burwell is found murdered, and the Chicago police take over the case. But Burwell's childhood friend, an elderly black man named O. C. Brown, asks Whelan to look into the murder. Returning to his favorite haunts - Chicago's streets, with a story on every corner and a new restaurant on every block - Whelan slowly enters an underworld of predators and scavengers, where a killer can hide in plain sight. Played out against a… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1986. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Tiny nick at top corner else fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. The third Nate Heller mystery, Chicago.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. While investigating a Chicago journalist's murder, Sergeant Terry Flynn and Detective Karen Kovac are pressured by sensation-mongering newspapers, the state attorney, a messianic Black group accused of the crime, and the Chicago political machine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in fine dust jacket, with a touch of soiling at edges, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The third novel in Gash's Edgar Award winning mystery series featuring Chicago Police Sergeant Terry Flynn and Detective Karen Kovac. While investigating a Chicago journalist's murder, Flynn and Kovac are pressured by sensation-mongering newspapers, the state attorney, a messianic Black group accused of the crime, and the Chicago political machine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Pocket Books, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in fine dust jacket. The sixth Jimmy Flannery title Jimmy is a sewer inspector and Democratic precinct captain in Chicago, Illinois. He was first introduced in paperback copy " The Junyard Dog " followed by a second paperback " The 600 Pound Gorilla -. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Schererville, IN, U.S.A.: Full Moon Publishing, 2000. 1st edition, April 2000, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. National Book of the Year Award for Best Mystery. SIGNED by the author at title page. The 2nd Sam Casey title. Detective Sergeant Samantha Casey is back after her debut in When the Dead Speak. Suspended from the force after her last case, Sam is having a difficult time adjusting to unemployment. But there are more unsettling changes in her life than unemployment. When a staunch opponent of gambling is found murdered on a riverboat casino, Sam is hired by the owners to clear them of any involvement. The suspect is believed to be an assassin known as "Sparrow". Authorities can only identify him by the tattoo on the back of his hand. The deceased is carrying $50,000 in counterfeit money. Sparrow soon realizes the fee he was paid is counterfeit. Sparrow is one man you don't want to cross.… Leer más

HOLT RINEHART WINSTON, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in fine dust jacket, with a touch of soiling at edges, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The third novel in Gash's Edgar Award winning mystery series featuring Chicago Police Sergeant Terry Flynn and Detective Karen Kovac. While investigating a Chicago journalist's murder, Flynn and Kovac are pressured by sensation-mongering newspapers, the state attorney, a messianic Black group accused of the crime, and the Chicago political machineChicago locale. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Walker, 1994. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Hunter is a playwright and this is his 1st novel. Chicago setting and theatrical background. "Meet Jeremy Ransom, a veteran homicide detective in Chicago who considers most of his partners "twits" and is currently rereading Dickens, a chapter or two of Bleak House while soaking in the tub at the end of the day. He sounds unlikely but is, in fact, the charmingly believable center of playwright Hunter's debut novel. Three recent, seemingly random murders are connected when elderly Emily Charters identifies the victims as fellow members of the audience at a performance of Love's Labour Lost at a small North Side storefront theater. Emily goes to the police with her observation, but only after more killings does Ransom finally believe that the audience must have witnessed something that incriminates the killer...Hunter achieves a… Leer más

NY, NY: Rinehart, 1984. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. First book by Granger as Gash. CHICAGO.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 2000. 1st edition, November 2000, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Jeremy Ransom and Emily Charters . For the inaugural performance at the newly opened Sheridan Center for the Performing Arts in Chicago, the organizers have brought in a much-discussed new staging of "Carmen". The performance goes off without a hitch--up until the climatic scene, when the actor playing don Jose dies onstage.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: Ivy, 1988. 1st Edition, September 1988. Reading creases, light wear else a near fine copy. Paperback Original. P.I. Robert Mills is hired by the Speaker of the House to investigate point-shaving, payoffs, drugs, bribery and murder at Lincoln Heritage University''s basketball program. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best Paperback Original of the year.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Carroll & Graf, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj with light scratch marks at rear panel. "Old murder, old men and a sleepy midwestern town whose French name suggests deep-rooted evil frame Reid's ( Big Sky Blues ) latest well-crafted mystery featuring retired Rozette, Mont., policeman Leo Banks. Sarah and Gerry Heyman, who were, respectively, Leo's major love and his best friend in college in the '60s, unexpectedly visit Rozette during a summer trip out West with their children. A few months later, Sarah calls to ask Leo to investigate Gerry's murder in the southern Illinois town of Mauvaisterre. Gerry, a doctor, was beaten to death while trying to clear the name of a patient, a slightly retarded man whom he believed was wrongly convicted for the murder of a local woman 50 years before. To solve Gerry's murder, Leo investigates the earlier killing and is thus drawn into a tangle of old small-town secrets as well as the emotional terrain of his youth. Best in this solid… Leer más

N.Y.: Ballantine Books, 1997. Stated first edition with number line ending in 1. Fine in dust jacket; publishers letter laid in. Dust jacket design is unusual at 3/4 length with a man's eyes staring over the shortened jacket. A terrorist attack on a military convoy leaves scores of soldiers dead as truck loads of highly volatile weapons fall into the hands of an ultra-right-wing militia. A frantic, snake-handling preacher known only as Brother Transgressor joins forces with the radical group, adding fuel to the fire. No one knows who this mysterious figure is or where he came from, but few can resist his ardent convictions-or see that his persuasive ways conceal his own dark secrets and sinister agenda'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Indiana: Full Moon Pub, 2002. 1st. Edition, October 2002, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Samantha (Sam) Casey, a Native American detective sergeant who can hear the dead speak, in Chasen Heights, Illinois, is featured in third title in this series. Advertising postcard laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in fine dust jacket. The ninth Jimmy Flannery title. Jimmy is a sewer inspector and Democratic precinct captain in Chicago, Illinois. He was first introduced in paperback copy " The Junyard Dog " followed by a second paperback " The 600 Pound Gorilla - see our inventory for both. couple of creases at front cover else near fine; Uncorrected Proof; wraps. Chicago locale. A Jimmy Flannery title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

St. Martin's, 1993. 1st ed, light soiling at page edges else near fine, decorated wraps. Advance uncorrected proof. A Father Dowling title. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1993. Book club edition, fine in dust jacket. light soiling at page edges else near fine, decorated wraps. Advance uncorrected proof. A Father Dowling title. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book Club.