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NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. 1st edition. Small bump at rear, light wear along edges else near fine in rubbed dust jacket, $2.95 price intact, chipped at head and foot, soiled at rear. Horse racing at Saratoga. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. 1st edition. Small bump at rear, light wear along edges else near fine in rubbed dust jacket, $2.95 price intact, chipped at head and foot, soiled at rear. Horse racing at Saratoga. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1991. paperback original; reading crease, light wear along edges else near fine. Horses. The 2nd Dewey James title. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

Briarcliff Manor, NY: Stein and Day, 1986. 1st. ed. Page edges lightly dusty else about fine in dust jacket, spine sunned and white covers lightly soiled. . Author's 1st book. " Black Sgt. Winston Hope is the most competent police officer on the Caribbean island of Antigua. His brother-in-law, Ernest Wilson, is a petty hotel thief who perpetrates too fortuitous a heist and is later murdered, Mafia-style, in New York City. Suspecting a drug connection, Antiguan authorities assign Hope to unravel the crime. Hope stumbles on the truth that neither drugs nor Mafia colluded in Wilson's death: Wilson had lifted the attache case of a master terrorist whose IRA cohorts plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth on Derby Day at Epsom Downs. The terrorists have already insinuated themselves in the paddocks among the retinue of trainers who attend Noble Lord, the Derby favorite. In his first novel, Lauder dispenses intriguing information about both steeplechase racing and terrorist practices..." --… Leer más

N.Y.: Henry Holt & Co, 1994. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by author at title page. "The good news is that Shifty Lou Anderson, the professional magician with nearly a second career in horseracing, is back (after We're Off to See the Killer). Upon seeing tall, redheaded Megan Starbuck at Hollywood Park, the immediately smitten Lou wangles an introduction. The daughter of a semi-retired horse-trainer, Meg works PR for Wayne Copeland, near-legendary movie cowboy who heads America One, a right-wing group that seems intent on grabbing for their leader the 1996 Republican presidential nomination. Meg's sudden disappearances continually interrupt her affair with Lou, to whom she finally admits that she's undercover for the FBI. After Copeland's retiring, alcoholic wife is murdered, Lou noses around and Meg warns him off. Then rumors circulate… Leer más

NY,NY: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992. Book club edition, FINE/NEAR FINE DJ, shows minimal wear. Features Damon Runyon, Edgar Wallace, John Welcome, Dck Francis, Colin Davy, Maurice Gee et al.... Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book Club.

N.Y.: St. Martin 1988, 1988. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Private eye Nick Polo of Kennealy's Polo, Solo and Polo, Anyone is based on the author's career as a private detective in San Francisco. Matching the previous thrillers in ingenuity and atmosphere, the new novel also challenges the reader's tolerance for unspeakable acts, mercilessly detailed. Polo recounts his investigation into the murder of an old tout named Johnny, at the race track, a crime that leads the police to suspect both the detective and his Uncle Dominic, aka "Pee Wee," a bookie who had Johnny on his payroll. Polo questions a succession of people whose muddled stories drive him into detours and dead ends before the faceless criminals claim a third victim. When they trap Polo, the scene becomes so inhumanely degrading that one has to shut the mind to it. As a result, the guilty party's fate, though… Leer más

London: Michael Joseph, 1980. 1st ed. Page edges lightly discolored, slight spine slant else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, £5.95 intact. GOLD DAGGER AWARD Finalist.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

Kent Town, SA, Australia: Wakefield Crime Classic, 1993. 1st. Ed. Trade paperback, Wakefield Crime Classic #5. Afterword by series eds. Michael Tolley & Peter Moss. (originally published 1924). No US edition. AS NEW. "Anyone with money is a god, anywhere. Here, you may be the biggest, vilest, ugliest, most diseased blackguard in the state, but if there's cash behind you, you're respected." John Archibald Cups is a bitter young man. Falsely accused of embezzlement by his banking employers, he's turned against respectable Adelaide, where the hypocrisy of the racecourse rules. Protected by his false face, false identities, and false fortune, he's racing to out-jockey the hounds of the law. "The Secret of the Garden" is a reckless outlaw's tale, and another great addition to the Wakefield Crime Classics series.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Illus. by Singleton, Cameron. Book.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 1974. First edition: . Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with sunning to top edge of boards and cocked spine, jacket has general wear, shows a few nicks along the top of jacket, not price clipped, $5.95 intact. GOLD DAGGER AWARD FINALST for Best Novel. Set in Norway where David Cleveland , official investigator for The English Jockey Club is sent to help his friend Arne Kristiansen investigate the disappearance of a British steeplechase jockey from the track with the day's take. Norwegians are fond of English jockeys, but not when they turn out to be thieves.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

NY: Harper & Row, 1972. 1st U.S. edition. two light stains at rear endpaper, previous owners blind stamp at half-title page else near fine in dust jacket, unclipped, $5.95 price intact, with a touch of shelf wear to extemities. GOLD DAGGER AWARD Finalist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Portland:OR: USA: Floating Word Press, LLC, 2008. 1st edition, Trade Paperback Original. A fine, unread, as new copy with publishers informational slips laid in. The female corpse snagged along the Mississippi riverbank wasn’t the only life that washed ashore that year. Throughout the South, Hurricane Katrina had inflicted death and destruction as quickly as a serpent’s strike. In this third Jack Vu mystery, Air Force Investigator Jack Vu finds himself displaced by Katrina, along with countless others. He has lost his home, a boat christened “The Arctic Wing", which had provided him solitude and solace on the water, much like the Mekong Delta of his youth. Forced to now live in an overcrowded barracks, Jack actually looks forward to investigating the apparent suicide of a female Air Force officer in Louisville, Kentucky because it affords him a clean private hotel room. One death soon becomes two, and Vu finds himself partnered with Big Easy cops Dorene Gates and Bruce Hill,… Leer más

London: UK: Michael Joseph, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Francis thriller set in the world of racing.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: UK: Michael Joseph, 1981. 1st ed. Rear endpaper and flaps lightly spotted, top of page edges age-toned else near fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Bristol: England: Scorpion Press, 1994. First Edition. LIMITED EDITION. One of only 99 numbered copies (this being #77) SIGNED by Francis. Appreciation by H.R.F. Keating. Bound in green quarter-leather with marbled paper-covered boards. Titles stamped in gilt at spine with green topstain. A fine unread copy in acetate dust jacket as issued. "For his 33rd-and quite splendid-novel, Francis (Decider) adds to his usual horse-racing setting a backdrop involving feature filmmaking. As usual, though, it's murder most foul and mayhem most brilliant for this English master. In the Suffolk city of Newmarket, Thomas Lyon is for the first time directing a film featuring an American megastar. Based on a bestselling book, the movie concerns a still unexplained, 26-year-old death by hanging of a young horse trainer's wife. The wife's sister, niece and nephew are vehemently opposed to the film, while the book's author, who's also the screenwriter, is opposed to any changes in his… Leer más

Bristol: England: Scorpion Press, 1994. First Edition. LETTERED EDITION. One of only 20 lettered copies (this being " K ") SIGNED by both FRANCIS and by H.R.F. KEATING, who wrote the Appreciation. 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 obtaining the signatures and overall desirability of the volumes." Bound in green goatskin with marbled paper-covered boards. Titles stamped in gilt with… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 4th PI Mark Renzler book. A hardboiled mystery set at the Garden State Downs, a seedy North Jersey racetrack populated by nasy ex-cons, sexy ex-wives, jealous rival handicappers, and crooked cops and politicians--along with the average confused civilians.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.