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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1993. First edition, December 1993, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. PI Eddie Dain undergoes a radical transformation. First met--a sunny, bookish and chess-playing computer whiz in northern California, delighted with his vibrant young wife and three-year-old son. However, Eddie's hubris and naivete lead to a brutal shoot-out, leaving him alone and, after extensive physical rehabilitation, coldly intent on revenge. With his body trained to a muscular machine, he uses his computer skills to become Travis Holt, an accountant in Las Vegas where he learns how to deal with the underside of the law. That task accomplished, he returns to San Francisco as Dain, a PI willing to undertake shady assignments, notably one for a scummy investment lawyer in Chicago caught in a bearer-bond scam. Although Dain renews his acquaintance with a rare book dealer and a cop… Leer más

NY: Harper, 1971. First edition, so stated. Slight soilong at edges, pages browning, previous owners nae at front endpaper, else VG+ in DJ, chipped at spine ends, couple of closed tears, not price clipped, $6.95 price intact. "Before he became a commodore in the Confederate Navy, Serena Hobart’s grandfather was a treasure hunter who combed the bottom of the sea in search of Spanish gold. In 1927, after her father dies, Serena wants nothing more than to be rid of Delys Hall, the commodore’s rambling old New Orleans mansion, which has been nicknamed "Deadly Hall”"because some pretty awful things have occurred there, including murder. When her relatives hear rumors that there may be gold hidden in the old house, they will stop at nothing to keep it in the family. Serena’s childhood friend Jeff Caldwell senses that Serena is in danger and wants to protect her. But there are many dark corners in Deadly Hall, maybe even ghosts, and certainly relatives who can… Leer más

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Ink X at inside rear cover else fine in fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, a couple of small creases, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. New Orleans - The 3rd P.I. Micah Dunn. "Indestructible, one-armed New Orleans p.i. Micah Dunn (The Caesar Clue, etc.) gets a case he'd rather not have--his friendly, homespun auto-mechanic Calvin Autry has been accused of molesting black teenager Arthur Augustine, and Calvin wants to know who's set him up and why. Micah starts by talking to the mechanic's garage landlord, Herman Villiere, who's into drugs and has dissipated an inherited fortune in record time; to Calvin's neighbor Virgil Bonchaud, who also knew his wife, Marie, before she ran off to California some years before; to the Augustine family's politically savvy minister Gabriel Condon and to Calvin's son Melville. Along the way Micah makes some… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 2001. 1st edition, June 2001, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Historical mystery set in 1830s New Orleans featuring Benjamin January, 5th in series. Impresario Lorenzo Belaggio has brought the first Italian opera--a magnificent version of Othello--to town. But who was it that tries to kill him and Benjamin outside the stage door as they come from rehersal?. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Hyperion, 1994. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Laid in is a Dixie City Bookmark. The latest Dave Robicheaux thriller offers a look at hate crimes as Dave confronts a neo-Nazi, becomes involved in a Mafia war, and deals with a Nazi submarine buried off the Louisiana coast. 367 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Miramax, 2000. 1st. Ed.with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The story of four high school friends in present-day New Orleans who are torn apart by envy, passion and a secret murder. Meredith, Brandon, Greg and Stephen quickly discover the fragile boundaries between friendship and betrayal as they enter high school and form new allegiances. Brandon and Greg gain popularity as football jocks and Meredith joins the bulimic in-crowd, while Stephen is treated as a outcast and is the target of homophobia in a school that viciously mocks him. Then two violent deaths disrupt the core of what they once shared. Five years later the friends are drawn back together as new facts about their mutual history are revealed and what was held to be a tragic accident is discovered to be murder. A the true story emerges, other secrets begin to unravel and the casual cruelties of high school develop into acts of… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker Publishing Co., 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. An ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. Fourth novel in the mystery series featuring New Orleans private eye Lew Griffin. Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Warner Books Inc, 1997. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A romantic suspense story set in New Orleans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1997. 1st edition, July 1977, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. First in series. Benjamin January, the free son of a slave, in New Orleans in 1833. "With this historical novel, Hambly departs from her usual work in the sf/fantasy genre... Her new work is set in 19th-century Louisiana Creole society, where it was customary for a man to have a wife and also to keep a mistress in her own house. Benjamin January, a free Creole with dark brown skin, has returned to this society after living in Paris for more than a decade. He is trained as a surgeon, but in Louisiana, he makes his living playing the piano. Soon he is the main suspect in the death of a wealthy man's young mistress, found murdered at a ball. January spends the rest of the book gathering evidence in his defense with the help of his sisters and a host of other colorful characters he encounters on the… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1999. 1st edition, July 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 3rd Benjamin January mystery. Set in 1834, the French Quarter of New Orleans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Fawcett, 1995. 1st edition, July 1995, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Fifth in Skip Langdon mystery series, set in New Orleans. "In her latest adventure, which manages to be both wickedly paced and haunting, New Orleans police detective Skip Langdon (last seen in New Orleans Beat) faces some of her darkest hours and comes of age. Arthur Hebert, a prominent restaurateur and domineering patriarch hated by his children, doesn't attend the opening of his restaurant in New Orleans' first casino-- because he's been gunned down at home while enjoying his usual Monday evening meal of red beans and rice. Hebert's daughter, his son-in-law and his baby granddaughter have vanished. In the race to find the killer and the missing family, Skip calls on the denizens of the New Orleans underworld: prostitutes who are good mothers; graduates of exclusive high schools who have hit rock bottom;… Leer más

New York: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st edition, June 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A long-buried corpse unearthed at the site of a 1970s New Orleans strip joint leads to additional murders in this engaging and improbable mystery, the third from the author of The Glory Hole Murders. In 1991, the dead body of a male hippie is discovered in an addition, constructed 20 years earlier, to the building that had then been Madame Julie's. Homicide Lt. Frank Washington enlists the aid of Margo Fortier, formerly a stripper named Cherry who is now a newspaper columnist and wife-of-convenience to socially prominent (and secretly gay) Julian Fortier. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Mysterious Press, 1986. 1st. Ed.with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The first entry in the acclaimed Whistler series. A SHAMUS NOMINEE.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st prtg. Issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Reading creases, light wear along edges else a very good, tight copy of this trade paperback. The 1st Whistler effort by the late and much missed author of fine mysteries set in L.A. and Chicago. A SHAMUS Award Nominee.. IST UK. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A nice, clean, and tight book. Lesbian detective Micky Knight agrees to help a friend's daughter, who is believed to have been sexually abused, a case that takes Knight from New Orleans' wealthiest environs to its poorest clubs, and into her own dark past.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Hewgill, Jody. Book.

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 2005. 1st edition, so stated with complete letter line beginning with A. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. In 1909 in the rowdy red-light district of Storyville, four players of the new music called "jass" have turned up dead. When Creole detective Valentin St. Cyt begins to investigate, he discovers that every one of the victims once played in the same band, and the only left alive has gone into hiding.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Fawcett, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj. SIGNED. New Orleans. "Everybody loved easygoing Hamson Brocato, producer of the successful New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but even so he ended up stabbed to death in his kitchen the night of his own JazzFest party. NOPD detective Skip Langdon, Smith's spunky heroine last seen in New Orleans Mourning, gets a ready-made suspect list from the victim's live-in lover, singing star Ti-Belle Thiebaud. Included are Ariel Bruge, Ham's assistant, apparently a woman scorned; his father George, enmeshed with family members in a bitter disagreement over the family's fast food ("Poor Boy's Po' Boys") chain; and Patty, the stepmother Ham was cool about. Skip notes the list's omissions: Ti-Belle herself (often heard arguing with Ham at the top of her powerful voice) and Melody, Ham's teenaged half-sister who vanished the same day Ham died. Skip doesn't miss much as she probes the victim's tangled relationships,… Leer más

NY: Dell, 1999. 1st ed. A near fine copy of this Paperback Original. New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet title. Both an EDGAR and ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE. The SIXTH subtle and humorous adventure in the Tubby Dubonnet series. When the D.A. himself sets you up, you know you're going down!. In Tony Dunbar’s books, New Orleans is The Big Sleazy squared. No one is safe, especially from their elected officials. Even if they are an elected official. It's a city of sin. And murder is only one of them.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Arbor, 1981. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Page edges lightly spotted else Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by Pronzini at title page. New Orleans . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 2nd ed. Page edges beginning to brown, elase near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. Author's first novel. INSCRIBED COPY. New Orleans setting.. Inscribed Copy. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.