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N.Y.: Ballantine, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. McCrumb's acclaimed sequel to MISSING SUSAN. Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson heads to Danville, Virginia, to save her brother Bill--a novice lawyer--from a charge that could send him to prison. It seems that eight women, the daughters of Confederate veterans, had asked Bill to sell their antebellum mansion. But the real estate deal is the cover for a calculated deception. As Bill finds himself facing fraud charges, his clients suddenly disappear without a trace. It will fall to Elizabeth to follow a twisted trail of bitterness and resentment--one that leads to a Civil War secret that may be the key to the ugly truth..... 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Putnam, 1998. 1st ed. Light soiling at page edges else near fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

NY: Putnam, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Judy Hammer title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Hyperion, 2008. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. Debut novel by Fuller (screenwriter for 25 years). The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything-- punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even death -- to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life. Three Publicity sheets laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998. 1st ed. lightly soiled at page edges else near fine in lightly worn dj. A Southern mystery by one of the South's great underappreciated writers, WINNER of the 1999 HAMMETT AWARD. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Putnam, 1997. 1st ed. Top edge of front end paper clipped, else fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Richmond: VA: Pussycat Press, 1998. First edition, with number line beginning with 1. A fine copy of Oversize trade paperback original. SIGNED by the author. Racy and brilliant, The Virginia Ghost Murders invents a whole new category of mystery, where the spirits of the dead play an eerie and at times terrifying role. The pursuit of crime amidst the occult is the special talent of the unforgettable Amanda Poe, a strange and beautiful detective who is a mystery in her own right. Ghosts and gunfights, torture and murder, kinky sex and corruption, are all in plenty as The Virginia Ghost Murders deftly moves back in time between serial killings in present-day Virginia, and the crimes of the slave-owning South before the Civil War. Scary, instructive, and titillating, The Virginia Ghost Murders merges crime with both history and the world beyond, even taking us to a personal meeting with the famous Edgar Allan Poe himself.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st edition, July 1987, with complete number line beginning with 1. Slightly dusty top page edges else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The final twist may be a tad cute but Horning (Foul Shot) has written a first-rate thriller. When taciturn stranger Scott Craik appears in tiny Brawlton, Va., things start to happen. Although Craik wants only to be left alone to work crabbing in Chesapeake Bay, he soon must deal with a crooked sheriff, a couple of vicious deputies, a knife-crazy local, teenage toughs and an infatuated girl. The girl's uncle, "the Judge," is boss of the small county and is smuggling guns, but only for the "right people." Colombian drug dealers are planning to take over the Judge's operation for their more lucrative trade. Craik is caught up in this whirlpool, which is roiled further by the fact that the CIA is looking for him. Under another identity he was a… Leer más