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Presses de la cite, 1964. Paperback. GOOD+. 1964 reprint with pink cover. Tight, age tanned pages, age soiled covers, square. Reading creases on spine. Text in French.

Sevenoaks, UK: Coronet/Hoddard and Stoughton, 1991. (2nd impression - 1992). Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean, slight curl. Light spine crease and missing surface where price tag was removed on back cover. Owner's name. "Melissa Craig, a detective story writer, desperate for peace and quiet has bought and renovated a Cotswald Cottage...a series of wrong numbers...her neighbor discovers a corpse...Melissa turns her literary talents to real-life detection..." ISBN: 0340544155.

NY: Avon, 1996. ARC. Paperback. NEAR FINE. "A Matthew Scudder novel" Advance Reading copy. Tight, bright, clean, slight flare. Faint edgewear & faint spinal creases. ISBN: 0380720248.

Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, 1959. (stated 1st edition). Hardbound. GOOD+ / Very Good-. Tight, bright, clean, slight tilt. Stamps and light soil inside covers and on free page (front and back) - apparently ex-bookstore lending copy. Unclipped dust jacket is intact and clean but has slight edgewear and apparently was glued to inside of covers at some point. Black with turquoise lettering on spine. "the bookbinder in the Rue de Turenne has burned a body in his furnace..." 191 pages. Text in English.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. (1st Harcourt Brace edition). Hardbound. NEAR FINE / Fine. As new except for faint tilt. Blue quarter cloth with silver gilt title on spine. Unclipped, shiny as new dust jacket "The police knew him as Sad Freddie. The newspapers tagged him the burglar on a bike…" Text in English. 167 pages ISBN: 0151555729.

NY: Dell (#5218), 1964. Paperback. VERY GOOD. As new except for hinge crease on front cover and age-yellowed pages. "Lawrence Blakely...a conventional bachelor-lawyer..the sort of man thing just didn't happen to...in an ordinary Pullman car...involved with the police...trapped on a nightmare express.:

NY: Soho Press, 2009. (1st edition). Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! "A Dr. Siri Paibourn Mystery…Set in Laos…When the corpse of a rural beauty turns up in Dr. Siri's morgue, his curiosity is piqued…Siri learns that many women have been killed in this way and soon discovers that not only pretty maidens are at risk. Seventy-three-year-old coroners can be victims too..." ISBN: 9781569476543.

Stockholm, Sweden: Bokforlaget Prisma/Manpocket, 2002. Trade Paperback. GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean, tilted spine. Creased spine. Creased corner. One of George's most complex mysteries. Text in Swedish. 720 pages

Bern; Munchen; Wien: Scherz Krimi (#967), 1984. Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! "Scotland Yard ist ueberzeugt: Der Hexer - Meister aller Finten - is von den Toten auferstanden…"Text in German. ISBN: 3502509670.

(Limited Edition). Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE/Very Good. Signed and inscribed, #474 of limited edition of 1500. Tight, bright, clean. Faint curl to exterior corners of cover. Scratch on top edge of front cover. "riveting tale about the Arabian horse business during the high spirited 1980's…revolves around the moral and ethical issues of selling high-end horses for record prices..." This edition contains "Outtakes" keyed with ^^ to the text. 274 pages+, 9x6" (22.9x15cm). ISBN: 0970500416.

NY: Signet, 2002. (Uncorrected Proof). Trade Paperback. FINE. "Max Jaxon has it all: star power, a promising career, and two perfect lovers..But it all ends over the Colorado Rockies when a daring stunt goes tragically wrong. And what the camera captures is no accident." Appears unread. Tiny corner crease. Slight rubbing to spine edge. ISBN: 0451206746.

NY: Coward-McCann, 1971. (1st Amerivan edition). Hardbound. FINE/Near Fine. As new except for faint softening of top spine edge and faint soil to exposed cover edges. Unclipped DJ has faint rubbing and faint shelfwear to top and bottom edges. "It wasn't an ordinary Mafia killing. The weighted, waterlogged body that was fished from the canal had been severely tortured, and the lips were sewn together..."

NY: Random House, 1963. Hardbound. GOOD. Vintage ex-library in library binding with glued on front of dust jacket with expected markings, a perfect card pocket with card stamped for withdrawals from 1965 to 1969. Light wear and slight soil. Great reading copy with character (especially if you happen to be from Worcester). "The first new novel about Ellery and his father in five years."

Le Livre de Poche (#37102), 1992. Paperback. GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean and square but bottom corner of front cover is bumped and creased and there is a light reading crease on the spine."Un tueur en serie seme la terreur a Londres. Parce que sa premiere victime a ete retrouvee dans Wolf Street (rue de Loup), parce qu'il laisse une morsure sur le ventre des femmes qu'il assassine, la presse l'a baptisé le Loup-Garou." ISBN: 9782253101048.

NY: HarperCollins, 2004. Audio book. NEAR FINE. Unabridged - 16 CDs in box with minor corner wear. Running time: 18.5 hours. Read by: George Wilson. "In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology...In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased...And in Tokyo, and intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means..." ISBN: 0060786019.

NY: Bantam, 1996. (1st thus). Paperback. NEAR FINE. "Leslie Wetzon is dusting off her tap shoes for a good cause, a benefit revival of the landmark Broadway musical, Combinations." As new except for faint spine crease and tiny edgewear." ISBN: 0553569767.

Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, 2003. Signed. Trade Paperback. GOOD. Tight, bright, clean, curled and tilted. Gift inscription signed by author. 30 pages with water stain, 1 page with markings. Based on The Cuckoo Clock, mystery set in Westport, CT. ISBN: 1410784770.

NY: St. Martin's Minataur, 2001. (1st edition). Hardbound. NEAR FINE/Near Fine. As new except for slight softening of spine ends. Unclipped DJ has faint edgwear, a creased corner on the inside flap and adhesive remnants on exterior. An occasional parishioner struck down by a speeding car - Is it an accident? Two newly social retirees from the new Senior Center come to blows - "and the repercussions are deadly. ISBN: 031226948X.

Paris, France: Piccolo / Liana Levy, 2003. (2nd printing). Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for faint shelfwear to exterior edges. A mystery intertwining the art and police of Venice. Text in French. ISBN: 9782867463891.

Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press/ Houghton Mifflin, ©1958. Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for faint rubbing to covers and sunned spine. A story of suspense, based on an actual murder. Text in German with German/English vocabulary and notes in English. 140 pages.