Resultados de búsqueda: Mysteries from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

An Owl Book / Henry Holt & Company, 1985. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor cover wear, slight sun-fade to spine. Clean inside, save front end paper corner pencilled erasure.. Mantel, Richard (Cover design and illustration). 0 Mystery, set in Washington DC. The ambassador to the U.S. from a newly independent island republic, and his wife, throw a party for the diplomatic corps. Mavis (the wife) insults the Israeli ambassador and is quickly removed to her room. Her corpse is found there. Scotland Yard Chief Supt. Tibbett is called in to conduct a low key investigation.

New York.: American Mercury by arr. w/ The Dial Press., 1941. Unabridged.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Shelf wear but tight binding. 1-inch top spine chip. Lower spine qtr-inch tears. Spine tilt. Pages tanned.. Salter, George (Cover and Typography by).. 1 127 p. Mystery fiction: Scene opens near the Waldorf Towers, specifically at a Park Lane bar, with the narrator focused on a woman who reports she will be heading to Bermuda "soon" on the Empress. On cover, Saturday Review: "Tangled marital affairs of sultry beauty motivate plot that bubbles with zip and action".

South Yarmouth MA.: John Curley & Associates., 1982. Large type / large print.. Hard cover. Good. Ex-library. Library markings. Spine sun-fade.. 1 Trade paperback. 339 p. Audience: General/trade. Mystery fiction. Dan Fortune, the one-armed private eye, is hired to find a woman's grandfather. He does not want to be found. The woman disappears. There's a double-shooting, a gang of urban militants, some East European freedom fighters living in the past, and a shadowy killer.

Warner Books, 1990. 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing, very readable titles.. Kelley, Gary (Cover illustration by). 0 278p. "About the Author", last. Mystery: Hired to find a pricey painting, and in a community of art lovers, he found a story of wayward sex, an Arizona desert murder, and a vanished artist. And, a woman he cared about was missing, a man had bled to death 'neath a magnolia tree, a killer was on the loose.

Viking Books, 2001. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Initialed date and 2-word critique on first end paper. Slight shelf wear.. Rodger, George (Magnum Photos Jacket art by). 1 Black textured and blue smooth paper over boards, silver spine titles. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. Set in London, a last bomb site of World War II, a pub called the Blue Last, is excavated 50 years later, unearthing 2 skeletons. Was there a child survivor back then, or not? Also, there is a fresh corpse, son of the one-time owner of the pub, found shot in his house. His manuscript about the blitzkrieg is missing. With this, Grimes had authored 17 Richard Jury mystery fiction novels, 5 others, and a poetry volume.

Simon & Schuster, 2001. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket.. 1 Paper over boards. 432 p. Audience: General/trade. Mystery, sadistic computer hacker: 'Phate' infiltrates the cyberspace of Silicon Valley, and employees' lives, luring some to their deaths. With each successful target, Phate raises the bar. The California State Police Computer Crimes Division free jailed hacker Wyatt Gillette to help with the investigation.

Putnam Publishing Group, 2006. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. DJ back top has wrinkle and short tear (repaired) at flap foldover.. 1 Paper over boards. 306 p. Boston-based private investigator is hired to protect an up-and-coming starlet and finds some ugly truths beneath the gloss.

Pocket Star Books, 2005. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing, 2 lines. Minor edge soiling.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 469 p. Audience: General/trade. Bookseller mystery fiction: Former journalist reborn as a fiction writer and book dealer in Denver created Cliff Janeway, a former police detective reborn as a book dealer and working out of Denver. "The Bookman's Promise" is the 3rd Janeway excursion, following "Booked to Die" and "The Bookman's Wake", and itself followed by "The Sign of the Book". Janeway is a very comfortable character to be around, and he takes his own hits. We also learn something about the used and collectible book market.

Ontario, Canada.: Audio Language Studies., 1986. Audiobook cassette. Good. Vinyl and plastic box. Ex-library. Cassettes appear very good; book excellent; box library issue with info slipped into pockets, VG. Lib. labeling, discard, Fiske Free Lib, Claremont NH.. 1 157 p. 2-3-hr. cassette recording (2 cassettes) w/ transcript of text abridged from Dick Francis's 1985 mystery work. Large case; Wire spiral bound book, larger type. A champion steeplechase jockey defends his twin sister when her husband's career as a racehorse trainer is threastened by a spiteful newspaper campaign. It is unusual to find both the script and cassettes.

Pocket Books., 1994. First edition.. Mass-market paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Blemish inside top front, left, 1-inch.. Perini, Ben (Cover art by).. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. Mystery fiction: "Mess with Vinnie's girlfriend, he gets mad. Mess with his mother, he gets even".

New York.: Grosset & Dunlap by arr. w/ Doubleday, Doran., 1935. Author copyright.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Lower spine edge tear. Page blocks have slight surface damage. Clean interior.. 1 308 p. Red cloth over boards. Black titles, spine. 21 cm. Subtitle: "The munition-makers strike at the peace of the world". Capt Hugh North of the G-2, U.S. Army Intelligence, is a detective of high repute. Setting: Budapest at an international arms conference. The leader of the conference is murdered aboard a train in the suburbs. Fast-paced mystery and suspense novel.

Dell Publishing Company, 2005. 1st Dell printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light spine creasing.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 368 p. Audience: General/trade. Suspense, mystery, from the school of dark humor. Set in Los Angeles area, Andrew Kindler returns from the east coast and finds the hills are on fire, he must solve a murder, find the killer, and unravel a family's explosive secret. Themes of LAPD and star-studded fitness club, and Kindler's own past history as an arsonist.

Pocket Star Books, 2004. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Half-inch tear to right side cover, middle, same to next 4 leaves. Minor edge wear and spine crease.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. Based on the CBS-TV series set in Las Vegas. An estranged stepdaughter of a wealthy Las Vegas businessman hounds to police to reopen the investigation of her mother's death. The disinterred body is not the presumed victim. In a parallel story, a patient at a nursing home may not have died of natural causes.

Fawcett Books., 1995. First edition. First so stated.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Book and DJ as new. Book top page block lightly smudged.. 1 Cloth and paperover boards. 390 p. William Monk Novels (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. Mystery fiction historical novel. Set in London, Victorian England, a city of the rich and of the poor. Inspector William Monk meets a woman who pleads with him to find her missing husband. Is it possible he was killed by his troubled brother?

William Morrow & Company, 2001. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Condition impacted moderately by library discard status. Last endpaper missing, stamp on title page, label lower spine. Clean.. 0 Textured blue & lt blue paper over boards. 336 p. Parry's 3rd historical novel about the Civil War, he reaches beyond the familiar to present the spectrum of humanity, the good, bad and in between of a nation at war with itself. This tale, a single officer takes note of what others discount amidst nearby combat: 40 murdered slaves hang at a crossroads. He wants justice.

New York.: Berkley Medallion / Berkley Publishing., 1964. 8th printing this edition. X946. 60c on front & spine.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Near fine. Slight edge wear. Age toning.. 1 254 p. Mass-market paperback illustrated w/ Holmes hat, a prism, vase, iguana. Mystery Classics: 12 tales originally copyrighted by Doyle in 1927. Published by arrangement with the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Estates. Partial titles, most with prefix "The Adventure of": Illustrious Client; Blanched Soldier; Mazarin Stone; Three Gables; Sussex Vampire; Three Garridebs; Thor Bridge; Creeping Man; Lion's mane; Veiled Lodger; Shoscombe Old Place; Retired Colourman.

New York.: Grosset & Dunlap., 1934. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Normal age-toning to text pages. Minor production vertical "hump" to spine. Else fine, unmarked.. 1 296 p. Dark blue cloth over boards. Bold green titles. 19 cm. Audience: General/trade. Mystery fiction series featuring attorney Perry Mason. From the start, Mason is sparring with a woman as to whether she is a recent bride; secretary Della Street had observed her fingering her wedding ring. The woman had come to make inquiries "for a friend" about a husband who had been missing for more than 7 years following a small pontoon airplane accident in a lake.

New York.: The Macaulay Company., 1938. First edition. 1st U.S. printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Lower spine edge chip w/ fray. Lower corners have wear, one with tiny tooth marks. A tasty book for some. Clean interior. Tightly bound.. 1 256 p. Light olive green pebbled cloth over boards. Black spine titles. Mystery fiction in 3 "Book" Sections: The Ghost of Rufus Manners; The Whispering Man; The Cleverness of Mr. Budd. London setting. How does Mr. Al Sweetman maintain his expensive lifestyle?

New York.: Grosset & Dunlap by arr. w/ William Morrow & Co., 1947. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket trimmed top and bottom. End papers have glue residue.. Jacket art not credited.. 1 250 p. Red cloth over boards. Black spine, front titles. 19 cm. Illustrated jacket: sparsely-clad fan dancer behind a horse's head. Mystery Fiction. Two cars side-swipe each other in the middle of the desert. In the trunk of one, Perry Mason finds a fan-dancer's two fans and a pair of dancing shoes. In Gardner's mental teaser, clues are rapidly dropping.

New York.: William Morrow & Company / Curtis Publishing., 1954. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Wear to binding ends though tight. Soiling. to covers.. 1 Yellow cloth over boards. Red spine, front titles. 274 p. 20 cm. Listing at back: 18 Gardner titles. The author was marketed as "The King of the Mystery Field". Author's Foreword dedicated to Louis J Regan, M.D., LL.B. who specialized in "legal medicine".