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Vintage/Black Lizard, New York, 1992. 9th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, edge wear, slight price sticker residue on front cover, cover has light wear, price sticker on rear cover.Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?

Knopf, New York, 1985. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, very light sunning on edges. Advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Softcover.The middle book in the best selling trilogy that began with Berlin Game and ended with London Match. Bernard Samson is a spy for for British Intelligence, where he suspects there is a traitor leaking information. As he begins to investigate, he finds that people close to him may be involved...

Penguin, Toronto, 1992. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, light spine crease, light scuff mark on front cover.Anthony Burgess listed Robertson Davies' The Rebel Angels among the 99 best novels of our time and declared that Davies himself is "without doubt Nobel Prize material". With Murther & Walking Spirits Davies reconfirms his stature as an irresistibly erudite practitioner of the art of fiction. A man who is killed in the first sentence of the novel leads the reader on a tour of his afterlife.

Harlequin 77, Toronto, 1950. Condition: Very good, light edge wear, corner and spine creases, slight wear on rear cover, slight browning of interior pages, first 12 interior pages have slight tear at bottom edge.Pseudonym of Oscar J. Friend.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2004. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Comes in a felt-lined slipcase which has light bumping at corners. Signed and lettered edition, letter UU of 52 copies.Includes a hardcover chapbook, In the Shadow of the Master, also signed by Morrell.By the author of Rambo.In each of the stories in this collection there is a theme: obsession and determination. A character gets an idea in his head, a hook on his emotions, a need that has to be fulfilled, and he does everything possible to carry through, no matter how difficult. Written with the haunting emotional intensity and lightning pace that has made David Morrell the master of high-action suspense writing, this collection of stories will leave you dazzled.

Penguin, Toronto, 1990. First paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, slight scuffing towards bottom of front page, spine creasing, slight bowing.John le Carre's bestselling classic is a timeless spy thriller about the Iron Curtain and the tense relationship between Great Britain and Russia.John le Carré has earned worldwide acclaim with extraordinary spy novels, including The Russia House, an unequivocal classic. Navigating readers through the shadow worlds of international espionage with critical knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carré tracks the dark and devastating trail of a document that could profoundly alter the course of world events.In Moscow, a sheaf of military secrets changes hands. If it arrives at its destination, and if its import is understood, the consequences could be cataclysmic. Along the way it has an explosive impact on the lives of three people: a Soviet physicist burdened with secrets; a beautiful young Russian woman to whom the… Leer más

First Comics, Chicago, 1987. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and spine wear

Touchwood, Vancouver, 2009. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Silas Seaweed is back on the beat as the street-smart Coast Salish cop. A gardener is found dead and the prime suspects are two young local party girls. Silas is handed the case that soon takes a bloodier turn when a policeman's wife is killed. Silas begins to suspect that these murders and other events are related to the recent tide of gang-related crimes that has been sweeping British Columbia. Just as he draws closer to finding concrete evidence, Silas finds his own reputation in danger and is suspended from the police force. His quest to clear his name and find the killers leads him from Victoria's loud and steamy nightclubs and bars to the remote and quiet islands of Desolation Sound.The fifth mystery in this popular series, Seaweed in the Soup is a thrilling and suspenseful tale that skillfully combines a hard-boiled mystery narrative with the mythology of the Coast Salish.

Touchwood, Vancouver, 2008. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear.In this fourth mystery of the Seaweed series, Victoria neighbourhood cop Silas Seaweed is as always sensitive to his Coast Salish culture, but when he's confronted by a ten-foot-tall bear on a marsh on the city's outskirts, he suspects that this is no creature from the unknown world but someone out to con him. And Silas is right, but his attempts to unmask the bear lead him into a labyrinth of blackmail and murder. Along the way he investigates a homeless people's sit-in at Beacon Hill Park, a burglary in the office of hypnotherapist Dr. Lawrence Trew, and the barely legal world of small-time hood Titus Silverman. And whenever Silas is not busy finding corpses, he's on the lookout for a missing artist and two eight-year-old runaways.

Touchwood, Vancouver, 2007. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear.Coast Salish investigator Silas Seaweed is back in another suspenseful page-turner. What begins as a missing-person investigation takes a nasty turn when party girl Jane Colby is found drowned, strangulation marks around her neck. Silas soon discovers that some of Jane's friends would benefit by her death. Tackling the case with his usual intelligence, wit and compassion, he sets out to find Jane's killer. His search leads him to a dangerous family with disturbing secrets.Solving the case pulls him into Salish mythology and ritual, culminating in a terrifying underwater vision quest-one from which he may never return.

Touchwood, Vancouver, 2008. 2nd trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Pretensions, conspiracy, lies … all play a part in this riveting book that kicks off TouchWood Editions' new mystery series featuring Coast Salish investigator Silas Seaweed.A billionaire's daughter with an unsavoury past has mysteriously disappeared. Silas Seaweed, a savvy, street-smart investigator based in Victoria, B.C., is put on the case. His search for the young woman leads him on a trail of murder, greed and obsessive violence. Overcoming such obstacles as a pair of ruthless cocaine dealers, the murder of key witnesses and a failed attempt on his own life, Seaweed perseveres in his quest to bring a master criminal to justice, his journey taking him from the darker side of Victoria's downtown to Nevada's glittering casinos.Blending modern-day crime detection with age-old Coast Salish ritual, Seaweed on the Street is an absorbing, suspenseful page-turner with a pace that never lets up… Leer más

Touchwood, Vancouver, 2005. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Pretensions, conspiracy, lies … all play a part in this riveting book that kicks off TouchWood Editions' new mystery series featuring Coast Salish investigator Silas Seaweed.A billionaire's daughter with an unsavoury past has mysteriously disappeared. Silas Seaweed, a savvy, street-smart investigator based in Victoria, B.C., is put on the case. His search for the young woman leads him on a trail of murder, greed and obsessive violence. Overcoming such obstacles as a pair of ruthless cocaine dealers, the murder of key witnesses and a failed attempt on his own life, Seaweed perseveres in his quest to bring a master criminal to justice, his journey taking him from the darker side of Victoria's downtown to Nevada's glittering casinos.Blending modern-day crime detection with age-old Coast Salish ritual, Seaweed on the Street is an absorbing, suspenseful page-turner with a pace that never lets… Leer más

Harper, NY, 2022. 1st trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.A woman's seemingly perfect second marriage is rocked by a discovery about the death of her first husband in this twisty psychological thriller from Kate White, the New York Times bestselling author whom Entertainment Weekly called "impossible to outwit."Recovering from the unsolved murder of her first husband, Derrick, thirtysomething Emma Hawke has built a new life with Tom, a handsome, successful, and loving widower who finally makes her feel safe again.Then one day a police detective shows up at their house on the Connecticut shore, asking questions about Derrick's death. Emma was sure she'd been cleared in the days after the tragedy. So why is law enforcement taking another look now--and questioning the timing of her relationship with Tom? She hadn't even met him until after Derrick's death.Then Emma is shocked to discover that, in fact, she and her second husband attended the… Leer más

NBM Publishing, New York, 1988. 2nd printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Set against the background of a nightmarish 1950's crawling with communists, FBI agents, McCarthyites, flying saucers and sinister government organizations, The Silent Invasion weaves a complex story of mystery and fear as it details reporter Matt Sinkage's relentless pursuit of an apparent alien invasion of earth.

Faber, London, 1986. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine creases, light nicks at spine ends.This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with the plot of his atmospheric thriller to the point where fantasy and reality seem to exchange places. The result is the most painful and disturbing screen drama of the 1980s.

Grand Central Publishing, New York, 2019. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and spine wear, light corner bumping. Signed by the author.From the bestselling author of Girl Last Seen.Local police have announced that they're closing the investigation of the suspected drowning of 37-year-old painter Colleen Westcott. She disappeared on April 11, 2010, and her car was found parked near the waterfront in Cleveland two days later, but her body has never been found. The chief of police has stated that no concrete evidence of foul play has been discovered in the probe.I close the online search window, annoyed. These articles never have enough detail. They think my husband's first wife disappeared or they think she is dead. There's a big difference.My phone rings, jarring me away from my thoughts, and when I pick it up, it's an unknown number. The only answer to my slightly breathless hello is empty static.When the voice does finally come, it's female, low, muffled somehow.… Leer más

Harper, New York, 2018. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Good plus, book has edge and spine wear, light scuffing on cover.In this gripping debut procedural, a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep in her own family's past to solve a murder and a long-ago disappearance.Your father is a liar. But is he a killer?Even liars tell the truth... sometimes.Twenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she's never been able to banish these ghosts. When she's called to the scene of a murder in Islington, not far from the pub her estranged father still runs, she discovers that Alice Lapaine, a young housewife who didn't get out much, has been found strangled.Cat and her team immediately suspect Alice's husband, until she receives a mysterious phone call that links the victim to Maryanne Doyle, a teenage girl who went missing in Ireland eighteen years earlier. The call raises uneasy memories for… Leer más

Octopus Books, London, 1987. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps.Master of the macabre, creating haunting images of gothic horror unparalleled in sending shivers down the spine. This selection of his greatest tales includes such classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Murders in the rue Morgue, one of the first ever detective stories.

Viking, Toronto, 1986. First edition. Signed. Condition: Very good plus in a near fine dust jacket. Book has some writing at top of first interior page, previous price sticker residue, other wise a near fine copy. Signed by Findley on the title page.From the publisher: Canadian author's Edgar Award Winning Mystery; People chatting, eating, napping, children digging, swimming, yelling. And then, as the sun begins to sink, the people and activity slowly recede, leaving an empty beach, once hidden by the crowds, now revealed to have been violently murdered.

Simon & Schuster, Toronto, 2016. 3rd printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear, slightly bowed.Synopsis: Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo's desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong...