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NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1992. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. David Robbins flies to Los Angeles, after reading of the murder of a friend and the kidnapping of her children.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Publishers notices laid-in. Eager to expand his reach, publisher Thurman Boucher paid an obscene amount of money for the Cambridge Daily Banner, a flyweight local paper. But when he ignores his side of the bargain and blue-pencils the masthead, he sends the former owner, Linda Cushing, down a road of depression that ends in death. Although the headlines indicate that it's a cut-and-dried suicide, one of Linda's life-long friends doesn't buy the story, and enlists Bethany to do some freestyle investigative reporting. A former college wrestler, Vietnam vet, and reluctant hero-for-hire, Bethany's always willing to go a few bouts for a good cause. Soon he body-presses his way into the newspaper arena, as Boucher's new right-hand man. As skilled at negotiation as he is at seduction, Boucher presides over an impressive media empire. His peers call him the Cobra, and his sexually voracious wife, Alison, is the… Leer más

NY,NY: William Morrow & Co, 1993. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. An Urbino Macintyre, American espatriate in Venice, tries to help the Contessa, when affairs of the heart attack a relative.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2002. 1st rd., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Jeremy Ransom, a homicide detective, and Emily Charters, his adopted grandmother, in Chicago, Illinois, are featured in the eight title in this series. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Berkley Pub Group, 2005. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. An intriguing mystery with a sharp, funny, gutsy heroine. Set in California. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Colorado: Write Way, 1999. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Dr. Thomas Purdue, a neurologist and antique music box collector-restorer, in New York City, is featured in HIS DEBUT title. Author has SIGNED and written a small message " with a friendly tip of ......... ' s fedora ". Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2008. 1st prtg (originally published in 1940). Fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. "It's up to Professor Westborough to find out who poisoned the advertising agent in full view of the dinner guests. Theocritus Lucius Westborough, the mild-mannered little historian who has made a name for himself solving impossible crimes, is summoned to the estate of Etienne LeDoux, founder of a world-famous perfumery conceived in the grand style of those in his native France and located in the beautiful Valle de Flores, California. It appears that somebody has tried to poison LeDoux in his own office and he engages Westborough (here going by the name of West) to unmask the would-be killer. But when murder does strike, it's not LeDoux but his advertising agent, Paul Michael Channaron, who is poisoned in plain view of several other guests, including Westborough, at his employer's dinner table. The obvious suspect is Derek Esterling, LeDoux's… Leer más

Culver City: CA: Luther Norris, 1973. 1st ed, 1st printing. front cover has a couple of small spots, very lightly soiled, staple bound in original pictorial stiff paper wraps with art by Frank Utpatel. Square and tight, . 40 pages, illustrated. Annual issue of small-press magazine devoted to August Derleth's fictional detective Solar Pons: . 1st Edition. Card Covers. Near Fine. Illus. by Utpatel, Frank. Magazine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Molly Bearpaw, investigator for the Native American Advocacy League, delves into the murder of a noted jurist when private passions and ancient politics collide at a weeklong celebration of Cherokee culture. Oklahoma. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st edition, April 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The redbird is the daughter of the Sun. And if she had been brought home safely, the people could have brought back their friends from the ghost country... The tale of the redbird explains the origin of death in Cherokee myth, and it is a story intricately woven into the rich fabric of this remarkable new Molly Bearpaw mystery. It is autumn in Oklahoma. The woods are strewn with hackberry leaves, and a chill is in the air. For Molly Bearpaw, an investigator for the Native American Advocacy League, it is a lovely time of year, while for her elderly grandmother, it is a time of foreboding. When a terrible crime is committed at the Cherokee National Museum, it fulfills the old woman's worst premonitions and plunges Molly into a struggle for the truth. At the museum, amidst looms and basket weavings, a… Leer más

NY,NY.: St Martins Press, 1991. 1st edition, July 1991, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Claire Malloy, small-town bookstore owner in Farberville, Arkansas, is featured in the sixth title in the series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 2004. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Max Freeman, a cop from Philly who shot and killed a 12 year-old, quit, and moved to the edge of the Florida Everglades, is featured in the third title in this series. The author's The Blue Edge of Midnight (2002) won the 2003 EDGAR AWARD for Best First Novel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY.: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Simon Shaw, a professor of history in Raleigh, North Carolina, is featured in the fifth book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. 1ST Ed.SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Jacket shows shelf wear, Book pages beginning to yellow, else tight and nice. The 5th Doc Adams adventure. Set on Cape Cod, MA. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.