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Minotaur/St. Martins, 2020. Condition: New.Inspector Gamache series
The 16th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. When his billionaire godfather is attacked, Gamache uncovers secrets hidden throughout Paris.

Putnam, New York, 6th hardcover printing. Condition: very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slight scuffing. No dust jacket.Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down's Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. The slightest of edge nicks on dust jacket else fine.From the publisher: When a private envoy of the queen and member of Lord Carmichael's discreet service goes missing, Balfour and Meriwether are asked to look into the affair. They will find a labyrinth of dreams, horrors from hell, prophecy, sexual perversion and an abandoned farmhouse on the moors outside Harrowmoor Sanitarium. The Earth itself will bare its secrets, and the Empire will tremble in the face of the hidden dangers they uncover, but the greatest peril is the one they brought with them. This is the first novella length work in the Balfour and Meriwether stories by Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated author Daniel Abraham.

Pyramid Books 523, New York, 1957. Condition: very good, light edge wear and faint corner creases, spine creasing and nicks, rear cover has creasing and nicks, slight yellowing of interior pages due to age.35 cent cover price leads me to believe this is the Canadian first edition thus scarce. Could also be the second edition due to the numbering.

Faber, London, 1988. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover, faint crease along top edge.Author of the play and television series The Singing Detective, Potter's novel Blackeyes is a stunning literary mystery set in the London fashion world.

Harlequin 262, 35 cent cover, Toronto, 1953. Condition: Very good minus, edge wear and creasing along top edge and spine, slight nicks at spine, small tear at bottom rear of spine,

Mcclelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2017. 4th printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and spine wear, corner bumps.London, 1885. In a city of fog and darkness, the notorious thief Edward Shade exists only as a ghost, a fabled con, a thief of other men's futures -- a man of smoke. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of a brutal detective, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead. His father died without ever tracing Shade; William, still reeling from his loss, is determined to drag the thief out of the shadows. Adam Foole is a gentleman without a past, haunted by a love affair ten years gone. When he receives a letter from his lost beloved, he returns to London in search of her; what he learns of her fate, and its connection to the man known as Shade, will force him to confront a grief he thought long-buried. What follows is a fog-enshrouded hunt through sewers, opium dens, drawing rooms, and seance halls. Above all, it is the story of the most… Leer más

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2016. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition; number 292 of 500 copies. Signed by both authors.Dana Roberts, renowned supernormal investigator hires on an eccentric assistant, Jana, to aid her in picturesque Italy to solve her most exciting and dangerous case yet. Romance and horror blend with blood and mystery as Dana's new assistant, the Watson to her Sherlock, uncover the awful truth about the legend of the bleeding wall, as old friendships change and new friendships blossom.

Knopf Doubleday, New York. 4th hardcover printing. Condition: Very good book in good dust jacket, books has light corner bumps, discoloration on page edges, dust jacket has edge wear and nicks, spine creasing and scuffing. Heavy book that may require additional postage.In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam… Leer más

Knopf, Toronto, 2014. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket; light edge wear and bumping at corners. Top edge has light creasing.From the beloved, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, a beautiful, suspense-filled novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a magical tale of intrigue, love and illusion.The Confabulist weaves together the life, loves and murder of the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, with the story of the man who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss, an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician's in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini's celebrity-driven life, as they did in his time: from the Romanov family soon to be assassinated, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the powerful heads of Scotland Yard, and the Spiritualists who would use whoever they could to establish their religion. A brilliant novel about fame and ambition, reality and illusion, and the ways that… Leer más

Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press, New York, 2021. First edition, advance reader's copy. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and spine wear.In the follow up to the critically acclaimed The Mountains Wild, Detective Maggie D''arcy tackles another intricate case that bridges Long Island and Ireland in A Distant Grave.Long Island homicide detective Maggie D''arcy and her teenage daughter, Lilly, are still recovering from the events of last fall when a strange new case demands Maggie''s attention. The body of an unidentified Irish national turns up in a wealthy Long Island beach community and with little to go on but the scars on his back, Maggie once again teams up with Garda detectives in Ireland to find out who the man was and what he was doing on Long Island. The strands of the mystery take Maggie to a quiet village in rural County Clare that''s full of secrets and introduce her to the world of humanitarian aid workers half a world away. And as she gets closer to the truth about the murder, what she… Leer más

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2016. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge nicks at corners. Deluxe hardcover edition.What do you do if the man you've vowed to kill dies before you can kill him?In college, Tom Holbrook worshiped Shasta DiMaio from afar, but she married the arrogant John Atwater - and Atwater eventually murdered her.All that's left for Tom uis revenge. He has devoted the rest of his life to finding Atwater and killing him - but when he finally finds him, Atwater is in a bag in the Los Angeles County morgue.How do you kill a man who has already died?

Eclipse Enterprises/Comics, New York, 1981. First edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear, tiny crease at bottom corner.Number 2.Includes art and stories by Michael Golden, Howard Cruse, Don McGregor, Billy Graham, Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers, Steve Gerber, Val Mayerik, Steve Leialoha, Trina Robins, Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty.

Ace Books D-19, New York, 1953. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and nicks, spine has light creasing and nicks, light yellowing of interior pages.

Harlequin 111, Toronto, 1952. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear, spine has very light nicks at ends, light wrinkling at rear cover, a really nice, fresh looking copy.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2013. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge nicks at corners. Deluxe hardcover edition."The conscious extraction of meaning from a procession of words is not, after all, the only way of interacting with a text, or with anything else in the world". A dealer in old books, lost books - books no-one knows even exist. A man who works for him, prizing meaning from places where it is deeply hidden. A book, at first unintelligible, but which begins to reveal its secrets in ways the translator could never have guessed. This is the story of The Gist, but that's only the beginning of the journey. Michael Marshall Smith's original novelette was then translated into French by Benoît Domis, before being rendered back into English by Nicholas Royle, who had no access to the original text or author during the process. All three versions are presented in this edition. The idea is to discover what happened during the process, how much the story changed… Leer más

Ace Double Novel D-185, New York, 1956. Condition: Good plus, light edge wear and small corner creases, spine has creasing and nicks, well-read books, slight yellowing of interior pages.

Ace Double Novel D-109, New York, 1955. Condition: Good plus, light edge wear and spine creasing, light nicks along spine, slight yellowing of interior pages.

Academy, Chicago, 1986. Presumed first printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, light soiling on covers, spine creases, well read.The locked room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime is committed under apparently impossible circumstances. Greenberg and Pronzini's novel is a collection of these "locked room mysteries," and is sure to entertain—and confound—its readers. Featuring John Dickson Carr, Pronzini, Clayton Rawson, and Edward D. Hoch.

Knopf, New York, 1985. ARC, first edition thus. Condition: Very good, corner creasing and some sunning on spine, slight wear on back. Advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Softcover.Concluding the best selling trilogy that began with Berlin Game and Mexico Set. 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...