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Aristides, Paris The Viper's Kiss: A Worldkrime Mystery
Intrigue Press 2001 1890768383 / 9781890768386 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - Price inside dustcover: $23.95 - ONLY writing/mark is previous owner's name stamp in book front - on blank page - Tight spine - Bright pages - 294 pages - One of the three premier releases in Intrigue’s new WorldKrime series, The Viper’s Kiss is a refreshing return to the hardboiled, masculine edge of detective fiction, as well as an exciting example of the international mystery. Middle-aged private eye Chrisostomos Zaras is given a break from chasing adulterers when a whiskey smuggler hires him to find a missing thief, along with a lost fortune. Leaving his native country of Greece for the tension-filled shores of Cyprus, Zaras immediately seeks out the island’s criminal network. Zaras’ only link to the nefarious underground operating in the town of Limassol is the beautiful and elusive Lena, secretary and mistress to the mob, whose motives, though plainly stated, he suspects are far more dubious. With the help of his taxi-driver sidekick, Nikitas, Zaras uncovers a plot involving Greek mobsters, drug trafficking, corrupt officials, and murderous Turks, with hidden agendas around every corner.
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Arnold, Margot The Cape Cod Conundrum: A Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery
Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A. Foul Play Pr 1992 0881502448 / 9780881502442 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $20.00 - Stated First Edition - ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's initials (tiny) in book front - on blank page - NO tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 224 pages - Back from Rome, their ninth frantic escapade mercifully ended, Penny and Sir Toby decide it's high time for a rest. When they get the chance to return to Cape Cod, the scene of their second misadventure, they can't resist. But they soon have a dead body on their hands, and a puzzle-within-a-puzzle to decipher as well.
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Arnote, Ralph Evil's Fancy
New York, New York, U.S.A. Forge 1996 0812538803 / 9780812538809 Mass Market Paperback Near-Fine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Very-nice, clean copy - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - 400 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Willy Hanson, cagey entertainment czar who's seen his share of danger, is in the game again. But this time he's not the quarry, he's the hunter. Willy won't rest until he finds his best friend's killer. Up against a female fatale whose turn-ons are kinky sex and murder, and whose partner is a sadistic killer who'd make Charles Manson proud, Willy's luck may have run out.
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Barnard, Robert At Death's Door
Charles Scribner's Sons 1988 068419001x / 9780684190013 First American Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Stated First U.S. Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 200 pages.
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Barre, Richard Blackheart Highway
New York, New York, U.S.A. Berkley Prime Crime 1999 0425169030 / 9780425169032 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $21.95 - Tight spine - Bright pages - 326 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Southern California P.I. Wil Hardesty is a man whose search for the truth always seems to draw him back into his own troubled past, a past shadowed by loss. Doc Whitney was a country music star whose career had just gone platinum when he was convicted for the brutal slayings of his wife and young daughters. Now twenty years later, their paths collide when Doc is paroled from prison and returns to California's hot, dusty Central Valley...where grudges die hard and the road leads to places best left unexplored. Through a maze of secrets and lies that threaten crash-and-burn with each passing moment, through switchbacks of twisted loyalties and grim betrayal, Wil must reconstruct a life, discover the real Doc Whitney, track down a killer. And, of course, survive...
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Barron, Stephanie Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery
Bantam Books 1997 0553575937 / 9780553575934 Mass Market Paperback Fine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. - Annotation Readers love her as an author, now they'll embrace her as the sleuth in Stephanie Barron's new mysteries. Not long after Jane Austen arrives at the estate of her friend, the Countess of Scargrave, her elderly husband, the Earl, succumbs to a mysterious illness. The widow then becomes the target of some sinister accusations. Jane attempts to get to the bottom of this complex puzzle, putting herself in the gravest jeopardy as she follows a trail of clues that leads all the way to the House of Lords. From the Publisher "I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull." To Jane Austen's surprise, her visit to the snowy Hertfordshire estate of young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, will be far from dull. She has scarcely arrived when the Earl - a gentleman of mature years - is felled by a mysterious ailment too agonizing and violent to credit to a fondness for claret and pudding. Scargrave's death seems a cruel blow of fate for Isobel, married but three months. Yet the bereaved widow soon finds that it's only the beginning of her misfortune ... as she receives a sinister missive accusing her and the Earl's nephew of adultery - and murder. Desperately afraid that the letter will expose her and Viscount Fitzroy Payne, for whom she bears a secret tendresse, to the worst sort of scandal, Isobel begs her friend Jane for help. Which is how Jane finds herself embroiled in an investigation that hinges on the motives of Scargrave Manor's guests. Still, Jane is troubled by memories of the Earl's tragic demise. And when the menacing letter writer is found bloodily dispatched, in circumstances that overwhelmingly incriminate Isobel and Lord Payne, Jane knows that there is no time to waste in discovering the truth. A missing locket, a monogrammed handkerchief, an ancestral ghost, and the deadly fruit of a tropical tree are among the markers of a trail that will lead all the way to the House of Lords and Newgate Prison - and may well place Jane's own person in the gravest jeopardy.
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Benson, Ben Broken Shield A Ralph Lindsey Mystery
The M.S. Mill Co. And William Morrow & Co. 1955 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Near-Fine Fair 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Dustcover shows wear & some tear - Book is in near-fine condition - No tears - Tight spine - Previous owner's name label in book front - on blank page (crossed out) - "Ben Benson's brilliantly accurate stories of the Massachusetts State Police have earned him world-wide acclaim. Here, in a fine new novel, Benson again stars his eager young rookie trooper, Ralph Lindsey."
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Black, Veronica Last Seen Wearing
St Martins Pr 1991 0312058888 / 9780312058883 First American Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Stated First U.S. Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $15.95. NO writing, marks or tear inside book. 175 pages. Pages show very-slight tanning.
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Bochco, Steven Death by Hollywood: A Novel (Advance Reading Copy)
Random House Inc 2003 1400061563 / 9781400061563 Trade Paperback Fine Advanced Reading Copy (ARC)
ADVANCE READING COPY - Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - "There used to be a writer by the name of Merle Miller, who wrote that people in Hollywood are always touching you - not because they like you, but because they want to see how soft you are before they eat you alive. So begins this novel by Steven Bochco, in which a down-on-his-luck screenwriter named Bobby Newman tries to turn a brutal murder into his next movie payday. One day, while spying on his Hollywood Hills neighbors through his $4,000 Bushnell XR90 electronic telescope, Bobby sees a beautiful socialite making love to a handsome Latin actor named Ramon. When their pillow talk takes a turn for the ugly, Bobby watches in horror as the woman bludgeons her lover to death with his own acting trophy. Deciding to write about it instead of reporting it to the cops, Bobby insinuates himself into Detective Dennis Farentino's murder investigation, forging an unusual friendship with the cop that turns out to be more complex than either of them had bargained for. Before long, Bobby has dragged the detective, his estranged wife, his lover, and his agent into a Hollywood funhouse hall of mirrors, where only the most manipulative player will survive.
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Cannell, Stephen J. The Plan
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. William Morrow 1995 0688140467 / 9780688140465 Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Price inside dustcover: $23.00 - Wheeler Cassidy, charming black sheep of a wealthy Beverly Hills family, has never done much with his life except play golf, drink, and seduce other men's wives. But after his politically connected brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous journey to find himself and the Chinese gangsters who murdered the only member of his family he ever really loved. Along the way, he teams up with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful African-American detective raised in South Central L.A. and now assigned to the LAPD's Asian Crimes Task Force. Together they face the violence and corruption that stretches from Hong Kong's most notorious criminal Triad to the highest reaches of the American government.
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Carlson, P.M. Gravestone
New York, NY, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 1993 067176974x / 9780671769741 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Murder in a quiet corner of southern Indiana serves to introduce Carlson's ( Bad Blood ) new sleuth, deputy sheriff Martine ``Marty'' Hopkins. Although Marty discovers a freshly dug grave with Klan marking and a mutilated corpse (the victim's genitals are stuffed in his mouth), the sheriff assigns her to a different ``project''--checking on the latest ravings of retired judge Hal Denton. The judge, plagued by a brain tumor and seizures, claims that his daughter, Phyllis, who disappeared eight years earlier when she was 13, is trying to kill him. His ramblings also mention a biologist named Wolfe whom Marty tracks down. The enigmatic Professor Wolfe, a woman whose interest is cave fauna, not petty matters of law enforcement (``I'm a scientist. I have other concerns.''), puts Marty on the trails of Phyllis and the Klan killers. The oracular Wolfe, in her role as dispenser of crucial clues, is a thoroughly objectionable character. Those who endure her, however, will enjoy the company of intelligent, down-to-earth Marty, as she struggles to balance the demands of her with the needs of her young daughter, her flighty, self-centered husband who dreams of making it big in broadcasting, and the problems of being a ``lady sheriff.'
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Caunitz, William J. Exceptional Clearance
New York, New York, U.S.A. Crown Pub 1991 0517584859 / 9780517584859 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. Price inside dustcover: $20.00. 308 pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. Annotation The international bestselling author of One Police Plaza and Black Sand presents "an exciting page-turner" (Chicago Tribune). NYPD Detective Lieutenant John Vinda is a man who believes that exceptional circumstances require exceptional actions. And he's willing to bend the law to break the case of a psychopath roaming the streets who's already killed three young women.
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Chabon, Michael The Final Solution: A Story Of Detection
United Kingdom Fourth Estate 2004 006076340X / 9780060763404 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Stated First U.S. Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $16.95. Illustrated. Tight spine, bright pages. No writing, marks or tears inside book. 131 pages. Synopsis In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story. In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his bookkeeping than his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance at once more prosaic and far more sinister? Though the solution to this last case may be beyond even the reach of the once famed sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed to the reader in a wrenching resolution to this brilliant homage. The Final Solution is a work from a master story-teller at the height of his powers.
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Chandler, Raymond; Parker, Robert B. Poodle Springs
Putnam Pub Group 1989 0399134824 / 9780399134821 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Kiefer, Alfons (cover art)
Near-new condition - Appears unread - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $18.95 - Number line: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - 268 pages - When Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he left behind the first four chapters of a new Philip Marlowe thriller. Now three decades later, Robert B. Parker, the bestselling creator of the Spenser detective novels, has completed POODLE SPRINGS in a full-length masterpiece of criminal passion. Philip Marlowe is alive and well and livig in Poodle Springs, California. He's married to a wealthy heiress now. But living in the lap of luxury hasn't made a dent in Marlowe's cynicism - or in his talent for attracting trouble. Soon he's on a trail of greed, lust, and murder as dark and cunning as any he's ever seen. Philip Marlowe is back in business.
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Chang, Leonard Underkill: An Allen Choice Novel
New York, New York, U.S.A. Minotaur Books / St. Martin's 2003 0312308434 / 9780312308438 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Like-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 309 pages. Synopsis: Edgy and as engrossing as Leonard Chang’s acclaimed debut crime novel Over the Shoulder, Underkill finds Korean American investigator Allen Choice on a case that becomes as much a personal journey as an exploration of murder and its harrowing consequences. Two years have passed since Allen examined his late partner's death in San Francisco, which eventually exposed secrets about the death of Allen's immigrant father twenty years earlier, with the help of journalist and girlfriend Linda Maldonado. Now Allen follows Linda down to Los Angeles and into the unfamiliar world of illegal raves and small-time drug dealers to uncover the details of her brother's unexpected and suspicious death, hoping to repair their deteriorating relationship and aiding her as she once helped him. Underkill is a dark and riveting look at the mysteries of families and relationships, and delves deeply into Allen’s complicated interior life. With Allen Choice in this new series, Chang is skillfully creating an unforgettable and unique character in the world of noir.
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Charles, Kate A Dead Man Out Of Mind
The Mysterious Press Warner Brothers 1994 0892965851 / 9780892965854 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
St. Margaret's, a church in Pimlico, is not quite top drawer. It no longer rates a full-time priest and is making do with a curate, the beloved Father Julian. When he is found with his head bashed in and his sacristy ransacked, the London police call it a fatally bungled burglary. Soon he and a stolen silver chalice pass from nearly everyone's mind. Then the new curate arrives - and turns out to be a woman. And the Victorian silver church service - of which the stolen chalice is a part - turns out to be worth a king's fortune. Hired to arrange the sale of the St. Margaret's silver, David Middleton-Brown is plunged into a malicious atmosphere of anti-feminist politics, nasty rumors, and deadly suspicions. Add to this Lucy's teenage niece, Ruth, a red-haired Rottweiler of a girl who is living with Lucy and doing a stint in David's office as a school project. When the mayhem at St. Margaret's escalates with two more killings and the poisoning of a pet cat, Ruth decides to play detective. But murder is not a game, and St. Margaret's is no place for a schoolgirl. David and Lucy realize a ruthless murderer lurks among the smarmy clergy and irate parishioners. To uncover the culprit before Ruth becomes the next victim, they must go back to the genesis of it all: the dead man out of mind, Father Julian - and a lethal liturgy of greed, secrets, and twisted love.
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Clark, Mary Higgins My Gal Sunday Stories Featuring Her New Husband-and-Wife Team of Sleuths
Simon & Schuster 1996 0684832291 / 9780684832296 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly - a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team of sleuths - and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their friends in political high society. When Henry's former secretary of state is indicted for the murder of his mistress, Henry and Sunday suspect he is taking the fall for a crime of passion he did not commit. But why? With cases ranging from a crime on the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry back to the White House as he races against time to unravel the plot, there is never a dull moment for the ex-president and his bride - or the reader.
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