Fear in Fenway: A Duffy House Mystery
William Morrow & Co, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. In fine condition with a fine dust jacket. 238 pages.
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Home Sweet Homicide
New York: Pocket Books, 1946. Softcover. Color illustrated softcovers. Very good. 277 pp. plus single page list of Pocket Books dated August, 1946. Third printing of the first paperback edition. Vintage comedic mystery in which three children investigate the murder of their next-door neighbor as thei mom struggles to complete.....
Murder at the Fair
Martinsburg, West Virginia, U.S.A. Butternut Pubns, 1993. First. Soft Cover. First printing. Glossy illustrated softcovers. 148 pps. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Murder at the Apple Harvest Fair in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Ms. Crites is an award winning regional author and 7th-generation West Virginian. As new.
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead ("Quick Reader" series)
Chicago: Royce, 1943. First edition thus. Softcover. Small, vest-pocket sized wartime abridgement in color illustrated stiff wrappers. 128 pp. Illustrated. Very good. One of the scarcer title in the "Quick Reader" series. ""Beautiful Naomi Taber was found dead by the cleaning woman, strangled and sprawled pathetically across her bedroom floor...".....
The Dashiell Hammett Omnibus (in original dust jacket)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover in orange cloth boldly lettered in black. 267 pp. Reissue, published the same year as the Knopf edition. Contains "Red Harvest", "The Dain Curse", and "The Maltese Falcon". Fine, bright example, binding firm, offsetting to the endpapers, usual embrowning to the.....
Dashiell Hammett's Mystery Omnibus containing two complete and unabridged novels The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key (in original dust jacket)
Cleveland: Tower/ World, 1946. Hardcover. Hardcover in navy blue cloth stamped in buff colored lettering. 191 + 186 pp. The second Forum edition printing. A near fine copy, usual embrowning to the pages as is inevitable with these cheap reprint editions. In the original Lep Manso designed dust jacket, good.....
The Hunter and Other Stories
Mysterious Press, 2013. Hardcover. New in dust jacket. Hardcover. 291 pp. Introduction by Richard Layman. 21 works from America's hard-boiled legend Dashiell Hammett. This collection includes a dozen stories nerev before published, gleaned from Hammett's archives, revives 7 seldom seen short-fiction narratives, unveils three screen treatments unearthed from film industry.....
The Maltese Falcon (first paperback edition)
New York: Pocket Books, 1944. First edition thus. Softcover. Softcover. First paperback edition with "First Printing...June 1944" stated as is "Pocket Books edition published August, 1944". 203 pp. Publisher's list at front and at rear. Very good, Complete and unabridged printing of the Hammett classic featuring private eye Sam Spade.....
Nightmare Town: Stories
Knopf, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First printing/ edition. Hardcover. xvii+ 396 pp. Twenty long-unavailable stories by detective/noir master Dashiell Hammett. in seven of them, The Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped , and the dead; in another three Sam.....
Trot: A Novel of Suspense (in original dust jacket)
New York: Pantheon, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. First printing (stated). Hardcover. 283 pp. Generally fine in Vincent Torre-designed dust jacket with some rubbing at the flap folds, small chip top left corner of front panel and wear at head and foot of spine. On a furlough in Paris, an Army.....
Vera The Medium
NY: Scribners, 1908. Frederick Dorr Steele. First. Cloth. First edition. Violet cloth boldly lettered in gilt with white, green and blue portrait of the title character surrounded by concentric circles. Fiction. frontis and five plates by Steele. Quasi-mystery with spiritualism theme. BAL 4548. Unusual in both appearance and theme and.....
The Devil's Apprentice
London: Herbert Jenkins. Hard Cover. Bright orange cloth lettered in black. N.D. (circa 1948). Another tale of espionage and suspense featuring the master spy known as "The Man With The Twisted Face". A tight, bright copy, two tiny snags at the foot of the spine, offsetting to the endpapers. In.....
She Shall Have Murder (Dell "map back")
New York: Dell, 1949. First edition thus. Softcover. First paperback edition. Very good, reading crease right edge of the front cover. A Dell "map back" . Dagobert Brown and his finace Jane Hamish investige a London murder. The first of the Dagobert and Jane Brown (yes, she eventually marries him).....
The Dead of Jericho
NY: St Martins Pr, 1981. First. Hard Cover. First American edition of the fifth Inspector Morse mystery. Generally fine, faint touch of rippling bottom margins of final few leaves. In bright, crisp dust jacket.
Last Seen Wearing
NY: St. Martin's, 1976. First. Hard Cover. First U.S. edition of the second Inspector Morse mystery and the scarcest of all Dexter's titles. Apperently retired form a library but without any stamping and with the removed pocket residue on an inserted last leaf; narrow tape damage to the covers. In.....
The Riddle of the Third Mile
NY: St Martins Pr, 1984. First. Hard Cover. First U.S. edition of the sixth Inspector Morse mystery, a title which is rather scarcer than any of the early titles in this series (except for the nearly impossible first three.) A fine, fresh copy in bright, crisp dust jacket with some.....
The Secret of Annexe 3
NY: St Martins Pr, 1987. First. Hard Cover. First American edition of this early Inspector Morse mystery. A fine copy in bright, crisp dust jacket with a trace of wear at the very ends of the spine.
Service of All the Dead
NY: St Martins Pr, 1980. First. Hard Cover. First American edition of the 4th Inspector Morse mystery. A tight, bright copy, some smearing to the front pastedown and rear endpapers. In a fine, bright, crisp, dust jacket with spine completely unfaded and unusual thus. Basis for the acclaimed PBS "Mystery".....
Murder in Five Columns
NY: Mystery House, 1944. Hard Cover. Salmon-colored cloth lettered in dark brown; 288 pps. "A smartly paced and delightfully written mystery novel of New York" (according to the jacket blurb) in which Vicki Gaines, beautiful, impulsive young advertising agent requests the help of a well-known radio commentator to find her.....
Sharky's Machine
NY: Delacorte Press, 1978. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Basis for the movie starring Burt Reynolds. Fine in near fien dust jacket with only a couple minor flaws.
Throw Darts at a Cheesecake
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 1992. First edition of THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, introducing Colorado Springs sleuth Ellie Bernstein. a "fast, funny, fair-play puzzler" in which Ellie and homicide detective Peter Miller investigate the deaths of members of the Weight Winners Club. A very fine, as-new copy in.....
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice from the Crypt And Other Tales
Carroll & Graf, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition/ printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 340 pp. A collection of six new tales based on notes "discovered" in Dr. Watson's legendary tin box and contrived by Donald Thomas. Crossing historical fact with detective fiction, Thomas bases the tales on.....
Murder In A Haystack
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in yellow-orange cloth lettered in blue. 277 pp. Good, edge and spine soiling, previous owner signature and stamp front endpapers. No jacket.
The So Blue Marble
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Hardcover in black cloth stamped in light blue. 240 pp. A tight, near fine copy. lacking the impossibly rare dust wrapper. The author's first novel, now considered a noir mystery classic. "..."The So Blue Marble" is a......
DEATH BELOW DECK (inscribed first edition)
Random House, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Inscribed and dated 10-4-91 by Kiker on the front free endpaper, "To _____/ Hope you enjoy this little mystery/ Sincerely/ Douglas Kiker". Hardcover. 229 pp. Fine in faintly rubbed dust jacket. Investigative reporter and sometime sleuth Mac McFarland becomes embroiled in a......