New York: Dell, 1949. Softcover. Color illustrated softcovers. 224 pp. Very good. The captain of a private cruiser on the inland waterway between Miami and New York knows that each of his seven passengers has something to hide. But he says nothing. For he himself has seen the ship's owner.....
NY: Scribners, 1979. First. Hard Cover. First printing. The fourth McGarr mystery, a case of murder at the Dublin Horse Show. Fine, tight copy in bright, crisp dust jacket, light toning along the top edge of the inner flaps. A very collectible copy indeed.
NY: Scribner, 1978. First. Hard Cover. First edition of the third McGarr mystery. A tight, fine example in a bright, crisp dust jacket with the most minor crimp at the top edge of the spine.
New York: Free Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Fine in generally fine, price clipped dust jacket, tiny nick foot of spine. Hardcover. xii+ 243 pp. with bibliography, index. Sensitive, revealing biography of Agatha Christie. The biographer looks at Christie as both woman and writer, probing her mysterious private.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth lettered in gilt. Early reprint ediiton. Vintage murder mystery. Dampataining to the bottom portion of the front ad rear boards and ofsetting to the endpapers. In the original dust jacket wityh striking design of green and yellow on black.....
Cricket Books, 2003. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Presumed first edition (no statements). Hardcover. 194 pp. An inventive mystery fiction work in which the creators of Nancy Drew (Carolyn Keene) and the Hardy Boys (Franklin W. Dixon) end up in 1920s Paris and team up in a case of.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1950. First edition thus. Softcover. First paperback edition, first printing. Illustrated softcovers. 150 pp. plus publisher's list. vintage mystery Abour very good, some creasing on the front cover. Suspense novel that first appeared in serialized form in 1947. "It wa sbroad daylight in fashionable Beverly Hilkls.....
New York, New York, U.S.A. Mysterious Pr, 1993. First. Hard Cover. First printing. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF-TITLE. Fast-paced novel of suspense and violence that ranges from Northern California to the Louisiana bayou. Author Gores is a former private eye and three-time Edgar Award winner. Fine in.....
NY: Random House, 1973. First. Hardcover. First edition (stated). The author's third book and the second DKA novel featuring California based "skip tracers" Daniel Kearny Associates. A tight, bright copy with a glue smear to the rear free endpaper (NOT an ex-lib book). In a bright, crisp dust jacket with.....
New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Co, 1989. First. Hardcover. First edition of the sixth in the series of "alphabethical" suspense novels featuring Kinsey Millhone. A fine, fresh copy in pristine, Brodart-protected dust jacket.
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, 1991. First edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE (no inscription or personalization). A very fine, as-new copy in equally fine dust jacket.
Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing Co/ Superior, 1945. First edition thus. Softcover. Illustrated softcovers. First printing of this edition, intended for use by the military. 215 pp. Good, creasing to the covers. Graham Greene's classic 1936 (oriignally published in the UK as "A Gun For Sale") thriller about a criminal.....
NY: Crown, 1988. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Cloth, 248 pps. Fiction. The November Man returns in this novel of espionage and suspense revolving around an American agent who claims to have a notebook kept by Ernest Hemingway during the Bay of Pigs incident, a notebook with coded information about.....
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Brown cloth lettered and decorated in black asnd with spien lettered in gilt. 540 pps. with publisher's ads on endpapers front and rear. An increasingly scarce book, the author's third mystery novel. A tight, solidly very good example, one corner.....
Chicago: Goldsmith, 1932. Hardcover. Red cloth lettered in black. Mystery adventure for boys revolving around a dangerous trip to the Arctic by the world's largest dirigible. Early reprint (ca. 1934 based on other book titles listed on rear of jacket). A tight copy, 1937 birthday inscr. front free endpaper. In.....
NY: Michael I Fine, 2001. Hard Cover. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. Collection of 13 original Sherlock Holmes stroies by such mystery-writing luminaries as Anne Perry, Loren D. Estleman, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Tremayne, L.B. Greenwood and others.
NY: Dial Press, 1979. First. Hard Cover. First printing of THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a novel of suspense, blackmail and decades-old murder which launched Greenleaf on path to becoming a bestselling author. Fine in price clipped dust jacket which has some toning about the egdes of the white backgound...
NY: Dial Press, 1980. First. Hard Cover. First edition of the author's second book, in which San Francisco private eye John Tanner takes on two unrelated cases that suddenly blend "as smoothly as a pair of limousines colliding". A very fine, fresh copy in crisp, bright dust jacket with a......
NY: Little Brown, 1987. First. Hard Cover. Cloth. Signed by Author. First edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF- TITLE PAGE. Fine, tight copy in fine , crisp dust jacket.
London: Cressey Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. 279 pp. Very good, face along the bottom edges and foxing to the endpapers. In price clipped dust jacket, about very good, some light foxing to the front panel and some darkening to the spine and rear panel. A tale.....
St. Martins, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket with a tiny flaw at one tip. Hardcover. 240 pp. inspector John Coffin, head of the Second city of London police force, returns to invwstigate the deaths of two of his young detectives and.....
Minotaur Books, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. First American edition. 204 pages. The twenty-fourth in this series of modern day myteries featuring Second City of London police commander John Coffin and his vivid actress/wife Stella Pinero. In this entry, an apparent double suicide by.....
HarperCollins, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing of the true (British) first. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 232 pp. The twenty-eigth in this internationally acclaimed series of mystery/suspense novels featuring John Coffin, Commander of the Second City of London police force. A retired British Prime Minister has hazy childhood.....
New York: Macmillan, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Generally fine in original dust jacket, good, with chips and creasing to the top edge, shallow wear t the foot of the spine and some foxing to the edge of the rear panel. Dennis Mallory was determined to get thr.....
New York: Perma Books, 1954. First edition thus. Softcover. First paperback edition. Color illustrated softcovers. Perma Star No. 277. 193 pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. Generally fine, mere touch of wear at the tips, couple tiny rear cover corner creases. The author's first novel. "Pistol-packing pin-up...the barrel of that.....
