New York: Berkeley Crime Club, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 265 pp. The beloved Princess Georgina is due toi arrive in Miss Seeton's Plummerton and while the villagers are plotting to outdo neighboring Murreystone during the visit, a more sinister plot is brewing.....
Mystery
Ellery Queen's Mystery Mix
New York: Random House, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. Masterful collection of mystery tales by such infamous authors as Lardner, Millar, Allingham, Ellin, Woolrich, Highsmith. Near fine, tight copy in near fine, crisp dust jacket with small gift inscription hidden under dust jacket flap.
American Pep: A Tale of America's Efficiency (in original dust jacket)
New York: Robert J. Shores, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in blindstamped navy blue cloth lettered in red. 336 pp.plus publisher's ads at rear. Illustrations by Frank Keane. A tight, bright, fine example. In the rare original dust wrapper printed in red and blue with American eagle dersign.....
Alien Souls
NY: James A. McCann, 1922. First. Cloth. First edition. Scarce. Collection of tales by this Russian born author (born Alexander Romanoff, his father was Russian and his mother a Muslim) raised in Enland and educated at Eton and Oxford. He was best know for his mystery and adventure stories, many.....
Leavin' Trunk Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery
New York: Thomas Dunne, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing otf the second Nick Travers mystery. Fine in ifne dust jacket. Hardcover. 322 pp. In this entry in the series, it's Christmas Eve on the South Side; an old time blues singer, in prison for muredring her lover.....
Crooked House
New York: Pocket, 1950. First edition thus. Softcover. Firts paperback edition, stated first Dell printing. Color illustrated softcovers. 200 pp. Generally very good. "Who filled the hypo with poison?..."
Death in The Air (in original dust jacket); A New Hercule Poirot Mystery
New York: Triangle Books, 1939. First edition thus. Hardcover. First Triangle edition, stated "First Printing November 1939" on copyright page. Hardcover in light blue cloth stamped in black. Very good, some spotting to the cloth, usual embrowning to the pages as is common with these Triangle reissues. In the des.....
Five Little Pigs
London: Fontana Books, 1963. Softcover. Softcovers. 192 pp. Very good. "After sixteen years everyone still believed Caroline Crale guilty of kiilling her husband. All except her daughter... at her requesr Hercule Poirot seeks to discover the truth from the five witnesses at the trial..."
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
New York: Pocket Books, 1939. Softcover. First softcover edition, second printing (so stated, June 1939). Color illustrated softcovers. Red endpapers, 249 pp. plus author biographical sketch at rear. Very good, light crease down the center of the front cover, bit of wear at the spine extremities.
Murder On The Links (Pan Books No. X241)
London: Pan Books Ltd., 1963. Softcover. Color illustrated softcovers. 219 pp. Very good. One of Christie's earliest books (originally published in 1923). Hercule Poirot investigaes the case of a murdered millionaire.
So many Steps To Death (first paperback edition)
New York: Pocket Books, 1956. First edition thus. Softcover. First printing of the first paperback ediiton. Color illustrated softcovers. Near fine, very small, light crease to the lowerr front cover. 183 pp. "A missing nuclear physicist, an airplane crash, a millionaire Communist, and a courageous girl doomed to die!"
The Tattoo Murder Case
New York: Soho, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of this English translation. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 324 pp. Written by one of Japan's most popular mystery novelists, "The Tattoo Murder Case" was first published in Tokyo in 1948. It won the Mystery Writers Club Award and remains.....
A Death in the Venetian Quarter: a Medieval Mystery
New York: St. Martin's/ Minotaur, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. 288 pp. Medieval mystery set in 1203 featuring the professional jester Feste (and undercover sleuth) of The Fool's Guild. In this entry in the series, Feste, his wife Viola, and their group.....
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Pantheon, 2005. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. First American edition. 261 pages. The second installment in the new detective series by Alexander McCall Smith. The irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhouise, a book editor, gets caught up in an affair of the heart----this one a transplant. From.....
Jack Knave and Fool ( A Sir John Fielding Mystery)
NY: Putnam Pub Group, 1998. First. Hard Cover. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. The fifth in the author's entertaining series of historical mysteries set in late 18th century London and featuring the famous "Blind Beak of Bow Street", magistrate Sir John Fielding and his.....
The Chocolate Spy
NY: Coward McCann, 1978. First. Hard Cover. First printing. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a novel of espionage and scientific speculation about a computer called Chocolate---whose memory bank is composed of cloned human brain cells---and the role it plays in a sinister Soviet plot. A fine, tight copy in crisp, fine.....
Therapist (lengthy inscription and signed by Garrett)
Walker & Company, 1989. Hardcover. Hardcover. Second printing. Warm, lengthly inscription dated 1990 and signed by Garrett on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. 194 pp. Mystery surround a psychiatric ward in New York General Hospital involving two patientsa nd an unscrupulous doctor with designs on becoming the department chair. Fine.....
The Tavern In The Morning (A Hawkenlye Medieval Mystery)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First American edition/ first printing. Hardcover. 230 pp. The thirk in this series of medieval mysteries set in and around Hawkenlye Abbey in Tonbridge, England and featuing knight/ sleuth Josse d'Acquin and Abbess Helewise. in.....
The Tavern in the Morning (A Hawkenlye Medieval Mystery)
New York: Minotaur Books, 2002. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition. Hardcover. 230 pp. Knight Josse d'Acquin returns in this entry in the Hawkenlye medieval mystery series. In this tale, Sir Josse, along with his friend and fellow sleuth the Abbess Helewise, fellow clues.....
Bullet Proof
Garden City: Crime Club/ Doubleday, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Hardcover. 191 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket with minor wear at the tips and spine ends. Set in new York State, a suspense novel in which the police decide that a "triangle' has become four-sided with.....
The Blonde
New York: Weinstein Books, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 390 pp. Mystery/thriller. "In 1948, a young, uinknown Norma Jeane Baker meets a mysterious man in Los Angeles who transforms her into Marilyn Monroe, the star. Twelve years later, he comes back for repayment.....
The Woman in the Alcove
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Tight, very good copy, minor rubbing to the spine strip. 371 pages. Rita Van Arsdale is in love with the man of her dreams but things get complicated when the man is accused of murder. Brooklyn-born Anna Katherine Green.....
Curiosity Killed A Cat (in original dust jacket)
New York: Triangle Books, 1942. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth stamped in black. 282 pp. A tight, fine copy with the usual embrowning to the pages as is common with there 1940s reprints. In very good dust jacket, bit of wear at the spine extremities and some loss along.....
Bad Guys
Putnam Adult, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 256 pp. Generally fine, touch of foxing about the edges of the text block. In fine dust jacket. Fiction. Author's first book. Suspense novel that pits the FBI against the Mafia--but neither group is what it appears to be. Within we.....
A Murder in Thebes; A Mystery of Alexander the Great
St Martins Pr, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover, 226 pp. The second book in the critically acclaimed series of Alexander The Great historical mysteries. In this entry, Thebes has fallen to Alexander but the days following are filled with murderous treason. Alexander's two favorite officers are killed by a spy.....