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The Night Before Murder (A Clue Club Mystery)

By: Fisher, Steve

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Hillman-Curl, Inc.: 1939

Seller ID: 18514

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[solid book with not much actual wear, BUT: (a) its one-time owner went absolutely bonkers with his ownership rubber-stamp, using it on all endpapers, the bottom edge, and a couple of other places; and (b) the dust jacket, heavily worn, is firmly glued down at the flaps]. Early mystery novel by Fisher, as he was still clawing his way up out of the pulps (his breakthrough novel, "I Wake Up Screaming," was just two years in the future), about a washed-up actress whose life "had become dull, barren and incredibly stupid, and [who] had become obsessed with the idea of death. So she dec...
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Winter Kill

By: Fisher, Steve

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1946

Seller ID: 15213

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [solid clean copy, moderate shelfwear, a couple of pages roughly opened]. The author's eighth novel under his name (his 11th if you count those done under pseudonyms). [If you are of a mind, a very nice facsimile of the original H. Lawrence Hoffman-designed dust jacket can be had for this book (not from us, but will supply details upon request), which will help it look very handsome on your shelves.]
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All the Skeletons in All the Closets

By: Fowler, Keith

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1934)

Seller ID: 21148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light wear to binding at ends of spine, otherwise a clean and solid book; jacket edgeworn, with some chipping and minor paper loss in the vicinity of the spine ends, wrinkling and a bit of shallow chipping along top edge, ditto wrinkling at bottom of front panel]. Mystery novel centered around "New York's swankiest and most murderous scandal sheet" -- a magazine called "The Social Arbiter," essentially a not-too-subtle blackmail operation dedicated to fleecing the well-to-do. A contemporary reviewer observed that the book was "written in the frankest kind of Broadway idi...
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Hell Street

By: Franklin, Max (pseud. for Richard Deming)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Company Inc.: (c.1954)

Seller ID: 6212

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[solid, clean book, with minimal shelfwear, slight browning at page edges, small and very faint dampstain on top edge; jacket shows virtually no wear, with just a little browning around the edges of both flaps, and a tiny bit of what might be insect-chewing at the top corner of each flap]. A tale of an honest cop framed by organized crime, in order to protect the city's vice district. Supposedly set in a recognizable American city - - the jacket copy says that the author's previous novel was set in St. Louis, and that this one takes place in "another Mississippi Valley city."
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The Dark Page

By: Fuller, Samuel Michael

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1944)

Seller ID: 16826

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[solid copy, very slight fraying to one top corner, small embossed previous owner's stamp on ffep and half-title page, fading to cloth at very top of spine, a handful of "puncture wounds" (small indentations) in spine; jacket shows general wear, and has been tape-repaired and -reinforced at several points, including a brown-paper-tape patching of half-inch paper loss at top of spine (partially affecting title)]. What might be called Fuller's "breakthrough" novel (after a couple of cheapie efforts in the 1930's), a slam-bang mystery set in the New York tabloid milieu where the ...
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Lamaar Ransom, Private Eye

By: Galloway, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London/Dallas, John Calder/Riverrun Press: 1979

Seller ID: 15883

ISBN: 0-7145-3686-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[a very nice copy, tight and clean with no discernible wear; jacket shows just a tiny bit of surface wear]. Chandler-esque detective yarn with a gender-twist: the title character is a lesbian, who "runs her detective agency -- an agency with a difference -- from a run-down office in the Cahuenga Building of Los Angeles, keeping the wolf from the door with $25 expenses and a sharp line in wisecracks." According to the jacket blurb, the book "has more tantalising false leads than 'The Big Sleep,' a more involved plot than 'Farewell My Lovely,' and a private eye with more wit and wit...
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The Canvas Coffin

By: Gault, William Campbell

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1953

Seller ID: 12513

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[ex-lending library book, stamped on endpapers but no other markings; book is mildly shelfworn but still a solid copy; jacket is attractive but with two problems: one, the flaps have been firmly glued down; two, the jacket was trimmed by about 1/8" at the top and 3/16" at the bottom, to fit inside one of those old-style jacket protectors; that jacket cover has now been removed and replaced with a mylar wrap-around, which makes the volume quite presentable, since the jacket itself is quite clean, albeit a bit wrinkled due to the presence of the paper backing (which couldn't be removed),...
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Double Jeopardy

By: Goldsmith, Martin M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 12624

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

(no dust jacket) [decent copy, front hinge cracked but not separated, light dampstaining and a few small white marks at bottom of front cover (interior of book not affected), slight fraying at bottom front corner]. Very scarce first novel by the author of "Detour," exploring the question of whether "it is possible in this day of enlightened justice for a man to be punished twice for the same crime." (A very nice facsimile dust jacket can be had for this book, from another source.)
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Double Jeopardy

By: Goldsmith, Martin M.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 18873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[nice square copy, a few tiny nicks to cloth at edges, a little wear at spine ends, long-ago seller's price lightly rubber-stamped on rear endpaper; jacket shows a bit of edgewear, teensy paper loss at a couple of bottom corners, one-inch closed tear at top front hinge]. Very scarce first novel by the author of "Detour," exploring the question of whether "it is possible in this day of enlightened justice for a man to be punished twice for the same crime."
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A Person Shouldn't Die Like That

By: Goldstein, Arthur

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 6988

ISBN: 0-394-47230-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[spine turned, some spotting to page edges, mild wear to bottom edge and spine extremities; jacket faintly soiled, one tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. A mystery "in which seventy-two-year-old Max Guttman, a Lower East Side Jew, finds a body." This was the first of several Max Guttman mysteries.
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The Thirteenth Apostle [SIGNED]

By: Gonzalez, Gloria

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1993

Seller ID: 16065

ISBN: 0-312-08909-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, faint dust-soiling to top edge, no significant wear; jacket shows some rubbing/scuffing, mostly to rear panel]. INSCRIBED humorously and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's first adult novel, a mystery, centering around "newpaper reporter and Susan Hayward lookalike" Geraldine St. Claire, who's attempting to finish an investigative story about random Tylenol poisonings that her best friend and sometime lover was working on when he was murdered. Signed by Author
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Dark Passage

By: Goodis, David

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Julian Messner, Inc.: (c.1946)

Seller ID: 18970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[moderately worn book, light spotting to covers, spine lettering somewhat rubbed; jacket is on the rough side, heavily edgeworn with a bit of paper loss at both ends of spine (taking away part of author's name at top), slightly ragged tear across middle of spine, small chip at top of rear panel]. Probably the author's best-known novel; basis for the 1947 film starring Humphrey Bogart, written and directed by Delmer Daves.
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Murder of the Admiral

By: Gould, Stephen (pseud. for Steve Fisher)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1936)

Seller ID: 17035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [worn but intact copy, apparently ex-rental library but with un-obnoxious traces (inked call number and label remnant on rear pastedown, faint stamping on top and bottom edges); text from front jacket flap is affixed to front pastedown]. Early novel by this former pulpster, the first of two to feature Sheridan Doome, "ace of the Naval Intelligence," who is notable (I guess) for having been badly disfigured in the explosion of a ship during the first World War, requiring the permanent placement of "huge steel plates over his entire chest and back." As the narrat...
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"E" is for Evidence

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: (c.1988)

Seller ID: 16037

ISBN: 0-8050-0459-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, no significant wear, just some very VERY light soiling to the page edges, trace evidence of a single careful reading by a singularly careful reader, and a couple of tiny abrasions of mysterious origin on the rear pastedown; the jacket is darn near perfect, with just a teensy bit of surface wear (many would call it Fine without blinking, but a bit of yellowing on the jacket flaps made me blink)]. The fifth -- wait, wait (A, B, C, D, E...) -- yep, fifth in the author's immensely popular and long-running Kinsey Millhone series. An awfully nice copy at an awfully nice price. (No...
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"E" is for Evidence

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: (c.1988)

Seller ID: 23262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, a single tiny dent in the bottom edge of each cover, light age-toning to edges of text block, faint trace of foxing to top edge; jacket shows very light surface wear only]. The fifth -- wait, wait (A, B, C, D, E...) -- yep, fifth in the author's popular and long-running Kinsey Millhone series. (No marks, full number line.)
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Rotten Apples [SIGNED]

By: Green, Edith Pinero

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: (c.1977)

Seller ID: 14198

ISBN: 0-525-19415-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[bottom corners bumped, light soiling to page edges; jacket shows some edgewear, a couple of insignificant tears]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED ("To ______ / Love & Kisses / Edie / 11/28/77") on the half-title page. Mystery novel centering around The Rotten Apple Corps, a secret society formed in the 1930s. "They only met to socialize and as the decades passed the members went their separate ways -- forgetting the folly of their youth. Forgetting, that is, until someone begins to murder them one by one." This book introduced the septuagenarian sleuth, Dearborn V. Pinch, who has fea...
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The Devil's Hatband [SIGNED]

By: Greer, Robert O.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Mysterious Press: 1996

Seller ID: 13379

ISBN: 0-89296-634-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[very nice copy -- as new, tight, clean and unread, NO remainder or other marks]. SIGNED and dated by the author on the title page (in year and month of publication). The author's first novel, introducing Denver-based bail bondsman and sometime bounty hunter CJ Floyd. The story takes place "against a backdrop of the American West and the high-stakes world of modern scientific research," as Floyd is engaged to track down a killer virus that has fallen into the wrong hands. The jacket blurb likens the author to Walter Mosley and Terry MacMillan as "a fresh new African-American li...
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The Limping Man

By: Grierson, Francis D.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: (c.1926)

Seller ID: 19418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy, bottom corners a bit bumped but no other discernible wear, vintage price sticker from the noted San Francisco department store The White House on rear pastedown; jacket shows a bit of dog-earing and minor creasing along top edge, light soiling to rear panel The first of the author's thirteen mystery novels featuring the duo of Detective-Inspector Sims, a Scotland Yard man, and Professor Wells, "a scientist of international celebrity, with half an alphabet of letters after his name." In a 1935 essay, Grierson stated that the Professor was "founded on a very disti...
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Michael Shayne's 50th Case

By: Halliday, Brett (pseud. for Davis Dresser)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, A Torquil Book (distributed by Dodd, Mead & Company): (c.1964)

Seller ID: 23724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good sound copy, heavy foxing to top of text block but no other significant depredations; jacket lightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed]. "In recording the 50th Case of the redheaded private detective from Miami, Florida, and in celebration of his 25th year in print, Brett Halliday has diverged widely from the pattern set by 49 previous books. Here, the emphasis is upon character and motivation rather than detection and deduction, and in so doing Mr. Halliday has produced his finest and most powerful novel." Well, OK, two things: (1) while "Brett Halliday" might have only been i...
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The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of [SIGNED]

By: Hansen, Joseph

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London/Boston, Faber & Faber: 1978

Seller ID: 17172

ISBN: 0-571-11247-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[slight bump to base of spine, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket shows just a trace of handling wear]. INSCRIBED ("To _______ / good wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The four Dave Brandstetter novel, in which the gay insurance investigator is called in after the police chief of a little California beach town is murdered, and a hot-tempered gay-activist nursery owner is accused of the crime. Signed by Author
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Category: Fiction: Mystery/Detective