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The Thirteenth Apostle [SIGNED]

By: Gonzalez, Gloria

Price: $25.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 16065

[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 whe... View more info

Dark Passage

By: Goodis, David

Price: $450.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18970

[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. View more info

Murder of the Admiral

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

Price: $40.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17035

(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 fi... View more info

Murder of the Admiral

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

Price: $60.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18865

(no dust jacket) [nice-looking copy, tight and square, with just a trace of wear to the extremities, minor soiling to cloth at front joint]. 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." A... View more info

"E" is for Evidence

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $60.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16037

[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... View more info

"E" is for Evidence

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $50.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23262

[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 immensely popular and long-running Kinsey Millhone series. (No marks, full number line.) View more info

Bino

By: Gray, A.W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: (c.1988)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 11888

[nice clean copy, minimal wear, extremely shallow chipping at top edge of half-title page and title page; jacket bright and clean, appears to have been protected from Day One (good thing, too, since it's mostly white)] A hard-boiled novel set in Dallas, introducing Bino, a tough, mean, white-haired lawyer, "the lawyer everybody in jail would like to have, but never will be able to find." View more info

Rotten Apples [SIGNED]

By: Green, Edith Pinero

Price: $35.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 14198

[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 s... View more info

The Devil's Hatband [SIGNED]

By: Greer, Robert O.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Mysterious Press: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 13379

[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 ... View more info

Reputation for a Song [SIGNED]

By: Grierson, Edward

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1952

Edition: 2nd impression

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 22656

[spine very slightly turned, very light wear to book extremities; jacket shows a little edgewear and a few nicks along the top edge, tiny bits of paper loss at top and bottom of front hinge, tiny smudge on front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To _____ _____ / with my most sincere good / wishes & in memory of / 'Farlands.' / Edward Grierson / Margate[?], England, March 1952." The author's first novel, ... View more info

The Limping Man

By: Grierson, Francis D.

Price: $75.00

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

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 19418

[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 a... View more info

The Silver Tombstone [SIGNED]

By: Gruber, Frank

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart: (c.1945)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 7432

[good solid copy, a bit of wear to bottom edge; jacket missing one approx. 1"x1" irregular chunk at top left front panel, another shallow piece there, some paper loss at both ends of spine, various other small tears, edgewear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. A Johnny Fletcher mystery. Signed by Author View more info

By: Hansen, Joseph

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1970)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20108

[a bit of wear at spine ends, very tiny tear in cloth at base of spine, light foxing to top edge and fore-edge; jacket shows light soiling to front panel, slight fading to spine]. Hansen's first novel under his own name, and also the first Dave Brandstetter book. View more info

The Big Thaw

By: Harstad, Donald

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17854

[spine slightly turned, base of spine bumped, very minor handling wear; jacket shows just a faint trace of wrinkling at top of rear panel]. Third novel by "Iowa's own answer to Michael Connelly," a writer who "writes the way Iowans live, with no-nonsense direction, an innate sense of right and wrong, and a dry Midwestern brand of humor. In today's urban-dominated thriller landscape, Harstad is working the rural crime beat to perfection." The plot here h... View more info

Bad News Travels Fast [SIGNED]

By: Haywood, Gar Anthony

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1995)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 18340

[nice tight copy, no significant wear but light tanning to page edges due to cheap paper; jacket has faint dampstain at top of rear panel, otherwise bright and clean]. INSCRIBED ("For ______ -- You are my hero! God bless you and keep you always! Love -- ") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's second mystery to feature Joe and Dottie Loudermilk, a retired police detective and his wife, who in this book set off in their "beloved Airstream ... View more info

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Category: Fiction: Mystery/Detective