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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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The Silver Tombstone [SIGNED]

By: Gruber, Frank

Price: $40.00

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

Seller ID: 7432

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[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
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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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Nightwork [SIGNED]

By: Hansen, Joseph

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Peter Owen: 1984

Seller ID: 17171

ISBN: 0-7206-0622-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, clean and tight with no discernible wear to book; jacket shows just faint surface handling wear]. SIGNED boldly by the author on the title page (signature only; no inscription). Nice copy of the seventh Dave Brandstetter mystery, in which the gay insurance investigator looks into the suspicious death of a moonlighting truck driver. Signed by Author
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Gravedigger [SIGNED]

By: Hansen, Joseph

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Peter Owen: 1982

Seller ID: 17182

ISBN: 0-7206-0591-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[a very nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket shows the slightest bit of surface rubbing, plenty of others would call it Fine without blinking, but I'm a blinker]. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only, no inscription). Another in the Dave Brandstetter series, "set against vivid Southern California backgrounds of expensive seaside suburbs and snowy mountain camps, shacky desert towns and wilderness canyons," as the gay insurance investigator looks into the case of a disbarred lawyer who files a claim on the alleged death of his runaway daughter (...
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Fadeout

By: Hansen, Joseph

Price: $30.00

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

Seller ID: 20108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[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.
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The Big Thaw

By: Harstad, Donald

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2000

Seller ID: 17854

ISBN: 0-385-49569-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[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 has to do with a mysterious rash of rural burglaries that leads a deputy sheriff to uncover a plot to knock over a floating ca...
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Bad News Travels Fast [SIGNED]

By: Haywood, Gar Anthony

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: 18340

ISBN: 0-399-14017-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[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 trailer" for Washington, D.C., "where their errant son involves them in all manner of political skulduggery." Sig...
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A Game for the Living

By: Highsmith, Patricia

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: (c.1958)

Seller ID: 21957

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [solid copy, a bit of shelfwear to bottom edges of boards, very light soiling to top of text block]. Psychological suspense novel about the unlikely friendship between a Mexican furniture repairman and a German atheist, who both fall under suspicion when a woman they had each slept with is brutally raped and murdered.
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The Boy Who Followed Ripley

By: Highsmith, Patricia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 1993

Seller ID: 23070

ISBN: 0-679-74567-X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[tiny bit of wear to bottom right corner of front cover, otherwise a tight clean copy that appears unread]. (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard) Series Trade PB "In this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy's behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin's seamy underworld and into a kidnapping plot that rerquires the most bizarre methods -- and sinister acumen -- for intervention, the icily amoral Ripley is transformed into a generous and compassionate protector. W...
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This Sweet Sickness

By: Highsmith, Patricia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harmondsworth, England, Penguin Books: 1978

Seller ID: 24328

ISBN: 0140034692

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[slight spine roll, modest edgewear to covers, old bookstore rubber-stamp on first inside page, small date stamp on bottom edge of text block, small sticker-removal scar on rear cover]. "In spite of the Situation, David Kelsey had an invincible conviction that life was going to work out all right for him. He had a good job and the right girl in Annabelle." (Alas, none of that assures you of a happy ending in a Highsmith book.) This particular novel was adapted by Robert Bloch for the TV anthology series THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR in 1962 (the first season during which the program expan...
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Down a Dark Alley

By: Holden, Genevieve (pseud. for Genevieve Long Pou)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday/The Crime Club: 1976

Seller ID: 13013

ISBN: 0-385-11188-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[solid clean copy, mild wear to top/bottom edges, light remainder spray on bottom edge; mostly-white jacket shows some light soiling, no tears or chips]. "It all began on a peaceful Saturday morning on Atlanta's Mimosa Way -- as peaceful as could be expected in that colorfully run-down neighborhood where a cross section of society, including bankers, professors, a colony of winos, a rock group, and an unsavory motorcycle gang, the Desperadoes, coexisted in relative harmony. Life on Mimosa Way was always a little unpredictable, but this was to be a weekend of unprecedented violence and al...
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Fallen Angel

By: Holland, Marty (pseud. for Mary Holland)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.: 1945

Seller ID: 14897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[lightly worn copy, with some faint staining to the front cover, short closed tear at bottom of title page; jacket edgeworn, a few small tears, some minor paper loss at both ends of spine (all text on spine still present), internally tape-repaired (with modern tape, at least) at front foldover]. Very scarce novel which served as the basis for one of the best of Otto Preminger's early films (and a worthy follow-up to his classic LAURA). The first of five novels by this author, who apparently also dabbled in screenwriting without any notable success. (The only other film credit I've been able...
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Fright

By: Hopley, George (pseud. for Cornell Woolrich)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Rinehart and Company, Inc.: (c.1950)

Seller ID: 16835

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

(price-clipped) [bottom of book shelfworn (thin paper covering of boards worn through at numerous points), bottom front corner lightly bumped; jacket edgeworn, some shallow chipping along top edge (no loss of text or graphics), various other small tears, etc. The second (and last) novel published by Woolrich under the "George Hopley" pseudonym, which actually derived from his full name, Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich. The action is set, rather unusually for Woolrich, in 1915.
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The Cross-Eyed Bear

By: Hughes, Dorothy B.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1940)

Seller ID: 15879

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

(price-clipped) [spine turned, dampstain and minor surface scraping to rear cover, light dust-soiling to top edge, internally quite clean; jacket is decent-looking, but with two strange problems: #1, it seems to have been deliberately clipped just a tiny bit at all corners, and #2, there is a single strip of old clear tape (now somewhat yellowed) running horizontally from one flap all the way across both panels to the other flap; I guess this was intended as some weird form of reinforcement but in any case it probably can't be removed without doing serious damage to the jacket, so there it sta...
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Strangler's Serenade

By: Irish, William (pseud. for Cornell Woolrich)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Walter J. Black: (c.1951)

Seller ID: 14245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light bumping to spine ends, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket shows moderate wear at edges and extremities, slight paper loss at top of spine (just nicking the first "S" in the title a bit), split along top rear foldover, front panel a little rubbed]. A New York detective who's supposed to be taking it easy, on vacation at "Joseph's Vineyard," runs into a murder case, in that way that vacationing detectives invariably do. "What could be the connection between an quiet, elderly male boarder, an indolent, middle-aged toper, a dim-witted youth who lived on the beach and w...
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Phantom Lady

By: Irish, William (pseud. of Cornell Woolrich)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J. B. Lippincott Company: (c.1942)

Seller ID: 6144

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [solid copy with moderate overall wear, some fading to spine cloth; ffep torn out, which has left the front hinge exposed but not separated]. Irish/Woolrich classic, which starts out with both a great dedication ("To Apartment 605, Hotel M----- / in unmitigated thankfulness (at not being in it any more") and a terrific first chapter title ("The Hundred and Fiftieth Day Before the Execution"). A terrific yarn, and the basis for the highly-regarded 1944 movie of the same name, directed by Robert Siodmak and produced by Joan Harrison, who cut her teeth as an assi...
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The Take

By: Izzi, Eugene

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1987)

Seller ID: 17030

ISBN: 0-312-01038-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[solid copy, very slight wear to heel of spine, top rear corner bumped; jacket shows a little wear along top and bottom edges, a couple of tiny scrape marks on front panel, surface-scratching & rubbing to rear panel, spine a bit faded]. The Chicago author's first novel, which established him immediately as a modern master of the hard-boiled idiom.
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Category: Fiction: Mystery/Detective