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By: Miller, Wade (pseud. for Bob Wade and Bill Miller)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus and Company: (c.1949)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21021
[shelfwear to bottom edges and top corners, spine slightly turned, not in collectable condition but a perfectly decent copy; jacket edgeworn, soiling to rear panel, a few little nicks, and some chipping at spine ends]. Mystery-gangster novel, about the "underlord of San Diego," who has ambitious plans to "make the Mexican border towns look silly" by providing similar entertainments on the U.S. side of the border. But first he has to contend with figuring... View more info
By: Morton, Anthony [pseud. for John Creasey]
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company: (c.1938)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 20117
(gray decorated cloth; no dust jacket) [good solid copy, slight fraying to cloth at spine ends, light stain at top of fore-edge]. Third novel in the long-running "Baron" series, which eventually spanned nearly fifty books and inspired a short-lived 1960s TV series. According to the copyright page the original British title of the book was "Salute the Baron!" (and it was indeed published years later, in various editions, as "Salute for the Baron"... View more info
![Image for Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/3700.jpg)
By: Mosley, Walter
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Co.: (c.1998)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 3700
[nice tight copy, top rear corner bumped; jacket a bit rubbed]. SIGNED by the author on the title page, where he has also written "The Socrates Crew Edition." The first of three (so far) novels featuring Socrates Fortlow, "a tough, brooding ex-convict determined to challenge and understand the violence and anarchy in his world -- and in himself." Signed by Author View more info
![Image for Trophies and Dead Things [*SIGNED* uncorrected page proofs]](/assets/images/product/15641.jpg)
By: Muller, Marcia
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Mysterious Press: 1990
Edition: Uncorrected Page Proofs
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15641
(printed wraps) [moderate soiling to covers and page edges, dampstaining to rear cover, small pencil notes on spine, "Berkeley setting" in ink on front cover]. SIGNED by the author on the title page, below her printed name. Signed by Author View more info
![Image for The Man in the Moon [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/8788.jpg)
By: Norwood, Frank
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1989)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8788
[tight, clean, unread copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows mild creasing/wrinkling along top edge, paper clip mark at bottom of rear panel, minor scratching on front panel, diagonal crease in rear flap]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. "Chandleresque" novel about a former boxer who gets involved in murder. According to the jacket blurb, the author "has published one previous novel, in paperback, but prefers to think of [this one]... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1948)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15473
(no dust jacket) [shelfworn copy, several tiny tears in cloth at top of spine, small puncture tear in middle of spine, spine cloth a bit faded, some discoloration on endpapers, small bookseller stamp on front pastedown]. The author's somewhat elusive third novel, a psychological murder mystery with a Greenwich Village setting. "After reading a few chapters of this book," commented the N.Y. Times reviewer, "one begins to wonder whether any of the leading cha... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, M. S. Mill Company / William Morrow & Co.: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10409
(price-clipped) [good solid copy, mild shelfwear, light browning to page edges; mostly-white jacket shows a bit of soiling, minor chipping/dog-earing at top of spine, one-inch split (closed) at bottom rear fold]. One in the author's series of adventure-suspense yarns featuring counterintelligence agents Harrigan and Hoeffler. This time their assignment takes them to Southern California, where "the sudden disappearance of noted scientist and developer of the 'memory... View more info
By: Owen, Frank, ed.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick Fell: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22484
(no dust jacket) [good sound copy, some external soiling (mostly to rear cover), top rear corner bumped, very slight fraying at bottom front corner]. Anthology of 37 short stories, "the ultimate in murder. No mere morsel of blood is this, but a veritable banquet, for between the covers of this large volume lurk murderers who have performed their evil deeds in every field -- regicide, parricide, fratricide, homicide or simple strangulations. Authors represented inc... View more info
Price: $15.00
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9437
[nice tight clean copy, appears unread, no discernible wear; jacket a tiny bit worn at spine ends, faint soiling here and there]. Subtitled "Being an Account of the Macbeth Murders and the Strange Events Surrounding Them; A Secret Victorian Journal, Attributed to Wilkie Collins, Discovered and Edited by William J. Palmer." The author's first novel, a literary/detective pastiche set in 1851 and exploring "the relationship of [Charles] Dickens and [Wilkie] Co... View more info
By: Paul, Elliot
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1940)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8522
(no dust jacket) [nice solid copy, minor edgewear, some darkening to cloth along edges of spine, tiny bookseller's label on ffep]. The third Homer Evans tale, in a genre we might call "screwball mystery" -- or as critic William DeAndrea described the Evans books, "absurdist, almost surreal farces, populated by likable loonies somehow involved in murder cases that didn’t have to make much sense [but] just had to serve as a framework for the craziness.” Th... View more info
By: Perry, Max
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Fawcett Gold Medal (14372): 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2800
[tight and unread; traces of wear at edges and corners, tiny and unobtrusive surface-scrape on front cover]. Mass Market PB Paperback original about the investigation of a murder in Greenwich Village, during the filming of a movie about a homosexual killer; seems like a riff on William Friedkin's notorious film CRUISING, released the same year. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: (c.1981)
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 6172
[nice tight copy, but with a light brown stain across the bottom fore-edge (also affecting bottom corners of both endpapers, lower corner of the front jacket panel, and bottom edge of front cover); there is a similar, but smaller, stain on the bottom edge near the spine; better than it sounds, though--still a pretty nice-looking book]. The first published fiction by the author of "To Live and Die in L.A." The first of these two novels ("linked adventures,&... View more info
By: Porter, Joyce
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22581
[nice clean book, minimal shelfwear; jacket shows a little wear along top and bottom edges and at a couple of corners]. Fourth in the series of comic mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover, characterized by his "legendary inertia, foul manner, and striking ineptitude." The opening of Chapter Two describes a station sergeant's reaction to Dover's sudden appearance on the scene: "This great, fat, untidy yobbo didn't l... View more info
By: Porter, Joyce
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22582
(price-clipped) [nice clean book, slight wear to extremities; jacket bumped and very slightly torn at top front hinge, otherwise bright and attractive]. Third in the series of comic mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover, with the title character "as dyspeptic, unappealing, and insensitive as ever." In this adventure he is "sent off to isolated Thornwich in bleak mid-winter to look into an epidemic of lewd poison-pe... View more info
By: Potter, Dennis
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 1988 (c.1987)
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 14138
[nice clean unread copy, just a bit of edgewear]. Trade PB Novel about a 77-year-old writer who unexpectedly produces a best-seller, with a heroine that suspiciously resembles his fashion-model niece. When she is found murdered, the plot, as they say, thickens -- in a way that only Potter can thicken it, "interweav[ing] genres and narrative levels in a brilliant mosaic that will delight fans of his distinctive, utterly compelling plays and scripts." [Note that... View more info
![Image for The American Gun Mystery [Death at the Rodeo]](/assets/images/product/6505.jpg)
By: Queen, Ellery
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6505
(red cloth w/lettering & gun illustration in black; no dust jacket) [nice clean copy, cloth bright and lettering strong, light fraying at corners and slight bumping at spine ends, small triangular black mark on bottom edge next to spine; the book's only serious flaw, really, is that the top one-third or so of the ffep has been cut away] . View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Hollywood CA, Murray & Gee, Inc.: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8608
[book shows shelfwear, ffep torn out, minor soiling to top edge, some fraying to cloth at extremities, a couple of bent page corners; jacket is well-worn at all edges, a couple of surface-peeled patches, front flap detached (held in place by Brodart cover)]. The author's third (I think) mystery novel featuring drama critic-detective Tony Woolrich, this one set on the south shore of Long Island. View more info
By: Raison, Milton, and Jack Harvey
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1936)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19857
(no dust jacket) [ex-rental library book, well-worn all around, rear hinge cracked and front hinge weak; jacket flaps glued to pastedowns, vintage price sticker (from "Johnson's Bookstore," location unknown) on ffep; a previous owner/critic has pencilled an evaluation on the ffep, deeming it a "rather ribald mystery - not especially timeless but quick and lively"]. Murder mystery which introduced the character of Tony Woolrich, a drama critic and amateur ... View more info
By: Ramos, Manuel
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12698
[nice tight copy, appears unread, very light smudge on fore-edge; jacket shows just a trace of surface wear]. The fourth mystery novel featuring Denver attorney Luis Montez. "Physically fatigued, mentally exhausted, and severely banged up from his most recent misadventures, Luis accepts a friend's offer to relax on a Mexican beach. But things just don't work out they way he plans." View more info
By: Rayne, Sarah
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Simon & Schuster: 2005
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 19994
[very nice clean copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. The discovery of a dead body in an abandoned film studio leads a woman to investigate an unsavory family secret, linked to the mysterious death a half-century before of her grandmother, "the infamous silent-screen actress Lucretia von Wolff, whose lovers were legion, whose scandals were numerous, whose life ended abruptly in a bizarre double murder and suicide" at the same studio. [NOTE that ... View more info
