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Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart: (c.1932)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18831
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[very light soiling to cloth at top and bottom edges of covers; jacket slightly darkened at spine, a couple of tiny edge-nicks, still colorful and attractive]. The first novel featuring Rinehart's nurse-detective character, Hilda Adams, which she had introduced in two short mystery stories published back in 1914. View more info
Price: $75.00
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18631
Condition: Good
(no dust jacket) [Good only, a worn but intact book; spine turned, moderate wear with slight fraying to cloth at a few corners, top right-hand edge of front cover bumped, one-time owner's name on ffep, light staining to rear cover, spine lettering partially rubbed off]. New York-set mystery novel about a movie actress who sees a creepy disembodied arm and hand reaching out from under her bed one night, and spends the rest of the novel (with the help of many other characters) trying to figure out what the heck it was -- spook, burglar, figment of her imagination? By some definitions this coul... View more info
![Image for Too Busy to Die [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/9746.jpg)
By: Roden, H.W.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1944
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9746
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+
(no dust jacket) [mild exterior wear, slight darkening & waviness to top page edges, spine cloth a bit faded but lettering still strong]. SIGNED by the author on a large printed label affixed to the ffep, proclaiming this to be the "Autographed Edition / To / W.D. Rorrex / with the kindest personal regards / of the author:". Signed by Author View more info
By: Rosenkrantz, [Baron] Palle [Adam Vilhelm] (translated by M. Guiterman)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1926
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 23582
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[light wear to book at spine ends, vintage price sticket (J.W. Robinson Co.) on rear pastedown; jacket a little faded at edges and spine, tiny chip at bottom of front panel, about 1/2" paper loss at top of spine, a couple of other small nicks and tears]. One of several of this Danish attorney-writer's novels (many of them mysteries) to be published in the United States, this is the tale of a young man who discovers after the death of his father that "his only inheritance was a noble name, a mass of debts which fortunately were unknown to all but himself, and good credit." A man of... View more info
By: Roueche, Berton
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1977)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15205
ISBN: 0-06-013689-8
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[sharp-looking book, only the tiniest bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket very clean, no significant wear but with some very minor wrinkling]. Suspense novel about a retired middle-class Long Island couple who plot a murder in order to improve their lot in life. View more info
By: Sale, Richard
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7574
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj
[solid, square copy, a couple of mildly bumped corners, very faint beverage ring stain on front cover; jacket heavily worn at extremities (a bit of paper loss at all corners), a few small edge-tears, wrinkling]. Excellent Hollywood mystery novel with elements of the fantastic, revolving around a quack doctor's experimental raising of dogs from the dead. The author was a pulp writer turned novelist/screenwriter, who later turned to directing as well. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1987)
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 21491
ISBN: 0-312-01530-5
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight clean copy (NO remainder mark), appears unread; no significant wear to either book; jacket has tiny abrasion at top front hinge, otherwise flawless]. The author's first novel, set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, introduced the character of P.I. Jonathan Croft, who featured in five subsequent books. View more info
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Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 14409
ISBN: 0-312-15614-6
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[spine turned, but only significant wear is minor bumping at base of spine; jacket shows a little handling wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's debut novel, set in Venice Beach, California, in the 1970s, and involving "a cast of delightfully unique characters whose lives intertwine during one of America's most colorful decades." Signed by Author View more info
By: Shagan, Steve
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1975)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9150
ISBN: 0-399-11478-5
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[mild shelfwear, spine slightly turned, small smudge on rear cover; jacket has small tears at all top corners, other quite decent]. Detective novel set in Los Angeles, by the producer/screenwriter best known for the 1973 film SAVE THE TIGER; apparently the source for the 1975 film HUSTLE with Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve (screenplay by Shagan), although not credited as such in the reference source I checked. View more info
By: Shasha, Dennis
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, W. H. Freeman and Company: (c.1988)
Edition: 2nd printing?
Seller ID: 12853
ISBN: 0-7167-1958-4
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows minor wrinkling at top/bottom edges of front panel]. "A book about puzzles and problem solving, entertainingly disguised as the fictional tale of Dr. Jacob Ecco. We first meet Dr. Ecco at home in Greenwich Village, New York, where he is visited by his diverse clientele: government leaders and shadowy double agents, corporate giants and eccentric millionaires. Each client presents Dr. Ecco with an intriguing puzzle and is willing to pay handsomely for its solution. And so Dr. Ecco earns his living. Nearly 40 well-known combinator... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: (c.1937)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21157
ISBN: NO
Condition: Poor in Poor dj
[well-worn ex-rental library book with the usual depredations (multiple stamps on endpapers, additional stamps on top and bottom edges, etc.), front hinge cracked with webbing fully exposed; jacket is similarly well-worn and (surprise!) firmly glued down at the flaps in that typical 1930s-era rental-library manner)]. "A fast-moving detective story in which Earl Standish, who has an international reputation in police circles for ferreting out secrets, devotes some six months in the search of 20-year-old Ruth Boynton who has disappeared while on a shopping tour." View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co. , for the Crime Club: 1929
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 4610
Condition: Very Good
(no dust jacket) [solid copy, spine slightly turned, mild soiling/browning to page edges, light staining to covers]. Fictional account -- presented as a "compilation" of contemporary newspaper stories (all phoney, but very believable) -- of a sensation murder in New York's Bowery in April 1928. Quite clever, and darn near post-modern: the Foreword is dated 1938, and is described as a "new foreword," although it's an integral part of the work, which is book-ended by the revelation that the author (an intrepid reporter who had investigated the original crime) has been happily ma... View more info
By: Stark, Richard (pseud. for Donald E. Westlake)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Greenwich CT, Fawcett Publications, Inc. (Gold Medal d1803): (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22403
Condition: Very Good
[slight spine roll, light edgewear to covers, a touch of browning to page edges]. Mass Market PB The ninth entry in the "Parker" series, in which he gets embroiled in the world of high-end numismatics. View more info
![Image for An Eye for an Eye [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15317.jpg)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15317
ISBN: 0-385-42116-8
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[very faint soiling to page edges, otherwise a solid clean copy; jacket lightly rubbed/scuffed]. INSCRIBED ("For _____, / With best wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page; also dated in the year of publication, in his hand. The author's third book featuring Rabbi Daniel Winter, in which the rabbi goes to court to defend a father who is on trial for killing his daughter's murderer, after the latter had received the lightest possible sentence due to his attorney's aggressive attack on the dead girl's reputation. Within the context of a murder/crime story, the book &#... View more info
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By: Tervalon, Jervey
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17569
ISBN: 0-671-03468-5
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight clean copy, just a trace of wear at spine ends; jacket shows some light surface scratching only]. INSCRIBED ("____ - I hope you enjoyed this New Orlean's [sic] novel!") and SIGNED by the author on the title page, additionally dated in his hand 11-17-2000. "A mesmerizing tale that shimmers with secrets of passion, muder, and vengeance, and with a family's veiled knowledge of the ties that can strengthen -- and destroy." The protagonist is "feisty young Lita Du Champ, [who] struggles to reconcile her loyalty to her mother with love for her restless, married sis... View more info
By: Thompson, Vance
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1923, 1922)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19353
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[tight clean book with just the teensiest trace of shelfwear, remnants of old price sticker on rear pastedown; jacket lightly soiled, with a handful of tiny edge-tears, no paper loss]. (B&W frontispiece, 3 B&W plates) Monsieur Guelpa, in solving "the most baffling murder mystery Paris had ever known ... goes deeply into the lives of the great French family involved, lays bare their romances, their relations with one another and with the public, the sources of their wealth, the reasons for financial embarrassment, the count's rich marriage in America, his wife's early love affair, the intr... View more info
By: Thompson, Vance
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1925)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20338
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[moderately shelfworn, dust-soiling to page edges, spine slightly turned, one-time owner's signature on ffep; jacket edgeworn, with various tiny tears and nicks, minor paper loss at top of spine, one-inch tear and associated creasing along rear hinge (but folded back into place with no paper loss)]. The second (and final) "Mr. Guelpa" mystery, published a few months after the author's death in June of 1925. In this one, the brilliant French detective comes to America, intending "to meet various authorities in the many different branches of criminology," but (you just knew thi... View more info
By: Trask, Keith
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart: (c.1931)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20653
ISBN: NO
Condition: Fair in Good+ dj
(in Grosset & Dunlap dj) [covers are worn and faded (due to dampness) along bottom edge and at top of rear cover, but the inside of the book is not affected; jacket internally dampstained (bleed-off from covers) and with some internal tape repair, but externally attractive with just a bit of wear at edges and spine ends, one small closed tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel]. "A triple murder story in which the small world of a ship, the S.S. El Dictador, sailing from Costaragua to New York City, becomes the tense scene of the attempt to catch the murderers. There is no... View more info
By: Truesdell, June
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16454
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[book is solid, lightly worn, several pieces of tape on each pastedown, from where dust jacket was once taped down; jacket has matching tape-pieces on flaps, otherwise just moderately edgeworn, with some light scuffing to front panel]. The first of two mystery novels by this former journalist. (The other, "Be Still, My Love," was the basis for the 1949 film "The Accused.") During World War II, while her husband, John Truesdell, was serving in the Army Air Corps, she wrote his daily and Sunday syndicated newspaper column under his by-line. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Philadelphia/London, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19858
ISBN: NO
Condition: Good
(no dust jacket) [decent reading copy, external wear and soiling but binding intact, spine slightly turned; vintage bookplate on front pastedown, one-time owner's signature (matching name on bookplate) and annotation about source of book on ffep Late mystery novel by the creator of "the Lone Wolf." (He died the year following its publication.) View more info
