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Home Sweet Homicide (An Inner Sanctum Mystery)

By: Rice, Craig (pseud. for Georgiana Ann Craig)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1944

Seller ID: 15381

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[solid clean copy, generally nicer than most of these wartime S&S books, slight bumping/fraying at top corners, spine very slightly turned; jacket a bit on the tattered side,with tears at spine corners, a little paper loss at top of spine, several tiny tears and chips at edges of front panel, two-inch split at bottom front foldover, small chunk missing from upper corner of rear panel (no loss of text); OK, so it won't win any beauty contests, but it's still quite serviceable]. Light-hearted domestic mystery novel about three children who decide to solve the murder of their next-door neighbor,...
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The Haunting Hand

By: Roberts. W. Adolphe

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 18631

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Too Busy to Die [SIGNED]

By: Roden, H.W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1944

Seller ID: 9746

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Cat and Candle; a lively tale

By: Rosenkrantz, [Baron] Palle [Adam Vilhelm] (translated by M. Guiterman)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1926

Seller ID: 23582

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Fago

By: Roueche, Berton

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1977)

Seller ID: 15205

ISBN: 0-06-013689-8

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Lazarus #7 (An Inner Sanctum Mystery)

By: Sale, Richard

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1942

Seller ID: 7574

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Wall of Glass

By: Satterthwait, Walter

Price: $25.00

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

Seller ID: 21491

ISBN: 0-312-01530-5

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Cocaine for Breakfast [SIGNED]

By: Sava, George

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hale & Company: 1973

Seller ID: 22979

ISBN: 0709132824

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice book, very slightly bumped at spine ends, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket lightly edgeworn, a bit of soiling to rear panel, publisher's name and address written in blue ink on the rear flap]. INSCRIBED ("To ________ / in friendship"), SIGNED and dated (in the year of publication) by the author on the ffep. A crime novel -- the author's first in that genre, according to the jacket blurb -- about a British surgeon who writes a woman a "harmless little prescription" for two morphine tablets, which ends up getting him involved in "the sordid Paris underwo...
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No Human Involved [SIGNED]

By: Seranella, Barbara

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1997

Seller ID: 14409

ISBN: 0-312-15614-6

Binding: Hardcover

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
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City of Angels

By: Shagan, Steve

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1975)

Seller ID: 9150

ISBN: 0-399-11478-5

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Maigret Abroad [containing: "A Crime in Holland" and "At the 'Gai-Moulin'"]

By: Simenon, Georges (translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Avon Book Company: (c.1943)

Seller ID: 24406

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

[covers are edgeworn, horizontal crease in front cover near top edge, tiny tears in top edges of first couple of pages; binding intact, covers attached]. (Murder Mystery Monthly, No. 8) Series "In this new Simenon double-header Inspector Maigret steps out of his own country to go sleuthing."
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Girl Hunt

By: Smith, Laurence Dwight

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: (c.1937)

Seller ID: 21157

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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."
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Bowery Murder

By: Smith, Willard K.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co. , for the Crime Club: 1929

Seller ID: 4610

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Rare Coin Score

By: Stark, Richard (pseud. for Donald E. Westlake)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Greenwich CT, Fawcett Publications, Inc. (Gold Medal d1803): (c.1967)

Seller ID: 22403

Binding: Softcover

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.
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Judas, Incorporated

By: Steel, Kurt (pseud. for Rudolf Kagey)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1939

Seller ID: 25609

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [good sound copy, moderate wear to extremities, small puncture-tear in spine, one-time owner's signature and date on ffep]. Mystery novel featuring New York private investigator Henry (Hank) Hyer, the hard-boiled protagonist of nine novels by this author (an NYU professor and admirer of Dashiell Hammett) published between 1935 and 1943 -- a group of works referred to in Steel's entry in "Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers" as an "extremely fine series," with the present volume singled out as "perhaps the finest." The plot concerns the investig...
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Down Among the Dead Men

By: Sterling, Stewart

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1943)

Seller ID: 23046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[spine slightly turned, a bit of bumping/softening at spine ends and several corners, "Reading Lamp Library and Book Shop" + address written in pencil at top of ffep, but with no other library-related markings; jacket edgeworn, lightly soiled/rubbed, small tears and very slight paper loss at spine extremities]. Murder mystery set in New York and centering around the investigative activities of the Harbor Police, "one of the special squads whose activities have not already been worked to death (no pun intended)."
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An Eye for an Eye [SIGNED]

By: Telushkin, Joseph

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1991

Seller ID: 15317

ISBN: 0-385-42116-8

Binding: Hardcover

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 &#...
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Dead Above Ground [SIGNED]

By: Tervalon, Jervey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 2000

Seller ID: 17569

ISBN: 0-671-03468-5

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Pointed Tower

By: Thompson, Vance

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1923, 1922)

Seller ID: 19353

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Mr. Guelpa

By: Thompson, Vance

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1925)

Seller ID: 20338

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Category: Fiction: Mystery/Detective