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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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True-Life Adventure [SIGNED]

By: Smith, Julie

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Mysterious Press: (c.1985)

Seller ID: 25831

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book is tight and clean, with no discernible wear; jacket shows just a bit of wear at the extremities]. SIGNED by the author in red felt-tip pen on the title page (no inscription). The author's third novel, and the first Paul McDonald mystery; set in San Francisco. Signed by Author
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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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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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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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Murder Incidental

By: Trask, Keith

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart: (c.1931)

Seller ID: 20653

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Morgue the Merrier

By: Truesdell, June

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1945

Seller ID: 16454

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Wrong Body

By: Van Sickle, V.A.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York/London, Alfred A. Knopf: 1937

Seller ID: 23708

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

(in Grosset & Dunlap reissue dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, very slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, top front corner bumped; jacket shows a little wear at edges and corners, faint staining at bottom corner of rear panel]. Mystery novel with a resurrectionist angle, involving a racketeer who's died in prison -- well, actually, he's basically volunteered to be executed by carbon monoxide gas, as part of his agreement to be the subject of an experimental technique designed to bring victims of such poisoning back to life -- the condition for his cooperation being that if it...
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Detective

By: Vance, Louis Joseph

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/London, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1932

Seller ID: 19858

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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.)
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Pool of Tears

By: Wainwright, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1977

Seller ID: 4985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very mild wear to bottom of book; jacket rubbed but still clean and attractive, a couple of small edge-tears in rear panel].
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A Talent for Murder

By: Wells, Anna Mary

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1942

Seller ID: 17652

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[spine slightly turned, small stain on top edge, some discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers; jacket is heavily edgeworn, little bits of paper loss at spine ends and several corners, shallow chip at upper left-hand corner of front panel]. A psychoanalytical murder mystery, in which the accused murderess doesn't actually know if she's guilty or not. Although she testifies to her innocence in court and is acquitted, every night "she dreamed an altogether different story of what had happened, until at last she did not know which version was true and whether the truth might not be still an...
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Pursuit of a Parcel

By: Wentworth, Patricia

Price: $125.00

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

Seller ID: 17199

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [lightly worn copy, minor spotting to covers, spine cloth a little bit faded, slight bumping at spine ends and several corners]. The third and last of the author's "Inspector Lamb" mysteries.
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The Hidden Portal

By: Weston, Garnett

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. for The Crime Club: 1946

Seller ID: 22703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[nice tight book, minimal shelfwear, light spotting to top edge of text block, moderate offsetting to endpapers; jacket has a couple of tiny closed tears and associated minor creasing along top edge of front panel, old department store price sticker affixed to top of rear flap]. Mystery-adventure set in Spanish Morocco, involving "an attempt to reach Gibraltar through an underwater passage newly discovered after two thousand years of secrecy." The dust jacket sports one of those Dali-inspired illustrations that were all the rage for mystery novels during the 1940s.
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She Faded into Air

By: White, Ethel Lina

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: (c.1941)

Seller ID: 16280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[solid copy with minor shelfwear, light age-toning to page edges, very light stain on top edge, old price-sticker shadow on ffep; jacket shows minor paper loss at a few corners, slight wrinkling and minor wear along top and bottom edges, minor paper loss at spine ends (no text loss)]. Another variation on the "vanishing woman" theme by this author, whose best-known book, "The Wheel Spins," served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film "The Lady Vanishes." In this instance, she doubles up: two girls vanish mysteriously in the course of the story, from the same ro...
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Category: Fiction: Mystery/Detective