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By: Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1962
Edition: First U. K. Edition.
Seller ID: 019810
Condition: Very Good
Introduction from "The Simple Art of Murder" including the spelling error on page 8 (Premiss" instead of premise. Book is square, tight & clean. Slight spine lean. Jacket bright with edge rubbing & closed tears on spine ends. Three full length novels of Chandler at his best. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cleveland and New York, World Publishing Co.: 1946
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 019329
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth boards. Binding tight & square. Text toned as is usual with this publisher. Rubbing to extremities. Jacket bright with photos from the film on front & rear panels. Front flap clipped at top corner. Edge worn with 1/2" chip at head of spine. This is a movie tie-in for the 1944 film-noir classic "Murder My Sweet" starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor & Mike Mazurki. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. (The 1st film version of Farewell, My Lovely). View more info
By: Charles, Kate ( pseudonym of Carol A Chase)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press: 1996
Edition: First U.S. Edition.
Seller ID: 019461
Condition: Near Fine
Tiny dot of soil to book fore edge. Book is square & tight. Appears to be unread. The author's 5th mystery novel to feature amateur sleuth Lucy Kingsley and solicitor David Midddleton-Brown. Set in a small Norfolk village, terrifying phone calls are attacking the local rector's young bride. View more info
By: Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) (1874-1936)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co.: 1930
Edition: First U.S. Edition.
Seller ID: 019610
Condition: Good
Bright boards front & rear. Sunning & foxing to spine. Brown top edges. Crack at half title page. Binding holding. Bookseller stamp at top corner of front free endpaper. Former owner's name, town & date (11/29/35) on title page. Text clean & illustrated endpapers. Four mystery short stories with prologue. "The Moderate Murderer," The Honest Quack," The Ecstatic Thief," & "The Loyal Traitor." View more info
By: Christie, Agatha
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd Mead & Co.: 1967
Edition: First U.S. Edition..
Seller ID: 019636
Condition: Very Good
Text bright in solid binding. Stain to top of front cover. Jacket price clipped with 1" chip to head of spine & edge wear. A non-series novel. A newly-wed couple are threatened after building their dream home on the cursed Gypsy's Acre. Basis for the 1972 film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Hayley Mills, & George Sanders. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster.: 1993
Edition: First Edition.
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 019423
Condition: Near Fine
Signed by the author on the title page. Small address stamp on both endpapers. Tiny chip at head of spine. A television news reporter makes a startling discovery while covering the emergency room in a large metropolitan hospital. View more info
By: Clark, Mary Higgins & Alafair Burke
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster.: 2014
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 019654
Condition: Near Fine
Book is square & tight. Tiny initials in top corner of front free endpaper. The two author's first collaboration. Featuring characters from Clark's bestseller "I've Got You Under My Skin." Laurie Moran, creator of the true crime drama television show, investigates the murder of a beautiful UCLA student and asks why was she missing on of her shoes when she was killed. View more info
By: Collins, Michael
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury USA: 2006
Edition: 1st U.S. Edition
Seller ID: 019603
Condition: Fine
Light rubbing to jacket corners & rubbing to rear cover. A one time literary prodigy is now a depressed college professor. His unsuccessful suicide leaves him in a barely conscious state. A novel is found in his basement describing a local child murder. Blend of suspense & psychological complexity & yes even humor. View more info
By: Cornwell, Patricia D(aniels).
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons.: 1990
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 019439
Condition: Very Good
Light curl to wrapper tips. Solid unread copy of the Advance, Uncorrected Reading Copy of the 2nd Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel. The Chief Medical Examiner becomes involved in the case of a stalker turned murderer? View more info
By: Coxe, George Harmon (1901-1984)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf.: 1950
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019616
Condition: Very Good
Book bound in orange patterned paper-wrapped boards. Rubbing to extremities with small tear to bottom of fore edge. Text clean in solid binding. Jacket worn with large chip to bottom of spine. Front flap loose. Wear to all edges. The author's first mystery to feature Sam Crombie. A bride to be looses two prospective husbands to death. Now the third is slumped in a chair with a bullet hole in his chest. View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons.: 1987
Edition: First Edition.
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 17678
278 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Dorothy Salisbury Davis was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. This is her 4th novel featuring newspaper columnist & part time sleuth Julie Hayes. Fine in fine dust jacket. As new Hardcover in red quarter cloth & blue paper-wrapped boards. View more info
By: Dibdin, Michael
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada Ltd.: 1998
Edition: First Canadian Edition..
Seller ID: 019552
Condition: Fine
Nice copy. Light bumping to jacket extremities. An Italian Criminalpol officer Aurelio Zen novel. Back in Rome, Zen is asked by a famous film director to arrange the release of the scion of a great wine-growing family jailed ror the murder of his own father. View more info
By: Dibdin, Michael
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019699
Condition: Fine
Uncorrected Bound Galleys. Wraps protected by clear plastic. An Italian Criminalpol officer Aurelio Zen novel. Back in Rome, Zen is asked by a famous film director to arrange the release of the scion of a great wine-growing family jailed for the murder of his own father. View more info
By: Dibdin, Michael
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019700
Condition: Fine
Uncorrected Bound Galleys. Wraps protected by clear plastic. Aurelio Zen is assigned to Sicily. An order that he has been dreading. His new post starts with a gruesome, unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railroad wagon. View more info
By: Dickinson, Peter (Malcolm de Brissac) (1927-2015)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books.: 1977
Edition: First American Edition.
Seller ID: 019622
Condition: Very Good
Book is tight & text clean. Slight spine lean. Former owner's name & date (3/21/78) on front free endpaper. Jacket rubbing to extremities. No tears or chips. Set in a corrupt & backward Caribbean state, Dr. David Foxe trains rats to run through mazes. Foxe is running through his own maze leading him to a a psychotic prime minister, political prisoners attempting to escape by magical means & the crazy mother of the president. View more info
By: Dobyns, Stephen
Price: $13.50
Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Co.: 1994
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 019369
Condition: Fine
Inscribed by the author on the title page. Dobyns' 8th Charlie Bradshaw mystery. Charlie is on jury duty. His sidekick, Victor Plotz investigates the death of a wealthy horse owner who was kicked to death by a horse. Luckily Charlie comes to clear up things up. View more info
Price: $14.50
Publisher: New York, A TOR Book / A Tom Doherty Associates Book.: 1991
Edition: First Edition..
Seller ID: 019596
Condition: Near Fine
Light soil to top edge near spine. Otherwise fine in square, tight & clean boards. The author's 2nd Irene Adler novel. Set in 1890s Paris, Irene meets Sarah Bernhardt, investigates the drowning of a tattooed sailor, and, of course, Sherlock Holmes plays a role. View more info
By: Eberhart, Mignon G (1899-1996)
Price: $12.50
Publisher: New York, Random House.: 1981
Edition: First Edition..
Seller ID: 019257
Condition: Fine
Book is square, tight & clean. Jacket price clipped with two small closed tears on top edge. Set in New York City. An idyllic family is shocked by the murder of a mean & petty stepson. By the winner of the 1971 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. View more info
By: Eberhart, Mignon G (1899-1996)
Price: $12.50
Publisher: New York, Triaangle Books: 1943
Edition: Reprint..
Seller ID: 019326
Condition: Good
Book binding is square & tight. Edges worn to board extremities. Former owner's name whited out. Text clean with toning usual for this publisher. Jacket edge worn. Cover art bright. By the winner of the 1971 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. On the eve of her wedding, a Chicago heiress is called by her ex-lover who pleads for her to change her mind. The next morning he is dead. Basis for th 1945 film "Three's a Crowd." View more info
By: Ellin, Stanley
Price: $12.50
Publisher: New York, Random House.: 1968
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019466
Condition: Near Fine
Book plate on front free endpaper. Slight spine lean. Binding solid & text clean. Red top edge. Light rubbing to jacket edges. Price intact on top of front flap. A dead-broke former Wimbledon tennis champion is now working in a tennis shop in Miami. A timid Boston girl offers him $50,000 to marry her. And then things get interesting! Vintage Ellin. View more info
