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Tefuga

By: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books.: 1986

Seller ID: 020172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book is square & tight with clean text. Light edge wear to jacket. Former owner's name on top right corner of front free endpaper. List of seven initials on top left corner of rear pastedown endpaper. Set in colonial and present-day Nigeria. How a young English couple cope. And Nigeria now as seen by their son from corruption to a military coup.
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Some Deaths Before Dying

By: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press: 1999

Seller ID: 020173

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book is square & tight with clean text. Toning to pages just starting. Light rubbing to jacket extremities. Former owner's name on top right corner of front free endpaper. Two initials on top left corner of rear pastedown endpaper. A 90-year-old widow looks back on her life when a antique pistol owned by her late husband is featured on a television show.
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The Yellow Room Conspiracy

By: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press: 1994

Seller ID: 020174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book is tight with clean text. Slight spine lean. Crease to rear jacket flap. Former owner's name on top right corner of front free endpaper. Five initials on top left corner of rear pastedown endpaper. Set in the country house of a upper-class British family. A murder that is far different than what it first appears.
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Play Dead

By: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press: 1992

Seller ID: 020175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book is tight with clean text. Slight spine lean. Binding solid save for small crack to bottom of title page. Light rubbing to jacket corner tips. Former owner's name on top right corner of front half title page. Thirteen initials on top right corner of last page of text. Set in an English child's play center. A heroine of fifty and a hero of age two.
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The Sinful Stones

By: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, International Polygonics, Ltd.: 1991

Seller ID: 020176

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is tight with clean text. Former owner's name on top right corner of front endpaper. Four initials on top of rear blank endpaper. Origianlly published by Harper in 1970. "Funny, wild, precise, fantastic, plausible, enthralling. Exactly what you expect from a novel by Peter Dickinson."
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The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest

By: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1968

Seller ID: 020177

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is square & tight with clean text. Light rubbing to spine ends. Jacket bright. Ends rubbed with light soil to edges. Dickinson's first mystery novel. Features Inspector James Pibble.
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Hindsight

By: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books.: 1983

Seller ID: 020185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book is tight with clean text. Foxing to top edge. Light edge wear to jacket. Former owner's name on top right corner of front free endpaper. List of seven initials on top left corner of rear pastedown endpaper. A novelist relives his past to write a new novel. He now realizes that all was not as he believed.
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Walking Dead

By: Dickinson, Peter (Malcolm de Brissac) (1927-2015)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books.: 1977

Seller ID: 019622

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Saratoga Backtalk

By: Dobyns, Stephen

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Co.: 1994

Seller ID: 019369

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Church of Dead Girls

By: Dobyns, Stephen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Books. Henry Holt & Co.: 1997

Seller ID: 019961

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Light bump to head of spine. A nice copy. Three girls vanish in a small upstate New York town. With the ruinous effects of suspicion the citizens take the law into their own hands.
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Saratoga Fleshpot

By: Dobyns, Stephen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Co.: 1995

Seller ID: 019962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book is square & tight with clean text. Former owner's name to top corner of front free endpaper. List of nine initials to top left corner of rear pastedown endpaper. The 9th Charlie Bradshaw mystery. Action at the Saratoga horse auctions featuring Charlie's pal Victor Plotz.
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Saratoga Snapper

By: Dobyns, Stephen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1986

Seller ID: 019963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book is square, tight & clean. Light wear to jacket corners and crease to bottom front flap. Former owner's name to top corner of front free endpaper. List initials to top left corner of rear pastedown endpaper. The 4th Charlie Bradshaw mystery. Charlie's friend Victor Plotz becomes the Saratoga Snapper taking pictures of tourists...until his camera is stolen.
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Cold Dog Soup

By: Dobyns, Stephen

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1985

Seller ID: 019964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book is square, tight & clean. Former owner's name to top corner of front free endpaper. The adventures of Lathmer, an innocent abroad in New York City. He needs to get rid of a dead dog! With the help of a philosophical Haitian cab driver he begins an adventure that he will never forget.
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A Boat Off the Coast

By: Dobyns, Stephen

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1987

Seller ID: 019965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is square, tight & clean. Former owner's name to top corner of front free endpaper. "Compelling portrait of the desperation of a place and the people who live there." Drug running. A Vietnam vet who wants to take his 2-year old son to a ghost town where he can make his own rules. And a dockworker who wants a Corvette in the worst way.
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Good Morning, Irene

By: Douglas, Carole Nelson

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, A TOR Book / A Tom Doherty Associates Book.: 1991

Seller ID: 019596

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Family Affair

By: Eberhart, Mignon G (1899-1996)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Random House.: 1981

Seller ID: 019257

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Hasty Wedding

By: Eberhart, Mignon G (1899-1996)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Triaangle Books: 1943

Seller ID: 019326

Binding: Hardcover

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."
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The Valentine Estate

By: Ellin, Stanley

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Random House.: 1968

Seller ID: 019466

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Loring Mystery

By: Farnol, (John) Jeffery (1878-1952)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1925

Seller ID: 019680

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book is square & tight with bright text in solid binding. Navy boards. Fading to spine. Jacket bright with $2.00 price intact on front flap. Light rubbing & edge wear. Chips to extremities. The 3rd Sgt. Jasper Shrig mystery by the author. Set in England in 1818. A young American arrives in England to claim his country estate only to be murdered.
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The Memoirs of Schlock Homes

By: Fish, Robert L(loyd) (1912-1981)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.: 1974

Seller ID: 019635

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Hardcover fine in black quarter cloth & brown paper-wrapped boards. Wear & chips to jacket extremities. Price ($6.50) intact on front flap. The sequel to "The Incredible Schlock Homes." Subtitled "A Bagel Street Dozen" the book, of course, contains 11 stories of Homes & Watney.
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