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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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Trial Run

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row. "A Joan Kahn Book.": 1978

Seller ID: 019482

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light soil to top edge and to top corner of front free endpaper. Jacket bright with paper clip indent to top of front flap. Closed tear to top of rear panel. Hardcover in black quarter cloth & dark gray paper-wrapped boards. Map endpapers. A former steeplechase rider is asked to protect a member of the Royal Family who is riding in the Moscow Olympics. One of Dick Francis' earlier novels.
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The Cavalier Case

By: Fraser, Anthea

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1991

Seller ID: 019451

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book is square, tight & clean. Light rubbing to head of jacket spine. No tears or chips. A Jemima Shore mystery. The portrait of a 17th century Cavalier, poet & soldier seems to be stepping out of his portraits and attacking the residents of his former home Lackland Court. Jemima's attraction for the Cavalier brings her to the attention of the present lord, a tennis star & his family. Then the butler is murdered.
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Arlette

By: Freeling, Nicolas (1927-2003)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books.: 1981

Seller ID: 019331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book is square & tight in gray quarter cloth & black cloth boards. Jacket edge rubbed with small closed tear at top of front panel & crease to rear flap. The author's 2nd novel to feature Arlette, the widow of Inspector van der Valk. (The first was The Widow). The story of a missing boy and the seamier side of life in Strasbourg.
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The Back of the NorthWind.

By: Freeling, Nicolas (1927-2003)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Viking.: 1985

Seller ID: 019364

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice copy. Small soil spot on fore edge. Jacket lightly edge rubbed. No tears or chips. The 7th Henri Castang mystery. Just back from vacation, Castang must deal with the cannibalistic murder of a young woman and a ruthless bid for political power that will stop at nothing.
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Sand Castles

By: Freeling, Nicolas (1927-2003)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press: 1990

Seller ID: 019411

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover in black quarter cloth & purple paper-wrapped boards. Light soil to top edge. Light crease to top of front jacket flap. First published in Great Britain in 1989. The last novel in the Inspector Piet Van der Valk series. On vacation with his wife on the North Holland coast, Van der Valk stumbles on a local protection racket. And that's just the beginning.
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The Dresden Green

By: Freeling, Nicolas (1927-2003)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1966

Seller ID: 020053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Text bright in solid binding. Slight spine lean & soil to top edge. Jacket bright with light rubbing to tips & small chips to spine ends. The author's 8th mystery novel. First published in the U.K. by Gollancz in the same year. A quiet, orderly man. A translator for an international organization is bicycling through a pasture when he discovers a dying man. The man last gasp is for the man to dig near the roots of a nearby tree. He digs up a buried silver box containing the Dresden Green, all 40 carats of it.
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Strike Out Where Not Applicable

By: Freeling, Nicolas (1927-2003)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1967

Seller ID: 020054

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is bright in solid binding. Slight spine lean. Jacket edge rubbed with small chips to edges. $4.95 price on front flap. The author's 8th Commissaire Van der Valk mystery. The small town innkeeper dies in an "accident." The local doctor in the town of Lisse in the tulip-growing countryside is worried. Van der Valk aided by his wife Arlette investigate.
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Tsing-Boom

By: Freeling, Nicolas (1927-2003)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row.: 1969

Seller ID: 020103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

An ex-library copy. Signs of pocket removal on front free endpaper. Library sticker on lower jacket spine. Library stamps on title page & copyright page. Small inked initial on rear blank page. Text is bright in slightly cocked binding. The author's 8th Commissaire Van der Valk mystery. A woman is brutally murdered. Her husband, a Dutch Sergeant major, is apparently not the murderer. Van der Valk goes to France to investigate the woman's past leading to a General and Viet Nam. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Slight pull at head of spine. Book is clean in solid binding. Jacket lightly rubbe...
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Mr. Pottermack's Oversight

By: Freeman, R(ichard) Austin (1862-1943)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co.: 1930

Seller ID: 019280

Binding: Hardcover in cloth boards.

Condition: Very Good

Hardcover in red cloth boards. Dust soil to top edge. Fading to spine. Tear to last text page (advert). Binding square & solid. Facsimile dust jacket bright. Features forensic investigator Dr. John Thorndyke. Originally published in England by Hodder in the same year.
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Charlie Muffin and Russian Rose

By: Freemantle, Brian

Price: $14.50

Publisher: London, Century Publishing Co. Ltd.: 1985

Seller ID: 019567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Very light rubbing to jacket extremities. The author's 6th Charlie Muffin novel. Given the choice of serving a 14 year sentence in Wormwood Scrubs or going to Moscow to bring out a Russian spy, Charlie chooses the obvious. But this could lead to a lifetime in a Russian gulag. Or Charlie could fall in love with the spy.
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Charlie Muffin San

By: Freemantle, Brian

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, Century Hutchinson Ltd.: 1987

Seller ID: 019685

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is square, tight & clean. Light rubbing to spine ends. Light rubbing to jacket extremities. The author's 7th Charlie Muffin novel. Charlie is sent to Japan to coordinate the defection of a top Moscow hit man & his wife and to cope with the CIA who are planning retribution against him for entrapping their Director.
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Comrade Charlie

By: Freemantle, Brian

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1992

Seller ID: 019695

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book is square, tight & clean. Light rubbing to jacket extremities. The 9th novel in the Charlie Muffin series. As the Soviet Union comes apart, they at intent on beating American development of the Star Wars Defense Program. Charlie becomes involved when he discovers a British traitor helping the Russians. And old flame Natalia Fedova is trying to bring about Charlie's destruction.
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The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley (1889-1970)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Roslyn, NY, Walter J. Black: 1962

Seller ID: 019256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Tan cloth boards. Light soil to top edge & toning just starting to end papers. Binding solid & tight with bright text. Jacket edge worn with small chips to head of spine. A Perry Mason mystery. Horse racing & embezzled funds. A sizzling trial.
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The Case of the Queenly Contestaant and Traps Need Fresh Bait

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley (1889-1970) and pseudonym A. A. Fair.

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Roslyn, NY, Walter J. Black, Inc. (Detective Book Club).: 1967

Seller ID: 019342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Tan cloth boards. Slight spine lean and very light foxing just starting to top & fore edges. Jacket rubbed with small chips at extremities. A later Perry Mason mystery along with a Donald Lam - Bertha Cool mystery.
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The Ascent of D-13

By: Garve, Andrew (pseudonym of Paul Winterton) (1908-2001)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1968

Seller ID: 020044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is square, tight & clean with light rubbing to spine ends. Jacket lightly edge rubbed & price clipped. "A grand mountain-climbing tale in which the hazards of the game are portrayed with chilling authenticity ... As a romantic adventure yarn this is top drawer." Barbara Bannon
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