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Don't Cry for Long

By: Dewey, Thomas B(lanchard) (1915-1981)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1965

Seller ID: 020473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is square, tight & clean. Light toning to text just starting. White cloth boards & brown top edge. Light edge wear to jacket with tear to bottom edge of rear panel. Featuring the author's series character Mac, the Chicago private eye. Here he is bodyguard for the18 year-old hellcat daughter of a famous politician. Her former bodyguard murdered.
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A Long Finish

By: Dibdin, Michael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada Ltd.: 1998

Seller ID: 019552

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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A Long Finish

By: Dibdin, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 1998

Seller ID: 019699

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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Blood Rain

By: Dibdin, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 2000

Seller ID: 019700

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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Death of a Unicorn

By: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books.: 1984

Seller ID: 020171

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. Features the story of an ex-deb-of-the-year whose world collapses in tragedy. 30-years later, now a best-selling author, a voice from her past reappears.
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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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