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Circulo Peligroso
Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Molino, 1070. Sticker removal. Spanish-language edition of 'Circle of Danger'. (more information)
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Blood Knot
Kensington/Zebra Books: New York, NY, 1982. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st Printing. Worn, rolled, creased. Store stamp. "It was always a different girl, but the routine was always the same. He'd savor the fullness of her lips, caress the smoothness of her skin, and stroke the velvet of her long, long legs. Slowly he would build to his moment of victory. His breath would quicken, his muscles would strain, and his excitement would peak when he forced her cries of ecstasy into screams of terror . . . (more information)
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No-Frills Mystery
Jove Books: New York, NY, 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1st Printing. A "No-Frills Book", "complete with everything: detective, telephone, mysterious woman, corpses, money, rain". (more information)
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The Turquoise Spike
Fawcett Gold Medal d1816. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1967, 1st Edition. PBO. Well-worn, cocked, creased, browning. "A heel was the weapon--and a heel the victim. (more information)
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The Woman in the Picture
Mass Market Paperback. Good. Popular Library 65, 1945, 1st printing. Water-stained. "Taylor Damon's hopes for political power rested on the career of his puppet, Eugene Penfield . . . Only two things stood in Damon's way. One was a group of liberal patriots . . . The other was the possibility that Marta Penfield was still alive--for she was the only one who could know whether Penfield's best friend had died accidentally or been murdered. (more information)
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The Big Steal
Priory 1054, 1964. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st Printing. "A half-crazed killer on the loose from Broadmoor . . . together with a bunch of twilight people from Bruno's Striporama in Soho: a forgotten idol of the teenage mass, a has-been film producer, a dead-beat sob-sister--each desperately trying to find a way out. (more information)
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Seven Votes for Death
Gold Medal k1418. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1964, 1st Edition. PBO. Slightly worn, warped, rubbed. Photo cover. "The count against Lorig stood at seven votes for deat. One woman could save him--if she cast the final ballot with her body. (more information)
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Fete Fatale
W.W. Norton: New York, NY, 1994. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 6th Printing. (more information)
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Opening Act: The Hoodlum's Nightingale
Dawn Publishing (Marina Del Ray). Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1991, 1st printing. Light wear, bumping. The first novel by the songwriter for Maurice Chevalier, Shirley Bassey, Don Rickles and Jimmy Durante; producer of the Bobby Riggs vs. Billie Jean King tennis match; producer of Vegas shows such as "New Comers of 1928" and "Jackie Barnett's Playgirls"; and Warner Brothers recording artist, including 2 spoken word albums with Sidney Poitier. All that said, this book really bites . . . (more information)
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Muerte en la Habitacion Silenciosa
Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Molino, 1967. "Acosado por todos, gangsters y policias, logra descubrir al culpable." Spanish-language edition of 'Death Is a Silent Room'. (more information)
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Murder Money
Crest s524. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1962, 1st printing. Spine bent, with slight tearing. Wear, creasing. "Found: One hundred grand in crisp bills--for the loser it was the end of the line; for the finder, the beginning of a nightmare. (more information)
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Trent's Last Case
Penguin 78. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1937, 2nd. Owner's name. (more information)
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The Kidnapper
Tor Books: New York, NY, 1988. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st Printing. Wear, tear, creasing, light browning. Psychological crime thriller about a kidnapping for ransom gone horribly wrong. Reprint of the scarce 1954 edition. (more information)
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Killer's Choice
Graphic Mystery 136. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1956, 1st Edition. PBO. Last (non-text) page torn. Spine bumped, bent, creased. Wear, creasing to covers. "Pick a body--any body . . . Any body at all, Norden. Pick old man Decker who hired you to rig his own murder . . . Or Linda, the mint-lush baby with the horizontal husband . . . Or maybe you'd like Alene of the lurid dreams. Choose well--for your own salvation, Norden! The web draws tight, a web no lousy private peep can hope to escape. A ten-million-dollar corpse--a million-dollar baby--or a gal who gives it away . . . Pick one, Norden. (more information)
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The Body
Signet 1527. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1958, 1st printing. Light creasing, browning, wear. An Al Wheeler novel. "Killers are his business. Dames are his pleasure. In this case he tangles with both. When hard-drinking, quick-thinking Al Wheeler goes gunning for the murderer of two call girls, he tangles with a luscious blonde, a big-time racketeer, and a well-stacked redhead who works in a fashionable mortuary. (more information)
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The Naked Hours
Popular Library 732. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1956, 1st Edition. PBO. Tiny open tear to back cover, few pages. Worn, creased. "All of Agnes Bailey's millions couldn't buy back her youth. But she could purchase a husband--and handsome young Jack Cowan was a man for sale. Cowan was also a man with a roving eye--and when his gaze fell on the lush beauty of Lily Brazil, their affair blazed hotter than a five-alarm fire. But Lily had a jealous gangster lover and a kill-crazy brother with a score to settle. Cowan was at their mercy. and he paid for his weakness in horror and destruction. (more information)
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Halo in Brass
Dennis McMillan Publications: Missoula, Montana, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 1st Printing. Edge wear, slight creasing, browning. Cover art by Joe Servello. Originally published in 1949. A Paul Pine novel. "It started as a routine case for Paul Pine--just a job for a friend, the job of finding Laura Fremont, a girl who went to Chicago from Lincoln, Nebraska, and stopped writing to her parents. But even before he left the land of the cornhuskers, Pine had been knocked cold and was involved in a murder. (more information)
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The Ace of Death
Dale Books 01561: New York, NY, 1979. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 1st Printing. When an Atlantic City showgirl is murdered, a professional gambler helps find the killer. (more information)
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Night Beat
Tempo Books 5332: New York, NY, 1970. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st Edition. PBO. Cover hole-punched. Wear, creasing. "A tough, fast-paced documentary novel about a young cop! (more information)
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Crazy to Kill
Macfadden Books 35-119: New York, NY, 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st Printing. Reading crease, browning. Light edge wear, sunning, cocking. "The nurses and doctors huddled together like frightened sheep--only the patients were not alarmed at finding a killer in their midst!" Originally published in 1941. (more information)
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The Kid Was a Killer
Gold Medal s1002. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1960, 1st Edition. PBO. Light wear, creasing, browning. Novel by the infamous death row inmate. (more information)
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
Penguin Books: New York, NY, 1975. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st Printing. Covers soiled. (more information)
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The Labors of Hercules
Dell Publishing 491: New York, NY, 1951. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. 1st Printing. Cover torn at spine, pages loosening at bottom edge. Light water-staining to top edge. Wear, creasing, cocking, browning. A Dell map-back. (more information)
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Death Comes As the End
Pocket Books 465: New York, NY, 1947. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st Printing. Edge wear, creasing, cocking. Tiny red spots to back cover. Murder mystery set in ancient Egypt. (more information)
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The Mafia
Belmont Books 50274: New York, NY, 1972. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st Printing. Stained. Originally titled 'The Savage'. (more information)
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Pressure
Signet 942. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1952, 1st printing. Bumped, twisted, water-stained, worn. "I was a struggling lawyer with a wife and a child and an income that never went over three thousand a year. One day a man came to my office to offer me a retainer for a quick job. I felt something was wrong--but I needed the money. Before long I was the front man for an octopus-like crime syndicate that would not let me escape. (more information)
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The Further Adventures of Solar Pons #9
Pinnacle Books. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1979, 1st Edition. PBO. Creasing, slight water damage, wear, browning. Faint date stamp. Based on the characters and series created by August Derleth. Oddly, has an introduction to the Dr. Who series by Harlan Ellison in the back. (more information)
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Heroin Is My Shepherd
Courier Graphics (Phoenix). Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1978, 1st printing. Wear, rubbing, creasing. Heroin is my shepherd; I shall always want. She maketh me to lie down in dark gutters; she leadeth me beside rough waters; she relieveth my pain; she leadeth me in the path of crime and self-destruction for her namesake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of pain and torment, I will fear not; for thou art with me; thy syringe and thy needles, they comfort me. Thou preparest a fix for me in the prescence of my pain and sorrow; thou fillest my head with wonder; my vein runneth over. Surely, no goodness nor mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the devil forever; for she is my shepherd. (more information)
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Morgue for Venus
Belmont Tower BT 50629: New York, NY, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1st Printing. Cocking, creasing, sunning. "When they fished her body out of the river all Selby and Rayder knew was that she was very young, very beautiful and very dead." 'Sixth Precinct' #6. Reprint of the 1956 edition. (more information)
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My Favorite Mystery Stories
Bantam Pathfinder HP4238. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1968, 1st printing. Worn, creased. 15 stories by Agatha Christie, Karel Capek, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Michael Innes, others. (more information)
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