Fiction Detective

William Morrow & Co, 1990 Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $18.95 - 261 pages - NO writing, marks and tears inside book. The opening evocation of Chandler's Philip Marlowe is apt in this wonderfully plotted, fast-moving, slightly jaded mystery. Private eye/narrator Jack Kyle ( Dallas Drop ) is hired by rich, mysterious Cypriot Guy Borodin to follow and photograph his much younger wife, Sylvia. She leads Jack and his operatives on a mildly merry chase, which climaxes in a steamy sex scene that Jack gets on videotape. But preparing a celebratory dinner after making his final report to Borodin, Jack is attacked by thugs. Then the case really blows up with some high-tech murders and the beating of an undercover Fed. Eventually we learn of a triple scam involving Feds, superchips and shady foreign money. Many characters have shocking double identities but Abshire plays fair and we're satisfied at the wry wrap-up. We also get a good look at detection, Texas-style (``PIs don't get to carry guns in Texas'') and the possible Manhattanization of Dallas (``Try to find a 7-Eleven clerk who speaks English''). Purists will also be pleased with a PI who smokes and drinks too much. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Intrigue Press, 2001 Near-new condition - Price inside dustcover: $23.95 - ONLY writing/mark is previous owner's name stamp in book front - on blank page - Tight spine - Bright pages - 294 pages - One of the three premier releases in Intrigue’s new WorldKrime series, The Viper’s Kiss is a refreshing return to the hardboiled, masculine edge of detective fiction, as well as an exciting example of the international mystery. Middle-aged private eye Chrisostomos Zaras is given a break from chasing adulterers when a whiskey smuggler hires him to find a missing thief, along with a lost fortune. Leaving his native country of Greece for the tension-filled shores of Cyprus, Zaras immediately seeks out the island’s criminal network. Zaras’ only link to the nefarious underground operating in the town of Limassol is the beautiful and elusive Lena, secretary and mistress to the mob, whose motives, though plainly stated, he suspects are far more dubious. With the help of his taxi-driver sidekick, Nikitas, Zaras uncovers a plot involving Greek mobsters, drug trafficking, corrupt officials, and murderous Turks, with hidden agendas around every corner. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A.: Foul Play Pr, 1992 Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $20.00 - Stated First Edition - ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's initials (tiny) in book front - on blank page - NO tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 224 pages - Back from Rome, their ninth frantic escapade mercifully ended, Penny and Sir Toby decide it's high time for a rest. When they get the chance to return to Cape Cod, the scene of their second misadventure, they can't resist. But they soon have a dead body on their hands, and a puzzle-within-a-puzzle to decipher as well.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 1996 Very-nice, clean copy - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - 400 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Willy Hanson, cagey entertainment czar who's seen his share of danger, is in the game again. But this time he's not the quarry, he's the hunter. Willy won't rest until he finds his best friend's killer. Up against a female fatale whose turn-ons are kinky sex and murder, and whose partner is a sadistic killer who'd make Charles Manson proud, Willy's luck may have run out.. Mass Market Paperback. Near-Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988 Near-new condition. Stated First U.S. Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 200 pages. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Clive Bingley / Linnet Books, 1975 A photo of this book is available. Very-good, ex-libris copy. Usual library markings. Inner pages are free from writing and marks. Tight spine, bright pages. 121 pages. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Berkley Prime Crime, 1999 Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $21.95 - Tight spine - Bright pages - 326 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Southern California P.I. Wil Hardesty is a man whose search for the truth always seems to draw him back into his own troubled past, a past shadowed by loss. Doc Whitney was a country music star whose career had just gone platinum when he was convicted for the brutal slayings of his wife and young daughters. Now twenty years later, their paths collide when Doc is paroled from prison and returns to California's hot, dusty Central Valley...where grudges die hard and the road leads to places best left unexplored. Through a maze of secrets and lies that threaten crash-and-burn with each passing moment, through switchbacks of twisted loyalties and grim betrayal, Wil must reconstruct a life, discover the real Doc Whitney, track down a killer. And, of course, survive.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Bantam Books, 1997 Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. - Annotation Readers love her as an author, now they'll embrace her as the sleuth in Stephanie Barron's new mysteries. Not long after Jane Austen arrives at the estate of her friend, the Countess of Scargrave, her elderly husband, the Earl, succumbs to a mysterious illness. The widow then becomes the target of some sinister accusations. Jane attempts to get to the bottom of this complex puzzle, putting herself in the gravest jeopardy as she follows a trail of clues that leads all the way to the House of Lords. From the Publisher "I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull." To Jane Austen's surprise, her visit to the snowy Hertfordshire estate of young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, will be far from dull. She has scarcely arrived when the Earl - a gentleman of mature years - is felled by a mysterious ailment too agonizing and violent to credit to a fondness for claret and pudding. Scargrave's death seems a cruel blow of fate for Isobel, married but three months. Yet the bereaved widow soon finds that it's only the beginning of her misfortune ... as she receives a sinister missive accusing her and the Earl's nephew of adultery - and murder. Desperately afraid that the letter will expose her and Viscount Fitzroy Payne, for whom she bears a secret tendresse, to the worst sort of scandal, Isobel begs her friend Jane for help. Which is how Jane finds herself embroiled in an investigation that hinges on the motives of Scargrave Manor's guests. Still, Jane is troubled by memories of the Earl's tragic demise. And when the menacing letter writer is found bloodily dispatched, in circumstances that overwhelmingly incriminate Isobel and Lord Payne, Jane knows that there is no time to waste in discovering the truth. A missing locket, a monogrammed handkerchief, an ancestral ghost, and the deadly fruit of a tropical tree are among the markers of a trail that will lead all the way to the House of Lords and Newgate Prison - and may well place Jane's own person in the gravest jeopardy. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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The M.S. Mill Co. And William Morrow & Co., 1955 Dustcover shows wear & some tear - Book is in near-fine condition - No tears - Tight spine - Previous owner's name label in book front - on blank page (crossed out) - "Ben Benson's brilliantly accurate stories of the Massachusetts State Police have earned him world-wide acclaim. Here, in a fine new novel, Benson again stars his eager young rookie trooper, Ralph Lindsey." . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near-Fine/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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St Martins Pr, 1991 Near-new condition. Stated First U.S. Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $15.95. NO writing, marks or tear inside book. 175 pages. Pages show very-slight tanning. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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J.B. Lippincott Company, 1952 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER - 52-5633 - 222 PAGES. - No writing - No tears inside book - Tight spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Random House Inc, 2003 ADVANCE READING COPY - Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - "There used to be a writer by the name of Merle Miller, who wrote that people in Hollywood are always touching you - not because they like you, but because they want to see how soft you are before they eat you alive. So begins this novel by Steven Bochco, in which a down-on-his-luck screenwriter named Bobby Newman tries to turn a brutal murder into his next movie payday. One day, while spying on his Hollywood Hills neighbors through his $4,000 Bushnell XR90 electronic telescope, Bobby sees a beautiful socialite making love to a handsome Latin actor named Ramon. When their pillow talk takes a turn for the ugly, Bobby watches in horror as the woman bludgeons her lover to death with his own acting trophy. Deciding to write about it instead of reporting it to the cops, Bobby insinuates himself into Detective Dennis Farentino's murder investigation, forging an unusual friendship with the cop that turns out to be more complex than either of them had bargained for. Before long, Bobby has dragged the detective, his estranged wife, his lover, and his agent into a Hollywood funhouse hall of mirrors, where only the most manipulative player will survive. . Trade Paperback. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). more information

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow, 1995 Price inside dustcover: $23.00 - Wheeler Cassidy, charming black sheep of a wealthy Beverly Hills family, has never done much with his life except play golf, drink, and seduce other men's wives. But after his politically connected brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous journey to find himself and the Chinese gangsters who murdered the only member of his family he ever really loved. Along the way, he teams up with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful African-American detective raised in South Central L.A. and now assigned to the LAPD's Asian Crimes Task Force. Together they face the violence and corruption that stretches from Hong Kong's most notorious criminal Triad to the highest reaches of the American government. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1993 Murder in a quiet corner of southern Indiana serves to introduce Carlson's ( Bad Blood ) new sleuth, deputy sheriff Martine ``Marty'' Hopkins. Although Marty discovers a freshly dug grave with Klan marking and a mutilated corpse (the victim's genitals are stuffed in his mouth), the sheriff assigns her to a different ``project''--checking on the latest ravings of retired judge Hal Denton. The judge, plagued by a brain tumor and seizures, claims that his daughter, Phyllis, who disappeared eight years earlier when she was 13, is trying to kill him. His ramblings also mention a biologist named Wolfe whom Marty tracks down. The enigmatic Professor Wolfe, a woman whose interest is cave fauna, not petty matters of law enforcement (``I'm a scientist. I have other concerns.''), puts Marty on the trails of Phyllis and the Klan killers. The oracular Wolfe, in her role as dispenser of crucial clues, is a thoroughly objectionable character. Those who endure her, however, will enjoy the company of intelligent, down-to-earth Marty, as she struggles to balance the demands of her with the needs of her young daughter, her flighty, self-centered husband who dreams of making it big in broadcasting, and the problems of being a ``lady sheriff.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown Pub, 1991 Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. Price inside dustcover: $20.00. 308 pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. Annotation The international bestselling author of One Police Plaza and Black Sand presents "an exciting page-turner" (Chicago Tribune). NYPD Detective Lieutenant John Vinda is a man who believes that exceptional circumstances require exceptional actions. And he's willing to bend the law to break the case of a psychopath roaming the streets who's already killed three young women. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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United Kingdom: Fourth Estate, 2004 Stated First U.S. Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $16.95. Illustrated. Tight spine, bright pages. No writing, marks or tears inside book. 131 pages. Synopsis In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story. In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his bookkeeping than his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance at once more prosaic and far more sinister? Though the solution to this last case may be beyond even the reach of the once famed sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed to the reader in a wrenching resolution to this brilliant homage. The Final Solution is a work from a master story-teller at the height of his powers. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Putnam Pub Group, 1989 Near-new condition - Appears unread - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $18.95 - Number line: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - 268 pages - When Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he left behind the first four chapters of a new Philip Marlowe thriller. Now three decades later, Robert B. Parker, the bestselling creator of the Spenser detective novels, has completed POODLE SPRINGS in a full-length masterpiece of criminal passion. Philip Marlowe is alive and well and livig in Poodle Springs, California. He's married to a wealthy heiress now. But living in the lap of luxury hasn't made a dent in Marlowe's cynicism - or in his talent for attracting trouble. Soon he's on a trail of greed, lust, and murder as dark and cunning as any he's ever seen. Philip Marlowe is back in business.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Kiefer, Alfons (cover art). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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The Mysterious Press Warner Brothers , 1994 St. Margaret's, a church in Pimlico, is not quite top drawer. It no longer rates a full-time priest and is making do with a curate, the beloved Father Julian. When he is found with his head bashed in and his sacristy ransacked, the London police call it a fatally bungled burglary. Soon he and a stolen silver chalice pass from nearly everyone's mind. Then the new curate arrives - and turns out to be a woman. And the Victorian silver church service - of which the stolen chalice is a part - turns out to be worth a king's fortune. Hired to arrange the sale of the St. Margaret's silver, David Middleton-Brown is plunged into a malicious atmosphere of anti-feminist politics, nasty rumors, and deadly suspicions. Add to this Lucy's teenage niece, Ruth, a red-haired Rottweiler of a girl who is living with Lucy and doing a stint in David's office as a school project. When the mayhem at St. Margaret's escalates with two more killings and the poisoning of a pet cat, Ruth decides to play detective. But murder is not a game, and St. Margaret's is no place for a schoolgirl. David and Lucy realize a ruthless murderer lurks among the smarmy clergy and irate parishioners. To uncover the culprit before Ruth becomes the next victim, they must go back to the genesis of it all: the dead man out of mind, Father Julian - and a lethal liturgy of greed, secrets, and twisted love. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Prime Crime, 2004 Fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 262 pages. Synopsis New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session-when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert must rearrange the jumble of clues and pick out the killer. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Pocket Books, 1963 Very-nice, clean copy of this 1963 Agatha Christie paperback (Pocket Books Edition #4652) - May, 1963 printing - Clean covers - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine -183 pages - . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good +. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Simon & Schuster, 1996 Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly - a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team of sleuths - and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their friends in political high society. When Henry's former secretary of state is indicted for the murder of his mistress, Henry and Sunday suspect he is taking the fall for a crime of passion he did not commit. But why? With cases ranging from a crime on the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry back to the White House as he races against time to unravel the plot, there is never a dull moment for the ex-president and his bride - or the reader. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Simon & Schuster, 1996 Near-new copy. Price inside dustcover: $23.00 - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly - a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team of sleuths - and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their friends in political high society. When Henry's former secretary of state is indicted for the murder of his mistress, Henry and Sunday suspect he is taking the fall for a crime of passion he did not commit. But why? With cases ranging from a crime on the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry back to the White House as he races against time to unravel the plot, there is never a dull moment for the ex-president and his bride - or the reader. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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William Morrow & Co, 1995 Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First U.S. Edition - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. In this eleventh mystery in the Inspector Scobie Malone series, Detective Inspector Malone tries to avoid office politics, but when the Sydney Police Minister's son falls to his death, Malone is caught in the middle. From the Publisher When the Sydney police minister's son falls twenty floors to his death, the politics of murder ripple the city like a boulder into a pool. Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, as he uncovers an elaborate financial scheme, a series of cold-blooded precision killings, and layers of political intrigue. Scobie thinks he is immune to politics, but he is soon engulfed in its consequences: The police minister applies pressure; a millionaire banker becomes less than his public image; a hit man goes about his grisly work; and three of Sydney's most powerful (and libidinous) women give Scobie a glimpse of how life in Sydney really operates. Finally, when he is forced to accept aid from his onetime enemy, top criminal Jack Aldwych, now retired but still ruthless, Malone learns once again that when politics and money are arrayed against him, the odds are never even. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 2000 Near-new condition - NO price clippings - Remainder mark on bottom - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $24.95 - Tight spine - Bright pages - 372 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Two drifters pull their Caddy ragtop into a 7-Eleven outside Austin, Texas. They buy a pack of cigarettes; they shoot a guy over a penny. And hit the road to mayhem." "Wantonly the robbers - Ray Bob and Eddie, one of them a talented blues guitarist and the other a sociopath, both of them young and jobless and broke - riddle an arid landscape with the bullets and blood that set the cop, Texas Ranger Rule Hooks, doggedly on their skewed path." "Traveling east to Galveston with no long-range plans, or immediate ones, either, Eddie and Ray Bob eventually hook up with a blonde beautician named Della. She aspires to middle-class niceties that lie beyond a life on the lam, but Eddie falls for her anyway. He decides to clean up his act. It's a decision Ray Bob increasingly resents, because they're running buddies, he and Eddie, and there's something Ray Bob's found in running with Eddie that he's not likely to give up. Except maybe over his dead body.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003 Very-nice, clean condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. 311 pages. Dustcover shows light wear (NO tears). Synopsis Barrister Trish Maguire needs all the time she can find to help her young half-brother adjust to life after the violent death of his mother. Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, has other ideas. He asks Trish to investigate one of his private charities, a magnificent art collection built up before 1914 and lost for most of the twentieth century. Taking a crash course in the murkier aspects of the art world, Trish is determined to unlock the secrets she is sure are hidden somewhere in the collection. Her research takes her not only into the heart of an engrossing love story, but also into the agonizing reality of the trenches of the First World War. She soon discovers a web of deceit that has spanned the decades since, catching all kinds of people in its filaments. Now, the innocent, the violent, and the victims all have to free themselves. And someone dies. With her trademark dexterity and hard-hitting suspense, Natasha Cooper brings us the unstoppable Trish Maguire in her most challenging and enthralling case to date.. First Edition. Half-Leather. Fine/Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Berkley Pub Group, 2004 Like-new condition - Appears unread - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings - 467 pages - In Blow Fly, Kay Scarpetta stands at the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to a jarring end. At the close of The Last Precinct, she knew she would have to leave Richmond if she were to find any peace. She feared that she was about to be fired by the governor. More alarming, she was hounded in the media and in the courtroom, for what some claimed was her involvement in the murder of a deputy police chief. So Scarpetta packed up her belongings and set out for the warmth and solace of the Florida sun. She is settling into a new life as a private forensic consultant and is deep into a case that has left colleagues in Louisiana profoundly disturbed. A woman is found dead in a seedy hotel, dressed to go out, keys in her hand. Her history of blackouts, and her violent outbursts while under their spell, offer more questions than clues about the cause of her death. Then Scarpetta receives news that chills her to the core: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne - the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman, who pursued her to her very doorstep - asks to see her. From his cell on death row, he demands an audience with the legendary Dr. Scarpetta. Only to her will he tell the secrets he knows the authorities desire: the evidence that will bring a global investigation to a swift conclusion. Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and her colleague Detective Pete Marino are left to wonder: After all the death and destruction, what sort of endgame could this violent psychopath have in mind? And could this request be somehow related to the Louisiana case? Her friends and family by her side, Scarpetta must unravel a twisting conspiracy with an international reach and confront theshock of her life - a blow that will force her to question the loyalty and trust of all she holds dear. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 2003 In Blow Fly, Kay Scarpetta stands at the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to a jarring end. At the close of The Last Precinct, she knew she would have to leave Richmond if she were to find any peace. She feared that she was about to be fired by the governor. More alarming, she was hounded in the media and in the courtroom, for what some claimed was her involvement in the murder of a deputy police chief. So Scarpetta packed up her belongings and set out for the warmth and solace of the Florida sun. She is settling into a new life as a private forensic consultant and is deep into a case that has left colleagues in Louisiana profoundly disturbed. A woman is found dead in a seedy hotel, dressed to go out, keys in her hand. Her history of blackouts, and her violent outbursts while under their spell, offer more questions than clues about the cause of her death. Then Scarpetta receives news that chills her to the core: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne - the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman, who pursued her to her very doorstep - asks to see her. From his cell on death row, he demands an audience with the legendary Dr. Scarpetta. Only to her will he tell the secrets he knows the authorities desire: the evidence that will bring a global investigation to a swift conclusion. Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and her colleague Detective Pete Marino are left to wonder: After all the death and destruction, what sort of endgame could this violent psychopath have in mind? And could this request be somehow related to the Louisiana case? Her friends and family by her side, Scarpetta must unravel a twisting conspiracy with an international reach and confront theshock of her life - a blow that will force her to question the loyalty and trust of all she holds dear. . Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Putnam Pub Group, 1996 Near-new condition - Dustcover shows slight wear and 1 small, closed tear on back - Book is in Fine Condition - price inside dustcover: $25.95 - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - NO remainder marks or price clippings - 377 pages - The creator of Kay Scarpetta, the most fascinating character in contemporary crime fiction, now cunningly reveals the heart and soul of a metropolitan police department. With Charlotte as her simmering background, she propels us into the core of the force through the lives of a dynamic trio of heroes: Andy Brazil, an ambitious younger reporter for The Charlotte Observer and an eager - sometimes too eager-volunteer cop; Police Chief Judy Hammer, the professionally strong yet personally troubled guardian of Charlotte's law and order; and her deputy chief, Virginia West, a genuine head-turner who is married to her job. To walk the beat with Hammer, West, and Brazil is to learn the inner secrets of police work - the tension and the tedium, the hilarity and the heartbreak, the unexpected pump of adrenaline and the rush of courage that can lead to heroics ... or death.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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G.P Putnam & Sons, 2006 Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover:$21.95. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. 212 pages. Synopsis A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run for governor, and as a showcase she’s planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk -- its motto: “Any crime, any time.” In particular, she’s been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology, and she thinks she’s found the perfect subject in an unsolved twenty-year-old murder -- in Tennessee. If her office solves the case, it ought to make them all look pretty good, right? Her investigator is not so sure -- not sure about anything to do with this woman, really -- but before he can open his mouth, a shocking piece of violence intervenes, an act that shakes up not only both their lives but the lives of everyone around them. It’s not a random event. Is it personal? Is it professional? Whatever it is, the implications are very, very bad indeed . . . and they’re about to get much worse. Sparks fly, traps spring, twists abound -- this is the master working at the top of her game. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2001 Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be painted on all streets and highways, and warns that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric island of Tangier, fourteen miles off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, responds by declaring war on its own state. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superintendent of the Virginia State Police, and Andy Brazil, a state trooper and Hammer's right hand and confidant, find themselves at their wits' end as they try to protect the public from the politicians - and vice versa - in this pitch-perfect, darkly comic romp.. Hard Cover. As New/Near-Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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St Martin's Press, 1981 Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $11.95 - Black boards with gold lettering - 252 pages - Illustrated . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Bantam, 2002 Near-new copy - Appears unread. Price inside dustcover: $23.95 - Number line : 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - Tight spine - Bright pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 318 pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings - "Gemma James is adjusting to professional and personal changes that include her eagerly sought promotion to the rank of inspector - and a future now intricately entwined with Duncan Kincaid. But her new responsibilities are put to the test when she is placed in charge of a particularly brutal homicide: The lovely young wife of a wealthy antiques dealer has been found murdered on fashionable Notting Hill." "Dawn Arrowood was six weeks pregnant. Her lover, Alex Dunn, a porcelain dealer in London's bustling Portobello Market, appears absolutely devastated by her death, but the main focus of Gemma's investigation is soon Karl Arrowood, who had the most powerful motive for killing his unfaithful wife." But this case sets off warning bells for Duncan: It's far too similar to an unsolved murder in which an antiques dealer was killed in precisely the same way. And when the escalating violence claims yet another victim, he and Gemma find themselves at increasing odds with each other - as two separate investigations become linked in the most startling of ways. Synopsis Award-winning author Deborah Crombie has elevated the modern mystery novel to new heights of human drama and multilayered suspense with her critically acclaimed tales of intrigue featuring Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2002 Very-good+ copy of this 2002 hardback. Price inside dustcover: $25.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO writing or tears. Tight spine - Bright pages. 286 pages. - Luther Ewing is like no other cop. Half-Vietnamese, half-black, he's "a complex brooder, scarred by his past, emotionally distant-but exactly the kind of man for those nasty jobs no one else is willing to do" (Publishers Weekly). When the Russian mob brings its drug trade to his city-digging up a past he'd rather forget-Ewing decides to take on the mob...alone.. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 2003 Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $16.99 British Pounds. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Michael Dibdin’s veteran Italian police officer is back. The newest addition to this remarkable series -- consistently galvanizing as much for its revelation of the subtle complexities of Italian life as for its page-turning suspense -- is a novel of long-held secrets set against a sweeping background of political and passionate intrigue. When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps comes across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental. Until, that is, the still-unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the Defense Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. And is the recent car bombing in Campione D’Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all sides by Switzerland, somehow related? The whole affair has the whiff of political corruption. That’s enough to interest Aurelio Zen’s boss at the Interior Ministry, who wants to know who is hiding what from whom, and why. The search for the truth leads Zen back into the murky history of postwar Italy and the obscure corners of modern-day society to uncover the truth about a crime that everyone thought was as dead and buried as its victim.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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St. Martin's Press, 1992 Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $18.95 - 282 pages - Gaylord Dold, hailed by Loren D. Estleman as "the best new stylist to enter the crowded field of private-eye fiction, and one of its most daring innovators," brings us another literate and suspenseful adventure for his remarkable sleuth, Mitch Roberts. Rude Boys, like Dold's recent A Penny for the Old Guy, finds American cowboy Roberts in London, "looking for his life" and "trying to fall in love" with English widow Amanda Smith. He is doing some work for Amanda's lawyer friend, Hillary Root, when Hillary's Jamaican half brother is found brutally murdered. The crime is a grisly puzzle from the start. The man was in the hospital, well on the way to recovering from the mysterious illness that had put him there, when someone crept into his room and left him covered with blood, a gaping slash across his neck. Hillary is deep in a seemingly hopeless case, the defense of another Jamaican man accused of robbery and murder. Fighting prejudice as a female in the ranks of British barristers, and as a half-Jamaican female at that, Hillary now begins to receive horrifying and wordless threats, like the "gift" of a slaughtered cat. Sympathy with her burdens impels Roberts to travel to Jamaica, seeking the roots of these possibly connected events. Although his brief trip produces a number of answers as well as insight into the lives of Jamaicans at home and abroad, another murder takes place before Mitch is able to unravel the tight skein of horror and death and to set a strange kind of justice in motion.. First Edition. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Popular Classics, Inc. , 1920 A photo of this book is available. Extra-nice, clean copy of this vintage Sherlock Holmes hardback. NO copyright date indicated but circa 1920. Decorative-blue boards with gilt lettering and decoration (clean and bright - close to Fine Condition. NO writing or tears inside book. 239 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. NO foxing. Pages show only slight tanning. NO remainder marks or clippings. INCLUDES: The Sign of the Four; The Science of Deduction; The Statement of the Case; In Quest of a Solution; The Story of the Bald-Headed Man; The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge; Sherlock Holmes Gives A Demonstration; The Episode of the Barrell; The Baker Street Irregulars; A Break in the Chain; The End of the Islander; The Great Agra Treasure; The Strange Story of Jonathan Small; A Scandal in Bohemia; The Ring of Thoth; A Case of Identity; The Surgeon of Gaster Fell; How the Woman Came to Kirby-Malhouse; How I Went to Gaster Fell; Of the Gray Cottage in the Glen; Of the Man Who Came in the Night.. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Rand McNally & Company No copyright indicated - Circa 1900 - Ex-Libris copy (Church library) Inner pages are free from tears and writing. 180 pages -- . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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A Berkley Medallion Book , 1964 Near-fine copy of this 1964 (May) Sherlock Holmes paperback. Clean and bright pictorial covers NO writing, marks or tears. Clean pages - Tight spine - NO remainder marks or price clippings. 191 pages. Berkley Medallion Edition, May, 1964.. Mass Market Paperback. Near-Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Castle Books,US, 1977 Near-new copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Brown boards with black lettering (clean and bright). 636 pages. Illustrated throughout by Sidney Paget - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Paget, Sidney. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Murray Book Corporation , 1930 Good copy of this 1930 Sherlock Holmes book - Green boards - 244 pages - ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's signature in book front - on blank page - NO tears inside book - Tight spine - Light page-tanning from age. NO foxing. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Book-of-the-month Club, 1994 A photo of this book is available. Very-nice copy. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 320 pages. INCLUDES: The Adventure of the Illustratious Client; The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier; The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone; The Adventure of the Three Gables; The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire; The Adventure of the Three Garridebs; The Problem of Thor Bridge; The Adventure of the Creeping Man; The Adventure of the Lion's Mane; The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place; The Adventure of the Retired Colourman.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near-Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1964 Berkley Medallion Edition (March, 1964) - Very-nice, clean copy of this 1964 paperback.175 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - NO remainder marks or price clippings.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Book-of-the-Month Club, 1994 A photo of this book is available. Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 249 pages.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Courage Books, 1994 Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 224 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. All stories complete and unabridged. Annotation Thrilling accounts from that most masterful of sleuths, Sherlock Holmes. This collection includes eight adventures, including "A Scandal in Bohemia, " "The Final Problem, " and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." Biography Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was both a doctor and a believer in spirits, which may partly explain why his Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved detectives: Holmes always approaches his cases with the gentility and logic of a scientist, but the stories are suffused with an aura of the supernatural. Narrated by devoted assistant Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes's adventures were so addictive that fans protested the master deducer's "death" in 1893 and Doyle had to resurrect him.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Reader's Digest Association, 1993 A photo of this book is available. Like-new copy of this attractive hardback. NO remainder marks or clippings. Nicely illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, clean pages. 219 pages. Biography Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was both a doctor and a believer in spirits, which may partly explain why his Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved detectives: Holmes always approaches his cases with the gentility and logic of a scientist, but the stories are suffused with an aura of the supernatural. Narrated by devoted assistant Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes's adventures were so addictive that fans protested the master deducer's "death" in 1893 and Doyle had to resurrect him.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Johnson, David. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1996 Near-fine condition. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. 294 pages. NO clippings. Small, cursive "R" stamped on bottom. Covers are bright and clean (NO tears). Synopsis Another vintage Nurse Keate mystery by Mignon G. Eberhart, Wolf in Man’s Clothing takes Sarah to a gloomy mansion in the remote Berkshire Hills. She nurses a young man with fatal connections to some poisonous people stuck at the scene privileged people who are used to getting their way and are unprepared for Sarah. Annotation A woman is accused of a murder she had every reason to commit. Biography This Bison Books edition is introduced by Carl D. Brandt, whose literary agency has represented Eberhart since she left her native Nebraska in the early thirties. . Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1995 Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. Covers are bright and clean (NO tears). 313 pages. Synopsis On a blustery February day Sarah Keate arrives at a gloomy mansion to nurse old Adolph Federie, bedbound after a stroke. Meeting the patient sets off an alarm inside her, but fleeing the house is impossible. The redoubtable red-haired nurse is stuck there with a strange coterie and a black cat named Genevieve. Originally published in 1930, a year after her debut mystery novel The Patient in Room 18, While the Patient Slept strengthened Mignon G. Eberhart's hold on fame. Gale Research Eberhart also won the Scotland Yard prize for this novel, "deservedly," according to Will Cuppy of Books. In this novel, Keate is working as a private nurse at Federie house when her patient is murdered, and she and O'Leary must track down the killer. A reviewer forBookman said, "This book places detective fiction on a higher level than ever before and is heartily recommended to fans." Like The Patient in Room 18, described by the New York Times as a "good, creepy yarn," While the Patient Slept builds what would become the trademark Eberhart atmosphere. Biography In a career spanning more than a half century Mignon G. Eberhart has acquired a legion of readers for such well-crafted, atmospheric mysteries as The White Cockatoo, From This Dark Stairway, The Chiffon Scarf, and Woman on the Roof. . Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Alfred A. Knopf Inc, 2003 Near-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 310 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. In Dan Fesperman's Lie in the Dark we met Vlado Petric, a homicide detective in Sarajevo, a war-torn place where life itself had little worth. Now, five years later, Petric has escaped to join his wife and daughter in Berlin, and is scratching out a meager but stable existence at a construction site. So when he's recruited by Calvin Pine - an enigmatic American investigator for the war crimes tribunal at The Hague - to join a search mission back in the ruins of his homeland, he finds it hard to resist. They're seeking a general responsible for the massacre at Srebrenica, but Petric is also being offered as bait to lure another suspect whose activities in World War II make the current generation of killers look like amateurs. Getting hotter on a trail that eventually leads across Europe, Petric soon finds that great political powers make unsavory alliances, and that investigating the mysteries of the past can be as dangerous as navigating the war zones of the present. Synopsis Vlado Petric, a former homicide detective in Sarajevo, is now living in exile, and making a meagre living working at a Berlin construction site, when an American investigator for the International War Crimes Tribunal recruits him to return home on a mission. The assignment sounds simple enough. He is to help capture an aging Nazi collaborator who has become a war profiteer. But nothing is simple in the Balkans: Petric is also being used as bait to lure his quarry into the open, and when the operation goes sour he is drawn across Europe into a dangerous labyrinth of secret identities, stolen gold, and horrifying discoveries about his own family’s past. Intelligent and suspenseful, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows brings together chilling crimes, the lies people live and the cold facts of international politics into a masterful, electrifying thriller. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Signet, 2002 Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean (NO tears). Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 265 pages. Synopsis In her seventeenth book adventure, bestselling author Jessica Fletcher travels to Provence for some haute cuisine, and becomes embroiled in a culinary murder mystery. . Mass Market Paperback. Near-Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Signet, 2001 Like-new copy. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 263 pages. Synopsis There's big trouble brewing in the Big Easy... Jessica Fletcher is getting an insider's view of the New Orleans Jazz Festival from arts critic Wayne Copely. But when Copely turns up dead next to the grave of an old voodoo queen, Jessica must prove that she's no tourist when it comes to murder... . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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