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New York: Delacorte Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book has a bit of lean. Light top edge . wrinkling.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Attorney and law professor Marla Cwitowitz teams up with her boyfriend, private detective Al Giraud, when they investigate Steve Mallard, a husband and father who has become the prime suspect in the disappearance--and perhaps murder--of real-estate agent Laurie Martin. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 327 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; "summer" written top edge front . endpaper; blue dot top edge. Minor rubbing to back panel jacket.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers. Suspecting there's more than one mystery to be solved at Penford Hall, Emma accepts the duke's invitation to stay on and restore the once glorious chapel garden to its former beauty. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 290 pages .

New York: Thomas Dunne. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Initials, date, and VG on front . endpaper; light wrinkling and superficial scratches back panel jacket.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. There are times when a trusted "friend" is so filled with hatred that he will do anything possible to ruin the other. Ed, Peter, and Beth had been friends through medical school. At the Cadaver's Ball, the somewhat ghoulish-named celebration that is the closest thing to a senior prom the hardworking medical students have, Ed confidently presents Beth with an engagement ring. She reluctantly has to tell him that she has already agreed to marry Peter, and Ed's life explodes. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 337 pages .

New York: Walker & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Review copy of the First US edition, . preceded by the UK edition [Hubin], with publisher's documentation laid . in. Book is straight and tight with soiling to one of the back endpapers . which have bottom corner crease. Jacket with light corner wear and small . tear to top edge of the front panel.. 1973. First American Edition. Hardcover. The situation of a likable, ordinary man, caught through no fault of his own in a horrifying dilemma, creates sympathy and unending suspense for the story of Hilary Ryan. [Barzun & Taylor 128] Pseudonym of Roderic Jeffries, aka Peter Alding. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 184 pages .

New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Russell Andrews is the pseudonym for . Peter Gethers and David Handler. Faint spot top edge; jacket with minor . corner wear.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Gideon is an identity shorouded in mystery - the anonymous source who holds the key to an explosive secret. In a clandestine meeting, writer Carl Granville is hired to take the pages of an old diary, articles, and letters - documents in which all proper names and locations have been blacked out - and turn them into compelling fiction. He will be paid a quarter of a million dollars. But he can never tell a soul. ; 9.5 X 6.4 X 1.5 inches; 435 pages .

New York: Carroll & Graf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Minor rubbing to jacket with tiny tear . spine edge back panel.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Jake Lomax takes on the case of Roger and Vivian Armis, a couple who have been receiving threatening phone calls from a blackmailer who claims to be Vivian's late husband and who demands cash to keep him from reclaiming his mortal life. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 211 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light edge browning. Sticker remnant . to back panel of jacket.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. An action-packed thriller that blends elements of the political and social upheaval of the Middle East, Mafia intrigues, and the machinations of Saddam Hussein. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 385 pages .

New York: Forge. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book is straight and tight in jacket with . light top edge wrinkling and back panel rubbing.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As American and Russian astronauts take their positions aboard the shuttle Atlantis, terrorists seize the Kennedy Space Center and threaten to blow up the shuttle if their demands are not met, and it is up to the mission's injured former commander to stop them. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Walker & Co. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Third printing. Fine book in like jacket.. 1991. Third Printing. Hardcover. Seven years after the disappearance of Daniel Wilson, Dave Garrett, a young Philadelphia disbarred attorney turned private investigator, is asked to make a last-ditch inquiry into the case. Wilson's family wants him declared dead but there are just three days left before the court hearing and a few well-placed questions convince Garrett that the previous investigator resigned in fear for his life. ; 8.3 X 5.9 X 1.1 inches; 195 pages .

New York: Crooked Lane Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Crinkles to the bottom of some pages, . "X" on front endpaper near top. Jacket has a damp stain to the blind side.. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. The on-set murdeer of a famous (and detestable) film director unearths a hornet's nest of passion, duplicity, naked ambition, and bitter revenge. ; 8.4 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches; 288 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book has slight lean.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. A Grub Street printer, his family, and two apprentices brutally murdered in their sleep. A locked building. And at the scene, a raving mad poet brandishing a bloody axe. Surely the culprit had been found, and justice would be swift and severe. But to Sir John Fielding, justice was more than finding a culprit-it was finding the truth. Aided by thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor, Fielding decided to investigate further. And the truth behind the Grub Street massacre was more evil-and more deadly-than the dastardly crime itself. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 276 pages .

New York: Walker and Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Slight lean, top edge darkening to . book. Jacket has small tears and chips to spine head.. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. The consequences of ahit-and-run accident could be fatal to the continued existence of the Fortrow Borough Constabulary, the last of the small borough forces in the country, and extremely serious for several people - some of whom had nothing to do with the original accident. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 184 pages .

New York: Berkley. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Book is straight and tight in jacket with light . top edge wrinkling.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. The members of The Adams Round Table present an exciting collection of crime stories from such renowned writers as Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Warren Murphy, Justin Scott, Peter Straub, and other notable authors. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 294 pages .

New York: Harmony Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Crease to front pastedown.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fusing brilliant wordplay with the elements of a classical whodunit, a world is exposed where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect) , where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive) , and where power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our hunmanity. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 175 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first novel. Slight lean to . book; edge wrinkling to jacket.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Chad Greene, up-and-coming artist, and manic-depressive, is looking forward to the SoHo gallery opening of a show that could bring him fame and fortune. But the murder of Chad's psychiatrist on opening night turns a triumphant evening into a nightmare. ; 8.2 X 5.6 X 1.1 inches; 264 pages .

New York: Harper. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book is clean and straight. Jacket . with sticker shadow to front panel and crease to front flap.. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Amanda Jackson is a brilliant and introverted MIT-bound high school senior addicted to crime novels and to Ripper: the online mystery game she plays with friends around the world. When a string of murders occur across the city, Amanda probes hints and deductions that elude the police department. The case becomes all too personal when her mother disappears. ; 8.8 X 5.9 X 1.5 inches; 496 pages .

New York: Crown Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Scratch front panel jacket near spine, . light top edge wrinkling at spine.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Only novel by Ed McBain under this pseudonym. Meet Sonny: a recent graduate of medical school, a good sport, fine raconteur, stalwaart friend - and cold-blooded killer. His assignment is to murder one of the most closely guarded of all world leaders. ; 8.9 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 291 pages .

New York: Walker & Co. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's only mystery. The original . intent was that this would be the start of a new series. However, I . suspect being panned by Publisher's Weekly put an end to those plans, . although other reviews found it interesting and charming. Tiny stain edge . of front endpaper, spot fore edge.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. When society matron Binky Crenshaw is found dead at the Institute for the Third World Ball, stiff as a board and still clutching a champagne glass, police insist there was no foul play. However, society columnist Patty Nottingham doesn't buy it. ; 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches; 180 pages .

New York: Walker & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Book is clean, straight and tight with . faint stain bottom edge. Jacket has light edge wear, tiny corner tear . front panel.. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Detective Chief Superintendent Ben Spence sets up mobile headquarters outside the Blue Bazaar nightclub, and as the investigation into the brutal death of one of the dancers gets underway, the calm of village life is destroyed, as feuds and hatred emerge, long-standing passions and secrets are revealed, and the convoluted turnings in several seemingly unrelated lives come together. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 191 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Light edge browning, slight fading to . spine, and two small blue dots to bottom edge. Jacket has light shelf wear . and wrinkling.. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Famous American cancer specialist Dr. Alex Cousins is sent by the President of the United States to Russia to prolong the life of the Secretary General of the Politburo. While in Russia, Cousins learns that the Soviets plan to attack China. In an attempt to silence him, the Soviets send Cousins home via the Trans-Siberian Express, the world's longest and most exotic train ride. A beautiful KGB Agent has been ordered to keep him under surveillance until the trip is over. Soon Cousins and the Soviet agent transcend their political differences and fall desperately in love. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1.5 inches; 345 pages .