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New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Wrinkling to jacket edges.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. The author brings to life a world where cops and criminals commit acts of cowardice and courage, where the bad - and the good - betray each other. ; 8.2 X 5.8 X 1.4 inches; 464 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Minor corner bumps. Slight bowing of . jacket edges.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. The hip, witty, cosmically cryptic poet returns to once again ponder the imponderables and disentangle a mystery or two, and this time he's temporarily forsaken the mean streets of Manhattan for his old Texas stomping grounds. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 233 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book has slight lean.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Kinky Friedman has searched his failing memory and has come up with a novel about his early days in New York City and how Kinky Friedman, the down and out star-crossed country music performer, became Kinky Friedman, the down and out star crossed ace detective. In this prequel to his earlier novels, one which gives new meaning to the term "retro, " Kinkster fans are given the definitive answer to two of literature's great burning questions: Where the hell did those weird characters come from anyway? And what about that puppet head? ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 254 pages .

London: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; First UK ediiton. Slight lean and . toned edges, with tiny bump and tear to spine heel.. 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London's most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they'll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer's feet to the fire. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 416 pages .

New York: Bantam. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Small spot soil fore edge, red dot . bottom.. 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London's most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they'll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer's feet to the fire. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 416 pages .

New York: St Martin's Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Edge foxing; light wrinkles jacket.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Charlie Muffin, most devious of spies, has lived through the Cold War, outlasted the Soviet Union, circumvented the most lethal schemes of the late KGB, and survived a love affair with a former KGB agent. Is it time to put him out to pasture? ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches; 435 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book is clean, straight and tight with . light foxing top edge. Light shelf wear to back panel of jacket.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. The Cheshire Moon is out tonight, a thin, sharp smile lurking among the stars and nobody in LA is going to get any sleep. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 285 pages .

New York: St. Martin's. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Second book in the Jane Wheeler . Mystery series. Has been gently read.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Jane Wheeler is delighted when an estate sale turns up a whole room packed full with 1950s saloon ephemera and she makes a deal to buy the whole room. As she's cataloging her find, Jane makes a gruesome discovery: a highly personal, unusual, and creepy collectible that she is sure the saloon keeper would have preferred to keep to himself. ; 8.2 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches; 307 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Foxing top edge; jacket spine a bit . faded.. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. A mining magnate Sir James Manson, a shadowy titan of the City, London's financial district, schemes a coup d'etat in Zangaro, a small West African dictatorship where a secret source of platinum lies waiting to be exploited. ; 8.3 X 5.7 X 1.3 inches; 408 pages .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. After her good friend Godwin has an unexpectedly nasty quarrel with his significant other, John, Betsy Devonshire finds herself with a roommate. Betsy and Godwin discover John dead in his home and Godwin is arrested for the murder. Betsy knows her friend couldn't be the killer and sets out to prove it. ; Needlecraft Mystery; 8.2 X 5.3 X 1.1 inches; 288 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light bottom edge wrinkles. First . published in Great Britain under the title The Pretty How Town.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Quirky, fascinating, and elegantly conceived, a Freeling novel elevates the police procedural to a unique literary experience, exploring the shadows where falsehoods and deception come together. In Flanders Sky, he brings us a tangled tale of murder set against a backdrop of a changed and changing Europe. ; 8.4 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches; 220 pages .

New York: William Morrow & Co. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket with light rubbing.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. At the funeral of his Peace Corps buddy, John Morgan, only Kinky notices that the body in the casket is not that of John, leading him to solve a mystery with origins in the jungles of Borneo twenty years ago; 8.50 X 5.70 X 0.90 inches; 186 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book is clean, straight and tight with . minor wear to bottom edge and flattening to spine heel. Jacket has light . shelf wear. A tear to bottom edge of back panel has been repaired with . tape on the blind side.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Ruben Prien is still at work with the Project and once again, his conduit to a bygone era is Simon Morley. Rube's purpose in summoning Simon is to attempt to prevent World War I from erupting. However, the man assigned to carry to America papers that might help avert the war is traveling on the Titanic. It is Simon's task to ensure his safe passage. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 303 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light black mark bottom edge; crinkled . edges back panel. 1996 Lefty Award nominee.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Kinky Friedman's latest assignment is to track down the birth parents of a friend, who recently discovered he was adopted. No sooner does Kinky embark on this seemingly routine undertaking than he finds himself dialing a dead lawyer, being chased around Miami Airport, and mourning the murder of the very friend who sent him on this journey in the first place. ; Kinky Friedman Novels; 9.2 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 256 pages .

New York: Beech Tree Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Author's first book. Light wear, tiny . tear spine back panel, front flap creases; book with light edge soil. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. A street-smart country singer, who just happens to be named Kinky, turns detective to help his best friend, Mike McGovern beat a murder rap. ; 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.9 inches; 196 pages .

New York: Thomas Dunne Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light foxing top edge.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Television audiences around the world witness in horror the Moscow assassination attempt upon the American and Russian presidents. The captured gunman is the son of Britain's most infamous nuclear defectors, which brings the shuffling, believe-nothing Charlie Muffin into the investigation. ; 8.3 X 5.8 X 1.2 inches; 352 pages .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The stitchers of the Embroiderers Guild are thrilled to have raised over twenty thousand dollars for the National Heart Coalition through pattern sales and a design contest, but they're less pleased when the representative who accepts the check at the annual convention disappears with it. ; Needlecraft Mysteries; 8.1 X 5.1 X 1.1 inches; 256 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rumpled with flap crease and . small tear at spine head. Light soiling to boards and top edge.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. The intrigue surrounding Russian efforts to assassinate Masud, the leader of the Afghan guerrilla forces battling the Russians, sweeps a young Englishwoman, a French physician, and a roving American into its maelstrom. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 333 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Second Thursday Next novel. Small . spots front board.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. The love of her life has been eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath, and to rescue him Thursday must retrieve a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of "The Raven". But Poe is off limits to even the most seasoned literary interloper. Enter a professional: the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations. ; 8.9 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 416 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with edge wear and tiny chip to . top corner.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Seminary student Owen Keane and his former love, Mary Fitzgerald, investigate the disappearance of another student and find a mystery involving murder, drugs, and an elusive lost sonnet by John Keats. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 259 pages .