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New York: Dodd Mead. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Prior owner name front endpaper, toned . pages. Printing process has crinkled the first few pages. Jacket with . light rubbing.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. At Clusters, one of the great country houses, and Sir John Appleby has been invited to spend a few days as the guest of Lord and Lady Osprey. But soon Appleby faces the challenge of discovering who killed Lord Osprey, found in the library, stabbed with an oriental dagger. ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches; 185 pages .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Small spot of soil front endpapers, . light edge fading; jacket with edge wear and tiny closed tear bottom edge . at spine.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. He's come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission - to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman." ; 9.5 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 352 pages .

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Small spot of soil bottom edge.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fang Mulheisen, Detroit police detective extraordinaire, is back - this time on a msision to the high dusty plains of Montana, where Helen Sedlack seems to have surfaced. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 263 pages .

New York: Doubleday Crime Club. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Published October 1989 by Doubleday . Crime Club. Jacket faded at spine, with small edge tears.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Death strikes the glamorous film set of 'The Trumpets of Tuscany, ' and an international cast and crew struggle to save the picture--and their lives. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 183 pages .

Ontario: MIRA. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark bottom edge, sticker . shadow top of front enpaper, page edges browned.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Writer's block is nothing compared to the sinister assignment London-based novelist Matt Wells has just received. A chain of seemingly innocent emails from a devoted fan turns deadly when Matt discovers the correspondent is a cold-blooded killer with an agenda for murder. ; 9.3 X 6.0 X 1.6 inches; 416 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Walt Longmire finds himself in the remotest parts of the northern Mexican desert, a lawless place where no horse or car can travel, where no one speaks his language, searching for his kidnapped daughter. ; 6 X 1 X 9 inches; 304 pages .

London: Faber and Faber Inc. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Page edges browned.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems, and he has taken a brief respite from publicity on remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast, in a converted windmill left him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychopathic strangler of young women is at large at Norfolk and getting closer to Larksoken with every killing. ; Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #8; 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.6 inches; 454 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. The death of her beloved neighbor finds Sheriff Joanna Brady investigating a possible murder right over the picket fence. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 374 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Bottom corners bumped.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. A powerful tale that explores the darkest corners of human nature, revealing the grievous injuries inflicted behind locked doors, the unseen wounds that bleed and destroy and never heal. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.4 inches; 384 pages .

Woodstock: Foul Play Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book appears unread, with light . soiling to top edge. Jacket with flap creases.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Grootka, retired from the Detroit Police Department, returns as a mentor to Fang Mulheisen, and the two lives become dangerously entwined in a thirty-year-old unsolved case of rape and murder. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 337 pages .

New York: Bantam. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Slight board fade; rubbing and edge . wrinkling jacket.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Frank Vale is Chicago's premier burglar; Frank's younger brother Jimmy is about to be released from prison. The brothers are looking forward to an easy retirment on Easy Streeet. Until the dream score of a lifetime drops into their laps: a tantalizing oppportunity made doubly sweet because the target is the man who took their father out. ; 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 311 pages .

New York: Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Short stories include: The Mistletoe Murder, A . Very Commonplace Murder, The Boxdale Inheritance, and the Twelve Clues of . Christmas.. 2016. First American Edition. Hardcover. 7.3 X 4.7 X 0.9 inches; 176 pages .

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remander mark bottom edge. Slight . dulling to jacket.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. An intriguing novel of sting and countersting that shocks and surprises. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 178 pages .

New York: Nan A. Talese. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first novel. Red dot bottom . edge; front flap crease jacket.. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Inspector Paul Mazarelle, formerly of Paris but now living in Tazlac, is charged with bringing his experience and record of success in the capital to bear on a gruesome quadruple homicide at the height of tourist season. ; 8.3 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 336 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2008. First US Edition. Hardcover. Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But the clinic houses an implacable enemy and within hours of the operation Rhoda is murdered. Commander Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a case complicated by old crimes and the dark secrets of the past. ; 1.5 x 9.37 x 5.98 Inches; 352 pages .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with slight lean.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. While hunting deer, John Moon--a man abandoned by his wife, living in a trailer, and making a living doing odd jobs and poaching game--accidentally kills a teenage girl, and his attempts to cover up and then find out who the girl was uncover a deadly pattern of evil involing local town residents. .

New York: Avon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; A remainder stripe bottom edge at . spine, faint stain top edge.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. The sudden disappearance of a friend, combined with startling revelations gleaned from a chance encounter, suggests to Joanna Brady that there is more involved than passionate anger and forbidden love. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 373 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner Son's. Near Fine in Good dust jacket; Scratches and scraping abrasions with loss . back panel of jacket.. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Hired as a bodyguard to faded actress Clarissa Lisle, the recent recipient of numerous death threats, Cordelia Gray accompanies the actress to an island castle, whose owner collects funeral paraphernalia. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 328 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Review copy with publisher's letter . laid in. Page edges browned.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Devon MacDonald, private investigator and partner at Sherman & MacDonald Associates, accepts a case involving three successful businesswomen linked to each other by a common thread - Brentwood J. Peters, a suave, romantic con man who stole their hearts and life savings. With the help of Sam Sherman, Devon sets out on a cross-country trek to help her victimized clients. ; 8.6 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches; 235 pages .

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Straight and tight with remainder . stripe to top edge. Jacket with tiny tear to spine head.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "A major scientific breakthrough leads to treachery, pursuit, and murder...displays a consummate sense of place as the novel races across tow continents, from Moscow's GUM to Denver and the landscapes of the northern coast of California to the Sea of Cortez". ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 243 pages .