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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Spot of light soil top edge near . spine; jacket lightly rubbed.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. New York Police Sergeant Marian Larch's personal life is heading toward a crisis and her professional life is a disaster. Then her longtime friend, Kelly Ingram requests her help in discovering who is stealing mostly unimportant memorabilia associated with Kelly's new play, The Apostrophe Thief. ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches; 247 pages .

New York: Hyperion. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Edge wrinkling to jacket. Book has a . slight lean.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Tim Hess, a cop fighting terminal cancer, accepts what he assumes will be his final case, tracking down a serial killer, and finds himself involved both professionally and personally with Detective Merci Rayborn, his superior on the case. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 359 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with bottom edge tears.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. For twenty years, Frank Hanauer and Thomas Lujack had been in business. Until one dark night outside the factory they own, a Cadillac Seville runs down and kills Hanauer. Witnesses swear the driver was Lujack, but he claims innocence and hires Nameless to find out who framed him. And why. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 230 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Toned edges; scratches back panel . jacket.. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Camilla, Queen of the NIght, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls around the world. When tweens in Chicago's Camilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. ; V. I. Warshawski Novel; 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.7 inches; 448 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket with small tear near back top . corner; very faint top edge foxing.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. When a cattle baron leaves a huge ranch in his will to the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, amateur sleuth Jenny Cain leaves Massachusetts for the wilds of Kansas to investigate the bizarre bequest and finds herself probing the brutal murder of the foundation's benefactor. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 240 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book slightly canted; jacket with . minor rubbing and edge wrinkling.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. After the brutal murder of her friend Carol Margolis, Jenny Cain travels to New York, where she takes charge of Carol's job and the murder investigation. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 243 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Light spotting to fore edge; light . corner bumps. Jacket has shelf wear.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Enny Cain would never forget the hot Massachusetts summer day fate knocked at her door. Fate was a teenaged boy with rumpled clothes, a motorcycle, and a shocking but credible story: Jenny's husband, Geof, was his biological father. The boy, David Mayer, wasn't looking for an emotional reunion, but he did have an agenda. His parents—and he was quick to make the point that Geof was nothing to him—died earlier in the year, a murder/suicide according to the police. The cops were wrong, David said, and Geof was a cop, and he owed it to David to prove that Ron Mayer did not kill his invalid wife and then himself. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 307 pages .

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder mark bottom edge; scratches . and wrinkles back panel jacket.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Joe Copp finds himself recovering from a three-week bout of partial amnesia after a perp almost blew him away with his own gun. ; 8.4 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches; 253 pages .

New York: Chares Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket has light shelf wear. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Private Investigator Doll's latest case takes him to the swank condominiums of Florida where an old girlfriend, Diana Raney, stands accused of murdering her lover. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 264 pages .

New York: Scribner. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Front flap has light top wrinkling.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A tale of intrigue and murder set in the heart of Italy's art world pits Jonathan Argyll and art squad investigator Flavia de Stefano against a wily band of thieves that steals a painting reputed to have miraculous powers. ; 8.75 x 6 x 1 inches; 224 pages .

New York: Forge. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Initials top of front endpaper, blue . dot top edge.. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles, 1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl . . . Until she discovers she's a suspect in the murder of her former roommate, Ruby Carroll. Party girl Ruby died wearing a gown she stole from the wardrobe department at Paramount Pictures, domain of Edith Head. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 217 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Author's first novel. Book slightly . canted. Soiling to front panel of jacket, with light wrinkling to spine . ends.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. In the form of a secret journal kept by Charles Dickens's friend and protege, the novelist Wilkie Collins, the story focuses on a series of real, fully documented events in the life of Dickens during a time of extreme personal crisis. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 290 pages .

New York: Carroll & Graf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light rubbing to jacket.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Compellingly, with the same narrative elegance that distinguishes her mystery novels set in Victorian England, Anne Perry turns her unerring historical eye to the turbulent era of the French Revolution. ; 6.9 X 4.5 X 0.3 inches; 80 pages .

New York: Ballantine. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Blue dot top edge. Minor edge . wrinkling to jacket.. 2017. First US Edition. Hardcover. The diverse population and disparate communities of Victorian London forces Monk to rethink his investigative techniques—lest he be caught in the crosshairs of violent bigotry. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 286 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with rubbing to foil letters on . front panel, and light shelf wear. Book has light edge soil.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. An assortment of extraordinary characters taste their first drop of freedom in this novel about Russia between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the coup of August 1991. By the author of Red Army. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 405 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book slightly canted with faint top . edge foxing; corner wear and edge wrinkling to jacket.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Four troubled people meet beneath Chicago’s shadowy streets and discover a woman who changes their lives forever. Stand-alone novel. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 386 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Small tear bottom corner of jacket's . back flap; minor foxing top edge and fore edge.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. After her golden retriever has puppies, and her yuppie neighbors put them to sleep while dog-sitting, V I ucovers a corporate network of murder and corruption. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 370 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her suburban home. ; 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 288 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; 1991 Edgar nominee; 1992 Macavity and . Agatha winner; 1992 Anthony Award nominee. Book edges severely browned.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. When Jenny Cain investigates the cause of the lengthy illness that led to her mother's death, she finds herself the victim of a cunning murder attempt. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 234 pages .

New York: Scribner. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark bottom edge.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Iain Pears transports us to Rome, where an impudent thief has stolen a politically sensitive painting on loan from a foreign museum. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.0 inches; 224 pages .