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New York: Harper. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Sight lean; superficial scratch back . panel jacket.. 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 365 pages .

New York: Henry Holt and Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read. .. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale; 6.44 X 1.095 X 9.53 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Bantam Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread. Author's first book.. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. A member of a group of early twentieth-century scientists and professionals who solve crimes with links to the occult, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle teams up with Harry Houdini and other comrades when their leader dies under suspicious circumstances. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 325 pages .

Kansas City: Andrews and Mcmeel, Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; 1978 National Book Critics Circle . Award. Bottom edge slightly faded; light top edge soil, small spot of . discoloration on front endpaper from an old price sticker. Jacket has . small tears and chips to top edge, scratches to back panel.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Gregory Skipwith belongs to a club of eighteenth-century scholars called At Buttons. The club and the New York Public Library where Gregory works should have protected him from violence, but it doesn't. He finds himself confronted with murder and violence even in these dim places. When he and his strange crew of scholars try to cope with a conspiracy of conspiratorialists in New Orleans these reach their climax. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 174 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; 1998 Macavity Award nominee for Best Mystery . Novel. Fine book in like jacket.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Eighteen months after being laid off and still unemployed, Burke Devore, a mild-mannered middle manager, transforms himself into a ruthless murderer as he systematically tracks down and kills the seven men who could take the job that rightfully should be his. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 273 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Vertical crease to spine of book. . Slight lean. Jacket has minor shelf wear.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. The investigation into the brutal rape and murder of a young woman yields many baffling puzzles--such as why the woman's little daughter, a witness to the crime, was allowed to survive--and suspects, including the victim's husband and a handsome young actor who lied about his relationship with her. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 351 pages .

New York: Henry Holt & Co. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark to bottom edge.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. A mystery of psychological intrigue centers on a rising California senator, the husband of a woman from a wealthy and prestigious family, whose secret gay past is about to be exposed by a blackmailer. ; 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.75 Inches; 245 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Blue dot bottom edge.. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Published to coincide with the centennial of the Great War, The Care and Management of Lies paints a poignant picture of love and friendship strained by the pain of separation and the brutal chaos of battle. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 319 pages .

Newtown: Self Published. Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. Jacket . with a rather large tear to front panel.. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Chronicles sixty-three crimes committed in Newtown, Connecticut between 1889 and 1933, presented by the fictional detective Laszlo Briscoe. ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.6 inches; Signed by Author .

London: MacMillan. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Browned pages, slight lean.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. When Lt. Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement, but an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Out of control and only prevented from killing a man by the intervention of a 250-pound female weightlifter, Acland attracts the attention of the police investigating murders that appear to be motivated by rage. ; 9.2 X 6.4 X 1.7 inches; 400 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Tiny bump to front bottom corner.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. When the lead singer of the nation's most popular 'boy band' group is murdered in the shower immediately after finishing a concert tour, Chicago police detective Paul Turner finds himself enmeshed in a particularly difficult case. ; 1 x 8.54 x 6.36 Inches; 280 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Stain across bottom corner of fore . edge.. 1998. First US Edition. Hardcover. Investigative reporter Julie Adams wonders whether a mysterious string of murders of a group of rapists who were once classmates at a prep-school is the work of one of their victims, a woman who disappeared from a hospital room. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 394 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book appears unread; jacket has minor . corner wear.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, find the body of Scott's former teammate in their apartment, forcing them into a deadly game of hide and seek. ; 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.6 Inches; 194 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket has small horizontal closed . slice on spine panel through the "O" in "Favorite"; enclosed in mylar to . prevent further damage.. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. The celebrated cartoonist/comic novelist presents a thundering and uproarious adventure with literature's nastiest bad guys and its most heroic good guys battling to the death in today's New York. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 202 pages .

New York: Walker & Co. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. When acity councilwoman is found mauled to death in the alligator pit of ArkPark, Bayport, Texas, Police Chief Mark Shigata decides to look into past and pending city legislation to see f there's anything there that might have provoked her murder. ; 8.4 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches; 164 pages .

New York: Arbor House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Last page of book is stuck to back . board. Jacket lightly browned along edges, lightly rubbed.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. When Rachel Sabin and Jeffrey Dean, owners of a Los Angeles art gallery and rare book shop, purchase a rare Stella print, they inadvertently become ensnarled in an international web of forgery and murder. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 223 pages .

New York: MacMillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Small red dot bottom edge near spine; . closed tear top edge back panel jacket.. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Jeremy York is the pseudonym of John Creasey. Introducing four young ex-Londoners, one English country house, one Superintendent of Scotland Yard, and one wandering corpse. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 221 pages .

London: Hard Case Crime. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; First publication of Donald Westlake's . lost thriller.. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up—about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule—had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead—a novel he never published while he was alive. ; 8.6 X 5.4 X 1.6 inches; 240 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket wrinkled bottom edge back panel.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Divorcee Fay Hubbard joins forces with her neighbor Ruth Willmark to investigate a murder in their small Vermont town after a mysterious ring turns up attached to a lone finger bone, a discovery that threatens to reveal long-hidden secrets from the past. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 290 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread. Minor edge wrinkling . to jacket.. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy some twenty-three years earlier. ; 6 X 1.13 X 9 inches; 352 pages .