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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine; Uncorrected advance proof in blue paper wraps. Very slight lean.. 1993. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Backstage at the Broadway theater, someone is stealing scripts and personal items and selling them to collectors and the crime seems more peculiar than serious until the thief turns up murdered. ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches; 247 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine; Uncorrected Proof in pictorial cover with publisher's contact . label to front. Has been gently read.. 2004. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. Antiquarian book dealer and fashionable thief Bernie Rhodenbarr once again indulges his appetite for breaking and entering in his never-ending quest for fun and profit. ; Trade PB .

New York: Harper Collins. Very Good; Uncorrected Proof in blue paper wraps. Small spots on back . cover, light reading creases, soil to bottom edge.. 1998. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. The only comprehensive collection of the internationally popular novelist available contains all thirty-six stories of romance and political intrigue from the three volumes, 12 Red Herrings, A Twist in the Tale, and A Quiver Full of Arrows. ; Trade PB; 9.50 X 6.20 X 2 inches; 608 pages .

Duluth: Spinsters Ink. Fine; Uncorrected Proof in pictorial paper covers. Appears unread.. 1995. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. Although a self-assured lesbian, London journalist Lindsay Gordon vacillates between supposed happiness with partner Cordelia and intermittent bliss with former lover Deborah. At the Fordham air base, while covering a violent clash between inhabitants of the women's peace camp and members of a local opposition group, Lindsay finds that police have charged Deborah with assault. When someone murders the alleged victim, Deborah becomes the prime suspect. ; Trade PB .

New York: Bantam. Near Fine; Advance Reading Copy in purple paper wraps. Author's second . book. Slight lean and small spot on front cover.. 2002. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. When a brilliant stalker begins murdering federal judges, Judge Irene Hannah refuses protection, forcing the feds to turn to her best friend, Atlanta prosecutor Mary Crow for help, but when Judge Hannah disappears, Mary must go up against a madman and his army in order to save her friend before it is too late. ; Trade PB; 319 pages .

New York: Berkley. Very Good; Uncorrected Proof in yellow paper covers. Light soil and slight . spine fade. Published as a paperback original.. 1993. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Trade PB; 4.38 X 0.63 X 6.84 inches; 217 pages .

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing. Near Fine; Unedited Advance Reading Copy in gray paper wraps. Tiny bump . back edge. First book in the Felicity Grove mystery series.. 1997. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Jonathan Kendrick reluctantly leaves his New York City apartment to help his grandmother, the resident busybody of a quaint, peaceful village in upstate New York, identify the dead body that has turned up in her trash can. ; Trade PB .

Duluth: Spinsters Ink. Very Good; Uncorrected proof in black-and-white pictorial paper covers. . Light edge wear, small front corner crease, and bump top edge.. 1997. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. This mystery, part of the popular Lindsay Gordon series, is set in Glasgow, Scotland. Author Val McDermid, who grew up in a Scottish mining community, captures the sharp, colorful dialects of characters who live in newly renovated yuppie flats, low rent dives, and everything in between. On her way to solve the mystery of one friend's murder and another's conviction for the same, scrappy, soft-hearted journalist Lindsay Gordon learns a thing or two she didn't expect--or want-- to learn about the complications of lesbian love. ; Trade PB; 242 pages .

New York: Dutton. Very Good; Uncorrected Proof in gray paper wrapper. Light edge soil and a . light crease front bottom corner. Second Rachel Gold mystery.. 1992. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Determined to reap insurance benefits from her husband's sudden death, the wife of the late Stoddard Anderson hires Rachel Gold to find evidence to prove that Anderson's death was not a suicide. ; Trade PB .

New York: Crown. Near Fine; Uncorrected Proof in glossy pictorial covers. Minor wear to . back cover; tiny dents on front cover.. 1997. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. With the Master of Lonsdale retiring, two senior dons are furiously vying for his position, a competition that Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis soon discover may be linked to the shooting of a young woman in her North Oxford home. ; Trade PB .

New York: Viking. Very Good; Uncorrected Proof in red paper covers. Fading to spine, light . cover creases, and scuff to back cover.. 1992. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. When an unrecognizably charred body is found at the scene of a fire, Gabe Wager must team up with the FBI in order to track down the guerilla environmentalist who may be responsible. ; Trade PB .

New York: Doubleday. Fine; Uncorrected Proof in red paper wraps. Appears unread.. 1994. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Certain that someone has targeted her family for destruction, attorney Marianne Dow hires private detective Kit Deleeuw to follow the trail of a terrifying stalker. ; Trade PB .

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good; Uncorrected Proof in yellow paper wraps. Small horizontal crack . spine, crease front top corner, and one tiny smudge back cover.. 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. The seventh installment of Campbell's acclaimed mystery series. Boss Carrigan asks Jimmy to investigate a murder, leading to a secret buried 40 years in Chicago's past. ; Trade PB .

New York: St. Martin's. Very Good; Advance Uncorrected Proofs in light purple paper covers. Light . reading creases and edge wrinkles.. 1998. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. After making many enemies in his new, upscale neighborhood, controversial radio personality Leicester Dils almost dies in a hit-and-run accident, and Beecher Stowe must find out who wants Dils dead before the summer season begins on Memorial Day. ; Trade PB .

New York: William Morrow. Very Good; Uncorrected Bound Galleys in glossy pictorial cover. 1999 Dilys . Award; 1999 Shamus Award nominee for Best P. I. Novel; 1999 Anthony Award . nominee for Best Mystery Novel. Light diagonal crease front top corner. . The fourth Kenzie-Gennaro mystery.. 1998. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro delve into the disappearance of a four-year-old girl, involving a strangely cool mother, a pedophiliac couple, and a shadowy police unit. ; Trade PB .

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good; Advance Reading Copy in glossy pictorial cover. Reading crease . with slight lean, couple spots of edge soil, round sticker with . Patterson's blurb is starting to come off.. 1996. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. Spurred by the death of a younger sibling to pursue a medical career, surgical resident Abby DiMatteo is delighted by her recruitment into a cardiac transplant team, until she is forced to choose between two patients. ; Trade PB .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine; Advance Reader Copy in pictorial cover. Clean and unmarked.. 1999. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. The world's best tracker hunts a raging, superhuman monster - the spawn of outlaw genetic experiments. ; Trade PB; 6.57 X 1.33 X 9.56 inches; 432 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine; Uncorrected Proof in yellow paper wraps. Faint cover soil.. 1994. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. As a girl, actress Emily Silver had awakened to a threatening voice and the violent deaths of her parents, and now, twenty years later, she hears the voice again. ; Trade PB .

New York: Harper Collins. Near Fine; Uncorrected proof in green paper wraps. Crinkle to back top . edge, affecting lightly the last few pages.. 2000. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. When Callahan's good friend Bucky is shot during a liquor store robbery and later accused of being an accomplice in the crime, she sets out to prove his innocence and clear his name. ; Trade PB .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine; Uncorrected Proof of author's debut novel in glossy pictorial cover. . Received multiple nominations: Dilys Award nominee, Edgar nominee for Best . First Novel, Anthony Award for Best First Mystery. Appears unread.. 1994. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. Adopted off the streets as a child by a policeman's family, NYC policewoman Kathleen Mallory had never shaken the wild nature of her youth, and when her adoptive father is murdered during a series of stabbings, she is driven to find the truth. ; Trade PB .