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Grand Haven, MI: Brilliance Audio, 2006. Read by Christopher Lane Approximately 11 hours on 9 CDs in individual paper envelopes From back of package: "Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of this life. Allon is recovering from his grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when terrorism comes to… Read more

Boston: Little Brown, 1974. Stated First American Edition 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 260 pages From jacket: "Superintendent Roderick Alleyn confronts a particularly delicate situation. The President of the new African republic of Ng'ombwana has announced his plan to visit England, an he adamantly refuses to have any special protection laid out for… Read more

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1958. Book Club Edition (BCE) 8vo size hardcover with illustrated dust jacket; 223 toned deckle edge pages with yellow topstain. From jacket: "It began when Walter Brinkley, emeritus professor of English, gave a cocktail party for the newly-wed Craigs. This amiable little man had no intention of mixing the ingredients for… Read more

New York: Random House, 1959. Book Club Edition, BCE 8vo size pink hardcover with dust jacket; 212 lightly toned deckle edge pages with green topstain From jacket: "On a thin strip of concrete in New York City, not even visible from outer space, lies a tiny, influential thoroughfare called Madison Avenue...the street of superlatives became the scene… Read more

New York: Harper Audio, 1995. Performed by Ian McShane Two (2) cassettes in traditional hard plastic cases with artwork, houses inside an illustrated cardstock holder. From back: "Sid Haley, a former world-class steeplechase jockey forced to retire form racing because of a severe riding injury that rendered his left hand useless and disfigured, now leads a very… Read more

New York: Mysterious Press, 1985. Stated First Edition Author Julie Smith, a former newspaper journalist, is best known for her New Orleans-based series of mystery novels. This novel is one of her first books. It is her first book to feature the character of Paul McDonald. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 249 pages… Read more

Second Story Press, 1988. 8vo size trade paperback; 172 pages From back: "Everyone is crazy about Sonia," remarks Nate Ottoline, hard-nosed entrepreneur in Toronto's gay community, to his friend Helen Keremos. Sonia Deerfield is a talented performer just hitting it big in the music biz, a recent million dollar lottery winner and a beautiful woman...someone among her… Read more

New York: Scribner, 2001. First Edition with full numberline Flat Signed by co-author Carol Higgins Clark on title page. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 202 pages From jacket: "Meet Sterling Brooks. His was not an exemplary life - he was too self absorbed to ever really think about anyone else or make a… Read more

New York: Soho Press, Inc., 2010. Advance Uncorrected Proof A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation 12mo size trade paperback; 281 pages Covers are unique to proof. Back cover states UNCOPYEDITED PROOF, provides a brief overview of the book, brief author biography and publication details. From back: "When the sun of Venezuela's Foreign Minister is… Read more

1987. The Golden Heritage Series 1987 Reprint 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 640 pages Contents include: A Study in Scarlet The Country of the Saints The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Tragedy of Birlstone The Scowers Jacket has sunned spine and moderate wear. . Cloth.… Read more

New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1980. Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 263 pages From jacket flap: "The killing of a coed in a national park campground by a grizzly run amok wasn't the kind of case Nick Caine handled. He left that to the boy scouts in the… Read more

New York: Avon Books, 1997. Signed Copy 12mo sized mass market paperback; 374 pages. Flat signed by author on title page. (No inscription, just signature.) From back: "Joanna Brady - devoted mother and the first female Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona - knows what it's like to lose one you love, and her heart still… Read more

Mira, 2009. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. 12mo sized mass market paperback; 280 pages This novel, Prime Time, was the winner of an Agatha Award for best first novel in 2007. Prime Time is the first of the Charlotte McNally series. From back cover: "In the cutthroat world of television… Read more

Stated First Edition Signed and inscribed on title page 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 371 pages. Jacket has a sticker with a "review" of book by President Bill Clinton. From jacket: "Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and… Read more

New York: Worldwide, 2018. 12mo size mass market paperback; 281 pages From back: "Liz McCall never thought she'd go into business with her dad, but when her father retires - and sinks his entire police pension into a vintage toyshop - Liz decides to manage the store. Someone needs to help her dad turn his dreams into… Read more

New York: Dutton, 1991. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 480 pages From jacket: "Paul Christopher is a survivor. A survivor of bloody World War II battlefields. A survivor of undercover Cold War killing grounds. A survivor of imprisonment in China. Now at last the Cold War is… Read more

New York: Random House Audio, 1990. Abridged on two cassettes, about 3 hours in length Two standard cassettes in hard cases with artwork inside an illustrated cardstock case. From back: "Something unholy is going on inside the cathedral atop the hill overlooking Washington - if the discovery of the body of a high-ranking cleric, now a low-lying… Read more

New York: Worldwide, 2018. 294 pages From back: "Dog breeder and kennel owner Mae December has become something of an amateur sleuth in her small hometown of Rosedale, Tennessee. So when Mae's sister, July, discovers her former boyfriend dying alone in the historic Booth Mansion, Mae is determined to find out who wanted him dead." Small… Read more

2004. Signed by author on fep Stated First Edition From jacket: "Everybody around lawyer Mary DiNunzio has decided she isn't allowed to be a Young Widow any more, even though she didn't know there was an official cutoff. They're all trying to fix her up - her South Philly Italian parents, her best friend Judy Carrier,… Read more

London: Harper Collins, 2004. 407 pages. British Edition. Probable first edition. From jacket: "DCI Peter Pascoe, nominally in charge of the investigation, finds he is constantly body-checked by his superior (Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel) as he tried to disentangle the complex relationships of the Maciver family..." We note only minor edgewear to jacket. Quotes are… Read more