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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. the thirteenth novel in Beaton's highly-praised mystery series featuring eccentric, middle-aged sleuth Agatha Raisin, investigating the murder of the village's new curate. Scarce.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The twelfth novel in Beaton's well-praised cozy mystery series featuring cranky, middle-aged Agatha Raisin. Her marriage to James Lacey is over, having lost him to God and a monastary after his miraculous cure from a brain tumor, so Agatha throws herself into the investigation of the death of a young bride, whose body has been found floating in the river. Suicide, the police say; never, says Agatha. The text and boards are clean, tight, and square; the dustjacket shows only very minimal edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Warner Books, 1994. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Victor Juhasz. It's 10:30 on Christmas Eve at the 87th Precinct where Detective Steve Carella is typing a report when fellow detective, Cotton Hawes arrives with two men and a shopping bag full of pot, derisively described by one of the two as "frankincense" and by the other as "myrrh." Shortly thereafter Detective Meyer Meyer herds in a teenaged boy and a sheep, the boy claiming he isn't a shepherd but the sheep is a gift for his sister. And the reader is off on a rollicking tale with at least a few parallels to the original Christmas, including a young Puerto Rican and his even younger, pregnant wife, who gives birth just after midnight. Published originally as a short story in "Playboy" magazine in 1984 before Warner Books dressed it up in 1994 in a slipcase instead of a dustjacket, the slipcase having a diecut window displaying the Christmas tree on the book's front cover.… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. For a number of years Heilbrun, a tenured professor of English literature at Columbia University, kept her identity as "Amanda Cross," the author of a series of witty, literary mysteries (featuring an amateur sleuth, Kate Fansler, who was also an English professor0, concealed from the public, afraid it might compromise her work at Columbia. Heilbrun's identity was discovered by a mystery fan searching copyright records. This book is a collection of 10 Cross/Heilbrun short stories, most previously published in magazines or in other short story collections. Most are Kate Fansler stories. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete number line). About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 184 pages in dark grey paper-covered boards with a green backstrip and gold lettering on spine. Includes an introduction by the author. Dustjacket's front panel features background photo of ivy and statuary behind a centered box with yellow borders… Read More

New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The ninth book in Meier's mystery series featuring housewife, mother and amateur sleuth, Lucy Stone, this time trying to make the connection between a ninety-year-old woman's birthday and a lawyer's murder. Text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket has telephone number in ink on front flap o/w clean, nearly perfect. Scarce.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The eleventh novel in Page's Agatha Award-winning mystery series featuring Faith Fairchild, Massachusetts caterer and minister's wife, this time catering a Murder Mystery Game dinner to benefit the church's restoration campaign; page 187 has wrinkled lower corner o/w text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows light surface and edgewear.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The sixth novel in the award-winning MacLeod's mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Professor Peter Shandy, who's sometimes compared to Christie's Poirot. This time Professor Shandy, out for some early spring birdwatching, discovers a corpse among the ice in Oozak's Pond a corpse dressed in 100-year-old clothes and bearing a startling resemblance to the long-dead founder of local Balaclava College. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows two tiny tears in the upper edge of the rear flap, some minor surface wear, no other tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1911. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Good Plus/No Jacket. Vance was an American novelist writing a the beginning of the 20th century. His books featuring a detective named Michael Lanyard, known as the Lone Wolf, were popular successes and made into a number of films. "Cynthia of the Minute," is a romantic mystery featuring Cynthia Grayce, a young New York City woman, looking for love and adventure on an ocean cruise and finding a gang of jewel theives ready to sink the cruise ship when their plans go wrong. The book became the basis for a 1920 movie starring Leah Baird, Burt McIntosh and Hugh Thompson. This copy is a first printing, first edition thus, an A.L. Burt early reprint of the Dodd Mead edition. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, 349 pages, including the frontispiece and three other illustrations in green cloth-covered boards with blue decorative border and white lettering on the front cover. Six pages of publisher's ads at back. Spine ends bumped, lettering… Read More

New York: Mysterious Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The twentieth book in Beaton's long-running mystery series that combines the cozy with a touch of the noir and features Scottish Highlands Constable Hamish Macbeth, this time tracking down a vicious letter writer who's turned to murder; the text and boards are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The sixth novel in the Agatha award-winning Kelner's mystery series featuring amateur sleuth, Laura Fleming, transplanted North Carolinian and amateur sleuth, who returns home from Boston to find herself squarely in the middle of arson and murder. First Edition, First Printing copy has remainder mark on the bottom edge of text, a pair of dates in ink on the front endpaper, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only a touch of rubbing, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The 25th book in Beaton's long-running, very popular mystery series featuring Scottish Police sergeant Hamish Macbeth finds this most famous of highland bachelors about to be married at long last if he survives a bad case of prenuptial jitters. His birde-to-be is also his newest constable, Josie McSween, who have been working together investigating the murder of a beautiful woman from a neighboring village, a case that has confirmed Macbeth's suspicions that love cannot only be blind and deaf, but deadly. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows some short, light scratches on the back panel, other minor surface wear. No tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Mysterious Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The nineteenth book in Beaton's highly-praised cozy mystery series set in the Scottish Highlands and featuring village police constable Hamish Macbeth, this time investigating a mysterious explosion that has leveled a cottage in a remote fishing village where the residents are hostile, close-mouthed and afraid. The text and boards are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2017. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The 32nd book in Beaton's long-running, highly-regarded cozy mystery series set in rural Scotland and featuring Sgt. Hamish Macbeth. This time Macbeth decides to put an end to a haunted castle rumor by spending the night at the ruined castle with patrolman Charlie Carson. Carson promptly falls through a hole in the rotten floor to the cellar where he and Macbeth discover a corpse, which promptly disappears while they wait for reinforcements. Macbeth must now find a murderer before any more bodies appear. Or disappear. First U.S. edition, first printing (with complete numberline). About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 246 pages in green paper-covered boards with blue backstrip and silver lettering on spine. Pictorial front panel of dustjacket shows woman in blue coat and dress on cobblestone path walking toward castle under stormclouded sky. Back panel contains five blurbs of praise for Hamish Macbeth series. Remainder dot on top… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. Dibdin's eighth mystery novel begins like a classic Agatha Christie -- a country house hotel inhabited by the usual cast of characters including the colonel, the playboy, the clergyman, the rich invalid, the Jew, and, of course, the murderer. But things are very far from what they seem and following the clues may only bring Rosemary and Dorothy a confrontation with a brutal reality. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The primarily black dustjacket shows considerable wear along the edges but is basically whole -- a UK price sticker and a half-inch tear on the lower edge of the front panel, a pair of small tears and some light creasing on the back panel -- are the only significant flaws. It is not price-clipped or remaindered. A quite decent copy of an unconventional crime story.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The 16th book in Langton's widely-praised mystery series featuring retired detective, Homer Kelly, and his wife, Mary. This time, the Kelly's offer to help a friend find a woman met at an M.C. Escher exhibition, becomes a search akin to finding themselves in an Escher labyrinth etching as they uncover murders of the past, modern secrets, fortune tellers and ghosts of Cambridge, MA's, Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Langton, known for the drawings she contributes to her novels, shares artist's billing this time with reproductions of some of Escher's work. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only minor rubbing and a slight bit of edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Crooked Lane Books, 2016. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Barnes first novel is this highly-praised cozy mystery featuring retired Minnesota Police Chief Katherine Sullivan. Now an artist, Sullivan finds her former skills still very useful when her visit to her lawyer daughter is interruped by murder. First Printing, First Edition. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 298 pages in green paper-covered boards with gold lettering on the spine. Pictorial dustjacket's front panel shows shadowy running figure on lawn in front of mansion-sized, 19th-century era building. Back panel contains four blurbs praising book. Boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked with no noticeable flaws. Not remaindered or ex libris. Dustjacket shows only very slight rubbing or surface wear. No tears, no creasing or chipping. Not price-clipped. A collectable copy of the first book of what may become a collectable series.

New York: Galahad Books, 1995. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Billed as "The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion," this large format (8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches)volume contains something for everyone from the traditional amateur sleuth story of a hundred years ago to the crime-thrillers popular today. There are chapters on American and British mysteries, on African-American detectives, police procedurals, suspense, hard-boiled detectives, true crime, movie and television mysteries and crime with contributions from writers including Breen, Block, Brett, Hart, Hess, Keating, KIng, Maron, Pickard and Pronzini. 400 pages with numerous black & white photos, charts and illustrations as well as an index. Front and back pastedowns show some minor creasing which occurred during manufacture; previous owner's signature written neatly on front end page, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1997. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is the first-ever collection of short stories from a mystery-crime fiction writer whose work has won her Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Macavity and Nero Awards. Included in the two dozen stories are a pair never before published as well as a couple of old favorites. Signed on a special front end page by McCrumb. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket is near perfect without tears, creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable Copy.

New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2019. Original Paper Wraps. Fine. During the December holidays in 1993, Otto Penzler's The Mysterious Bookshop on Warren Street in NYC commissioned a short story from the late mystery writer Donald E. Westlake. The only conditions were that the story was set at Christmas time and that at least part of the story took place in the bookstore. In 2019, Thomas Perry, whose books include the Edgar Award-winning "The Butcher's Boy" and the comic thriller, "Metzger's Dog," added the 26th story to the tradition. Previous authors include George Baxt, Ed McBain, Jeremiah Healy, S.J. Rozan, Anne Perry, Jonathan Santilofer and Mary Higgins Clarkl. This is a first edition, first printing, a gift to the Bookshop's customers as long as the supply lasts. About 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 24 pages including brief author's bio and list of previous years' authors. Bound in white, light-card, stapled wrappers showing a graphic snowflake design atop… Read More

Pleasantville, NY: Impress Mystery/Reader's Digest, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. Craig Rice, a 1930s-'40s mystery writer, was often considered the queen of the madcap, humorous mystery. "Home Sweet Homicide," originally published in 1944, now a classic of the genre, features Dinah, April and Archie Carstairs, 14, 12, and 10 respectively, who decide to solve the murder of next door neighbor, Mrs. Sanford, because their mother, Marian, a mystery writer, is desperately trying to finish a novel and is totally ignoring them. This copy is the 2008 Impress Mystery edition, from the Reader's Digest Association's "Best Mysteries of All Time" series.a first edition thus. About 5 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches, 291 pages including "About the Author" note at the end. Bound in black faux leather-covered boards with front cover graphic design in gold and silver, with gold lettering on spine. No dust jacket. A tiny tear at top of spine and slightly bumped corners, o/w boards and… Read More