Search Results: Historical Mystery from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Poseidon Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Erickson's fifth book is a historical mystery-thriller beginning in 18th century Virginia and featuring Sally, a fourteen-year-old slave girl and her many incarnations through the next two hundred years; dustjacket shows small tear at lower corner of the front panel, very minor shelfwear, o/w a Fine, unread, collectable copy.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. About Very Good/Fine. The sixth novel in Adams' Depression era mystery series featuring Carl Wilcox, ex-convict, handyman and sometime detective in small town South Dakota, this time investigating who hated Old Man Foote enough to hang him using a length of barbed wire; boards and text are clean, tight, with a slight spine lean and a remainder mark on the top edge of the text; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The second of the four novels of Ellroy's acclaimed "LA Quartet." Set in 1950s Los Angeles, it features three men caught up in a net of ambition, perversion and deceit. Sheriff's Deputy Upshaw is stuck with a bunch of dead bodies and cases no one cares about but that may make his name. Considine is one of the top brass in the DA's office, climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon as the quick way to get to the top of the career ladder; and Meeks, bagman, ex-narco goon and pimp for Howard Hughes, is fighting Communism for the money. All three have bought in to a nightmare in this crime noir novel. First Printing, First Edition. Text edges are lightly foxed, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a touch of edge and surface wear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Stein and Day, 1973. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. The second novel in Falkirk's historical mystery series featuring Edmund Blackstone, a Bow Street Runner in London in the 1820s, this time given the assignment of stamping out the outlawed sport of prizefighting, a mission that leads him towards men willing to commit murder to stop him; the inside back cover has a short, crossed-out message, o/w the boards and text show some very minor shelf wear, and are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows wear at the edges, corners and spine ends, including several small, closed tears and a quarter-inch chip missing from the top edge of the front panel, o/w the dj is 99% whole with very little damage to artwork or design.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Airth follows the success of his first novel, "River Of Darkness," with the second book in his historical mystery series featuring retired Scotland Yard Inspector John Madden. A collectable copy.

New York: Knopf, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. The third volume in Ellroy's "Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy" is set in Summer, 1968, with Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy dead, with Chicago preparing for an explosive Democratic National Convention. Three men are on collision course as they pursue a leftist shadow woman named Joan Rosen Klein. Dwight Holly, J. Edgar Hoover's pet strong arm man; Wayne Tedrow, ex-cop and heroin runner building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic; and Don Crutchfield, a young window-peeping private detective too close to right wing assassins and left wing revolutionaries. All of them will pay a savage price in their race for the Red Goddess. An unread copy signed by Ellroy on the title page. A very collectable copy.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. the seventeenth novel in Grimes' bestselling mystery series featuring Scotland Yard detective Richard Jury, this time investigating a possible case of switched identity during World War II that may be connected to the murder of a contemporary writer; a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Simon's highly-praised noir crime-thriller series, set in 1980s Texas and featuring the Austin Police Department's only New Yorker, Dan Reles, sees him chasing a gunman across the state as he investigates the bombing of the family of an African-American community leader. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket is in equally Fine condition, no edge or surface wear, no creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy of the author's scarce second book.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Good/Fair. The first of Carr's historical mystery/adventure novels, the seting is 1815 London, on nervous watch for Bonaparte across the channel. Ex-fencing master, Dick Darwent, due to be hanged in the morning, sits in a cell at Newgate Prison, while Lady Caroline Ross, rich and beautiful, celebrates her wedding to Darwent with a champagne breakfast. Boards are worn at edges and corners, small gap at top of spine; dustjacket is chipped, tattered and soiled. A placeholder or reading copy.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1994. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The twentieth book in Peters' long-running, widely-praised historical mystery series featuring Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine monk investigating murder and treachery in twelfth century England. Some light soiling to edges, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The 14th book in Kaminsky's highly-praised, lightly-humorous, historical mystery series set California during World War II and featuring Hollywood private detective, Toby Peters, This time, Peters is hired by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to retrieve stolen documents that could wreck the General's career. Peters gets some assistance from a Pinkerton detective named Hammett and their search leads them to a mysterious tycoon, kidnapping and murder. Small remainder mark on bottom edge of text, very light foxing on top edge and fore edge, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Dustjacket shows only a touch of wear at corners, mild rubbing. No tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Parker's twelfth mystery-crime novel and his second to win an Edgar Award. The book is set in California in the 1960s and features the three Becker brothers, just starting their careers as a homicide cop, a reporter and a minister in 1968, when the body of a young woman they've known all their lives is found in an abandoned orange-packing plant, beginning a decades-long search for the killer, each brother hunting in his own way. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a one-inch tear (tape-repaired on the verso) at the top edge of the back panel near the spine, o/w very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1963. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam F2708; one of Carr's best historical mysteries, featuring Alan Hepburn, an English spy in Napoleon's France in 1805 searching for a murderer whose calling card reads: 'Captain Cut-Throat;' text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a slight spine lean in pictorial wrappers showing minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From one of the grand masters, an historical mystery/spy thriller set in 1805 in France as Napoleon massed his armies for an invasion of England; First Printing of the First Edition; top edge of text lightly foxed, previous owner's name and date on fep; dustjacket worn along edges but without major chips or tears. Scarce. Collectable.

London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1980. First Printing, First UK Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A late historical mystery by this mid-20th century American Grand Master, "Casa Madrone" is set in New York and later in San Francisco at the time of the 1906 earthquake, which reavaged the city. The book features Mallory Bookever, a debutante about to wed a wealthy San Franciscan, when, in the midst of the quake-caused chaos, she discovers a death that might be murder and is involved in a near fatal accident herself. Signed and inscribed on the front pastedown by Eberhart. Front cover has small dent in lower edge; lower corners lightly bumped as is top of spine, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight, with a slight spine lean. Collectable.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. The third novel in McMillan's under-appreciated historical mystery series set during the Civil War, this time in Richmond where Narcissa Powers, a white Confederate nurse and Judah Daniel a free black herbalist join forces to trace the source of a deadly outbreak of smallpox, which is raising questions of germ warfare. This copy appears unread, in near perfect condition in like dustjacket.

New York: Knopf, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fifteenth book from this master of crime noir captures the essence of one of America's darkest decades, beginning on Nov. 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas and a young Las Vegas cop, Wayne Tedrow, Jr., arrives there with $6,000 he has been paid to kill a pimp and no clue he is about to be embroiled in the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination. Collectable.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Faherty's eighth mystery novel and second in his series featuring private detective Scott Elliott investigating murder and movie making in 1950's Hollywood; a Very Fine, unread copy in like dustjacket.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Best known for his contemporary western mystery series featuring Sheriff Bill Gastner and Posada County, N.M., Havill shows off his versatility as well as his writing skills in this historical novel set in timber and fishing country in1890s Washington state where Dr. Thomas Parks is waging a desperate battle to save the small town of Port McKinney from an epidemic of Asian cholera. Losing patients at a staggering rate as he struggles to find the origin of the vicious disease, Parks is faced with decisions that may destroy the town in order to save at least a few of its residents. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a tiny dogear at the top of the rear inside flap and a lightly bumped bottom of the spine, o/w no tears, no chipping, no creasing, not price-clipped. Collectable.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fifth novel in Casey's award-winning historical mystery series set in rural Oklahoma in the land boom of the second decade of the 20th century and featuring Alafair Tucker, wife and mother of ten. This time it is Alafair's husband, Shaw, on a hunting trip with his brother, who finds an old boot with foot bones still inside and inititiates a search for a white-haired man who may have killed more than once. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a touch of bumping at the spine ends, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy of the fifth book in this highly-praised series.