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NY, NY: Putnam, 1967. 1st. Ed. book has slight spine slant and DJ shows light shelf wear, with a couple of nicks. Not price clipped, $3,95 price intact. . A CAPTAIN JOSE DA SILVA MYSTERY.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Hopewell, NJ, USA: The Ecco Press, 1997. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "An improbably dissociated killer stalks the So Paulo streets with the citizens' cooperation and gratitude in Melo's first English publication. A used-car salesman loses a bet on a soccer match and has to dye his hair and mustache blond. He's in a bad mood from a toothache anyway, so he picks a fight with Suel, an acquaintance at the local bar and challenges him to a duel. When Suel doesn't want to fight, he shoots him down. Now Ma¡quel is a wanted man: Everybody in So Paulo wants to give him thanks and presents for killing no-account Suel. Dr. Carvalho even offers him free dental care if he'll just kill his daughter Gabriela's rapist, and this time, reports Ma¡quel, ``the gifts were even better than when I killed Suel.'' Even though Ma¡quel just wants to settle down ,the increasingly… Read More

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2013. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition, due out February, 2013. 320 pages. Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team have a heavy work load with several high-profile cases. First, a suicide bombing that was apparently the work of a militant Islamist group. Then, a gubernatorial candidate is assassinated in broad daylight at a campaign rally. Could the cases be related? To complicate Silva's investigation, a criminal with a very bad grudge against the Chief Inspector has been released from prison and is plotting ugly revenge. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

NY, NY: Crime Club Doubleday, 1987. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. 2nd PI MacAllister title. BRAZIL. It all begins with Silvio Pinhal, a name that opens ANY door-- legal and otherwise--throughout Brazil. Wealthy and powerful Senhor Pinhal's requests are ALWAYS granted. Right now, Pinhal wants his son, Alvamir, back. He's been missing for over eight months and the Senhor hires MacAllister to find him--dead or alive. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Simon and Schuster: An Inner Sanctum Mystery, 1963. 1ST. ED, A Jose Da Silva mystery. Lightly worn along edges . pages age toned else near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, $3.50 at bottom of flap still intact, in mylar cover. The head of police is investigating the delivery of a Shrunken Head to the embassy. .. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Scribner, 2003. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. On the heels of his acclaimed bestselling debut Lost Girls, Andrew Pyper brings his darkly musical language, chilling suspense, and psychological complexity to a story of survival in the Amazon jungle. On the delirious eve of the new millennium, Marcus Wallace and Jonathon Bates, two twenty-four-year-old overnight dot-com millionaires, are on a trade mission in Brazil. Their product is Hypothesys, a virtual "morality machine" that promises to help people "make the best decisions of their lives." But when the decision is made to take an ecotour up the Río Negro deep into the Amazon jungle, the Hypothesys team members are forced to make choices for themselves -- choices that carry fatal consequences. In the dead of night, their boat is boarded by paramilitaries who kill the Brazilian crew and kidnap Wallace and Bates, their… Read More

NY: Soho Crime, 2014. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition, due out January, 2014. 338 pages. Sadly, this is the last in Gage's Chief Inspector Mario Silva series, set in Brazil. Leighton died this past summer. The Awana tribe, who live in the remote Amazon jungle in the Brazilian state of Pará, have dwindled to only 41 members -- and now 39 of them have dropped dead of what looks like poison. The neighboring white townsfolk don’t seem to be mourning the genocide much--in fact, the only person who seems to care at all is Jade Calmon, the official tribal relations agent assigned to the area. She wants justice for the two survivors, a father and his 8-year-old son. But racism is deeply entrenched and no one is going to help her get to the truth. Unfortunately, this is far from the first time the Brazilian federal police have had a tribal genocide to investigate. Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team are sent in from Brasilia to try to solve the increasingly… Read More