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THE WRONG MURDER: A John J. Malone Mystery
by Rice, Craig
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition Thus
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- 1944
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$72.00
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Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Co., 1944. First Edition Thus, Tower Books #T-173, October 1944. Lightly rubbed at edges, damp stain at lower edges unaffecting text, pages uniformly age toned in dust jacket, sunned at spine, shallow loss at top spine ends and flap corners, a couple of closed tears. Remarkably good copy as Tower Books were notorious… Read more about this item Item Price
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HEADED FOR A HEARSE: The Second Bill Crane Mystery
by Latimer, Jonathan
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1935
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$36.00
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Garden City, New York,: The Crime Club, Inc., Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.,, 1935. First edition, so stated. Red boards with black skeleton holding the "Members' Editon" scroll on the front. Wear along edges, spine slightly darkened, cloth has slight wrinkle, rear cover has a couple of sunned spots. Previous owners name and date at inside front cover, a vcery… Read more about this item Item Price
$36.00
THE JURY OF DEATH: Twelve Against the Underworld
by Washburn, Robert Collyer
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good-Very Good
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- Later Edition
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- 1930
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$33.60
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Garden City, New York,: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Later printing. There is no "First edition" statement on the publisher's page and the titles on the dustjacket's rear panel were published in 1931. Some wear to covers, lwear at edges, ight stain at spine foot else a very good, tight copy. Dust jacket has a 1" piece out at… Read more about this item Item Price
$33.60
ARON ASH
by Tucker, Scott
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1990
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- Paperback
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- 9780931832543
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$9.60
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Santa Barbar: CA: Fithan Press, 1990. 1st edition, December 17, 1990 of this Paperback Original. Library of Congress Copyright Office stamp at front endpaer. Light shelfwear else about fine. Aron Ash lives in Chicago with his girlfriend, Lisa Hardrow. Or he did until last night. Noe the question is what happened to Lisa. … Read more about this item Item Price
$9.60
BLOOD TRANCE: Another Maddy and Alex Phillips Mystery of Hypnotic Detection **SIGNED COPY**.
by Zimmerman, R.D.
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1993
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- 9780688121396
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$24.00
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N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1993. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. "Amateur sleuth Alex Phillips and his sister Maddy, a blind, crippled hypnotist/psychologist living as a wealthy… Read more about this item Item Price
$24.00
DEAD EGOTISTICAL MORONS: A Paul Turner Mystery
by Zubro, Mark Richard
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2003
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- 9780312266820
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$16.80
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N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2003. First edition, August 2003, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Boys4U is the world's most popular singing group - at least among teenaged girls - and they have closed out their sold-out world tour with a series… Read more about this item Item Price
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DRAGON'S CAVE ( A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery)
by Clason, Clyde
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Prtg
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- 2007
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$15.31
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Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2007. 1st printing. Fine, unread, new copy of the trade paperback [originally pub. in 1940 and very scarce]. Professor Westborough has to find the key to two locked room mysteries as well as solve a complicated cipher to catch a clever killer. When Jonas Wright, a print shop owner and… Read more about this item Item Price
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AN OPTION ON DEATH: An Emerson Ward Novel **REVIEW COPY**
by Sherer, Michael W.
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1988
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- 9780396092216
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$19.20
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N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1988. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The first Emerson Ward, a freelance writer in Chicago, title. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. A suitcase filled with a quarter of a million dollars and… Read more about this item Item Price
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A TIME FOR MURDER: A Graphic Original, #123
by Saber, Robert O. pseudonym of Milton K. Ozaki
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1956
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$28.80
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N.Y.: Graphic Books, 1956. First edition. A Graphic Original, 1956. [.25 cover price] Small scrape at spine edge else as fine as you could want! A bright, tight copy with page edges still bright red. A Graphic Mystery # 123, PBO, Great GGA cover by Walter Popp. Listed in Gary Lovisi's book: Dames, Dolls… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lieberman's Choice
by Kaminsky, Stuart M.
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1993
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- Hardcover
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- 9780312088361
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$24.00
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New York, U.S.A.: St Martins Press, 1993. 1st edition, January 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Kaminsky has garnered both The GRAND MASTER AWARD from Mystery Writers of America, 2006 and THE EYE LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD, 2007. "Sixty-year-old… Read more about this item Item Price
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'46, Chicago
by Monroe, Steve
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2002
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- Paperback
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- 9780786867318
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$8.16
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N.Y.: Miramax Books, 2002. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Uncorrected Proof. Chicago cop Gus Carson was bad, crooked, and dangerous before he went to war. But, having survived a Japanese submarine attack in the Pacic, he returns a changed man. So it is plain lousy luck that hes with a pretty hooker in a… Read more about this item Item Price
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DOCTORS ARE LOVERS TOO
by Bell, Steve
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1962
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$14.40
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Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Chicago Paerback House, Inc, 1962. 1st edition of this Paperback Original, CPH #100. Vintage Paperback, [.50 cover price]. Cover by Robert Bonfils. A couple of light scratches else near fine copy. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if… Read more about this item Item Price
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A LONG COLD FALL **FIRST BOOK**
by Reaves, Sam
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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- 9780380716418
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$6.24
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N.Y.: Avon Books, 1992. 1st printing, December 1992, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy His first book. CHICAGO. "This impressive mystery debut grabs attention with its opening chapter and never lets up. With both a penchant for trouble and the ability to handle it, Vietnam vet Cooper MacLeish, after completing college on the GI… Read more about this item Item Price
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FEAR WILL DO IT
by Reaves, Sam
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Printing
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- 1994
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- Paperback
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- 9780380720347
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$7.20
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N.Y.: Avon Books, 1994. 1st printing, January 1994, with complete numbr line starting with 1. A fine, tight, unread copy of the 2nd Cooper MacLeish title. Vietnam vet MacLeish has a good job pushing a hack around Chicago--and the love of a beautiful Caribbean lady named Diana Froelich. But Diana has a past she never shared with… Read more about this item Item Price
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BURY IT DEEP
by Reaves, Sam
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Printing
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- 1994
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- Paperback
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- 9780380722662
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$4.80
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N.Y.: Avon Books, 1994. 1st printing, December 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Spine edge rubbed, magic marker across bar code on inside front cover, else about fine. Vietnam vet, Chicago cabbie and sometime investigator Cooper MacLeish is always willing to help out a good friend-- which is why he agrees to accompany third-rate newshound Melvin Moreland… Read more about this item Item Price
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A LONG COLD FALL **FIRST BOOK**
by Reaves, Sam
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
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- 9780399135651
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$19.20
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N.Y.: Putnam 1991, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. His first book. CHICAGO. "This impressive mystery debut grabs attention with its opening chapter and never lets up. With both a penchant for trouble and the ability to handle it,… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE LAST DARK PLACE: An Abe Lieberman Mystery
by Kaminksy, Stuart M.
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2004
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- 9780765304636
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$14.40
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N.Y.: Forge, 2004. First Edition, Deceber 2004, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Edgar-winner Kaminsky's eighth Abe Lieberman mystery (after 2002's Not Quite Kosher) gets off to a dramatic start. After a prologue in which a gunman confronts a young Lieberman in the middle… Read more about this item Item Price
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Murder and Mystery in Chicago: Stories from Sara Paretsky to Robert Bloch
by Greenberg, Martin H. (ed);Waugh, Carol-Lynn Rossel (ed.); McSherry, Frank D., Jr. (ed.)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 2004
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- Paperback
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- 9780743493154
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$12.00
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N.Y.: BP Books, 2004. 1st ed. A near fine copy of this Trade Paperback Original. Introduction by Robert Bloch. Includes Robert Bloch, Jon L. Breen, Howard Browne, Edward D Hoch, Craig Rice, Ray Russell .... First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback Original. Item Price
$12.00
BURN MARKS ***AWARD FINALST***SIGNED***
by Paretsky, Sara
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1990
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- ISBN
- 9780385298926
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$24.00
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N.Y.: Delacorte Press, 1990. 1st Edition, March 1990 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. MACAVITY AWARD FINALIST for Best Novel. Laid in is a page INSCRIBED, SIGNED and DATED (year of publication) at title page from another copy of "Burn Marks". … Read more about this item Item Price
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EXERCISE IN TERROR: A Novel [REVIEW COPY]
by Kaminsky, Stuart M.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1985
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- ISBN
- 9780312274801
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$24.00
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N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1985. 1st ed.,with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. A classic thriller from the author of the Toby Peters mystery series. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy. Item Price
$24.00