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NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st edition October 1994. Author's first a mystery. ane Mcbride is starting over. Leaving bad memories in Boston, she has come to the Alaskan island of Sitka to take a job as finance director for the Native-controlled Katmal Shoe corporation, only to find that the position no longer exists and that she is expected to leave. The harsh, magnificent land is compelling, however, and Jane is determined to make a success of her new life. Ignoring the somewhat sinister incidents occurring around her, Jane finds work teaching two business courses at the local college and befriends some of the townspeople, including psychiatrist Michael Benoit, reporter Bob Denson, her landlady Francesca LaQuestion, and Francesca's troubled son Bojack. Then a young woman is killed and Jane lands in the middle of a dangerous situation - with no one to trust but herself. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton, 1955. 1st edition, so stated. A near fine, tight copy with very light soiling, in dust jacket lightlly chipped at corners, lightly soiled, rubbed and sunned at spine, Inside rear flap lightly soiled.else a very good-near fine copy, not price clipped, $2.75 price intact, in protective mylar cover. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. A cover blurb by Mickey Spillane , who had met two younger writers, Earle Basinsky and Charlie Wells, while in the service and who would become his protégés; each publishing two hardboiled-noir novels in the Spillane style in the early 1950s. Spillane's blurb "The kind of book I go for." . 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

NY, NY: St Martins Press, 1988. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A historical novel dealing with the Japanese internment in California during WW II. Author's 1st book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY,NY.: W. Morrow, 1982. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Hentoff is a staff writer for 'The Village Voice' and 'The New Yorker, best known for his work on jazz, civlil liberties and police work. Hentoff has written a suspenseful mystery featuring a pair of New York City cops, one a laconic African-American, the other a hard-edged, middle-aged Jewish cop, investigating a grisly knife murder in Greenwich Village. His first mystery, . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2001. 1st edition, March 2001, so stated, fine in dust jacket. New and unread. Author's first novel. Once again, Dennis McMillan has discovered a fine author who makes us think about those often overlooked in our society. Much hailed in the tradtion of Willeford and Jim Thompson. Joe Servello designed and illustrated dust jacket. "Miller's first novel is a Florida panhandle picaresque following the adventures of a regular piece of work named Chester Stubbs, an ex-navy heavyweight boxing champ. Chester narrates his close encounters with trouble and various bottles of George Dickle whiskey with self-deprecating wit and a lot of shaky grammar. A year after he is abandoned by his wife, Marleen coming home one night, she finds him on the garage roof having sex with a check-out girl from the local grocery store Chester is slovenly, drunk and ornery. His best friend, a black ex-boxer named Crow, finds him a job as a warehouseman, but Chester… Read More

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1989. 1st ed. Slight spine slant, lightly rubbed else near fine copy of this Paperback Original. Author's 1st novel.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Barbagallo, Ron. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1992. 1st US ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. AUTHOR'S DEBUT NOVEL. "Using the hoary device of the English country house weekend, Spicer, British M.P., cabinet minister and first-time novelist, pulls off the first half of this improbable murder mystery with aplomb by means of a dryly witty, highly readable style...The "Miss Marple" of the tale is diminutive, pretty, blonde young Lady Jane Hildreth, who has turned to sleuthing for the British government since her divorce from wealthy aristocrat Lord John Hildreth. When a dashing Argentinian lady-killer, a past lover of Lady Jane's, dies under suspicious circumstances while playing polo for Lord John's team, the latter invites his ex-wife to his grand country seat, Greysham Park, to solve the mystery. Also on hand are a thoroughly unpleasant band of the idle rich, and sundry friends of Hildreth's whom he considers… Read More

NY, NY: Henry Holt, 2007. 1st. Ed. With corresponding number line. Very light soiling at page edges else near fine in dust jacket. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. A falsified autopsy report sends a coroner in Ireland on the search for the true reason behind the death of the female body laying in his morgue. His broter-in-law seems to much interested in hiding what really happened to her.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

N.Y.: Delacorte, 2007. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket with small closed tear at rear panel. A BARRY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Thriller and a SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. Author's first novel, featuring freelance operative Jonathan Quinn. Ex-cop Quinn now works for a shadowy U.S. intelligence agency known merely as the Office, erasing all traces of violence and mayhem when an operation goes south. During an apparently routine assignment to look into a fatal fire that claimed the life of Robert Taggart, a viral biologist, in his Colorado home, Quinn finds evidence that Taggart was murdered, and that discovery is followed by an attempt on Quinn's own life. While Quinn survives, he learns that the Office's top operatives have been killed in near-simultaneous attacks. Quinn, who makes a compelling protagonist, heads to Europe to track down the mastermind behind the scheme. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY,NY: Random House Inc, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Lorraine Page, a down-on-her-luck ex-cop in Los Angeles, California, is featured in the DEBUT title in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's 1st book. "Billheimer's impressive debut tells a funny, sometimes touching story about governmental bumbling and Appalachian poverty and resourcefulness. National Department of Transportation investigator Owen Allison, a West Virginia native, is assigned the unwelcome task of completing an audit begun by a colleague who met with a fatal "accident" in the little town of Contrary, W.Va. Contrary, Owen quickly discovers, has been the recipient of unintentional governmental largess: an extra zero on a grant application turned Contrary's initial request for two buses into a request for 20. The mistakenly awarded grant, with continuing funding for support, has turned Contrary into a contented town?except for Hatfield McCoy, a disabled citizen who keeps firing off disgruntled letters about Contrary's bus service..." PW. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006. 3rd prtg. . FINE/FINE. A fine tale of police procedure and mayhem set in modern Korea.. DEBUT MYSTERY.. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. First American Edition., with complete number line beginning with 1.ffp. has previous owners bookplate and glue stain is starting to spread from spine, else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, $8.95 price intact, with protective mylar cover. The author's first mystery. EDGAR NOMINATION.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1998. 1st ed. ., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Her 1st book. Juneau. A young woman psychologist is drawn into a murder investigation and discovers a clash between Native and Caucasion cultures, in a mystery set in the Juneau, Alaska, art world. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1995. 1st US edition, January 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. This is the first in the highly acclaimed Detective Inspector Sidney Walsh series. Cambridge University don Maureen Helmont was found murdered. But Maureen seemed an unlikely sort to meet a violent end: Affectionately known as the "Merry Widow" by her academic colleagues, the attractive and charming woman was universally well liked. Why then was she smothered to death in her sleep? It soon becomes apparent that Maureen kept many secrets. The university lecturer and authority on the Brontes was also the pseudonymous author of a series of explicit romantic novels, as well as of her own yet-to-be published amorous memoirs. As the police discover, between these dual lives the "Merry Widow" made at least one lethal enemy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005. 1ST ED. Fine copy in dust jacket of her debut mystery. Short listed for 2006 EDGAR AWARD, ANTHONY AWARD & BARRY AWARD for Best First Novel. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney's office. Lora's comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love with a mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant with a murky past. Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, the bond between Lora and Alice is marred by envy and mistrust. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alice's personal history and possibly jealous of Alice's hold on her brother Lorna assumes the role of amateur detective and finds a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution, and ultimately, murder. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979. Fine in VG+, lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Book Club edition. The author's first mystery. EDGAR NOMINATION.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Book.

Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. 1st American edition. Fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket, not price clipped, $5.95 price intact. Van de Wetering's 1st book. Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student--later a widely celebrated mystery writer--who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 2001. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's debut novel. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: The Viking Press, 1950. 1st edition, August 1950, so stated. Very light fading to cloth else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, $ 3.00 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Author's first book. (Listed in Hubin in the electronic version) Train setting. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by English, Bill. Book.