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NY: Signet, 1997. 1st ed. SIGNED by author on the title page. a fine copy without dust jacket as issued. The1st Filomena Buscarsela title. Author's 1st novel. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Award Nominee.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2003. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A DILYS AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. First Edition, 2nd Impression. A fine copy in red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and gilt decoration on lower right front cover, in near fine unclipped dust jacket, $5.95 price intact, light wear at spine head. EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel.. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A beautiful young woman is found dead of a cocaine overdose. An embittered lover vows vengeance on the men who brutally shot his fiancee. The Russian mafia has its finger on the world's most deadly substance. And the lives of millions of U.S. citizens are in jeopardy. Little did Jake suspect that the innocent-looking package from East Coast Nautical Wares contained a much more dangerous cargo than the fishing lures he had ordered. This mistakenly delivered shipment starts a cataclysm of events that spans the globe: from a sleepy South Carolina town to cocaine factories in Colombia to the Russian mafia-owned warehouses in Vladivostok to the FBI and the CIA. Frighteningly realistic, this story of international terrorism and world security in the Information Age will have you on the edge of your seat.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1995. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Reading copy. SIGNED & DATED, Sept. 30 '95. Author's 1st book. Winner of the inaugural Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. A novel which illuminates the clash between Japanese and American cultures. Brown who is also working on the screenplay for a movie version optioned by filmaker Wayne wang ("the Joy Luck Club", "Smoke") to be produced by Miramax.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publicity info laid in. Author's first book and first Chase Defoe title. Smelly and filthy after a solitary canoe trip, Chase arrives as a stranger in a Pennsylvania town, finds the body of another stranger, David Spencer, and is held on the murder charge. His credentials quickly established, as a former U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer, Defoe is free to investigate the murder and the killer's motive. Spencer had been asking questions about Ava Dixon, certified as accidentally drowned years earlier, in 1951. Now Defoe probes deeper: inquiring about rumors that Ava had been gang-raped by the town's then-young elite men and killed to ensure her silence. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY. NY: Scribner, 2002. 1st. Ed. .with complete number line beginning with 1. Light soiling at page edges else near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Martha "Marty" Nickerson, a prosecuting attorney in Chatham on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is featured in the debut book in this highly accalimed legal series. AN EDGAR & MARY HIGGINS CLARK WINNER.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. This is the author's first book, a murder-mystery courtroom drama that demonstrates the author's background in the legal profession, as he defends a notorious motorcycle gang. Santa Fe background.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Villard, 2000. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. A weird and fascinating book about dinosaurs masquerading as people in the modern world. A very funny and wildly creative detective novel. "What would the world be like if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct? As this very funny book shows, for one thing, L.A. would be even weirder than it is now." Dave Barry. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 1st Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Review copy with slip laid in. "Michael Kilian, writing here as Rex Dancer, has established himself in the last several years as a first-rate writer of political and historical novels as well as of mysteries.. Bad Girl Blues, set in sultry New Orleans, is his best effort yet. Main character Andy Derain, a burnt-out New York photographer, finds a dead body in the courtyard of his French Quarter shop. Strange that his former love Candice, now married to powerful Texan Ben Browley, should be with him at the time! Believable characterization of even minimal characters, excellent writing with touches of humor built beautifully into the dialog, well-paced plot development, and doses of violence and sex that are never overdone but add to the storyline..." -- LJ. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1994. 1st edition, March 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Abel's brisk, sparely written thriller reads more like an accomplished 10th novel than a debut. Jack Walsh, a cop who has been hitting the bottle since his partner died in an aborted drug bust, wakes up in a Boston hospital after an automobile accident to learn that the other car's driver--the only son of local crime boss Johnny D'Angelo--is dead, which means Walsh is as good as dead himself. After resigning from the force and serving time in a state medical facility, Walsh holes up in his hometown, Athol, Mass., to wait for the Mafia hit he knows is coming. Unknown to Walsh, the DA's office has him under surveillance; they're using him for bait, hoping to get evidence against D'Angelo when the mobster comes gunning for him. So begins a cat-and-mouse game that involves Walsh's… Read More

Scribners, 1998. 1st ed. Uncorrected Proof, fine, pictoral wraps, with Review slip laid in. Her 1st book. Los Angeles. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Bantam, 1989. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1989. 1st edition January 1989, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first mystery. Introducing Private detective Jack Ross. Nevada setting. Hired by a young prostitute to find her long-missing grandfather, Reno private eye Jack Ross tracks the cold trail across the deserts and back alleys of the city to one of Nevada's most influential families. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1994. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author at title page. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. Author's first book. "Jack Flippo, on the fast track at the Dallas DA's office, unwittingly beds the wife of a drug kingpin. By the time Jack's realized his egregious error, he's out on his ear, divorced, depressed, and broke. Reduced to taking odd jobs, he obliges a detective friend who asks him to photograph the infidelities of sleazy entrepreneur Buddy George. Jack, with his unerring nose for trouble, gets more than the picture he bargained for when his photographic snoopfest reveals Buddy's penchant for weird sex. Soon Jack finds himself involved with blackmail, murder, and a cast of unforgettable characters including Teddy Deuce, a moronic, muscle-flexing thug whose dearest ambition is to have his own game show, and icily gorgeous Paula Fontaine, Buddy's shrewd, sexy,… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 1988. 1st edition, so stated. Near fine in dust jacket. Author's first book, a mystery introducing tough Texas lawyer Bino. "Capturing the reader from the very first line, this is a thriller from a new writer to watch. Congressman Richard Bigelow was a crusader who disturbed the cozy relationship between the underworld of Texas politics and the overlords of big-time crime. Fearing that Bigelow would expose the nexus between the sleaziest conservative politics and organized crime, the mob and the politicians have him killed. Unfortunately for the plotters, in an effort to cover their tracks they also kill Sonny Starr, a small-time hood who was a witness to the murder. Sonny's lawyer, Bino ("it's short for albino," he curtly explains) Phillips, a toughened criminal lawyer of the old school and, moreover, a close friend of the murdered congressman, is now involved. This first novel is literate and tough-talking… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1997. 1st edition, June 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine,as new, in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The author's critically acclaimed first book, an EDGAR AWARD Finalist. SIGNED (signature only) by the author on the title page. "This jaunty, humorous, and captivating first novel features a cast of quirky California characters and their misadventures. Lush-bodied Marianna picks on middle-aged co-worker Harold?who wrote a tell-all book about used cars?for help when a car salesman cheats her. Thus begins an itinerant tale of scam and counterscam, car distribution corruption, tender-hearted strippers, attempted murder, accidental murder, car chases, outwitted hoodlums, vituperative ex-wives, pot-smoking brothers, and incipient love. Quick shifts of scene steadily increase the suspense, but this is one of those books that ends too soon." --- LIBRARY JOURNAL. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard… Read More

NY: A.L. Burt, 1924. Re-issue, 1st thus. Author's first book. Light wear along edges, spine lightly darkened. Small ink stamp from circulating library at inside covers.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. Book.

NY, NY: Vilking, 1981. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Features Terry Traven who owns the Black Mask Detective Agency. Author's 1st book. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. During the 1960s Terry Traven had it all. He had a 1941 Buick, wide-lapel suits, spectator shoes, the Black Mask Detective Agency, and an underground newspaper friend who kept plugging him as the hard-boiled reincarnation of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. But that was the sixties ... Now it's the 1980s, and the drugs are hard and the rock is punk. The monied interests have moved in and the dream has gone sour. For Terry Traven, his mortgaged dream is just about to die of starvation when wealthy industrialist Athol Busby walks through the frosted glass door and asks him to find his son Lothar. Suddenly Terry finds himself embroiled in other people's fantasies -- fantasies that have come to life and gone awry in the nightmarish violence of punk life, the glittering, coke-induced visions of Beverly Hills' elite, and,… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Century, 2003. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Jacket still has "As Good As Michael Connely or Your Money Back" sticker. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best first novel. The stronghold of white-collar crime in the rarefied world of high finance -- this is the setting for Peter Spiegelman's edgy, suspenseful, sharply-honed debut novel. John March, who walked away from his family's venerable merchant bank for the life of a rural deputy sheriff -- a life that would explode in personal tragedy and professional disaster. Three years later, he's back in Manhattan, working as a PI and running from his grief and the expectations of his wealthy family. March takes the case of Rick Pierro, a self-made man who has everything–and who's in danger of losing it all. An anonymous, poisonous threat has implicated him in a vast money-laundering scheme already under… Read More