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N.Y.: St. Martins, 1998. 1dt 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. A Tom and Scott mysteries. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1997. First edition, September 1997, so stated. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Texas locale with Hap & Leonard. "Leonard Pine is distraught. His lover, Raul, has left him for a biker. Leonard's pal and sleuthing partner, Hap Collins, wants to be there for his buddy, but before Hap can help, the biker is found headless. Leonard is quickly dismissed as a suspect, but then Raul's body is discovered, extensively tortured. Clearly, the LaBorde, Texas, police department has no interest in solving what is viewed only as a homosexual killing. Leonard can't let it go. He and Hap descend into a vortex of police corruption, gay bashing for video profit, and a truly bizarre business scam, all masterminded by the local chili king. Lansdale is in top form with this latest Collins-Pine caper. Where else in the mystery world could one find a plot that hinges on the big money to be… Read More

N.Y.: Viking Penguin, 1990. 1st. Fine in dj. Brandstetter, officially retired as a private eye, accedes to his lover Cecil's request to investigate the death of Vaughn Thomas, a co-worker at Channel 3 shot in a "combat pursuit" game by a real gun, not a paintball. Traveling to the home town of the young woman Thomas lived with, Brandstetter arrives just after she's murdered and her young son wounded. On a course marked by a right-wing paramilitary group, a jealous ex-husband and Thomas's hard-driving marketing-consultant stepmother (none of them nice), Hansen guides us in spare, smooth prose to a satisfying conclusion. Brandstetter's homosexuality is treated lightly--a boy in the paramilitary group has "pretty arms"--and his age isn't avoided: he needs his reading glasses. A worthy addition to classic Southern California detective stories. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1992. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Lieutenant Anna Blessing and the Hinton Third Precinct. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket with review slip laid in.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1987. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket, light wear at edges, closed tear at right hand corner else very good. 2nd in the Matt Sinclair series set in New Orleans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York: Canongate Books, 2003. 2nd prtg. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. The author's first novel initially appeared in the UK as a paperback original, where it won the CWA CREASEY DAGGER AWARD Best First Mystery in 2002. "Yet another talented Scottish author makes a debut with this dark and twisty thriller, boasting a highly unusual hero and a compelling background that shows extensive inside knowledge. The protagonist ("hero" is not quite the word) is Rilke, a promiscuously gay auction dealer working for a struggling Glasgow firm. On an appraisal call one day at the house of Roddy McKindless, a wealthy and recently deceased citizen, he comes across an extensive library of pornography, which includes pictures suggesting a "snuff"-the slaughter of a woman for sexual purposes. Rilke finds himself, to his surprise, engaged in trying to find out who the girl in the picture was, and whether she was really killed. Using his seamy contacts in the city-a pornographer, a… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1982. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket lightly soiled at rear panel, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The sixth to feature Dave Brandstetter, death-claims investigator andone of the the first gay protagonist of a mainstream mystery series.SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1997. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Todd Mills, a gay TV news reporter in Minneapolis, Minnesota is featured in the third book in the series, finds himself investigating the fearful disease AIDS !. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Delacorte Press, 1995. First edition, February 1995, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Cindy Dorn's lover, Mason Greenleaf, is missing, and she feels his disappearance may have something to do with a former lover. With no evidence of foul play, the police won't investigate, so Dorn hires Cincinnati private eye Harry Stoner. Before Harry's inquiries can yield results, the openly bisexual Greenleaf is discovered dead, an apparent suicide. The police are too eager to wrap up Greenleaf's death; to them, he was just another screwed-up queer. Stoner and Dorn aren't easily dissuaded. As Harry backtracks through Greenleaf's life, the name of Paul Grandin keeps surfacing. When Greenleaf was a teacher and Grandin a student, there was a molestation scandal, but that didn't end the contact between the pair. The deeper Harry probes, the more he comes to realize that Greenleaf… Read More

N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. 1st ed. Fine in dj. BRANDSTETTER. [1001 Midnights]. Insurance adjuster Dave Brandstetter investigates the death of truck driver, Paul Meyers. Someone placed a bomb under Meyers' truck, blowing up both the truck and Meyers. Dave's investigation soon reveals that Meyers had been doing nightwork to make some extra money. Brandstetter, a gay death-claims investigator in Los Angeles, California, is featured in the eighth book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1984. 1ST. ED. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. SIGNED COPY. Signed boldly by Hansen at front free endpaper. Insurance adjuster Dave Brandstetter investigates the death of truck driver, Paul Meyers. Someone placed a bomb under Meyers' truck, blowing up both the truck and Meyers. Dave's investigation soon reveals that Meyers had been doing nightwork to make some extra money. Who killed Paul Meyers? Dave Brandstetter, a gay death-claims investigator in Los Angeles, California, is featured in the eighth book in this sewries.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: UK: Headline, 2007. 3rd printing. Reading crease, light wear along edges else a good to very good copy. NOT REMINDERED. A serial killer is stalking the streets of Istanbul, seemingly targeting gay men. A man is found dead in a hotel room, a single stab wound in his heart. Could he be a victim of the 'Peeper'? Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is assigned to the case, and is shocked to discover that the victim's body has been delivered to forensics entirely 'clean'. Has someone tampered with vital evidence? Meanwhile a young carpet dealer, on the brink of a huge sale, is discovered in the mangled remains of his Jeep, a bullet between his shoulder blades. The deal would have made him - the carpet he wanted to sell used to belong to Lawrence of Arabia. Did the young salesman know too much? Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Suleyman uncover an incredible story and quickly realise that behind even the most respectable facade lurk passion, savagery and madness.... Later Edition. Pictorial… Read More

Simon 1995 Pharoah Love title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1996. 1st edition, August 1996, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first novel, WINNER of the EDGAR AWARD for Best First Mystery. Introducing Benjamin Justice, a burned-out gay journalist in West Hollywood. A killing outside a West Hollywood gay bar called The Out Crowd is what brings reporter Justice out of a long, boozy funk in what looks to be the start of a lively, literate new series. Justice blew a Pulitzer when an article about two AIDS victims turned out to be fiction. Now, carrying that and other wounds, he gets the chance to pull himself together by helping another reporter look into the political and social implications of the murder.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Villard, 1984. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Boston setting. A Lovelace-Valentine mystery. Clarissa's Uncle is offering them a chance to open a gay bar called Slate by the end of the year. Now if the dead bodies just stop appearing their might be time to get it done.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1996. 1st edition, August 1996. spine edge rubbed, light wear to rear cover else a near fine copy of this PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Paperback. All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette.. and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death. For 20 years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time Emmy Award-winning TV reporter. He had it all--until his double life became front-page news. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1996. 1st ed. tiny nick at spine edge else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original. An EDGAR Award Nominee. All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette.. and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death. For 20 years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time Emmy Award-winning TV reporter. He had it all--until his double life became front-page news. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.