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N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1998. 1st edition, June 1998, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy. Graphic Novel. He calls himself Bogie, and he's pounding the pavement of Glasgow in search of the legendary Black Bird, one step ahead of the Fat Man and his gang of hardened killers. There's one problem, though: the Bogie Man is actually escaped mental patient Francis Forbes Clunie, and his hard-boiled adversaries are really law-abiding citizens who are cleaner than a kilt on laundry day. But a little thing like reality won't stop the Bogie Man from getting what he wants -- or hanging his imaginary enemies out to dry. This volume collects both novel-length adventures of this English cult classic for the first time anywhere. The Bogie Man was also produced as a BBC film featuring Robbie Coltrane, the star of the popular "Cracker" television series.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Carroll & Graf, 2001. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Two reviews are laid in. Follow up to her award winning first novel. Set in Glasgow. "Following her Creasy Award-winning debut, Garnethill (1999), Mina delivers a second powerful novel with the same self-destructive characters, notably protagonist Maureen O'Donnell, and the same grim, gritty British locales. Maureen, while working at a shelter for abused women in Glasgow, gets pulled into the search for a missing shelter client, Ann Harris, the wife of her friend Leslie's feckless cousin, Jimmy. When Ann's mutilated corpse turns up in the Thames, Maureen agrees to go to London to investigate for Leslie, in part to escape her depressing life, burdened by flashbacks to her lover's murder, fights with her new boyfriend, a job she dislikes, estrangement from her alcoholic mother, and a long-absent abusive father whose sudden return frightens her and haunts her dreams. In seedy… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 2002. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. . "Det. Insp. Orla McLeod goes undercover in Glasgow's underworld, then heads to the highlands with the nine-year-old boy who saves her life. As the novel opens, Orla is about to become the victim of the infamous gangster who brutally murdered her partner, Luke; her only hope is Jamie, who just saw his mother die and is the only one who can identify the killer. Injured in the crossfire, Jamie is taken by Orla and fellow officer Murdo Cameron to her mother's mountain hideaway to recuperate in the care of Orla's friends. But who are her friends? Someone on her team may be working for the other side and her mother's neighbors may not be what they seem. And even Orla's past including memories of her crusading father's assassination by the Irish villains he tried to put… Read More