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NY: Evans, 1981. 1st ed. Light wear at edges else near fine in dust jacket. Author's second book featuring soft-boiled Seattle sleuth John Denson. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York: Bantam, 1987. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A fine copy with errata slip. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 1981. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. London newspaper setting. Review copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Intrigue Press, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. First Drew Gavin title. Drew, a former star defensive end for the University of New Mexico, is a sportswriter for the Albuquerque Gazette. When an old college sweetheart asks him to help her husband buy more time from a bookie named Three Eyes Sanchez, Drew agrees only to find himself fighting to save his life.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc: A Borzoi Book, 1947. First Edition, so stated. Lightr blue cloth heavily spotted, in dust jacket missing 1" piece at head of spine, light wear, not price clipped $2.00 price intact. When Kent Murdock, news cameraman who doubles as a private eye, steps into a case there’s always plenty of fast talk and fast action. But even Kent didn't bargain for the singing slugs and flying fists that dogged his trail in the bedroom murder of New York’s most beautiful radio writer -- who handed out keys to her apartment like a salesman hands out samples. It was only reasonable that Kent should be trailed by trouble -- for this time he was both detective and chief suspect! And that was reasonable, too, for he had shared the death-bed with the lovely corpse -- and there were pictures to prove it!. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by Storch, Otto. Book.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1997. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. This book is a realistic account of what happens when a spy is suspected of working in the newsroom of a great American newspaper. The author is an acclaimed novelist and award-winning journalist whose fiction is cited on the CIA's web page as work that should be read as the truth.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boston: MA: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1981. 1st edition, so stated. AUTHOR'S FIRST MYSTERY. Full bound with red paper covered boards; has a small bump at the head of the spine, page edges very lightly soiled in white dj, very lightly soiled at rear and light wrinkling at spine head, else near fine, tight copy, never read. Newspaperman Bill Martell is charged with the murder of his mistress, Judy Klijner, the night editor's wife, and sets out to prove that she was killed by her jealous husband. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Signet, 1995. 1st printing, September 1995, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Reading creases else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINE for Best Paperback. When Mattie, a twelve-year-old runaway who had been interviewed by an alternative newspaper, turns up dead, teacher-sleuth Barrett Lake begins looking around for a mysterious killer who preys on street children. Original.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

St. Martins, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Newspaper owner Maxey Burnell's third title; Nebraska locale. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1990. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first mystery novel. Publishers informational sheet laid in. "Isaiah Justice, feisty editor and publisher of the crusading Southern newspaper The Defender , has been murdered, his favorite bourbon laced with cyanide. A network of suspicious events is quickly uncovered by Isaiah's energetic, fearless son Howard who, in this brisk and sometimes manic mystery, heads off in all directions to find the killer. Some signs point to the sinister Gemtrex Corporation, a mammoth newspaper chain with ties to the Mafia; Gemtrex has been making serious buyout attempts on The Defender . But other clues point to any number of vengeful local residents, insulted, injured or seduced by Isaiah over the years. Suspicion is even cast on Howard's chronically bickering siblings, all of whom had reasons to despise their strong-willed father. Howard, along with his father's former mistress, Suzanne, and Leroy, the paper's ambitious… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1991. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Also laid in is photo of Wright and publicity information. "When small-town reporter Stuart Reed discovers a woman's mutilated body, he hopes to break the "big story." Obsessed with solving the murder, he neglects his wife and his real duties, and risks his job by pointing the finger at a local celebrity outdoorsman. Pressroom politics and apparent police narrow-mindedness finally launch him into action after another young woman is murdered. " -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Newspaper man Stuart Reed discovers the body of a brutully murdered young woman-- a killing met with indifference by the bureaucracies in the homicide squad and his newspaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Woodstock, VT, U.S.A.: Foul Play Press, 1991. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The first mystery in a series featuring Mitch Stevens, a newsman and professor of journalism out to solve murders in the Vermont mountain country. "A projected detective series starring newspaperman Mitch Stevens gets off to a sparkling start with this portrayal of a small college town targeted by developers. Mitch, a journalism prof and former New York City newspaperman, arrives in Southborough, Vt., home of a celebrated summer music festival, to fill in for an ailing friend who edits the old-fashioned local paper. Mitch is drawn to the area and its townspeople, including ex-hippies from the '60s, who are wary of "flatlanders" but hungry for their dollars. While looking for property to buy, he stumbles across the body of real estate agent Vera Tolvey, missing since the previous fall.… Read More

New York: Hyperion Books, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. An EDGAR AWARD Nominee. Buchanan won her Pulitzer as a Miami Herald police-beat reporter, and she has been at the top of the crime-mystery genre since her first novel "Contents Under Pressure" in which she introduced her alter-ego Cuban-American reporter, Britt Montero, who returns in this tale of criss-crossing plots that involve the sex-murder of a small girl, a serial rapist who ambushes career women, and much more.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Hyperion Books, 1994. 1st ed. Light wear else near fine in sunned dust jacket, small damp stain a foot of spine. EDGAR AWARD Nominee. Buchanan won her Pulitzer as a Miami Herald police-beat reporter, and she has been at the top of the crime-mystery genre since her first novel "Contents Under Pressure" in which she introduced her alter-ego Cuban-American reporter, Britt Montero, who returns in this tale of criss-crossing plots that involve the sex-murder of a small girl, a serial rapist who ambushes career women, and much more.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 1991. 1st ed. fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Florida reporters A.J. Egan & Palmer Kingston return in their second novel. "Pulitzer-winning reporter Palmer Kingston works for the Marlinsport, Fla., Tribune ; his tenant and lover, Alice Jane (A.J.) Egan, writes for a competing paper. As in the pair's first adventure, Neon Flamingo , the line between career and personal life shifts constantly. When hotshot U.S. Attorney Ken Trewaster, boyhood nemesis of Palmer, jails the town's longtime mayor as the perpetrator of a real estate scam, Palmer must go into direct competition with A.J., who's been digging up dirt on the same scam. There are more arrests, a suicide (or is it?) and a murder. Palmer and A.J. are separately threatened as they turn over lots of rocks, but Palmer, a local, uncovers a generation-old deception that leads to another act of violence. ...This novel is still neatly done, especially in its depiction of tension… Read More

N.Y.: Signet Books, 1948. First U.S. edition, November 1948, so stated, of this paperback original. Signet #690. (revised from the British edition, first published in England in 1937.) Nicked at head and foot of spine, pages uniformly age toned, some very light soiling else a near fine copy of his second novel. Mike Dolan is a widely read columnist, but he's intensely frustrated by his newspaper's attitude toward the truth. All the articles he's most keen to run -- about a rich youth escaping punishment in a drunk-driving accident, a supremacist group called the Crusaders, or a pennant-winning baseball team found to be throwing games -- are precisely the ones his editor wants to shelve, caring only to keep lucrative advertising relationships intact. Dolan finally has had enough, and borrows money from friends to launch a magazine of his own. Although he's now free to boldly speak truth to power and pursue his most important scoops, the move comes with grave consequences for his love life -- and his… Read More

Chicago: IL: Regnery, 1959. 1st ed. Light wear to edges,fep out else VG in bright dj wrinkled from protective cvr, a look behind the scenes of a Washington D.C. newspaper and political intrigue,. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1980. 1st. edition, fine in near fine dust jacket, light wear, one small closed tear, top of page edges lightly soiled. Author's debut novel. Sports related - Football. SIGNED COPY. "Welcome to Shannon OCork. She has written her first novel, and it's a talented, breezy, sometimes raunchy piece of work that has all the conventions of the classic mystery story (with a map and lists, yet) without losing contact with today. "Sports Freak" is one of the most promising debuts to hit the stalls since Gregory McDonald and his "Fletch" about five years ago... -- New York Times Review by Newgate Callendar April 27, 1980. Xedrox copy of full review is laid in. Signed by Author. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002. 1st edition, October 2002, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "What Ben Cosicki was doing getting himself dead in the sarge's club, nobody could figure," and so the death of Cosicki-aka Benny Lunch- kicks off this brisk and entertaining new series. Benny is a political fixer with deep ties within Philadelphia's Redmonton district, where banks have history going back to the Revolutionary War but the train factory has been closed for years, where jazz dives rub walls with black evangelical churches and people know people. Someone in this tangled web of connections knows why Benny died, and Andrea "Andy" Cosicki determines to find the answers behind her father's death. Benny has used his contacts to get his daughter a job on the Philadelphia Press. There, she finds unexpected help in the person of the… Read More