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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1983. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Light soiling at page edges else near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Fiona Fitzgerald novel of homicide and Washington politics. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY. Features Maggie Ryan.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam"s Sons, 1995. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Retirees Dottie and Joe Loudermilk, who cruise the land in a trailer home, hit Washington, D.C., to visit their son Eddie in this humorous second entry in the series after Going Nowhere Fast. Dottie, an ex-professor, and Joe, an ex-cop, are salt-of-the-earth, politically conservative black Americans utterly baffled by Eddie's lefty politics. When, after picking a fight with Eddie, his former roommate turns up dead, Joe and Dottie have a case to crack. They believe their son when he says he didn't kill the man, even though witnesses place him at the scene. The only clue seems to be the man's vague boasting that he had just "optioned some book" that would electrify D.C. and make him famous. Grumbling all the way, Joe uses his police smarts to scout up leads, but it's the courageous and sometimes foolish… Read More

N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. Second edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Near fine in fine dust jacket, Lighty rubbed, not price clipped, $5.95 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Sir Edward Ironmonger is the ambassador to the United States from the newly independent island nation of Tampica. The death of his beautiful and temperamental wife on the eve of sensitive negotiations with the US over its Tampican naval base creates a difficult situation. Tampica has nobody qualified to conduct the investigation, but the government wishes to keep US authorities from becoming involved. Because the Tampican embassy is technically Tampican territory, even though it is located in Georgetown near Washington DC, the government exercises its sovereignty and calls in Scotland Yard's Tibbett.. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1985. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. 1903 & Teddy Roosevelt is President when he becomes ensnared in a trap set by some of the country's most powerful industrialist to discredit his administration, he finds himself prevented from going to the authorities so he pursues the murderers himself. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY.NY: Knopf, 1975. First edition, so stated. Extremities are sunned, else very good-near fine copy in dust jacket with 2" closed tear at front, a couple of chips out, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Higgins tries on a new territory - this time crime and mayhem walk the halls of Washington poltical venues.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

NY: Berkley, 1997. 1st edition, November 1997, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. Sutton McPhee, a reporter for one of Washington D.C.'s most important newspapers, must solve the murder of her sister, a secretary for the Bread of Life Church, thereby placing her own life in danger. First book in series.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Henry Holt & Co, 1998. 1st pbk printing. A near fine copy. Author's debut nove and EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, A Crime in the Neighborhood is the story of a young girl’s coming of age during a turbulent time in American history. Living in a quiet suburb of Washington, D.C., Marsha is nine years old in the summer of 1973. While the nation’s attention is focused on the breaking Watergate scandal, her quiet neighborhood is going through its own upheaval. Looking back as an adult, she remembers it as a time when her father’s abandonment of his family becomes entwined with the arrival of a new neighbor and the death of a boy who lives down the street. Deeply disillusioned by the changes in her life, Marsha takes it upon herself to find the boy’s murderer, which sets off a chain of tragic events. A poignant and startling novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood expertly shows what can happen when fear… Read More

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997. 1st ed. some soiling, tape pull at fep where previous owners label was removed else very good in dj with some indentations at front panel. Author's debut nove land Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1988. 1st ed. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, nor remaindered. Author looks to the skies and one of the most remarkable technological competitions of our time--the race to develop "Star Wars." 543 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 2nd edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Originally published in 1953 when Vidal had been blacklisted and needed a new name to write under. Highly respected United States Senator Leander Rhodes asks Manhattan based public relations expert Peter Sargent to visit him at his home. He wants Peter to help him develop his PR plan for his run for the presidency and to stay on staff to work the media. However, the night before Rhodes is to announce his candidacy, someone murders the senator in his bed. Out of work at least as a presidential candidate's publicist, Sargent investigates who killed the respected reactionary politician. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 2nd edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Originally published in 1953 when Vidal had been blacklisted and needed a new name to write under. Highly respected United States Senator Leander Rhodes asks Manhattan based public relations expert Peter Sargent to visit him at his home. He wants Peter to help him develop his PR plan for his run for the presidency and to stay on staff to work the media. However, the night before Rhodes is to announce his candidacy, someone murders the senator in his bed. Out of work at least as a presidential candidate's publicist, Sargent investigates who killed the respected reactionary politician. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1991. 1st US edition, January 1991, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in an acid-free archival acetate cover. As New. Publishers revie sheet laid in. Methodical in his Teutonic manner but also acutely sensitive, former Berlin police department inspector Ernst Lohmann ( Death's Head Berlin ) again demonstrates his sleuthing skills in this third adventure. The early days of WW II find Lohmann a refugee in London, about to be interred as an enemy alien. Instead he is offered an undercover assignment by Scotland Yard and the first lord of the admiralty, Winston Churchill: to watch over Capt. Robert Pardoe, the naval officer in charge of a crucial mission in Washington, and make sure that Pardoe, a suspect in the deaths of two prostitutes, does not murder again. Once in the U.S., Lohmann is threatened by a rabid J. Edgar Hoover, who accuses him of being a Communist. Following Pardoe to New Orleans where the latter… Read More

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2005. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket and slipcase. LETTERED EDITION, one of 104 Lettered copies (this being "OOO") , SIGNED by the author. New , still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Specially bound in quarter morocco with hand-made paper-covered boards. Dust jacket and interior artwork by Joe Servello. An attractive production of this true first edition that preceded the trade edition.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited / Lettered Edition.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2005. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket and slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 numbered copies (this being #69) , SIGNED by the author. New , still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Bound in black brillianta cloth, gilt embossed spine. Dust jacket and interior artwork by Joe Servello. An attractive production of this true first edition that preceded the trade edition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Book.

Chappaqua, NY, U.S.A.: Bluejay Books, 1985. 1st edition, March 1985, so stated. Faint foxing to the edges of the jacket flaps. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first mystery introduces P.I. Leo Haggerty. *A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE*. Five years after Herb Saunders' five-year-old twin daughters had been kidnapped, with no real clues and no ransom demand, the kidnapper called and played a tape of their voices. Herb disappears in search of the girls, or at least the kidnapper, and his wife calls in private eye Leo Haggery to find Herb before she loses him too. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Bauman, Jill. Book.

NY: Ballantine Books, 2002. HAMMETT NOMINEE. Danny Cray, a painter and amateur sleuth tries to protect the reputation of a wealth Washington lawyer. 1ST Ed. F/F. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1992. 1st edition, February 1992 with complete number line beginning with 1. Top of page edges lightly stained else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. ; Washington, D.C. locale; a Richard Michaelson title. "Government jargon and covert action abound in this nicely detailed, intriguing tale about the possibilities of rigging elections via computer. Seeing surprise on the face of the doctor who administers the fatal injection to the first man put to death by the U.S. government in more than a generation, a reporter asks officials what was unusual about the execution. Her queries reverberate to the FBI, a special assistant to the President and a public relations consultant to a Japanese company that specializes in computer applications. Headed by former diplomat Richard Michaelson (last seen in Washington Deceased ), a commission is formed to determine if the execution was bungled and why. The investigation follows a circuitous route pointing… Read More

Inianapolis:IN, USA: Bobbs Merrill, 1903. 1st edition. Spine head & foot worn, edges worn, small water stain at lower page edges. Dark green cloth with gold titles on spine, stamped in red and gold on front cover. Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard. In homemade acetate dust protector. Illustrated by C.M. Relyea. 418 pages with 22 page list of Important Fiction (of) Bobbs Merrill . " Variously regarded as the 'mother, grandmother, and godmother of the detective story" -- Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection. For two weeks Washington has been abuzz with talk about what happened at the Moore house. The historic old building, dating back to colonial times, has long been a subject of unease as the site of multiple deaths. But pretty young Veronica Moore decides to defy superstition and hold her lavish wedding at the ancestral property—an event that turns tragic when a guest’s lifeless body is discovered. Now, a man has reported to the police that he… Read More

NY: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 1998. 1st ed. Fine unread copy in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at title page. Author's first book. .A former Air Force major offers a military thriller involving a colonel whose investigation into the brutal murder of a general reveals a conspiracy stemming from the Vietnam War and presents him with a serious moral dilemma. 376 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.