Search Results: Fiction - Mystery from Riverwood's Books

London: Pan Books. Near Fine. 2002. Softcover. 0330489461 . Excellent, near new condition, light creasing to spine. 475 pages. Acid Row is a crime-infested housing project that exists by its own laws. When news comes that a child has been kidnapped, the frustration and anger that has been seething on the streets of Acid Row is ignited. And no one will be safe. (*shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Canada: Seal Books. Near Fine. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 0770428983 . Excellent condition, only light wear overall, light creasing to spine, no markings. In Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, the mills of the gods appear to have ground Jock Lewis to dust--or have they? Jock's obsessive-compulsive girlfriend, Minty, thinks he was killed in a train crash and is tormented by his ghost. But the cheerfully amoral Jock--AKA Jerry Leach and Jeff Leigh, depending on which woman he's romancing--faked his death to move on to yet another unsuspecting lady. His one legal wife has swept their union hastily under the rug and married a conservative member of Parliament, who has his own urgent secrets. Jock's most recent fiancée, a successful banker, hasn't minded keeping him in the manner to which he's become accustomed--that is, until the day he doesn't come home. When his body is found in a cinema, the intersections of his past collapse in a way that destroys some lives and… Read More

Winnipeg, MB: Great Plains Publications. Very Good+. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. 1894283015 . French flaps, 235 pages. Ex-library with heavy laminated cover and only light wear overall. Interior pages clean & tight. B/w illustrations. Roberts' first novel is a metaphysical thriller set against a backdrop of mythology, folklore and native spiritualism. The Alchemist's Song follows the travels of a jazz musician and his lover as they search for the missing half of a legendary pair of horns known as the Frampton trumpets. When one of the searchers dies under mysterious circumstances, the other continues the quest from the pyramids of Giza to the wilderness of North America. (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo .

Dell Books. Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Dell Books 1976. Pages clean and tight, light age tanning, light discoloration outer edge of pages . Cover has light edge/corner wear, one small tear on spine. 15 Tales to terrify by all-time spellbinders as: Ross Macdonald, Michael Gilbert, Lawrence Treat, Romain Gary, E. C. Bentley, Edward D. Hoch & others. (120os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; .

Pocket Books. Very Good+. 2000. Softcover. 0671027360 . Paperback in excellent condition, light scuffing/creasing to rear, light soiling outer edge of pages, no markings. "When a canister of anti-matter is stolen from a Swiss research facility, Robert Langdon is called in to investigate. A Harvard professor, Langdon is an expert on the ancient, quasi-scientific, and widely feared organization know as the Illuminati, who may or may not be wrapped up in the mystery. " (*shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Dell. Fine. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1st in this edition. Feels tight & unread, very slight rubbing along spine edges, slight fading to upper edge of pages, clean, no markings. "A handful of corpses, a haunted house, and a gorgeous ghost in the flesh...." (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Poseidon Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671742965 . Near new condition. Wear is very light - no markings. From Publishers Weekly: Erickson, who has attracted a strong following with his three novels (the most recent was Tours of the Black Clock ) and the memoir Leap Year , has now written his most provocative novel yet, an apocalyptic narrative in which he yokes his grim vision of America to the exalted vision of Thomas Jefferson. The story opens in Paris, where Jefferson is serving as the new country's ambassador to France. The protagonist, however, is not the master of Monticello but Sally Hemings, the slave and concubine he has brought with him... ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Harper & Row. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060110864 . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover has very light edge & corner wear, slight soiling to outer edge of pages, blue dot from booksale on top edge of pages, interior clean & tight, with no markings. DJ has light edge/corner wear, a couple small tears, one old sticker mark/peel on front, slight soiling, price clipped. 278 pages. 8 vo. " The greatest philosophical mastermind turns detective in this witty and dramatic whodunit which takes place in Athens, 332BC, an unhappy city under the rule of the Macedonian barbarian' Alexander the Great. In the midst of this unrest, Boutades, an eminent citizen, is found brutally murdered. Suspicion falls heavily on young Philemon, and, by Athenian law, his cousin Stephanos is elected to defend his name in court...." ; 8vo .

Nyc: Davis Publications. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Magazine. Very good condition, clean and intact. Previous owner's address sticker on front. Stories by: Sherrard Gray, Gregor Robinson, Marianne Strong, Elliott Capon, Jeremiah Healy, Reynolds Phillips, Dan Crawford, GDH and M Cole. (105os324, reduced shipping available) ; 8vo .

Davis Publications. Very Good. 1990. Softcover. Double issue. Very nice condition, clean and unmarked pages. Cover has light edge wear and a little sticker residue on front, minor creasing. 17 stories of mystery and suspense. (180os, lower shipping available) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

New York: Davis Publications. Very Good. 1990. Magazine. Very good condition, clean and intact, little waviness to spine. Previous owner's address sticker on front. Stories by: Sherrard Gray, L. A. Taylor, Curt Fischer, Thomas Adcock, David Braly, Dan Crawford, Robert Hood, Albert Bashover, Karen Parker, Georges Simenon. (105os-3-24, reduced shipping available) ; 8vo .

Edmonton, AB: Macbee Publishing. Very Good. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. 0968798632 . Light wear to edges/corners, small peeled area on front, light scuffing to rear, interior pages clean & tight, 167 pages. Book Two in the Molly O'Connor Series: Molly O'Connor decides to take a leave of absence following the murders connected with Driftwood school. A Friend at a university in Arizona offers her lodgings, so she enrolls as a special student for the fall term. Soon after classes and rehearsals begin, she discovers that she has traded one set of problems for another.... Friends and acquaintances in the music department start having strange accidents. Certain that all these events are linked in some way, she asks Brian Donegan, the detective who led the investigation into the murders at Driftwood school, to help convince the police in Tucson that she isn't just another middle-aged meddler.... (os) ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Dell. Very Good; Only found a few, $4 to $8. Dell Publishing, new Dell edition . 1959, paperback.. 1959. Softcover. Dell Pub. 1959 printing. 16mo (6.5" tall). Pages clean and unmarked other than name written on endpage, age tanning to pages and inside covers. Cover is scuffed with light creasing and moderate wear/rubbing to edges, couple faded spots to outer edge of pages. "Like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncing noiselessly at night. Like a bat he never showed himself to the face of day. Like a bat he always flew alone ... He had to be stopped. Somehow.. But how?" ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; (*lower shipping avail to all locations) [110-osl] .

Forge Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0312867565 . Ex-library book, but still in very good condition - protective cover and usual ex-lib type of markings. . Over wear is very light. Light corner wear to jacket, light soiling outer edge of pages. Pages clean and intact, one page seen with a crease. 351 pages. ; 8vo .

London: Minerva. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition; Third Printing. Softcover. 074939563X . Excellent condition light creasing on front, light soiling of cover. Interior unmarked. 209 pages. It is November 1991. Euro Disney is under construction, rising like a fantastic beacon out of the mud of Marne-la-Vallee. And three people are sitting in the cavernous interior of Big Thunder Mountain at the heart of the Magic Kingdom, waiting.....Sam believes himself to be on a mission to depose Mickey Mouse and restore to Disney World its 'lost' figurehead. Ilse Klein - a German canteen assistant and Raymond Black, a Northern Irish construction worker - are his hostages.... (250-osl) ; 8vo .

New York: Aqua Quest. Near Fine. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. 1881652157 . Signed by author on title page. Softcover is new and unread. It has light shelf wear involving some scuffing of the cover, a tiny tear to upper rear spine and a little wear/curling to corners. 437 pages plus booklists. Autographed sticker on front. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Book DescriptionLurking beneath an ocean crevasse near the edge of the abyss, Blackwolf, a deadly high-tech submarine waits to launch an attack of unimaginable horror. Can it be stopped before thousands die? In this sequel to Thief of the Deep, Ex-Navy Seal, Doc Holiday, vows to destroy Blackwolf and her evil crew..... [460? ]; Signed by Author .

Carroll & Graf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 0786709421 . Ex-library book, but still in very good condition - laminated cover and usual ex-lib type of markings, overall wear is light. Pages clean and intact. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; . ...A simple case gets murderously complicated when "Nameless, " Bill Pronzini's seasoned private-eye, exposes a nasty scam that involves junior account executive Jay Cohalan, his unhappy wife, and a mistress with a serious drug problem. Pronzini's Nameless Detective has been through the wars more than two dozen times in such singular mysteries as Crazybone and Boobytrap. Now the San Francisco-based PI has acquired a daughter, a home and a name "Daddy" that may portend retirement if he can solve a case that spirals from simplicity to murderous complexity in a heartbeat.... (700) .

Random House. Good in Good dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0394426134 . Ex-library book with usual ex-lib types of markings, mylar cover. Light edgewear, a little moreso to corners, scuffing of jacket, sticker residue on front, light soiling outer edge of pages. Spine a bit cocked. Interior clean other than the occasional spot, a few earmarks, couple pages with some light creasing. 228 pages. Author's 2nd mystery. ; 8vo; "A mysterious intruder at the home of a young wealthy trucking magnate is shot dead by a Detroit police officer. The intruder turns out to be a mob hitman. Then two thugs come into a local watering hole and shoot up both the jukebox and the cigarette machine, purportedly owned by the same young trucking tycoon. Detective Sergeant Mulheisen investigates, quickly finding himself caught in the middle of a gun-running scheme.... " .

St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0312154801 . Ex-library with mylar cover and usual stamps/stickers, only light wear overall, interior pages clean & tight, light soiling outer edge of pages. ; 8vo; From Booklist: Luis Montez, a "once-suspended, charged-with-multiple-felonies, formerly-on-the-run, fugitive Chicano lawyer, " has retreated to a deserted Mexican beach to recover from his various emotional and physical scars. There he meets beautiful author Rachel Espinoza, whom he later learns has disappeared. Back home, his plate is full: one of his clients has been murdered, an arsonist sets a fire that kills Luis' good friend, and another of his friends is being blackmailed by a small-time thug. Despite these multiple distractions, Luis finds himself inexplicably drawn to the case of the missing woman and can't rest until he uncovers the stark and ugly truth behind her disappearance... .

Ticknor & Fields. Very Good. 1981. Not First Edition. Softcover. 0899190316 . Light wear to edges & corners, very light soiling. Interior clean & tight. 259 pages. An eccentric Irish pub owner and a cast of highly likable characters in a bawdy, suspenseful and wonderfully atmospheric tale set in the wilds of Dongegal. McGinley has written some entertaining and offbeat thrillers but this first one, as is generally the norm, is his best. (250? -noto) ; 8vo .