‎Biography‎

‎Granger, Pip‎

‎NOT ALL TARTS ARE APPLE AWARD WINNER‎

‎Scottsdale AZ U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press 2002. 1st ed. A fine unread copy in dust jacket. Author's first book. Winner of the Harry Bowling Prize for Fiction and an AGATHA and BARRY Award Nominee. This first novel serves up an inimitable slice of British life from Coronation Summer 1953. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Poisoned Pen Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 013061 ISBN : 1590580338 9781590580332

‎Royal, Priscilla‎

‎WINE OF VIOLENCE: A Medieval Mystery SIGNED COPY‎

‎Scottsdale AZ U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press 2003. 1st edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Author's debut novel. SIGNED COPY signature only by the author on the title page. It is late summer in the year 1270 and England is as weary as its aging king Henry III. In the small priory of Tyndal up on the remote East Anglican coast the monks and nuns of the Order of Fontevraud long for a return to tranquil routine. Their hopes are dashed when the young and inexperienced Eleanor of Wynethorpe is appointed their new prioress. Only a day after she takes up her office a brutally murdered monk is found in the cloister gardens and Brother Thomas arrives with more personal grief. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Poisoned Pen Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 013578 ISBN : 1590580885 9781590580882

‎Roberts, John Maddox‎

‎SPQR IV: THE TEMPLE OF THE MUSES‎

‎N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1999. 1st St. Martin's Minotaur edition October 1999 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback . Ancirnt Rome. 4th in the highly regarded SPQR series. A near fine copy. When Roman junior senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger has a chance to join a diplomatic mission to Alexandria he welcomes the opportunity to temporarily elude his enemies in the Eternal City-even though it means leaving his beloved Rome. Decius is just beginning to enjoy the outpost's many exotic pleasures when the suspicious death of an irascible philosopher occurs coinciding with the puzzling and apocalyptic ravings of a charismatic cult leader. Intrigued Decius requests and is given permission by the Egyptian Pharaoh to investigate the heinous crime. What he discovers is beyond shocking. And when the corpse of a famous courtesan mysteriously turns up in his bed Decius suddenly finds himself entangled in a web of conspiracy far more widespread and dangerous than he ever imagined-one that threatens to bring about the downfall of the entire Empire. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Pendleton Roy. Book. Saint Martin's Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 005372 ISBN : 0312246986 9780312246983

‎Skinner, Robert E.‎

‎TWO GUNS FROM HARLEM: THE DETECTIVE FICTION OF CHESTER HIMES‎

‎Bowling Green: Ohio: Popular Press 1989. 1st prtg. Oversize wraps fine. NOT Print on Demand. Among the many writers who lent their talents to the creation of hard-boiled detective fiction few have approached it from a more original perspective than Chester Himes. A former criminal himself Himes brought to the writing of detective fiction the perspective of the black man. Himes made his debut with the brilliant For Love of Imabelle for which he was awarded the coveted Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière. Two Guns from Harlem probes Himes’s early life and career for the roots of this series and for its heroes Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Skinner discusses how Himes’s experience as a black man combined with his unique outlook on sociology politics violence sex and race relations resulted not only in an unusual portrait of black America but also opened the way for the creation of the ethnic and female hard-boiled detectives who followed. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book. Popular Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 001632 ISBN : 0879724544 9780879724542

‎Hamilton, Sylvian‎

‎THE PENDRAGON BANER SIGNED‎

‎London: Orion 2001. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. SIGNED plate laid in. Second title in the Sir Richard Straccan series. A dying woman's confession sends Sir richard on a search for the Pendragon Banner a priceless relic sewn by Guinevere for King Arthur that has been lost for seven hundred years.while defending himself against the charge of murder at a trial in which the only other witness is the corpse. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Orion Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 011515 ISBN : 075283262x 9780752832623

‎Simenon, Georges‎

‎INTIMATE MEMOIRS Including MARIE-JO'S BOOK‎

‎N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984. 1st US ed. Near fine in dust jacet. Remainder mark at bottom of pages. Translated from the French by Harold J. Salemson. The world-famous creator of the Maigret detective novels presents a candid autobiography touching upon such private events as the suicide of his only daughter and his stormy relationship with his two former wives. Also includes his daughter Mary-Jo's nearly 200 page diary which recounts her joys and despairs prior to her suicide at the age of 25. 815 pg . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Remainder. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018433 ISBN : 0151448922 9780151448920

‎Newman Sharan‎

‎The Witch In The Well: A Catherin LeVendeur Mystery‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Forge 2004. 1st Ed. Fine in dust jacket. - A Historical Mystery. Catherine LeVendeur is a unique spirit a woman of twelfth-century France with a keen mind and curiosity that often puts her in peril and whose life reflects both the bonds placed upon a woman in her society and the ways in which a strong personality can triumph and succeed in spite of those strictures. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Forge Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018525 ISBN : 0765308819 9780765308818

‎Anastaplo author of Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography, George‎

‎But Not Philosophy: Seven Introductions to Non-Western Thought‎

‎Lexington Books 0000-00-00. paperback. New. 5.86x0.91x8.96. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lexington Books paperback‎

Bookseller reference : DADAX0739102907 ISBN : 0739102907 9780739102909

‎Anastaplo author of Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography, George‎

‎On Trial: From Adam & Eve to O. J. Simpson‎

‎Lexington Books 15-08-2004. paperback. New. 6.52x1.52x8.90. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lexington Books paperback‎

Bookseller reference : DADAX0739107801 ISBN : 0739107801 9780739107805

‎Cleverly, Barbara‎

‎NOT MY BLOOD:A JOE SANDILANDS MYSTERY‎

‎N.Y: Soho Crime 2012. 1st ed. Fine unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition Due out August 2012. Promo sheet laid in. Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding school where a teacher has been murdered. When Joe gets himself assigned to the investigation he learns the boarding school case is more complicated than it appears: A frightening number of boys all from wealthy families have gone missing over the school’s history and by some coincidence none of the families have followed up on their sons' whereabouts. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soho Crime Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 018412 ISBN : 1616951540 9781616951542

‎BOWEN, PETER‎

‎KELLY AND THE THREE-TOED HORSE‎

‎N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 2001. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. A couple of pages have corrners that were turned in else near fine in dust jacket. "Yellowstone Kelly gunfighter scout tracker ladies' man and legend in his own lifetime makes his fourth appearance in this rollicking western set in the 1870s that is not so much a mystery as a bawdy comic yarn enlivened by Kelly's own unique take on the period and the place a take often gruffly sympathetic to the Native American point of view. After the discovery of a rare fossil skeleton the horse of the title an ambitious professor hires Kelly to lead a party through Wyoming Indian territory in search of further specimens. Along for the trip is a tough pretty blonde Alys who records the finds and finds Kelly pretty hard to resist. Dogging their trail is Blue Fox a Dartmouth-educated psychopathic Cheyenne who keeps coming up with increasingly bloodthirsty ways to kill off the collection of immoral scoundrels surrounding Kelly. Kelly keeps on thinking Blue Fox is finally dead. Blue Fox keeps on returning for more. And so it goes. The author clearly has fun with these books Imperial Kelly etc. and while period authenticity is not his highest priority real-life characters like Wild Bill Hickock do show up from time to time. The Old West is a wonderfully wild place in Bowen's hands." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018335 ISBN : 0312241062 9780312241063

‎Mitchell, Gladys‎

‎COME AWAY DEATH: A Mrs. Bradley Golden Age Mystery A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery‎

‎Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2007. 1st printing. A fine unread copy of this Trade Paperback. An eccentric Brit's attempt to summon ancient Greek gods ends in murder most foul. Sir Rudri Hopkinson a slightly cracked rich Englishmen with a penchant for history is determined to reenact the ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in hopes of summoning the goddess Demeter. Among the thirteen people he's gathered for the experiment is a rival scholar a handsome photographer his adult children and a trio of mischievous boys whose nefarious activities are financed by criminal psychologist Beatrice Bradley. When one of their number goes missing and a severed head turns up in a box of snakes it's time for Mrs.Bradley to set aside her babysitting chores and turn sleuth. First published in 1937 Come Away Death is Mitchell at her best and shows why contemporary critics lumped her with Sayers and Christie as one ofthe "big three" of English women mystery writers. In addition to a tight plot a fascinating locale a short but informative history of minor Greek gods and some well-drawn characters Mitchell displays a delicious almost Noel Cowardish wit. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 018315 ISBN : 1601870108 9781601870100

‎King, Charles Daly‎

‎THE CURIOUS MR. TARRANT: 8 DETECTIVE STORIES QUEEN'S QUORUM TITLE‎

‎N.Y.: Dover Publications Inc. 1977. 1st printing. About fine. QUUEN'S QUROUM #91. This book in spite of its immense underground reputation had NEVER been published in the US before this edition orig published in England in 1935. This book contains murders spies disappearing objects an Aztec curse and Irish prophecy voodoo Egyptology the occult and more - all inexplicable and bizarre occurrences which attract the curiosity and intelligence of Trevis Tarrant a wealthy cultured gentleman. 284 pages. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. 5 3/8 x 8. Trade Paperback. Dover Publications, Inc. Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 018031 ISBN : 0486235408 9780486235400

‎Morson, Ian‎

‎FALCONER AND THE GREAT BEAST: A Medieval Oxford Mystery AWARD FINALIST‎

‎London: Gollancz 1998. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. A medieval Oxford Mystery 1268. HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE. The Fifth title to feature Master William Falconer. It is 1268 and Oxford is forced to play host to to the Tartars a tribe from the East whose fierceness is legendary and whose deeds have played havoc in France and Germany. This time they claim their mission is a peaceful one -- they merely wish to gain audience with the king -- but are they to be trusted. Their arrival creates a sense of foreboding and when the Tartar ambassador is found dead it looks like murder or magic . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Baker Martin. Book. Gollancz Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 004672 ISBN : 0575060441 9780575060449

‎McCloy, Helen‎

‎THE MAN IN THE MOONLIGHT‎

‎N.Y.: Morrow 1940. 1st edition. Cloth lightly soiled along edges page edges browning else a near fine copy in dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges head and foot of spine lightly nicked and rear panel soiled. Author's second book and features Basil Willing. Franz Konradi austrian biochemist and refugee was shot on the campus of a New York University but there was no trace of a bullet. Increasingly difficult to find. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book. Morrow Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018226

‎Lovesey, Peter‎

‎BERTIE AND THE SEVEN BODIES : From the Detective Memoirs of King Edward VII Signed Copy‎

‎London: UK: Century Mysterious Press 1990. 1st ed. Page edges lightly aged toned else fine in unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Lovesey at title page. In October 1890 twelve guests gather at Desborough Hall to enjoy a week's shooting party hosted by Lady Amelia Drummond. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Century Mysterious Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018202 ISBN : 0712634711 9780712634717

‎McMillan, Ann‎

‎ANGEL TRUMPET SIGNED COPY‎

‎N.Y.: Viking 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 2nd in this Civil War series. Narcissa Powers a white widowed nurse and Judah Daniel a free black healer as well as many secondary characters introduced in McMillan's debut Civil War mystery Dead March return for a second outing. In Richmond Va. in October 1861 with the war at a temporary lull Col. John Berton returns from the front to find his parents and wife slain and his house slaves in a stupor. The fear of slave rebellions is intense; if Berton's slaves committed the murders it is important not only that they be punished but that word of the slaughter be kept quiet. For not only might the news inspire further uprisings but it could sap the will of the soldiers who have left loved ones behind. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Viking Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018159 ISBN : 0670881481 9780670881482

‎Kunetka James W.‎

‎PARTING SHOT‎

‎N.Y.: St Martins Press 1991. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket very lightly sunned at spine. "The year is 1945 and a crumbling Third Reich leaves a legacy: nuclear bombs planted in the Allied capitals. Crude by contemporary standards they are nevertheless capable of delivering a "parting shot" that could set the victors against one another. Young physicist Philip Cavanaugh pieces the plot together when sent into Soviet-occupied Germany to investigate a mysterious Nazi laboratory. His knowledge places him at the center of a web of conspiracies and cross-conspiracies highlighting the mutual British-American mistrust and their joint hostility to Russia. Coauthor of Warday Kunetka is at home with the nuclear technology of 1945 and the ambience of London and Washington D.C. at war's end. Creating in Cavanaugh an innocent believably caught up in events beyond his comprehension he effectively solves the frequent "retro-techno-thriller" problem of explaining why "history " was unchanged by the events invented in the novel." Publishers Weekly. Based on historical facts. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. St Martins Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018140 ISBN : 0312052375 9780312052379

‎Black Benjamin Banville John‎

‎CHRISTINE FALLS EDGAR AWRD FINALIST‎

‎NY NY: Henry Holt 2007. First edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light soiling at page edges else near fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night after a few drinks at an office party Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law Malachy altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there but the next morning when the haze has lifted it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law the esteemed doctor was in fact tampering with a corpse--and concealing the cause of death. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death he comes up against some insidious--and very well-guarded--secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society among them members of his own family. Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville's fiction to a thrilling atmospheric crime story." -- Publisher. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Henry Holt‎

Bookseller reference : 018056 ISBN : 0805081526 9780805081527

‎Sedley, Kate‎

‎THE DANCE OF DEATH Roger the Chapman Mysteries‎

‎London: UK: Severn House 2009. 1st ed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Newly returned from an eventful mission to Scotland - and eager to be reunited with his family - Roger the Chapman is far from pleased when Timothy Plummer Spymaster General to the King commands him to undertake another mission. He is to accompany the beautiful but manipulative Eloise Gray on a special journey to Paris pretending to be her husband. Though Plummer is reluctant to reveal the motive behind this appointment Roger understands that the French king is making overtures to the Duke of Burgundy on behalf of the Dauphin - a move which could wreck the relationship with England's staunch ally and most important customer for her wool exports. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Severn House Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 017994 ISBN : 0727867458 9780727867452

‎Abel, Kenneth‎

‎THE SONG IS YOU‎

‎N.Y.: Simon & Schuster 2007. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's second mystery after the Edgar-nominated DIE A LITTLE. In 1949 Hollywood starlet Jean Spangler went missing on her way to a late night shoot. Few clues were left behind and the wild rumors about Jean proved to be no help in finding her. Now it's 1951 and publicist Gil "Hop" Hopkins's career is on the rise. But his success is threatened by a friend of Jean's who blames Hop for concealing details about Jean's disappearance. Driven by guilt and fear of blackmail Hop begins to investigate the case but he's not alone. A young and ambitious reporter is also working the case and Hop must work quickly to stay ahead. What Hop uncovers both shocks and intrigues him. A riveting read that will take you on a dark tour of 1950s Hollywood. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Simon & Schuster Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018011 ISBN : 0743291719 9780743291712

‎Naslund, Sena J.‎

‎Sherlock in Love: A Novel‎

‎Boston MA U.S.A.: David R Godine Pub 1993. 1st ed. Fine in price clipped dust jacket. 1st prtg. A fine copy of this trade paperback. "After Holmes's death Dr. John Watson decides to write the great man's biography but his ad in the Times requesting letters and interviews elicits only Mycroft Holmes's ire and an anonymous note warning him to abandon the project. In looking at Holmes's Stradivarius Watson is reminded of Victor Sigerson the odd and flamboyantly attired fellow--an accomplished musician juggler and magician--who had given the valuable violin to the famous sleuth. The good doctor recalls being baffled by the way Holmes had taken to Sigerson pursuing his violin practice with an uncharacteristic enthusiasm. Watson had never learned the surprising nature of what Sigerson and Holmes shared besides their love of music." --PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. David R Godine Pub Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 017975 ISBN : 0879239778 9780879239770

‎Watson Colin‎

‎COFFIN SCARCELY USED: The First Flaxborough Chronicle A Rue Morgue Classic British Mystery‎

‎Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2008. 1st printing. A fine unread copy of the trade paperback. Flaxborough is a "high-spirited town . .like Gomorrah." It's Inspector Purbright's job to keep its citizens on the straight-and-narrow in this comic romp. He hasn't got a chance. There were surprisingly few mourners at Harold Carobleat's funeral just his widow and a handful of prominent Flaxborough citizens including newspaper publisher Marcus Gwill. When Gwill' s naked body is found electrocuted some months later its mouth stuffed with marshmallows Inspector Purbright and his cherubic assistant Sergeant Love begin to suspect the two deaths are connected. But what are they to make of a series of peculiar coded advertisements that has been appearing in the Flaxborough newspaper And why is the doctor's surgery so busy after hours Remember this is Flaxborough a "high-spirited town . .like "Gomorrah" where anything can happen and usually does. First published in 1958 this is the first of eleven satirical mysteries featuring Purbright Love and other denizens ofthis anything but peaceful East Anglian town. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 017934 ISBN : 1601870167 9781601870162

‎Harrison Michael‎

‎PAINFUL DETAILS: TWELVE VICTORIAN SCANDALS‎

‎London: UK: Max Parrish & Co. 1962. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket not price clipped small tear along head light wear along edges else near fine. Not only were the Victorians as capable of folly as we are but they were just as capable of reporting it to their newspapers and journals. They hinted at what could not be described by the use of a standard expression which is the title of this book. This selection includes the stories of Lady Twiss Lord Ferrers; Lady Colin Campbell; The Prince of Wales and Lord Randolph Churchill; Lily Langtry; Lady Mordaunt; Sir John Dean Paul; The Earl of Euston; Colonel Valentine Baker; Lord Frankfort and T.C. Druce and the Portland Case. Bibliography and Index. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Max Parrish & Co. Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 017957

‎Fawcett, Quinn‎

‎THE FLYING SCOTSMAN: A Mycroft Holmes Novel‎

‎NY: Forge 1999. 1st edition October 1999 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Third in series of Mycroft Holmes stories authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. The Flying Scotsman: A luxury train and the fastest way to travel between London and Edinburgh has become the secret escape route for a European Prince who has narrowly escaped assassination at a royal wedding--an assassination intended to prevent the finalization of a treaty vital to British interests in Europe. Posing as a journalist Mycroft Holmes and Paterson Guthrie Holmes’s assistant in his adventures board the train to protect the prince during what should have been a quick safe trip to Scotland. Their journey is interrupted almost immediately by another try at murder. Guthrie spots some familiar faces among his fellow passengers. He and Mycroft have tangled with Scottish laird Sir Cameron Macmillan before. Is he behind the attempted assassinations Then there’s the beautiful and dangerous Pauline Gatspy. She’s helped Mycroft and Guthrie in the past but that’s no guarantee that she’s on their side-- England’s side--this time. The Flying Scotsman combines the established thrills and chills of the Mycroft Holmes series with the history and high society life of Scotland’s version of the Orient Expresss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Forge Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 017936 ISBN : 0312863640 9780312863647