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Bailey, HC. H. C.
BLACK LAND WHITE LAND: A Mr. Fortune Novel Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery
Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2008. 1st printing. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback. Old bones plus new bones require the attention of Mr. Fortune. "Black land white land always at strife." So goes the old saying in Durshire where the people who once owned the black land were pushed off it ages ago to the white land the barren chalk hills above the fertile alluvial plains. And history seems to be repeating itself as rich newcom~rs still continue to usurp the black-land holdings of impoverished landowners. Reginald Fortune who's summoned to Durshire by his eccentric friend General Duddon is thrust into this age-old conflict when the general's discovery of ancient giant's bones turns out to include the rather recent bones of a boy who disappeared some ten years ago. Reggie stubbornly searches for the lad's murderer undeterred by bitter family feuds and the uncooperative and incompetent Superintendent Bubb who takes over the case when his chief constable meets with an unfortunate accident. Reggie very nearly meets with one himself when he's left for dead in a chalk pit but with a little help from his friend Lomas at Scotland Yard he lives to see justice done and young love triumph. A self-described country doctor with no imagination Reggie solves his cases by sheer determination and highly developed powers of observation. First published in 1937 this is his second novel-length case. A. 1st Prtg. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Book. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017848 ISBN : 1601870299 9781601870292
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Simenon, Georges
INTIMATE MEMOIRS: INCLUDING MARIE-JO'S BOOK Uncorrected Page Proofs
N.Y.: Harcourt Trade Publishers 1984. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS bright blue wrappers sunned at spine lightly soiled. over 790 pgs. 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. . First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. Harcourt Trade Publishers Paperback
Bookseller reference : 001892
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Coles, Manning
WITHOUT LAWFUL AUTHORITY: A Tommy Hambledon Novel Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery
Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2008. 1st printing originally pub in 1943. A fine unread copy of the trade paperback. Two safecrackers lend British agent Tommy Hambledon a hand in sussing out Nazi spies and dealing with the rather odd residents of a mental hospital. After Jim Wamford is found guilty of selling secrets to the enemy and discharged from his regiment he's very much at loose ends-that is until he meets John Marden a professional safe-cracker who is nonetheless a gentleman and a very pleasant one at that despite the fact that he was trying to break into Wamford's own safe when they met. The two become fast friends and unite in a common purpose to find the fellow officer who framed Wamford and to round up the German spies who stole his secrets. In the course oftheir activities they keep nearly crossing paths with Tommy Hambledon of British Intelligence who's just back in England after a long sojourn in Germany. As delighted as he is with their little presents to him he's very anxious to meet them in person but they prove to be a most elusive pair. Set in 1938 with war with Germany just around the comer it's the fourth book in the Tommy Hambledon series and one oft he best with an almost perfect blend of straightforward counterespionage and farcical humor. First published in 1943. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017850 ISBN : 1601870272 9781601870278
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Clason, Clyde
POISON JASMINE: A Theocritus Lucius Westborough Story Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery
Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2008. 1st prtg originally published in 1940. Fine unread copy of this trade paperback. "It's up to Professor Westborough to find out who poisoned the advertising agent in full view of the dinner guests. Theocritus Lucius Westborough the mild-mannered little historian who has made a name for himself solving impossible crimes is summoned to the estate of Etienne LeDoux founder of a world-famous perfumery conceived in the grand style of those in his native France and located in the beautiful Valle de Flores California. It appears that somebody has tried to poison LeDoux in his own office and he engages Westborough here going by the name of West to unmask the would-be killer. But when murder does strike it's not LeDoux but his advertising agent Paul Michael Channaron who is poisoned in plain view of several other guests including Westborough at his employer's dinner table. The obvious suspect is Derek Esterling LeDoux's brilliant but moody chief chemist who is engaged to his lovely daughter Jacynth and who had quarreled with Channaron the night before he died. But it's not until another murder takes place that Westborough is able to penetrate a tangle of old secrets and discover who the real killer is. First published in 1940 it's one of many impossible crime mysteries set against exotic backdrops from this ingenious and pleasantly old-fashioned storyteller." -- back cover. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Artzybasheff Boris. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017847 ISBN : 1601870280 9781601870285
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Baruth, Philip
THE BROTHERS BOSWELL
New York New York U.S.A.: Soho Pr Inc 2009. 1st ed. Due out May 2009. Advance Uncrrected Proofs Pictorial wrappers. AS NEW. In 1763 James Boswell and the literary celebrity Dr. Samuel Johnson take a boat down the Thames to visit Greenwich. Unknown to this pair they are being stalked by John Boswell James' younger brother who has been recently released from an asylum for the insane. John carries a pair of miniature pistols that each fire a single golden bullet and there is murder in his heart. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soho Pr Inc Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017870 ISBN : 1569475598 9781569475591
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Rohmer, Sax
SHADOW OF FU MANCHU
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Crime Club Doubleday 1948. First Us Edition which precedes the UK edition. Unfortunately it was a very cheaply manufactured book. Due to the quality of the post World War II manufacturing process and acidic papers utilized this is an extremely hard book to find in fine condition. Moderate wear to edges paper is browned dust jacket missing pieces at head and foot of spine right corner of front panel along with minor chips. The twelth Fu-Manchu book to detail the exploits of the evil Dr. Fu-Manchu as he battles Sir Dennis Nayland Smith. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book. Crime Club Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017857
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Rogow, Roberta
THE GUILTY CLIENT
Parsippany: New Jersey: Deadly Ink 2009. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof with one small crease and nick. A tale of murder deceit infidelity and greed unfolds set in 1870 New York. It's a time of great growth as well as widespread corruption in the city. In the first of a new series Roberta Rogow introduces the law firm of Pettigrew and Roth comprised of the esteemed Ephraim Pettigrew his niece Margaret "Peggy" Pettigrew; and the junior member of the firm Joshua Roth whose best friend Michael Riley is an assistant district attorney and Uncle Ephraim's prize protege. The firm has been hired by one Henry Ward Long whose family is definitely a member of the city's High Society to defend his nephew one Bertram "Broadway Bertie" Delacorte against a charge of murder. Delacorte has been accused on scant evidence of murdering Mrs. Suzanna Kendall. Roth succeeds in having the charges dismissed and the case against him thrown out at arraignment when none other than Peggy herself provides the man with an ironclad alibi. The celebration of their victory is short-lived however when Delacorte's dead body is fished out of the Hudson River less than a day later. Mr. Long asks the firm to find the killer. The unlikely trio of Peggy Michael and Josh set out to find the killer of both Mrs. Kendall and Bertie Delacorte. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof. Deadly Ink Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017886 ISBN : 0978744276 9780978744274
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Trow, MJ. M. J.
LESTRADE AND THE HOLLOW HOUSE
London: Macmillan 1987. 1st ed. pages are age toned as usual else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. the 3rd book in the series. Britain has entered the 20th Century. Queen Victoria is dead and the Boer War rages on. Inspector Lestrade is called upon to investigate the brutal death of a member of Parliament the first in a series of bizarre and perplexing murders that leads Lestrade around the country in pursuit of his inquiries. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017805 ISBN : 0333424166 9780333424162
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Herman, George
THE TEARS OF THE MADONNA
New York New York U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub 1996. 1st edition so stated. . Fine unread copy in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover with publishers letter and starred review from Kirkus laid in. Historical mystery set in Renaissance Italy in 1499 and featuring Leonardo DaVinci and his friend and assistant Niccolo a dwarf with a photographic memory. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book. Carroll & Graf Pub Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017823 ISBN : 0786702435 9780786702435
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Schunk, Laurel
DEATH IN EXILE
Wichita Kansas U.S.A.: St Kitts Press 1999. 1st ed. A fine unread copy in dust jacket of this Advance reading Copy with publishers letter and book mark laid in. 1816 England Death in Exile seems almost lighthearted. Although the peril is just as great for the characters this reminded me of a P.G. Wodehouse story which features an appearance by Jane Austen.I would not hesitate to read any novel written by Ms. Schunk. -- Murder: Past Tense The Historical Mystery Appreciation Society. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Advanced Reading Copy ARC. St Kitts Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017824 ISBN : 096618792x 9780966187922
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Nolan, William F.
HAMMETT: A LIFE AT THE EDGE
N.Y.: Congdon & Weed 1983. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket spine very lightly discolored Fourteen years ago William Nolan wrote the first book about Dashiell Hammett. Now after years of delving he offers a full biography. HAMMETT: A LIFE AT THE EDGE goes considerably beyond Lillian Hellmans well-known accounts of her time with Hammett. From fresh sources it tells of his colorful early years before Hellman including his sleuthing days as a Pinkerton man assigned to famous cases such as the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Congdon & Weed Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017822 ISBN : 0312922817 9780312922818
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Mitchell, Gladys
DEATH AT THE OPERA
Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2005. 1st prtg. A fine unread copy of the trade paperback. Mrs. Bradley is summoned when a faculty-student production of "The Mikado" at a progressive English school turns deadly in this 1934 classic. When Miss Ferris drowned in a wash basin duriqg a perfonnance of The Mikado at the Hillmaston Coeducational Day School the police ruled it a suicide. The school's headmaster wasn't so sure. He called in that grand dame of detection the psychoanalyst-sleuth Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley. The innocuous Miss Ferris wasn't popular among her fellow teachers several of whom feared she would expose their guilty secrets. But these transgressions for the most part appeared too inconsequential to end in murder. "Death at the Opera" Death in the Wet in the U.S. is an early mystery by Gladys Mitchell lumped with Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers by contemporary critics as one of England's "big three" women mystery writers. Mitchell wrote 66 mysteries featuring Mrs. Bradley between 1929 and her death in 1983. Death at the Opera was filmed for British television with a different motive killer and method of murder than in the book in 2000 with Diana Rigg portraying Mrs. Bradley. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017750 ISBN : 0915230844 9780915230846
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Mitchell, Gladys
WHEN LAST I DIED
Lyons Colorado U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2005. 1st prtg. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback. It was quite by accident that Mrs. Bradley found the diary of a woman now dead who a few years earlier had been arrested tried and acquitted of murdering a professional ghosthunter. Mrs. Bradley has dealt with murderers before but she has always dealt with them as a professional psychiatrist-coolly scientifically almost flippantly. Now however the brilliant old lady is fiercely determined to bring a cruel and ruthless murderer to bay-even if she has to open up the grave of the woman most people think wrongfully escaped the gallows. It proves to be one of the most difficult cases in Mrs. Bradley's career even prompting our celebrated sleuth to take several wrong turns herself. First published in 1941 When Last I Died is one of the most acclaimed novels of a writer who was lumped with Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers by contemporary critics as one of England's "big three" women mystery writers. Mitchell wrote scores of mysteries featuring Mrs. Bradley between 1929 and her death in 1983. In recent years the series was filmed for television in Britain with Diana Rigg in the role of Mrs. Bradley. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017748 ISBN : 0915230852 9780915230853
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Mallory, Michael
THE EXPLOITS OF THE SECOND MRS. WATSON
Dallas TX U.S.A.: Top Publications 2008. 1st ed. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback original. Amelia Watson -- the second wife of Dr. John H. Watson -- returns for thirteen adventures whose puzzles would tax the ingenuity of the master himself. Includes introduction: Notes Towards A Biography Of Amelia Watson". First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Trade Paperback Original. Top Publications Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017776 ISBN : 1929976461 9781929976461
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Mosley, Walter
A LITTLE YELLOW DOG: An Easy Rawlins Mystery SIGNED
N.Y.: W W Norton & Co Inc 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket intact number line on copyright page. SIGNED by Mosley at title page. It is 1963 and Easy has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble and grief. He's taken on a job as supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High in Watts. Easy comes in early one morning to find one of the teachers in her classroom. She has a dog with her and a story about a husband gone mad. Before the day is out the teacher is gone leaving Easy with the dog and a corpse. That night a second corpse turns up. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book. W W Norton & Co Inc Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017779 ISBN : 0393039242 9780393039245
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Sherlockiana) Douglas, Carole Nelson
GOOD MORNING IRENE
N.Y.: Tor Books 1991. First edition July 1991 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "Douglas's first novel Good Night Mr. Holmes was an impressive enough performance to demand an encore. Introducing Irene Adler--the only woman to dupe Sherlock Holmes--as a detective in her own right however the earlier work was a hard act to follow. Happily spirited opera star and amateur sleuth Irene is up to the task in this new yarn a rollicking and complex story brimming with Victorian atmosphere and details. Accompanied by her new husband Godfrey Norton and her faithful highly sensible friend Penelope Huxleigh Irene is in Paris delightedly reading her obituaries after her presumed death in a railway accident when she becomes involved in the case of a corpse that washes up on the shore of the Seine. In a coincidence acceptable to fans of Victorian stories the body is frightfully similar to one Irene had once encountered chez Bram Stoker--it even has the same tattoo and also lacks most of the second finger on one hand. Irene's investigation takes her and others including Sarah Bernhardt and Holmes himself to the woman who is to become the first American princess of Monaco. Douglas makes inspired use of proper and sedate parson's daughter Penelope to chronicle the tale's wild escapades." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Tor Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017796 ISBN : 0312932111 9780312932114
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Smith, Tom Rob
CHILD 44
N.Y.: Grand Central Pub 2008. 1st ed. A fine unread copy in dust jacket. 436 pages. A CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD WINNER and a CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE. Under Stalin's iron grasp the Soviet Union has little crime and is considered a paradise for its workers; however millions of people still live in constant fear of harm or death for if they so much as read the wrong book their crime against the ideals of the State are punished with death. Leo Demidov has spent his life defending this system serving his country for the greater good as an officer of the MGB the State Security Force. But when Leo learns that a murderer is on the loose killing innocent people at will his life is turned upside down. Demoted and denounced by the MGB which refuses to acknowledge the existence of the killer Leo must find the truth and catch a ruthless killer. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book. Grand Central Pub Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017692 ISBN : 0446402389 9780446402385
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Bramah, Ernest
THE MIRROR OF KONG HO
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Doubelday Doran 1930. 1st edition so stated. Worn aling edges corners bumped else a near fine tight copy of the scarce first American edition. In home-made acewtate dust jacket. 252 pp. rough cut. Black cloth boards with yellow paper over front and back and yellow titles and decoration on spine. This lively and amusing set of stories constructed as a series of letters dealing with the oddities and eccentricities of the West are purportedly by Kong Ho a Chinese man visiting early 20th century London. These letters addressed to his homeland refer to the Westerners in London as barbarians and reinterpret many elements of modern life such as the motor car and the piano with the wit wisdom and a wry sense of humor. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book. Doubelday Doran Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017653
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Marston, Edward (pseudonym of Keith Miles)
MURDER ANCIENT AND MODERN
Norfolk VA U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru 2005. 1st printing. A Fine unread copy of the trade paperback still in shrinkwrap. Eighteen stories. TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF MURDER!!!! Iddo the Samaritan finds a severed head in a barrel of fish. A stammerer tries to save the life of the Emperor Charlemagne. William the Conqueror stares death in the face. Gerald of Wales solves a crime with the help of a shoulder blade of a ram. Nicholas Bracewell encounters murder on the high seas. A deadly assassin stalks a Victorian politician. A mild-mannered author is driven to an act of slaughter. Someone steals the statue of Nelson from the top of his column in Trafalgar Square. A violinist plots the death of a female musician. Friends fall out on a boat trip to France and one of them disappears overboard. Edward Marston's mystery stories cover two thousand years of history yet they all have an eerie topicality. What does vary is the mode of detection. While a Samaritan in the Holy Land has to rely on instinct to catch a villain the Scotland Yard detectives who hunt for the missing Lord Nelson can call on all the resources of modern technology. Horror and humor walk hand in hand in these yarns. Crimes of all kinds are woven into them but the abiding theme is murder - of a person of a hope of a reputation. The Guardian wrote: "Consummate storytelling a love of period and astute characterisation and plotting are the hallmarks of all Marston's books.". First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback. Crippen & Landru Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017600 ISBN : 1932009396 9781932009392
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Bowers, Dorothy
Fear and Miss Betony A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery
Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2005. 1st prtg. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback. The Golden Age of detective fiction was known for elaborate plots. This may well be the most ingenious one of them all. Emma Betony was content to live out her remaining years in a home for decayed gentlewomen when she receives an urgent appeal for help from a former student. Grace Aram is running Makeways a struggling boarding school for girls newly relocated in a former nursing home in Dorset far from the falling German bombs. But Grace isn't interested in Miss Betony's teaching skills. She needs someone she can trust to expose the culprit behind a series of troubling events induding the possible poisoning of one of the two remaining nursing paitents. What Miss Betony finds is an overwhehning sense of fear on the part of the Makeways' inhabitants. Miss Betony follows a series of clues that eventually lead her to The Great Arnbrosio a charismatic extremely handsome fortune teller with more than one trick up his sleeve. First published in 1941 Fear and Miss Betony marks the final appearance of lnspector Dan Pardoe. But it is Miss Betony herself who fights through fear and solves the case. Contemporary critics immediately proclaimed the book an instant classic with two-time Edgar-winning critic James Sandoe including the book in his Readers' Guide to Crime 1944 one of the earliest-and most astute-lists of the best books in the genre. . 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017606 ISBN : 0915230860 9780915230860
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Hershberger, Mary
Jane Fonda's War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon
New York New York U.S.A.: New Press 2005. Hardcover. New/New. a new unread book. the wraps may be a touch shelf rubbed. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. New York, New York, U.S.A.: New Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 263b ISBN : 1565849884 9781565849884
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Jeffreys, JG. J. G.
SUICIDE MOST FOUL: A Bow Street Runners Mystery
N.Y.: Walker 1981. 1ST ED. Fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket one closed tear at front panel. June 1815 finds Jeremy Sturrock of the Bow Street Runners and his horrible little clerk Maggsy at the Battle of Waterloo. REVIEW SLIP laid in. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy. Walker Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017633 ISBN : 0802754309 9780802754301
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Cope, Michael
Intricacy : A Meditation on Memory
Double Storey 2005. Soft cover. New. a new unread book. the wraps are a touch shelf rubbed. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Double Storey paperback
Bookseller reference : 163b ISBN : 1770130217 9781770130210
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Crane, Frances
THE TURQUOISE SHOP: The First Pat and Jean Abbott Mystery
Lyons Colorado U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2004. 1st prtg. Fine unread copy of this trade paperback. Murder shows an artistic flair in this 1941 mystery set in a fictionalized version of Taos and its Luhan House and introducing Pat and Jean Abbott. Mona Brandons artist hushand disappeared several months ago. Had he just grown tired of his domineering artsy wife or was it his body lying out there in the desert rendered unrecognizable by turkey vultures And was it just a coincidence that a handsome private detective from San Francisco just happened to pick that time to show up in Santa Maria to pursue an art career Young Jean HoIly owner of The Turquoise Shop hasn't much use for Mona. who uses her wealth to dominate this small New Mexio community. Mona isnt very popular with much of the local Mexican population especially after she sent one of their own -- a beautiful teenager -- to prison. When murder strikes a second time this time at Mona's enormous adobe mansion at the edge of town. suspicion falls not only on her but on several of the artists and writers she had encouraged to move to Santa Maria. Mona is loosely based on Mabel Dodge Luhan a wealthy Easterner who came to Taos in 1918 and turned the town into a mecca for the arts luring D.H. Lawrence Georgia O'Keeffe. Robinson Jeffers Ansel Adams and many others there. Mona's hacienda is also modeled after Luhan's own home. Inspired by an actual event in Taos it was the first mystery by Frances Crane and introduced the world to Pat and Jean Abbott one of the most popular husband-and-wife sleuthing teams in detective fiction. The scarecest of her books it was reprinted by Popular Library during WWII but has not been in print for over 60 years!. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017585 ISBN : 0915230712 9780915230716
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O'Dowd, Cathy & Woodall, Ian
Everest Free to Decide
Zebra 1997. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. signed. Inscribed by AuthorsThe wraps are minimally rubbed. Internally clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Zebra paperback
Bookseller reference : 259q ISBN : 1868721019 9781868721016
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White, Jimmy
Behind the White Ball
Hutchinson 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. The jacket and boards are tidy overall with little edge wear. The binding is secure. Light browning along the edges of the pages not affecting text. There are no ink inscriptions or annotations. Presents well in cellophane. Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. r19/02/2025 JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Hutchinson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 230q ISBN : 0091801265 9780091801267
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Cook, Thomas H.
THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR EDGAR AWARD WINNER
New York NY U.S.A.: Bantam Books 1996. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in protective mylar dust jacket cover very lightly rubbed. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. In 1926 Henry Griswald was a kid a student of the lovely and unusual Elizabeth Channing who had recently arrived in his coastal Massachusetts village to teach art at a private school run by his father. Decades later the people of Henry's village are still racked by guilt and troubled by uncertainty--who or what drove Miss Channing to madness and murder Henry Griswald narrator of The Chatham School Affair holds the key. Using the same dark brooding tone that permeated Breakheart Hill Thomas Cook has crafted a disturbing yet entertaining psychological thriller. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Bantam Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017464 ISBN : 0553096524 9780553096521
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Jecks, Michael
THE MALICE OF UNNATURAL DEATH : A Knights Templar Mystery
United Kingdom: Headline Book Pub Ltd 2007. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket with label stating " In lieu of galleys we are submitting finished books. Publication September 2007 cloth." 399 pges. The year is 1324 and the kingdom is in an uproar. Roger Mortimer once the King's most able commander is now his most hated enemy. Escaping from the Tower Mortimer has hired an assassin to murder the King. When the bodies of a local craftsman and the King's messenger are found in the city's streets Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock are asked by the Bishop to investigate. The dead messenger was carrying a dangerous secret and the Bishop is desperate to have his message returned to him before anyone else reads the contents. Baldwin and Simon are reluctant to get involved but political pressures are growing and the two must find the murderer before he strikes again. But when murderers use magic no one is safe. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy. Headline Book Pub Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017325 ISBN : 0755332768 9780755332762
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Thayer, Steve
THE WHEAT FIELD
NYNY.: Putnam Pub Group 2002. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "A book from Steve Thayer is always worth the wait. He has set three of them--The Weatherman Saint Mudd and Silent Snow--in the Minneapolis area and has repeated several of his characters. But in The Wheat Field he introduces a new cast of characters and moves the action to Kickapoo Falls Wisconsin. The narrator is Deputy Pennington who takes us back to the year 1960 and the wheat field murders. Pennington has been in love with Maggie since they were in school together but Maggie fell in love with Michael Butler and married him so it is a shock to everyone when Michael and Maggie are found together shot to death in that wheat field. At first glance it would appear to be a murder-suicide. Michael has been shot between the legs and Maggie's face has been shot off. The murder weapon is lying next to Maggie's outstretched hand and the wheat around the bodies has been pressed down in a perfect circle with no shoe or car marks going in or out of that circle. But there are some odd things about the murder scene even apart from that perfect circle of wheat. Neither Michael nor Maggie is wearing clothes yet there are no clothes on the ground. The only clue is the butt of a Lucky Strike lying near the bodies and three perfect holes in the flattened wheat. In addition Maggie is wearing her wedding ring but not the class ring she always wore." -- Otto Penzler . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Putnam Pub Group Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017146 ISBN : 0399148418 9780399148415
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Frost Mark
The Second Objective
NY NY: Hyperion 2007. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. His task was to raise a new brigade from throughout the German armed services to take part in an upcoming invasiion. Then he was to pick twenty of the finest of the brigade for " The Second Objective.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Hyperion Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017162 ISBN : 140130222x 9781401302221
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Forsyth, Frederick
Odessa File The
London United Kingdom: Hutchinson 1972. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/ NEAR FINE. End pages lightly soiled else fine. DJ shows only minimal wear else fine. author's second novel. This tale traces the activities of an organisation of former Nazi SS men and events from the assassination of JFK to clandestine arms deals. Made in to a major motion picture. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Hutchinson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017163 ISBN : 0091130204 9780091130206
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Hunter, Jack D.
Tailspin
New York New York U.S.A.: Tor Books 1990. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket one small red dot at bottom of pages to denote a remainder copy. ". Just four months after V-E Day at least seven bombers 400 HE bombs and 1000 cases of ammo have disappeared from American stockpiles. To complicate the puzzle someone is transfering captured Nazi pilots to an unauthorized detainment camp in Italy. Is this an American plot okayed by President Truman to detail the secretly advancing Communist forces Or a Stalinist scheme to make the Allies appear to be breaking their treaty thus giving Russia carte blanche to invade all of Europe Or is some crazed general aided by profit-hungry capitalists doing his utmost to keep his job in a time of peace Those nearing the answer are violently put out of commission.: -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Tor Books
Bookseller reference : 017221 ISBN : 0312931778 9780312931773
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Goodwin, Jason
The Janissary Tree EDGAR AWARD WINNER
N.Y.: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2006. 1st ed. Page edges very lightly soiled else Fine in dust jacket. WINNER 2007 EDGAR AWARD for Best Novel; ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL DAGGER NOMINEE and a MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. Following his acclaimed history of the Ottoman Empire "Lords of the Horizons" Jason Goodwin makes his fiction debut with this historical mystery set in nineteenth-century Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire. The sultan turns to eunuch Yashim Togalu who will explore the teeming streets of Istanbul to piece together the clues about the murders. The first in a planned series of novels. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017238 ISBN : 0374178607 9780374178604
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Mitchell, Kirk
Black Dragon
NY NY: St Martins Press 1988. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A historical novel dealing with the Japanese internment in California during WW II. Author's 1st book. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. St Martins Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017286 ISBN : 031201774x 9780312017743
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Jenkin, Tim
Inside Out : Escape from Pretoria Prison
Jacana 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. 8x0x5. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Marks on the block. Internally minor stains. Clean and complete. Tightly bound. r02/08/2023. Ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Jacana paperback
Bookseller reference : 193k ISBN : 1919931503 9781919931500
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Satterthwait, Walter
WILDE WEST SIGNED COPY
N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1991. First edition August 1991 so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. SIGNED and DATED 7/20/91 one month before publication at title page. Oscar Wilde is on a lecture tour of the American West when someone in his entourage is suspected of savagely murdering prostitutes. When Wilde becomes the chief suspect he becomes determined to clear his name. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016708 ISBN : 0312059973 9780312059972
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Potter, Jeremy
THE PRIMROSE HILL MURDER
London United Kingdom: Constable Crime 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Pages tanned. On October 17th 1678 the body of a London magistrate was found at the foot of Primrose Hill. Was he murdered by Catholic plotters Or by Protestants to keep belief in the Plot alive Had the underworld taken its revenge Or was it suicide The death of Mr Justice Godfrey has remained an unsolved mystery for more than three hundred years. The characters portrayed here are real people. Charles II is seen at his most devious in politics and relaxing in the arms of the most seductive of his mistresses. Mr Pepys is seen fighting for the navy and his life. Here are the rival dukes of York and Monmouth the little Earl of Shaftesbury and the giant Earl of Pembroke together with humble clerks and maidservants and sundry unsavoury persons not least among them Titus Oates. The trials too are real. This was an age when the law was far removed from justice. Informing was lucrative and perjury was rife. Those charged with plotting treason or murdering a magistrate had little hope of acquittal however innocent. Through the detective work of its hero young Sam Atkins this historical whodunit offers a solution to the questions asked at the time and still asked today: How and where did Mr Justice Godfrey die Who really killed him and why John Dickson Carr tried his hand with this in "The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey" . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Constable Crime Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016701 ISBN : 0094716501 9780094716506
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Frazer Margaret
The Servant's Tale
New York New York U.S.A.: Jove Books 1993. 1st Edition with complete number line beginnig with 1. Paperback Original. Reading creases slight spine slant small nick at spine foot. Previous owner states in Pencil to try books by C.L. Grace. EDGAR NOMINATED TITLE. A troupe of medieval actors at a nunnery are harbringers of merriment --- or murder . 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket. Paperback Original. Jove Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 016721 ISBN : 0515111635 9780515111637
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Parry Owen
Shadows of Glory
NY.NY: William Morrow & Co 2000. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Abel Jones a federal agent during the American Civil War is featured in the second title in this series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016774 ISBN : 0380976439 9780380976430
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Fleming, Charles
After Havana
New York New York U.S.A.: Minotaur Books 2004. 1ST.ED. FINE/FINE. Set in Havana Cuba in 1958 and all hell is breaking loose. Castro grows stronger Meyer Lansky and the mob flee to Miami and everyone else isleft to deal with a deadly uncertainty. A great library addition for owners of Fleming's THE IVORY COAST his debut novel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Minotaur Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016814 ISBN : 0312307489 9780312307486
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Mitchell, Kirk
With Siberia Comes a Chill
NYNY: St Martins Press 1990. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. SFPD Inspector John Kost - born Ivan Mikhailovich Kostoff draws security duty for a Russian visiting dignitary. Old evils and desires soon surface. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St Martins Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016765 ISBN : 0312051832 9780312051839
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Saylor, Steven
The Judgment of Caesar
New York New York U.S.A.: Minotaur Books 2004. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Heading to Egypt in search of a cure for his wife's mysterious illness Gordianus the Finder and his ailing wife Bethesda arrive in a country struggling to recover from the war between Caesar and Pompey and dealing with the power struggle between Ptolemy and his sister Cleopatra a situation that rapidly worsens when Bethesda vanishes. Gordianus the Finder a private investigator in the 1st century BC in Rome Italy is featured in the tenth book in this series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Minotaur Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016750 ISBN : 0312271190 9780312271190
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Parry Owen
Rebels Of Babylon
NYNY: William Morrow & Co 2005. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. "The intrepid Maj. Abel Jones special agent to the Federal Army takes on New Orleans in this satisfying sixth installment to Parry's humorous well-written and meticulously researched series of Civil War mysteries. Dispatched to investigate the murder of a Northern heiress-cum-crusading abolitionist our reluctant hero finds that despite the bitter cold of the winter of 1863 "New Orleans burns torrid." On his incredible first day in the Crescent City Jones gives chase to a voodoo woman and survives kidnapping being buried alive a midnight gunfight a venomous snake and paralysis by a poison charm. This is just business as usual for the puritanical Welshman who fearlessly forges ahead with the assistance of Barnaby B. Barnaby the rotund former haberdasher from earlier Abel Jones novels." -- PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016775 ISBN : 0060513926 9780060513924
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Smith, Martin Cruz
December 6: A Novel
NYNY: Simon & Schuster 2002. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A non-series effort from the international accalimed author of the fine Russian detective series - Arkady. Set in Hawaii. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016833 ISBN : 0684872536 9780684872537
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Fesperman, Dan
The Warlord's Son
NY NY: Alfred A Knopf Inc 2004. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. In his new book a reporter arrives in Afghanistan just as the US war begins. From the author of Lie in The Dark and The Small Boat of Great Sorrows. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Alfred A Knopf Inc Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016757 ISBN : 0375414738 9780375414732
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Highsmith, Domini
KEEPER AT THE SHRINE
N.Y.: St Martins Press 1995. 1st US edition May 1995 so stated. with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket. 498 pages. On a freezing night in December 1180 a sudden storm of sinister and devastating power strikes the town of Beverley in the see of York. At the tempest's height a mysterious hooded figure brings a newborn child for baptism to the great Minster Church while a crippled priest is healed of his affliction and made youn g Peter's guardian by the time the figure vanishes. An elderly priest is struck down from behind a young boy hangs himself in shame and the sacred shrine of St. John of Beverly is left exposed to the diverse greeds desires and failings of common men. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St Martins Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016870 ISBN : 031213102x 9780312131029
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Lovesey, Peter
BERTIE AND THE CRIME OF PASSION SIGNED COPY
N.Y.: Mysterious Press 1995. 1st US edition January 1995 so stated. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Lovesey at title page. "Lovesey's third spirited mystery to feature Edward VII Prince of Wales as a dogged often fatuous but ever-successful amateur sleuth Bertie and the Tinman finds the royal in Paris in 1891. There Bertie is discreetly enjoying the City of Light's pleasures and his platonic meetings with reigning actress Sarah Bernhard when Maurice Letissier prospective son-in-law of Bertie's old friend Jules d'Agincourt is shot dead at the Moulin Rouge. Present when the unseen gunman fired were Jules his wife his newly betrothed daughter and his younger son all celebrating the engagement while along with dozens of other patrons they watched the frenzied dancing of the notorious La Goulue and her partner Valentin. Bertie's detecting instincts are aroused especially as he becomes aware of the victim's libertine ways and of his fiancee's involvement with Glyn Morgan a penniless 50-year-old painter. When the Surete arrest Morgan for the crime Bertie convinced of his innocence is spurred to bolder explorations of the city's seamier aspects producing at last a surprising confession. A lively evocation of fin-de-siecle Paris a lightly ironic tone and some tidy plotting add up to another easy-to-take confection from this reliable British author." -- Publishers Weekly. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016913 ISBN : 0892965509 9780892965502
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Clare, Alys
ASHES OF THE ELEMENTS: A Hawkenlye Mystery
N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 2001. 1st US edition April 2001with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges lightly soiled else near fine in unclipped dust jacket. Complete with map of Hawkenlye Abbey. The 2nd book in the series. Cover illustrated by David Bowers. Hidden in the depths of Wealden Forest a man hacks at the thick roots of a fallen oak tree. Drawn to a clearing by a strange and eerie song he witnesses an incredible sight that sends a sudden agonizing fear through his body. As he stumbles out of the forest into the bright light of a full moon he hears a whistling noise close by. As if some ancient curse is reawakened the man meets with a violent end killed instantly by a flint-headed spear. -- The Sheriff of Tonbridge is happy to assume the Forest People did it but Abbess Helewise believes a supernatural solution is too easy an answer. Fortunately with King Richard Plantagenet halfway to Jerusalem on his latest crusade Josse d'Acquin has returned to his new manor house in the Weald. Eager to investigate Josse enters the forest himself-and finds something that terrifies even him. -- Another death soon follows and Abbess Helewise concerned about the involvement of two girls from Hawklenlye Abbey joins Josse to discover what forces really lie in the mysterious darkness of the ancient forest. Abbess Helewise and soldier of fortune Josse d'Aquin investigate murderous and possibly supernatural doings in the Wealken forest. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Bowers David. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016932 ISBN : 0312261241 9780312261245
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Frazer, Margaret
THE SEMPSTER'S TALE: A Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery
N.Y.: Berkeley Prime Crime 2006. 1st edition January 2006 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light wear else fine in dust jacket. The 15th title in the highly acclaimed Dame Sister Frevisse medieval mystery series. England Summer 1450. 339 pages. Since the death of her husband Anne Blakhall has carried on their shared business as a tailor and embroiderer in the heart of London. Rather than remarry as prosperous London widows usually do she has taken a lover - David Weir a foreign merchant who is secretly a Jew and therefore in constant deadly peril so long as he remains in England where Jews have been banished for over a hundred years. Anne sharing in his secrets knows that both his life and hers would be forfeit if ever he is found out. Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery is in London to arrange the funeral vestments for her cousin's murdered husband the Duke of Suffolk. But she is also charged with secretly recovering - and then conveying to her cousin - the gold the late duke sent out of England shortly before his death. But her duty and their love become more dangerous a rebel army advances on London - and a murdered body is discovered in the crypt of a London church mutilated with what a Franciscan friar of the Inquisition claims are Hebrew letters. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Berkeley Prime Crime Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016933 ISBN : 0425207668 9780425207666
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Schechter, Harold
THE MASK OF RED DEATH: An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery
NYNY.: Ballantine Books 2004. 1st edition August 2004 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Schechter delivers both a wonderfully accurate portrait of a city in turmoil and an irresistibly appealing depiction of his amateur sleuth Edgar Allan Poe mirroring the masters writing style with wit and acumen. It is the sweltering summer of 1845 and the thriving metropolis has fallen victim to a creature of the most inhuman depravity. Found days apart two girls have been brutally murdered their throats slashed viciously scalped andmost shocking of allmissing their livers. Edgar Allan Poe despite what the tenor of his own tales of terror might suggest about his constitution is just as shaken and revolted by these horrendous crimes as the panic-stricken public. Suspicion of the scalpers identity immediately swirls around the most famous redskin in New York Chief Wolf Bear one of the human attractions at P.T. Barnums American Museum. Certain that Chief Wolf Bear is innocent Poe has deduced that the city is concealing a cannibal somewhere in its teeming masses one with an ever-growing appetite for human prey. Before he can investigate his theory further Poe stumbles onto the scene of a third gruesome murder. Poe recently met William Wyatt when he agreed to look at a document for Wyatt to determine the authenticity of the purportedly famous handwriting on it. Now Poe finds Wyatt in a pool of blood his scalp removed. How Poe muses are Wyatt and his document connected to the two slain girls As frenzied emotions over the murders reach a fevered pitch Kit Carson makes an appearance. The famous scout has been tracking the Liver Eater since the man killed his wife months ago. Together Carson and Poe make an odd sleuthing team but their combined wits are formidable. The trail they uncover reveals a dark secret more powerful than anything they could have imagined --dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Ballantine Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016923 ISBN : 0345448413 9780345448415
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