‎Biography‎

‎Schechter, Harold‎

‎NEVERMORE‎

‎N.Y.: Pocket Books 1999. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. First book in the series. Top true-crime writer Harold Schechter turns to historical fiction in this suspense novel set in 1830s Baltimore and New York and featuring author/sleuth Edgar Allan Poe. Poe has published a rather nasty attack on the new autobiography of Colonel David Crockett U.S. Congressman and celebrated American hero which prompts the frontiersman to pay a call on the author. The pair wind up teaming together to investigate the possibility that a serial killer is on the loose. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Pocket Books Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016946 ISBN : 0671798553 9780671798550

‎Gray John MacLachlan‎

‎THE FIEND IN HUMAN: A Victorian Thriller‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press 2003. 1st edition September 2003 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges lightly soiled else about fine in very lightly used dust jacket. It's 1852 and the ranks of the London poor have doubled. In the swollen shadow of the great St. Giles Rookery fallen women attract the perfumed dandies of the West End into a vicious circle of venality vanity and vice. Edmund Whitty correspondent for The Falcon the city's second-best sensational tabloid writes whatever will stimulate the reader delay his increasingly physical creditors and supply him with the alcohol and opiates required to see him through the day. His most recent triumph was to supply a name for the fiend in human form who has murdered an uncertain number of prostitutes with a white silk scarf: Chokee Bill. Chokee Bill incited a garroting panic that paralyzed the business of London---until the arrest of one William Ryan. Normality has returned. The hangman Mr. Calcraft as dusty and dreary as death itself awaits. Broke again and in search of crisp copy Whitty makes a shocking but not altogether surprising discovery: the white-scarf slayings have continued. When he endeavors to find the real Chokee Bill he is greeted with emphatic hostility on all sides. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016949 ISBN : 0312282842 9780312282844

‎Peters, Ellis‎

‎THE POTTER'S FIELD‎

‎London United Kingdom: Headline 1989. 1st edition with the usual tanning to the pages especially the edges because the publisher used cheap paper else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Cover Illustration by Clifford Harper. Map on the endpapers. The 17th Brother Cadfael. It is the Summer and Autumn of the Year of Our Lord 1143 in which the gentle monk Brother Cadfael is forced to leave the tranquility of his herb garden to find the whole truth behind the murder of a young women whose body was unexpectedly discovered in a newly tilled field recently acquired by the Shrewsbury Abbey in a land exchange. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016979 ISBN : 0747201595 9780747201595

‎Lake, Deryn‎

‎DEATH IN THE PEERLESS POOL SIGNED COPY‎

‎London: Hodder & Stoughton 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dj SIGNED COPY. A John Rawlings title set in 18th Century London. On a hot summer day in London Apothecary John Rawlins and his friend Summers join others for a swim in Peerless Pool. To their shock they find the body of a woman who had been severely beaten chained weighted down and tossed into the pool to drown. Sir John Fielding head of the Bow Street Runners asks for Rawlins help to find the killer. What they don't expect is for the trail to take him to a lunatic asylum among the beau monde of Bath and on the trail of someone who has been stealing children. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016421 ISBN : 0340718587 9780340718582

‎Hall, Robert Lee‎

‎Murder by the Waters: A Benjamin Franklin Mystery: Further Adventures of the American Agent Abroad‎

‎NYNY: St Martins Press 1995. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Publisher's review slip laid in. "A scruffy highwayman a damsel in distress and a handsome nobleman join in a 1758 scenario involving a coach full of travelers to Bath England. But one of the passengers-American diplomat scientist and now sleuth Benjamin Franklin-suspects the episode may have been staged. After the heroic rescue of winsome impudent Emma Morland Franklin applies his talents to unravel what could be a dangerous scam. The chronicler for this beguiling tale is Ben's natural son Nick an articulate mature 13-year-old who fears that the relentlessly nosy Franklin might place himself in serious danger. Wonderfully rendered the historic town of Bath teems with lords and ladies rakes and doxies churlish wealthy tradesmen and sinister lurkers-and some suspicious deaths. Does someone have designs on Emma and her fortune Is charming Edmund Darly Fourth Earl of Hendon who saved Emma from the highwayman exactly what he seems to be ." --PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy. St Martins Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016471 ISBN : 0312135688 9780312135683

‎Greenberg, Editor‎

‎Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises‎

‎Nashville Tennessee U.S.A.: Cumberland House 2000. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. A global lineup of writers and stories of medieval Europe. SHORT STORIES. Murder Most Medieval is a riveting anthology of short stories mysteries all set in medieval times. Some of the stories use British historical events and wrap the mysteries around them; others are pure fiction but all are solved with the relentless logic of a tale well-told and a "detective" just one step ahead of us. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Cumberland House Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016578 ISBN : 1581820879 9781581820874

‎Collins, Max Allan‎

‎The War Of The Worlds Murder‎

‎NYNY: Berkley Pub Group 2005. 1st. Ed. AS NEW. Just as he was shocked that a nation beleived his tale of alien invasion - the hero Orson Wells is even more shocked when he finds hes a suspect in a murder case. SUE FEDER HISTORICAL NOMINEE. Comes sealed in zip-lock bag. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Paperback Original. Berkley Pub Group Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 016592 ISBN : 0425204014 9780425204016

‎Howard Maureen‎

‎NATURAL HISTORY: A Novel‎

‎N.Y.: W W Norton & Co Inc 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Bridgeport CT setting. 391 pgs." A compelling tour de force Howard's Expensive Habits latest novel shows this immensely talented writer at her inventive best. Her glance keen and her hand sure Howard depicts the Irish Catholic Bray family: county detective Billy Bray his gentility-obsessed wife Nell their son reckless and charming James and their daughter pious and pudgy Catherine. Howard gives their lives solidity and depth against the background of her own hometown Bridgeport Conn. a city so accurately and specifically rendered that readers with a map could pinpoint every reference to streets restaurants stores churches and movie theaters; social nuances are revealed with equal clarity. The fuguelike first section traces the movements of each of the Brays on one Saturday during WW II when James breezes through a clarinet lesson Cath is humiliated at a Girl Scout jamboree Nell strives to achieve family harmony and Billy becomes involved in a sensational murder case in which a society woman shoots a soldier home on leave. Echoes of James Joyce become more resonant in the novel's middle section where Howard switches to a cinematic elliptical narrative device as James now an actor of middling success returns to Bridgeport to make a movie about that notorious murder but spinster Cath intends to foil his plan by revealing a family secret. As counterpoint to this deliberately fragmented narrative on alternate facing pages is a long loosely constructed series of vignettes that encapsulate Bridgeport's history and decline along with tart comments about the novel's characters who include a nun turned social worker a vulgar movie producer and James's valiant wife an ex-rodeo queen. The section reproduces newspaper clippings about the Park City's famous sons P. T. Barnum Walt Kelley Robert Mitchum; quotations from the likes of Freud Lewis Mumford and William James; literary allusions slipped in without pretension; and 30 photos and line drawings. It is a kind of intellectual doodling--idiosyncratic and whimsical. Howard tells readers that they have "no obligation" to read the insert; "when it is unamusing just go on . . . with the story." Howard's vigorous prose--at once earthy and sophisticated--is a graceful arresting mix of metaphor and demotic idiom ironic humor and glistening images all employed in astute observation of her cultural and intellectual world. If the cinematic format and the flip clipped narration tend to hold the reader at an emotional remove the work is made buoyant by the larky digression yet effectively anchored by the traditionally narrated sections. In form and substance this powerful novel places Howard squarely among the outstanding practitioners of late-20th-century fiction" -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. W W Norton & Co Inc Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016697 ISBN : 0393034054 9780393034059

‎Peters, Ellis‎

‎THE CONFESSION OF BROTHER HALUIN‎

‎N.Y.: Mysterious Press 1989. 1st US edition January 1989 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Jacket illustration by Bascove. "The worldly-wise and compassionate Brother Cadfael makes a welcome 15th appearance. On his deathbed Brother Haluin confesses to the abbot and Brother Cadfael that 18 years previously he had fallen in love with Bertrade de Clary whose mother had forbidden their marriage. The girl had later died as a result of herbs he had given her mother Adelais de Clary to abort their baby. Haluin unexpectedly recovers from his fall however and he now is determined to make a pilgrimage to the girl's tomb. But when he and Brother Cadfael arrive at Hales they find Adelais de Clary strangely indifferent and no tomb for Bertrade at the church. Haluin insists on traveling to Elford the chief seat of the de Clarys in search of Beltrade's final resting place. The two monks find more than the tomb there and on their homeward journey through Staffordshire they encounter forbidden love a hastily arranged marriage violent emotions and murder. It is up to Brother Cadfael to untangle the threads that bind the past to the present to avert another tragedy. Peters knows her period well and does not strike one false note in this thoroughly entertaining medieval mystery." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Bascove. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015790 ISBN : 0892963492 9780892963492

‎Jecks, Michael‎

‎THE DEATH SHIP OF DARTMOUTH: A Knights Templar Mystery‎

‎London United Kingdom: Headline Book Publishing Ltd 2006. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. 395 pages. It is 1324 and a disastrous autumn looms large. When a body is found lying in the middle of the road many in Dartmouth assume that a drunk had fallen and killed himself. At the same time the town is on alert because a ship the St. John has been discovered half ravaged and the crew missing. Is this the beginning of a vicious onslaught by pirates or is something more sinister happening Sir Baldwin de Furnshill has been told by Bishop Stapledon of spies being sent to the great traitor Roger Mortimer. If this is true and messagers are reaching Mortimer civil war in England is inevitable. This is to be the most important investigation of their lives: fail and they will be executed. Succeed and there will be others ready to silence them foreever. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Book Publishing Ltd Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015853 ISBN : 0755323017 9780755323012

‎Follett Ken‎

‎Night over Water‎

‎NYNY: William Morrow & Co 1991. 1ST.ED. AS NEW/AS NEW. Set in the early days of World War II Night over Water captures the daring and desperation of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances—in prose as compelling as history itself. . . . September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton the world's most luxurious airliner--the legendary Pan Am Clipper--takes off for its final flight to neutral America. Aboard are the cream of society and the dregs of humanity all fleeing the war for reasons of their own . . . shadowed by a danger they do not know exists . . . and heading straight into a storm of violence intrigue and betrayal. . . . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book. William Morrow & Co Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016034 ISBN : 0688046606 9780688046606

‎Davis, Lindsey‎

‎TIME TO DEPART: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Mysterious Press 1997. 1ST.ED. FINE/FINE. Another in the long line of critically aclaimed Lindsey Davis's Marcus Falco series. Cover Illustration by Roy Pendelton. The 7th Marcus Didius Falco mystery. Balbinus Pius the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law however allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime - and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Pendleton Roy. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015648 ISBN : 0892966262 9780892966264

‎Frazer, Margaret‎

‎The Hunter's Tale AWARD NOMINEE‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Prime Crime 2004. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery from a two-time EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Prime Crime Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016325 ISBN : 0425194019 9780425194010

‎O'Brien, Charles‎

‎FATAL CARNIVAL: A New Anne Cartier Mystery‎

‎Sutton Surrey United Kingdom: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2006. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. It's January 1788 and Anne Cartier and her husband Paul the Provost of the Paris Highway Patrol are spending their winter in Nice at the home of Beverly and Thomas Parker. Paul and Anne are hoping that the warmer climate and the break from work will cure Paul's chronic cough. But when a man named Jean Lebrun escapes from a prison in Toulon Paul cannot help but investigate. After some digging Paul discovers that the man may have been wrongly convicted. Meanwhile Anne is getting caught up in the sordid affairs of the expatriate community of Nice. This unsavoury group of characters may be more dangerous than Anne first thought. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Severn House Publishers Ltd Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015730 ISBN : 0727864033 9780727864031

‎Day, Dianne‎

‎The Strange Files of Fremont Jones AWARD WINNER‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1995. 1st. Ed. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK- FINE/FINE - A MACAVITY WINNER.Set in turn-of-century San Francisco this book introduces us to Fremont Jones who tries her hand at sleuthing somethong a woman of her Eastern background her should never embark on. Back cover shows slight scratch lines but seem well hidden by Mylar cover - thus the low price. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015735 ISBN : 0385475497 9780385475495

‎Rizzolo, S. K.‎

‎THE ROSE IN THE WHEEL SIGNED COPY‎

‎Scottsdale Arizona U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press 2002. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. SIGNED COPY signature only by the author on the title page. Front hinge opened roughly at title page where author signed but binding remains intact else fine in fine dust jacket. . Historical mystery set in 1811 London. "Set in Regency London this thoughtful and thought-provoking debut offers a large cast of characters and a wealth of historical detail in a tale of murder intrigue and the 19th-century English justice system. When a young lady well known for her work among the destitute women of Soho is found dead presumably run over by a hansom cab John Chase of the Bow Street Runners investigates. Chase discovers strangulation marks on Miss Tyrone and at first evidence points to Jeremy Wolfe an artist whose drawings of Miss Tyrone in the guise of St. Catherine cause a sensation in the courtroom. Wolfe's wife Penelope joins forces with Chase and the attorneys Thorogood and Buckler to clear Wolfe and uncover the real culprit. But readers likely won't simply ask whodunit; they'll also seek answers to a number of questions the book leaves unanswered. Why for example does Penelope want to pursue Miss Tyrone's charitable work when such work exposes her to disease and she has a child of her own to support What is the nature of Buckler's strange malaise Solid research particularly into the forensic technology of the day centers the book but the faintly sketched background characters and the dream sequences that herald the denouement fail to advance the plot and seem ill-considered in comparison. At a time when the fear of infectious disease has reentered the collective conscious with a new intensity Rizzolo provides oddly relevant mystery fare in this talented but uneven first novel." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Poisoned Pen Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015354 ISBN : 189020885x 9781890208851

‎Marston, Edward‎

‎THE ROARING BOY EDGAR AWARD FINALIST‎

‎N.Y.: St Martins Press 1995. 1st edition June 1995 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Mystery. An Elizabethan Theater Mystery featuring Nicholas Bracewell. "As Marston's seventh excellent Elizabethan theater mystery after The Silent Woman opens Lord Westfield's Men are performing in the yard of the Queen's Head when the lead character misses his cue. It's not stage fright: he's dead. Nicholas Bracewell book holder and sleuth devises an ingenious way to finish the show but the company needs a new play fast. A mysterious manuscript called The Roaring Boy arrives; based on a recent scandalous murder it argues that justice miscarried horribly in the case. From the moment they decide to stage the play Nicholas and his troupe are embroiled in a real-life drama involving beatings murders treason torture incest arson blooming love and a ghastly toothache. Marston's colorful and convincing characterizations shine as Nicholas chases the secrets of the murder in order to save the company. The plot except for one transparently finagled episode is expertly wrought with the suspense building steadily to a breathtaking climax and some surprises saved for the very end." --- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St Martins Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015374 ISBN : 0312131550 9780312131555

‎Wilson, Robert‎

‎THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS‎

‎NY: Harcourt 2001. 1ST. ED. with complete number line beginning with letter A. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. A Thriller from Award Winning author of "A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON " 1944. Andrea Aspinall plucked out of academia by British intelligence so that her mathematical knowledge might help in the hunt for atomic secrets disappears under a new identity in Lisbon where such secrets are easily bought and sold. Karl Voss already experienced in the illusions of intrigue when he arrives in Lisbon is an attache at the German Legation though he is secretly working against the Nazis to rescue Germany from annihilation. After a night of terrible violence Andrea creates a family for herself from Voss's memory and the clandestine world they knew. In Portugal in England and in the chilly world of Cold War Berlin she discovers that the deepest secrets aren't held by governments-and that death is a relative term. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Harcourt‎

Bookseller reference : 015454 ISBN : 0151008469 9780151008469

‎Liss, David‎

‎A Spectacle Of Corruption‎

‎NY NY.: Random House Inc 2004. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE - A Histoical mystery set in London. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Random House Inc Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015502 ISBN : 0375508554 9780375508554

‎Cook, Thomas H.‎

‎THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR Edgar Award Winner / SIGNED COPY‎

‎New York NY U.S.A.: Bantam Books 1996. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. SIGNED by Cook on title page. 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. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Bantam Books Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015605 ISBN : 0553096524 9780553096521

‎Collins, Max A.‎

‎Road To Paradise‎

‎NY NY.: William Morrow & Co 2005. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A man who is running a casino for the Mob in Arizona refuses to go along with a deal offered to him. He soon finds himself knee deep in thugs and gangsters. Set in the 1070's -NICE NOIR TIE-IN. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. William Morrow & Co Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015663 ISBN : 0060540281 9780060540289

‎Dold, Gaylord‎

‎The Last Man in Berlin: A Novel‎

‎Naperville Illinois U.S.A.: Sourcebooks Inc Landmark 2003. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. "Set in a 1930s Berlin driven by street battles between the Communists and the rising Nazi Party. In this fraught climate Det. Insp. Harry Wulff has three strikes against him: he is pro-Republic; his lover is a Jew an early psychoanalyst named Johanna Davidov; and he has been detailed to Bernhard Weiss a ranking Jewish officer working to expose the crimes of the Nazi Party. Meanwhile the discovery of the strangled corpse of a transvestite prostitute in an alley puts Wulff on a collision course with a crazed killer who steals the identities of his victims. By juxtaposing the killer's psychosexual pathology with the corruption of the Nazis he eventually works for Dold fosters an atmosphere of sordid menace."--PW. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Sourcebooks Inc Landmark Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 014957 ISBN : 1402201249 9781402201240

‎Carr, John Dickson‎

‎The Demoniacs‎

‎N.Y.: Harper & Row 1962. 1st. Ed. Near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket un-clipped $3.95 price intact. 1757 London. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book. Harper & Row Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015128

‎Kanon, Joseph‎

‎ALIBI A HAMMETT PRIZE WINNER‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co 2005. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. slight slant to spine else near fine in near fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. A HAMMETT PRIZE AWARD WINNER. 405 pages. Like all of war torn Europe in 1946 Italy is trying to resume its tempo but Adam Miller U. S. war crimes investigator in Germany is thrown into the middle of a murder and a cover-up upon arriving to reunite with his mother. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Henry Holt & Co Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015005 ISBN : 080507886x 9780805078862

‎Winspear, Jacqueline‎

‎PARDONABLE LIES: A Maisie Dobbs Novel AWARD WINNER‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co 2005. 1st. Ed. . with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. WINNER of this years MACAVITY HISTORICAL AWARD And NOMINATED for both an AGATHA and LEFTY AWARD. "Agatha-winner Winspear's engrossing third Maisie Dobbs novel maintains the high quality of its predecessors Maisie Dobbs 2003 and Birds of a Feather 2004. In late 1930 the London "psychologist and investigator" gets involved in three cases: proving the innocence of a 13-year-old farm girl Avril Jarvis accused of murder; undertaking a search for Sir Cecil Lawton's only son a pilot shot down behind enemy lines in WWI whose body was never recovered; and looking into the circumstances of the death of her university friend Priscilla Evernden Partridge's brother in France during the war. Maisie must go back to the region where 13 years earlier she served as a nurse and confront her memories of mud blood and loss. Filled with convincing characters this is a complex tale of healing of truth and half-truth of long-held secrets some perhaps to be held forever. Winspear writes seamlessly enriching the whole with vivid details of English life on a variety of social levels." Starred review Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner. Henry Holt & Co Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015060 ISBN : 0805078975 9780805078978