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Hall, Robert Lee
BEN FRANKLIN AND A CASE OF CHRISTMAS MURDER
N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1991. 1st edition January 1991 with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges slightly dusty else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. "In his second mystery convincingly featuring Benjamin Franklin as a sleuth Californian author Hall Ben Franklin Takes the Case proves himself a dab hand at recreating the atmosphere of 18th-century London with all of its harsh realities and fragile comforts. Here Franklin and his young companion Nicholas Handy who records the adventures visit the home of popular merchant Roddy Fairbrass who is entertaining friends and family with a mummers' play on Christmas Eve. When Roddy suddenly drops dead Benjamin Franklin is more than saddened at losing a friend. The perspicacious American--who has already been asked to investigate the sighting of a "ghost" on the Fairbrass premises--is certain that this is a case of murder most foul. A gambling son distant relatives exotic poison an enigmatic black servant and a well-drawn sea captain all play their parts as Franklin applies his wit and powers of invention. Our hero along with earnest Nicholas sets out to lay a ghost explain a murder and survive the scrutiny of some of London's most dangerous criminals. Franklin's aphorisms and joie de vivre serve as extra plums in a tale as delicious as Christmas pudding."-- PW. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press
Bookseller reference : 001913 ISBN : 0312053835 9780312053833
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Hambly, Barbara
SOLD DOWN THE RIVER
New York NY U.S.A.: Bantam Books 2000. 1st edition July 2000 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. "The darkest time in American history comes alive in Hambley's unforgettable series of mysteries of which this is the fourth after Graveyard Dust. In 1835 New Orleans Benjamin January is a Paris-educated surgeon and musician but he's also a former slave. Along with white American policeman Abishag Shaw Ben is asked to help out on an investigation into possible sabotage and murder at a sugar plantation up the river from the city. The catch is that the person asking is his former owner the thoroughly evil Simon Fourchet. Ben must go to Fourchet's plantation Mon Triomphe and work undercover as a slave chopping the sugarcane in the fields. Ben agrees to take on the dreadful job because he knows that if the "hoodoo" isn't found quickly the lives and well-being of many slaves will be in jeopardy. Already "les blankittes" the whites believe a slave revolt is brewing on the plantation and their punishment of the slaves will surely be terrible if more incidents occur. In order to learn the truth Ben has to undergo all the appalling and humiliating experiences that the plantation slaves routinely endure. Hambly's fiercely burning picture of the horrors of slavery inevitably overwhelms the specifics of the plot but she evokes the period marvelously piling detail upon detail to create a finely wrought portrait of the daily lives of slaves on the notorious Louisiana sugar plantations. And her mastery of the slave songs the backbreaking labor of the harvest the African-French-Creole culture and the medicine both traditional and voodoo is astonishing. " -- PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Bantam Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013421 ISBN : 0553102575 9780553102574
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Granger, Pip
THE WIDOW GINGER
Scottsdale AZ U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press 2003. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine unread copy in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Second book in the series. It is 1954 and all is quiet at the Soho cafe where Rosie lives with her beloved Auntie Maggie and Uncle Bert--that is until the Widow Ginger pays a call. As Roger Bannister sprints into the record books by running the first four minute mile The Widow Ginger an ex-GI with ice-cold eyes is planning to finish some unfinished business with his wartime partners Uncle Bert and Maltese Joe. The liberation of lorry-loads of U.S. Army stores on to Londons hungry black market had kept all three men in clover until the Widow found his career cut short by a spell in a military prison. Now he is back looking for his share of the profits and a little vengeance. Meanwhile lovely local Romeo Luigi has troubles of his own in the form of a beautiful redhead who is proving unusually hard to get. And that isnt all: Uncle Bert falls out with Maltese Joe--never a healthy option--and really terrifying Rosies best friend Jenny has started to pass out cold at school. The Widow Ginger follows further adventures in the characters introduced in Pip Grangers enchanting hit AGATHA AWARD NOMINATED "Not All Tarts are Apple.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Poisoned Pen Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013371 ISBN : 1590580575 9781590580578
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Penman, Sharon
THE QUEEN'S MAN EDBGAR AWARD FINALIST
N.Y.: Henry Holt 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dj. England in 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England's throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing presumed dead--and the court whispers that her younger son John is plotting to seize the crown .Author's debut novel. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Henry Holt Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012007 ISBN : 080503885x 9780805038859
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Soos, Troy
MURDER AT EBBETS FIELD with Elusive "Murder At Ebbets Field" bookmark
Kalamazoo MI U.S.A.: Kensington Publishing Corp. 1995. 1st edition April 1995 so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The second Mickey Rawlings baseball mystery after "Murder At Fenway Park". Journeyman utility ballplayer and erstwhile sleuth Rawlings is traded to John McGraw's New York Giants--the first place NY Giants. A fine copy with the elusive "Murder At Ebbets Field" bookmark. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Kensington Publishing Corp. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011425 ISBN : 0821748890 9780821748893
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Edwards Michael B.
Murder at the Panionic Games
Chicago IL U.S.A.: Academy Chicago Publishers Limited. 2001. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. The first of a series set in the Greek city-state of Priene in 650 B.C. Bias the protagonist is being stalked by a murderer at the sacred grounds of the Panionion. A minor priest Bias assists at the opening of the Panionic Games. but while the games are being blessed Priene's best athlete is poisoned and dies in Bias's arms. the citizens percieve Bias to be infected by the "miasma of death" and he is challenged with the responsibility of finding the killer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012827 ISBN : 0897335007 9780897335003
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Satterthwait, Walter
WILDE WEST
St. Martin 1991 1st ed. Fine in dj. Oscar Wilde is on a lecture tour of the American West when someone in his entourage is savagely murdering prostitutes. When Wilde becomes the chief suspect he becomes determined to clear his name. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin 1991 Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003044 ISBN : 0312059973 9780312059972
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Jackson, Marian JA. J. A.
DIAMOND HEAD
Walker 1992. 1st ed. Uncorrected Page Proofs. Sunned along edges else near Fine wraps. The first hardcover appearnce for Miss Danford after three pbk originals. Hawaii at the turn of the century. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof. Walker Paperback
Bookseller reference : 002355 ISBN : 0802712479 9780802712479
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Cobb, James H.
WEST ON 66
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 2001. 1st prtg. Trade paperback fine unread copy. September 1958. While on vacation L.A. county deputy sheriff Kevin Pulaski wasn't looking for anything more than a cup of coffee and a hot meal when he pulled into the lonely truck stop. What he found was a beautiful woman a link to a decade-old multiple murder and a bloodstained fire-scarred road leading to a lost fortune. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Paperback
Bookseller reference : 011817 ISBN : 0312271301 9780312271305
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Hamilton, Sylvian
THE BONE-PEDLAR
London United Kingdom: Orion 2000. 2nd ed. Near fine in dust jacket. The highly acclaimed first novel the first of a series set in the Middle Ages. Sir Richard Straccan is a bone-peddlar meaning he deals in retrieving and finding stolen relics and new artefacts. It is 1209 and Richard is pressed into investigating the appearance of a rare icon. Danger presents itself on every front as his daughter is subsequently kidnapped and Straccan must save her and solve the mystery. H. P. Lovecraft's Mad Arab Abdul al Hazred and some of the nastier creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos appear herein. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Orion Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012736 ISBN : 0752832603 9780752832609
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Allison, EMA. E. M.
THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Crime Club Doubleday 1983. Author's 1st book. Page edges lightly soiled dj lightly rubbed. Brother Anselm is dead and it's not the plague -- it's murder. who would want to kill a monk in a Cistercian monastary in 1379. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Crime Club Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005791 ISBN : 038518462x 9780385184625
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Monfredo, Miriam G.
THROUGH A GOLD EAGLE: A Glynis Tryon Mystery
New York NY U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group 1996. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "Monfredo The Seneca Falls Inheritance etc. scores with another compelling mid-19th century mystery starring librarian/feminist Glynis Tryon. The sinuous plot skillfully incorporates significant political and social changes of the time from women's suffrage to banking reform and Isaac Singer's revolutionary sewing machine. In May 1859 after a year's visit with her brother's family in Illinois Glynis returns to Seneca Falls N.Y. bringing along her niece Emma. A man is murdered on their train shortly after handing her a pouch containing money and a ring and mentioning Seneca Falls. Back home Glynis is absorbed in a variety of problems: her assistant has wasted library funds on romance novels; counterfeit money and weapons thefts are rife; seven more people die; and her old swain Sheriff Cullen Stuart has a new lady friend. Monfredo deftly gathers these subplots into a coherent tale that leads to a finale in a panther den. There Glynis corners the mastermind responsible for the crimes solving a case which is tied to funding John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry and to attempts by abolitionists and the English to hasten a civil war. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frederick Douglass and John Brown appear but don't overshadow the commanding cast of fictional characters including a new romantic interest for Glynis." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Berkley Publishing Group Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006710 ISBN : 0425153185 9780425153185
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Weenolsen, Hebe
TRIAL OF JENNY SYKES: Based upon the 17th century discovery later to become one of the basic tests in legal medicine.
N.Y.: St Martins Press 1990. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine unread copy in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Review Slip laid in. 1680's England based upon the 17th century discovery later to become one of the basic tests in legal medicine. "Seventeenth-century England under the repressive James Stuart lagged behind Europe in medical scientific and legal matters. In this harsh climate Jenny Sykes the sequestered only daughter of a fanatical clergyman gives birth to a stillborn infant. Unless she can produce at least one witness to the stillbirth Jenny will be accused of murder and will be hung. Her silence and air of innocence touch the heart of Dr. Toller a dedicated young country doctor who remembers hearing of a medical test in Europe to prove stillbirth. Momentum builds as Toller races against time and the king's sadistic agents to procure the details of the Dutch test and to attempt to locate the father of the infant. Solid research into the period and the actual case that changed legal-medical history plus a lively plot sprightly dialog and accurate local color make this essential for most historical fiction collections. A bibliography is an unexpected bonus." -- LIBRARY JOURNAL. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. St Martins Press
Bookseller reference : 002978 ISBN : 0312051735 9780312051730
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Peters, Ellis
THE HERMIT OF EYTON FOREST: A Brother Cadfael Medieval Mystery
N.Y.: Mysterious Press 1988. 1st ed Uncorrected Page Proofs wraps Fine. 1st Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof. Mysterious Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 001341 ISBN : 0892962909 9780892962907
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Carr, John Dickson
DEADLY HALL
NY: Harper 1971. First edition so stated. Slight soilong at edges pages browning previous owners nae at front endpaper else VG in DJ chipped at spine ends couple of closed tears not price clipped $6.95 price intact. "Before he became a commodore in the Confederate Navy Serena Hobarts grandfather was a treasure hunter who combed the bottom of the sea in search of Spanish gold. In 1927 after her father dies Serena wants nothing more than to be rid of Delys Hall the commodores rambling old New Orleans mansion which has been nicknamed "Deadly Hall"because some pretty awful things have occurred there including murder. When her relatives hear rumors that there may be gold hidden in the old house they will stop at nothing to keep it in the family. Serenas childhood friend Jeff Caldwell senses that Serena is in danger and wants to protect her. But there are many dark corners in Deadly Hall maybe even ghosts and certainly relatives who can dream up a thousand ways to kill. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book. Harper Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012648
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Lawrence, Margaret
HEARTS AND BONES AWARD FINALST
N.Y.: Avon Books 1996. 1st ed. very light wear else near fine in price clipped dust jacket. 1786 Maine setting. Highly regarded Author's first mystery. Nominated for EDGAR ANTHONY AGATHA BARRY DILYS and MACAVITY AWARDS. "Set in 1786 in the township of Rufford Maine Lawrence's impressive historical suspense debut poses a fascinating conundrum and vivifies the society in which it arose. The story centers on the investigation by midwife Hannah Trevor of the rape and strangulation death of a young mother Anthea Emory. According to a letter presumably written by Anthea the dead woman was raped on three successive nights by three different men before one of them finally killed her. One of the three men accused is Daniel Josselyn father of Hannah's illegitimate seven-year-old daughter. Because the marks on Anthea's neck match the imprint of Daniel's three-fingered hand he becomes the target of a lynch mob and flees in search of Anthea's husband whom he believes can shed light on her sad life and tragic death. Before following Daniel into the dangerous wintry wilderness to save him from the mob Hannah finds that two of the three men accused in Anthea's letter along with Constable William Quaid were members of a Rufford Patriot division that stumbled into an ambush at Webb's Ford in 1777. In retaliation three of the Patriots raped Anthea then a young girl and slaughtered her family. The final revelation of Anthea's killer comes as a surprise although several plot strands are left vague and a few discrepancies are disquieting. At intervals inquest transcripts recipes diary excerpts and marginally relevant testimonials punctuate the narrative vividly evoking the Revolutionary period and providing authentic if occasionally obtrusive background detail. While not perfectly fluid the story commands attention as it immerses readers in its mystery and the past; like the extended quilt metaphor that runs through it this novel is greater than the sum of its parts." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Avon Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004465 ISBN : 0380973510 9780380973514
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Cain, James M} Skenazy, Paul
JAMES M. CAIN
N.Y.: Continuim 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dj after a concise biographical chapterSkenazy evaluates Cain's entire body of work. Includes film stills filmogrophy bibliography. The views of other critics on Cain's work are presented and a full chapter is devoted to Cain and film. Skenazy not only points out the enduring influence of Cain's early novels on film noir he also demonstrates how Cain's less than successful career as a screenwriter had influenced his greatest novels. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Continuim Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001355 ISBN : 0804428212 9780804428217
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Davis, Lindsey
A DYING LIGHT IN CORDUBA
N.Y.: Mysterious Press 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 8th book in the Marcus Didius Falco series of Ancient Rome. Jacket illustration by Colin Hadley. ''Falco the informer-cum-sleuth who navigates the corrupt political waters of the Roman Empire with an appealing mix of integrity and self-interest is just hip enough for the room; he wears his cynicism like a raincoat but he won't be confused with Sam Spade at a toga party . . . Fascinating details about the olive-oil market lubricate the plot nicely while Falco and Helena's bantering about the baby-to-be evoke Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt on Mad about You.'' --Booklist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Hadley Colin. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012354 ISBN : 0892966645 9780892966646
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Gooden George and Thomas Frank
Sherlock Holmes Bridge Detective
NY: Pinnacle 1976. 1st prtg. PBO preceded by a privately printed version. Inside bottom of front cover and a few pages dampstained reading crease else very good. Holmes introduced to bridge becomes a participant in the "Challenge Match" the world's first big head-to-head bridge competition. Of course using his deductive abilities and powers of observation Holmes soon surpasses the abilities of his bridge teacher Watson. Interwoven into the fourty-four Challenge Match bridge hands are two Holmesian cases which Holmes solves with the assistance of bridge-reasoning. 1st Prtg. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original. Pinnacle Paperback
Bookseller reference : 012521 ISBN : 0523008287 9780523008288
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Harris Robert
ENIGMA
Westminster Maryland U.S.A.: Random House 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. His second book. The German Enigma code must be broken if the Allies are to turn the tide of War. Who among them is working against this end. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Random House Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010133 ISBN : 0679428879 9780679428879
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Beck, K. K.
YOUNG MRS. CAVENDISH & THE KAISER'S MEN
N.Y.: Walker Publishing Co. 1987. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. 1916 San Francisco. "San Francisco society columnist Maude Teasdale Cavendish gets caught up in an an evil conspiracy just before World War One. German spies have infiltrated San Francisco society and Maude is determined to stop them and advance her newspaper career while she's at it. A beautiful German opera star; a landless baron complete with monocle and scar; Maude's flirtatious ex-husband; and an adventuresome airplane pilot round out the cast of characters in this riveting page turner." -- publisher. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Walker Publishing Co.
Bookseller reference : 011785 ISBN : 0802709796 9780802709790
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Hambly, Barbara
A Free Man of Color
New York NY U.S.A.: Bantam Books 1997. 1st edition July 1977 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. First in series. Benjamin January the free son of a slave in New Orleans in 1833. "With this historical novel Hambly departs from her usual work in the sf/fantasy genre. Her new work is set in 19th-century Louisiana Creole society where it was customary for a man to have a wife and also to keep a mistress in her own house. Benjamin January a free Creole with dark brown skin has returned to this society after living in Paris for more than a decade. He is trained as a surgeon but in Louisiana he makes his living playing the piano. Soon he is the main suspect in the death of a wealthy man's young mistress found murdered at a ball. January spends the rest of the book gathering evidence in his defense with the help of his sisters and a host of other colorful characters he encounters on the run."--Library Journal . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Bantam Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013423 ISBN : 0553102583 9780553102581
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Doherty, PC. as Vanessa Alexander P. C.
THE LOVING CUP
London United Kingdom: Headline Book Publishing Limited 2001. 1st ed. Fine in beautiful dust jacket a painting of Charles II and Nell Gwyn by Edward Matthew Ward. A murder mystery that involves a true-life case set at the time of Samuel Pepys who makes an appearance and Restoration London. Samuel Atkins is deeply in love with Maria Eleanora a beautiful young woman from the court of Queen Catherine. But Atkins is a poor clerk and Maria Eleanora a foreigner so their love must remain a secret. When an important judge is found murdered Samuel Pepys' followers are suspected and Atkins is arrested. Suddenly Maria Eleanora realises that to save her lover and discover the hideous truth behind the crime she must thread her way through both the treacherous alleys of London and the murky and murderous politics of those seeking to destroy the king. Based on historical events THE LOVING CUP not only probes one of the great murder mysteries of English history but also recounts a love story as passionate as it is secretive. In 2000 Doherty won The HERODOTUS AWARD for Lifetime Achievment presented by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society for best historical writing . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Ward Edward Matthew. Book. Headline Book Publishing, Limited Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011498 ISBN : 0747270651 9780747270652
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Janes, J. Robert
STONEKILLER
London United Kingdom: Constable & Company Limited 1995. 1st ed. Paper beginning to age tone else fine in dust jacket. The 7th Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler investigation. France 1942. Year after year the woman always took the same trip always on the same date and always did the same things. First the mushrooms then the climb to the cave followed by a shower under the waterfall at the head of an isolated valley. Now flies cover her mutilated body. Who did she come to meet and what was used to kill her. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Constable & Company Limited Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012288 ISBN : 009474940X 9780094749405
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Green, Anna Katharine
HAND AND RING
N.Y.: Putnam 1883 1883. 1st edition. corners bumped wear along edges and at spine covers lightly rubbed else bright tight copy in homemade acetate dust jacket. Includes 3 pgs of ads. Five illustrations icluding a fold-out diagram. The 3rd Ebenezer Gryc. 608 pages. Set in Upstate New York we follow a team of detectives and attorneys as they try to solve a murder. In the period preceding the advent of advanced forensics the process is totally dependent on the skills and logic of the men tasked with bringing justice. Known as the "Mother of the Detective Novel" Green shaped the structure of the modern detective novel and gave it a distinctive American style. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Book. Putnam 1883
Bookseller reference : 001604
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Jeffers, H. Paul
The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions
New York NY U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers 1978. 1st ed. top edge og board worn else very good in dj with a sticker pull at front and light wear. Being the heretofore unpublished letters and papers concerning a singular collaboration between Theodore Roosevelt and Sherlock Holmes. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book. HarperCollins Publishers Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012375 ISBN : 006012248X 9780060122485
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Quentin, Patrick
PUZZLE FOR WANTONS: A Peter Duluth Mystery
NYNY.: Simon and Schuster: An Inner Sanctum Mystery 1945. First edition. Black boards with gold lettering at spine. Near fine copy in lightly chipped dust jacket small piece out at spine head not price-clipped $2.00 price intact in protective mylar cover. Pages browning due to poor quality of paper. A PETER DULUTH title set in Reno. Produced in wartime conditions making for its smaller dimensions. "On extended shore leave from the war in the Pacific navy lieutenant Peter Duluth and his movie star wife Iris have escaped from the prying eyes of the press landing at the Nevada desert mansion of their friend Lorraine Playgel. Unfortunately they arent alone. Staying with Lorraine are three old school friends who are all waiting to get a Reno divorce from their respective husbands for very different reasons. But the brassy Lorraine cant help but stir up some drama by inviting all three soon-to-be exes out to the oasis. Naturally things are a bit uncomfortable at first. Then the tension snaps with lethal results. One of the hopeful divorcées turns up dead followed quickly by another. Knowing there must be a lot more than just alimony at stake Peter and Iris start hunting for a killer whos taking "till death do we part " quite literally . . .Patrick Quentin best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie." -- Publisher. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book. Simon and Schuster: An Inner Sanctum Mystery Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000393
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Symons, Julian
THE DETLING SECRET
NYNY.: Viking 1983. 1st U.S. edition. Corners bumped slight spine slant o/w VG in dust jacket not price clipped lightly rubbed. Victorian setting. 1001 Midnights. Rising Liberal M.P. Bernard Ross marries Dolly Detling against her crusty Tory father's objections and two sudden deaths and a startling Christmas tragedy shock many a Victorian sensibility. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Book. Viking Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000361 ISBN : 0670270636 9780670270637
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Doherty, PC. as Michael Clynes P. C.
THE POISONED CHALICE: Being the Second Journal of Sir Roger Shallot concerning certain Wicked Conspiracies and Horrible Murders perpetrated in the Reign of King Henry VIII
London United Kingdom: Headline 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj. When a British deplomat is murdered a crime that may be tied to an unidentified high-ranking French spy Sir Roger Shallot and his scholarly master Benjamin are summmoned to Paris at the request of King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey to investigate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003124 ISBN : 0747205140 9780747205142
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Green, Anna Katherine
THE WOMAN IN THE ALCOVE
Indianapolis IN: USA: Bobbs Merrill 1906. 1st edition April 1906. Cream colored cloth lightly soiled with one small stain slight spine slant else near fine tight copy with gold lettering still bright and. cover design still in color. Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Frontispiece with tissue cover and 3 black and white plates and full page of the plan of the house. The second of three mysteries by Green featuring detective Caleb Sweetwater. Against all odds Rita Van Ardsdale has landed the man of her dreams and is blissfully in love. But her shot at happily ever after seems to be fading when her fiance is accused of murder. It falls to Rita with help from detective Caleb Sweetwater to crack the case and clear her beloved's name. Is she up to the task Known as the "Mother of the Detective Novel" Green shaped the structure of the modern detective novel and gave it a distinctive American style. . 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Keller Arthur. Book. Bobbs Merrill Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004673
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Gregory, Susanna
A BONE OF CONTENTION SIGNED COPY
London: UK: Little Brown and Company 1997. 1st edition just a trace of age-toning else a Fine unread copy in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. . The 3rd Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew teacher and public physician in 1352 England. SIGNED COPY. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Little, Brown and Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004650 ISBN : 0316882801 9780316882804
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Doherty, PC. as Harding, Paul P. C.
RED SLAYER:Being the Second of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan
Morrow 1992. 1st Am. Very slight spine slant else fine in dj. Being the 2nd of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan. 1st Am. Very slight spine slant else fine in dj. Being the 2nd of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan. It is June 1362 and along with his Falstaffian partner Coroner Sir John Cranston Athelstan returns in a new mystery that pits them against a secret killer lurking in the Tower of London. Inside the Tower the dreaded Constable Sir Ralph Whitton is dead -- his throat slit in his own locked room under the noses of his own guards. First US. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Morrow Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005210 ISBN : 0688125697 9780688125691
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Marston, Edward (pseudonym of Keith Miles)
THE MERRY DEVILS
London: UK: Bantam Press 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Page edges show light age toning. 2nd Nicholas Bracewell and the Elizabethan theatre. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book. Bantam Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002471 ISBN : 0593017749 9780593017746
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Perry, Anne
A SUDDEN FEAREFUL DEATH
N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine 1993. First edition October 1993 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket one tiny nick not price clipped in protective mylar cover. A William Monk title. "William Monk tough unhappy ex-policeman hero of several of the author's Victorian-era novels The Face of a Stranger etc. is almost peripheral in this one. It concerns the murder of strong- willed Prudence Barrymore a gifted nurse of good family with heroic service in the Crimean War behind her. Working now in London's Royal Free Hospital mostly with prominent surgeon Sir Herbert Stanhope she is found strangled in a hospital laundry chute. Monk is hired by Lady Callandra Daviot on the hospital's board of governors to try to find the killer. He enlists the help of old friend Hester Latterly another dedicated nurse who takes a job in the hospital hoping to ferret out useful information. Her efforts are largely unproductive and matters seem hopeless until evidence comes to light that puts Sir Herbert on trial for the murder." -- Kirkus Review. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Fawcett Columbine Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011190 ISBN : 044990637x 9780449906378
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Day, Dianne
The Bohemian Murders : A Fremont Jones Mystery
New York NY U.S.A.: Doubleday 1997. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket Review copy. Third novel in the mystery series featuring Fremont Jones an independent woman with a typewriter service in turn of the century San Francisco. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012835 ISBN : 0385479239 9780385479233
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Wilson, Tim Writing as Hannah March
THE COMPLAINT OF THE DOVE
Headline London 1999 1st ed. Fine in dj. First book in the Robert Fairfax Georgian mystery series set in the vibrant age of 1760's London - Tom Jones and Moll Flanders. Set in London's Covent Garden we find a pupil of Robert Fairfax is accused of murdering a woman. It's up to him to prove his pupil innocent.otherwise he will die on the gallows. Hannah March is a pseudonym for crime writer Tim Wilson. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Headline London 1999 Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012226
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Grayson, Richard
DEATH OFF STAGE
London: Macmillan 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Page edges lightly age toned. Ins. Gautier title. Russia's Dashkova Ballet is in Paris and in trouble. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005434 ISBN : 0333558170 9780333558171
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Mitchelson, Austin, and Nicholas Utechin
HELLBIRDS
Ny: Belmont Tower Books 1976. 1st ed. Reading crease light wear at spine edge and along edges else near fine tight copy in pictorial wraps. Paperback Original no hardcover edition. Holmes must save England from the evil German spy Von Bork . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Belmont Tower Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 012613
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Parry, Owen
Honor's Kingdom
New York NY U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett Award for Best Literary Mystery. The 4th Major Abel Jones Civil War era mystery this time set in London and Glasgow. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Morrow/Avon Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013232 ISBN : 0060186348 9780060186340
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Doherty, PC. P. C.
THE ANUBIS SLAYINGS. SIGNED COPY
London: UK: Headline 2000. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Doherty at title page. Third in the series of Egyptian mysteries. Hatusu female ruler of Egypt holds on to her power by a thread. When a couple of murders threaten a tentative truce she has organized she must depend on the respected judge Amerotke to investigate and save the agreement. the sixth mystery featuring Hugh Corbett a spy for Edward I concerns a violent serial killer lurking in London slitting the throats of prostitutes. When Lady Somerville one of the Sisters of St. Martha is murdered in the same barbaric fashion followed by the suspicious death of Father Benedict Edward I again calls on his trusted clerk Hugh Corbett to track the killer. In 2000 Doherty won The HERODOTUS AWARD for Lifetime Achievment presented by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society for best historical writing . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011825
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Sherlockiana) PETRIE,Glen:
The Monstrous Regiment: A Mycroft Holmes Adventure
London United Kingdom: Bantam Press. London 1990. 1st ed. Light wear at edges page edges lightly soiled slight spine slant else near fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. The second Mycroft Holmes title. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bantam Press. London Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013645 ISBN : 0593017013 9780593017012
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Lovesey, Peter
KEYSTONE: A Murder Mystery at the Keystone Film Company
London United Kingdom: Macmillan 1983. 1st ed. Fine in unclipped dust jacket. A murder mystery at the Keystone Film Company 1915 with Mack Sennett 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Norman. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002014 ISBN : 0333350448 9780333350447
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Kruger, Mary
NO HONEYMOON FOR DEATH - A Gilded Age Mystery
NY: KENSINGTON 1995. 1st edition December 1995 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. . The second in the Gilded Age mysteries set in 1896 aboard the luxury liner S.S. New York for the honeymoon couple of Brooke Cassidy and Det. Sgt. Matt Devlin. But their honeymoon is interrupted by the disappearance of a prominent financier and J.P. Morgan insists that Matt investigates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. KENSINGTON Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010776 ISBN : 082175159x 9780821751596
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Meyers, Maan (pseud of Martin & Annette Meyers)
THE HIGH CONSTABLE
New York N.Y.: Doubleday 1994. 1st edition September 1994 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Two-page map of the City of New York 1808. The third historical mystery after The Kingsbridge Plot in the saga of New York's Tonneman family. A "New-York" city official and a cashbox vanish; bodies are found and suspects are trailed questioned and occasionally beaten before the story is gorily resolved almost by accident. Each chapter begins with a reproduction of an actual newspaper ad and one scene cameos DeWitt Clinton Washington Irving Lorenzo da Ponte Mozart's erstwhile librettist and Clement Moore. Aaron Burr appears briefly. Gangs roam the poorer streets of the city which we're repeatedly told ends at "Chambers-Street.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003977 ISBN : 0385469845 9780385469845
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Forbes, Stanton} Tobias Wells
THE SAD SUDDEN DEATH OF MY FAIR LADY
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Crime Club Doubleday 1971. near fine in dj. REVIEW COPY. 1933 Chicago World's Fair Century of Progress Exposition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy. Crime Club Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000474
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Linscott, Gillian
ABSENT FRIENDS Award Winner
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dj. A HERODOTUS HISTORICAL AWARD WINNER as well as an ELLIS PETERS DAGGER AWARD WINNER as Best Historical Mystery. A suffragette Nell Bray title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006742 ISBN : 0312207654 9780312207656
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De La Torre, Lillian
DR. SAM: JOHNSON DETECTOR: Narrated as from the Pen of James Boswell QUEEN'S QUORUM #100
N.Y.: Knopf 1946. 1st ed. spine slightly sunned else near fine copy in homemade acetate jacket. A Haycraft-Queen selection and Queen's Quorum #100. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book. Knopf Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011181
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Peters, Ellis
ONE CORPSE TOO MANY - A Brother Cadfael Mystery.
New York: Morrow 1980. 1st ed. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Cloth shows very minor spotting page edges very lightly soiled else about fine in dust jacket lightly foxed at inside flaps. The 2nd Cadfael and an increasingly difficult book to find. In the summer of 1138 war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions deceptions and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls Shrewsbury Castle falls leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors. With a heavy heart Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead only to make a grisly discovery: one extra victim that has been strangled not hanged. This ingenious way to dispose of a corpse tells Brother Cadfael that the killer is both clever and ruthless. But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine. He vows to find the truth behind disparate clues: a girl in boys clothing a missing treasure and a single broken flower . . . the tiny bit of evidence that Cadfael believes can expose a murderers black heart. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Morrow Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004537 ISBN : 0688036309 9780688036300
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Peters, Ellis
THE SUMMER OF THE DANES SIGNED COPY
London: Headline 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. SIGNED COPY signature only by the author on the half-title page. Page edges spotted and beginning to age tone one small rubbed spot at front else near fine in dj. Cover illustration by Clifford Harper. The 18th Brother Cadfael. In the summer of 1144 a strange calm has settled over England. The armies of King Stephen and the Empress Maud the two royal cousins contending for the throne have temporarily exhausted each other. On the whole Brother Cadfael considers peace a blessing. Still a little excitement never comes amiss to a former soldier and Cadfael is delighted to accompany a friend on a mission of diplomacy to his native Wales. But shortly after their arrival the two monks are caught up in another royal feud. The Welsh prince Owain Gwynedd has banished his brother Cadwaladr accusing him of the treacherous murder of an ally. The reckless Cadwaladr has retaliated by landing an army of Danish mercenaries poised to invade Wales. As the two armies teeter on the brink of bloody civil war Cadfael is captured by the Danes and must navigate the brotherly quarrel that threatens to plunge an entire kingdom into chaos. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by Harper Clifford. Book. Headline Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006041 ISBN : 0747203334 9780747203339
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Block, Lawrence with Harold King
CODE OF ARMS
New York NY U.S.A.: Marek 1981. 1st ed. Light edgewear else near fine in dust jacket. Two best-selling authors team up in this spy novel set in Britain during WWII. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Marek Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010373 ISBN : 0399900292 9780399900297
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