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Elkins, Aaron J.
Skeleton Dance
N.Y.: William Morrow & Co 2000. 1ST Ed. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Series featuring Gideon Oliver this one is set in France at the Institute of Prehistory. A SPOTTED OWL AWARD Nominee. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014770 ISBN : 0688159281 9780688159283
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Case, John
The Eighth Day: A Thriller
NY: Ballantine Books 2002. HAMMETT NOMINEE. Danny Cray a painter and amateur sleuth tries to protect the reputation of a wealth Washington lawyer. 1ST Ed. F/F. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Ballantine Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014791 ISBN : 0345433092 9780345433091
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Roberts, John M.
SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion
New York NY U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press 2001. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket with closed tear at rear corner. Sixth in the highly regarder SPQR series. "The first line of Roberts's Saturnalia sixth SPQR mystery "I blame it all on Alexander the Great" sets the tone for this briskly paced lighthearted Roman historical. Decius Caecillus Mettellus the would-be playboy son of an illustrious family plays reluctant sleuth. "Would-be" because his considerable intelligence causes him to be drafted into the most serious affairs of state. When his worst enemy who could do him great harm wins a tribuneship Decius decides it's time to leave Rome. In addition the family patriarchs who are grooming him for public office want him to have more military service. So Decius and his slave Hermes journey deep into Gaul where Caius Julius Caesar is at war with the Helvetii. Caesar's legion faces an unknown number of the enemy but the trouble really begins when the legion's most hated centurion Titus Vinius gets murdered. Titus's death throws suspicion on eight men who will be executed unless the guilty party is found. Before leaving to recruit additional legions Caesar assigns the task of uncovering the killer to Decius who as usual proves a courageous and methodical sleuth. Roberts deftly recreates his ancient world constantly reminding the reader that it was a cruel and violent place where people thought and acted a lot differently from us. A double-edged solution perfectly caps a highly entertaining story." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. St. Martin's Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 013473 ISBN : 031227257x 9780312272579
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Furst, Alan
Kingdom of Shadows HAMMETT AWARD WINNER
New York: Random House Inc 2001. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Winner of the HAMMETT AWARD for Best Novel. Paris 1938. As Europe edges toward war Nicholas Morath arrives in Paris on the night express from Budapest. Morath urbane and handsome at forty-four a lieutenant of the Hungarian cavalry in the First World War spends his days as the owner of a small advertising agency and his nights in the bohemian circles of his Argentine mistress. Looming over this elegant existence however is the shadow of Adolf Hitler. Morath has been recruited by his uncle Count Janos Polanyi for a secret mission of the utmost importance. Polanyi is a diplomat at the Hungarian legation in Paris; desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany he lives in a shadow world and trades in conspiracy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Random House Inc Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014561 ISBN : 0375503374 9780375503375
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De La Torre Lillian ed
VILLAINY DETECTED: Being a Collection of the most sensational True Crimes & the most notorious Real Criminals that blotted the Name of Britain in the Years 1660 to 1800
NY: Appleton 1957. 1st ed. Fine copy in dust jacket 1 1/2" piece out at spine foot chips out along top edge. First Edition as indicated on last text page 1. Collection of stories of true crimes of the eighteenth century. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Book. Appleton Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014592
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Gill, Bartholomew
The Death of an Irish Lover: A Peter McGarr Mystery
N.Y.: Avon Books 2000. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket remainder slash at bottom-edge. Peter McGarr title. Ireland. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Remainder. Avon Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014677 ISBN : 0380977974 9780380977970
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Anthony, Evelyn
THE MALASPIGA EXIT
London: UK: Hutchinson & Co. 1974. First Edition. Near Fine Near Fine - yellowing to pages and small chip out of back cover. Amid the splendor of Florence the Tuscan countryside and the family villa and castle Katharine Malaspiga Dexter falls in love with her charming cousin Alessandro the Duke although she knows he's married -- and is the ocult mastermind of a insidious smuggling drug's operation. Katherines brother is dead. It was heroin that killed him but Katherine cant help but blame his death on the organized crime so rife in Italy. The drug trade may not make much money for the small-time pushers the petty crooks and the addicts. But for the men at the topmen like the Malaspigas who run their yachts and their big houses on the profits of other peoples miserydrugs are big money. The Bureau of Narcotics are determined to nail these men once and for all. Itll be a dangerous enterprise full of deceit. And they want Katherine to help them.Moving from New York and Beverly Hills to Rome and the burnished gold loveliness of Florence and the Tuscan hill towns here is a riveting novel of a beautiful young woman who sets out to pay a debt of love to a dead brother only to come face to face with her own heritage - a heritage of passion and death." -- jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Hutchinson & Co.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014665 ISBN : 0091211506 9780091211509
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Cumberland, Martin
THE MAN WHO COVERED MIRRORS: A Saturnin Dax Mystery
Garden City: NY: Crime Club Doubleday 1949. 1st edition. Red boards with black spine lettering. Light rubbing at bottom edges browning to page edges else near fine in dust jacket lightly chipped at spine creases and cuts at front cover. A Commissaire Dax title. Paris setting. A case of blackmail whose revelations could bring down the unstable French government turns into murder for Dax. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book. Crime Club Doubleday Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014463
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Gill, Bartholomew
McGarr on the Cliffs of Moher
New York: Scribner 1978. 2nd edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Very difficult title to find not ex-lb and in good condition. Irish detective McGarr goes up against the IRA when the body of a girl is found near Shannon Airport a girl whose trail leads from Ireland to New York and back again to Ireland. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Scribner Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014505 ISBN : 0684155702 9780684155708
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Davis Lindsey
LAST ACT IN PALMYRA
London United Kingdom: Century 1994. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. The author's sixth book with Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco. Rome AD 72. Marcus one-time Imperial agent has an insurmountable problem. the Emperor Vespasian has refused to elevate him to the middle rank and therefore he cannot marry his aristocratic love Helena Justina. But when Anacrites Vespasian's chief spy asks Falco to undertake a mission to the East he decides that the best solution to problems at home is to take them abroad. While in Syria with Helena searching for a possible kidnapping victim Falco discovers the body of a playwright who had been with an acting troupe from Rome. In order to discover the killer Falco an amateur poet is hireds as the new writer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Century Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014510 ISBN : 0712659366 9780712659369
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Davis Lindsey
THREE HANDS IN THE FOUNTAIN: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery
New York New York U.S.A.: Mysterious Press 1999. First edition April 1999 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Jacket illustration by John Martinez. The ninth title in the Marcis Didius Falco series. In vino veritas. But in the water supply of Rome horroras Marcus Didius Falco is about to find out. Sharing an ewer of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius Longus Falco is on the spot when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a human hand. Small and evidently female the hand suggests its owner met a terrifying fate. Naturally Falco and Petro formerly of the Vigiles want to seize on it as their first big case. The officials of Rome however prefer to hush up the incident since a population that riots at the drop of a toga might run wild if body parts are polluting their drinking water. Soon other delicate dismembered hands are being found in Rome's two hundred miles of aqueduct. Now aided inspired and given critical clues by his wife Helena Falco & Partner are ready to buck the status quo and even butt heads with Falco's old boss Chief Spy Anacrites to crack the case. But O Hades! The duo suspects a serial killer is at large linked topublic festivals and likely to strike again at the upcoming Roman Games. Even a detective as astute as Falco may not spot a twisted mind in a crowd of 250000. And if Falco loses this race with time another pretty victim will make a deadly splash. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Martinez John. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014532 ISBN : 0892966912 9780892966912
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James, PD. and TA. Critchley P. D. T. A.
THE MAUL AND THE PEAR TREE: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
N.Y.: Mysterious Press 1986. 1st American edition March 1986 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped in an acid-free archival acetate cover. The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811 that shocked Regency London. "In 1811 London's East End was the scene of a series of murders so brutal and irrational that they caused panic throughout the city which lacked a central police force. This engrossing account marking the American nonfiction debut of British mystery novelist James details the seven vicious "brains battered out and throats butchered" apparently motiveless slayings which occurred first in a linen shop then days later in a nearby pub; the confused efforts of local "police" groups; and the cases' suspiciously abrupt closing after suspect John Williams a seaman and lodger at the Pear Tree public house committed suicide in jail thereby sealing his "guilt" and prompting a bizarre parade of his corpse together with a murderous maul throughout the city. James and police historian Critchley use documents and contemporary news accounts splendidly pointing up the incompetence of the investigators and offering an intriguing view of what really happened." -- Publishers Weekly1st A. The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811 that shocked Regency London. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006024 ISBN : 089296152x 9780892961528
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Gill, Bartholomew
The Death of an Irish Sea Wolf: A Peter McGarr Mystery
N.Y.: William Morrow & Co 1996. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket previous owner's bookplate at front end paper. Fifty years ago Clement Ford first appeared on Clare island a remote community off the west coast of Ireland. Now well into his old age he still retains the physical stature that earned him the nickname "Sea Wolf." Ford has always lived a simple life but rumors abound that he is fabulously wealthy and the anonymous source of the "Clare Island Trust" the philanthropic fund that has done so much to improve the lot of the islanders. One night a schooner pulls into harbor carrying a figure from Clement Ford's past and the tranquil life of the island is shattered. By morning three people are dead Clement Ford is missing and Chief Superindentent Peter McGarr is on the case. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014377 ISBN : 0688141838 9780688141837
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DeAndrea William L.
THE MANX MURDERS: A Professor Niccolo Benedetti Mystery
New York New York U.S.A.: Otto Penzler Books 1994. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Third title in the Professor Niccolo Bendetti series. Serial killer specialist Professor Niccolo Benedetti reluctantly takes on the job of resolving a feud between elderly twin millionaires bird-loving Clyde and cat-loving Henry and soon he and his assistants are up to their ears in a complex web of evil. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Otto Penzler Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014432 ISBN : 1883402662 9781883402662
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Black Ingrid
The Dead
New York New York U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press 2004. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best first PI Novel. The authors first novel. Five years ago serial killer Ed Fagan disappeared but now a Dublin newspaper has received a letter claiming to be from Fagan with a chilling message: he's going to kill again. When the body of prostitute Mary Lynch is found it is only too clear that a murderer is at large again but is it Fagan Former FBI agent Saxon was writing a book about Fagan and she's certain that the killer must be someone else. So while Detective Shief Superintendent Grace Fitzgerald and the rest of DMP sniff at a cold trail she somehow has to convince them to look beyond the obvious. But in a city of shadows and secrets thats never going to be easy - especially when the truth is so unexpected that even the most astute detective could be shocked into carelessness in the moment of discovery. And it's never wise to be careless in the presence of a killer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014186 ISBN : 0312326327 9780312326326
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Davis, Lindsey
SILVER PIGS: The First M. Didius Falco Mystery
NY: Crown 1989. 1st ed very light spotting at foreedge else fine copy in dust jacket. Rome AD70. The 1st Falco title. "The intriguing premise of a detective story set in Imperial Rome in 70 A.D. is unpredictably fulfilled by Davis's hero-gumshoe M. Didius Falco an iconoclastic young republican. Falco rescues the niece of a senator from a kidnapping attempt is attracted by both her innocence and the secret she keeps regarding a silver ingot the "pig" of the title and then stricken when her corpse is found in a spice warehouse. Hired by her family to track down the reasons behind her death Falco spends the winter in Britain working as a slave in a silver mine. Enduring vividly depicted hardship with customary sharp-witted pluck he picks up the hints of a plan to overthrow Vespasian the current emperor. He also meets the senator's divorced sharp-tongued daughter Helena Justina and brings her back to Rome where they work with--and against--each other to bring the well-developed plot to its satisfying conclusion. Wisecracking in ancient idiom Falco seems nevertheless a recognizably up-to-date young man one whose honor humor and humanity work him quickly into reader's affection. Davis's story though couched in period detail rewards as much for deft handling of plot and depth of characterization as for its historicity." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Crown Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005104 ISBN : 0517573636 9780517573631
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Todd, Marilyn
I CLAUDIA
London: Macmillan 1996. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. In protective mylar dust jacket cover. Fine in dust jacket. Set in 13 B.C. Rome. Author's first novel and first in the ancient Roman mystery series featuring Claudia Seferius. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Macmillan Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 013816 ISBN : 0333650220 9780333650226
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Langton, Jane
The Thief of Venice : A Homer Kelly Mystery Homer Kelly Mystery Ser.
New York NY U.S.A.: Viking Penguin 1999. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Langton is a WINNER OF THE GRAND MASTER AWARD from the Mystery Writers of America. Interior Illustrations by Langton. Homer Kelly is in Venice for a rare book conference. "The Homer Kelly series is usually set in Massachusetts Homer and wife Mary teach at Harvard but occasionally Langton takes the amiable pair--ever-enthusiastic Homer and more subued but equally perceptive Mary--on the road. This fourteenth entry finds them returning to Italy scene of The Dante Game 1991. The venue here is Venice rather than Florence but the travelogue tone is equally infectious as Homer settles in to study Renaissance manuscripts and Mary sets out guidebook in hand to see the city. She does exactly that tourists would do well to follow her footsteps but along the way she becomes involved with a handsome doctor who turns out to be a particularly vile murderer. The tangled plot jumps between the personal and spiritual problems of the Kellys' host a librarian and the discovery of art treasures hidden by Venetian Jews during World War II. As the water rises during Venice's dreaded acqua alta season Mary and Homer slosh their way across the city tracking a killer and facing a marital crisis. An ideal diversion for those who like to combine travel research with a little murder." -- BOOKLIST. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Crawfors Robert cover. Book. Viking Penguin
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 013871 ISBN : 0670882100 9780670882106
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Eyre, Elizabeth
POISON FOR THE PRINCE: An Italian Renaissance Mystery
N.Y.: Harcourt Brace & Company 1994. 1st edition so stated with complete letter line beginning with A. Fine unread copy in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Maroon binding with red lettering on yellow spine. Author is pen name for Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey who also write Inspector Bone novels under the pseudonym Susannah Stacey. This is the third historical mystery set in Renaissance Italy featuring Sigismondo a courtier mercenary and sleuth. Prince Scipione of Viverra is in danger: his vassal Carlotti has claimed the city of Mascia for his own and the Pope is ready to give the Papal state to another if the Prince proves weak. Not only does the Prince need a victory but he also needs to discover the Philosopher's Stone to make gold for his empty treasury. When Sigismondo arrives from Mascia he brings news of triumph-the Prince's condottiere Ridolfo Ridolfi has taken the city-but finds the Prince still in peril. Is it from those closest to him Is his wife Isotta concealing an affair that threatens the Prince and his state Does the hostage Donato Landucci want vengeance for his father's defeat Has Ridolfi turned fickle What about the mysterious alchemist Doctor Vergilio or the celebrated holy friar Brother Ambrogio who is using the people's fear of encroaching plague to preach sedition. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/As New. Book. Harcourt, Brace & Company Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 013882 ISBN : 0151725403 9780151725403
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Anderson John RL. R. L.
DEATH IN THE THAMES
London: UK: Victor Gollancz LTD 1974. 1st ed. page edges show some light discoloring slight spine slant else near fine in fine bright dust jacket. Vital information is being leaked from top British companies and with the Cold War intensifying the Home Office suspects it is travelling east. The leak is traced to the Oxfordshire headquarters of a large scientific engineering group. Thanks to his new-found reputation as an amateur sleuth Peter Blair is called to investigate. Peter travels undercover as a river-bound holidaymaker. But this is no pleasure cruise - before long Peter finds himself face-to-face with murder. This is the second mystery featuring Peter Blair and following on from Death on the Rocks . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Victor Gollancz, LTD Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003112 ISBN : 0575018674 9780575018679
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Davis, Lindsey
SHADOWS IN BRONZE
London United Kingdom: Sidgwick & Jackson 1990. First edition so stated. very minor soiling at page edges else a fine copy in dust jacket.348 pages last seven pages blank dramatis personae full-page map of Imperial Rome map of Italy and in set map on same page. Italy AD 70. The 2nd Falco title. It's AD 70 and just another ordinary day for Falco--disposing of the odd corpse.kicking over the traces of a failed plot agianst the Emperor making a bit on the side in stolen ingots and having a painful re-encounter with his lost lady-love the beautiful and imperious Helena Justina. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Sidgwick & Jackson Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005100 ISBN : 028306028x 9780283060281
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Hardwick, Michael
PRISONER OF THE DEVIL: Sherlock Holmes & the Dreyfus Case
NY: Proteus 1980. 1st edition August 1980. light edgewear page edges lightly spotted else near fine in rubbed dust jacket light wear at head and foot not price clipped $9.95 in protective mylar cover. 1895 France. "The case is one of the most notorious in European history -that of the French Jew Alfred Dreyfus.In 1895 Dreyfus a mild and somewhat unprepossessing man was carving out a modestly successful career in the French military and was employed on the General Staff when he was accused of trying to sell military secrets to the Germans .He was tried "in camera" and found guilty on the flimsiest of evidence being sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devil's Island near the coast of South Americathe widespread view of his supporters and other interested parties being that his social isolation and religionhe was Jewishmade him an ideal scapegoat for the misdeeds of other better placed people . Holmes is approached by Dreyfus' brother Matthieu but he refuses to become involved until he is asked to do so by none other than Queen Victoria who is worried that the case may be exploited by those anxious to drive a wedge between Britain and Germany.Under cover as a journalist he travels to the area sneaks onto the Island and meets Dreyfus and is persuaded of his innocence .Holmes uncovers the truth -that Dreyfus is indeed a victim of wider European power struggles .His brother Mycroft warns Holmes off the case claiming his involvement threatens the stability of Europe and throws a number of obstacles in the path of a wholly satisfactory resolution to the case". First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Proteus Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012464 ISBN : 0906071119 9780906071113
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Ripley, Mike
ANGELS IN ARMS AWARD WINNER
London: UK: Harper Collins Crime Club 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Winner of the British Crime Writers' Association Last Laugh Award. The 4th title in the humorous Angel series. "A cabbie and part-time musician Angel responds to a cry for help phoned in by his best friend roadie Francis Werewolf Dromey who has fallen afoul of a Breton "liberation group" by smashing up and losing possession of a truck in which they had hidden a shipment of drugs without the Werewolf's knowledge. Warned that the group will kill his friend if he doesn't find and return the drugs Angel sets off aided by his exotic former girlfriend Lucinda Lu Lu Luger who at 64 towers over the members of the heavy-metal band she manages and by Werewolf's brother Gearoid a beekeeping monk. They find the drugs which turn out to be Ecstasy tablets but discover that the original Dutch dealer is also after the shipment. In another twist the kidnappers tell Angel he will have to smuggle the drugs back to Britanny before they release Werewolf. Gearoid comes up with an ingenious hiding place that enables the team to transport the tablets across the Channel but working out the trade proves far more dangerous as neither the French nor the Dutch players plan to take any prisoners. A battle of wits and bullets provides a very lively resolution." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Harper Collins Crime Club
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006616 ISBN : 0002323524 9780002323529
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Dewhurst Eileen
THE SLEEPER
N.Y.: Crime Club Doubleday 1988. 1st edition November 1988 so stated. Very light wear at edges else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light tape shadows on inside flaps. London. "Neatly plotted and pieced this combination mystery/thriller features a lovely Russian emigree married to a British civil servant and living in London with him and their two small children. After 10 years Olga Trent's quiet life is disrupted with the call she has been dreadingthe KGB has assigned her an assassination forcing her cooperation by threatening her childrens' lives. Desperate for a way to refuse she decides to confide in a friend of her husband's; discovering him dead from a gunshot wound she declares herself responsible taking the opportunity to put herself safely behind bars. The narrative switches its focus to the police and their unofficial investigation into the crime. The questions of who was meant to be Olga's victim who murdered her friend and why and who ordered the police investigation build to a suspenseful crescendo. ." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Crime Club Doubleday Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006357 ISBN : 0385246188 9780385246187
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Grayson, Richard
CRIME WITHOUT PASSION
St. Martin 1983. 1st Am. Near fine in lightly used dj. The 5th Ins. Gautier. Paris in the early 1900's. First US. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. St. Martin Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003876 ISBN : 0312172052 9780312172053
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Davis, Lindsey
A DYING LIGHT IN CORDUBA LETTERED EDITION / SIGNED COPY
Blakeney: Glos. UK: Scorpion Press 1996. 1st ed. Fine . ONE OF 15 LETTERED this being letter "K" COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH DAVIS and PETER LOVESEY who wrote appreciation. Fine in navy blue goatskin with blue black and green marbled paper sides blue top edge and green end papers in transparent dust wrapper. The 8th book in Falco series of Ancient Rome. Laid in is a note on Scorpion Press letterhead describing the De Luxe Specifications : "The de luxe presentation copies are produced in small numbers as they are intended primarily for the use of the author contributor editor publisher and others associated with the authors work. These books are given a letter rather than a number and are especially handsome bound in goatskin rather than bonded leather with five raised bands. The spine blocking is horizontal because of the raised bands. In addition these books contain the signature of the contributor. Prices vary slightly due to the costs involved the difficulty of obtaining the signatures and overall desirability of the volumes.". Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Quarter-Goatskin. Fine/No Jacket. Limited / Lettered Edition. Scorpion Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012703 ISBN : 0712659412 9780712659413
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Davis, Lindsey
VENUS IN COPPER: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery. SIGNED COPY
London: Hutchinson 1991. First edition so stated. A fine copy in dust jacket not price clipped £12.99 in protective mylar cover. Pages showing signs of age toning as usual. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Davis at title page. Italy AD 70. The 3rd Falco title. "Rome AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is deperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison - though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity.Things go from bad to worse though when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead whose husbands have a habit of dying accidently leaving him up against a female contortionist her extra-friendly snake indigestible cakes and rent racketeers. And all the while trying to lure Helena Justina to live with him a dangerous proposition given the notorius instability of Roman real estate. In a case of murder as complicated as he ever faced this Lindsey Davis' classic tale Venus in Copper shows Falco at his very finest." -- publisher. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Hutchinson Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005101 ISBN : 0091748186 9780091748180
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Moyes, Patricia
DEATH ON THE AGENDA
London: UK: Collins Crime Club 1962. First edition. Light wear with a touch of soiling at rear cover top of page edges darkened else very good in dj wear at head and foot a few closed tears else very good. Her 3rd book. Chief Inspector Tibbet in Geneva. Amazingly enough Henry Tibbett is at work. Crime tends to catch him when hes on vacation but this time around Henrys at a coppers conference an international effort intended to stop drug-smuggling. The conference is in Switzerland for a Scotland Yard detective Henry does manage to get around. and the always sensible Emmy has come along for the parties and the chocolate. Its a glittering whirl of attractive folks in their best early-1960s attire until one of Henrys colleagues winds up dead and Henry of all people becomes Suspect No. 1. A minor but real pleasure here The reappearance of some characters from Dead Men Dont Ski widening both the Tibbetts social circle and the circle of suspects. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book. Collins Crime Club Hardcover
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Peterzen, Elisabet
THE LAST DRAW
Seattle WA U.S.A.: Seal Press Seattle: WA 1988 1988. 1st US ed. Originally published in Sweden in 1983 Oversize trade paperback reading crease else about fine. Part of the International Women's Crime series and the 1st of her books published in the US. Stockholm area. A Provocative mystery that tackles misogyny in a totally new and surprising way. In this contemporary mystery set in Sweden the details of the random murders of seven men are told through the chatty off-hand narrative of husband and wife freelance journalists who follow developments with the hope of obtaining exclusive material for a book. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book. Seal Press Seattle: WA 1988 Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004935 ISBN : 0931188679 9780931188671
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Ekman, Kerstin; Tate, Joan (translator)
UNDER THE SNOWUnder the Snow
New York NY U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing 1998. 1st US edition January 1998 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The murder of a well-known citizen in a remote Lapland village leads Constable Torsson into a web of small-town secrets hidden by the winter darkness and snow. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Doubleday Publishing Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 013230 ISBN : 0385488661 9780385488662
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O'Reilly, Victor
GAMES OF THE HANGMAN
London: Headline 1991. 2nd ed. with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st novel. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011772 ISBN : 0747205353 9780747205357
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Sklepowich, Edward
FAREWELL TO THE CITY
NY: Morrow 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 2nd in the series to feature American expatriate writer Urbino Macintyre set in Venice during Carnivale. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Morrow Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012130
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Simpson, Howard R.
THE THREE DAY ALLIANCE REVIEW COPY
Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1971. 1st edition so stated. Fine in dust jacket un-clipped $4.95 price still intact in protective mylar cover. Review Copy with slip laid in. Marseille setting. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Crime Club Doubleday Hardcover
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Dibdin, Michael
COSI FAN TUTTI
N.Y.: Pantheon 1996. 1st ed. near fine in dust jacket. Zen is in Naples. "Assigned to Naples policeman Aurelio Zen takes time to assist a local wealthy widow: he refuses to let her daughters marry their supposedly Mafia-connected fiances. Soon involved in a case of murder and mistaken for Mafia himself Zen plays out Dibdin's version of a darkly comic opera." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Pantheon Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 010202 ISBN : 0679442723 9780679442721
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Janes, J. Robert
MANNEQUIN
NY: Soho 1998. 1st US ed. paperback fine. A Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Surete & Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo title. Paris 1942. Vivid studies of everyday life in an occupied land with his recurring theme-- that ordinary crimes continue even in the face of the greatest of national crimes. First US. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Soho Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006784
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Brady, John
THE GOOD LIFE AWARD FINALIST
NYNY.: Saint Martin's Press 1995. 1st edition July 1995 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Ins. Matt Minogue Dublin. An ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD Nominee. "A young woman wants her share of the good life - but at what cost The fifth Inspector Minogue novel begins on Dublins Grand Canal. Long a favoured place for young lovers to take a romantic stroll the canal banks have become a prime spot for drug deals and prostitution. Waters that harboured elegant swans now wash up syringes and dead bodies. This is where Mary Mullen is found her body battered and callously left to jam in a canal lock. She wanted the good life but after hooking up with the notorious Egan brothers things spun out of control. Minogues efforts to solve her murder plunge him into the depths of Dublins underworld a maze of drug trafficking pornography and prostitution. Every path seems to lead back to the Egans. The Murder Squad beginS receiving frantic phone calls from a friend of Mary a petty thief and drug user: he knows something but hes terrified of both the Gardaí and the Egans. The case is soon complicated by Minogues new partner Malone a dyed-in-the-wool Dubliner whose twin brother Terry is an addict. Terry about to be released from prison is heading straight into the Egans deadly web. 'An unwavering air of menace accompanies a brilliant depiction of the citys slatternly underside - all of it riveting to the last page. - Kirkus Reviews U.S. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004060 ISBN : 031213083x 9780312130831
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Bond Michael
Monsieur Pamplemousse
Beaufort 1985. First edition 2nd printing. The 1st in the fine Pamplemousse series. Very light sunning at spine else fine in dj. An engaging detective story by the author of the childrens book classic Paddington Bear. Mystery follows Pamplemousse the intrepid undercover food critic for France's most prestigious culinary guidebook & his canine companion Pommes Frite s on vacation. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner. Beaufort Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011154
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Fredman, John
THE FOURTH AGENCY
Indianapolis / NY: Bobbs Merrill 1969. First American edition. Author's 1st book. fine in lightly rubbed dj. 1st Charles Dexter title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Bobbs Merrill Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006402
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Hebden, Mark
PEL AND THE PREDATORS
NY: Walker 1985. 1st ed. Page edges lightly age darkened else near fine in dust jacket lifghtly discolores at spine. REVIEW COPY. More astounding than the crimes he solves is that Pel has taken the plunge and proposed to his long-patient lady love. He still must deal with an unidentified murdered woman a long-dead corpse found in a cave and a promotion that doubles the number of quirky detectives he has to cope with. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy. Walker Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000386 ISBN : 0802756247 9780802756244
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012354 ISBN : 0892966645 9780892966646
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Watson, Clarissa
LAST PLANE FROM NICE: A Persis Williams Mystery
N.Y.: Atheneum 1988. 1sgt ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. This time Persis finds herself installed in a luxurious villa in the sun-drenched hills above Nice with a commission to paint the town's handsome and eligible mayor who has suddenly disappeared. Surrounded by rich idle pleasure-seeking neighbors she joins the festivities and awaits his return. But then members of the group begin to die in mysterious circumstances. Persis's suspicions are aroused and her love of intrigue is awakened as are her instincts for self-preservation. Last Plane From Nice is frothy and fashionable entertainment full of eccentric characters sparking dialogue and sprightly adventure. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Atheneum Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 010553 ISBN : 068911835x 9780689118357
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 010133 ISBN : 0679428879 9780679428879
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012288 ISBN : 009474940X 9780094749405
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Davis Dorothy S.
THE HABIT OF FEAR: A Julie Hays mystery.
N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons 1987. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. On the same night that Julie Hayes's husband tells her he wants a divorce she is brutally raped by two men. In the process of healing and assisting in the investigation Julie finds herself an outcast. She decides to search for her Irish father who disappeared before Julie's birth. Her quest brings her to Ireland and face to face with its underground terrorists and a stepmother she comes to love. But her past is not far behind. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Charles Scribner's Sons
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 001984 ISBN : 0684188872 9780684188874
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Rippon, Marion
THE NINTH TENTACLE
Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1974. First edition so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket lightly soiled at rear panel not price clipped $4.95 price intact in protective mylar cover. "The third of this author's stories set in a small French village -- a little more raisonnable than the earlier ones even if that can't be said of Fiona the childless child-wife of autocratic Viktor Rolland who despairs of her ever running the household properly while she plays with dolls. When he is suddenly shot in the head she marries again -- Rene who is ambitious and extravagant and canny -- but not canny enough to realize what Fiona is doing. . . to him." -- Kirkus Review. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book. Crime Club Doubleday
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 001497 ISBN : 0385079958 9780385079952
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005434 ISBN : 0333558170 9780333558171
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Parsons, Julie
MARY MARY
Simon & Schuster 1999. 1st ed. Uncorrected proof fine in wraps. A psychological thriller about a brilliant and professional woman - a psychiatrist - who seeks revenge on the sadistic killer who tortured and murdered her daughter. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Uncorrected Proof. Simon & Schuster Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005513
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Hebden, Mark
PEL AND THE PROMISED LAND
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 1993. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket with a couple of closed tears along top edge else near fine. Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Desire Pel. Next to last Pel book. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012536 ISBN : 0312088728 9780312088729
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Elkins, Aaron
OLD SCORES SIGNED COPY / AWARD WINNER
Scribners 1993. 1st ed. very light soiling at page edges else fine in dust jacket. Chris Norgren. SIGNED COPY. France. A NERO WOLFE AWARD WINNER. Seattle Art Museum curator Chris Norgren falls prey to the lure of a newly discovered Rembrandt in this third in a spirited series after A Glancing Light . He also topples head-first out of a second-story window but the nasty fall is happily blunted by a conveniently located car. Acquiring art isn't usually perilous but anything is possible when the work is in the care of French dealer Rene Vachey notorious for passing off thefts as publicity stunts. Vachey has offered the Rembrandt--if it really is a Rembrandt--as a gift to Chris's museum with a veritable spider's web of strings attached. He will however permit only a cursory viewing and explicitly forbids scientific authentication. Chris adrift in France far from the arms of his girl feels pretty sure that the painting is the genuine article. But after Vachey is murdered his claim to have found the Rembrandt in a junk shop suddenly seems dubious; moreover his employees have excellent motives to dislike him several art experts have been burned by his outrageous exploits and he even has that old crime fiction favorite a deadbeat son recently dunned out of his dad's dough in a suspect will. Elkins wields all this with indecent ease keeping the laugh count high and imparting copious amounts of art lore along the way." -- Publishers Weekly. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Scribners Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000915 ISBN : 0684195518 9780684195513
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Haggard, William
POWER HOUSE: A Colonel Russell Story
N.Y.: Ives Washburn Inc 1967. 1st American edition. . light erasure at rep light wear at edges top of pages darkened else near fine in lightly rubbed and soiled dust jacket unclipped $3.95 price intact. Col. Russell. . 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Ives Washburn Inc Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 001405
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