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By: Pedneau, Dave
Price: $2.25
Publisher: NY: Ballantine Books, 1988:
Seller ID: 001100
Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0345346777. 311 pp., clean, no markings. Detective Whit Pynchon and girlfriend Anne, a reporter, take of the case of a young girl's murder and the comatose condition of her mother. View more info
By: Pronzini, Bill; Greenburgh, Martin H., And Waugh, Charles G., Eds.
Price: $4.80
Publisher: NY, William Morrow: 1983
Seller ID: 002010
357 pp. Near fine except for crayon doodles on front and rear endpapers, and a faint pencil doodle on front of red boards. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. No other markings, binding firm, pages fresh. A collection of 20 best short-story mysteries of all time, as determined by a poll of the Mystery Writers of America. Authors represented range from Poe and Hawthorne to Dashiell Hammett, Stanley Ellin, Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen. View more info
By: Queen, Ellery
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1948
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 009998
265 pp., spine edges bumped and two quarter-inch spots of rubbing, light soil to gray cloth cover. Margins of text toned. Binding firm, no markings. Cover has design of open book, and bust of man. The son of a millionaire seeks the detective's help to find out how he ended up beaten up in a Bowery flophouse. Size: 8vo -- 7.75 in High View more info
By: Queen, Ellery
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Cleveland, World Publishing Co.: 1947
Edition: First Thus (Tower edition reprint).
Seller ID: 010057
307 pp. Spine sunned, edges rubbed, corners bumped, text heavily browned. Some scuffing to rear cloth board. Anthology containing one short novel "The Land of God," plus 4 sports mysteries and 4 "adventure" mysteries. Size: 8vo -- 8.25 in View more info
Price: $11.00
Publisher: NY, World Publishing Co.: 1948
Edition: Early Printing.
Seller ID: 009973
288 pp. Light rubbing along front board's upper right area; heaving rubbing on rear board's upper left corner. Soil to grayish cloth. Corpse logo design on lower part of front board. Spine faded. Text clean, light toning. A collection of 14 stories, plus a 61-page annotated bibliography, "Queen's Quorum," his list of 101 most important detective stories. Contents include tales by G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Hammett, Carr, Queen, Vickers, Boucher, et al. Par... View more info
By: Queen, Ellery, Ed. (Sullivan, Eleanor and Prince, Karen A., Eds)
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, Davis Publications: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003299
288 pp. Light cover soil, light rubbing on spine, moderate toning, no markings. Anthology No. 51, Winter 1984 issue. 21 short detective stories including a novela by William Bankier, "Belliveau Pays". Other contributors include Clark Howard, Tim Heald, Antonia Fraser. View more info
Price: $11.00
Publisher: London, House of Stratus: 2001
Edition: Later Printing.
Seller ID: 010093
233 pp. Nearly new, spine uncreased. A Dr. Thorndyke mystery set in Linton Green, featuring artist Thomas Pedley. Photographic negative design on cover as in other Freeman mysteries published by Stratus. Size: 8vo -- 8 in Tall View more info
Price: $14.00
Publisher: North Yorkshire, UK, House of Stratus: 2001
Edition: First Thus.
Seller ID: 010143
262 pp. Close to new, no markings, spine uncreased. A mystery in which Dr. Thorndyke solves the death of gambler John Gilliam, caught up in a blackmail plot. Size: 8vo - 8in Tall View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Houston, Busted Flush Press: 2005
Edition: Limited Edition..
Inscription: By Author, Illustrator and Editor
Seller ID: 009027
244 pp., Quarter brown leatherette, marbled boards in matching slipcase. Slipcase is slightly bumped with a light diagonal indentation near rear bottom. Number 133 in a limited fine-press edition of 200. Originally published in 1980 by St Martin's Press. Detective novel about Doc Ford, a marine biologist who hangs out with scruffy characters at a marina in Florida. Laudatory introduction by Ace Atkins . Signed by author, artist and Atkins. Colored end papers. Size: 8vo -... View more info
By: Reinken, Patrick
Price: $4.40
Publisher: NY, Simon & Schuster: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005641
380 pp. Dark spot on rear endpaper and margin of a few rear pages. Otherwise clean text. Chip on lower end of dj. No internal markings or writing A thriller about an experimental AIDS vaccine that proves deadly and efforts to cover it up. View more info
Price: $3.50
Publisher: NY, Rinehart & Co.: 1957
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 0503003876
442 pp. Previous owner's name on endpaper, plus "good books all three stories" in pencil. No other markings. Light foxing on endpapers. Half-in tear in spine at bottom, rubbing and light creasing at top and foot of spine. An anthology of three stories, republished as Rinehart completed 50 years of writing. A 2-page foreword gives background of each story. View more info
By: Roscoe, Theodore
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1959
Seller ID: 001944
241 pp., Corners dented, spine rubbed, pages lightly toned. else fine, no markings. Subtitled: The Story of a Gaslight Crime. Roscoe says in his introduction the novel is based on an actual unsolved case of a former state senator accused of killing his mother. View more info
By: Shagan, Steve
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, William Morrow: 1979
Edition: 5th Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 002649
359 pp. Soil on cloth, rubbing, large chips missing on spine of d, front cover lightly bowed outward, foxing on fore edge. Inscribed on front endpaper in black ink "For Lucille, Best wishes, Steven Shagan, L.A. 1/80" A detective thriller about the search for a formula for converting coal to oil, with action that begins in Nazi Germany and continues to 1978 in Beverly Hills, where a former police chief is found murdered. View more info
By: Stephen Lewis
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Boston, Alyson Books: 1985
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition.
Seller ID: 010045
271 pp. Diagonal crease on front cover, otherwise close to new. Text clean, no marking. Binding uncreased. Gay detective Jake Lieberman gets an assignment to help a rodeo competitor find his missing younger lover. A paperback original. Size: 8vo -- 8.24 in. View more info
By: Stewart, Michael
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, HarperCollins: 1994
Seller ID: 001355
325 pp. Crisp. Slight tear on rear upper corner of dj, otherwise near new. No markings. A thriller about a clothing designer who uses the ID of a dead model for a romantic fling, setting up a compulsion to immerse herself more deeply into the alternate identity. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Stribling, T.S.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: NY, Dover Publications Inc.: 1976
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 010076
217 pp. Light thumbing and superficial vertical creasing on boards. Text clean. Binding sturdy. Spine uncreased. A collection of 15 of the best yarns about Dr. P., a psychologist/detective based at Ohio State. Some are set in Florida cities. Size: 8vo --8.5 In View more info
By: Stribling, T.S.
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, Dover Publications: 1978
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 010197
314 pp., plus Dover booklist at rear. Stiff glossy wraps, lightly read, slight spine slant. Text clean. Republication of the original 1929 edition. Collection of 5 detective stories set in the Caribbean islands where Prof. Poggioli is spending a sabbatical. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In Tall View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, Penguin Books: 1984
Edition: First Thus.
Seller ID: 009956
378 pp. Vertical crease front cover along the spine, light toning, else lightly used. Sticker remains on rear cover. No markings. Binding firm. A collection of 25 short crime stories. Writers represented include Ambrose Bierce, John Dickson Carr, Agathie Christie, Graham Greene, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, William Faulkner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Roald Dahl, many more. Size: 8vo -- 8 in. Tall View more info
By: Thor, Brad
Price: $7.00
Publisher: NY, Emily Bestler/Atria: 2015
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 010259
360 pp. Small initials pencil in corner of endpaper. No other markings Slight bowed textblock. A snippet of video captured and transmitted to Washington DC gives counterrorist Scott Harveth a challenging assignment. Size: 8vo -- 9.5 In View more info
By: Walsh, Haley
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Albion, New York, MLRPress: 2014
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 009686
217 pp. Virtually new, no markings or creases. A gay mystery in which an out English teacher goes off to Palm Springs with friends for a weekend and encounters a murder on the dance floor. The plot involves the Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians near Palm Springs and their attitudes toward two-spirit men. Size: 8mo -- 8 in Tall View more info
