Spine slanted, some creasing, corners bumped. Ex-library with minimal stamps. Text is clean, bright, and unmarked. "Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fool's Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary. The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until. . . ... View More...
Ex-library with typical stamps and labels, pocket pasted to rear end paper. Spine cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Mylar cover has been removed except for the flaps which were glued to the pastedowns. Interior is clean and unmarked. A nice copy in large print. "Williams Adams is a killer who has never been convicted of murder. He has never confessed, even when convicted of rape and criminal assault. Nor has he admitted to the other attacks upon women. He feels no remorse, no pity for his victims. He despises them. Now, having served his sentence in full, he is free, with no super... View More...
0708932444 Spine somewhat slanted, ex-library but looks like it was never read. Pictorial cover, no jacket as issued. Also published as "Roots of Evil". A bright, attractive copy. "When the young town-planner was found dead after his car careered into a canal, the Coroner's verdict was that he had had a heart attack. But why won't the widow accept the verdict? And why, when she takes her worries to Chief Inspector Morrissey, is an attempt made to frighten her into silence? Morrissey's investigation uncovers a darker side of Malminster. Finally, when the mistress of a powerful... View More...
Ex-library with usual stamps, lightly used. Pictorial boards with no jacket, apparently as issued. Text is clean and unmarked. "Brock Potter of New York's top Brokerage firm of Price, Potter and Petacque, is facing a particularly tense and complex problem. Kevin Rand, an executive of Calthrop Industries, has been found guilty of passing Defence secrets to East Germans; and it was on Brock's strong recommendation that Rand, a family friend, had been appointed to the job. When Rand is murdered in prison, Brock is drawn into a highly dangerous investigation which nearly costs him his li... View More...
Corners bumped, small dampstain at base of spine inside jacket and to rear pastedown. Text not affected. A bright, attractive copy. Large print edition of the second book in the Yellow Rose trilogy. "Injured Texas Ranger Dakota Rawlings is eager to return to his dangerous profession, but his boss won't hear of it. Instead, he wants Dakota to escort his niece, Darvi, on a trip to visit a friend. Dakota is not pleased-but he and Darvi take an instant liking to one another and sparks begin to fly. However, events take an unexpected turn when Darvi is kidnapped in a case of mistaken ident... View More...
Pictorial boards with no jacket as issued. Ex-library from a retirement community and very gently used. Spot on p. 1, otherwise text is clean and bright. A quite attractive copy. "On the Cornish moor where Sister Joan lives with other Sisters of the Daughters of Compassion, a shadowy figure is stalking the night, slashing trees. When Father Malone's housekeeper is found dead, suicide is the verdict - but Sister Joan and her old friend, Detective Sergeant Mill, think otherwise. When Sister Joan is sent to the presbytery to work as temporary housekeeper, the stage is set for a race agai... View More...
Large print edition. Corners slightly bumped, spine slightly slanted. a little rubbing. A bright, attractive copy. "It's the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating, morality is declining. Things are happening that never happened before. One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12-year-old girl. But this kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontieri back to life . . . a NYC detective forced to retire after being wounded, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved. When an old friend turns to him fo... View More...
Large print edition. Very slight edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart with just a bit of edge wear. An attractive copy. Conclusion to the Kerry Kilcannon trilogy, which includes "No Safe Place" and "Protect and Defend." President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a letha burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobb... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, minor bumping, ex-library with usual marks. A Silhouette Special Edition set in Times Roman 16 1/2 on 17 1/2 pt. Glossy pictorial boards. A bright, attractive copy. "Beth Davis's fairy-tale days were over. Or so the single mother of two thought! Then her match-making friends sent her on a date with her very own Prince Charming. Millionaire bachelor Todd Graham was sexy, eligible - everything a woman could want in a man. But Beth was a thirty-something suburban mum. Not exactly Cinderella material. . . But somehow Todd saw the Sleeping Beauty within. Why els... View More...
Spine slightly slanted/creased, PO name inside. A Magnum Easy Eye Larger Type book.
"She didn't believe little Pat Newlands was insane, she did believe someone was trying to drive the child mad. . . but could she prove it in time."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
DJ has minor edgewear and a 1/2" tear on back edge. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "The newest in a long line of brilliant African-American female authors, Dori Sanders enters the literary scene with Clover, the story of a ten-year-old girl living on her family’s South Carolina farm. Written from the child’s perspective, this engaging novel offers the upbeat and precocious narrator’s wealth of innocence, and her moments of wisdom beyond her years. Clover centers upon the relationship between young Clover and her new stepmother, Sara Kate, the white woman who married Clover’s fat... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, some edgewear, ex-library w/ 2 stamps. DJ has minor edgewear. A bright, attractive copy. "11:05 PM Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in Virginia’s electric chair. In the morgue, Dr. Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell’s body Waddell’s death isn’t the only newsworthy event on this cold December night. Three hours after thirteen-year-old Eddie Heath goes out to a convenience store, he is found, grotesquely wounded, propped against a Dumpster. The two events seem unrelated until Scarpetta and Richmond police lieutenant Pete Marino remember that W... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, tiny chips at edges and spine, ex-library with usual marks. A Silhouette Special Edition, set in Times Roman 16 1/2 on 18 pt. Glossy pictorial boards. A bright, attractive copy. "Darrick McKeon was his family's Mr. Fix It, the one who solved all the problems. But now he had a major upset of his own. Twin baby girls had been abandoned at his hospital and all the staff had been given was the daddy's name" DK McKeon! Darrick is DK, all right, but so are his brothers. One of them must be the father. After all, he's the good brother - the one who always looks ... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, ex-library with usual staps. A Silhouette Special Edition. Set in Times Roman 16 1/2 on 18 pt. A bright, attractive copy. "Darrick McKeon was his family's Mr. Fix It, the one who solved all the problems. But now he had a major upset of his own. Twin baby girls had been abandoned at his hospital and all the staff had been given was the daddy's name" DK McKeon! Darrick is DK, all right, but so are his brothers. One of them must be the father. After all, he's the good brother - the one who always looks before he leaps. But then he remembers a certain mou... View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's sticker inside cover. Jacket has just a bit of edge wear. Bookspan Large Print edition. A bright, attractive copy. "It's been over 20 years since reporter Ellie Cavanaugh helped convict wealthy neighbor Rob Westerfield of her older sister Andrea's murder, and now she's having doubts. Was Rob really guilty of Andrea's death, or had Ellie made a terrible mistake? At the trial, Ellie had given critical testimony that helped put Westerfield away. But what if his claims of innocence were true? Determined to find the answers, Ellie returns to the sce... View More...
Spine slanted & creased, cover creased with corners bumped and minor edgewear. Ex-library with minimal stamps. Text is clean and unmarked. "Lew Deever, the greatest bank robber of them all, had eluded justice for twenty years. When young Inspector Beaton was sent to Lady's Holt to investigate a strange murder - there was a story of a grey hooded figure which had been seen in the house of a Mrs. Sylvia Temple - by some strange coincidence there seemed to be many of Deever's old acquaintances in the vicinity, all searching for the Tranter Steal - Deever's biggest haul - half a million in... View More...
This is a Harlequin "Easyread Print" book, with type significantly larger than standard. Spine slightly slanted, slight edge wear, one corner creased, binding fairly tight. An attractive copy. "It was love, pure and simple. That's what hit Maggi straight between the eyes when lawyer John Dailey stepped over her threshold. But her heart didn't pound of John - it pounded for the two small bundles of joy he was carrying. John actually aroused entirely different feelings in her. He was infuriating one minute, then charming and kind the next. Maggi resolved not to give the silver-... View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and rubbing, small edge tears at top of spine. A nice copy of the Doubleday Direct Large Print Edition. "In this superbly crafted collection of short stories-many of them new and never before published-the settings range from a spring race meeting at Cheltenham, England, where a middle-aged owner falls hopelessly in love with her jockey, to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where demon drink and wilting willpower take their toll. Dick Francis's fans have a wonderful treat in store: thirteen tightly knotted ... View More...
Spine slightly slanted/creased, PO name inside. A Magnum Easy Eye Larger Type book. Publication (not stated) probably mid-70s. A clean, attractive copy.
"She was dedicated to helping the helpless. . . but could she heal the break in her own heart?" Originally published as "Leona Gregory, R. N."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
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