Spine slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket shows a little edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy.
"November 1978. The winter of discontent. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, garbage piles in the streets - and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-filled gutter. Known as 'Mad Annie,' she was despised by her neighbors. Her passing would have gone unmourned and unnoticed but for the young woman who finds her and who believes - apparently against reason - that Annie was murdered."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
Spine somewhat slanted, wraps lightly creased & scuffed, minor edgewear & bumping. Ex-library with minimal stamps. Text is bright, clean and unmarked. "When cowboy artist Willie Russell is brutally slain, Sheriff Matthews hasn't much to go on - only the hoofprints of a spooked horse and Willie's sketches of the beautiful Santiago Crucifix, which had vanished a century before. Frustrated by the bluster of Willie's employer, rancher J.T. Brentwood, and incensed by the possessiveness of the arrogant ranch manager toward J.T.'s beautiful daughter, Angie, the sheriff turns to the story of t... View More...
Spine rolled, somewhat creased, a little edge wear and chipping, Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A good reading copy. "On Sunday the public paid half a crown to view Ornum House's three hundred rooms, its exceptional display of fine china, its authentic Holbein, its dank dungeon complete with suits of armor . . . and a dead body. With Burke's Peerage tucked under one arm and a dictionary under the other, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan tiptoes through the halls of the aristocracy. His impeccable powers of observation might reveal who murdered the family archivist, but the fa... View More...
0385475497 229 pp., dark brown boards with lighter brown cloth spine and copper gilt lettering. DJ protected in new Brodart. A bright, atractive copy. The series debut which introduces Fremont Jones. "Set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, whose foggy, gaslit streets still echo with the sounds of horsedrawn carriages as well as the clang of cable-car bells, The Strange Files of Fremont Jones introduces a plucky, independent heroine who might well be the natural ancestor of those modern private eyes Kinsey Millhone and Kat Colorado. When proper Bostonian and Wellesley graduate Fremo... View More...
Spine/covers somewhat creased, scuffed. Some shelf wear/darkening. A few pages towards the center are creased/stained. "When beautiful young Judith Maynard left The Birches, it was to marry a fabulously wealthy older man who swore to make her every dream come true. But when she returned to the old family mansion, her lovely face was hollow-cheeked, her eyes nervous with terror, her marriage mysteriously shattered, her dream turned into a nightmare. Yet she would reveal to no one what strange curse had blighted her life -- and now had turned this, her last refuge, into a deadly trap.; 12mo... View More...
Corners slightly bumped, several pages have small crease in upper right corner. DJ has slight edgewear. Bookstore price sticker on back jacket. Text is clean and bright--a nice copy. "Using a restricted FBI database, genetic researcher Jeannie Ferrami has located identical twins born to different mothers. Frightened by her bizarre discovery, she is determined to discover the truth at any cost-until she finds herself at the center of a scandal that could ruin her career. To fight the charges, Jeannie plunges into a maze of hidden evidence. With growing horror, she uncovers a cynical, ... View More...
Corners bumped, minor edge wear, esp. to spine "Using a restricted FBI database, genetic researcher Jeannie Ferrami has located identical twins born to different mothers. Frightened by her bizarre discovery, she is determined to discover the truth at any cost-until she finds herself at the center of a scandal that could ruin her career. To fight the charges, Jeannie plunges into a maze of hidden evidence. With growing horror, she uncovers a cynical, far-reaching conspiracy involving disturbing genetic experiments and some of the most powerful men in America-men who will kill to keep th... View More...
Ex-library but the only markings are inside the back cover. Spine rolled and creased, reading crease and edge wear, covers creased and scuffed. Overall, a solid reading copy. ; Bantam N5945. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. Peter (Per) Wahloo is half of the writing couple who wrote the Martin Beck police mysteries. ; Ex-Library; 6" - 7" Tall; 220 pages; "In a chill Northern country, the welfare state has crushed the population's spirit, eradicated its individuality. Rebellion is unknown. Suddenly, a tremor of unfamiliar terror is felt when a bomb is announced to explode in... View More...
Spine a bit creased, corners bumped, slightly shelf-cocked. "The Arapahos of the Wind River Reservation are stunned by the apparent suicide of a young Indian while he was on a vision quest. A stranger's chilling confession to Father O'Malley reveals that the man was actually murdered, and more deaths are sure to follow. In Denver, Vicky Holden receives a mysterious phone call about an urgent matter regarding the reservation. But a hit-and-run "accident" kills the caller before she has a chance to talk with him. Now, Vicky and Father O'Malley must uncover what it is about the re... View More...
Spine slightly creased and cocked. Some foxing, bookseller price written on front cover.
"The Honourable Richard Rollison -- the Toff to friend and foe alike -- could quite properly be said to be a popular man, in certain circles. However, those circles did not ordinarily include the underworld! There had to be some special reason for the Toff's current popularity, and there was: there seemed to be a contest as to who could murder him first!"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View More...
Corners worn, minor edge wear and rubbing, some creasing to covers and spine. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A solid reading copy. ; Special foreword by Christina Dodd. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 285 pages; "The future of a reckless, adventure-loving captain of the Dragoons appeared both humdrum and tedious in those days when Waterloo was still a recent, glorious victory and also an end to the joys of soldiering. So handsome John Staple left the army to escape boredom and was immediately plunged into more exciting hazards than he had believed could possibly exist. Not onl... View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket shows a little edge wear, rubbing.
"In 1859, the body of a young woman was found floating in the Oxford Canal; her death led to a sensational murder trial. In 1989, Inspector Morse is recovering from an ulcer in Oxford's Radcliffe Hospital. Idly leafing through books in the hospital library, Morse comes across an account of the investigation. He is soon convinced that the two men hanged for the canal murder were innocent-and from the confines of his bed, sets out to prove it."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
Corners slightly bumped, slight edge wear, a little speckling to edges. Jacket has slight edge wear. An attractive copy. "In 1859, the body of a young woman was found floating in the Oxford Canal; her death led to a sensational murder trial. In 1989, Inspector Morse is recovering from an ulcer in Oxford's Radcliffe Hospital. Idly leafing through books in the hospital library, Morse comes across an account of the investigation. He is soon convinced that the two men hanged for the canal murder were innocent-and from the confines of his bed, sets out to prove it."; 7¾" - 9¾" T... View More...
Spine a bit creased, slight spine slant, corners bumped. Minor edge wear/darkening.
"March, 1895. Menace stalks the renowned West End. A maniac more terrifying than Jack the Riper is on a rampage through London's glamorous theater district. What baffles Scotland Yard is elementary to the great detective-until Holmes finds himself in the clutches of the grisly murderer!"; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Light blue boards wtih silver lettering, 266 pp. Ex-library with a single stamp on front end paper and a pocket glued to back pastedown. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, black line across bottom edge near spine. Interior clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. Fourteenth in the Dame (Sister) Frevisse Medieval Mystery series. "Spring 1449. Lately widowed and still grieving, Cristiana Helyngton has been kidnapped, defamed, and imprisioned in a nunnery - as her late husband's duplicitous relatives seek to ... View More...
Spine a bit creased, slanted, corners creased, a little edge wear and rubbing. A good copy. "Racing to complete her doctoral research, Elizabeth MacPherson is completely booked for the summer - until her Scottish fiance calls from across the seas with a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to tea with Her Majesty the Queen. There's a hitch, of course - no friends or fiances allowed, only spouses. Royalty enthusiast that she is, Elizabeth solves the dilemma by planning a large formal wedding in five weeks. "In between Elizabeth's fittings and flowers, local widow Clarine Mason receives word ... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, minor edgewear and bumping, cover creased. Ex-library with a few stamps. Text is bright and clean. "Four hundred years ago the aldermen of Bridgetown, believing that Isobel Perkins was a witch, subjected her to a horrific death. While flames licked her body, Isobel screamed a curse to her executioners and all of their future issue. When best-selling author Joyce Regent, hounded by the tabloid press because of her sexual behavior, takes up residence in Witch's Cottage, it seems that the witch has returned - and with her, the curse. Descendants of the alderman are... View More...
Paperback original, 10th printing. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, binding fairly tight. An attractive copy. "Ex-nun Chris Bennett can't leave all of her charitable instincts behind, even if she has left the convent. But she'll need more than kindness when she begins helping three elderly people fight a harassing landlord on Manhattan's West Side. "When Chris can't get into Mr. Herskovitz's apartment to accompany him to Yom Kippur services, she discovers that her friend has been murdered. He was a lonely widower estranged from his children, and since Chris took ... View More...
Bottom front edge (board/jacket) is a bit chewed up. Otherwise in very good condition. "This is a story of a daring plot to steal one of England's greatest treasures. The Sarum Magna Carta is zealously guarded at Salisbury Cathedral. In this new Roger West novel a band of international art thieves -- English and American -- work out a brilliant and ruthless scheme for penetrating the security measures protecting the priceless document. They succeed in removing Magna Carta from the Cathedral Library; but in a high-tension climax Superintendent West rescues the treasure and solves one of th... View More...
Spine a bit creased and slanted with the bottom 1" missing, minor edge wear and rubbing, reading crease, crease across upper right corner, single hole punched in back cover. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A solid reading copy. "The first death looked accidental. The second was as obvious as a murder could be. And now her fiance had narrowly escaped two potentially fatal 'accidents.' A horrified thought crept into Patricia Allison's mind - would her Jim be the third victim? "Superintendent Hannasyde thought otherwise. For no one had a better motive for murder than Mr... View More...
