Spine slightly slanted, very minor edgewear/bumping. Text starting to yellow but clean and unmarked. "Sally Morland, wife of a high British official, has been kidnapped by terrorists. In exchange for her safe return, they demand the release of Tom Lacey, their hailed leader. Enter Bob Farran, an unemployed actor skilled at make-up and mimicry. His job: impersonate Lacey so convincingly that even the terrorists will be deceived. As Farren prepares for the greatest role of his life, however, unseen forces are already building toward a nerve-searing climax of shock and horror."; 6" - 7" Tal... View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A fairly tight, attractive copy. ; Second in the Amelia Peabody Mystery series. ; Amelia Peabody; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 285 pages; "The joys of home and hearth are about to drive Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson mad. While she and her husband, the renowned archeologist Radcliffe Emerson, dutifully go about raising their young son Ramses, she dreams only of the dust and detritus of ancient civilizations. Providentially, a damsel in distress - coupled with a promising archeological site ... View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. Owner's inscrip. On title page. A fairly tight, attractive copy. ; Mysterious Press second reissue edition, 2002. Second in the Amelia Peabody Mystery series. ; Amelia Peabody; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 285 pages; "The joys of home and hearth are about to drive Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson mad. While she and her husband, the renowned archeologist Radcliffe Emerson, dutifully go about raising their young son Ramses, she dreams only of the dust and detritus of ancient civilizations. Prov... View More...
Slight crease to spine, corners bumped, slight edge wear. An attractive copy.
"Cornwell embroils Kay Scarpetta in a grisly case involving a recently executed murderer whose fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene. . . "; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall View More...
Dell mapback 375, 240 pp, corners bumped, slight edge wear, light reading crease, crease across lower front corner. Some sunning and wear to spine, pages lightly tanned but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; Donald Hamilton's first novel, originally published by Rinehart in 1947. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 240 pages; " A young naval officer with too much curiosity and stubbornness for his own good follows a scared glamour girl to Maryland, and in a few excitement-packed hours learns more about violence and the imminence of death - not to mention love - than he had in his entire tou... View More...
Spine slanted and creased, very slight edgewear. Flat signed by the author on the title page. Some foxing on edges, but text is clean and unmarked. "After recovering from her last brush with murder, Charlie Plato, country-western club manager of Chaps, had decided it's time to take a break from teaching the Texas two-step and get lessons herself - in self-defense. The women's kung-fu course at Chaps is a bit slow warming up - except for Estrella, a pretty young Filipina who's more than ready to beat up the macho instructor. But this angry lady's real target, she confides to Charlie,... View More...
Spine a bit creased, corners bumped, slightly shelf-cocked.
"Gibbs isn't sure that the kid who just walked in can read the sign on his door. Yet there he is, nine years old and ready to plunk down his life-savings-all sixty-seven bucks worth-it Gibbs can find his long-lost father. The price is right, so Gibbs takes the case. But he's about to find out that this is one father who'll go a long way to stay lost. Even killing a big, nosy P.I. is no problem. That is, until he tries."; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall View More...
Spine a bit creased, corners bumped, minor edge wear esp. along spine. "Truly, the late, unlamented Ridley Groendal's word processor was dipped in venom. At a word from the bitter and dreaded critic, plays closed overnight. Concert halls went silent. Books gathered dust on bookshelves. Many sought revenge. But four were close enough to exact it. The playwright. The violinist. The author. The actress. All with a dark, longtime link to the victim. And to Father Koesler, who'd known Groendal since their school days. Who pulled the curtain down on Ridley? All the divining Father h... View More...
Spine a bit slanted, sunned, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. A little tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; Bantam #78 with sturdy covers and end papers showing a pictorial depiction of the crime scene area. ; henry gamadge ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 216 pages; " Henry Gamadge is a particular detective. If a case is not first class he won't touch it. But when he received a telephone call from his old friend, a Maine detective named Mitchell, asking for aid in unraveling the peculiar mystery of several poisonings, Gamadge knew he had found a case suited to hi... View More...
232 pp. Uncorrected Proof. Spine slightly slanted. Reviewer's notes on half-title page. Letter from publisher to reviewer describing book and author is inserted. A bright, attractive copy. "Mignon F. Ballard perfectly evokes the lives and surroundings of Southern women in small-town America, a sympathetic place that we would like to know and, for the moment at least, to live in. Murder in this context is more shocking, more threatening, than murder in the drug-choked streets of the Bronx. "Molly Stonehouse, on a holiday visit to her late husband Ethan's aunts, suspects that behi... View More...
Spine somewhat slanted, reading crease and some edgewear, corners a bit bumped. Text is yellowing, but clean and unmarked.
"Life held very little for Louise; drunken, vicious, middle-aged, she was soon to leave it. Charles Hilary found himself accused of his wife's murder, tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. A few hours before execution comes a development surprising as a bombshell."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
Spine/covers slightly creased. Minor shelf wear. "Sir John Appleby, retired Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, thinks Martyn Ashmore, the lord of a neighboring manor, is suffering from senile delusions. Ashmore has accused Sir John of wanting to kill him. However, afrter a large stone block falls from a roof and the two men narrowly escape death, Sir John decides to look further. He discovers that Ashmore lives with a terrible guilt -- his cracking under Nazi torture led to the massacre of many Resistance fighters -- and with a terrible threat -- each year on the anniversary of t... View More...
Dell Book #11976. Spine slightly slanted, small spots on cover, corners a bit bumped, xx on top edge. Text is starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked. "It was a most embarrassing way for a policeman's father to die; garbed in gauzy spangled tights and dangling from his own Marquis de Sade strappado machine. It didn't matter that he had broken with the old boy years before. The murder at Harpenden House was sure to make Detective Inspector Perry Trethowan the laughingstock of the CID. So it was sheer torture for Perry to return to his ancestral home to investigate this unconvention... 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...
Ex-library with typical markings and stamps and free end papers torn out. Spine slanted, moderate edge wear, Front board and backstrip detached from text block, although back board still firmly attached, text unmarked. Jacket in protective wraps, taped to boards, showing minor edge wear, some rubbing. "It certainly seemed like an accident-though a rather bizarre one-when twelve-year-old David Fleming was killed falling into the hold of a ship on a school field trip. His father, John Fleming, came to the school prepared to charge it with negligence, but he wasn't prepared for the icy poli... View More...
Spine somewhat slanted, some edgewear/bumping, PO name inside. Text is bright and clean. "It certainly seemed like an accident-though a rather bizarre one-when twelve-year-old David Fleming was killed falling into the hold of a ship on a school field trip. His father, John Fleming, came to the school prepared to charge it with negligence, but he wasn't prepared for the icy politeness or the atmosphere of fear the greeted him. With slowly building horror, John Fleming realizes there is something terribly wrong at Marristone Grange. Something the school is determined to hide. If David w... View More...
Spine somewhat slanted and creased, corners bumped, tiny chip at bottom of spine, PO name inside. Text is starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked. "When Sir Peregrine Piers decided to open his stately home to the public, Regency Rakes Ltd was formed to promote it. Spectacular stunts were planned: a regency rout and hunting supper, and a midnight steeplechase. Nathaniel Goss, magazine publisher and amateur detective, took a lively interest in Regency Rakes, the more so as he had recently joined a shooting syndicate whose terrain bordered on Sir Peregrine's land. The syndicate is com... View More...
Spine somewhat slanted & creased, minor shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy. "On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy's influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgliesh, the son of a parson, once spent happy summers at the school. A detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in a remote, rarified community of the faith... View More...
Spine somewhat slanted and loose, corners slightly bumped. Ex-library with usual stamps, DJ in protective mylar cover taped to boards, back free endpaper removed. Cracked at half-title page. Text is clean and unmarked, "On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy's influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgliesh, the son of a parson, once spent happy summers at the school. A detective who loves poet... View More...
Corners slightly bumped, very slight edge wear. Jacket shows a little edge wear/darkening, and a small (1/8") hole at bottom front right. A clean, attractive copy. "Margaret Chadwick seemed to have everything-good looks, more money than she knew what to do with, and a pedigree to rival a princess. Margaret, however, had one serious flaw: she was a chronic do-gooder who insisted on prying too deeply into the lives of the 'unfortunates.' She was such a malicious busybody that hardly a tear was shed when her body was found in the freight yards-neatly strangled and minus a single slue.... View More...
