Spine a bit creased, slanted, corners bumped including a few pages, some edge wear, reading crease. A little yellowing but text is clean and unmarked. "When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, the whole town is delighted, save perhaps for love-smitten bobby Hamish Macbeth. But the morning after a tastefully posh engagement party, one of the guests, Captain Bartlett - who so enraged everyone with his boorish behavior and caddish comments - has the bad manners to be murdered on a grouse hunt. Unfortunately, the prime suspects are the titled par... View More...
Spine a bit slanted and creased, a little edge wear. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "TV soap star Nina McFall receives a terrible shock when she visits her old friend, actress May Minton, and finds her dead. May had won a juicy role on 'The Turning Seasons' over several others who desperately wanted the part. Was one of them desperate enough to kill? While Detective Lieutenant Dino Rossi and his men investigate the case, Nina does some snooping on her own. She's determined to discover whodunit if it's the last thing she ever does - and it looks as if it may... View More...
Corners bumped, minor edge wear/scuffing to covers/spine. Slight darkening.
"On the surface, Dr. Lorrimer was the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body was discovered and his secret past dissected die this image begin to change. And once again Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh learned that there was more to human beings than met the eye. . . and more to solving a murder than the obvious clues."; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall View More...
Spine a bit creased, slanted, corners bumped including a few pages, slight edge wear, reading crease. Some yellowing but text is clean and unmarked. "Nobody in the Scottish town of Cnothan had liked the abrasive Englishman, and mow that he has been murdered - in a most original fashion - nobody much minds. Constable Hamish Macbeth's hard luck is that he happens to be on temporary duty in this cloistered Highlands village when the killer strikes. And he has his work cut out for him, dragging from Mainwaring's close-mouthed neighbors enough facts to start solving this peculiar case. But ... View More...
"Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, have joined forces for the first time to create a brilliant and exciting story of high-stakes intrigue and detection in a kidnapping played out against a holiday setting." When her father is kidnapped and held for ransom three days before Christmas, Regan Reilly, a dynamic young sleuth, joins forces with Alvirah Meehan, famous lottery winner and amateur detective, to find him before time runs out.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
Spine a bit creased/shelf-cocked. Covers bowed out a bit. "The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's, England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise. She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune hunter, a jewel thief and an assassin, Regan is sailing home -- and into the ... View More...
Spine/covers slightly creased, corners bumped. Covers bowed out a bit. "The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's, England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise. She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune hunter, a jewel thief and an assassin, Regan is sailing home -- ... View More...
Owner's name on ffep. Jacket has bumped corners, slight soiling to back. A clean, tight attractive copy. "A former Las Vegas showgirl named Stacey Wilson is jailed for the murder of her husband, Marvin, a rich playboy whose marriage to the showgirl was a local scandal. Stacey staunchly claims innocence; despite a life sentence, she refuses to disclose her whereabouts on the murder day. While the police see the case as closed, Father Dowling, uncomfortable with the verdict, privately seeks the truth. Sin, innocence, and their linked consequences are played out by a varied cast of charac... View More...
242 pp. plus bibliography, notes author's acknowledgements, index. PO's name on pastedown, light spotting on to edge. A bright, attractive copy. "Known to millions as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and the bestselling author of a dozen detective novels, Dorothy Leigh Sayers was in reality a complex woman-moved, she said, by a 'careless rage for life'. The elusive mystery of the real person behind the public figure makes Sayers an attractive choice for the biographer. It is her own distinctive voice, the fact that she is allowed to speak for herself through extensive quotation from th... View More...
215 pp., some edgewear, cracked at back free-endpaper, ex-library with usual stamps and DJ glued to boards. DJ shows considerable edgewear and tears. Text is clean, light and unmarked. "Ellery has never had a more bewitching client than Miss Rima Anderson, who recalls him to Wrightsville. A series of newspaper clippings, sent anonymously, have half-prepared him for Rima's visit, but upon his arrival for 0n-the-spot investigation, he comes up against the most puzzling set of clues in his career: a heart attack, a suicide, a disappearance over a cliff, all quite natural - perhaps - but... View More...
Spine somewhat creased, slanted, corners bumped including some pages, a little edge wear, light reading crease, crease across top corner of front cover leaving the first 30 pages with a small corner crease. Text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Ninth in the Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover series. "Fans of Scotland Yard's least competent detective take note: here for the first time in paperback in the United States is a surprising departure from the series - and the first to depart is none other than Dover himself. When the doubtful detective suddenly vanishes from Scotland Yard, alon... View More...
Pan X534, 206 pp. Spine a bit creased, slanted, corners bumped, minor edge wear mostly along spine, a little darkening, front cover has a price sticker from a Danish bookstore. Pages browned but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "Dover One" is not only the first in the Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover series, it was Joyce Porter's first publshed book. "Dover is Chief Inspector, moody, lazy, dyspeptic. In company with his Sergeant, a keen boy and a slick dresser, he investigates the disappearance of a sixteen-stone teenage nymphomaniac….The general tone is bawdy, , and Miss P... View More...
4" Crease across bottom right corner, corners bumped, light reading crease, a little edge wear including a 1" crease at middle of leading edge. Text is bright and unmarked. Sixth in the Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover series. "Sully Martin had probably been a picturesque English village before the earthquake nearly destroyed it. And construction tycoon Walter Chantry might have been taken for another of the many casualties if it hadn't come out that he had been strangled. This time Dover is in for much more than his usual share of bother. For a start, the town's only hotel is unl... View More...
Covers slightly creased, corners bumped. "It's Christmas Eve -- and Florida orange grower Michael Barnes is in the Big Apple with a couple of hours to kill. In no time at all, he's scammed by a shady blonde and robbed by a bogus policeman. His rental car is stolen by a "good Samaritan." And he's being framed for the murder of a slimy, two-bit movie producer. Now he's running from the mob, the cops and a hired killer. And a beautiful Oriental bombshell in a white limo is taking him for the ride of his life - showing Barnes a sleazy side of "Fun City" he never dreamed exis... View More...
Rust cloth with silver lettering. Spine slightly cocked, a little sunned, corners worn, a little edge wear and scuffing. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, minor edge wear with a little chipping at top and base of spine. A nice copy. ; Slight spine slant, corners bumped in cluding a few pages, minor edge wear , some rubbing, small tear at top of spine, binding somewhat tight. A nice copy. "A stolen heirloom painting - a shipboard murder. Can Simon and the O'Keefe clan unravel the mystery? Poly and Charles O'Keefe have no idea when they board the M.S Orion headed for Venezuela that the... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, corners slightly bumped, some darkening at edge of endpapers. DJ shows some bumping/edgewear along top with 1/4" tears at edge & spine. A bright, attractive copy. "Project Community was supposed to be an occasion for good will: a police-sponsored exhibition of the handiworks of Glasgow’s hobby clubs. But as Sergeant Francey Lang discovered when he was "inspecting" the vast model train layout, someone had used it as an occasion for murder. The victim was a used-car dealer, of considerably less than savory reputation, who seemed to devote most of his ... View More...
Slight shelf wear, corners bumped. Ry Slaight was a West Point cadet with everything going for him. The respect of his peers. A future military career with no limits. And a passionate love for Irit Dov, an Israeli woman with her own successful New York business. But when a body was found floating in Lake Popolopen at the beginning of June Week, and the academy's official statements were startlingly at odds with what Slaight knew to be true, he was faced with the dilemma of his life. Ry Slaight became obsessed with uncovering the truth. With Irit's help and the aid of a few trusted fellow ca... View More...
Corners slightly chipping, a little edge wear and rubbing, some discoloration to top edge. A little rippling to first 3 or 4 pages. ; Bantam S5543, 233 pp. Reading copy. Spine a bit creased, slanted, corners creased and chipped, some edge wear and soiling, reading crease. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmarked. A good reading copy. "That morning, Beulah bought the weapon. Before supper, she had spit out her hatred for the victim in poisonout - and public - words. And at the party, she was the last to see him alive. "They found him slumped in a chair - his handsome head lolling f... View More...
Spine slanted and creased, minor edgewear. Text starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked. "It's the 20th anniversary of TV's most popular soap, 'The Turning Seasons.' The celebration is in full swing at New York's posh Tavern on the Green when lovely young actress Terri Triano is murdered. She was the winner of a nationwide contest for a coveted new role on the show, and naturally suspicion falls on the first runner-up, also present at the banquet. Nina McFall, never content with the obvious solution, plays amateur sleuth while Detective Lieutenant Dino Rossi and his squad pursue a ... View More...
Ex-library with usual marks, spine slanted, edgewear along bottom, cracked at p. 21. DJ in protective wraps taped to boards. A clean, unmarked copy. "The rather odd couple who appear on Jane da Silva's doorstep are either magazine salespeople-or the answer to her prayer for another hopeless case. It turns out that the bookish man and nervous young woman are worried that Irene March, their co-worker at a news clipping service, has met with foul play. They explain that Irene began acting 'stresses' after she became a contestant on Jeopardy!-and won. The mousy spinster had turned into ... View More...
