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Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Kensington Publishing Corporation: 1999
Edition: First Kensington Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 006694
ISBN: 1575664364
Condition: Very Good-
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 Charl... View more info
By: Moyes, Patricia
Price: $3.45
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1965
Seller ID: 002288
Condition: Good
Covers a bit scuffed, soiled, corners bumped including some pages. Tears at base of spine where it meets the covers, 2" tear to front, 1" to back. A little yellowing. 1/2" semicircular chunk missing from the fore edge of page 63 - one word of text missing. "What could be more pleasant, or indeed more healthy, than a skiing vacation high in the Alps at a delightfully secluded and quiet resort: or so thought Chief Inspector Tibbett and his wife, Emmy. Not so. Not when that exclusive little resort . . . may in fact be cover for the nefarious smuggling of who knows what kind... View more info
By: Atkins, Leo
Price: $4.00
Publisher: New York, NY, Berkley Prime Crime: 1999
Seller ID: 001588
ISBN: 042516781X
Condition: Very Good+
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 info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1988
Seller ID: 001612
ISBN: 0345331907
Condition: Very Good
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 Fathe... View more info
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf: 1989
Edition: Advanced Reading Copy (ARC)
Seller ID: 006587
ISBN: 0881845159
Condition: Very Good+
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 th... View more info
By: Garve, Andrew
Price: $6.50
Publisher: London, Pan Books: 1973
Seller ID: 006411
ISBN: 0330234587
Condition: Good
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 info
By: Innes, Michael
Price: $4.25
Publisher: Harmondsworth, England, Penguin: 1986
Seller ID: 000898
ISBN: 0140032436
Condition: Very Good+
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 anniversa... View more info
By: Barnard, Robert
Price: $2.95
Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing: 1983
Seller ID: 005958
ISBN: 0440119766
Condition: Good
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 unconvent... View more info
Price: $11.50
Publisher: Leicester, F. A. Thorpe Publishers: 1998
Edition: Large Print Edition
Seller ID: 005782
ISBN: 0708953883
Condition: Good
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... View more info
By: Gill, B. M.
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Charles Scibner's Sons: 1980
Seller ID: 002341
ISBN: 0684164647
Condition: Fair in Good+ dust jacket
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 p... View more info
By: Gill, B. M.
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, Charles Scibner's Sons: 1980
Seller ID: 005563
ISBN: 0684164647
Condition: Very Good-
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 Davi... View more info
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1964
Seller ID: 004285
Condition: Very Good
Minor scuffing. Text is starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked. "Martin was locked in jail. Elsa was dead. It was, in a way, a good thing, since Elsa living had been a constant menace to him. But Elsa dead had turned out to be a menace, too. For Elsa, with her little whip, had been killed, shot four times in the stomach with a pistol given to her by Martin. And Martin had been seen standing in front of her house on the evening of the murder. Inspector Van der Valk was hard-headed, shrewd, a man very much of the world. There was not much that is depraved in the human conditi... View more info
By: Willock, Colin
Price: $5.75
Publisher: Baltimore, Penguin: 1963
Seller ID: 005658
Condition: Good
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 ... View more info
By: James, P. D.
Price: $4.00
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 2002
Seller ID: 005623
ISBN: 0345446666
Condition: Very Good
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 fa... View more info
By: James, P. D.
Price: $9.90
Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 2001
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 005708
ISBN: 0345446666
Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket
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 p... View more info
By: Heyer, Georgette
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1980
Seller ID: 007792
ISBN: 055314085X
Condition: Very Good
Light reading crease, a little edge wear and rubbing, binding fairly tight. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "A moonlight night. A sleeping village. And a corpse in evening dress - locked in the stocks on the green. So opens another superb Georgette Heyer murder story in which Superintendent Hannasyde sets out on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his phenomenal powers of detection are tested to their limit."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View more info
By: Shannon, Dell
Price: $5.75
Publisher: New York, NY, Mystery Guild: 1988
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 001978
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
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 sl... View more info
By: Beaton, M. C.
Price: $5.50
Publisher: New York, Ivy Books: 1988
Seller ID: 006019
ISBN: 0804102252
Condition: Good
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... View more info
By: Lawrence, Hilda
Price: $5.50
Publisher: New York, Avon Books: 1969
Seller ID: 006679
Condition: Very Good-
Spine slanted and creased, corners very slightly bumped. Text is bright and clean. "In the history of Hope House, a home for working girls, nothing untoward had ever happened. The ladies of the home were very proper ladies, indeed. Then Ruth Miller mover in and a very few hours later was found limp, broken, and very dead in the courtyard. 'Fell or jumped,' was the comfortable verdict - until Mark East entered Hope House and found little signs that the police, on a routine investigation, hadn't thought to look for. Little things that added up to murder."; 6¾" - 7¾" T... View more info
By: Fulton, Eileen
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Ivy Books: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008053
ISBN: 0804101965
Condition: Very Good
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 ... View more info
