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$106,000 Blood Money

By: Hammett, Dashiell

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Lawrence E. Spivak: 1943

Seller ID: 004369

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fair

One of the Bestseller Mystery series (#B40) published during World Warr II using wartime paper restrictions. This is a complete and unabridged reprint of Dashiell Hammet's 1927 book, with a cover price of 25 cents. This edition appears to be its first appearance in book form. Spine is somewhat curved, text was bound in upside down. Covers show some edgewear and scuffing. Text is browned, with watermarks on corners. When a million dollars is stolen from two banks in an afternoon, the Continental Detective Agency must solve the crime.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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14 Peck Slip

By: Dee, Ed

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Warner Books Inc: 1994

Seller ID: 004246

ISBN: 0446517704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

Smal indent on top edge, bottom front corner bumped. A bright, attractive copy. "In the darkness of a December morning in lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market a mob rip-off is under way: Thousands of pounds of fish are calmly 'tapped' - stolen - from wholesalers on the street. It's the price of doing business. But detectives Joe Gregory and Anthony Ryan have not come to Peck Slip to stop fish tapping. They've come to watch a fifty-gallon drum being dumped into the East River by a mobster in a Mets hat. Convinced they're seeing a burial, Gregory and Ryan call in police divers and ...
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7 per-Cent Solution

By: Meyer, Nicholas

Price: $2.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Ballantine Books: 1975

Seller ID: 001947

ISBN: 0345245504

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine slightly creased and slanted, corners bumped, a little darkening to edges, number written on ffep. "Little could Dr. Watson believe that the pathetic figure huddled before him was the great detective, Sherlock Holmes. Alas, it was his old friend Holmes, but a Holmes in bondage-not to any archvillian-but to a 7% solution of cocaine and sterile water. Driven by the drug to wild ravings, Holmes had to be duped into rehabilitation-before it was too late. John Hamish Watson was born in England in 1847. After a childhood spent abroad, he returned to England, where he took his medica...
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A Blunt Instrument

By: Heyer, Georgette

Price: $3.75

Publisher: New York, Berkley Prime Crime: 1994

Seller ID: 8324

ISBN: 0425096416

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock [An Alice Nestleton Mystery]

By: Adamson, Lydia

Price: $3.20

Publisher: New York, Signet: 1998

Seller ID: 005332

ISBN: 0451194586

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corners bumped, a little edge wear, bar code inside cover marked through, binding fairly tight. An attractive copy. "Acting jobs and cat-sitting assignments have been elusive for Alice Nestleton lately . . . but there's plenty of sleuthing work to be done. A prominent theater director has requested her help for his pet charity: Sustenance House. It seems an anonymous benefactor has vanished (along with his much-needed holiday donation), and Alice must find out what's going on before the homeless shelter has to close its doors to the poor forever. But when a board member shoots hims...
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A Certain Justice

By: James, P. D.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated: 1998

Seller ID: 001975

ISBN: 0375401091

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight shelf wear. Jacket shows slight edge wear. A clean, tight, attractive copy. "It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed-and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head. Enter Commander Adam Dalgl...
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A City Solitary

By: Freeling, Nicolas

Price: $4.75

Publisher: New York, NY, Penguin: 1986

Seller ID: 001694

ISBN: 0140094024

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine somewhat creased, slightly shelf-cocked, corners slightly bumped. Slight yellowing. "Three mocking, self-confident punks have vandalized the Forrestiers' home. The actual damage is minimal, but Walter Forrestier's brush with crime, and with the criminal justice system, begins to corrupt all the values he holds sacred. Forced into action, Walter sets out on a course of vengeance that will destroy everything in his path."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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A Coffin for Charley

By: Butler, Gwendoline

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Toronto, Canada, Worldwide: 1996

Seller ID: 001697

ISBN: 0373262000

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine/covers a bit creased, corners bumped, some edge wear, covers bowed out a bit. Owner's name stamped inside front cover, initials and dates inside back cover. "His wife, actress Stella Pinero, is being stalked. Adding to his worries, London's Second City is terrified by a cunning and inventive serial killer. Coffin has cast a wide net, but the killer is elusive. . . and continuing to kill. Somehow connected is a murder that occurred 20 years before. A young girl had witnessed the crime and testified. Now the killers are free and returning home, possibly for revenge. When Coffi...
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A Country Killing

By: Harris, Max F.

Price: $4.65

Publisher: New York, Leisure Books: 1981

Seller ID: 000613

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Covers slightly darkened. Likely remainder marks. "Did the son murder his father? That's what the southern country sheriff can't find out, and that's what brought two city cops off the pavement and into the swamplands. Detectives Parrish and Recks bushwhack their way through the backwoods, a southern plantation, and more suspects than they can handle -- mentally or physically. Soon they uncover blackmail, two wanted criminals, and become involved it -- as if they needed it -- a young couple with shaky marriage plans."; Remainder; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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A Deadly Shade of Gold

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Fawcett Gold Medal: 1965

Seller ID: 006264

ISBN: 0449142213

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine curved and creased, covers show some soiling, edgewear and bumping. Inside covers yellowing with PO initials. Text is clean and unmarked. "A long-ago face from a faraway past -- Sam Taggart dropped in from nowhere on the girl he'd left behind -- and on his old buddy Travis McGee. And at one o'clock that night McGee opened the door to Taggart's cheap motel unit to find his friend's throat neatly cut from ear to ear and his body lying in a lake of blood smelling like freshly sheared copper. McGee was left to inherit the legacy: Taggart's vengeance-driven woman and an ancient ...
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A Good Story and Other Stories

By: Westlake, Donald E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, International Polygonics, Ltd.: 2000

Seller ID: 007076

ISBN: 1558820353

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

259 pp. Corners bumped, binding fairly tight. A bright, attractive copy. "Westlake has selected his best non-series short fiction spanning a writing career of more than forty years. All the familiar Westlake hallmarks are in evidence. "A lone castaway on a desert island commits a murder for which he is the only suspect. "A genealogist learns just how far rotten apples fall from the family tree. "A con man, impersonating a minister, gets religion. "A supermarket tabloid journalist must solve a murder to complete his story on the death of a major telev...
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A Late Phoenix

By: Aird, Catherine

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1981

Seller ID: 9003

ISBN: 0553145177

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Corners bumped, minor edge wear and rubbing, a little soiling. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 164 pages; "Dangerous moonlight illuminated the English skies the night a German bomb razed the houses in Lamb Lane, Berebury. Then three decades quietly passed before a careless workman's pickaxe struck an old skeleton buried under the wreckage . . . And exhumed a new case of murder for Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan. Time had blacked out the clues. All that remained were a body . . . An unborn baby . . . And a bullet. Could the ins...
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A Living Dog

By: Somerville-Large, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd.: 1981

Seller ID: 006975

ISBN: 0575029196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Library of Congress surplus with stamp on front end paper and copyright page. Red cloth with gilt lettering, 204 pp. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, light dampstain to front board with it bowing out a bit. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. A nice copy. "Peter Somerville-Large turns to the more relaxed world of black comedy. In particular to the world on the fringe of the antiques trade, where, he suggests, the antiques may just possibly be genuine but everything else is faked, and murder is as casually regarded by his characters as is short-changing a clien...
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A Long Time Dead

By: Thompson, Monroe

Price: $2.85

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1991

Seller ID: 004432

ISBN: 0553290673

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A paperback original. Top corner creased, minor edgewear/bumping. A bright, attractive copy. "Ex-husband, ex-army specialist, ex-everything, Matt Langley has come to New Orleans to lose his past. He's not looking for trouble --- just to make ends meet. But when Matt takes a six-bucks-an-hour security guard job on the waterfront, trouble finds him the first night, leaving him with a bullet hole and a lot of nasty questions. Before he knows what's happened, he's up to his ass in alligators. Smugglers, cops, the Feds, and a gang of Bourbon Street punks all want a piece of him. And t...
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A Really Cute Corpse

By: Hess, Joan

Price: $4.50

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1992

Seller ID: 000740

ISBN: 034536158X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

"Claire Malloy, reluctant director of Farberville's Miss Thurberfest beauty pageant, is being driven to distraction . . . So she's hardly prepared when a nail is driven into the stage for the present Miss Thurberfest to trip over, a sandbag crashes . . . a bullet . . . It can only end in murder and it does . . ." Spine shows a little creasing.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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A Remarkable Case of Burglary

By: Keating, H. R. F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Leicester, F. A. Thorpe Publishers: 1997

Seller ID: 005784

ISBN: 0708951562

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

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. ....
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A Setting for Murder (Take One for Murder Series #5)

By: Fulton, Eileen

Price: $4.25

Publisher: New York, Ivy Books: 1988

Seller ID: 006763

ISBN: 0804102082

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine slanted and creased, some edgewear and bumping. Text yellowing, but clean and unmarked. "Things are looking sunny for 'The Turning Seasons.' Ratings have zoomed as a result of the TTS Trivia Contest that took the country by storm, and Nina McFall is more popular than ever. Even sharp-tongued co-star Angela Dolan is in a mellow mood - there's a suave, attractive man in her lonely life. It appears that the series of disasters that have plagued the show is finally at an end. But appearances can be deceiving. Angela's autumnal affair ends abruptly when her lover's lifeless body ...
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A Six-Letter Word for Death

By: Moyes, Patricia

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston: 1983

Seller ID: 002289

ISBN: 0030629780

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's name on front free end paper. Jacket shows slight edge wear, sunning to spine, a little darkening. A fairly tight, attractive copy. Stated First American Edition, but number line starts with '2'. "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 of contraband-a...
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A Small Deceit [Large Print]

By: Yorke, Margaret

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Thorndike, Maine, Thorndike Press: 1992

Seller ID: 007336

ISBN: 1560542802

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

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 su...
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A Strange Desire

By: Mitchell, Kay

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Leicester, Ulverscroft Large Print Books: 1995

Seller ID: 004310

ISBN: 0708932444

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

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 town of...
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