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Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Lawrence E. Spivak: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004369
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 View more info
By: Dee, Ed
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Warner Books Inc: 1994
Edition: Likely Book Club
Seller ID: 004246
ISBN: 0446517704
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 ... View more info
By: Meyer, Nicholas
Price: $2.95
Publisher: New York, NY, Ballantine Books: 1975
Seller ID: 001947
ISBN: 0345245504
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... View more info
By: Heyer, Georgette
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Berkley Prime Crime: 1994
Edition: 1st Berkley Prime Crime printing
Seller ID: 8323
ISBN: 0425096416
Condition: Very Good
Spine slightly slanted, a bit creased, corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 246 pages; "Who killed the dashing ladies' man? "But why should anyone want to murder dear Ernest?" Why indeed! Ernest was so debonair, so charming and so attractive. Why should some unknown party simply dash his brains out and not even have the decency to leave the murder weapon behind? And what could Superintendent Hannasyde do about it when the only man who could solve the crime was the killer himself?" View more info
By: Heyer, Georgette
Price: $3.75
Publisher: New York, Berkley Prime Crime: 1994
Edition: 1st Berkley Prime Crime printing
Seller ID: 8324
ISBN: 0425096416
Condition: Good+
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By: Adamson, Lydia
Price: $3.20
Publisher: New York, Signet: 1998
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 005332
ISBN: 0451194586
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... View more info
By: James, P. D.
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated: 1998
Edition: Eighth Printing
Seller ID: 001975
ISBN: 0375401091
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... View more info
Price: $4.75
Publisher: New York, NY, Penguin: 1986
Seller ID: 001694
ISBN: 0140094024
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 View more info
Price: $2.95
Publisher: Toronto, Canada, Worldwide: 1996
Seller ID: 001697
ISBN: 0373262000
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... View more info
By: Harris, Max F.
Price: $4.65
Publisher: New York, Leisure Books: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000613
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 View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, Fawcett Gold Medal: 1965
Seller ID: 006264
ISBN: 0449142213
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 ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, International Polygonics, Ltd.: 2000
Seller ID: 007076
ISBN: 1558820353
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... View more info
By: Aird, Catherine
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1981
Seller ID: 007505
ISBN: 0553145177
Condition: Very Good
Spine a little creased, slanted, and sunned, slight edge wear and rubbing. Some yellowing but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "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 inspector's uncanny investigative... View more info
By: Aird, Catherine
Price: $3.50
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1981
Seller ID: 008138
ISBN: 0553145177
Condition: Good
Spine rolled, somewhat creased, a little edge wear and darkening, spine cracked through at pp 82-83. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A good reading copy. "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 ... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd.: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006975
ISBN: 0575029196
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... View more info
By: Thompson, Monroe
Price: $2.85
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1991
Seller ID: 004432
ISBN: 0553290673
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... View more info
By: Hess, Joan
Price: $4.50
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1992
Edition: Fifth Printing
Seller ID: 000740
ISBN: 034536158X
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 View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Leicester, F. A. Thorpe Publishers: 1997
Edition: Large Print Edition
Seller ID: 005784
ISBN: 0708951562
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. .... View more info
By: Fulton, Eileen
Price: $4.25
Publisher: New York, Ivy Books: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006763
ISBN: 0804102082
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 ... View more info
By: Moyes, Patricia
Price: $7.95
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston: 1983
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 002289
ISBN: 0030629780
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... View more info
