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Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Lawrence E. Spivak: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004369
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 i... View more info
By: Dee, Ed
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Warner Books Inc: 1994
Edition: Likely Book Club
Seller ID: 004246
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 in... View more info
By: Meyer, Nicholas
Price: $2.95
Publisher: New York, NY, Ballantine Books: 1975
Seller ID: 001947
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... 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
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 ... 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
![Image for A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock [An Alice Nestleton Mystery]](/assets/images/product/005332.jpg "A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock [An Alice Nestleton Mystery]")
By: Adamson, Lydia
Price: $3.20
Publisher: New York, Signet: 1998
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 005332
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... 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
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, s... View more info
Price: $4.75
Publisher: New York, NY, Penguin: 1986
Seller ID: 001694
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"... View more info
Price: $2.95
Publisher: Toronto, Canada, Worldwide: 1996
Seller ID: 001697
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 youn... View more info
By: Harris, Max F.
Price: $4.65
Publisher: New York, Leisure Books: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000613
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... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, Fawcett Gold Medal: 1965
Seller ID: 006264
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 smel... View more info
By: Granger, Ann
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, St Martins Press: 1995
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 005992
DJ in protective Brodart plastic wrap, light edgewear. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "A shocking murder devastates one of Bamford's old aristocratic families in this newest village whodunit featuring CI Alan Markby and his great and good friend, Meredith Mitchell. The body of a teenage girl is found in the heart of the leafy Cotswolds. As Chief Inspector Markby notes, for the Bamford community in which the murder has taken place, things will never be quite... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, International Polygonics, Ltd.: 2000
Seller ID: 007076
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... View more info
By: Aird, Catherine
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1981
Seller ID: 007505
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 ... View more info
By: Aird, Catherine
Price: $3.50
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1981
Seller ID: 008138
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... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd.: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006975
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 possib... View more info
By: Thompson, Monroe
Price: $2.85
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1991
Seller ID: 004432
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'... View more info
By: Innes, Michael
Price: $6.45
Publisher: New York, Berkley Publishing Group: 1963
Edition: First Berkley Edition
Seller ID: 003818
Spine somewhat slanted, cover beginning to separate from spine in front, some darkening. A clean, unmarked copy. "Sherris Hall, a somewhat decayed stately home of England, is the fantastic setting for one of Sir John Appleby's wildest cases, with a full cast of characters to match. There is vague, yet oddly expectant Lady Dromio; her unseen, but sinister son, Sir Oliver; cryptic Lucy, her adopted daughter' Swindle, the somnolent butler; and the dead shades of Si... View more info
By: Hess, Joan
Price: $4.50
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1992
Edition: Fifth Printing
Seller ID: 000740
"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
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... View more info
