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Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Lawrence E. Spivak: 1943
Seller ID: 004369
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Fair
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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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
"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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By: Meyer, Nicholas
Price: $2.95
Publisher: New York, NY, Ballantine Books: 1975
Seller ID: 001947
ISBN: 0345245504
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good+
"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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By: Heyer, Georgette
Price: $3.75
Publisher: New York, Berkley Prime Crime: 1994
Seller ID: 8324
ISBN: 0425096416
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good+
By: Adamson, Lydia
Price: $3.20
Publisher: New York, Signet: 1998
Seller ID: 005332
ISBN: 0451194586
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
"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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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
"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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Price: $4.75
Publisher: New York, NY, Penguin: 1986
Seller ID: 001694
ISBN: 0140094024
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good+
"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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Price: $2.95
Publisher: Toronto, Canada, Worldwide: 1996
Seller ID: 001697
ISBN: 0373262000
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"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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By: Harris, Max F.
Price: $4.65
Publisher: New York, Leisure Books: 1981
Seller ID: 000613
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good+
"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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Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, Fawcett Gold Medal: 1965
Seller ID: 006264
ISBN: 0449142213
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"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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Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd.: 1981
Seller ID: 006975
ISBN: 0575029196
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
"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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By: Thompson, Monroe
Price: $2.85
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1991
Seller ID: 004432
ISBN: 0553290673
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
"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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By: Hess, Joan
Price: $4.50
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1992
Seller ID: 000740
ISBN: 034536158X
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good+
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Leicester, F. A. Thorpe Publishers: 1997
Seller ID: 005784
ISBN: 0708951562
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Good
"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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By: Fulton, Eileen
Price: $4.25
Publisher: New York, Ivy Books: 1988
Seller ID: 006763
ISBN: 0804102082
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"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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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
"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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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
"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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By: Mitchell, Kay
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Leicester, Ulverscroft Large Print Books: 1995
Seller ID: 004310
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
"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 power...
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By: James, P. D.
Price: $2.95
Publisher: New York, NY, Warner Books, Incorporated: 1987
Seller ID: 001679
ISBN: 0446323527
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"Their throats slit, the two men had turned the old vestry of St. Matthew's Church red with blood. In death united, in life no men could have been more disparate: one a Baronet and Minister of the Crown; the other an alcoholic derelict. Commander Adam Dalgliesh believed that to find the killer he had to find the thread that connected the two lives. But he hound himself following a t...
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By: Maling, Arthur
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Leicester, Ulverscroft Large Print Books: 1985
Seller ID: 005942
ISBN: 0708913385
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
"Brock Potter of New York's top Brokerage firm of Price, Potter and Petacque, is facing a particularly tense and complex problem. Kevin Rand, an executive of Calthrop Industries, has been found guilty of passing Defence secrets to East Germans; and it was on Brock's strong recommendation that Rand, a family friend, had been appointed to the job. When Rand is murdered in prison, Brock is drawn into a highly dangerous investigation which nearly costs him his...
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