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New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Minot abrasion to back board.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Jane da Silva is headed to a foreign country (well, Vancouver is only two hours from Seattle, but you do have to exchange currency) for a cup of tea and a rendezvous with murder. ; 8.1 X 5.4 X 1.0 inches; 279 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Journeying to her family home in North Carolina to attend a reunion, Kate McBride finds the celebration interrupted by the murder of a housekeeper, a case for which she finds help from Augusta Goodnight and a bumbling young apprentice. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 263 pages .

New York: Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Crease front flap jacket. 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 236 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with browned edges.. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Vidocq. Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818—and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 352 pages .

New York: St Martins Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread; top edge foxing.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Shapiro insisted on calling Detective Clarke's death an accident. Donovan knows better. He'd been there. He knew the difference between a car out of control and one controlled very precisely in order to crush men's lives out against a brick wall. ; 5.75 X 0.75 X 8.5 inches; 218 pages .

New York: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder stripe and small areas of . ink bleed to bottom edge; light stain to front cover. Jacket with light . scratches to back panel.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Devlin Kirk, a Denver private investigator, returns to the crime scene when he sends his young apprentice undercover to crack a drug ring and winds up having to solve his murder. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 264 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket has light edge wear, with small . spots of wear on corners. Book has browned pages and couple soil spots on . fore edge.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. After meeting Melissa Stone, head of a Houston psychiatric clinic, Beaumont is only too eager to start work on a PR campaign to bring her new clients: Dr. Stone is six feet of overpowering woman, and an irresistible temptation to the impressionable Beaumont. There's also the chance that she may be able to cure Beaumont's anorectic girlfriend, Tammy. But Tammy vanishes--and Stone, it appears, is both crazy and dangerous, as Beaumont discovers when he becomes a prisoner in deadly danger of losing his sanity as a result of pharmacological torture. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 248 pages .

New York: Prism Corp. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Book appears unread.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Paris 1954: Inspector Alphonse Dantan of the Paris Police Judiciare has been called to the office of the Finance Office US Army Paris to investigate the apparent murder of a highly decorated American lieutenant. ; 8.7 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches; 221 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Light edge wear and wrinkling to . jacket, most notably to the back panel. Date neatly written on front . endpaper.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Coastal Maine provides the setting for the latest mystery featuring English teacher Sarah Deane and Dr. Alex McKenzie, who plan to be married at last, although they have to solve a classic puzzler first. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches; 324 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Faint top edge spotting. Jacket protected in . mylar.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Assigned to locate Dakar, the Israeli naval vessel that vanished years ago without a trace, troubleshooter Wendell Trent travels three miles below the ocean's surface, while two governments risk an armed encounter to abort America's search.; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 483 pages .

New York: Dutton. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Reissue of the 1980 Random House printing. . Small closed tear to back top edge, slightly faded spine.. 1997. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Bernie Rhodenbarr and his lesbian companion, Caroline, break into a luxurious New York apartment, learn that another burglar has beaten them to it, and soon find themselves accused of murder. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 225 pages .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Reissue of the 1983 Arbor House . edition. Prior owner blindstamp front endpaper.. 1998. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A job appraising the private library of Gordon Onderdonk, a Manhattan millionaire, gives Bernie a chance to check out the tempting personal holdings of the rich and famous. An easy enough job for a light-fingered thief, no? ; 9.2 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 224 pages .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Hint of a lean to the book.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. In trouble financially and out on one last caper, Bernie Rhodenbarr discovers a nude body and is suspected of stealing a valuable baseball card collection. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 258 pages .

New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book Club Edition. Book fresh and . sharp, with small marker dot to both edges, in a jacket lightly worn along . edges with rather large spot of rubbing to front panel.. 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Unreformed picklock Bernie Rhodenbarr agrees to steal some jewelry from the apartment of his dentist's ex-wife, picks his way into a murder scene, and is thrown to the wolves by his self-serving dentist. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 181 pages .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read but someone did . multiplication to the rear endpaper.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Bernie Rhodenbarr attempts to retrieve the lost letters of famed reclusive author Gulliver Fairborn, but instead discovers a dead literary agent. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 280 pages .

New York: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder strip bottom edge; light . edge soil, bottom of page 59 crinkled. Jacket has small tear back edge at . spine.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. The novel that first introduced burglar-turned-sleuth Bernie Rhodenbarr follows his introduction to the world of crime-solving after he accepts an apparently simple job in Greenwich Village and suddenly realizes that he has been set up for a murder. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 252 pages .

New York: Hyperion. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight fade cloth edge; edge wrinkling . jacket.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. No one is suprised when Aaron Crown is accused of assasinating the most famous civil rights leader in Louisiana. But it took 28 years for the system to put him in Angola Penitentiary. Now, Crown is proclaiming his innocence and asking Dave Robicheaux for help. ; 9.1 X 5.9 X 1.1 inches; 352 pages .

New York: Pegasus Crime. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. The brightest mind in early criminology meets the darkest killer in a mystery set In the heady, cultivated world of nineteenth century Turin. ; 9.1 X 5.8 X 1.6 inches; 464 pages .

New York: Scribner. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book straight and tight with light top . edge soil. Jacket with a hint of fading at spine.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. The inhabitants of a respectable, middle-class neighborhood turn bloody-minded when a rowdy, nasty, working-class family threatens to move in. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 287 pages .

New York: St Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Bump spine end; light wear back panel . jacket.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As Gone With the Wind approaches release, all the stars but Clark Gable prepare to head to Atlanta for the big premiere. Clark and his wife, Carole Lombard, are too distressed to celebrate the opening of the biggest movie of his career because Lydia Austin, a young actress and protege of Carole's, is missing. ; 8.0 X 5.3 X 0.9 inches; 183 pages .