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New York: Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight toning to top and bottom edge.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Jackie Swaitkowski may not be the most buttoned-up lawyer in the Hamptons, but a plane crash before her very eyes is hard to miss. Just before the struggling air taxi takes a nosedive, the pilot tosses out a camera case. Jackie soon learns that solving the pilot's death will mean uncovering some dark secrets from her own past. ; Jackie Swaitkowski Mysteries; 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.2 inches; 304 pages .

New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Kate Theodorus, Washington DC social worker and former cop, marries Joel Baker and creates a new life for herself. Three years later, Joel leaves the house to pick up groceries and never returns. When the police find evidence connecting Joel to illegal drug trafficking and a murdered biochemist, Kate finds herself thrust back into the familiar world of clues, surveillance, and guns that she thought she had left behind. ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.9 inches; 351 pages .

New York: Bantam. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket has a tiny dig to edge of back . panel. Front endpaper has light crease.. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Private investigator Harris Stuyvesant is hired to find Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two-year-old from Boston who has been modeling and acting in Paris. Soon it becomes clear that one missing girl is a drop in the bucket. Amid the glittering lights of the cabarets hides a monster whose artistic coup de grace is to be rendered in blood. ; 6.63 X 1.34 X 9.53 inches; 412 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Author's debut novel. First printing of the . first American edition. Fine copy in like jacket. (The wear pattern that . shows in the scan is from the mylar cover, not the jacket). 2003. First American Edition. Hardcover. Working on the side as an assassin-for-hire targeting dangerous criminals, jaded detective sergeant Dennis Milne finds himself in over his head when he accidentally kills three innocent men, a situation that is complicated by his pursuit of a young girl's murderer. ; 1.08 x 9.5 x 6.38 Inches; 335 pages .

New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Review Copy with publisher's letter . laid in. Has been gently read.. 2004. Review Copy. Hardcover. Self-proclaimed movie geek, Roy Milano, is struggling to make ends meet while he pursues his "reel" love - publishing a newsletter of little-known Hollywood lore for like-minded cinemaphiles. However, when the phone rings with a call from another movie buff, his trivial life is changed into a harrowing game of intrigue, duplicity, and danger. ; 6.36 X 1.02 X 9.52 inches; 288 pages .

New York: The Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Minor top edge wrinkling to jacket. . Small dents to bottom edge of boards.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Toby Paters is getting twenty five dollars a day plus expenses. His job: convince a vainglorious gun moll and a semiretired gangster to leave Fred Astaire alone. The woman is Luna Martin, a blonde beauty with feet of solid lead and the grace of an armadillo. The ex-mobster is Arthur Forbes, AKA Fingers Intaglia, who's swapped his onetime prominence in Detroit's Purple Gang for Los Angeles real estate and respectability. It seems Luna wants to dance, and Forbes wants the most famous feet in America to teach her. Fred Astaire wants Toby to get Forbes and the rather loose Luna off his back - and every other part of his anatomy. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 228 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Author's first book and winner 2006 Agatha Award . for Best First Novel.. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles greeting card artist Willie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. She is meeting plenty of eligible batchelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body and is momentarily taken hostage by a charismatic doctor who is on the run from the Mob. ; 9.3 X 6.6 X 1.0 inches; 336 pages .

New York: St Martins Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Light edge wear to jacket.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. An Inspector Faro Mystery. Due at her sister's house two weeks ago, Mabel Keller is nowhere to be found. She had good reason to disappear, however, since her husband, Edinburgh's police surgeon, was rude, even hostile, at every opportunity. The case takes a turn when Mrs. Keller's cloak, torn and bloodstained, is found, along with a kitchen carving knife, in a remote train station. ; 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.9 inches; 190 pages .

New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Light edge foxing and board fading. . Jacket with light shelf rubbing and flap creases.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Invited by old flame Bitsy Binford to visit her Cape Cod estate, Mac McFarland stumbles upon the corpse of Bitsy's son-in-law, Peter, a discovery that embroils Mac in a tangled web of dark secrets, greed, scandal, and murder. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 229 pages .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark bottom edge, else Fine.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. In Chicago legal circles, Rachel Gold is known as a sharp and savvy litigator who can be tough when the case calls for toughness and disreet when faced with awkward matters. The bizarre disappearance and messy suicide of the managing partner of Abbott & Windsor's St. Louis office certainly fits the description. ; 8.5 X 5.7 X 1.2 inches; 320 pages .

Pleasantville: Impress. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued; Prior owner label to front . endpaper. Red boards with gold titles (shows up as black in the scan) Part . of the Best Mysteries of All Time series with brochure laid in.. 2010. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of the first Inspector Rostnikov mysteries originally published in 1981. The inspector faces a challenging task. The Moscow cop must track down a serial killer who has murdered a popular dissident. But the arrest can't be accurate - it must be politically correct and meet the KGB's standards. ; 8.6 X 5.3 X 1.2 inches; 226 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book is clean, straight and tight with . remainder stripe bottom edge near spine.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Why has Bette Davis been kidnapped three times? Hollywood PI Toby Peters plunges into his most hair-raising adventure to find out. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 194 pages .

New York: Soho Crime. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; A Sister Conchita and Sergeant Kella . Mystery. Jacket with small dents front panel at spine edge.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. It's not easy being Ben Kella. In the past few days he has been cursed by a magic man, stumbled across evidence of a cargo cult uprising, and failed to find an American anthropologist who had been scouring the Solomon Island mountains looking for a priceless icon. ; 7.6 X 5.3 X 1.1 inches; 288 pages .

New York: E. P. Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Shifting between Hollywood and the underworld of Nazi Germany, this novel follows the adventures of a celebrated movie star as he becomes a Berlin black marketeer hunted by the Gestapo. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 277 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Convinced that her famous Scottish terrier, Fala, has been kidnapped and replaced with an inferior pooch, Eleanor Roosevelt asks L. A. Private eye Toby Peters to find the real Fala. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 174 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Second novel in the Kit Deleeuw series. The forty-something Suburban Detective takes us behind the scenes of his seemingly placid home town to show us what happens when violence lurks just behind the walls of comfortable suburbia. ; 8.2 X 6.0 X 1.5 inches; 312 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. W. C. Fields hires private eye Toby Peters to nab the culprit who is robbing him one bank account at a time, but while on the thief's trail, the two find out there is another bad guy who does not want the money, but rather wants both of them dead. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 246 pages .

Toronto: MIRA. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first novel and winner of the . Strand Critics Award. Has been gently read.. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes of what they look like when she's scared. But I will." ; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.3 inches; 352 pages .

New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light wrinkling top edge of jacket.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Lieutenant Tommy Hart, the navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he's just another war prisoner at Stalag 13 in Bavaria. But when a prisoner is murdered, Hart Is tapped to defend the suspect. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.75 inches; 490 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. As a private eye, Toby Peters has had some pretty impressive clients over the years, but none of them has been quite as memorable as his latest: a tough-as-nails, sharp-witted, damsel-in-distress named Mae West. Mae, it seems, has discovered that her only copy of her sizzling autobiography is missing. Without hesitation, Peters agrees to track it down. But after taking a beating from a man named Ressner --a thief, a master of disguise, and, even more dangerous, a frustrated actor -- Peter realizes that his job is just beginning. Following the trait of Mae's scandalous memoirs soon leads Peters into the midst of a family feud of Herculean proportions, and a California sanitarium from which he must make a daring escape worthy of Ressner. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 168 pages .