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New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Light edge soiling. Jacket has light . edge wrinkling and superficial scratches.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. A black comedy set in modern-day Los Angeles traces the disastrous attempts of an unfaithful husband to make a new start with his family. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 273 pages .

New York: Warner Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight waving to the back edge of the . brown paper wrap-around jacket. Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents . children and youth exclusively. At the end of the story is a 14-page essay . by David Hechler that addresses child sex tourism and what organizations . such as ECPAT are doing to combat the epidemic.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. When millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne experiences a revelation about his childhood and transformation into Batman, he follows a trail of perversion to Southeast Asia to destroy the Ultimate Evil . . . Or die. By the author of Down in the Zero. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 196 pages .

New York: Pegasus Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Translated from the Dutch by Brian . Doyle. Has been gently read.. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. As the social and political trubulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils 1870 Paris, a series of gruesome murders capture the attention of the city. The killer leaves lines from the recently-deceased Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal on each corpse, in the poet's handwriting. ; 162.56 X 25.4 X 236.22 millimeters; 256 pages .

New York: Walker & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light top edge soiling.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Abducted by B-movie-type thugs and whisked off to the 'Big House' for questioning, down-and-out reporter Igor Lopes must prove that he does not have a long-lost film, stolen from the home of a murdered movie mogul. ; 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.75 Inches; 190 pages .

New York: Crown. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Fading bottom edge front board, . browned page edges.. 2018. First US Edition. Hardcover. "None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing chalk figures or when they started to appear on their own? Was it a terrible accident? Or when they found the first body?" ; 9.5 X 6.5 X 1.1 inches; 288 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Second book in the Monkeewrench series. The Monkeewrench founders, along with Deputy Sharon Mueller, are driving from Minneapolis to Green Bay when their car breaks down in Four Corners, Wisconsin. Something terrible has happened in Four Corners, and the complete absence of life, together with severed phone lines in every building, makes it impossible to find help. ; 9.1 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches; 336 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark bottom edge book; . jacket with light scratches to back panel.. 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career: an unsolved murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow. ; 6 X 1.09 X 9 inches; 336 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Ira Lessing has been gone for two days. The upstanding citizen of Covington - son of a leading family, successful businessman, philanthropist, city commissioner - left his riverfront home on a steamy July night and never returned. His wife and business partner ask Harry Stoner to find him. ; 8.2 X 5.6 X 0.9 inches; 234 pages .

New York: Atria Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Small tear top edge front panel.. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. At the world's most exclusive law school, there's a secret society rumored to catapult its members to fame and fortune. Everyone is dying to get in. ; 9.1 X 5.9 X 1.1 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Harmony Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Edge wrinkling and rubbing to jacket.. 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London Tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue. 'I saved your life, ' he told the homeless youngster, 'so your life belongs to me now'. Sandor began to tell him a fairy-tale: an ageing prince, a kidnapped princess chained by one ankle, a missed rendezvous. But what did this mysterious story have to do with Sandor's preparations? Joe had only understood his own role: he was a gallowglass, the servant of a Chief..; 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 272 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket has light edge wear and tiny . tear to bottom edge of back panel.. 1988. First US Edition. Hardcover. British lawyer-detective Rosa Epton sets out to solve the brutal murder of Celica Kilby, a judge with many enemies. ; 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.4 Inches; 170 pages .

New York: Grand Central Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book is straight and tight with . browned edges; jacket with light corner wear.. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. More than twenty years after Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto went head-to-head in the shattering murder trial of Presumed Innocent, the men are pitted against each other once again in a riveting psychological match. ; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches; 407 pages .

New York: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Pages browned. Jacket with light . rubbing and edge chips. Author's only book.. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Policeman-artist John Valjohn looks for the female murderer of a number of men whose deaths have been caused by strange and inexplicable sexual mutilation. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 434 pages .

Ontario: MIRA. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Sally Harrington investigates the mysterious disappearance of Lilliana Martin, a beautiful Hollywood starlet, and the murder of the actress' ex-boyfriend. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 296 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Light fading along bottom edge; . remainder mark. Jacket lightly rubbed and wrinkled.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Patrick Hyde, a top operative for spymaster Sir Kenneth Aubrey, is hunted by a renegade CIA agent after witnessing the destruction of a Russian airliner designed to kill a prominent Soviet reformer. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 467 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Page edges browned; tiny spots of soil . top edge.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Struggling to make ends meet during his senior years, ex-UPI reporter Truman Kicklighter becomes involved in an investigation in which his friend, an Alzheimer's patient, is accused of murdering a successful gambler. ; 1.3 x 8.1 x 5.4 Inches; 281 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; 1987 Anthony Award nominee for Best . Mystery Novel. Both jacket and book have one teeny dent back cover. The . sixth Harry Stoner novel.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. While tracking down a missing football star-turned-murderer, hard-boiled detective Harry Stoner explores the sordid world of drugs among the rough players of Cincinnati's professional football team. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 251 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark bottom edge.. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are bored, since no one seems to be interested in killing each other any more. But the drought ends with two homicides in one night. The detectives' investigation threatens to uncover a series of horrendous secrets, some buried within the heart of the police department itself. The Monkeewrench team's cold-case-solving software may find the missing link, but at a terrible price. ; 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 352 pages .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket is rubbed, with light wrinkles . and flap crease.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Simon Young, an important English businessman living in Hong Kong, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly struggle between the KGB and the Chinese Secret Service, and learns that his wife, Jinny, is not what she seems. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 434 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. "The promise of discretion and pampering draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly elected congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the spa's flamboyant and ambitious owner has been murdered". In the tradition of such collaborative classics as Naked Came the Manatee and The Floating Admiral, each chapter in this serial novel is written by one of today's most talented female mystery authors: Nevada Barr, J. D. Robb, Nancy Pickard, Lisa Scottoline, Perri O'Shaughnessy, J. A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Mary Jane Clark, Marcia Talley, Anne Perry, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, and Laurie King. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 258 pages .