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Oakland: the Program, 2002. Handbill. Folder with label logo, includes the 1st place winner of the Chester Himes Black Mystery Writing contest ("Mystery of the Smoked Herring" by 11th Grade Skyline High School student John Lo), a Himes chronology, a profile of Hugh Holton reprinted from the Sept. 29, 2000 issue of Chicago Reader, an 'In Memoriam' for Nora DeLoach, various panel discussion overviews as well as a Program survey, Vol. 2, No 1 of "Friends of Chester Himes News," and more.
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7th Annual Chester Himes black mystery writers conference and awards program; Saturday,April 27, 2002 ... Oakland Museum of California
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Among the lost
by Davis, Robert
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San Francisco: Lost Books Press, 2009. Paperback. 198p., very good in wraps; signed by author on the half-title. Former Trotskyist pens a mystery involving Cuban exiles and Castro supporters in a tale featuring a Berkeley reporter in the 1960s.
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The Art Thief: a novel [signed]
by Charney, Noah
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New York: Atria Books, 2007. Hardcover. 290p., signed by the author very artfully on title page, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj.
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Behind the Badge
by Gronowski, Paul, cover illustration by Adam
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Santee: The Blueboy Library, 1977. Paperback. 184p.+ads, old black marker price on cover else a very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Blueboy Library 80034. "Los Angeles physical therapist Jack Morrison, 28, narrator of a mystery is in on the seizure of two snipers targeting LA police officers but does no sleuthing." Gunn page 243.
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Berrigan; a novel
by Lox, Ginger [pseudonym of Vicki P. McConnell] cover design by Tee Corrine
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Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1982. Paperback. 160p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Grier A**.
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Big Gun for Hire
by Anonymous
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New York: Star Dist, 1988. Paperback. 149p., very good first printing PBO in explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Young Stallions YS-115. Gay Detective Petrovich Pasternak. Not in Gunn.
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The Black Marble Pool
by Leventhal, Stan
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New York: Amethyst Press, 1990. Paperback. 131p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Surrogate sleuth, unnamed, a NYC music critic in Key West, in a murder mystery involving a straight business man posing as gay. Gunn page 191.
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Blind Fall: a novel
by Rice, Christopher
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New York: Scribner, 2007. Hardcover. 288p., very good first edition stated in boards abright, unclipped dj. Fourth of Stan and Anne Rice's son. He also wrote for The Advocate. Murder mystery featuring gay characters and Marines.
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Bloodhound Detective Story Magazine: vol. 1, #9, Jan. 1962: Two O'Clock Blonde
by Boardman, Tom, editor & publisher, James M. Cain, Evan Hunter, Craig Rice, Frederic Brown, Fletcher Flora, et al.
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London: T.V. Boardman, Ltd, 1962. Magazine. 128p., very good digest size magazine in pictorial wraps.
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A Body to Dye For
by Michaels, Grant
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Paperback. 241p., very good later printing in pictorial wraps. Stonewall Inn Editions. First book by the gay mystery writer featuring Stan Kraychik, an ex-psychologist, now hairdresser.
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The Book of Lies
by Picano, Felice
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London: Little, Brown and Company (UK), 1998. Hardcover. 423p., very good first UK edition in boards and unclipped dust jacket. Violet Quill author. This novel is a literary mystery concerning an unknown writer who was a member of the Purple Circle (Violet Quill?) of gay writers in the 1970s.
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The Bottle Ghosts: a Dick Hardesty mystery
by Grey, Dorien
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San Francisco: GLB Publishers, 2003. 233p., very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Sixth Dick Hardesty mystery, this one concerning the disappearance of five gay alcoholics. Gunn page 150.
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Brawney Hunk
by Stone, Mitch, cover by Adam
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No. Hollywood: Arena Pub, 1984. Paperback. 181p., toning to covers and margins, Green Door bookshop stamps inside else a good reprint in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Power Force Series PF-140. Mitch Stone was a House Name for various reprints from a variety of writers. Bisexual characters.
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A Bullet in His Cap [aka Murder Comes to Dinner & And Death Drove On]
by Fleming, Robert
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New York: Quinn Pub. Handi-Book Mysteries, 1942. 143p., 4.5x6.25 inches, very good pocket-book in stapled red pictorial wraps. Introduces 200 pound hungry-man detective Simon Crole. In 1943 this was republished as "Murder Comes to Dinner" in a hardcover edition. The Handi-Book series offered extremely cheap editions (fifteen cents) of new mysteries.
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Burning down the house; a Nick Hoffman mystery
by Raphael, Lev
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New York: Walker & Company, 2001. Hardcover. 290p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Fifth novel in the series. Mystery featuring gay sleuth Nick Hoffman. Gunn page 211.
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Burning Girl: a novel
by Neihart, Ben
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New York: Morrow/Rob weisbach Books, 1999. Hardcover. 245p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Sophomore effort from the author of "Hey, Joe" a violent, treacherous, sexual dance between a blue-collar student and the wealthy brother and sister who may be murderers.
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A Case of Rape
by Himes, Chester, with a postscript by Calvin Hernton
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Washington: Howard University Press, 1984. Hardcover. 140p., very good first trade hardcover edition (following the limited Targ edition), red cloth boards in unclipped dust jacket spine sunned to yellow.
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The Chesapeake Project a novel
by Horn, Phyllis, edited by Ann Klauda
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Tallahassee: Naiad, 1990. Paperback. 206p. + backlist, stamped Review Copy on first page else very good first edition stated trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Crossdressing lesbian crabber flees from her father's murderers to find work with an African American waterman on Chesapeake Bay.
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Children in a burning house
by Soesbe, Douglas
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Pound Ridge, NY: Knights Press, 1987. Paperback. 221p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. A murder mystery where the murderer is the detective and the mystery is the story of the murder victim.
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Clarice Dyke, the female detective
by Rockwood, Harry (pseudonym of Ernest Avon Young)
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New York; Chicago: Butler Brothers, [188-]. Paperback. 133p. paperback, pages toned, old damp stain through a substantial part of the textblock; not musty. Covers chipped at edges. A reprint; there is some dispute about the novel's first appearance, though the 1883 edition from J.S. Ogilvie apparently predates this. The Electric Series, no. 18. Patricia Craig and Mary Cadogan cite this novel as the first to feature an American female detective ("The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction").
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