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New York:: Harper Collins,, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. A very funny first novel, a story of literary fraud - satire combined with gripping suspense. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp.

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2001). Very good.. 1st trade paperback printing. A very funny first novel, a story of literary fraud - satire combined with gripping suspense. 254 pp.

New York:: Hyperion,, (2011). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Historical novel by this award-winning author set at Cambridge University in 1786 - a former bookseller and the author of a book entitled 'The Anatomy of Ghosts," John Holdsworth, is sent there to discover why a young man who has descended into madness believes that he is being haunted. 410 pp plus author's note.

New York:: Doubleday,, (2009). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Another literate bibliomystery, set in a "dark gothic universe" in Barcelona, Spain, by the author of "The Shadow of the Wind." Translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves. 531 pp.

Santa Barbara:: Perserverance Press - John Daniel, , (2002.). First edition -. Fine (as new). First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover. Lora Roberts first book (published in 1988 as Lora Roberts Smith) featured Bridget Montrose. Now Bridget is back - and she has been invited to attend a writers' retreat on the California coast near Santa Cruz. A fun read - as are most of her books.

Santa Barbara:: Perserverance Press - John Daniel, , (2002.). SIGNED first edition -. Fine (as new) Promotional materials laid in.. First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover. Lora Roberts first book (published in 1988 as Lora Roberts Smith) featured Bridget Montrose. Now Bridget is back - and she has been invited to attend a writers' retreat on the California coast near Santa Cruz. A fun read - as are most of her books. SIGNED on the title page.

Santa Barbara:: Perserverance Press - John Daniel, , (2002.). SIGNED first edition -. Fine (as new). First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover. Lora Roberts first book (published in 1988 as Lora Roberts Smith) featured Bridget Montrose. Now Bridget is back - and she has been invited to attend a writers' retreat on the California coast near Santa Cruz. A fun read - as are most of her books. SIGNED on the title page.

New York:: Dodd, Mead,, (1983). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (book appears unread, but some rubbing to the dust jacket.). First US printing. Stewart was an Oxford academic who wrote his literate and witty mysteries under the Innes pen name; this features a classic locked room mystery set in the library of a country estate. 198 pp

London:: Gollancz,, 1973.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. In a small West Country village Priscilla Pringle, a modestly successful writer of clerical detective stories, becomes involved in an ingeniously constructed plot - to drive a man whom she considers mad to murder. While she is busily manipulating him, he is laying a foundation for blackmailing her. Fortunately Sir John Appleby is visiting in the neighborhood also. 192 pp.

New York:: Scribner's,, 1988.. Hardcover -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Book club edition. Barnard's 16th mystery - "Caroline and Roderick Cotterel live a quiet life in Sussex with their grown, retarded daughter and Roderick's senile, bedridden father Benedict, a once-famous and notorious novelist. But when Roderick's half-sister Cordelia asks to visit and look through Benedict's papers, things liven up. Their father's illegitimate daughter, she is writing a biography of her mother, Dame Myra Mason, a renowned actress whose rancorous break-up with their father had been much publicized. The biography will be more in the line of an expose , and no one is surprised when Dame Myra herself shows up to put a stop to it." Nor is anyone surprised when she is found murdered. (Publisher's Weekly)

London:: Collins,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.. First printing. Barnard's 16th mystery - "Caroline and Roderick Cotterel live a quiet life in Sussex with their grown, retarded daughter and Roderick's senile, bedridden father Benedict, a once-famous and notorious novelist. But when Roderick's half-sister Cordelia asks to visit and look through Benedict's papers, things liven up. Their father's illegitimate daughter, she is writing a biography of her mother, Dame Myra Mason, a renowned actress whose rancorous break-up with their father had been much publicized. The biography will be more in the line of an expose , and no one is surprised when Dame Myra herself shows up to put a stop to it." Nor is anyone surprised when she is found murdered. (Publisher's Weekly) 183 pp.

New York:: Putnam,, (2009). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. First David Loogan novel. An engrossing bibliomystery, SIGNED on the title page and dated 8-1-09, in the year of publication. 338 pp.

New York:: Kensington,, 1997.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dustjacket.. First printing. The 4th mystery set in Empty Creek, Arizona and featuring Penelope Warren, ex-Marine, Peace Corps veteran and now bookstore owner, and her 25 pound Abyssinain cat, Mycroft (Big Mike.)

New York:: Viking,, (2005.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First US printing. The first book in a new series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. 383 pp.

London:: Hodder & Stoughton,, (2005.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The first book in a new series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. SIGNED on the title page. 398 pp. plus 3 "ads."

New York:: Viking,, (2005.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First US printing. The first book in a new series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. Promotional postcard laid in.

New York:: Viking,, (2005.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First US printing. The first book in a new series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp.

New York:: TSR,, 1988.. Reading copy only - spine creases, wear to covers.. Paperback. Murder at the science fiction con - winner of the Edgar for best paperback original.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1994.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (upper corners of covers bumped, otherwise tight and clean, tear to dj at upper edge of back cover near spine.). First printing. A Black Mask Boys mystery told in the voice of Dashiell Hammett, the first in a series. SIGNED on the title page. Author's afterword. 215 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1990) . Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a a good dustjacket (overall edgewear to the dj, some short closed tears). First printing. A bibliomystery, set in a picturesque English village. Faron has devoted her life to her late father's work, and now after years of declining popularity, it is on the rise again - but while she is on a lecture tour in England an old friend of her father's is found murdered. 264 pp.