Search Results: Mystery from Bytown Bookery

Readers Digest. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Stapled wraps. Stapled wraps with light overall soiling to the covers. In very good- condition. Four stories ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 48 pages .

Pan / Fawcett. As New. 1998. Paperback. 0330281992 . Mass Market Paperback in As New condition. Tight, bright & unmarked. "Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, invests only in sure things. Now he is about to involve it in a £5 million stallion. Top breeders reckon it's the safest bet in racing, but racing is riddled with dubious dealmakers - people to whom no bet is safe until it's paid in blood. "; 6.77 X 4.33 X 1.10 inches; 256 pages .

London, England: Robert Hale. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hard Cover. 0709024258 . BLack cloth like boards / white lettering on spine. A small sticker scar on the front free end-paper, otherwise a very good++ copy. The DJ is unclipped, shiney, with minor edgewear and small mark on the front cover. Highlights from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Stories from Asimov, Carr, Fraser, Gilbert, Greene, and many more. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 384 pages .

Dell. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1960. Mass Market. Mass Market Paperback, scuffing and creasing to the covers, interior is clean and a slight cocking to the right. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 160 pages .

New York: Dover Publications. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1976. Trade Paperback. 0486233375 . A Trade paperback in very good+ condition. Glossy boards with little wear to the cover edges. Faint pencil underlining on a few pages. "Dee and associates solve three interlocked cases. Led to van Gulik's own stories with same characters. Extensive introduction. "; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages .

Toronto, Ont: Seal Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Mass Market. 0770421296 . Mass Market Paperback in very good+ condition. Squared, tightly bound with an unmarked interior. A nice copy. Interior pages have browning to the edges. "Jean and her sister Colette find their lives put in turmoil by the return of a Japanese pianist whom they both idolized as adolescents . "; 0.7 x 6.8 x 4.1 Inches; 206 pages .

Berkley Trade. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2003. Trade Paperback. 0425190218 . Trade Paperback copy. There is light scuffing and edgewear on this copy with a creasing along the top half of the front spine hinge. A black remainder mark on the bottom text block and a few pages have light rippling on them. "During a murder investigation in Taneysville, Massachusetts, it's not long before anonymous crosswords start pouring in--but even with so many clues, Belle and Rosco find that in this old-fashioned hamlet, not everything is black and white. "; Crossword Mysteries; Remainder; 0.8 x 8 x 5.2 Inches; 311 pages .

Harper Paperbacks. Very Good+. 2000. Paperback. 0380813734 . Trade Paperback in Very Good condition. A tight binding with a clean, unmarked text, moderate cover wear. "Tormented P. I. Matt Scudder enters the terrifying sex-for-sale underworld as he tries to make a connection between the murder of a socialite and a twisted couple who makes "snuff" films." ; Matthew Scudder; Vol. 9; 8.06 X 5.08 X 0.77 inches; 304 pages .

New York: M. S. Mill Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1962. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Book club Edition. Grey boards with red lettering on spine, bottom front corner bumped, previous owner's blind stamp and date on front free endpaper. Clean, tight copy. DJ has creasing on spine edges, scuffing and chipping on spine ends. Two one inch tears on front cover, jacket has smudging. Stratton was personally chosen by the Massachusetts State Police to undertake the series of mystery noves of which The Decorated Corpse is the first. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 190 pages .

Toronto, Ont: Insomniac Press. Fine. 2004. Trade Paperback. 1894663756 . Trade Paperback in Fine condition. A tightly bound copy with a bright, unmarked text. Very light cover wear. "Detective Russell Quant is faced with personal threats he can't ignore, a friend who may be a foe and a cagey client with a treacherous monkey on his back." ; Vol. 2; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 299 pages .

New York: Detective Book Club. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Green hard boards with black lettering on the cover and spine. Small sticker scar on the front cover and some fading on the cover. The interior is clean & bright, solidly bound. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 195 pages .

Alfred A. Knopf. As New in As New dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 0307269752 . Black hard boards in As New condition. The DJ is also in As New condition with very light edgwear to the bottom covers. A Book Club edition. "Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family - the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan." ; Millennium; Book Club Edition; Vol. 1; 1.6 x 9.6 x 5.7 Inches; 465 pages .

New York: The American Merucury. Fair with no dust jacket. 1949. Trade Paperback. B001DKHJM8 . Trade Paperback, this copy is in fair shape with edgewear, a small piece missing of off the spine bottom and chipping on the spine top, there is fading on the covers, offsetting on the inside of the inside of the covers. ; A Mercury Mystery; Vol. 149; Cover Art; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 128 pages .

New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0380978180 . First Edition, Blue boards, black spine covering. Some light fingerprint smudging on front and back cover. Very clean, tight copy. DJ is not price clipped, and has some staining on the inside of the front cover and slight edgewear. "Every year, on January 19th, in Baltimore, a mysterious person visits the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, leaving cognac and roses. This year Private Eye Tess Monaghan is present, along with her boyfriend, Crow, and they hear the gunshot that kills the mysterious visitor, or does it? "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 310 pages .

Sceptre. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1999. Paperback. 0340752416 . Trade Paperback with scuffing to the covers, edgewear and a clean interior with a solid binding. ; 1.02 x 7.72 x 5.04 Inches; 343 pages .

London, England: Hutchinson. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0091452600 . Black hard boards / silver lettering on spine. Small bump to botttom front corner and a smudge on top edge. Very clean & tightly bound. DJ is unclipped with minor edgewear and small amt of sticker residue on front cover." Charlie Muffin returns. Boozier, scruffier and more sour than ever, he has unwittingly stumbled into the midst of a tricky little plot by British Intelligence to unmask a mole in their Embassy in Rome - and an even trickier little counter-plot by the KGB to ensure that they don't. Charlie could easily get killed, for he is the pawn both sides are happily prepared to sacrifice. But Charlie Muffin is one pawn that can't be taken so easily." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages .

Knopf Canada. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0676976158 . Pink hardcovers / gilt titles to the spine. First Edition, First Printing (number line) . Tightly bound with a bright unmarked text, bumping to the spine ends. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper. The DJ is unclipped with light tanning to the spine and a small stain to the cover inside top edge. "When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded by an old friend to visit the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later under very different circumstances. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a death which, from the first, is fraught with complications." ; 9.40 X 6.20 X 1.60 inches; 371 pages .

Penguin (Non-Classics). Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1975. Paperback. Mass Market paperback in very good condition. An unmarked copy with a solid binding. Light scuffing and edgewear to the covers, one smal crease to the spine. "Here at last is the truth about Sherlock Holmes and his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Interpreting clues so obvious, so "naked" that most readers overlook them. Critics agree that this book is the most scintillating piece of literary sleuthing to appear in years." ; 1 x 7 x 5 Inches; 253 pages .

Napoleon and Co. Very Good. 2002. Paperback. 0929141849 . A Trade Paperback in Very Good++ condition, tightly bound and unmarked with very moderate cover wear. "When an old man dies a seemingly natural death in a parking lot, only Inspector Michael Green finds it suspicious. A search of his house turns up an old tool box with a hidden compartment containing a German ID card from World War II. Was the victim a Jewish camp survivor or a Nazi soldier trying to escape imprisonment?"; 7.40 X 5.10 X 0.70 inches; 264 pages .

Toronto, Ont.: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0394280717 . First Canadian Edition. Blue hard boards, with silver title on spine. Previous owner's name written neatly on front paste down. Some edgewear on spine ends and corners, a light crease down the spine, with a clean interior and a solid binding. DJ unclipped, still glossy, top of spine has some chipping and there is edgewear on bottom spine. "An Adam Dalgliesh novel, set against the backdrop of the publishing world. Commander Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary ingenuity and complexity, and a murderer who is prepared to kill again. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 426 pages .