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London: Head of Zeus, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A debut thriller about missing girls. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by Blok on the title page.

London: Head of Zeus, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A murder mystery. The author's second book. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by Blok on the title page.

Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A complete set of the limited edition reprints of Cornell Woolrich's 1940s noir detective novels with the word "black" in the title. All six volumes have new introductions. The books are The Bride Wore Black (introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz); The Black Curtain (Jack Seabrook); Black Alibi (John Pelan); The Black… Read more about this item

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A detective novel set in Vancouver, British Columbia's Chinatown. The main character, Donegal Dawn, is a mysterious amateur detective and master of disguise called in by the police to solve particularly perplexing cases. Dawn is particularly adept at passing unnoticed in the Asian quarter of… Read more about this item

Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Fourteen short stories, published in an edition of 320 copies signed by Stefan Dziemianowicz, the author of the introduction, as well as the jacket artist (Matt Mahuris) and the cover designer (Jacob McMurray). 485 pages. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket, with very minor corner wear.… Read more about this item

London: Bantam, 2000. Advance Reading Copy. Trade paperback. Near fine. The UK advance copy, preceding the first edtion, of the fourth Jack Reacher novel. Labled "book proof" on the front cover. Minor wear to the corners, thus near fine.

London: Bantam, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The true first edition of the sixth Jack Reacher novel. While Lee Child is British, his protagonist Reacher is an American ex-military police officer. Most of the Reacher novels were first published in the US, but there are exceptions, like this novel, which came out in the UK on April 1,… Read more about this item

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Constable Evans mystery. Set in Wales. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine hardcover in fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to Otto Penzler, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the editor of the Kwik Krimes anthology that included a… Read more about this item

New York: St Martin's, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first Constable Evans mystery. Set in Wales. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine hardcover in fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to Otto Penzler, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the editor of the Kwik Krimes anthology that included a… Read more about this item

New York: New York University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A nicely incribed copy of the author's first book, a sort of road/crime novel. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author to the founder of the Mysterious Press, Otto… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. A Gerry Barnes, private detective novel, featuring his girlfriend Paula Grant. Bowen was a prolific writer in many genres; he is probably best remembered for his Dave Dawson boys series. First edition (no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a very good to near fine… Read more about this item

New York: Mysterious Bookshop, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. In the 2000s, New York City's Mysterious Bookshop, owned by Otto Penzler, published a series of stand-alone pamphlets with short essays by noted crime writers about the origin stories of their best-known characters. This set includes both the lettered (26 copies) and numbered (250 copies) issues of this collected… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2015. Hardcover. Fine. One of 948 signed and numbered copies of this runaway crime fiction bestseller. A fine copy in maroon cloth with a quarter-leatherette spine. In a near fine, lightly scuffed slipcase. This is no. 447 of 948 signed by Flynn.

London: Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first book in one of the most popular of recent murder mystery series. This tale of four amateur sleuths solving crimes from their retirement homes has been optioned by Stephen Spielberg, who plans to direct the film adaptation. First edition (first printing, with "001" on… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A mystery novel featuring the private detective Castagnetti. Set in Italy. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author and dated on the title page.

London: Orbit, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A thriller. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Child on the title page.

London: Bantam Press, 2019. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First book in the Black Sun trilogy, and the author's, a war correspondent, first book. First UK edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Sphere, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Sphere, 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the title page, with a quote from the book (signed and lined).

London: Sphere, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.