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New York: Warner Books, Inc. A Time Warner Company, 1998. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Light Yellowing Due to Age. RECOMMENDED READING BY THE NEW YORK TIMES. COVER DESIGN BY: Rachel McClain. BOOK DESIGN AND COMPOSITION BY: L & G McRee. AUTHOR: Ed McBain, AKA Evan Hunter. TV TIE-IN: This series of novels was the basis for the 1961 television series of the same name. SYNOPSIS: They hear the music of the streets. The breaking glass and the breaking hearts. They whistle tunes from twenty years ago, and follow a haunting melody of lies, truths, and clues... Someone played a little night music. What remained behind for the cops was the body of a woman who had once performed on the great stages of Europe, now with two bullets in her chest in the hallway of her apartment. For Carella and Hawes the long, dark night has just begun--while somewhere in the city, another woman is dying for the… Read More

Orlando: A Harvest Book An Otto Penzler Book Harcourt, Inc., 2006. Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 0606. AUTHOR: Ed McBain, AKA Evan Hunter. COVER DESIGN BY: Vaughn Andrews. DESIGNED BY: Kaelin Chappell Broaddus. TV TIE-IN: This series of novels was the basis for the 1961 television series of the same name. SYNOPSIS: Ed McBain's latest installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college professor trudging home from class, a priest contemplating retirement in the rectory garden, an old woman out walking her dog--these are the seemingly random targets shot twice in the face. But most serial killers don't use guns. Most serial killers don't strike five times in two weeks. And most serial killers' prey… Read More

Orlando: An Otto Penzler Book Harcourt, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 1194205. AUTHOR: Ed McBain, AKA Evan Hunter. JACKET DESIGN BY: Vaughn Andrews. DESIGNED BY: Kaelin Chappell Broaddus. TV TIE-IN: This series of novels was the basis for the 1961 television series of the same name. SYNOPSIS: Ed McBain's latest installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college professor trudging home from class, a priest contemplating retirement in the rectory garden, an old woman out walking her dog--these are the seemingly random targets shot twice in the face. But most serial killers don't use guns. Most serial killers don't strike… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books - Random House, Inc., 1990. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; "12" Stamped on Lower Edge; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Summer is no season for suicide - but murder happens all year round . . . Ed McBain, author of Lullaby. SUB-TITLE: An 87th Precinct Mystery. ALSO KNOWN AS: A portion of this book appeared originally in Playboy in different form. AUTHOR: Ed McBain, AKA Evan Hunter. TV TIE-IN: This series of novels was the basis for the 1961 television series of the same name. SYNOPSIS: When it's ninety-nine in the shade, every corner of the precinct goes crazy. But this case was crazier than most. Why did the alcoholic artist, who hated drugs in all forms, end it all with an overdose of sleeping pills? And why did he turn off his air conditioner in the middle of a killing heat wave? With partner Bert Kling fighting to hold on to a too-beautiful… Read More

Scarborough: A Signet Book from New American Library Times Mirror - The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1974. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. From the author of See the Woman - a brutally powerful, explosively authentic novel by a Los Angeles policeman that rips the lid off a cop's life and job! SUB-TITLE: A Novel. SYNOPSIS: LAW AND ORDER AS IT REALLY IS! Stryker was a good cop, one of the best. But Stryker was a hothead, ready to explode. The blood of two of his best friends on the Force was splattered all over the sidewalk. An endless tangle of red tape was tying his hands. And a killer was going scot-free in Los Angeles's teeming ghetto. Stryker's orders were to go by the book in hunting his man down. But Stryker was out to write a few new chapters of his own. Here is a tremendously exciting novel about the police as they really are… Read More

Scarborough: A Signet Book New American Library Times Mirror Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1973. Previous Dealer Markings (Store Stamp to Inside of Front Cover; Price Stamped to Lower Edges); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. OVER 50,000,000 CARTER BROWN BOOKS IN PRINT! BOOK NUMBER: T5496. SYNOPSIS: SHE WAS THE LAST OF THE RED-HOT MAMAS--And she was going to cause some red-hot trouble unless Lieutenant Al Wheeler turned up her daughter's killer. Mrs. Siddell had given her ultimatum to Wheeler and to the three biggest wheels in the syndicate. Deliver one murderer in forty-eight hours or Pine City would see the biggest blood fest in history. Al did his best. But with the syndicate on his heels and a pair of beautiful bods--one blonde beauty and one brunette vixen--chasing after him with love and murder on their minds,… Read More

New York: Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1988. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked. SYNOPSIS: When undercover narcs Ben and Barney are brutally worked over by drug dealers, they smell a set-up. Now they're out for justice - and revenge. But beneath the slick manoeuvers of these deputy-sheriff partners, beneath their old-buddy banter and clowning, lies a shared experience too searing to remember . . . except when sunlight on green leaves looks like camouflage, and Western sunsets run red with blood . . . Through the coarse, random violence of Montana's honky-tonks, Barney and Ben track their quarry. And when the beauty of the frozen peaks and clear blue water explodes in savage slaughter, the ex-Green Beret and the former Marine slip back into the graveyard rules they learned too well in the blood-drenched jungles of 'Nam - kill or die.. First Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.… Read More

London: Orion Books Ltd, 1997. Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: An Inspector Rebus Novel. REVIEWS: "I would be surprised to read a better crime novel during the rest of 1997" - Marcel Berlins, The Times. "Scots cop John Rebus, an outstanding creation, is enmeshed in a complex case involving dodgy police procedures, serial killers old and new, Glasgow gangland and the oil industry. Very ambitious and very confident" - Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph. "Rankin captures, like no one else, that strangeness that is Scotland at the end of the twentieth century. He has always written superb crime fiction . . . what he's also pinning down is instant history" - Literary Review. "A powerfully complex crime novel that offers a panoramic portrait of modern Scotland, from Glasgow gangland to the oil platforms of the North Sea" - Mail on Sunday. "Most intricate, involving a serial killer seemingly emulating the Bible John… Read More

New York: Zebra Books Kensington Publishing Corp., 2011. Spine Bumped; Light Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked. All New! First Time in Print! #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR. A Selena Alvarez/Regan Pescoli Novel. ISBN-10: 1-4201-0278-8. SYNOPSIS: APPEARANCES... A sad, strange coincidence...that's Dr. Kacey Lambert's initial response to the deaths of two women who bear an uncanny resemblance to herself. It's not like there was any real connection between Kacey and the B-movie actress or the elementary school teacher. But Detective Selena Alvarez suspects otherwise. CAN BE... One of the bodies contained traces of poison at the time of death. Selena and her partner, Detective Regan Pescoli, can find no motive for murder. But Kacey has started to nice ties between the dead women's lives and her own--all close in age, born within miles of each other. And all have links to Trace O'Halleran, the man Kacey… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books - Random House, Inc., 1998. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked. SYNOPSIS: Desmond St. John, the legendary, supposedly immortal Haitian voodoo priest known as the Hoodoo Man, is found bound to his bed. Six bullet holes forming a perfect cross have been drilled into his naked body. Homicide detective Lieutenant Starletta Duvall has her hands full tracking St. John's killer - and trying to keep her cool with NYPD Sergeant Lisel Werner. The icy blonde has her eyes on Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Mitchell Grant, just as his relationship with Star is heating up. He also seems more than familiar with their prime suspect, a convicted murderer. As the body count rises, Star finds herself caught in a web of voodoo, magic, and terror, artfully spun by a spellbinding killer . . .. First Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" -… Read More

Scarborough: A Signet Book from New American Library Times Mirror Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1974. Previous Dealer Markings (Store Stamp to Inside of Front Cover; Star Stamped to Lower Edges); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. OVER 50,000,000 CARTER BROWN BOOKS IN PRINT! BOOK NUMBER: T 5795. SYNOPSIS: SHE WAS BLONDE, BEAUTIFUL, NAKED--AND VERY DEAD! And it was Lieutenant Al Wheeler's job to find her killer. But first he had to find out who the dead doll really was. Which was how Al discovered that quiet, respectable Pine City was really a hotbed of freaky love triangles, neighborhood orgies, and industrial spies. Then the spies started peddling their secrets, and Wheeler started getting invited to the classiest orgies in town. It was obviously too good to be true--until the love-ins turned to out… Read More