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London: Pan Books Ltd Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. By the bestselling author of The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. RADIO/TV TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for various radio and television productions. SYNOPSIS: What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza--not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge). To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it then read it)--or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Douglas… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Lightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage. Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Missing. SYNOPSIS: This, the final volume in a series that has been delighting the world since 1920, will be acclaimed by Hercule Poirot's legion of admirers as probably the best of all, even while saddening them because it is to be his last appearance. In Curtain the wheel has come full circle, and the little Belgian detective is back one more at the country house where he made his bow in Agatha Christie's first detective story, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Styles is now a guest-house, and Poirot one of the guests. He invites his old friend Hastings to join him there, and confides the professional reason for this ultimate reunion. Among those at Styles is someone responsible for several murders, yet someone the law cannot touch. Poirot is reluctant to name his suspect. But… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Light Sticker Pull; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Heavy Yellowing Due to Age, Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: After 55 years on the best seller lists, Agatha Christie remains without peer as creator of edge-of-the-seat entertainment. And just as Dame Agatha occupies a special niche in the literary annals of our century, so too does her fictional sleuth, Hercule Poirot, whose remarkable "grey cells" place him alongside Sherlock Holmes as one of the immortals of detective fiction. Poirot made his debut in 1920 in The Mysterious Affair at Styles. More than a generation later, he meets his final challenge in Curtain, in which he confronts the most fiendishly clever murderer of his long career. The little English village… Read More

New York: Berkley Books published by The Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2003. Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Yellowing Due to Age. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SYNOPSIS: Back in 1969, a lot of young people were hitting the road and disappearing. More than one of them wound up dead--including the girl in daisy-patterned pants who was found in a quarry off Highway 1 in Lompoc, the victim of multiple stab wounds. Eighteen years later, she's still a Jane Doe--and the cops who found her are still haunted by the case. Anxious to solve it, but no longer in their prime, they turn to Kinsey Millhone for help. If nothing else, they'd just like to identify the body. But this ice-cold case heats up more quickly than they expect. And for Kinsey, it will lead to a lot of dangerous discoveries--including some about her own past... Sue Grafton lives in Montecito, California, and… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Author of 'F' is for Fugitive, Sue Grafton. SUB-TITLE: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery. BOOK NUMBER: 27991-2. SYNOPSIS: Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and slippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The jury believed it was his pretty young wife Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years. Now, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Millhone's in for trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover who really killed her husband. But the trail is eight years cold, and at the end is a chilling twist even Kinsey doesn't suspect--a second eight-year-old murder and brand-new corpse. Sue Grafton has written novels, articles, short fiction, a screenplay, and numerous teleplays. She has also lectured on writing at colleges and conferences in Southern… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Light Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked. If only I hadn't kidnapped the dog... but the ransom paid the mortgage... Now I seem to be a private eye... II shouldn't have listened to that ghost... A Mystery from the Mississippi Delta. SYNOPSIS: Meet Sarah Booth Delaney... An unconventional southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi...if it doesn't make her the deadest. No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end up in Sarah Booth's situation. Unwed, unemployed, and over thirty, she's flat broke and about to lose the family plantation. Not to mention being haunted by the ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny, who never misses an opportunity to remind her of her sorry state--or to suggest a plan of action, like ransoming her friends' prize pooch to raise some cash. But soon… Read More

Greenwich: A Fawcett Gold Medal Book - Fawcett Publications, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Edge Staining); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A Travis McGee Adventure. BOOK NUMBER: T2494. SYNOPSIS: The wench was dead - but Travis McGee was backtracking her wild, sad tail through the bizarre world of the hippies and drug freaks who had found haven in Mexico. McGee would need all his cool, all his insight, to live up to the estimate of the rich and beautiful woman who perhaps held the key to the puzzle. "You disconcert me," the woman said. "Perhaps it is part of your cleverness, part of practicing an illusion, to be so muscular, so fit, and to have about you a kind of indolence, a flavor of amusement. You are more complex than the kind of man who is paid to strike a ball with a stick, or to fly to another star. You have a living style that contents you." Contentment? Not this trip . . .… Read More

New York: A Borzoi Book - Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Travis McGee Novel. BOOK NUMBER: 3296. SYNOPSIS: Travis McGee is back! One of the most popular heroes of contemporary fiction - the beach-bum savant whose affairs, travails, and triumphs, recounted through twenty best-selling novels, have thrilled and delighted millions of readers around the world - now plunges into one of his most exciting adventures. The disappearance of a lavishly appointed custom-built yacht . . . the brutal murder of a Peruvian debutante . . . the sloppy "accidental death" of a Florida real estate tycoon . . . These are the pieces of the puzzle Travis McGee must fit together to save his own life. Because it's clear that someone - Travis doesn't know who, or why - is… Read More

J. B. Lippincott Company, 1979. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Heavily Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Rear Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Spine Heavily Faded Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Travis McGee Novel. SYNOPSIS: Harry Broll crawls out of the past, waving a gun and accusing Travis McGee of spiriting away his wife. Mary Broll and McGee had once been very close. Now, according to Harry, Mary has disappeared from their Florida home - vanished without a word to anyone. There is something about Harry's story that doesn't ring true, and when Travis and his friend Meyer learn about Broll's dubious land speculations and discover a comely divorcee stashed away in one of Harry's unsold condominiums,… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Spine Heavily Faded Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Novel. SUB-TITLE: The Twentieth Adventure of Travis McGee. BOOK NUMBER: 1024. SYNOPSIS: The twentieth adventure of Travis McGee. In his newest novel, John D. MacDonald takes us on a harrowing search for a man who has brought tragedy into the life of Travis McGee's long-time friend Meyer. Meyer has lent the John Maynard Keynes to his niece, Norma, and her new husband, Evan Lawrence. But out in open water in the Florida Keys the boat is destroyed by an explosion. Apparently Norma and Evan are alone with one crew member when it happens. An anonymous phone call shortly after the explosion claims that a… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1982. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Faded Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Novel. SUB-TITLE: The Twentieth Adventure of Travis McGee. BOOK NUMBER: 06134182. SYNOPSIS: The twentieth adventure of Travis McGee. In his newest novel, John D. MacDonald takes us on a harrowing search for a man who has brought tragedy into the life of Travis McGee's long-time friend Meyer. Meyer has lent the John Maynard Keynes to his niece, Norma, and her new husband, Evan Lawrence. But out in open water in the Florida Keys the boat is destroyed by an explosion. Apparently Norma and Evan are alone with one crew member when it happens. An anonymous phone call shortly after the explosion claims that a Chilean underground organization is responsible. Some say the… Read More

J. B. Lippincott Company BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover, Pocket; Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Heavily Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The New Travis McGee Novel. SYNOPSIS: That waterfront knight-errant Travis McGee is never one to turn away an old friend in need - especially if that old friend is young, lovely, and looks like she hasn't slept for three days. Her name is Carrie Milligan, and at 3 a.m. she turns up on McGee's houseboat with an ordinary box filled with an extraordinary amount of cash - $104,200, to be exact - in old bills all tied up in neat little bundles. She just wants McGee to hold the cash in safekeeping until she can pick it up, no questions asked, and McGee gets ten grand off the top for his trouble. If she… Read More

Toronto: Harlequin Books, 1951. Previous Owner Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Rear Cover Lightly Chipped; Front Cover, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: From the moment Lee Dedrick, husband of the fourth richest woman in the world, disappears, believed kidnapped, Vic Malloy of Universal Services is snarled up in a vicious vortex of murder, glamorous women and violent non-stop action. The curtain goes up on the sprawled, lifeless body of Dedrick's chauffeur, shot to death by an unknown hand. A frightened and lovely brunette flits across the scene, but vanishes almost immediately, shooting from a well-turned hip. Five hundred thousand dollars ransom is paid over to the invisible kidnappers, but Lee Dedrick is not returned. The whole of the country as far north as San Francisco and as far south as Los Angeles joins in the hunt for the kidnappers. Nick Perelli, gambler, is framed for the kidnapping and is… Read More