Search Results: Amateur Sleuth from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fourth novel in Hornsby's mystery series featuring independent Los Angeles filmmaker Maggie MacGowen. A collectable copy.

New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. McCleary's first novel is this well-received historical mystery featuring Nellie Bly, the leading woman journalist of the late-19th and early-20th century and considered by many to be the first female investigative reporter. Bly is sent by her newspaper to cover the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, where a mysterious killer -- The Alchemist -- is stalking the streets and a plague epidemic is striking down thousands. Bly enlists a group of historical characters to help in her search for the killer, including Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde and Louis Pasteur. This is a first rate evocation of 1890s Paris and a masterful first novel by McCleary. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a small, quarter-inch tear at the lower corner of the front panel, o/w the dj is free of tears, creasing or chipping. It is not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Clark's tenth mystery/thriller features sisters Laurie and Sarah Kenyon. Laurie, kidnapped and abused as a child, has developed multiple personality disorder and now stands accused of the death of a college professor, while Sarah has left the prosecutor's office to defend her sister of the murder charge. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fifth novel in Spencer-Fleming's award-winning mystery series set in New York's Adirondack Mountains and featuring Episcopal Priest Clare Fergusson and Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne, this time with Van Alstyne dealing with his own wife's murder. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. The fitth novel in Spencer-Fleming's award-winning mystery series featuring Russ Van Alstyne, police chief of a small Adirondack town, and Clare Ferguson, the town's Episcopal priest; small remainder dot on the bottom edge of the text and two small ink spots on fore edge, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The third novel in Wilcox's mystery series set in New York's Finger Lakes region and featuring journalist T.S.W. Sheridan; boards and text are clean, tight, square, appear unread; dustjacket shows some slight edgewear.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fourth crime-thriller from Walker, whose first three novels won Edgar, Anthony, Hammet, Agatha and Macavity Awards, features Texas true crime reporter Molly Cates re-opening the investigation of her father's 25-year-old suicide to face an unexpected moral dilemma and to discover a homeless woman's story about a plot to destroy the state legislature is true. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The mostly black dustjacket shows a touch of surface and edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine to Fine. The 26th novel in Daheim's cozy mystery series set in Washington's Cascade Mountains and featuring the small town of Alpine's weekly newspaper, "The Alpine Advocate," and its editor, Emma Lord. This time in the midst of a heat wave, Emma and her staff must deal with a young woman who comes to the Advocate's office to announce her parents have been murderer; a house & home editor who won't speak to the rest of the staff and then disappears; and a man, too long dead to identify, who surfaces at the town dump. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 330 pages in black, paper-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel shows pictorial banner across middle with a July 4th/American flag illustration on left, a skull decorated with floral design in the center and a mountain stream on the right. Lettering is red and… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fifth novel in Piesman's mystery series featuring Nina Fischman, quintessential New Yorker, now pushing forty and with an adoring boyfriend, but he's got problems --like the corpse found in his car; a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Scarce.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. For a number of years Heilbrun, a tenured professor of English literature at Columbia University, kept her identity as "Amanda Cross," the author of a series of witty, literary mysteries (featuring an amateur sleuth, Kate Fansler, who was also an English professor0, concealed from the public, afraid it might compromise her work at Columbia. Heilbrun's identity was discovered by a mystery fan searching copyright records. This book is a collection of 10 Cross/Heilbrun short stories, most previously published in magazines or in other short story collections. Most are Kate Fansler stories. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete number line). About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 184 pages in dark grey paper-covered boards with a green backstrip and gold lettering on spine. Includes an introduction by the author. Dustjacket's front panel features background photo of ivy and statuary behind a centered box with yellow borders… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fourth novel from the author of "Mariette In Ecstasy" and "Desperadoes," was nominated for the National Book Award. It is the story of a sixty-seven-year-old Colorado rancher's investigation into the death of his son in Mexico where he came to claim his son's body and found himself rejecting suicide and suspecting murder. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows a touch of edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. If quantity is the sole determinant for champion crime writer, Creasey, who wrote over 600 crime thrillers under more than 20 pseudonyms is the easy winner. Using the pen name, Anthony Morton, Creasey wrote 47 novels featuring The Baron, aka John Mannering, international antiques dealer and Scotland Yard consultant. The series also became the basis for a Tv series. This book is the 34th in the series and finds the Baron fuming in a jail cell, accused of murder and jewel theft, while family and friends follow his direction to find the real killer. First printing, first U.S. edition (Scribner's code: "A-4-67 [V]" on copyright page). 5 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches, 192 pages in bright orange cloth-covered boards with blue lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel shows shadowy blue figure carrying pearl necklace in one hand, hammer in the other, against an orange and black background. Lettering in white and orange.… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Another best-selling mystery and legal thriller from Patterson, this book features Jack Mullen, a New York City law student investigating the death of his brother in the ocean off East Hampton, summer playground of the super rich.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver collaborated with mystery writer Resnicow on this humorous baseball mystery featuring the Brooklyn Bandits and the Jersey Boomers. Front endpaper, half title and title page have a single light crease o/w text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket showing only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The seventh book in Parrish's mystery series featuring Dan Mallet, English West Country handyman, poacher, lover, and detective. Collectable.

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The seventh novel by Parrish in his mystery series set in rural England and featuring ex-poacher and general handyman Dan Mallett; date written on title page, two small stains on copyright page, o/w clean and tight in dustjacket showing only very minor rubbing and edgewear.

New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The ninth book in Meier's mystery series featuring housewife, mother and amateur sleuth, Lucy Stone, this time trying to make the connection between a ninety-year-old woman's birthday and a lawyer's murder. Text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket has telephone number in ink on front flap o/w clean, nearly perfect. Scarce.

New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Greeley's indomitable Bishop Blackie Ryan is the logical, in fact, the only choice, of Chicago's Archbishop Cronin to investigate the disappearance of a new bishop and the L train that went missing with him. Text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket showing minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: J.B. Lippincott Co.. Hardcover. Very Good. A collection of three early Ellery Queen mysteries, selected by a book club editor for the extraordinary circumstances of the murders or the investigation. "The Siamese Twin Mystery" (1933) sees Ellery and his father, Richard Queen, investigating the murder of a doctor while on their vacation, on a mountain top, and surrounded by a forest fire. "The Chinese Orange Mystery" (1934) features an unknown murder victim found with all his clothes on backward in a publisher's office where all the furniture is arranged backwards as well. "The Spanish Cape Mystery" (1935) is described by Queen himself, once again on holiday, as the "problem of the undressed man," which followed the "kidnapping of the wrong man, " a collosal error by Captain Kidd. All three of these early books feature the "challenge to the reader" where Queen invites the reader to solve the crime. There is no copyright date for… Read More

New York: Leisure Books/Dorchester, 1997. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. A small town thriller from an under-appreciated master of the mystery-suspense novel. The book features nineteen-year-old Ben Tyler who's learned a dark and ugly secret that could destroy his life and everyone he loves; text is clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show very minor surface and edgewear. Quite Scarce.