Search Results: Crime from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/About Very Good. Waer's debut mystery-thriller features Jim Fowler, an honest man in the somewhat dubious profession of gambling casino manager. Fowler accepts a position at a Mexico City casino and almost immediately finds that honesty tested by a bewitched roulette wheel; assorted beautiful women, most far from innocent or honest; an international crime ring; and a pair of murders. First Printing, First Edition. About 5 3/4 x 8 inches, 241 pages quarter bound in orange cloth over green paper-covered boards. Front cover has black graphic design denoting a roulette wheel, black lettering on spine. DJ's front panel repeats the cover graphic in lower right corner in black, white, green & orange; title and author in white. Back panel has b & w photo of author and brief bio. Boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked; binding tight and square. Not remaindered, not ex-library. DJ shows wear along edges, at… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. In the award-winning Child's 14th novel, Jack Reacher finds himself in the middle of a deadly confrontation courtesy of a South Dakota snowstorm and tour bus crash. He joins forces with a lone woman standing up for justice in a small town threatened by criminal forces that have commissioned a hit man at the same time his own enemies are closing in. Pages in first section of the book are lightly creased across the lower front corner, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket is close to perfect, perhaps a touch of edgewear, o/w no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped.

New York: The Ballantine Publishing Group, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The eighth novel in Smith's award-winning mystery series set in New Orleans and featuring Police Detective Skip Langdon. This time she's hunting for the husband of a city councilwoman and finds corruption and murder; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Dutton, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Fine. Parrish's fourth novel, set in Phoenix, Arizona, is the story of a woman who refuses to surrender, even in the face of a murder charge while fighting a wealthy family backed by a corrupt legal system.

New York: Knopf, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hyde's fourth novel is this tense account of the investigation of the murder of Dr. Diana Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, whose murder divides her family and the small Colorado town where she lived and died; small check mark and initial 'S' in upper corner of front end page, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Estleman's western novel based on the legend of Wild Bill Hickok won the 1982 Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America; a tight, clean copy in a dustjacket showing some rubbing and very minor chipping at edges; dj's white back panel and flaps are slightly browned. Scarce and Collectable.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Walters' eighth mystery-crime novel features a young London doctor, Sophie Morrison, trapped in the apartment of a known pedophile in a decaying, crime-ridden housing project as an angry mob storms the building searching for a missing child. A collectable copy in like dustjacket.

Toronto: HarperCollins, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Wright, the award-winning Canadian author of "Clara Callan," presents us this story about Daniel Fielding, a quiet, middle-aged editor, who risks everything for a few passionate moments with a young colleague at a book fair only to see his one act of adultery explode into incomprehensible violence; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Armstrong's sixth mystery-suspense thriller features Charlie Galloway, suspended Los Angeles Police detective, searching for the murderer of his Filipino housekeeper and finding a national political conspiracy; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in dustjacket showing minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The last book in Thomas' long career that began in 1966 with an Edgar Award for his first novel, "The Cold War Swap." This final novel features cashiered Army Major Edd Partain, a former Intelligence operative in Central America, who hires on to help Millicent Altford, a "rainmaker" adept at shaking the Washington money tree recover $1.2 million stolen from her secret war chest. Two pages lightly dogearred; inside cover and front end paper show faint traces where a book plate and address sticker were removed, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear.

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: Doubleday, 1996. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A mystery-crime novel based on the true crime murders of a rich Toronto man and his housekeeper by Grace Marks and James McDermott, other members of the household staff, in mid-nineteenth century Canada; text edges slightly soiled; dustjacket slightly edgeworn, no major problems.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel in Cornwell's widely acclaimed mystery series featuring Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief medical examiner; boards' upper corners slightly bumped, o/w a clean, tight, collectable copy.

New York: Scribner's, 1992. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third novel in Cornwell's award-winning mystery-thriller series featuring Virginia medical examiner Kay Scarpetta; First Printing of the First American Edition.

New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The sixteenth novel in Block's award-winning mystery-crime series featuring New York private detective Matthew Scudder, this time investigating the online lover of an acquaintance and finding himself the target of a vicious killer. A remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows a trace of wear at spine ends, else Fine. A collectable copy.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edgar and Agatha Award-winning Walker's fourth novel features true crime writer Molly Cates investigating two mysteries: the supposed suicide of her father 25 years ago and a plot to kill the members of the Texas legistature; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

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.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1965. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal k1547; an early MacDonald set outside Florida involving money and show business and murder; Later Printing of 1954 edition; one-reader text is clean, square, tight, lightly age-browned; photo wrappers show minimal creasing, surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1982. First Edition, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. MacDonald's novel of a rich woman's death and her former lover now desperately trying to find her killer before police settled on him as the murderer; Later Printing of book originally published in 1954; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only very slight surface and edgewear.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. One of the masters of domestic crime and suspense, Yorke's "Almost The Truth" reveals how an ordinary man, Derek Jarvis, and his family are destroyed by a home invasion in which his daughter is raped and how Derek plans a revenge for the rapist far beyond his British prison sentence. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; book appears unread in a dustjacket showing almost no surface or edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.