Search Results: Mystery 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: 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: 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: 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.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Connors' first novel is this highly-praised legal thriller featuring Martha "Marty" Nickerson an assistant district attorney for Barnstable County on Massachusetts' Cape Cod, who wins a guilty verdict in a murder case only to discover the real killer may still be at large and ready to kill again; check mark and single initial in corner of front end page and small indentation on fore edge of back cover, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows small tear at same place as indentation in cover, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear.

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.

New York: Villard Books/Random House, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Lovett's highly-praised mystery series featuring Santa Fe forensic psychiatrist Sylvia Strange. Collectable.

New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The ninth novel in Shamus Awarding-winner Healy's mystery series featuring Boston private detective John Francis Cuddy; bottom of spine of both book and dustjacket bumped, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. A very young Sherlock Holmes, a member of the cast performing Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' in New York City, is invited to dinner with Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become New York City Police Commissioner, and both find themselves investigating a murder later that night in Grammercy Park. A well-received pastiche as Jeffers adds his name to list of those seeking to fill the holes in Holmes' life left blank by Conan Doyle's original stories; a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text and a small, faded area at the base of spine, o/w boards and text are clean, tight and square; the dustjacket shows four small tears at the base of the spine (carefully tape-repaired from the inside), o/w only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. the thirteenth novel in Beaton's highly-praised mystery series featuring eccentric, middle-aged sleuth Agatha Raisin, investigating the murder of the village's new curate. Scarce.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The twelfth novel in Beaton's well-praised cozy mystery series featuring cranky, middle-aged Agatha Raisin. Her marriage to James Lacey is over, having lost him to God and a monastary after his miraculous cure from a brain tumor, so Agatha throws herself into the investigation of the death of a young bride, whose body has been found floating in the river. Suicide, the police say; never, says Agatha. The text and boards are clean, tight, and square; the dustjacket shows only very minimal edgewear. A collectable copy.

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: 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: Pocket Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Farrell's first novel introduces aspiring actress and part-time private detective Annie McGrogan serving as bodyguard to a soap opera star whose husband is murdered in a sleazy East Side New York apartment; spine slightly cocked o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Pocket Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. Farrell's first novel, which introduces Annie McGrogan, New York City actress and part-time private detective.

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, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. the fifth novel in Spencer-Fleming's highly-praised mystery series set in northern New York and featuring Episcopal minister Clare Ferguson and Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne; an unread, collectable copy in like dustjacket.