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

New York: Villard Books, 1990. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fifth of Diehl's thrillers is this historical spy-thriller set in the months just prior to World War II. The Nazis have recruited an actor whom they believe is the perfect spy for a mission known only as "27." Hunting the perfect spy is an American playboy, an ex-bootlegger, driven by revenge. Top and bottom of text show a few light stains, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only some minor surface and edgewear. At 559 pages, this is a large, heavy book and may require additional postage depending on destination and priority.

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: 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.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The nineteenth novel from perhaps the greatest master of spy-thriller fiction is the story of Ted Munday, former British spy now a seedy Bavarian tour guide, and his friend and fellow Cold War spy, Sasha, now a sometime university lecturer who's found a billionaire backer prepared to lift them both out of poverty and provide a way to set the world back on the right path; the text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minor rubbing. A collectable copy.

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: Mysterious Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. the last novel in Thomas' long line of highly-praised suspense/thrillers; previous owner's name on front end page, o/w Fine in like dustjacket.

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: 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. 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.

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: 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: 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: 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: Bantam Books, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The fifth novel in Shamus Award-winning Straley's mystery series featuring Alaskan private detective Cecil Younger, this time aboard a cruise ship investigating the controversy surrounding the ship's doctor; page 39 is dogeared o/w text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket with very slight surface and edgewear.

New York: Warner Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Lindsey's eleventh suspense thriller investigates the repulsion/obsession relationship of a sculptor and his model; As New and Unread.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Scooter Libby's first and, thus far, only novel, written in his relatively peaceful years as a managing partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm before becoming a presidential assistant to George W. Bush and chief of staff and national security advisor to Vice President Cheney, followed by his 2007 conviction and later commutation on charges of perjury. This is a crime-thriller set in a blizzard in northern Japan in 1903 and features the apprentice, charged with running a crowded inn in its owner's absence, and who becomes involved with a group of mysterious travelers and is plunged into a storm of passion and violence resulting in murder. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket exceptionally free of surface and edgewear. Very Collectable.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1974. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback; Gold Medal 3544; one of the spy-thriller novels in Aarons' Cold War adventure series featuring U.S. agent Sam Durell, this time on an assignment in Brazil's danger-filled Amazon jungle. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show minor creasing and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1982. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. an adventure-thriller set in the Canadian oil fields by the author of "The Guns of Navarone," and "Where Eagles Dare;" mass market paperback; First Printing of the First Fawcett Crest Edition; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear; Very Good to Near Fine.

New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1982. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. An adventure-thriller from the author of "The Guns of Navarone," "Fear Is The Key," and "Where Eagles Dare." First Printing of the First Fawcett Crest Edition. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third novel in Anthony and Agatha Award-winner D'Amato's mystery series featuring Hispanic Chicago Policewoman Suze Figueroa. A collectable copy in like dustjacket.