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N.Y.: St. Martin 1993, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. Andrea Perkins, art restorer, is in Southern California on a commission at the Huntington Museum. "Top-notch characterization, authoritative use of setting and an accelerating pace more than make up for this mystery's slow start. In the pristine, fenced garden of a Los Angeles museum, a vandal defaces a statue and a homeless man is shot. Murder and vandalism are nothing new to L.A. residents, but these crimes take place in San Marino, an upscale suburban-like enclave. LAPD plainclothes detectives Tina Roberson and Eduardo Lopez learn that the victim had been a chronic gambler, called Goochie after the Gucci shoes he favored. Meanwhile art restorer Andrea Perkins (seen last in The Balmoral Nude ), arrives at the museum to recondition Gainsborough's Blue Boy , and winds up sharing guest quarters with the other primary players in the case. Coincidence abounds as Andrea figures in the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf, 2001. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 5.5 x 8.25 inches, part of Carroll & Graf's 'Novella' series, An Otto Penzler Book. 87 pages. From the marbeled precincts of New York's uptown museum scene to the galleries and lofts of trendy Soho to a gated Mafia mansion on the platinum coast of Long Island, Lustbader's novella sweeps Tess Chase into the perilous pursuit of a long-lost painting by Renaissance master Raphael.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Doubleday, 1989. 1st edition, June 1989, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "This is the fifth in the series by A. E. (for Ann and Evan) Maxwell, the husband-and-wife team whose Just Enough Light to Kill was enthusiastically received in 1988. In this saga, hard-nosed, worldly private eye Fiddler breaks again with his wife Fiora and leaves their California home for Santa Fe, art capital of the Southwest. At the Olin Nickelaw Gallery, Fiddler meets artist Maggie Tenorio and the gallery owner, whom the detective distrusts instinctively. Nickelaw, having paid a million dollars for a recently discovered painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, puts on a gaudy presentation, drawing a monied crowd and some sharp operators. Suspecting Maggie and Olin of fraud, Fiddler goes after proof, thereby endangering the life of his beloved Fiora as well as his own. The story is unnerving, mesmerizing and, when relief from fierce tensions is required, blessedly… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1989. 1st edition, June, 1989, so stated. Near fine in dust jacket. The husband-and-wife team's fifth Fiddler mystery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: UK: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. 1st ed. Page edges browning as usual, else near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped ( £8.95 price intact) protected in myylar covering. 1944 Italian Campaign. Cpt, Edmund Brudanell is given a secret commission from a very special source -- King George VI himself. He is being sent to the front to help preserve the art treasures Of Italy.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 1994. 1st. US edition, so stated, with complete letter line ABCDE. Fine in dust jacket. "Art dealer Jonathan Argyll has delivered an overpriced Titian (The Titian Committee, LJ 9/1/93) to the Moresby Museum in Santa Monica, expecting to receive a check momentarily. During a museum party to announce the acquisition of a Bernini statue, however, someone murders the museum's opinionated billionaire owner. When Argyll's acquaintance, a shady Spanish art dealer who may have smuggled the Bernini statue out of Italy, becomes the prime suspect, Argyll calls upon Italian art squad investigator Flavia di Stefano for assistance. Art history, literary language, and wry humor realize another auspicious combination." -- Library Journal. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Atheneum, 1980. First edition, fine in fine dust jacket, very lightly sunned at top edge, not price clipped, $9.95 intact, with protective mylar cover. Artist/ amateur sleuth, Persis Willum. Persis takes a reluctant leave from her art gallery to serve as a board member of the troubled Waldheim Museum on Long Island. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Crown, 1999. 1st American edition, so satated with complete number line beginning with 1. . Fine unread copy of this Trade paperback in self folding wraps. (Originally Published in Great Britian 1997). Features heroine Sam Jones. Sexy, savvy sculptor-turned-sleuth Sam Jones attracts trouble like she does men. When her sculpture Thing III is unveiled at a swank reception in the atrium of a London bank, a dead body crashes the party. From there, events take a distinctly dangerous turn. Our rubber-clad heroine hardly suspects that in a few days she’ll be embroiled in a hot affair with a BMW-driving, Kensington-dwelling stockbroker—the shame of it! Forced to hang out with a pair of spoiled, anorexic rich girls and their unsavory entourage of “friends” as she unravels the facts behind the murder, Sam finds herself unwillingly pulled into a twisted world of drugs, blackmail, and trust funds -- one that seems to spell disaster for high society’s darlings. By the end of the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, Incorporated, 1989. 1st ed; fine, tight copy in bright dust jacket. His 3rd title. A brutal machine gun massacre at a seaside resort kicks off a deadly hunt for a priceless ancient artifact. And while NYPD detective Teddy Lucas chases searing love and Greek cop Maj Andreas Vassos pursues an obsessive passion, the toughest case of their careers could get them slammed into a New York City sidewalk. 339 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Walker, 1994. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Lightly soiled at page edges else about fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book. Art dealer Alix Thorssen gets involved in a murder investigation when her brother-in-law is arrested for a murder on the Salish reservation in Montana. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, Inc., 1998. 1st North American edition, so stated, 2nd printing. A fine copy of the trade paperback. WINNER of the NED KELLY PRIZE FOR CRIME FICTION, Australia's Edgar Award. Angelo Agnelli has been Minister for the Arts for twelve hours and already artists have started killing themselves. Or so it seems when Marcus Taylor's body is fished from the Arts Centre moat. Was it really an act of protest over the state of arts funding? And what's the political damage if the suicide note becomes public? The career of Murray Whelan, minder and general dogsbody to the hapless Agnelli, hangs by its usual slender thread. If he can put the fix in here, he might have a chance of staying employed. But as Murray soon discovers, in the world of culture vultures they don't just sit around waiting for you to die before they start tearing the flesh off your bones.. 1st Ed. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Mignon Thibeaux, a sucessful New York City artist returns to a small town in Louisiana to investigate, what everyone says is a haunted house. A DEBUT NOVEL.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: Headline, 1995. 1st ed., slight spine slant, with light soiling at page edges else near fine in dj. Art dealer Tim Lacy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1984. 1st ed. Not for Resale stamp at top of pages, two lines drawn at page edges else near fine in dust jacket, chipping at spine ends, a couple of closed tears . 2nd Amos Hatcher-art historical detective work.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1984. First edition, so stated. Tiny rubbed spot at head of spine else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. INSCRIBED COPY. Short inscription by Banks at half-title page; ""for - - / Best wishes, / Oliver Banks." 2nd Amos Hatcher-art historical detective work. The murder of a New York art dealer leads Amos Hatcher to Rome and to a killer obsessed with the sixteenth-century artist Caravaggio . Inscribed Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: St Martins Press, 1992. 1st edition, March 1992, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, a couple of tiny nicks at spine heel, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. small nick at head and foot of spine. 2nd Soho art dealer Rhea Buerklin. Shocked by the murder of one of her clients on the steps of the Venice Opera House, Rhea sets out to find the truth.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Newmarket Press, 1997. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "Swan's hardcover debut features a fiendish plot by clever manipulators of the international art market: someone has begun destroying Cezanne's 26 known self-portraits. The first incident occurs at the National Gallery in London, so New Scotland Yard's Jack Oxby takes charge. As the scene shifts from London and Reigate to St. Petersburg, Boston, and Provence, the villains and their carefully woven web of deceptions slowly emerge." -- LJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Knopf, 1997. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Photographer Andre Kelly is on assignment in the South of France when he decides to spend his free day in Cap Ferrat visiting some former clients, the Denoyers. As he arrives, he witnesses Claude, the Denoyers' hired man, loading a precious Cezanne into the back of a beat-up plumber's van. Deciding that something is amiss, Andre photographs the event and thus becomes involved in a wild escapade to track down the painting. When he explains the situation to Lucy, his agent and soon-to-be love interest, they decide that they need some expert help and call in Cyrus, a wealthy art dealer, who smells a scam. Add in a scoundrelly art dealer and his daffy lover, an art forger, and a former French Legionnaire, and the trail to the lost Cezanne becomes a comedy of errors. Along the way, there are vibrant descriptions of Paris, Provence, Cap Ferrat, and of course… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1989. 1st ed. Very light wear else a fine, tight copy of this PAPERBACK ORIGINAL with advertising card still intact. Both an EDGAR AWARD & SHAMUS AWARD Nominee. An artist's model has committed suicide, or so it appears. A neurotic artist had painted pictures using Taylor Adams as the model; now he's dead. Is she involved? enter a surreal underworld where art is obsession and death an easy vice... San Francisco. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

London: Headline, 1996. Fine in dj. Art dealer Tim Lacy. 1st ed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.