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N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Hinge crack'd, else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. When beautiful Michelle Harper is found brutally murdered and her husband is charged with the crime, lawyer Matthew Hope becomes involved in the case, which leads him into the tawdry world of Gulf Coast "social clubs". 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dutton, 1996. 1st edition, February 1996, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. " Prosecutor Sam Hagan is known for being a straight arrow, so he's the perfect choice to investigate a potentially explosive case and dismiss it for lack of evidence. Or so think both his boss, the Miami DA, who has his eye on national office and doesn't want controversy, and the city manager, who's courting the tourist industry. The plaintiff is a young model who claims that several men, including a well-connected local businessman and a football player turned actor, raped her. Hagen believes the girl and, despite political pressure, pursues the case. The stakes are raised when several of the witnesses and participants are murdered. Meanwhile, the prosecutor's marriage is cracking under the strain of his son's recent death, a situation worsened as he learns devastating details about his son's life… Read More

NY: St. Martins, 1985. 1st Am. ed. About fine in dj, lightly rubbed, a few nicks. [Eric ward title].. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Atheneum, 1989. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in an acid-free archival acetate cover. The divorce of an affluent and argumentive couple in Wyler, Indiana, turns nasty when the husband is found murdered and the wife flees, sweeping attorney Andrew Broom into a murder defense. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1957. 1st ed. Very light residue at two spots on front cover that actually make the red cover even brighter. Near fine dust jacket, unclipped ($2.95 price intact), small closed tear at front, and light chip out at foot of spine, lightly soiled. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1966. 1st ed. slight spine slant else about fine in dj, light wear along edges, couple of tiny nicks, one tape repaired tear. Not price clipped ($3.50 price intact).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Morrow, 1962. 1st ed. Very minimal edgewear else near fine in dust jacket with price intact, $2.95, very light wear at head and foot of spine and damp stain at rear of jacket only. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1968. 1st edition. About fine in dust jacket with small piece out at head of spine, not price clipped but previous owner wrote in pen a new price over the printed price. A widow in distress, her attentive, very wealthy swain and his overly-protective nieces and nephews provide Perry Mason with one his most challenging cases.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1961. 1st ed. Ex-library copy with stamps and tape reains. Dust jacket is slightly trimmed and wrinkled at rear. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Book.

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1955. First edition. Yellow boards with black lettering. Tape remains at covers and inside flaps and endpapers. Someone stamped "First Edition" on front endpaper. Dust jacket is very lightly rubbed, not price clipped, $2.75 price is intact, in protective mylar cover. Jacket illustration by Bill Hughes. The naked and the very dead...The blonde wandering nude at the Remuda Gold Club tells Perry Mason a strange story. She says that while she peacefully sun-bathed near the course, someone made off with her Cadillac, her trailer, and all of her belongings -- including her precious diary. The woman blames the police who suspect her of having stashed away nearly half a million dollars allegedly stolen by her father, who is now in prison. She swears that both she and her father are innocent. So who is bankrolling her leisurely lifestyle? Why is she so desperate to find her diary? And who, if not Mason's beautiful client, would murder a key witness? In a virtuoso courtroom… Read More

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Co., 1946. First printing thus, March 1946, so stated. A Tower Mystery #T-371. Light wear at edges, covers lightly soiled, pages age toned, else very good in dust jacket, small pieces out at head and foot of spine and top corner, wear at folds ese good-very good. [Perry Mason; Los Angeles, CA] When two men change bedrooms at a house-party, everyone thinks that the sleepwalker with the carving knife killed the wrong man.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/Good-Very Good. Illus. by Gunter. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Jove Pubns, 1992. 1st edition, March 1992. Light reading crease else about fine copy. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. San Francisco. Charlie Spotted Moon -- Attorney-at-Law. He's an American Indian with a degree in law and a special gift for detection. What kind of man leaves women's corpses on the door steps of San Francisco's rich and famous?. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking, 1987. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. A great mystery series set in New Orleans. Assistant D.A. Denise Lemoyne & her journalist fiance.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. British courtroom drama.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking, 1987. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. From the author's of A Project Named Desire. A great mystery series set in New Orleans. Assistant D.A. Denise Lemoyne & her journalist fiance.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Publishers letter laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 2002. 1st edition, June 2002, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Attorney Noah Richards is offered a change of scenery: a stay in a brand new house on the shore near Seattle, with the best of two worlds--a wide view of the Cascade Mountains over the water and neighbors comfortably close. But his paradise crumbles early on as a group of Native Americans lay claim to the land that a new development, Edward's Bay, is on as well as the fishing rights and Noah finds the body of a murdered Native American law student who had been researching the claim.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY with publisher's printed review slip laid-in. FIRST Whitney Logan novel. "Whitney Logan is eight months out of law school at UCLA and owes her landlord $850, so she's not too picky when a well-dressed brunette walks in off the street and offers her $1000 in cash to look for a missing Guatemalan maid. What follows in this promising first novel is a rough-and-tumble mystery-thriller that moves from run-down movie lots to immigrant barrios to Baja Mexico and back. Logan is one tough attorney--her idea of relaxation is dumbbell presses at Gold's Gym--but immigration law is not one of her strengths. Neither is the Los Angeles underclass, so she hires as her guide Lupe, a street-smart hooker in a red mini-dress, and the result is a partnership that transcends their differences, and that is handled… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1992. 1st edition, July 1992. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. . The 2nd Attorney Rachel Gold mystery. "Chicago attorney Rachel Gold is sent to St. Louis, her old hometown, to see whether she can prove that Stoddard Anderson, managing partner of the local office of pedigreed law firm Abbott & Windsor, was insane when he killed himself--thus providing a bigger payoff for his widow Dottie, who needs every penny. The background questions about Anderson--for instance, why did he quadruple his accident insurance only a few months before he died, and what was he doing for the three days between disappearing from home and slitting his wrists in an airport hotel?--fade when Rachel learns from gallery owner Remy Panzer that Anderson had promised to help smuggle a jewelled golden cast of Montezuma's penis into the country. Aided by the likes of funky law prof Benny Goldberg… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first in the Martha Patterson series. "Talk about starting with a bang. While retired and widowed lawyer Martha Patterson is still being warned against ``the Mother Teresa syndrome'' in her new job at West Brooklyn Legal Services, one of the paralegals bursts into the office bleeding from a head wound; he's been mugged, says Carlos Quinones, by three men who stole the rent-strike money he'd just collected from The Building. Hours later, just after Martha gets off the phone with Tessie Doone, a tenant of The Building whose Social Security checks have stopped coming, crazy Wilma Oberfell stalks into the office claiming ``I don't know whom I can trust'' before following Martha home, then skulking away. And the next day, when Martha goes out to The Building to talk to Tessie, she runs into Wilma again,… Read More