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NY,NY.: Dodd, 1981. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in very lightly worn dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The third Harry Stoner title. Professor Lovingwell has lost some secret government papers and doesn't know how to find them. He knows where to find them, all right. He believes his daughter has taken them, so instead of going to the F.B.I. he hires Harry Stoner and advises him, " Get the documents back within a week or two, but don't let my daughter know she's being investigated." This message leads Harry into trouble, murder, and a mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Delacorte, 1989. 1st edition, March 1989, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best Private Eye Novel. A Harry Stoner title. "Fully realized characters, complex plots and excellent writing are the qualities that attract readers to Valin's series about Harry Stoner, private eye. In his eighth appearance, Stoner describes his assignment to find missing Ira Lessing, a businessman from Cincinnati, Ohio, beloved for his generous help to troubled teens. The detective is with Lessing's childlike wife Janey, and his partner, Len Trumaine, when they learn that Lessing's body has been discovered, brutally beaten. A punk teenager, Terry Carnova, not only confesses but boasts of killing Lessing, but Stoner isn't convinced. Terry's pathetic lover Kitty insists the murderer is "Tommy T," a male hustler who caters to masochists. With this information, the detective… Read More

N.Y.: Harper, 1996. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Cincinnati. A Sonora Blair thriller. "Hightower brings back Cincinnati homicide detective Sonora Blair, who investigates the case of a Tennessee woman, Julia Winchell, missing after coming to the Queen City for a small-business conference. Body parts discovered along the interstate appear to be the remains of the woman, who believed she had witnessed a murder when in college in Cincinnati, but a search failed to discover any evidence of a crime. Just before going to the conference, Julia told her sister that she had recognized the murderer from a picture in the Cincinnati paper--a prominent district attorney. Sonora reluctantly investigates these somewhat doubtful circumstances and finds a compelling trail of evidence that points squarely to the DA as the murderer. Proving her case against a well-respected public figure is the real… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1987. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper Collins, 1995. 1st edition, so stated. Pages age toned else fine in lightly soiled white dust jacket, not price clipped. The First Sonora Blair Mystery. Cincinnati locale. Shamus Award-winning Hightower (Satan's Lambs) introduces hardworking Cincinnati homicide cop Sonora Blair, a single mom of two who is stalked by a female serial killer obsessed with broken dolls and the act of cremating young male victims alive. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dodd Mead, 1980. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket with one very small tear at foot of spine, else bright copy. Author's first book, and the debut of the Harry Stoner series. An old man enlists the help of Harry Stoner when the sixteen-year-old girl who was living with him disappears, and the perplexing case turns into a nightmare of sexual depravity and terrifying violence. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Delacorte Press, 1995. First edition, February 1995, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Cindy Dorn's lover, Mason Greenleaf, is missing, and she feels his disappearance may have something to do with a former lover. With no evidence of foul play, the police won't investigate, so Dorn hires Cincinnati private eye Harry Stoner. Before Harry's inquiries can yield results, the openly bisexual Greenleaf is discovered dead, an apparent suicide. The police are too eager to wrap up Greenleaf's death; to them, he was just another screwed-up queer. Stoner and Dorn aren't easily dissuaded. As Harry backtracks through Greenleaf's life, the name of Paul Grandin keeps surfacing. When Greenleaf was a teacher and Grandin a student, there was a molestation scandal, but that didn't end the contact between the pair. The deeper Harry probes, the more he comes to realize that Greenleaf… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, lightly sunned at spine, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. In order to investigate a murder in a recently gentrified neighborhood of Cincinnati, detective Cesar Franck finds he must deal with angry contractors, entrepreneurs, and a self-serving community leader. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 1985. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Cincinnati police detective Cesar Frank. When Irving Golden, president of Golden Time Toys, is found murdered, Cincinnati police detective Cesar Franck is overwhelmed by the list of possible suspects. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. Book.