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N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. 1st pbk printing, February 1950. . Dell Mapback #377, block edges dyed bright green, reading crease else very fine, bright, tight beautiful copy. Rear Map of "The Comstock Mansion Where / an Innocent Hoax Explodes/ into Murder". Kingsford, CT. Vintage Paperback. A double mystery and a triple murder involving something bigger than money, deadlier than passion, and more dangerous than ambition! All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Giles, F. Kenwood (?). Vintage Paperback.

Garden City: NY: Crime Club D'day, 1930. 1st ed. One tiny spot at rear cover else a fine, bright copy in a Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket, lightly worn at extremities, lightly sunned at spine. A house with no owner -- an open grave -- a ghost without a face -- and a ruthless murderer! (Who wouldn't want to rent that house!). First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1995. Uncorrected Proof. Printed wrappers lightly soiled. "Wiltse's fifth thriller to feature FBI agent John Becker (Into the Fire, etc.) effectively paints nearly every main character as the elusive serial killer preying on young women in the commuter hamlet of Camden, Conn. The rain-swollen Saugatuck River floats a bone into a local backyard, prompting the attention of the vacationing Becker and his old friend "Tee" Terhune, the town's police chief; Becker's assessment that the bone is human is confirmed by nerdy local orthopedist Stanley Korn. After marks on the bone reveal that the body it belongs to was cut in pieces before burial, an upriver search turns up a charnel house of companion bones in the loose soil of a Christmas tree farm. A prime suspect arises when Tee gets anonymous tips that one of his officers, the loathsome McNeil, who likes to sleep with high-school girls, is involved in the killings. Meanwhile, Becker's wife, Karen, an FBI honcho… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 3rd Edwina Crusoe, R.N., medical mystery, New Haven, CT. Wealthy, attractive nurse Edwina, newly married to detective Martin McIntyre of New Haven's Homicide division, is now a PI specializing in medical cases. She's asked for help by flaky Mona Weissman, whose doctor father shot himself to death in his locked car, engine running. Mona doesn't believe it's suicide; neither does Weissman's secretary, Marcia Larsen, with whom he'd had a long-running, extramarital affair. Meanwhile, the police are preoccupied with the escape of psychotic killer Craig Fellowes from his hospital bed shackles in Chelsea Memorial Hospital, where other bizarre things are happening--the killing of Marcia Larsen in her late boss's ransacked office and the disappearance of a genius researcher who needs the bodyguard provided by his millionaire father.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Holt 1980 1st ed. Fine in dj, Conn. setting.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: McKay-Washburn, 1977. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1., pages showing age darkening as usual, else Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. jacket rubbed at extremeties , else near fine. l. Author's first book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Old Tappan, NJ, U.S.A.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. 1st ed. very light wear at edges, stains at inside covers and eps, else very good in near fine dj. Adey #1242. (Locked room title). 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Berkley Books, 1958. 1st pbk printing. Berkley G-160, [,35 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. Photo cover. Very minor wear else a near fne copy. Collection of 12 stories "more daring and revealing than Peyton Place". All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Vintage Paperback.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1993. 1st edition, October 1993, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, ightly rubbed at head and foot of spine, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Nurse Edwina Crusoe's pregnancy has given her an appetite for oysters and limburger cheese--an unfortunate combination. But at least not lethal, as is the bullet that kills the wife of Dr. Victor Clarke. The doctor himself survives a separate attack and remains unconscious in New Haven's Chelsea Memorial Hospital as two of his attending nurses are killed. Clearly, someone wants Dr. Clarke dead. Edwina, on maternity leave, is restless and decides to investigate. Her probe into the general practitioner's life yields several mysteries: an empty house, a personal history that reaches back only a few years, a fanatical devotion to charity and an adopted son with a weak alibi and a strong motive for murder. Edwina is helped, as usual, by her husband, a former cop… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st ed. with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The first Edwina Crusoe, R.N., medical mystery at the venerable Chelsea Memorial Hospitalin New Haven, CT. The heated custody battle between two couples over the true parentage of 10-year-old Hallie Dietz takes an unexpected turn when, minutes after the remarkable results of a tissue match are in, the lab technician and a teenage volunteer are shot and the records disappear. So Chelsea Memorial Hospital in New Haven, Conn., pressures Edwina , to take on the unenviable tasks of preventing scandal and of providing medical background for the police force. But when the child in contention is spirited away from the hospital before retesting can be done, the intrepid Mrs. Crusoe, with little regard for either legalities or her own safety, sets out to find the skeletons in the families' respective closets--and comes close to losing her life in… Read More

N.Y.: Abelard-Schuman , 1960. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket, wear along edges, several short closed tears, rear panel lightly soiled. Not price clipped, $2.95 intact. Connecticut setting. Cassiday wrote many Vintage Paperbacks & Short Stories for magazines but this is his only hardcover book. he man's skull had been beaten in. He was found floating in Coldwater River by an immigrant German fishing in the stream. The only clues to his identity were a laundry mark on his shirt and the results of a chemical analysis of his stomach contents. Coldwater was a quiet commuter town where violent crime was rare. But Captain of Police James Ripperman and his small team felt the pressure as lead after lead ended in a tangle of frustration. But no sooner had the floater's identity become known than maneuvers began to force him to close the case, and Ripperman uncovered the cancerous vein of violence and lust running beneath the placid surface of the seemingly idyllic community .... First… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Fawcett, 1991. 1st PB printing, so stated, January 1991. A fine unread copy of the 2nd title in the long-running Susan Henshaw series. Down-to-earth housewife Henshaw is turning forty -- and feeling ancient. Adding insult to injury is the return of gorgeous local hussy Dawn Elliott, rumored to have slept with half the married men of quiet Hancock, Connecticut. To lift her sagging spirits, Susan's loving husband throws her a surprise party. But one guest gets the surprise of her life -- or death. Dawn Elliott is found murdered. And Susan herself is the prime suspect . . .. First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Walker, 1985. 1st ed. with complete number line. fine in dust jacket. Soon after moving into their new home on the Connecticut shore,(Westport), commercial artist Bert Kurrie and his new wife, Jan, stumble onto the corpse of fellow artist Beau Jassminsky and find themselves potential targets of a killer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1996. 1st edition, April 1996, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag, the ghostwriter who often stumbles into celebrity murder (The Man Who Cancelled Himself), is trying to enjoy the quiet country life in Connecticut with ex-wife Merilee and their baby when trouble roars up on a motorcycle. It's Hoagy's old friend Thor Gibbs, a legendary author who began with the Beats and lately trades in male-backlash writing. Thor has run off with his wife's daughter, Clethra, a lovely but apparently empty-headed 18-year-old. Hoagy agrees to take them in and help Clethra write her stormy story. When Thor's body is found in a pond on Hoagy and Merilee's farm, suspicion falls on the abandoned wife, a pioneering feminist. Other suspects include Clethra's father, his gay lover, Clethra's other boyfriends and a crew of local rowdies.… Read More

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st ed., September 1990. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. "The prosperous, inbred community of Raven's Wing, Conn., is the setting for McShea's engaging and spirited first novel. Mildred Bennett, 58, returns to her childhood home in Raven's Wing to recover her bearings after her pompous husband leaves her for a younger woman. But the body of a middle-aged woman is soon found nearby, and vile-tempered retired police chief Forrest Haggarty, 73, is convinced that the death is the latest in a string of serial murders dating back to the 1940s. While local authorities deride Forrest, he, Mildred and two other longtime Raven's Wing residents discover evidence that points to one of five pillars of the community as the killer. The four not-quite-past-their-prime sleuths attack the mystery head on, and with a distinct lack of subtlety, swoop… Read More

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1948. 1st pbk printing, September 1948. Dell Mapback #244. Vintage paperback. Front cover by Gerald Gregg. Rear cover map by Ruth Belew, which shows "Valliant Electrical Works/ Scene of the Murder," formerly owned by Homer Valliant, now operated by Ledco Corp., Welham, Conn." A near fine, tight copy without lamenation, light edgewear. The novel concerns factory workers' rights to unionize. A private eye, Hank Hyer is called in to find out who killed the plant manager, the former owner of the factory until he lost it during the depression. The author's real name was Rudolf Kagey, a professor of philosophy at Columbia University. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Gregg, Gerald and Ruth Belew. Vintage Paperback.

New York: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY. "The latest case for the Hometown Heroes of Raven's Wing, Conn., lands the quartet of senior-citizen sleuths in a series of tragic, unpredictable murders. Dr. Trevor Bradford asks fellow Hero, Mildred Bennett, to visit a distraught patient whose oldest son, a seminarian, has just died, apparently of autoerotic asphyxiation. Louise Cannivan tells Mildred about a phone call she received suggesting that her son's death was murder and asks the Heroes to investigate. Reluctantly they agree and visit the seminary where the dead boy roomed with the Heroes' protege, Cameron Maine (seen in The Pumpkin-Shell Wife ) . Beginning with this slender thread, McShea weaves an intricate mystery involving a disillusioned priest, an angry father, a blind veteran firefighter and the Heroes in escalating homicide before the pattern is completed. Readers may quibble over the tenuous connection between the group and their latest… Read More

N.Y.: Random House, 1973. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Bridgeport, CT setting. 391 pgs." A compelling tour de force, Howard's ( Expensive Habits ) latest novel shows this immensely talented writer at her inventive best. Her glance keen and her hand sure, Howard depicts the Irish Catholic Bray family: county detective Billy Bray, his gentility-obsessed wife Nell, their son, reckless and charming James, and their daughter, pious and pudgy Catherine. Howard gives their lives solidity and depth against the background of her own hometown, Bridgeport, Conn., a city so accurately and specifically rendered that readers with a map could pinpoint every reference to streets, restaurants, stores, churches and movie theaters; social nuances are revealed with equal clarity. The fuguelike first section traces the movements of each of the Brays on one Saturday during WW II, when James breezes through a clarinet lesson, Cath is humiliated at a Girl Scout jamboree, Nell strives to achieve family… Read More

NY: Dodd, Mead, 1977. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine copy in very lightly used dust jacket, not price clipped, $6.95 price intact, with protective mylar cover. Connecticut setting. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.