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NY: Mysterious Press, 1986. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Third Macklin title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Forge, 2007. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE.DJ has tiny paper slash to back cover. Amos Walker, Vietnam vet private eye in Detroit, Michigan, is featured in the latest entry into this American classic series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Kansas City: MO: Andrews & McMeel, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj, lightly rubbed. Father Koesler title. When a man confesses to Father Koesler about murdering a priest, Father Dunn, the new priest at the rectory, overhears the conversation and challenges the seal of confession, which guarantees silence.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2001. 1st prtg. A few dog-eared pages else near fine copy of this trade paperback. Hard-boiled. Detroit setting. A Det. Sgt. "Fang" Muleheisen title. James Crumley called the book "without a doubt one of the finest novels ever written--smart, funny and completely convincing. I've re-read the novel a dozen times....it's one of my favorites".. 1st Prtg. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book.

Kansas City: MO: Andrews McMeel Pub, 1991. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. Father Robert Koesler, Detroit's Catholic priest and amateur sleuth, returns in Kienzle's latest snappy mystery. When a prostitute wearing a nun's habit is shot to death, it seems the intended victim may have been the dead woman's sister, who is in fact a nun. When a church finance officer who wants to shut down inner-city parish schools is murdered, homicide cop Alonzo Tully wonders if a serial killer is on the loose or is someone targeting members of the Detroit archdiocese? Suspicion centers on a married ex-priest eager to return to active ministry, and on a postal clerk, leader of an ultra-conservative grop that wants to "get the Church back on track." Tully, of course, leans on Father Koesler for churchly insights that will help crack the case. While the improbable ending is a letdown, earlier suspense, witty characterizations and candid exploration of the Church's inner workings make this… Read More

N.Y.: Ballanntine Books, 2000. 1st trade paperback edition, October 2000, so stated. Page edges tanned else about fine. If you see him you will not know him. If you greet him, it may be too late. For every image you have of a murderer--he will defy it. And he will make you pay. . . A woman haunted by a tragedy in her own past, homicide lieutenant "Bloody Mary" Cunningham now tracks an elusive killer who, like an apparition, materializes out of nothing, then escapes into the folds of night. The victims are all black, stabbed repeatedly, their lifeless fingers folded around a single cookie--black on the outside, white on the inside. Mary knows she is not searching for just another loser with a knife. The man she is looking for is smart, a self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner who doles out brutally swift justice to racial sellouts, plotting murders with cool precision. But she can never guess the twisted history that is driving her suspect, or how his political connections will… Read More

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1989. 1st edition. In this surprising, uncompromising first novel, "cowboy" cop Lupe Garcia (with a rep for violence and no regard for the proper channels) investigates the throat-slashing murders of several women in the Detroit area. Under pressure to make an arrest, Garcia pegs guitar-playing redneck Lamont Yarborough as the killer, for a variety of insufficient reasons. While amassing evidence, Garcia pursues his romantic interest in Linda Kerry, a reporter with the Detroit Free Press who's working on a story about Yarborough--by whom she's both intrigued and frightened. After Yarborough disarms a gun-wielding madman in the presence of press and upper-echelon police, Garcia is told to investigate other possible suspects, and when he complains, is accused of conflict of interests: e.g., jealousy over Kerry. Hairpin twists add to an already solid plot. Allyn displays a flair for gritty, colloquial dialogue, a heartfelt love for music and its late-night,… Read More

Kansas City: MO: Andrews McMeel Pub, 1987. Kienzle's reputation has grown with the success of eight bestsellers about Detroit priest Father Koesler. Catalyst in the ninth is the sudden death of a vicious critic, Ridley Groendal. His longtime homosexual lover, Peter Harison, testifies that Groendal died after a huge dinner, which taxed his weak heart, but Koesler suspects murder. He questions several people who grew up with him and the dead man, including their former mates at the seminary where Groendal abruptly gave up studying for the priesthood. Koesler's investigation discloses the motives for the critic's malicious attacks on innocent victims, whom he blamed for his own failures. As the priest talks to men and women whose lives and careers Groendal had ruined, the shocks proliferate. The strongest occurs in the final, unforeseen disclosure. Kienzle's ninth may be hailed as his most complex and finest mystery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1977. 1st ed, so stated. with numberline down to "2" in keeping with Random House's methods for identifying first printings at the time. Mild age toning to edge of the bords, and to pages, else fine in dust jacket, not price-clipped. [$6.95 price intact] NOT a remainder copy or book club, as many are. Jackson's first Detective Sargeant "Fang" Mulheisen title. Detroit. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Fine in dj. BIBLIOMYSTERY. Amos Walker title; Walker's missing friend 's book on Vietnam may contain a secret Detroiters are dying to know. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st. Edition, March 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges very lightly soiled else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

Kansas City: MO: Andrews McMeel Pub, 1989. 1st ed. Lightly soiled at page edges else near fine in dust jacket. Burnishing the reputation he has earned with The Rosary Murders , Kienzle again sets series hero Father Koesler among criminals in Detroit. The priest visits a dark, cheerless cloister where four monks draw the media and swarms of citizens when one of the friars reputedly works a miraculous cure. Although skeptical, homicide detective "Zoo" Tully takes his ailing lover to the cloister and the monk heals her instantly. There is no perceived connection between the murder of an old bum, a case assigned to Tully, nor to the attempted murder of Koesler's friend, reporter Pat Lennon, as she writes about the secretive community. But Koesler, versed in Catholic rituals and wise to the ways of con artists, performs wonders of his own. 312 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Arbor House, 1988. First Edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light wear else fine in fine dust jacket, lightly soiled, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Norton, 1989. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 'Little John' Rawlings is investigating the first successful cryogenics revival; an investigation which takes him from New York to Detroit to Trinidad in the West Indies. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Woodstock VT.: Foul Play Press, 1990. 1st edition, Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen, introduced in The Diehard , here investigates three linked murders in a Detroit precinct where men are men and women are helpless "babes," rated according to physical attributes. Grootka, a tough, retired cop and Mulheisen's former mentor, finds the body of pimp Books Meldrim in a car trunk. Twenty years earlier, Books informed on a man who allegedly raped and killed a girl; Grootka interrogated the suspect, who then escaped. Now Grootka insists that the misogynistic criminal has returned for revenge, finding evidence in the recent violent death of an old woman. Mulheisen follows as the streetwise Grootka unravels the clues. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. First edition, first printing, so stated. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Jackson at title page. "Back on the streets in top form is Detroit's soiled, yet sensitive Sgt. "Fang" Mulheisen, whose last appearance was in the praised Grootka . Having rubbed out mobster Sid Sedlacek and his driver, hit man Hal Good is picked up as a possible witness and taken to jail while Mulheisen oversees the crime scene. A quick ID switch with a drunk in a nearby cell lands Hal back on the streets, in possession of a large chunk of money taken from Sid (who'd taken it from his boss, hence the contract), and pursued by both Mulheisen and another gun-for-hire. Meanwhile, Mulheisen meets up with a woman from his past and falls for her all over again, even though her husband has a few too many links with the latest profusion of homicides. With dialogue that's droll and dark, a series figure who's one short step from terminal burnout and a seamy… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1986. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The first Peter Macklin novel. "Macklin is the toughest character-hero or antihero-to arrive in crime fiction since Richard Stark's Parker, and Estleman's prose the hardest-boiled since the days of Paul Cain and Cap Shaw's Black Mask." Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. 1st ed. A fine copy in pictorial wraps. Review sheet laid in. Det. Sgt. "Fang" Muleheisen title. Detroit. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 1st. Fine in dj. Amos Walker title; SHAMUS AWARD FINALIST for Best Novel. Detroit. A chance encounter with an old flame sends Detroit PI Amos Walker on a hunt for her long-lost father. Iris was a great beauty when Amos Walker first saw her--a Jamaican goddess striding stark naked through an unworthy whorehouse. When he bumps into her at a high-class steakhouse just outside of Detroit, she still looks good. She’s come back from the Caribbean to seek out her father. Raised by her mother, Iris grew up thinking the man was dead, but has just learned the old trombone player may still be alive. Walker offers to dig for him: a welcome-home present for an old flame. The search leads him straight to the dark heart of the Detroit jazz scene, a seedy world where Walker is right at home, and into the crosshairs of some of the cruelest men in a very mean town. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 1st. Fine in dj. Amos Walker title; Shamus Award nominee; Detroit. A chance encounter with an old flame sends Detroit PI Amos Walker on a hunt for her long-lost fatherIris was a great beauty when Amos Walker first saw her—a Jamaican goddess striding stark naked through an unworthy whorehouse. When he bumps into her at a high-class steakhouse just outside of Detroit, she still looks good. She’s come back from the Caribbean to seek out her father. Raised by her mother, Iris grew up thinking the man was dead, but has just learned the old trombone player may still be alive. Walker offers to dig for him: a welcome-home present for an old flame. The search leads him straight to the dark heart of the Detroit jazz scene, a seedy world where Walker is right at home, and into the crosshairs of some of the cruelest men in a very mean town. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.