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N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1949. 1st printing, March 1949. Dell Mapback #289, Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by F. Kenwood Giles. Back cover map of "the Anatomy Laboratory / Where Murder is Discovered," 6th floor of University Hospital, in a town (Stanford?), near San Francisco. Reading crease, spine edge rubbed, shallow loss at top spine end . Dr. Anthony Post; Academia. The first of three titles featuring Dr. Post.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Giles, F. Kenwood . Vintage Paperback.

London: UK: Constable London 1988, 1988. 1st ed., pages browning as usual else Fine in dust jacket. . HOSPITAL background (she is a doctor). Author's 1st book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2005. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback originally published in 1950. When Judith took a job at a country hospital, she didn't expect her "reputation" would follow her. Or that "the Black Smith" would once again walk the corridors. The Black Smith is vintage Little, complete with a couple you just know will bicker all the way to "I do," a corpse that won't stay put, a cast of characters that would do any loony bin proud, and a closed setting this time a country hospital where the staff works, lives and engages in a little mayhem on the side. Judith Onslow took the job as head nurse to start life over again after she was named corespondent in a messy divorce, only to discover that the brother-in-law of her ex-lover is the doctor in charge of the hospital. Then there's Shirley, the new switchboard operator, who arrives looking just a bit on the trampy side and then proceeds to turn herself into… Read More

Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2005. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback originally published in 1950. When Judith took a job at a country hospital, she didn't expect her "reputation" would follow her. Or that "the Black Smith" would once again walk the corridors. The Black Smith is vintage Little, complete with a couple you just know will bicker all the way to "I do," a corpse that won't stay put, a cast of characters that would do any loony bin proud, and a closed setting this time a country hospital where the staff works, lives and engages in a little mayhem on the side. Judith Onslow took the job as head nurse to start life over again after she was named corespondent in a messy divorce, only to discover that the brother-in-law of her ex-lover is the doctor in charge of the hospital. Then there's Shirley, the new switchboard operator, who arrives looking just a bit on the trampy side and then proceeds to turn herself into… 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.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 1993. 1st edition, thus. Originally published in 1968 as by Jeffrey Hudson. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. Was it murder? Was it horribly botched surgery -- accidental malpractice? Was someone in the great Boston medical center violating the Hippocratic oath? No one knows exactly why the beautiful young daughter of an important medical family bled to death on the operating table. But the doctor she helplessly trusted -- a brilliant, compassionate physician -- is accused of murdering her. And as passions and protests volcanically erupt, only one other doctor is willing to push his way through the mysterious maze of hidden medical data and shocking secrets to learn the truth about a surgical procedure that may have killed her.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Walker, 1986. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Set in a large London Hospital. When a patient dies on the operating table and the anesthesiologist is blamed for negligence, Dr. Gregor MacLean correctly surmises that the gas cylinders have been tampered with. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

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.: Bantam, 1993. 1st edition, February 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in djust jacket, not price clipped, in mylar cover. The 7th Alex Delaware title. "Kellerman's psychologist/sleuth Alex Delaware nimbly executes tricky steps of his own when called in to consult on the mysterious ailments afflicting a baby being seen at his training hospital in Los Angeles. In his seventh appearance (after Private Eyes ), Delaware is in top form, carefully pursuing the possibility that 21-month-old Cassie Jones may be the victim of Munchausen's Disease by Proxy, a complex syndrome in which a parent, usually the mother, secretly causes the symptoms that endanger the child. That Cassie is the only grandchild of the hospital's new CEO, a corporate hotshot who has demoralized the staff with cutbacks and a new administration of "paramilitary types," adds political twists to the case's knotty psychological aspects. After a doctor involved in computer research is… 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

Simon & Schuster, 1993. 1st ed., Limited edition special advance reader's copy. Fine pictorial wraps. Author's 2nd book again featuring Philadelphia reporter George Gray this time tracking a murderer in doctor's whites.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

London: UK: Heinemann, 1997. 1st eition. Page edges beginning to age tone which is usual, else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The 5th Owen Archer Medieval mystery. 1369. The much loved Queen Phillippa lies dying at Windsor and in the city of York the harvest has failed and plague has returned. In the atmosphere of fear and superstition which grips the city, rumours spread that a spate of deaths at St. Leonard's Hospital is no accident. Archer is asked to investigate.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Avon Books, 1999. 1st ed, fine in decorated wraps, Uncorrected Proof. Oversize paperback. Medical thriller set in NYC. "The life-and-death struggle waged daily in the ER is a constant, integral part of Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe's existence. Her home is her refuge from the frenzy, the anxiety, the uncertainty, and the blood. But now a dear friend clings to life by the barest of threads: a colleague struck down by poison he ingested while cooking in Evelyn's Manhattan apartment kitchen. On a night when she was supposed to be celebrating her anniversary with her significant other, psychiatrist Phil Carchiollo, and a few of their closest chums, Evelyn instead finds herself back in the emergency room, frantically trying to save a friend-and haunted by the knowledge that the deadly mushrooms he consumed were intended for on or more of her invited guests....or for Evelyn herself. A murderer striking perilously close to home is not the only event disturbing Dr. Sutcliffe. She and the rest… Read More

N.Y.: Walker, 1980. 1st Am. Near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. Aunt Amy , a retired actress, sees something she is concerned about when she is exercising her legs in the hospital corridor following an operation. Shortly afterwards a young nurse is found strangled inside the room near where Aunt Amy saw two men arguing. The police are inclined to distrust Amy's evidence when she is certain one of the men looked like a famous serial killer. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Walker 1980 1st Am. Near fine in dj. REVIEW COPY.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.