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New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 1982. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Recipe endpapers The First Eugenia Potter title. In Harrington, Iowa, for her yearly hometown visit, dignified and down-to-earth Mrs. Potter becomes involved in the slashed-throat murder of a student in an advanced cooking class attended by the elite of Harrington's. As Mrs. Potter muses, "Everything that happens in New York happens here. The only difference is that here you know the people." . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: The Dial Press, 1983. 1st edition, Fine in very good dust jacket, rubbed at covers and along spine edgenot price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The fourth book in the John Marshall Tanner series sees him back home in small-town Iowa to take care of some family business - the disposal of the family farm -- but finds himself investigating his nephew's murder, and encounters shocking truths about his family, old friends, and his hometown . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Pegasus Books, 2007. 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. In the summer of 1963, freedom riders are crisscrossing the South, Martin Luther King is preparing for a march on Washington, and the people of Black River Falls, Iowa, are about to go to the polls. Senator Williams is cruising to reelection when a blackmailer starts sending him photos of his daughter arm in arm with a handsome black student. To save his campaign, Williams hires private investigator Sam McCain to talk sense into the crook, but the blackmailer is nowhere to be found—until McCain discovers him behind his shack, dead in the dirt, with a handsome black corpse beside him. TV crews arrive with the police, to broadcast the horrible scene across the state. As Black River Falls threatens to erupt into all-out race war, Iowa will have much more to worry about than Election Day. Searching for the savage killer, McCain learns that quiet prejudice can be the most dangerous kind of… Read More

Woodstock, VT, U.S.A.: Countryman Press, 1987. 1st ed. Fine in very lightly soiled white dust jacket,unclipped. The fifth novel in the Quarry series but the 1st Quarry title in hardcover..After Quarry turns down a million-dollar job to assassinate a presidential candidate, those who tried to hire him make two mistakes--they kill Quarry's pregnant wife and they fail to kill him. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Signet, 1963. 1st U.S. edition, December 1963. Vintage paperback, Signet G2400. Cover Illustration by Robert McGinnis. One very small cover crease else Fine, tight, unread copy. P.I. Danny Boyd in Iowa. Boyd rescues his kidnapped secretary, impersonates a hired torpedo and smashes into a ring of gang lords in a dangerous game of catch or be killed. 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.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Illus. by McGinnis, Robert. Vintage Paperback.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1995. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Reading copy in pictorial wraps. an unforgettable tale of two girls whose alliance leaves a trail of murder and mystery during one long, hot Iowa summer. A HAMMETT AWARD Nominee for Best Novel.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1995. 1st ed. A fine copy in dust jacket. An unforgettable tale of two girls whose alliance leaves a trail of murder and mystery during one long, hot Iowa summer. A HAMMETT AWARD Nominee for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Pegasus Books, 2009. 1st edition, November 2009, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Smalltown small-mindedness drives Gorman's entertaining eighth mystery to feature lawyer Sam McCain (after 2007's Fools Rush In). As the Vietnam war escalates during the summer of 1965, Lou Bennett, the socially prominent father of a slain soldier, interrupts a protest demonstration in Sam's hometown of Black River Falls, Iowa. When Bennett's murdered that night, the stupid and prejudiced local police chief arrests an obnoxiously mouthy protester. Sam soon learns that the crime may actually be related to Bennett's shady business dealings and his involvement in the murder of a lower-class young woman he considered unworthy of his son. Besides getting the pop culture of the period right, Gorman captures the baffled frustration of provincial folk who don't want to believe that things are… Read More