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NY,NY: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006. 3rd prtg. . FINE/FINE. A fine tale of police procedure and mayhem set in modern Korea.. DEBUT MYSTERY.. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2013. 1st ed., fine copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition. ( Due out September, 2013). 400 pages. Twenty years ago, Martin Limón published his first mystery story featuring Sergeant George Sueño, a young Mexican American army detective stationed on the US 8th Army base in South Korea in the early 1970s, the heart of the Cold War. George and his investigating partner, the rowdy and short-fused Sergeant Ernie Bascom, are assigned cases in which the 8th Army has come into conflict with local Korean law enforcement—often incidents in which American soldiers, who are not known for being on their best behavior in their Asian host country, have committed a crime. The stories within have been published over the last twenty years in a variety of magazines, but all 18 have never before been available in book form and one which has never been published: a novella by the title "the Dragon's Tail".. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2016. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited edition due out June 28, 2016. 368 pages. South Korea, 1974. CID Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom are assigned an underwhelming case of petty theft: Major Frederick M. Schulz has accused Miss Jo Kyong-ja, an Itaewon bar girl, of stealing twenty-five thousand won from him -- a sum equaling less than fifty US dollars. After two very divergent accounts of what happened, Miss Jo is attacked, and Schulz is found hacked to death only days later. Did tensions simply escalate to the point of murder? Looking into other motives for Schulz's death, George and Ernie discover that the major was investigating the 501st Military Intelligence Battalion: the Army's counterintelligence arm, solely dedicated to tracking North Korean spies. The division is rife with suspects, but it's dangerous to speak out against them in a period of Cold War finger-pointing. As George and Ernie go head-to-head with the… Read More

N.Y.: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. The second novel in the George Sueno and Ernie Bascom series. George Sueno rose out of the barrios of East L.A. His partner, Ernie Bascom, escaped the mean streets of Detroit. And both have found a home in the U.S. Army - the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) in Korea. Their beat is Itaewon, the red-light district of Seoul. Together they’ve looked into every bar and brothel, making sure the bourbon is chilled. . . and the women hot. When a working girl offers them a hundred bucks to deliver a note to Cecil Whitcomb, a British member of the U.N. Honor Guard, Sueno and Bascom are happy to oblige. They figure not only is it a good deed, it’s also easy money. But reality hits the next morning - in the form of Whitcomb’s brutally mutilated corpse. Sueno… Read More

N.Y.: Morrow, 1977. 1st ed. fine in very lightly soiled dj. INSCRIBED COPY. "To Eleanor, god we wished you lived in Oklahoma - Bob and Wanda Duncan." Korea. Inscribed Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Morrow, 1977. top of pages dusty else near fine in very lightly soiled d, wrinkle at front cover. 1st ed. Korea. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2007. 1st ed., with corresponding number line. Fine in dust jacket. A SPOTTED OWL AWARD NOMINEE. The fifth in the Sueno and Bascom series The only female MP assigned to a base in the DMZ is missing. Has she become ill, been abducted, or gone AWOL? The investigative team of George Sueno and Ernie Bascom is dispatched from 8th Army headquarters in Seoul to help the 2nd Infantry Division locate her. Speculation is that attractive Jill Matthewson has been raped and killed, and Division suggests a lust-crazed Korean is the culprit.But there are other possibilities, as Sueno and Bascom soon discover. The murder of another soldier has been concealed. They are confronted, as well, by rampant black marketeering and corruption, crooked officers, rioting Korean civilians, and the wandering ghost of a schoolgirl run down by a speeding army truck.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Award Nominee.