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NY, NY: Random, 1976. 1st edition. Light wear at edges, cheap paper age toned else fine in dust jacket. Gilly Decker is rich, fifty and married to a human vegetable. Cut down by a stroke on their honeymoon, Marco has given up. He hungers only for pills and thirsts only for the fluid in the hypodermic needle. Gilly Decker has lost one husband and is about to lose another. Why, then, should she send the bright young lawyer, Tom Aragon, to the wastes of Mexico to look for her first husband? It must be all of eight years since B.J. Lockwood took off with one of the servants - so is she after B.J.'s money, B.J.'s son, or sweet revenge - and can she foresee the deadly future?. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. This is the author's first book, a murder-mystery courtroom drama that demonstrates the author's background in the legal profession, as he defends a notorious motorcycle gang. Santa Fe background.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st edition, May 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "In his second appearance, Denver-based Latino lawyer Luis Montez, introduced in The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz , again plunges into the past, revealed here in extensive flashbacks. Felix "Gato" Guerrero belongs to Luis's beer-drinking, wild-running teen years. Although Luis's lifestyle has been tempered by age and his painful divorce, Felix still kicks back on occasion--with booze, eight-ball, gambling and fistfights. The death of his daughter, the subsequent suicide of his wife and a harrowing stint in Vietnam has left Felix with ghosts to exorcise along with his new enemies. Felix calls on Luis to save him and Elizabeth, his sultry new love who is also the wife of Trini Anglin, a Latino mobster with a jealous heart. Also anxious to get his hands on Felix is Edwin Talmage, his onetime father-in-law, a bitter,… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 1988. 1st edition, so stated. Near fine in dust jacket. Author's first book, a mystery introducing tough Texas lawyer Bino. "Capturing the reader from the very first line, this is a thriller from a new writer to watch. Congressman Richard Bigelow was a crusader who disturbed the cozy relationship between the underworld of Texas politics and the overlords of big-time crime. Fearing that Bigelow would expose the nexus between the sleaziest conservative politics and organized crime, the mob and the politicians have him killed. Unfortunately for the plotters, in an effort to cover their tracks they also kill Sonny Starr, a small-time hood who was a witness to the murder. Sonny's lawyer, Bino ("it's short for albino," he curtly explains) Phillips, a toughened criminal lawyer of the old school and, moreover, a close friend of the murdered congressman, is now involved. This first novel is literate and tough-talking… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1987. 1st edition, October 1987, with complete number line beginning with 1. Reading crease, very light wear else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original mystery featuring Jerry Zalman, L.A. lawyer. Author's first mystery. Nominated for an EDGAR AWARD for Best Paperback Original.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1997. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. This is the first novel, written under a psuedonym, of Mark Costello, recently short-listed for the National Book Award for "Big If". New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, consecrated by Pope Paul VI, meant to be given out to the faithful at the first English-language mass in America later that year, to soothe their disquiet over these epochal changes in the liturgy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1997. 1st ed. Page edges lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket. This is the first novel, written under a psuedonym, of Mark Costello, recently short-listed for the National Book Award for "Big If". New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, consecrated by Pope Paul VI, meant to be given out to the faithful at the first English-language mass in America later that year, to soothe their disquiet over these epochal changes in the liturgy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The second Wild Onion, Ltd., mystery. The sharp partnership is made up of lawyer and private investigator, husband and wife, Dugan and Kirsten. They are hired to investigate a series of blackmail threats to a local clergyman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY,NY: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1998. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Dixie Flannigan, a prosecutor turned bounty hunter, in Houston, Texas, is featured in the debut book in this series. Publisher's publicity sheet laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Penzler Publishers: American Mystery Classics, 2021. 1st printing with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, as new, unread copy. Introduction by Otto Penzler. Part of the American Mystery Classics Series. When Perry Mason stumbles upon a classified ad for a brown haired woman with very specific physical attributes, he takes note of the seemingly suspicious circumstances surrounding the job posting. Then the woman hired for the job gets in touch, describing the strange requests of her new employer-who pays her and her chaperone to stay inside an apartment and answer to another woman’s name-and Mason knows there’s a more knotted plot at play. But by the time he works out the first mystery, a second, with murder, is just getting started, and that’s only the first twist that awaits him as he endeavors to prove the innocence of "the borrowed brunette.". First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Book.

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1968. 1st edition. About fine in dust jacket with small piece out at head of spine, not price clipped but previous owner wrote in pen a new price over the printed price. A widow in distress, her attentive, very wealthy swain and his overly-protective nieces and nephews provide Perry Mason with one his most challenging cases.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Morrow, 1959. 1st edition. Bright yellow publishers binding shows very light soiling else about fine in dust jacket, light wear along edges, small chips to fold corners, spine panel lightly faded with wear to ends, moderate soiling at rear and spine. His 100th book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1995. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges beginnig to tan else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at title page. Author's second book in the Tubby Dubonnet series, New Orleans. "Tubby is divorced, fond of his city and of good food and always on the lookout for a new romance. What he finds instead is loads of trouble. First his friend, peanut-oil shipper Potter Aucoin, is found floating in his own oil; then Aucoin's foreman is shot in Tubby's building after a visit. Meanwhile, Tubby's collegiate daughter wants his help on behalf of an environmental group that's investigating local companies polluting the Mississippi, and pretty and seemingly docile Tania Thompson shoots a drug dealer she believes killed her brother and winds up running for her life to a bar Tubby is thinking of buying. Then there's the man who runs a local gambling casino who seems to… Read More

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's second book in the Tubby Dubonnet series, New Orleans. "Tubby is divorced, fond of his city and of good food and always on the lookout for a new romance. What he finds instead is loads of trouble. First his friend, peanut-oil shipper Potter Aucoin, is found floating in his own oil; then Aucoin's foreman is shot in Tubby's building after a visit. Meanwhile, Tubby's collegiate daughter wants his help on behalf of an environmental group that's investigating local companies polluting the Mississippi, and pretty and seemingly docile Tania Thompson shoots a drug dealer she believes killed her brother and winds up running for her life to a bar Tubby is thinking of buying. Then there's the man who runs a local gambling casino who seems to be offering Tubby a sinecure-with his pretty assistant… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1994. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Author's first book. New Orleans setting. ..."Tubby Dubonnet is a lawyer who likes fishing, beer and off-track betting. His clients include a cross-dresser referred by the very doctor he's suing for a botched skin-creolizing, and a lakefront bar owner who has held on to a nearly $1 million payoff after a shrimpboat marijuana bust. The bar owner hands over the money locked in a gym bag to Tubby, then is murdered, leaving behind a death scene portrayed with jarring comic understatement. Tubby grapples with the temptation of riches and the threats of claimants, and, as he sorts out the rogues from and among the buttoned-downs, he dispatches the villain and finds a home for the cash in a conclusion that's as cleverly convoluted and amusing as the rest of this tale, the first in the series. " --PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2003. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Thirteen previously uncollected cases about Cuddy -- including four nominees for the Shamus Award, and two stories that appeared in the annual Best American Stories. As a special bonus, the book adds a "plus one," -- the first short story featuring young female attorney Mairead O'Clare.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

N.Y., N.Y.: Putnam, 2000. 1st. Ed.F/F/. Author's first book Introducing Danny Chaison a poltical lawyer. Set in New Orleans. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Publishers letter laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1998. 1st ed.,with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Fresh out of law school, Nora Lumsey - a farm-bred, big-boned woman, recovering bigot, and a compulsive meddler - has just begun her clerkship for Judge Carter Albertson of the Indiana Court of Appeals when she is instructed to draft an opinion affirming the conviction of Dexter Hinton, a deaf black child who has confessed to the murder of an elderly white woman in a drive-by shooting. When Nora discovers a personal connection to Dexter's family, she finds her passion to do justice at odds with her role as a ghostwriter for the judge and "handmaiden to the law," and she is torn between her idealism and her ethical obligations to the court. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.