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N.Y.: Forge, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book Club.

NY. NY: Scribner, 2002. 1st. Ed. .with complete number line beginning with 1. Light soiling at page edges else near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Martha "Marty" Nickerson, a prosecuting attorney in Chatham on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is featured in the debut book in this highly accalimed legal series. AN EDGAR & MARY HIGGINS CLARK WINNER.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

Norton NY 1982 Fine in dj. The true story of the Plymouth (Mass.) Mail Robbery.and how they got away with it. 3 suspects went to trial, the charges. were dismissed and the case has never been solved. 1.5 million in cash (1962) the largest cash haul up to that time. 1st ed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton, 1982. 1st ed. Near fine in dj. Author's first Doc Adams novel and an EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: N A L, 2000. 1st ed. near fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original and SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. A structural fire--the latest and most frightening in a series of unexplained blazes in the Shaker community of Hancock Village, Massachusetts--has resulted in the death of an elderly man. Boston newspaperman Michael Merrick, on orders from his publisher, is propelled into impromptu undercover detective work at the village in the hope of unmasking the arsonist. Merrick's assignment quickly becomes a race against a clever murderer who will not hesitate to kill again. With richly textured prose and striking characterizations, Ms. Adamson takes the reader into the midst of everyday life in an 1840s Shaker village, weaving a compelling and suspenseful tale. . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 3rd Faith Fairchild, former New York City caterer, investigates a suspect retirement home in the small New England town where she now lives. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2003. 1st. Ed. Fine in dust jacket. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER of the Mary Higgins Clark Award. A Faith Fairchild mystery set in Massachusetts. INSCRIBED by the author at title page.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1990. 1st edition, November 1990, so stated. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Boston setting. SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. Author's first mystery. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1990. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. Boston setting. Author's first mystery. "Tom Bethany, security consultant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, narrates this commendable first mystery about a wealthy professor hoping to become the next Secretary of State. Hired to research the man's background for any hint of scandal, Bethany can find nothing wrong until he looks into the unsolved murder of the professor's wayward daughter. The more involved he becomes with the case, the more he realizes that the police fumbled their investigation. Bethany, a Vietnam veteran who distrusts government, is a sturdy and methodical..."--LJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Nominee.

N.Y.: Henry Holt, 1993. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The new commanding officer of the Detective Division at state headquarters in Boston, Brian Dennison begins to suspect that his predecessor, Bomber Lawrence, was in league with a notorious mobster. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/NF. Book.

Portland: ME: King Philip Pub. Co., 1986. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy. Red cloth, bright gold spine and front cover lettering. Printed on light tan paper. LIMITED EDITION, one of 750 copies SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHOR OF THE INTRODUCTION on the limitation page at rear. 31 pages. "This is a First Facsimile Abstract Edition". ."Acknowledgment hereby given that all text in this abstract except Publisher's Introduction was previously published in THE PHILLIPS HISTORY OF FALL RIVER, Fascicles I and III, by Arthur S. Phillipls, printed by Dover Press, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1944 and 1946. Photographs by author at time of Borden trial. " . Frontispiece is a b/w photo of Lizzie Borden and there are four b/w photos in the text. Includes a 3-page biography of Arthur S. Phillips, abstracted from Fascicle I of THE PHILLLIPS HISTORY OF FALL RIVER. "Phillilps, a member of Lizzie Borden's team of defense lawyers, still believed Lizzie to be innocent almost fifty… Read More

Portland: ME: King Philip Pub. Co., 1992. 1st ed. A very fine, unread copy w/o dj as issued. Contains over 200 annotated entries of books, articles, short stories, essays, plays, music, reference and other scarce material. Illustrated and indexed. One of 1,000 numbered copies. SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. Limited Edition.

Portland: ME: King Philip Pub. Co., 1986. 1st ed, A fine, unread copy. Red cloth, bright gold spine and front cover lettering. Printed on light tan paper. LIMITED EDITION, one of 750 copies SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHOR OF THE INTRODUCTION on the limitation page at rear. 31pages. "This is a First Facsimile Abstract Edition". ."Acknowledgment hereby given that all text in this abstract except Publisher's Introduction was previously published in THE PHILLIPS HISTORY OF FALL RIVER, Fascicles I and III, by Arthur S. Phillipls, printed by Dover Press, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1944 and 1946. Photographs by author at time of Borden trial. " . Frontispiece is a b/w photo of Lizzie Borden and there are four b/w photos in the text. Includes a 3-page biography of Arthur S. Phillips, abstracted from Fascicle I of THE PHILLLIPS HISTORY OF FALL RIVER. "Phillilps, a member of Lizzie Borden's team of defense lawyers, still believed Lizzie to be innocent almost fifty… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 2002. 1st edition, May 2002, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Retired physicist and amateur gumshoe Dr. Gloria Lamerino returns in Minichino's fifth murder-by-the-elements mystery (The Hydrogen Murder, etc.), a largely inert mix of chemistry and crime. Though she's comfortably settled in her hometown of Revere, Mass., and relishing the affections of Matt Gennaro, a local homicide detective with "Al Pacino eyes," Gloria can't seem to keep her nose out of sleuthing. When John Galigani, the son of her beloved landlords, is accused of murdering a former girlfriend, Yolanda Fiore, Gloria's on the case to prove John's innocence faster than you can say "periodic table." Although Matt has to recuse himself because of his friendship with the Galigani family, he helps sift through clues and Lamerino's hypotheses. Was… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1992. 1st edition, January 1992, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at title page. Winner of the Mysterious Press Discovery Contest for best first novel. "This won the publisher's Mysterious Discovery contest for best first crime novel and for the most part the story moves winningly indeed. In a city very much like Worcester, Mass., detective Lenore Thomas is teamed with a Chinese linguist as part of a police task force tracking down the makers and dealers of a new drug that induces murderous rage. Another detective, the mayor's mistress, is told to give inside info on the force's progress to her lover. Lenore's twin brother, Ike, a mailman, starts to find grisly objects in an unused P.O. box. As Lenore closes in on Cortez, boss of the city's tenderloin, she and the linguist begin a torrid affair. There's some… Read More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near Fine in lightly worn dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Author's 1st mystery. Boston.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

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, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 2000. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The sixth Fremont Jones mystery, set in 1909 Boston.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1992. 1st prtg. Light wear at edges else a near fine copy in wraps. The 3rd Faith Fairchild title; small town Massachusetts locale. SIGNED COPY.. Signed by Author. 1st Prtg. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine.