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Athens, OH, U.S.A.: Ohio University Press, 1999. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in bright red cloth, in fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Chiquita Babb. Promotional post card laid in. Author's first mystery, set in the Ohio Amish community. Tony Hillerman recommendation. Hardcover, there are only 1000 hardcover copies in the first printing (there is a simultaneous softcover issue). "In the Old Order Amish communities of Ohio's Holmes County, it is rare for one of the self-styled "plain" people to seek aid from an outsider, one of "the English." But Bishop Eli Miller needs help and goes for it to a local academic, Michael Brandon. Years before, Miller had exiled his son Jonah for his wild ways. Now Jonah has snatched his own son, Jeremiah, who has been living with the bishop. In a note to his father, Jonah sends assurances that the boy will be returned by harvest time. Concern about Jeremiah's exposure to the outside… Read More

Athens: Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999. Book club edition. Set among the Old Order Amish of Holmes County, Ohio -- home to the largest Amish & Mennonite settlements in the world.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY,NY.: Dodd, 1981. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in very lightly worn dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The third Harry Stoner title. Professor Lovingwell has lost some secret government papers and doesn't know how to find them. He knows where to find them, all right. He believes his daughter has taken them, so instead of going to the F.B.I. he hires Harry Stoner and advises him, " Get the documents back within a week or two, but don't let my daughter know she's being investigated." This message leads Harry into trouble, murder, and a mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: M.S. Mill Co., Inc, 1938. 1st edition. Green cloth shows just a hint of soiling else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket, lightly chipped along edges, with edges being lightly rubbed, small chip out at front top, not price clipped, $2.00 price is intact, in protective mylar cover. Floor-plan included. Special Investigator Mac MacIntyre title. "Despite somewhat artificial set-up of yarn, oddity of killer's device and "Mac's" slow but sure methods are enjoyable. Entertaining." from The Criminal Record -- The Saturda Review's Guide to Detective Fiction , February 12, 1938" Very scarce with dust wrapper. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1994. 1st ed., reading creases else near fine copy of this PAPERBACK ORIFINAL and SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. Features Bill Hawley, a funeral director who comforts mourners and catches murderers. Reluctantly taking the case of a man whose fatal crash seemed accidental enough, undertaker and amateur sleuth Hawley attempts to find the source behind what seems to be a faked suicide tape and the victim's strange life. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

NY, NY.: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001. First edition, July 2001, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Milan Jacovich, a blue-collar Slovenian private eye with a master’s degree in Cleveland, Ohio, is featured in the twelth entry in this series. "A distraught father asks Milan Jacovich, Cleveland's dogged Slovenian-American private eye, to discover why his daughter Ellen jumped off of a bridge to her death, in Roberts's 12th workmanlike whodunit (after 2000's The Indian Sign). Although it appears a simple, lucrative job, Milan uncovers inconsistencies (e.g., Ellen was in her pajamas and barefoot, yet her feet were clean). Two friends for whom she worked at Wheetek Inc., a Web-site design company, provide no clues to Ellen's suicide. Milan's son's computer-expert girlfriend guides him to "fat girl" chat rooms that the obese Ellen visited, but the… Read More

NY: Delacorte, 1989. 1st edition, March 1989, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best Private Eye Novel. A Harry Stoner title. "Fully realized characters, complex plots and excellent writing are the qualities that attract readers to Valin's series about Harry Stoner, private eye. In his eighth appearance, Stoner describes his assignment to find missing Ira Lessing, a businessman from Cincinnati, Ohio, beloved for his generous help to troubled teens. The detective is with Lessing's childlike wife Janey, and his partner, Len Trumaine, when they learn that Lessing's body has been discovered, brutally beaten. A punk teenager, Terry Carnova, not only confesses but boasts of killing Lessing, but Stoner isn't convinced. Terry's pathetic lover Kitty insists the murderer is "Tommy T," a male hustler who caters to masochists. With this information, the detective… Read More

N.Y.: Harper, 1996. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Cincinnati. A Sonora Blair thriller. "Hightower brings back Cincinnati homicide detective Sonora Blair, who investigates the case of a Tennessee woman, Julia Winchell, missing after coming to the Queen City for a small-business conference. Body parts discovered along the interstate appear to be the remains of the woman, who believed she had witnessed a murder when in college in Cincinnati, but a search failed to discover any evidence of a crime. Just before going to the conference, Julia told her sister that she had recognized the murderer from a picture in the Cincinnati paper--a prominent district attorney. Sonora reluctantly investigates these somewhat doubtful circumstances and finds a compelling trail of evidence that points squarely to the DA as the murderer. Proving her case against a well-respected public figure is the real… Read More

N.Y.: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1943. First edition, 1943 with Farrar's FR colophon at copyright page. Complete text--reduced size in accordance with paper conservation orders of the War Production Board. Bright orange cloth with black lettering at spine. Fine, tight copy in dust jacket, not price clipped, $2.00 price intact. Light wear at edges, shallow loss at head and foot of spine ends and flap corners, very lightly soiled else a near fine copy of a very difficult book to find in complete dust jaclet. Lt. Bill Grady; Cleveland, OH. When Joan Raleigh Stevenson issues invitations for a small dinner party she knows full well that it is not going to be a pleasant affair. What she does not know is that one of the guests is to be murdered and that the hostess is to be the chief suspect.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Miller, I.. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Cathleen Hartigan is a successful Cleveland attorney with a sterling political pedigree. But bad judgment trumps money, power, and position every time, and Cathleen puts her family's reputation at risk when she decides to bed a charming drifter with no discernible past, Brian McFall. He absconds with some mementos, including decades-old photos that could besmirch the family legacy. Cathleen hires Cleveland private investigator Milan Jacovich, who traces McFall's trail back to Con McCardle. An Irish political leader with murky ties to Sinn Fein, McCardle makes it clear to Milan that questions regarding McFall will lead to trouble. Jacovich presses on, learning that McFall also runs errands for the Cleveland Mob. When McFall is murdered, Jacovich finds himself in a three-sided vise--cops, the Mob, and McCardle--that forces him to call in almost every favor he's owed. The eleventh Jacovich case.. First… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1994. 1st edition, December 1994, so stated A very faint stain at page edges, else fine in unclipped dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best Private Eye Novel of the Year. A Milan Jacovich title; Cleveland locale. "Milan's latest case has him paying back a long overdue favor to Mob boss Victor Gaimari. Even though Milan dislikes Gaimari, the mobster once helped him save a kid's life, so when Gaimari asks Milan to head out to the posh suburb of Lake Erie Shores to make sure the mayoral election goes smoothly, Milan can hardly say no. Ostensibly, he's supposed to play bodyguard, political adviser, and baby-sitter to Barbara Corns, who's running for mayor on a "Back to Basics" theme. Milan can't believe the candidate is in any danger, especially in such a white-bread-and-mayonnaise town. But there's more to the story than Victor has let on, and after the wife of Barbara's opponent is killed, Milan figures he had better put… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, lightly sunned at spine, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. In order to investigate a murder in a recently gentrified neighborhood of Cincinnati, detective Cesar Franck finds he must deal with angry contractors, entrepreneurs, and a self-serving community leader. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, light wear along edges, very not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book. Columbus, Ohio. Charlotte Sams, freelance writer, researches an obnoxious art history professor's claim that an elegant necklace in the Columbus Art Museum's traveling Chinese exhibit is a fake. When the professor dies suddenly the next day, his wife asks Charlotte to do some sleuthing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2006. 1st edition, February 2006, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard, private investigators in Cleveland, Ohio. "Koryta's impressive second hard-boiled mystery is a worthy successor to his debut, Tonight I Said Goodbye (2004), an Edgar and Shamus finalist. Cleveland PI Lincoln Perry, haunted by the circumstances that led to his estrangement from his best friend, Ed Gradduk, clutches at an opportunity for redemption on learning that Gradduk is a fugitive from the law, suspected of arson and murder. Perry's hopes of repairing their relationship are dashed after his childhood confidant dies in an accident. As a result, Perry shifts his mission to clearing the dead man's name. Perry, aided by his partner, follows a winding trail of dirty cops and multiple suspicious fires toward the truth. The 22-year-old author, who… Read More

N.Y.: Warner, 1994. First edition, first printing October 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. ..." Keith Landry, his Cold War intelligence job a victim of the Soviet collapse, returns to the little Ohio town where he grew up and begins to tinker with thoughts of reviving the family farm. A former sweetheart, Annie, despondent after Keith went off to Vietnam, had married aggressive, good-looking Cliff Baxter on the rebound, but Keith and Annie had never ceased to correspond. Now that he's back, the old interest is rekindled in both, but Baxter, now police chief and a womanizing petty tyrant, is fiercely jealous-and the novel takes off as a deadly struggle between a man trained in the arts of deception and one with all the built-in advantages of police power in a remote spot. In the process, DeMille works in some poignant reflections on the diminishing role of the American heartland and some acute satire at… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. 1st edition, June 1998, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Milan Jacovich title. The producer of a film hires P.I. Jacovich to make sure his wild star does not get into any trouble, but when Darren seduces an underage young woman, Milan quits, only to see his ex-charge as a murder victim on the TV the next morning.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow, 1992. First edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, lightly rubbed at rear, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Cleveland detective Gil Disbro title, by former Ohio police officer. "In this updated... version of the classic hard-boiled detective novel, ex-police officer Martin ( The Flip Side of Life ) offers the third adventure of Cleveland PI Gil Disbro. Wealthy Cleveland resident Boyd Lassiter hires Disbro to find his wife Renee, who is missing from the Nevada dude ranch where she was establishing residency prior to filing for divorce. After he learns that Renee is flying back to Cleveland, Disbro meets her plane and observes her leaving unwillingly with some mobsters he recognizes. He follows their car, frees her and takes her to the Lassiter home, where they discover that Boyd has been killed and his chauffeur is missing. Feeling honor-bound to stick with the case, Disbro determines to track down… Read More