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London, United Kingdom: Collins Crime, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Mallorcan Inspector Alvarez title. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Doubelday Crime Club, 1960. 1st ed. Light wear to cloth else near fine in moderately soiled dust jacket, with a couple of small nicks. Spain and New York. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2003. 1st U.S. edition, so stated with complete letter line beginning with A. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE. The first Javier Falcón title. Detective Inspector Javier Falcón is transfixed by the brutalized face of murder victim Raul Jiménez in his Seville apartment. On his shirtfront, littered like exotic petals, are the man's eyelids, and so the victim’s relentless horror becomes the beginning of Falcón's own. An old photograph at the murder scene prompts Falcón to read a set of journals left by his famous father, the artist Fransisco Falcón. He discovers that he'd never known the father he'd always loved, and as the case unfolds, Falcón's mind unravels as all the old certainties are undermined. More victims fall but neither the evidence nor the secrets of the victims' lives give Falcón the… Read More

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. 1st printing, Dell Mapback #500. Vintage Paperback. Very light wear at spine edge else a near fine, tight copy. Spain. 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.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Mass Market Paperback.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1931. 1st edition, so stated. Light wear along edges, very lightly rubbed, else a near fine copy in homemade acetate dust protector. In his introduction to this documentary novel, Philip MacDonald says: "In this book I have striven to be absolutely fair to the reader. There is nothing -- nothing at all -- for the detective that the reader has not had. More, the reader has had his information In exactly the same form as the detective -- that is, the verbatim report of evidence and question." "Anthony Gethryn is vacationing in Costa del Chica, Spain, when he receives from Assistant Commissioner Sir Egbert Lucas, C.I.D., the transcript of the coroner’s inquest into the death of Maxwell Brunton. Brunton had been murdered in his study one night, a crime that could have been committed only by someone residing in the house. Brunton, according to the testimony, was a philanderer and a man easily given to anger, but he also had… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1994. 1st US edition, July 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, one small tape repaired tear at front, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. 2nd Marius Larche title, political and religious background. Spain's Home Affairs Minister, is gunned down by a manipulative killer. Senior Interpol officer, Marius Larche, heads the investigating team; his number two, DI Alison Rowe of Scotland Yard, seconded because of her special knowledge of one particular political assassin, suspected of the murder. On the fortress-like island of Molino, they investigate the web of secrecy and suspicion which surrounds the Minister's widow and the whole Tomas family.. 1st US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Constable, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj, 2nd Marius Larche title, political and religious background. Spain's Home Affairs Minister, is gunned down by a manipulative killer. Senior Interpol officer, Marius Larche, heads the investigating team; his number two, DI Alison Rowe of Scotland Yard, seconded because of her special knowledge of one particular political assassin, suspected of the murder. On the fortress-like island of Molino, they investigate the web of secrecy and suspicion which surrounds the Minister's widow and the whole Tomas family.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2003. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Tiniest reminder dot at bottom of pages. 1939 Spain. "The immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War provides the bleak setting for Pawel's stirring first novel. Madrid in 1939 is filled with bomb craters, desecrated churches and nearly abandoned streets, while black markets are just about the only markets with anything to sell. The hatreds and atrocities shared by the Nationalists (supported by the fascists) and the Republicans (supported by the Communists) still simmer and erupt in sporadic violence. The Guardia Civil has the responsibility to maintain authority-and their enthusiasm and ruthlessness for enforcing order terrorizes the citizens. The intertwined fates of Sergeant Tejada Alonzo y Leon of the Guardia Civil and that of Gonzalo Llorente, a wounded Republican in hiding, are handled with unusual skill and subtlety. When Tejada… Read More

NY: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1949. 1st pbk printing. Vintage Paperback, Dell Mapback #360. Cover Illustration by Victor Kalin. Rear Map: 2 part map: 1) part of Western Europe; 2) "The Palace of Flowers" Don Lrenzo's mansion, near Granada, Spain. Cover creases, spine edges rubbed, light wear. 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.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Illus. by Kalin, Victor. Vintage Paperback.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Summit Books, 1990. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Llewellyn does for boats what Dick Francis does for horses.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press / Minotaur Books, 2001. 1st edition, October 2001, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A BARRY AWARD NOMINE FOR BEST BRITISH CRIME NOVEL. "Psychology professor Fiona Campbell, a consultant with London's Metropolitan Police, specializes in crime linkage and geographical profiling using sophisticated computer technology. The competitive, self-confident Fiona was recently replaced on a case by another expert, who ended up misleading the police; their suspect, whom Fiona had thought innocent, was eventually released. While Fiona is working with the Spanish police to catch a vicious murderer, a new situation comes to light back in the U.K.: the serial killings of successful thriller writers who are threatened, then murdered following details from their most popular novel. Fiona lives with Kit Martin, author of you guessed it popular thrillers about serial killers.… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1985. 1st Am. Fine in dj, lightly rubbed at rear panel, head and foot of spine. Ins. Alvarez.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1971. 1st ed., so stated. Lightly faded at cloth edges, slight spine slant else near fine in dust jacket, lightly soiled, unclipped, $6.95 price intact. Ian Ferrier, an employee of the United States Space Agency, vacationing in the Mediterranean, finds himself involved with the security of nations when he stumbles onto an assassination conspiracy in Spain . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 1992. 1st U.S. edition, April 1992 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publishers sheet laid in. An Inspector Alvarez novel . Mallorca, Spain setting. "In this adroit addition to Jeffries's stylish series ( Too Clever by Half ), Inspector Enrique Alvarez of the Cuerpo General de Policia, Mallorca, Spain, is suspicious of wealthy (and obnoxious) immigrant Giovanni Gaspari, who first reports a life-threatening burglary, and then withdraws his complaint when the police arrive. Against the express orders of his boss, Alvarez follows a hunch that the foreigner is involved in the killing of the village idiot. But before the inspector can confirm his suspicions, Gaspari is murdered. Alvarez is nearly the third victim when he discovers that the chief suspect, a visiting Englishman, is being framed with a 50-year-old love letter with a coded reference to the… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st US edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. [CANARY ISLANDS]. The fifth Superintendent Bernal. "Serafin's worldly superintendent Bernal of the Madrid police gladly obeys orders to beef up security in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands before a visit there by the president of Spain. Leaving his thorny wife, Bernal joins his lover Consuelo Lozano on the island where she awaits the imminent birth of their baby. But pitiless revolutionaries, who have already killed to prevent interference with their plot against the president, spoil the couple's rendezvous. Grabbing Consuelo, the gangsters keep her hidden while their devilishly ingenious instruments of destruction await the moment of detonation. Bernal grapples with the worst criminals of his career in this taut, terrifying mystery, and the reader feels his agony as he fights to save lives, especially those… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1986. 1st US edition, . with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Eric Ward].. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2006. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Hired to rescue a man's daughter from a convent where a powerful corrupt priest is forcing her to be his personal concubine, Alatriste finds himself thrust into a religious and political conspiracy with ties to the highest levels of the Inquisition . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Berkeley Prime Crime, 1998. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of the uncorrected proof. The Chronicles of Isaac of Girona. The first in an all new series of medieval medical mysteries set in Girona, Spain in 1353. An ELLIS and ANTHONY Award Nominee.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1992. 1st edition, December 1992, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, very lightly rubbed at extremeties, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. As Donald E. Westlake points out in his introduction, Return Trip Ticket 'honorably continues and extends' the timeless myth of the tarnished knight and the tarnished damsel, a myth that influenced much of the work of writers such as Dashiell Hammett.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harcourt, 1998. 1st edition, so stated, with complete letter line beginning with A. Page edges lightly soiled else about fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Translated by Sonia Soto. "Mysterious, deadly conflicts between history and modernity drive Spanish author Perez-Reverte's latest literate thriller (after The Club Dumas, 1997), an engaging tale of love, greed, faith, betrayal and murder set in contemporary Seville. When a computer hacker penetrates Vatican security to send an urgent, anonymous plea to the pope, Father Lorenzo Quart of the church's Institute of External Affairs--a sort of Vatican CIA--is dispatched to investigate. The hacker's message concerns a troubled 17th-century church in Seville, Our Lady of the Tears. Apparently, the dilapidated church "kills to defend itself." It stands in the way of a huge real estate deal, and two people have died there-- in apparent accidents--as they brought pressure to condemn it. A… Read More