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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.

Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Overlook Press, 2002. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. A brilliantly original, dramatic, and moving tale of life in the Cajun country of Louisiana, with its dangerous oil rigs, decaying plantation houses, and intense loves and hatreds.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 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.: Walker & Co, 1987. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges browning else fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The story of a Vietnam veteran who becomes a lawyer in a Georgia town and defends an African-American man who is on trial for the murder of a young woman. From the author of ROBAK'S CROSS and POISON SUMMER.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Walker, 1192. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The third featuring Manton, Mass., school principal Ben Louis. Here, the village grapevine quickly spreads news of Ben's application for district superintendent and passes along innuendos about school psychologist Merran Shaw and his probable misbehavior with little girls. Does Ben want the job? Is Merran a pervert?.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2004. 1st. Ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.Dan Reles, the only Jewish homicide detective in 1980s Austin, Texas, is featured in the debut book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first in the Martha Patterson series. "Talk about starting with a bang. While retired and widowed lawyer Martha Patterson is still being warned against ``the Mother Teresa syndrome'' in her new job at West Brooklyn Legal Services, one of the paralegals bursts into the office bleeding from a head wound; he's been mugged, says Carlos Quinones, by three men who stole the rent-strike money he'd just collected from The Building. Hours later, just after Martha gets off the phone with Tessie Doone, a tenant of The Building whose Social Security checks have stopped coming, crazy Wilma Oberfell stalks into the office claiming ``I don't know whom I can trust'' before following Martha home, then skulking away. And the next day, when Martha goes out to The Building to talk to Tessie, she runs into Wilma again,… Read More

NY,NY: Random House Inc, 1981. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. Book has tiny name written in ink on ffp, light soiling at page edges. Jacket shows yellowing which is usual with this title, light soiling, Made into a major motion picture. A Soviet investigator and an American policeman try to solve the murder of three young people in Gorky Park. One of the best Russian Mystery ever written.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine, 1996. First edition, so stated, 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. " You don't know what it's like to lose yourself. To have no words anymore, no way of saying who you are." So warns the anti-marriage, vengeful, divorced writer and theater artist Milly Xico, speaking to Perdita Halley, urging her not to give up her career in order to marry her lover, Dr. the Baron Alexander von Reisden. The talented 21-year-old Perdita, an aspiring concert pianist so nearsighted as to be almost blind, is determined to find out what she can accomplish in music. But her love for the Baron may be more of an impediment than her physical handicap. Set in the Paris of 1910, Smith's ambitious second novel (after The Vanished Child) opens with the Baron, a specialist in "mental disturbances," viewing the corpse of… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Remains of book store label at inside cover else fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. An academic, historical look at a Scottish college professor who is really two people - one by day and one by night.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Set in Russia at the time of the attempted coup of 1991. "This fast-paced, highly engaging political thriller begins on the eve of the attempted coup against President Gorbachev in August 1991. Written by a policy analyst, and briskly translated by the author of the Russian detective Ivan Duvakin series, this thinly disguised roman a clef probes into the backgrounds of those responsible for the abortive coup and the frantic events that led to their downfall. A secretary who discovers a discarded planned announcement of the impending military takeover is found out by the KGB and winds up dead. Andrei Alekseevich, a young "half-wild intellectual" and Yeltsin supporter, also inadvertently learns about the planned coup from his father, Georgi, a hardliner and high-ranking military officer. Andrei is eventually kidnapped and confined to a plush dacha to sit out the… Read More

NY. NY: Scribners, 1988. 1st ed. FINE/FINE. . First Loretta Lawson mystery.Loretta Lawson, a scholarly, feminist Private Investigator is using a flat outside of London to complete a report, when she finds a gentleman already occupyinh one of the bedrooms - not bad - except he's stone dead.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1996. 1st Ed. A couple of spots at top edge of pages else fine in dust jacket. . Fred Taylor, an art historian in Boston, Massachusetts, is featured in the second book in this art related mystery series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2006. 1st. Ed. Top of page edges has small damp stain else near fine in jacket also stained along inside blind side else near fine. A BARRY AWARD WINNER for Best Thriller and a THRILLER AWARD NOMINEE for their 2006 Thriller Award. Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and Israeli secret agent, is featured in the sixth in this highly acclaimed series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Beaufort Books, 1985. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. A music related mystery based upon the Tchaikovsky International Music Competetion in Moscow.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2000. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Southern gothic by the author of Tupelo Nights.One of the South's best writers returns with a scorching tale of murder and sexual obsession in New Orleans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ecco Press, 2002. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.The author's first novel. Spiraling violence and seething passions drive this unpredictable tale of murder and revenge. Set in Louisiana. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: St. Martins, 1985. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ has small - repaired - tear to top of spine, else fine. Lovejoy, an antiques expert and forger in East Anglia, England, is featured in the ninth book in this internally acclaimed series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1993. 1st ed., fine, tight copy of Paperback original. Native American Anishinabe princess Angela Biwaban. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. As New. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1999. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Langton is a WINNER OF THE GRAND MASTER AWARD from the Mystery Writers of America. Cover and Illustrations by Langton. "The Homer Kelly series is usually set in Massachusetts (Homer and wife Mary teach at Harvard), but occasionally Langton takes the amiable pair--ever-enthusiastic Homer and more subued but equally perceptive Mary--on the road. This fourteenth entry finds them returning to Italy, scene of The Dante Game (1991). The venue here is Venice rather than Florence, but the travelogue tone is equally infectious, as Homer settles in to study Renaissance manuscripts, and Mary sets out, guidebook in hand, to see the city. She does exactly that (tourists would do well to follow her footsteps), but along the way, she becomes involved with a handsome doctor, who turns out to be a particularly vile murderer. The tangled plot jumps… Read More