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Quartet London 1984 Fine in dj. Mystery writer longs to drop his crude--though highly successful--detective. NYC. 1st British.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1983. 1st ed. Fine in dj, large tape repaired tears at front panel. Mystery writer longs to drop his crude--though highly successful--detective. NYC. 1st British.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good.

N.Y.: Signet, 1999. 1st edition, May 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy. Author's First Book. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Winner - Malice Domestic Grant; First Mystery. Jacob Burns has finally sold a screenplay. But he can't write another one - he's got writer's block and spends his days in a Saratoga Springs, NY, coffeehouse. Then one morning one of more eccentric customers hands Jacob a key and drops dead at his feet. But to find a killer, Jacob must first prove that a murder has occured. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Fawcett, 1998. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original featuring mystery novelist Jennifer Marsh. Author's first book.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1990. 1st ed. reading crease, very light wear else near fine. Paperback Original. an Andrew Quentin and Jane Winfield title set in Yorkshire. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1988. 1st ed. Uncorrected proof, very lightly soiled, covers sunned, wraps.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof.

NY: Bantam, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Complete number line. SIGNED by the author at half-title page. A starred review for this book from Publisher's Weekly. Paul Graves knows evil to the bone. He confronted it first as a boy, when he survived the torture-murder of his sister. As a man, he has made its exploration his life's work, tirelessly writing mysteries set in gaslight New York, a world of mists and shadows, of voices pleading in the fog, footsteps racing over rain-swept cobblestones... a world colored by the ache of Graves's own past, its still-remembered screams. It is a far cry from Riverwood, the artists' community in upstate New York where Graves is invited to spend the summer. And yet, for all its splendor and grand isolation, Riverwood was once touched by crime-the murder of Faye Harrison, a teenage girl who'd lived on the estate fifty years before. Faye's mother is now dying, but uneasily, still tormented by the unanswered questions about her… Read More

NY: Bantam, 1998. 1st edition, November 1998, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A starred review for this book from Publisher's Weekly. Paul Graves knows evil to the bone. He confronted it first as a boy, when he survived the torture-murder of his sister. As a man, he has made its exploration his life's work, tirelessly writing mysteries set in gaslight New York, a world of mists and shadows, of voices pleading in the fog, footsteps racing over rain-swept cobblestones... a world colored by the ache of Graves's own past, its still-remembered screams. It is a far cry from Riverwood, the artists' community in upstate New York where Graves is invited to spend the summer. And yet, for all its splendor and grand isolation, Riverwood was once touched by crime-the murder of Faye Harrison, a teenage girl who'd lived on the estate fifty years before. Faye's mother is now dying, but uneasily, still… Read More

N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1988. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The first Emerson Ward, a freelance writer in Chicago, title. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. A suitcase filled with a quarter of a million dollars and evidence of complex web of unusual stock transactions lead Emerson Ward along a perilous trail--involving murder, smuggling, missing persons, and more--as he searches for the killer of his lover, Jessica Pearson. The story moves from Chicago to the Bahamas and other points of interest and it's clear that Sherer is at home in these settings which he utilizes beautifully.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1993. 1st Hardcover edition, February 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The theft of an Elizabethan manuscript of questionable authenticity. The first novel in the Winston Sherman series..Winston Marlowe Sherman, an English professor who writes mystery novels under the pseudonym Henrietta Slocum, attends a party at the home of a theater critic and must put his sleuthing skills to the test when the critic is murdered. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.