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Victoria, B. C.: Sono Nis Press. Very Good+. 1990. First Edition. Softcover. 1550390112 . Clean, tight condition. Cover has some scuffing/rubbing and light edge/corner wear, small tear spine bottom. Pages are clean and unmarked. B/w illus. 195 pages. "Arnold Stanley Smeltzer, a professional thief, consults a high-priced fortune teller about a job he's planning. When the Ace of Pentacles shows up, denoting vast riches, he foretells success for the venture. After the theft of over six million dollars in cash, Smeltzer is accused, but did he, in fact, have a part in the armed robbery?" (280-osl) ; 8vo .

UK: Coronet Books. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. 0340024208 . Coronet 1974 printing, same ISBN. Pages all intact and clean other than small bookstore stamp inside both covers, age tanning to page edges and inside covers. Cover has light edgewear, edge rubbing and scuffing, tiny peel where sticker was removed. The 6th Matt Helm, Secret Agent title. Helm and a " Battle-scared girl who couldn't stand being touched by men, " tackle a crazy Nazi, a crazy guerilla General and a foreign agent of the shapely variety... (95os,0514) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: The Crime Club By Collins. Good in Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Ex-library with usual ex-lib type markings and brodart sleeve over jacket. Occasional light soiling within book, moderate soiling to outer edge of pages. Light edge stain inside cover edges and some glue residue/tape markings, back flap clipped back quite short. Reading/study copy. "Two hundred and twenty-six paople saw James Roylake die - just minutes before the decisive session at which he would have defended his challenged leadership. Roylake had always dealt with is legion of public and personal enemies with derision and contempt ....Now it seemed he had scorned them once too often" [302-noto] ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

CT: Fawcett Gold Medal. Very Good. 1969. Softcover. Travis McGee series. Very good condition. Cover has very light edge/corner wear, some creasing on spine. Pages are clean and intact, with no markings. Some age tanning to covers and page edges. ; A Travis Mcgee Novel; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; From a Reviewer: "Travis McGee keeps getting better! .......Read this series the first time while in the Navy as a teen. Now thirty years later I am on my third time through series, and each time I enjoy it as much if not more than the first time. John D. McDonald is a true master story teller, and Travis McGee is the hero we can all admire, envy and root for. " (150os,0514) .

New York: Jove / HBJ Books. Very Good. 1979. Softcover. Very good condition, pages clean and intact, no markings. Cover has light wear to corners and tiny tears to spine bottom, light scuffing. ; Nero Wolfe Mysteries; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda -- whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer who's still got poison in his heart. (105os,0514) .

New York: Vision. New. 2011. Third Printing. Softcover. 0446554952 . Paperback is new and unread, with no markings. " Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she murdered? And, above all . . . Who murdered her? FEVER DREAM - Revenge is not sweet: It is essential. " (300noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Hodder And Stoughton. Good+. 1978. First Edition. Softcover. 0340158980 . Coronet 1978 reprint. Internal pages clean and unmarked, age tanning to page edges & inside covers. Cover has moderate edgewear & rubbing/scuffing, small tears to spine ends, and a small peeled area on rear. "London's power supply was threatened, and Scotland Yard's Commander Gideon had to find out why - before the city was paralysed!" (110os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages .

Pocket Books. Very Good. 1975. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. 0671788175 . Pages are clean, tight and unmarked other than bookstore stamp inside cover, light age tanning to interior. Cover has moderate creasing, light edge and corner wear and a little soiling. "The M. O. Was always the same - to find a swinging single, to woo her, to strangle her, to dispose of the body somewhere wet.....Kojak missed nailing him two years ago - he couldn't afford to miss again..." (85osl) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

J. B. Lippincott. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0397013620 . Hardcover clean & tight other than a couple tiny spots, slightly cocked at spine. Jacket has light edgewear, age tanning and a couple small edge tears. "The pleasures of life are interrupted by a murder that plunges Travis McGee into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems, including the Church of the Apocrypha, which he must infiltrate to find the truth. " ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Bantam Books. Very Good+. 1984. Softcover. 0553243756 . Bantam 1984 edition. Pages clean, tight and unmarked. Age tanning inside covers. Cover has light edge & corner wear, very light creasing. ; A Nero Wolfe Mystery; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; A bidding war for his services interrupts Nero Wolfe's attempts to solve the case of the businessman who died in his love nest--a case in which the police seem oddly uninterested. [91-osl] .

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Pages clean and intact, age tanning to page edges and covers, bookstore stamp inside front cover. Cover has light edge and corner wear, scuffing and a few small creases. One small edge tear and small tears to spine bottom. There were plenty of strangers around when Joe Gall showed up in Ethiopia to smuggle a deposed President out of the country. Unfortunately, murderers are as easy to hire in Africa as they are in Chicago. Cheaper too...... (85os,713) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 144 pages .

St. Martin's Minotaur. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 031229056x . Excellent condition. Hardcover is clean and tight, unmarked other than a tiny (dot) remainder mark bottom edge. Jacket has light scuffing and very light wear at corners, price sticker on rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; Review: "Sheriff Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, gets a call from former lover Laura, whose son has disappeared with his girlfriend, Amanda. Kovak's inquiries lead him to the local headquarters of a religious sect known as the Seven Trumpets. Kovak is uncomfortable; all the women are pregnant, and the two sect leaders are two very contented--and evasive--men. Then Amanda's naked, lifeless body is found at a remote location of the sprawling compound. The investigation focuses on the religious sect and its unsavory leaders, but Kovak can't make any sort of a forensic case against them. Using the time-tested investigatory technique of… Read More

Berkley Books. Very Good+. 1993. Softcover. 0425135764 . Very good - pages clean, tight and unmarked. Cover has a little wear at corners and a small tear to spine bottom. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; A sketch she makes at a cricket match reveals to Miss Seeton vital clues to a series of burglaries that has upset the town of Plummergen. [110-osl] .

Pocket Books. Good. 1970. Softcover. Pages clean and unmarked, one paper split at spine near centre, but no loose pages, bookstore stamp inside cover. Cover has moderate edgewear, several creases, light soiling and partial sticker on front. Part one of the Bounty trilogy. (185-noto? ) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

New York: Dolphin Books. Good. 1962. Paperback. Would be upgraded to very good, but book has some stains to top and bottom (coffee? ) . This has soaked into the edges a bit. This doesn't affect readability in any way. Pages are otherwise intact, with no markings. Cover has light edgewear, a couple small creases and evidence of stains as mentioned. Crime novel. On Oct. 17th, 1678, a famous London magistrate was found dead - strangled and stabbed. Titus Oates, the renegade priest, came forward with evidence that linked the crime with a Popish plot to poison Charles II.... (207no-3-24); 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 349 pages .

Totem Crime. Very Good. 1986. First Edition. Softcover. 0002230585 . Clean, intact condition, no markings. Cover has light edge and corner wear. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 182 pages; Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife become enmeshed in a web of foreign intrigue and murder in the Netherlands. [106-osl] .

Signet Books. Very Good. 1973. First Printing. Paperback. 0451074327 . First Signet printing 1973. Pages are clean and intact, no markings, age tanning to pages and inside covers. Cover has light edge/corner wear and light scuffing, light staining to rear cover. The classic mystery novella The Lamp of God is paired with eight short stories in this collection featuring “the prince of American detective fiction” (Kirkus Reviews). (130os424) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 238 pages .

Totem Crime. Good. 1986. Softcover. 0002231174 . Pages clean with no markings, some age tanning to interior and light wrinkling to some page edges. Cover has light creasing and light wear to edges/corners. A penny-ante insurance fraud leads to arson, kidnapping and murder. (125-osl) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 201 pages .

Forge Books. Very Good. 1999. First Edition. 0312868197 . Softcover. Cover has light edge & corner wear, light soiling, creasing to front. Internal pages are clean & unmarked. "In his 20th book, Land offers a bracing sequel to the well-received thriller, The Walls of Jericho, once again featuring Palestinian detective and ex-Detroit cop Ben Kamal, and Jerusalem police inspector Danielle Barnea, Ben's old flame. Delving into the disappearance of the 12-year-old daughter of a Jericho woman, Ben is warned of a planned suicide bombing in Tel Aviv's Atarim Square...." ; 8vo .

Montreal, QC: Pocket Books. Very Good. 1957. Fifth Printing. Softcover. Very good condition for it's age. Small paperback (6.5 in. tall). pages clean and intact, no markings, light age tanning to covers and page edges. first end page is slightly loose bottom end but still attached. cover has light edge wear, a little moreso to corners, spine edges, light creasing. Ellery Queen is tricked into aiding and abetting a murder! (95os,0514); 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 193 pages .