Search Results: Mystery Crime Suspense from Reading Rat

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 347 p. HC; VG+/VG. DJ has small closed tear at top of spine, slight bumping, otherwise book & DJ in very nice, clean, unmarked condition. In a case that made "Texas justice" an oxymoron, Randall Adams spent 12 years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Adams' case was the basis for the movie "The Thin Blue Line". Here he tells his own story. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing May 1987; VG/VG; ex-lib with usual pocket, stamps, etc; spine cocked; DJ price clipped, plastic cover taped to boards; otherwise in VG condition. Mystery set in Depression-era South Dakota. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Mysterious Press/Warner, 1996. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing; appears like new except for slight dent in upper edge of front cover, very slight wear to edges of DJ; the 17th book featuring P. I. Sharon McCone. Suitable as gift copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Second Story Press, 1994. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Apaprent first edition; paperback; VG, clean, uncreased copy; spine separating from text block. "Private detective Helen Keremos thinks her routine assignment to the Far East will leave her lots of time for playing tourist. Almost immediately, her plans go awry . . . Helen gets mixed up with local gangsters - the yakuza - not to mention an international art smuggling ring that leads her to Toronto, Los Angeles and Las Vegas." Part of a series featuring lesbian PI Keremos. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition; copyright date 1984, printing date not shown. VG/VG; ex-library with usual stamps, pocket, residue of barcode sticker on back. Slight spine lean. DJ price-clipped, in plastic cover, taped to boards. Previously unpublished novel by Cain. DJ illustration by Michael P. Meritet. Afterword by Cain biographer Roy Hoopes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Regina, SK, Canada: Coteau Books, 1993. First. French-Folds. Very Good -/No Jacket. 342 p.; VG-; edges lightly rubbed/bumped, otherwise clean and solid. First novel by Regina author. Set during the Algerian crisis of the 1960s, Cut-Out is "a psychological espionage novel, the apprenticeship of a beautiful female double agent." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dell Publishing, 1977. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. VG+, light spine creases, great reading copy 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Lancer Books Inc., 1966. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Paperback reprint; VG; minor wear. Both a mystery and a romantic novel by one of the masters of both genres. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Dutton, 1990. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing; remainder mark on bottom, very slight edgewear to DJ, otherwise appears like new. An unauthorized fictionalization, in which the author has Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers team up to solve a mysterious death and save Sayers' reputation. An entertaining detective story incorporating many real-life details. Suitable as a gift. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Davis Publications Inc, 1979. Magazine. Good/No Jacket. 38th anniversary issue. 15 New stories. dog eared corners of cover. age darkening. price sticker on front cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Academy, 1987. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. VG or better, very slight wear. Second in a projected series of Solar Pons stories by Basil Copper, based on characters created by August Derleth. In the tradition of Sherlock Holmes. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Toronto, Canada: R.M. Publications, 1987. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 356p. Thomas Sophonow. The bizzare case of the cowboy killer. This book was published by the author due to publishers unwillingness to allow the author to call an ace an ace and a deuce a deuce. Both the accused and the victim's father wanted this book to be written. And now it has been. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2001. Unstated. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket. On-demand publication; trade paper; as new except for light rem. mark on bottom ot text block. "For over three hundred years the peoples of the First Nations have tried to live peaceably with the white man. But by the beginning of the new millennium, after many generations have seen their lands, their resources - indeed their very ability to govern themselves - evaporate before their eyes, a new breed of aboriginal decides enough is enough. A well-trained and deadly clandestine warrior group - the Haudenosaunnee Brigade - is launched and proceeds to wreak havoc . . . " 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Simcoe, Ontario, Canada: Davus Pub, 1999. Not Stated. Original Wraps. Very Good +/No Jacket. 109 p.; small paperback; VG+; new, unread copy, has small patches of sticker residue on f. & b. covers. Library detective Rudyard Mack investigates a theft from the New York Public Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, ON, Canada: General Publishing Company, Limited, 1990. Soft Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 180p. A young man grows up on a reserve, he is handsome, strong and ominously quiet. Bad turns lead him to jail and an escape. This book is filled with understanding of the underdog 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1978. Not Stated. Hard Cover. Good +/Good +. 207 p.; G +/G +; ex-library with usual stamps, pocket, etc. Book is rubbed along bottom edge, spine leans, DJ attached with tape. Interior clean and firm in binding. DJ unclipped,protected by plastic cover, has library labels on spine and back. "Radiating warmth and a comic sense of human foibles, yet tinged with a sobering element of tragedy, Lusty Winter brings us the world of George Wilson, 1 65-year-old man freed from the ties of family, job and city life, in love with a new woman who excites him as no woman ever has. But his rural dreamworld is shattered by strangers whose subtle terrorism culminates in a nightmare of violence." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Black Point, NS, Canada: Fernwood Publishing Company, Limited, 1998. Not Stated. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. Edition not stated but probable first; 144 p. incl. references; VG+; slight shelfwear. Discusses 6 famous wrongful convictions (Donald Marshall, David Milgaard, Wilbert Cogffin, Guy Paul Morin, Thomas Sophonow, Steven Truscott) and explores the systemic problems in the justice system that lead to miscarriages of justice. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1981. Not Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good Minus. David Shaw. 220 p.; VG+/VG-; book has very slight bumping of corners & extremities. Nice bright unclipped DJ (colour illustration by David Shaw) has some chipping and several small closed tears at edges. Retired detective Ranse McGruber attempts the Perfect Crime and great complications ensue. Check my inventory for other books by Max Braithwaite. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. Not Stated. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Tien Ho. Inkpot Books; 64 p. paperback; VG-; mild reading wear, SK5 in black marker on upper corner of front cover, 1 inch split at bottom of spine along front crease. Otherwise clean and solid. Two juvenile mysteries by well-known mystery writer Ed Hoch, with attractive B & W line drawings by Tien Ho. The young reader is challenged to match withs with Detective Tommy Preston. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: St Martins Pr, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 166 p. incl. index; NF/NF; clean, bright copy in unclipped DJ. A famous murder trial with Abraham Lincoln defending William "Duff" Armstrong. "In Moonlight, the first book to offer the complete story of the famous 'Almanac Trial', Walsh draws on long-neglected documents to tell, in fascinating detail, what really happened in that Beardstown, Illinois courtroom." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.