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U.S.A: Barnes & Noble Books, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. 432 pages. Black quarter cloth w/gilt titles, dark gray boards, very clean and unmarked, tight and solid, square with sharp corners. Text block edges have very pale spotting. Interior in Fine Condition--very clean and free from any markings, no creases. Glossy, clean jacket with a touch of wear around spine ends. A great selection of mystery stories, each with its own particular appeal, an unexpected twist, a devastating revelation. Just the right story before you drop off to sleep, enjoy over a sandwich, wait in the doctor's waiting room--. 8.6 x 6 inches. Barnes & Noble, New York, 1992.

USA: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Books/Random House, 2006. First Thus. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback As New. First Printing of First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition. Bright, clean cover designed by Megan Wilson. no creasing, soundly bound, internals as new also. An unnerving psychological suspense novel. 340 pages plus excerpt from "End in Tears". 8 x 5.2 inches. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Books/Random House, New York, 2006.

U.S.A: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Books/Random House, 2006. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. First Printing of First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition. Bright, clean cover designed by Megan Wilson. no creasing, soundly bound, a whisper of wear to cover edges Internals clean, no markings, no creases. An unnerving psychological suspense novel. 340 pages plus excerpt from "End in Tears". 8 x 5.2 inches. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Books/Random House, New York, 2006.

U.S.A: Delacorte Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. A Eugenia Potter mystery. Based on characters and a story created by Virginia Rich. Setting high in the high Sonoron Desert on a ranch. Nancy Pickard is the "culinary queen of crime". Book is clean, tight, unmarked; spine head and heel rubbed. Endpapers front and back have interesting Spanish recipes. Internals clean, no markings. The Jacket is clean with slight chipping around the spine edges and a small chip on the back of the upper edge. 199 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1993, Delacorte Press, New York, New York, U.S.A

New York, New York, U.S.A: Forge Book/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Very clean black binding with green titles on spine, unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Internals also very clean and free from any markings, no creasing. Glossy, unclipped jacket with touch of wear to spine ends. A suspenseful thriller by the Grand Master of World Horror. Mathematician Chris Barton has his life thrust into a world of intrigue and danger when an imposter steals his identity and his life. 318 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Forge Book/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, New York, 1993.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Black cloth with red titles, clean and spotless, binding tight, solid & square. Black dot to top edge. Former owner name on endpaper. Page edges and pages spotless, clean, no page creases. 354 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 2013, St. Martin's Press, New York.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1993. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. A murderous serial kidnapper wants to commit the crime of the century--kidnapping the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the Secretary of the Treasury. Alex Cross, the brilliant homicide detective, is pressed by one of his most difficult cases. The book is clean and unmarked, faint cover wear. 502 pages. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. 2001 reprint. Grand Central Publishing, NY

U.S.A: HarperCollins, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. HarperCollins, 2007. Ex-Library First Printing. Author's debut novel. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Except for quite minimal library marks, book and jacket are as new. Clean and bright, no wear to book or jacket. Set in the summer of 1995 in the small town of Hayden, Wyoming, where Kate, a New Englander, has finally learned to love the beauty of the West but has longings for connections with her past. When her mother-in-law develops a relationship with a man from back East who walks into their lives, Kate is drawn. But the more she learns about him, the more suspicious she becomes. And she is led to a terrifying conclusion. 258 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. HarperCollins, New York, 2007.

New York, New York, USA: Mystery Guild/Doubleday, 1988. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Remainder Hardcover Mystery Guild Book in Very Good Condition with a Good+ Dust Jacket. Ingenious and unusual plot with murders--and the murderer- among the members of the Mystery Writers of America group in California. Very clean and unmarked blue binding with yellow titles, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Pale yellow rem mk on top edge. Bookplate on paste-down. Internals very clean and free from any markings. Clean and bright dust jacket with moderate wear to extremities. 188 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Mystery Guild/Doubleday, New York, 1988.

USA: Simon & Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Harcover Book in FINE Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Mary Higgin's Clark's first collection of short fiction. Clean, unmarked, solid book in red half cloth with gilt titles, gray paper-wrapped boards, spotless, no wear to extremities. Text block edges white, no spotting. Internals as new. Unclipped jacket is bright and clean with rumpling of spine head and heel. In the title novella, inspired by the true story of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the Russian Czar, a woman in love is forced to confront the demons of her past--and present. The remaining four stories are all miniature masterpieces of suspense that probe the inner secrets of the human mind. 318 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1989.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Hardcover Book In Good Condition. No Jacket. A modern classic story of deceit and murder in Upper Peninsula, Michigan, a murder trial, and of some of the people who were involved in the trial and its proceedings. Became an instant best seller when first published in 1958, and made into an Otto Preminger film. Red quarter cloth with black title panel on spine, gold lettering, with red boards; Generally clean, with a black line 1.25" on the edge of the spine, boards rubbed. Solid, square, with tight sewn binding. Inner hinge is cracked. Pages very clean, completely unmarked, lightly toned. 437 pages. 1958, St. Martin's Press, New York, New York, USA

New York: Random House, 1997. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Trade Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Jacket As New. Mylar Jacket Cover. Jacket not price-clipped. Black half cloth w gilt outlined title panel on spine w gilt titles, black boards. Some whitish areas on the black boards, light wear to extremities, text bock lower edge slightly soiled. Tight, solid and square. Interior is Fine. Set in New York, late 19th Century--maps of Lower Manhattan, 1897 on endpapers. A novel of modern evil in old New York. 629 pages. 9.4 x 6.75 x 2 inches. Random House, New York, 1997.

U.S.A: Mysterious Press, 1994. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked book with trace wear to cover corners; glued binding tight and solid. A "dark and searing ridee into the world of bigotry and evil", set in Los Angeles. 372 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 1994, Mysterious Press, USA

New York: William Morrow, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Former owner bookplate on endpaper, else Fine. Clean, unmarked, solid book in publisher's cream quarter cloth with gilt titles, cream boards. 307 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 2002, William Morrow, New York.

New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Clean, solid volume, appears unused. People are being reported dead or missing all over the world--multiple accidents deemed random incidents by the police--until it is discovered that four persons involved are connected to the KIG-Kingsley International Group, the largest think tank in the world. And the wives of some of the victims are now threatened--what is the KIG is afraid of, what do these people know? A suspenseful story. 337 pages. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. 2004, William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, New York.

U.S.A: Random House Inc, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid book bound in blue half cloth, gilt titles, ivory boards. Trace wear to edges of boards. The BIGGEST Crime of the Century! An animal trainer named Murray Hill disappeared with two full-grown elephants in 1984. He believed they had been abused. When the owners took him to court, he and the elephants went on a fugitive odyssey for more than five years. Read his story--it is both hilarious and heart-wrenching. 318 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1992, Random House, New York, New York, USA

, Anstey, Leicestershire, England: Poisoned Pen Press, 1998. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Nominated for 1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked wraps with slight wear to extremities. Pages clean and unmarked, Nice solid clean volume. A look at the life and work of favorite classic mystery writers-as seen by current mystery writers. Michael Connelly on Raymond Chandler; Peter Lewis on Eric Ambler; Laurie King on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--and many more. 286 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 1998, Poisoned Pen Press, Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Coward-McCann, Inc., 1952. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. An ingenious mystery involving a high-profiile kidnapping, from Edgard Award winning American author, Charlotte Armstrong., first published 1952. Clean, tight, solid, unmarked book in black cloth with yellow titles on spine, edges and corners with light wear.Top edge evenly tinted yellow. Rough cut. Book plate on paste-down. Internals clean, unmarked, lightly toned. 216 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 1952, Howard-McCann, New York, New York, USA

USA: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. A romantic suspense story. 448 pages. 6.3 x 9.3 inches. 2005, G.P.Putnam's Sons, USA

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Small tan spot on front and spine head and heel slightly compressed, otherwise clean, unmarked book with orange boards quarterbound in a navy cloth backstrip with copper metallic titles on the spine. Tight, solid and square. Internals as nerw. 403 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 2012, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York