Search Results: Suspense from Turtleman Used Books

Very little wear. 329 pages are clean, tight and bright. The sixth of six in Neggers' U. S. Marshall romantic suspense series.

First edition, complete number line. Very little wear, to book or dust jacket. Pages are clean, tight and bright. A researcher comes up with a new anti-depressant, but what about the side effects? Medical thriller.

Nina Reilly book #5. Cover shows a little wear around the edges and one crease across the lower back corner. Only a couple of spine creases, it is tight, clean and readable. One of a series of legal thrillers from the O'Shaughnessy sisters.

No dust jacket. A 2 cm tear to the cover at the rear top corner of the spine. A few other minor signs of wear on the cover as well. Pages not too bad, although a little soiled on the central bottom forward edges. There is one spine break, just before the first story begins (see photo #3). No pages lost. A total of 46 stories are included: some authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Gahan Wilson, Ben Bova, and H. H. Hollis. This book will ship at over two pounds. Excess shipping costs are included in the list price. This is a rather rare book, with few copies on the market.

First edition. No dust jacket. Blue fabric covered boardds show some wear mainly at the corners, and a couple of small stains on the front cover. THe deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's name on the front free endpaper.

What they call romantic suspense. Murder, and ambitious prosecutor, a mysterious woman, all the ingredients. And I don't think the butler did it.Book has a little bit of wear to the cover. A chip here, a crease there, and a 1.5 cm tear on the upper right corner of the back cover. Pages are all clean, tight, intact. 564 pages, plus a teaser from Brown's next book.

A fair amount of external wear, with bent corners, chips along most edges, creases on cover and spine, and a curvature to the spine. 599 pages remain clean, tight and intact.

Little wear. A bit of price sticker residue on the cover. A spine crease or two. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Abduction, murder, mental illness all woven together into a suspenseful plot.

Translated from Danish. First American edition. Very little wear. Two pilots from England are shot down over Germany and end up hiding as patients in a mental hospital for SS officers.

Some minor wear, including a few shallow spine creases. Pages are clean, tight and intact.

No dust jacket. Soft leather binding feels nice, but is rather fragile. In the case of this book, that has led to damage at both ends of the spine (photos #4 and 5) and exposed boards at the corners (photo #6). Gilt stamped print and decoration on the front and spine. Hinge splits front and back, a failure of glue that could be repaired (front split shown in photo #8). Decorative endpapers. The pages are clean, tight and intact, with gilt top edges. I found only two others from 1929 online, neither of which are leather-bound. This seems to be a very rare edition. Originally published in 1919.

Book has clearly been read. You can tell by the slightly curled cover, many creases in the spine and rubs on the edges and corners. All pages are present, intact, clean and fairly bright. Boldt/Matthews book #8.

This oversized paperback (593+ pages) has suffered some wear the way such paperbacks always do, in the form of many spine creases and a curvature to the spine. There is also a little bit of wear at the edges and corners. The pages, however, are clean, fairly tight and quite readable. But, at almost 600 pages, probably not in one night. This is the first of seven novels to feature the team of Kovac and Liska.

Wear at the corners and edges, along with a slightly curved spine with a few creases. 344 pages remain clean, tight and intact. Courtroom drama. This appears to be the only book ever published by this author, and not too many are on the market.

Little wear other than some spine creases and a spine that is slightly out of plumb. 371 pages, plus an author's interview. Pages are clean, tight and intact. Nell's husband dies when his boat explodes. When it is discovered that the explosion was no accident, she consults a medium (because that's a thing in Clark's works), and soon learns enough to put her own life in danger.

Spine a bit curved with creases. Additional creases on front cover. 369 pages are clean, tight and intact.

First edition. Book shows very little wear. Deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small tears along the top edge. By the author of The Handmaid's Tale. This book will ship at over two pounds. Excess shipping costs are included in the list price.

First edition. Very little wear to the book. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The unclipped dust jacket has a bit of flaring and wear at both the top and bottom edges, indicating it may have been cut a tiny fraction of a cm too tall. A continuation of the Robert Ludlum series.

Little wear. Some slight curling of the cover corners, and a few creases in the spine. Binding seems solid and the pages are clean and tight. Nina Reilly #4. Nina takes on a palimony case that leads to murder.

Little wear outside of a few spine creases. Pages are clean and tight. Three disgraced former judges are working on an extortion scam from within a federal prison.