Search Results: Mystery & Thrillers from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles & green decoration on spine, [viii], 440 pp. Spine ends & corners beginning to fray, else VG. DJ chipped at corners & spine ends, small tears to edges of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Hailey's best-selling thriller set in a snowed-in airport was later made into a movie. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . G-/G+. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Random House, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. First Trade Edition stated, but apparently a book club edition as it lacks price on DJ. Quarter black paper, black paper-covered boards, gilt monogram on front board and gilt titles on spine, maps on endpapers, [vii], 629, [3] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Novel.in which forensic psychiatrist Laszlo Kreizler tracks down a serial murderer of children. The story is told by former street urchin Stevie Taggert. By the author of The Alienist. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 17 cm.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter red cloth, boards covered with red & black cloth-patterned paper, top edge dyed red, red endpapers, book club dot on rear cloth, [xi], 272 pp. Spine ends turned in, slight edge wear, top corner of rear board bumped. Price-clipped DJ has faded (but legible) spine, slight wear and creasing to edges, a tiny chip a tail of spine and two small (5 mm) tears at head of spine; in Brodart archival cover. Miss Marple wonders if Bertram's Hotel is too good to be true. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BCE. . VG+/VG+. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full pale grey cloth, brown titles on spine, top edge dyed maroon, 219 pp. Owner's signature on recto of ffep, endpapers browned slightly by binding glue. DJ worn, chip to head of spine, tail of spine tattered, rear panel fading near edges; in Brodart archival cover. Mystery novel set in the midwest. Heroine Cathy Kingsman is disappointed when a cousin snags an inheritance she expected to be hers. Then when the cousin is murdered, she is accused of the crime. She sets out to find the murderer, but soon finds herself to be the next target. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/G+. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Olive boards with blind-stamped author's name, black spine with foil titles, red endpapers, [xi], 436 pp. Light spotting to fore-edge. DJ has slight edge-wear; in Brodart archival cover. Seventh in Griffin's Corps series of novels about the U. S. Marine Corps in World War 2. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/Near Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.

London, Sydney, Auckland & Johannesburg: Mysterious Press (Century Hutchinson Ltd.), 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gilt titles on spine, dec. endpapers, 220 pp. Book smells of tobacco smoke, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Detective novel set in 1890 featuring the Prince of Wales, aka Bertie, as the detective. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 22 X 14 cm.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gilt titles on spine, viii, 328 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Novel of mystery and suspense set in mid-19th century Seneca Falls, New York. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burgundy boards, mustard yellow cloth spine with copper foil titles, 351, [1] pp. First few leaves slightly wrinkled at fore-edge, else fine. DJ is perfectly preserved in a Brodart cover that was present when we bought the book. The second Cliff Janeway novel combines a tightly plotted murder mystery with a large dose of rare-book lore, making it like catnip for lovers of old books. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 5th ptg. . Near Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

New York: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burgundy boards, mustard yellow cloth spine with copper foil titles, 351, [1] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The second Cliff Janeway novel combines a tightly plotted murder mystery with a large dose of rare-book lore, making it like catnip for lovers of old books. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brick red cloth gilt titles on spine, blind titles, monogram & border on front board, color frontispiece, 356 pp. Titles faded, tail of spine and bottom corners beginning to fray, at least two leaves have marginal tears. GHD symbol on title page--according to McBride, this indicates a first edition through Sept. 1921, after which it should be below the copyright notice. Mystery novel. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Good/No dj. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth with red paper-covered boards, facsimile illegible scrawl stamped in black on front board, [ix], 515, [2] pp. Bottom edge of boards & tail of spine slightly worn, a small spots on bottom edge. Price-clipped DJ has just a hint of wear at corners and spine ends and some picking to the foil-stamping; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 3 lb.. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

New York et al.: Dutton (Penguin Group), 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, black spine with gilt titles, vii, 280 pp. Spine slightly cocked. DJ has a manufacturing defect consisting of some paper debris under the laminating plastic, otherwise fine; in Brodart archival cover. The ninth bibliomystery about Block's burglar/bookseller/sleuth Bernie Rhodenbarr. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth with black paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine and facsimile signature on front board, light grey endpapers, 543 pp. Tail of spine has had a brief encounter with water, and so looks faded, with some bleeding onto bottom edge near spine, small stains visible on some leaves along bottom edge near gutter, otherwise moderate general wear, a few tiny nicks in top edge, owner's name in ink on recto of front free endpaper. DJ rubbed and creased (mostly at corners and spine ends, with some staining to reverse near tail of spine; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . G-/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black and grey paper covered boards, 370 pp. Gold & silver ink picking off titles on DJ; in Brodart archival cover. Murder mystery novel set in and near the Lincolnshire fens. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/VG-. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Doubleday, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter dark purple cloth with grey paper covered boards, Grisham's signature stamped in gold on front board, 486 pp. One corner bumped, a few water spots on cloth, somewhat rubbed about edges, owner's address sticker recto ffep. Dj slightly worn and rubbed, with a few blind pencil or pen impressions; in Brodart archival cover. Lawyer Adam Hall volunteers to handle last-ditch appeals of his grandfather, a convicted bomber in Mississippi. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Doubleday, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth with grey paper covered boards, blue-grey endpapers, 422 pp. Owner's signature on title page and a bit of wear to bottom edge of boards and spine, else fine. Dj slightly worn at corners and head and tail of spine, corner of front flap creased near price; in Brodart archival cover. In this legal thriller, eleven year old Mark Sway knows something about a Louisiana senator's murder, but is afraid to talk. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Arbor House, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, dark blue cloth spine with gilt titles, blue endpapers, [xi], 352 pp. Spine slightly cocked and a little rumpled. DJ has slight edge wear, a few small blind impressions and a creased corner; in Brodart archival cover. A then-near-future (1990) thriller in which low-lying areas of the world are threatened with inundation when an Antarctic undersea volcano starts melting the continent's ice and snow pack. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG+. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red boards with blind device, purple spine with red titles, purple endpapers, 308 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The first few lines of the Edgar Award-winning novel Come to Grief: "I had this friend, you see, that everyone loved. (My name is Sid Halley.) I had this freind that everyone loved, and I put him on trial. The trouble with working as an investigator, as I had been doing for approaching five years, was that occasionally one turned up facts that surprised and appalled and smashed peaceful lives forever." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Miquon, PA: Privately Printed WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter red cloth with white paper-covered boards, 24 pp. Corners bumped, boards soiled and worn, gutter mildewed. From the estate of mystery writer L. A. Taylor (1939-1996), with her youthful signature and address on fpd, 'Bought 1948' on recto of ffep, handwritten table of contents on verso of ffep, and a doodle with the word 'Christmas' and a drawing of a sprig of holly on verso of rfep, all in blue-black fountain pen ink. The book was privately printed by paper manufacturers W. C. Hamilton & Sons, letterpress on White Laid Hamilton Victorian. Shipping weight 1 lb.. . G-/No dj. 24½ X 16½ cm.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter dark blue cloth with blue-green paper-covered boards, copper foil titles on spine, light brown speckled endpapers, [vii], 308 pp. One bump to top edge of front board, else as new. DJ has some edge wear and a number of small tears and creases to edges, mainly at spine ends and on rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Novel. Nicholas Breakspear sails into trouble with drug runners in the Caribbean. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 24 X 16 cm.