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Memphis: TN: Bell Bridge Books , 2011. Special Gift Copy of the Review Copy of the 1st Pampered Pets book. Includes two bookmarks and publishers sheets laid in. Cover is a special cover for the Gift Copy. A fine, unread copy of the Trade Paperback. Crime in Laguana Beach has just gone to the dogs...When Caro Lamont, former psychologist turned pet therapist makes a house call to help Kevin Blackstone with his two misbehaving German Shepherd dogs, she expects frantic dogs, she expects a frantic dog owner, she even expects frantic neighbors. What she doesn't expect is that two hours later the police will find Kevin dead, his dogs impounded; and that as the last person to see Kevin alive (well, except for the killer) she is suddenly a person of interest, at least according to Homicide Detective Judd Malone.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Book.

New York and Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, 1943. First edition. Light blue cloth with light foxing on page edges and darkening on inner hinges from glue residue bleeding through, else near fine in dust jacket, chipped at spine head, sunned, scratch at front, and wear at folds. Jacket design by Robert Graves. Rear panel has plea from Oursler on the necessity of buying War Stamps and Bonds. Also, on rear flap a great plug for the book by none other than J. Edgar Hoover himself! Adey #5, LOCKED ROOM. Thatcher Colt, New York City Police Commissioner, has been responsible for the conviction of a villain who poisoned his boss and mentor and made off with two million never-located dollars. The evening he is to be executed, the poisoner asks Colt to visit with him. He warns Colt that an even greater villain -- a Dr. Baldwin --who kills for sport and who kills undetectably is lurking about ready to do untold damage. The poisoner is executed, with Colt looking on, and then Colt begins an… Read More

N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. 1st Grosset reprint edition. Orange cloth covers show some wear at extremeties, very lightly soiled else a very good - near fine copy, in home-made acetate dust wrapper. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY. Adey #4. "Thatcher Colt tries a new kind of informer, one with a link to the Great Beyond. Mrs. Lynn, a medium, claims she heard the "voice" of a young dead girl whose body has allegedly been cut to pieces then sunk. Fraud? That's what Colt (and the reader) think at first, but both have to reconsider their opinion when the corpse turns up right where Mrs. Lynn - oh, sorry, Madeline Swift - told us it was. Despite its paranormal overtones, "Startled Lady" reads rather like an early procedural. Realism, at least by Golden Age standards, is the greatest strength of this book. Abbot obviously did a lot of research on forensics and procedures, providing a sometimes fascinating testimony on police methods in the thirties. But this realism is also… Read More

N.Y.: Popular Library, 1950. 1st paperback edition, October 1950. Good-girl cover art, Vintage Paperback. Popular Library #286. Listed in Gary Lovisi's book: Dames, Dolls & Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks. Reading crease, else a bright tight copy with paper toning very minimal. The Murder of the Clergyman’s Mistress was the second of the Thatcher Colt mysteries. Thatcher Colt is the New York Police Commissioner. Police Commissioners do not usually involve themselves in the actual investigation of crime but Colt is the exception. The novel opens with the discovery of two bodies in a dinghy. One of the deceased is an Episcopal clergyman, the other is an attractive young woman. Thatcher Colt wants to preserve the crime scene intact so he has the dinghy, with the two bodies still in it, transported to the city morgue. Colt is in possession of several important clues although they are clues that everybody else seems inclined to dismiss as being… Read More

N.Y.: Covici Friede, 1932. 1st edition. Yellow cloth shows some soiling otherwise a good, tight copy with very little wear. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY, Adey #2. Laid in is a laminated copy of the dust jacket reduced so as to be used as a bookmark. The book is now housed in a home-made acetate dust wrapper. "The circus was playing Madison Square Garden and Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt was there looking into some "accidents" that had befallen the troupe and led to one death. Some of the star acts had received letters warning them not to perform opening night, which happened to be Friday the Thirteenth. All the artists insisted they would go on anyway. "The Queen of The Air," Josie LaTour plunges to her death from the high rings and it doesn't take Colt long to figure it's murder. The suspects are many. From the husband, family finances are tight and she has a big insurance policy, to the catcher in the act who has loved for years, since before she married her… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: N A L, 2002. 1st ed. Reading creases at spine else near fine copy of this paperback original. Both an EDGAR and BARRY AWARD NOMINEE. Black Jack Point is the scene of the discovery of Judge Whit Mosley's missing friends, and as he opens an inquest into the murders, he is plunged into a shadowy world of ruthless treasure hunters, double-crossing tycoons, and money-hungry sharks---who are all chasing a long-lost fortune in emeralds and gold.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: N A L, 2001. 1st edition, October 2001, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Reading crease, page edges beginning to age tone else a very good - near fine copy of this Paperback Original. An ANTHONY Award Nominee. Texas. "Tensions rise in Port Leo, Tex., when porn star Pete Hubble, the black sheep son of a senator, returns to uncover the secrets surrounding his brother's long-ago disappearance. Pete brings some heavy baggage with him, the least of which is his producer and girlfriend, Velvet Mojo. When Pete turns up dead, seemingly by his own hand, rookie Judge Whit Mosley and police detective Claudia Salazar open an investigation that may cost him the election and them their lives. Agatha and Macavity award-winner Abbott (Distant Blood) populates his narrative with a number of colorful characters including a pompous southern sheriff, a wrestler turned evangelist, a shadowy psychotic killer named Blade, a corrupt female senator and a delightful… Read More

N.Y.: Ballantine Books, 1996. 1st edition, November 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine. shows very light wear along edge else a fine, unread copy. . Another in the fine Jordan Poteet mysteries. Blood runs cold--especially in this family. Thanks to a newfound connection with his natural father, librarian Jordan Poteet is suddenly a member of a rich Texas dynasty. But a series of poison-pen letters warns him to stay away from the Goertz family reunion on a Gulf Coast island. He soon wishes he had, because his new kinfolk--four generations of them--are hiding secrets deep and dark enough to taint an entire bloodline. And an unexpected death makes it chillingly clear that the anonymous hate mail directed at Jordan isn't a joke. Ghosts of the violent past are walking. A murderer is on the move. And a terrible unfolding of tragedy has begun that will spare no one--not even Jordan himself. . . .. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Onyx, 2003. 1st ed. Light reading creases at spine, very light cover wear else very good- near fine copy of this EDGAR NOMINATED TITLE.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

NY, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005. 1ST ED. Fine copy in dust jacket of her debut mystery. Short listed for 2006 EDGAR AWARD, ANTHONY AWARD & BARRY AWARD for Best First Novel. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney's office. Lora's comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love with a mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant with a murky past. Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, the bond between Lora and Alice is marred by envy and mistrust. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alice's personal history and possibly jealous of Alice's hold on her brother Lorna assumes the role of amateur detective and finds a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution, and ultimately, murder. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this Trade paperback Original. A 2008 EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Paperback Original. Also Nominated for an ARTY AWARD from the Left Coast Crime for Best Cover Art in 2007. Taken under the wing of an infamous mob luminary who reigned during the golden era of such figures as Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano, a bookkeeper from a seedy nightclub finds herself seduced by the lucrative lifestyle of the underworld. By the author of Die a Little. Original. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Fahey, Richard. Trade Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 2nd ed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR at title page. A fine, unread copy of this Trade paperback Original. A 2008 EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Paperback Original. Also Nominated for an ARTY AWARD from the Left Coast Crime for Best Cover Art in 2007. Taken under the wing of an infamous mob luminary who reigned during the golden era of such figures as Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano, a bookkeeper from a seedy nightclub finds herself seduced by the lucrative lifestyle of the underworld. By the author of Die a Little. Original. Signed by Author. 2nd Ed. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Fahey, Richard. Trade Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Dave Moser and his partner investigate the death of a beautiful young woman found dead in the water missing both her eyes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1994. 1st edition, March 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Abel's brisk, sparely written thriller reads more like an accomplished 10th novel than a debut. Jack Walsh, a cop who has been hitting the bottle since his partner died in an aborted drug bust, wakes up in a Boston hospital after an automobile accident to learn that the other car's driver--the only son of local crime boss Johnny D'Angelo--is dead, which means Walsh is as good as dead himself. After resigning from the force and serving time in a state medical facility, Walsh holes up in his hometown, Athol, Mass., to wait for the Mafia hit he knows is coming. Unknown to Walsh, the DA's office has him under surveillance; they're using him for bait, hoping to get evidence against D'Angelo when the mobster comes gunning for him. So begins a cat-and-mouse game that involves Walsh's… Read More

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's second mystery (after the Edgar-nominated DIE A LITTLE). In 1949, Hollywood starlet Jean Spangler went missing on her way to a late night shoot. Few clues were left behind, and the wild rumors about Jean proved to be no help in finding her. Now it's 1951 and publicist Gil "Hop" Hopkins's career is on the rise. But his success is threatened by a friend of Jean's who blames Hop for concealing details about Jean's disappearance. Driven by guilt and fear of blackmail, Hop begins to investigate the case, but he's not alone. A young and ambitious reporter is also working the case, and Hop must work quickly to stay ahead. What Hop uncovers both shocks and intrigues him. A riveting read that will take you on a dark tour of 1950s Hollywood.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y., N.Y.: Putnam, 2002. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The second Danny Chaisson mystery set in New Orleans. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y., N.Y.: Putnam, 2000. 1st. Ed.F/F/. Author's first book Introducing Danny Chaison a poltical lawyer. Set in New Orleans. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y., N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 1st Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The third title in the fine Cuban-American lawyer Charlie Morell series. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y., N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The second title in the Cuban-American lawyer Chalie Morell series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Crown, 1991. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Cuban-American mystery set in Hispanic Los Angeles introducing PI Charlie Morell. Author's 1st mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.