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New York: Henry Holt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Minor edge wrinkling jacket.. 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Tom Newquist has died. A detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office, Tom was tough, honest, and respected by all. He was also a heavy drinker and a workaholic, much to his wife Selma's distress. And now that Tom is gone, Selma can't help but wonder what it really was that was troubling him. What made Tom so restless during the last six weeks of his life? Why was he up all night and brooding all day long? What-or who-was at the heart of his dark moods? With the coroner's report in hand, Selma decides to enlist the help of Kinsey Millhone to find the truth about what happened to her husband. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 289 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; An unread copy in lightly rubbed . jacket.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. A mystery written round-robin style by Florida writers Barry, Hall, Buchanan, Standiford, Levine, Antoni, Due, Dufresne, Hendricks, Hospital, Mayerson, and tied up in a neat package by Carl Hiaasen. ; 8.75 x 6 x 1 inches; 201 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. "The promise of discretion and pampering draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly elected congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the spa's flamboyant and ambitious owner has been murdered". In the tradition of such collaborative classics as Naked Came the Manatee and The Floating Admiral, each chapter in this serial novel is written by one of today's most talented female mystery authors: Nevada Barr, J. D. Robb, Nancy Pickard, Lisa Scottoline, Perri O'Shaughnessy, J. A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Mary Jane Clark, Marcia Talley, Anne Perry, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, and Laurie King. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 258 pages .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Light fading to board top, foxing to . edges but pages clean and bright; jacket toned with small tears and spots.. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. An analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle and his most beloved character. Mr. Rosenber reveals Doyle as a brilliant allegorist who in his Holmes mysteries, left "purloined letter" allusions not only to charcters throughout literature, but to real-life figures as well. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 203 pages .

Novato: Lyford Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first book, signed on title . page. Wrinkle bottom edge of jacket back panel. Book appears unread.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. A strange letter signed "William" sets in motion a series of gruesome events that paralyzes the island of Nantucket - terrorizing both island families and summer tourists. The Fourth of July is William's deadline - the day he promised to exact his final revenge, and private detective Jake Eaton has two days to stop him. ; 13.1 X 8.5 X 3.2 inches; 208 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: W. W. Norton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Minor edge soil; vertical crease page . 23. Jacket has light edge wrinkling, superficial scratches, and small . dents to front panel.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. When a society tramp murders a soldier near the end of World War II, Connecticut detective Billy Bray investigates, not knowing that the case will have reverberations for the next two generations of his family. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 393 pages .

New York: Random House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first novel. A foreign . correspondent for the New York Times, he won a Pulitzer Prize for stories . smuggled out of Poland during martial law. Minor wear back panel jacket.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. In the mountains of northern Asia, a guerrilla fighter vanishes, a schoolgirl is murdered, and an eminent Harvard paleontologist disappears. Matt Mattison and Susan Arnot are dispatched to find the secret their Harvard mentor was seeking: a species linked to the origins of mankind. ; 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 352 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's debut novel; 1985 Shamus . Award nominee for Best First P. I. Novel. Small closed tear to bottom of . front panel near spine.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Former private investigator turned writer Nebraska finds himself involved with the murder of his ex-partner, a pornography ring, two different Mafia gangs, the decadent and desperate daughter of a senator and a political conspiracy reaching to the White House. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 166 pages .

Pittsburgh: Dorrance Pub Co. Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Signed/inscribed by the author on front . endpaper. Jacket has wear with some color loss along the spine edge of . front panel.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Johnny Price never expected to be in a dead-end job at the age of thirty-two, nor did he expect to be nursing a terminally ill wife and caring for two small children while trying to keep that job just to pay bills. Every day was a battle, and he was losing the war. Then one day the war ended and a new one began. Left alone with two motherless children, he suddenly comes face to face with his worst fears - and his most coveted desires. Overwhelmed by a golden opportunity to completely change his life, he uproots the children and accepts an offer from a small group of businessmen in New Orleans to become president of a company they are about to start. Cold reality slaps him in the face when one of the partners is killed. ; 9.0 X 6.3 X 0.8 inches; 235 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Bantam. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Endpapers have vertical mark from . jacket flap edges. Jacket with light wear adn edge wrinkles; black cover . from book boards rubbed on the blind side.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. A misty English morning. A deserted country road outside Oxford. A young man on a training run. Then the silence is shattered and in a single stunning moment, a deadly game has begun designed to destroy the President of the United States. ; 9.2 X 6.3 X 1.5 inches; 391 pages .

London: Robert Holden & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Clean tight copy in brown cloth binding, . with some rubbing to board edges. Signed by Claude Houghton on front . endpaper. With the bookplate of actor Jean Hersholt, best known for . portraying the grumpy grandfather opposite Shirley Temple in the film . "Heidi"; signed by Hersholt.. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. The narrator makes an obsessive study of his "next door neighbour", unaware of the fact that he is the doppelganger of the man he thinks he is observing. An intriguing study in abnormal psychology. ; 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches; 277 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on the front . endpaper. Light wear and tiny tear to top edge of back panel.. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. George Baxt dips his pen in acid and comes up with a gripping and original thriller set in the decadent, and murderous, world of Hollywood. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 185 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first mystery. Bump bottom . front corner; light wrinkling and tiny tears.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Sarah Jensen is an ambitious currency trader who is asked by the governor of the Bank of England to work undercover at the Inter-Continental Bank and document its corrupt trading practices. She soon uncovers clues to an illegal multi-million dollar scheme and gathers evidence to expose it. But when a friend and colleague is murdered, she realizes there is much more going on. ; 9.5 X 6.4 X 1.5 inches; 406 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book leans a bit. Minor shelf wear to . jacket.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. New York Police detective Virgil Tillman is hot on the heels of a stick-up man in Manhattan's poshest playhouse when he witnesses a cold-blooded murder, and he ends up tracking the killer through the seamier locales of old New York. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 282 pages; 0892963662 .

Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. Near Fine; Minor wear to bottom spine corner.. 1945. Revised Edition. Stapled wraps. Black and white photographs of New York City from the 1940s, "Produced in Genuine C. T. Photo-Platin". .

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Minor top edge soil.. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. While on an overnight ferry ride home from a vacation in Amsterdam, Scotland Yard chief superintendent Henry Tibbett and his wife Emmy uncover a web of clandestine relationships that leads to murder. ; 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 181 pages .

New York: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book has toned edges.. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The haunting story of three cops - one good, one bad, one broken - and the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making. ; 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches; 384 pages .

New York: Paramount Music. Very Good; For piano. From the motion picture of the same name starring . Edward G. Robinson and Gail Russell, with movie still on front cover. Tiny . tears top and bottom edge at fold.. 1948. Sheet Music .

New York: Redhook. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Author's first novel. Book with small . remainder dot. Jacket has light wear and closed tear to bottom edge of . front panel.. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A lone man escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the West; now he must disappear on Beijing's surveillance-blanketed streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time paymasters, offering military secrets in return for extrication. ; 9.4 X 6.5 X 1.8 inches; 400 pages .

New York: Pantheon. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book is straight and tight with top . edge foxing. Jacket with light edge wear and wrinkling.. 1978. First American Edition. Hardcover. When a high court judge holidaying in France with his family, finds a naked corpse in their Rolls Royce, Henri Castang is called to investigate. What transpires is mocking mayhem, as Castang weaves his way through deception and mystery. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 251 pages .