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New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight flattening to spine foot. . Jacket has light shelf wear.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. When Rachel Sabin and Jeffrey Dean, owners of a Los Angeles art gallery and rare book shop, purchase a rare Stella print, they inadvertently become ensnarled in an international web of forgery and murder. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 387 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Unread book.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. In the first of a series, three famed private-eye authors, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner, team up as the Black Mask Boys to solve a 1930s Hollywood murder, with Hammett acting as the story's narrator. ; 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.6 Inches; 214 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 2015. First American Edition. Hardcover. A stand-alone novel that has at its center a perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer. ; 5.33 X 0.93 X 8.32 inches; 224 pages .

New York: E. P. Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light rubbing to jacket. Tiny red mark . top edge back endpaper.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Floridian Robert Stockton's nightmare begins when a phone call to his office informs him that his wife, Jean, has been kidnapped and brutalized by psychotic - and none too bright - Donald Stanley and Mona Little, Stanley's prostitute girlfriend. ; 8.75 x 6 x 1 inches; 232 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark bottom edge.. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. The reviews called it "A Play to Die For," after the woman was found dead in the front row. It didn; t seem so funny the next night, when another body was found, this time the playwright himself, with his throat slashed. ; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.4 inches; 368 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. When Harry Hole wakes up the morning after a blackout, drunken night with blood that's clearly not his own on his hands, it's only the very beginning of what will be a waking nightmare the likes of which even he could never have imagined. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 451 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; The first Jason Lynx mystery. Two tiny . marks to back board. NOTE: the wear pattern on back panel that shows in . the scan is on the mylar cover, not the jacket.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Jason Lynx discovers a bomb in his neighbor's house and finds them shot dead the next day--a strange series of events leading him to investigate murders that may explain his wife's disappearance. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 212 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light rubbing to foil jacket.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. NYPD Detective Sergeant Kathleen Mallory is drawn into a baffling world of peril and illusion when she investigates the brutal murder of a young woman, whose body is found wearing a jacket labeled 'Kathleen Mallory'. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 278 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book leans a bit.. 2016. First US Edition. Hardcover. A renegade hit man running from retribution, goes to ground far above the Arctic Circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane. ; 8.1 X 5.4 X 1.2 inches; 288 pages .

New York: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with small tears and wrinkling . top front edge, corner wear and scratches back panel. Bookwith some fading . top board edge, light foxing top edge.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. A fast and furious tale of murder and intrigue in a psychiatric ward. When one of the liveliest--and craziest--patients is found dead in the seclusion room, the number one suspect is none other than a disheveled, morose, and very dedicated doctor, Abe Redden. ; 9 x 6 x 1 inches; 261 pages .

New York: Tor Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front board bowed, first half of book . has toned edges, second half is nice and bright; jacket with two small . edge tears.. 1992. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fredericka Wing arrived in South Sutton, Massachusetts, expecting a quiet haven where she could write while managing Miss Hartwell's bookstore, but soon murders happen and, of course, Fredericka can't help but try to solve them. ; 8.2 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 249 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Fourth book in the Mallory series. . Slight lean.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. In a small town in Louisiana, Mallory steps off a train. Within an hour, one man has been assaulted, another has had a heart attack, a third has been murdered, and Mallory is in jail. ; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 341 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read. Superficial . scratch back panel jacket.. 2017. First US Edition. Hardcover. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters. ; 6.63 X 1.45 X 9.6 inches; 480 pages .

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Bump to top edge and corners. Jacket . has light top edge wrinkling and minor shelf wear.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. On Christmas Eve, Cody, a logger, arrives at the home of Eddie Ryan, the local mortician, with the body of his logging partner, an event that triggers a sardonic study of the inhabitants of Inverwae, New Hampshire. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 401 pages .

London: Secker & Warburg. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Pages have edge browning common to UK . editions. Jacket has a pull to front cover, light wrinkling to spine ends.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. A New Hampshire town is the microcosm of a world on the edge of damnation in this sprawling, offbeat saga. Eddie Ryan, Vietnam vet and frustrated poet, is a mortician who believes "death is the opposite of love, not life. " Cody, a footloose, renegade logger, bulldozes his way into Ryan's family life, along with one dead buddy snowpacked into the plow of his truck. Cody longs for reconciliation with his estranged wife, drinks too much, rails at human folly and acts as godfather to Eddie's children. The friendship of the two men, punctuated by deaths tragic or bizarre, unfolds in a series of adventures evoking the themes of guilt, redemption, fatherhood and the pained realization that sometimes there are no good choices. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 401 pages .

New York: Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Reeve Leclaire is finally recovering a life of her own after four yeaars of captivity. Her kidnapper is safely locked up in the forensic unit at Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital. And all is well until he escapes and kills someone from Reeve's past. ; 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.0 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder mark and soil to bottom . edge; hint of fading along board edges. Jacket lightly wrinkled with . scratches to back panel.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Lu Hong, a policeman in Beijing finds himself in trouble after the death in strange circumstances of his mentor, Sun Sheng. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 431 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; A round-robin with contributions from . 15 Irish writers. Has been gently read. Tiny dot bottom edge.. 2001. First American Edition. Hardcover. "I think he was dead before I shot him." With these auspicious words begins a murder mystery so utterly unlike any other that it took fifteen of Ireland's finest writers to bring it to its unlikely conclusion. The plot involves a mad search for the only manuscript of an unpublished novel by James Joyce. ; 8.8 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches; 272 pages .