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New York: Random House, 1061. Hardcover. Very Good +. [2], iv, [2], 208 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. Illustrated endpaper. Small printed bookplate of former owner on front fixed endpaper. Contents: Let's Haunt a House by Manly Wade Wellman -- The Wastwych Secret by Constance Savery -- Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks -- The Mystery of Rabbit Run by Jack Bechdolt -- The forgotten Island by Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs -- The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Treasure in the Cave by Mark twain -- The Mystery in Four-and-a-Half Street by Donald and Louise Peattie. In Very Good+ Condition: edges slightly rubbed; slightly cocked; clean and tight.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful; Illustrated by Fred Banbery
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The Always Anonymous Beast
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Tallahassee, Florida: Naiad Press, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. [10], 210, [4] p.; 22 cm. Paperback. Stated First Edition. Features a female private eye in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed, most significantly the front joint; pages are clean and tight.
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An Ancient Evil: The Knight's Tale of Mystery and Murder as He Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury
by Doherty, P.C.
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/very good -. First U.S. Edition April 1995. [8], 248 p.; 22 cm. Black paper over boards with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Megan Greig with jacket art by Jans Hokanson. This title begins a news series of historical mysteries by P.C. Doherty using characters from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; small scrape at head of spine; not price-clipped.
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The Arrow of God [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 14, no. 70 September 1949]
by Charteris, Leslie
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New York: American Mercury, 1949. Paperback. Very Good. 144 p.; 19 cm. Paperback with cover art by George Salter. Contents: The Arrow of God [the Saint] by Leslie Charteris -- Off the Face of the Earth [the Great Merlini] by Clayton Rawson -- The "Try-out" Murder by Roy Vickers -- Let Me Help You with Your Murders by T. M. McDade -- Stan the Killer [Inspector Maigret] by Georges Simenon -- The Fire of London by Arnold Bennett -- Question No. 3 by Louis Golding -- Bars by Charles Francis Coe -- Only the Fools Get Caught by Walter Duranty -- Cat and Mouse by Frank Gruber -- The Man Who Played Hunches by A. H. Z. Carr -- Guess Who? by Talbot C. Hatch. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight.
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Black Betty [Advance Reading Copy]
by Mosley, Walter
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. Paperback. Very Good +. 255 p.; 23 cm. Red, black, and white illustrated paper cover. With black and red slipcase. Advance Reading Copy. First page contains a letter from Mosley to booksellers thanking them for their support since the publication of his first book, Devil in a Blue Dress, four years earlier. The second page gives the anticipated publication date of July 1994 and notes that the book is a selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club. ISBN: 0-393-03644-8. The author's fourth Easy Rawlins mystery. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: lower corner of front cover creased; lower corner of last leaf creased; clean and tight. Slipcase is in Very Good- Condition: rubbed, particularly at the corners; 1-cm. separation of top section.
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Blues for Charlie Darwin
by Hentoff, Nat
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New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. First Mysterious Press Edition Nov. 1984. 203, [5] p.; 18 cm. Paperback. Cover illustration by Greg Couch. Murder set to jazz in Greenwich Village. In Very Good Condition: slightly cocked; edges lightly rubbed; slightly creased along spine; clean and tight.
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The Burglar's Story [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 14, no. 69 August 1949]
by Gilbert, W. S.
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New York: American Mercury, 1949. Paperback. Very Good. 144 p.; 19 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Double Exposure by Ben Hecht -- Crisis, 1999 by Fredric Brown -- How Pearl Button was Kidnaped by Katherine Mansfield -- Riding the Ghost by Harl Cook -- Query by "Seamark" [Austin Small] -- The Smiling Englishman by Anthony Boucher [William A. P. White] -- The Third Man [Webster G. Burgess] by Meredith Nicholson -- The Burglar's Story by W. S. Gilbert -- Guess Who? by Talbot C. Hatch -- The Vanishing Diamonds by M. McDonnell Bodkin -- Murder in One Scene by Q. Patrick -- Beginner's Luck by Percival Wilde. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight.
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The Burnton Widows
by McConnell, Vicki P.
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Tallahassee, Florida: Naiad Press, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Fons, Janet. xvi, [2], 246, [8] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback. Stated First Edition. A Nyla Wade mystery. Set along the Oregon coast. In Very Good Condition: edges lightly rubbed; pages are clean and tight.
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The Case of the Hardboiled Dicks: A Mac Slade Murder Mystery
by Blumenthal, John
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. A Fireside Book. 176 p.; 17 cm. Paperback. At head of front cover: "He's hard as rock, tough as nails, dense as concrete. He's Mac Slade, private dick." A tongue-in-cheek detective story. In Very Good Conditon: corners slightly rubbed; bottom page edges slightly soiled; upper corner of first leaf lightly creased; pages are clean and tight.
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The Case of the Fan-Dancer's Horse
by Gardner, Erle Stanley
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New York: Pocket Books, 1960. Paperback. Very Good -. vi, [2], 194, [6] p.; 17 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Pocket Book, 6043. Pocket Book edition, 5th printing, Nov. 1960. Originally published in 1947 as the 29th of 82 Perry Mason mysteries by Erle Stanley Gardner. The basis of a 1957 episode of the Perry Mason television series. Pocket Books issued this with three or more different covers. This one shows a fan-dancer holding her left ankle, on a white and red background. In Very Good- Condition: slightly cocked; edges rubbed; front cover slightly soiled; pages are clean and tight with normal browning along edges.
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The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites
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Hammondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. 348, [2] p.: map; 18 cm. Paperback. Cover illustration by William Sloan. Ornithology and murder equals murder most fowl! In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; slight crease along front joint; pages are clean and tight.
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The Cavalier Case: A Jemima Shore Mystery
by Fraser, Antonia
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New York: Bantam Books, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/very good. vi, [4], 228 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth spine with silver spine title; red paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: price-clipped; slightly rubbed; clean and bright.
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The Chase: A Novel
by Evanovich, Janet; Goldberg, Lee
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New York: Bantam Books, 2014. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. vii, [1], 303, [7] p.; 24 cm. Blue cover with silver spine title. Dust jacket with jacket art by Carlo Beltrán and Claudio Marinesco. Stated First Edition. The adventures of Nicolas Fox and Kate O'Hare continue in a sequel to The Heist. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slightly shaken. Dust jacket is in Very Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; 2 chips in upper edge; clean and bright.
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The Chief Legatee by Anna Katharine Green; Illustrated in Water-colors by Frank T. Merrill
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London / New York: The Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. Hardcover. Good -. 319, [3] p., color frontispiece and 3 leaves of color plates, 1 facsimile page on blue paper of the manuscript from The Leavenworth Case; 20 cm. Grey cloth with white spine and cover titles. Title page printed in red and black. "This Edition is sold exclusively at Freese's, Bangor, Maine." -- title page. Publisher's catalog of other works by the author on two pages following text. In Good- Condition: slightly cocked; corners rubbed; small ding on front cover; lacking front free endpaper (and presumably the "Notice to Purchaser" that wuld have been attached); back hinge weak; loss of white from spine title; occasional soiling in margins. l.
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The Coldest Case: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Hardcover. Near Fine -/near fine -. [8], 321, [5] p.; 22 cm. Blue cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The 14th title in the Bruno, Chief of Police, mysteries set in France. Book is in Near Fine- Condition: slightly cocked; small ding in the upper edge of the front cover; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine- Condition: small ding in the upper edge of the front section; clean and bright.
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Cool Repentance [A Jemima Shore Mystery]
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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 222 p.; 22 cm. Blue cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slightly cocked; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: price-clipped; edges rubbed; clean and bright.
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Cry Tough!
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New York: Avon Publishing Co, 1950. Paperback. Very Good -. 249, [7] p.; 16 cm. Paperback with classic pulp crime novel cover illustration. Avon reprint edition. Avon Pocket-Size Books, 244. The author's second novel, following some of the characters in his first, The Amboy Dukes. The basis of the 1959 movie of the same name starring John Saxon. In Very Good- Condition: ends of spine slightly rubbed; back cover is slightly soiled and creased; pages are clean and tight with normal browning.
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A Dangerous Business
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover. Fine/fine. [10], 207, [7] p.; 24 cm. Brown and mustard cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. A "rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California" -- dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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Dead Land -- A V. I. Warshawski Novel
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New York: William Morrow, 2020. Hardcover. Fine/fine. [8], 405, [3] p.; 24 cm. Orange and black cover with black spine title. Orange endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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Death Has Three Lives [A Mike Shayne Mystery]
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New York: Dell Publishing, 1961. Paperback. Very Good +. New Dell Edition, first printing June 1961. 191, [1] p.; 16 cm. Paperback with cover art by Robert McGinnis. Page edges are green. D423. Price of 35 cents printed on front cover. Small photo on back cover of Richard Denning as Michael Shayne in the weekly NBC series. In Very Good+ Condition: edges lightly rubbed; upper corner of covers lightly creased; clean and solid.
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