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N.Y.: G.P. Putnam"s Sons, 1995. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Retirees Dottie and Joe Loudermilk, who cruise the land in a trailer home, hit Washington, D.C., to visit their son Eddie in this humorous second entry in the series after Going Nowhere Fast. Dottie, an ex-professor, and Joe, an ex-cop, are salt-of-the-earth, politically conservative black Americans utterly baffled by Eddie's lefty politics. When, after picking a fight with Eddie, his former roommate turns up dead, Joe and Dottie have a case to crack. They believe their son when he says he didn't kill the man, even though witnesses place him at the scene. The only clue seems to be the man's vague boasting that he had just "optioned some book" that would electrify D.C. and make him famous. Grumbling all the way, Joe uses his police smarts to scout up leads, but it's the courageous and sometimes foolish… Read More

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Infraread Publishing Group, , 2006. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Advance Reading Copy. On the front cover there is a table of contents for the corrected version: News release, Spec sheet, plot blurbs, photos/ Q&A, mockup review. 323 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

N.Y.: W.W. Norton and Company, 1994. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed and dated at title page. 1961 Los Angeles. The 4th Easy Rawlings title. An ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE and a GOLD DAGGER AWARD FINALIST. "It ain't easy being Easy. Especially not now, as Mosley ( White Butterfly ) brings his much-admired, reluctant L.A. sleuth, Easy Rawlins, to the cusp of the 1960s without his wife and daughter, his real estate riches or the hopes and ambitions that fueled his earlier years. Easy must grab at the $400 he's offered to locate Elizabeth Eady, a missing housekeeper who several years and a few lifetimes away was "Black Betty," a sensual presence on the Houston streets where he grew up. Easy understands that Betty (". . . a great shark of a woman. Men died in her wake") has a mythical importance to him, but he doesn't know why the rich and… Read More

Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.: Cool Grove Publishing, Incorporated, 1997. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. Review Copy with hand written letter laid in. " Former black prosecutor Nina Halligan swore vengeance on the man responsible for the slaughter of her family. Now a PI but still carrying a chip on her shoulder, she looks for a connection between the widow of a moderate Civil Rights leader and several acts of murder and assault directed at the slain leader's former associates. This well-crafted and riveting first novel by the author of The Big Mango features hidden agendas, violent ambitions, and political manipulations. For African American mystery collections. [The book was first published in 1997, as a paperback and with limited distribution, by Cool Grove Press]. " -- Library Journal. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1994. 1st edition, September 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The second Blanche White mystery. When Blanche White, black domestic worker extraordinaire, moved north to Boston, she thought it would be a better place to raise her kids, especially when she managed to get them both into a private school. But they appear to be getting as much attitude as education, as they start correcting Blanche's English and acting snotty about homeless people. When Blanche and the kids are invited to Amber Cove, an exclusive, all-black resort in Maine, she sees it as the perfect opportunity to observe her children with their wealthy friends and try to figure out how to stop them from becoming people she doesn't want to know. Along the way, Blanche gets an insider's view of the color and class divisions within the black community. Blanche stands out… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Tough police thriller set in Chicago by this African-American author. Holton is a twenty-seven year veteran of the Chicago Police Force; this is his third novel, all featuring Detective Larry Cole.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1988. 3rd prtg. (original 1965). Fine copy of trade paperback. "The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler" --The Sunday Times London). Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement he's counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big collection--for his own private charity. But the take ($87,000) is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. With Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones on everyone's trail and piecing together the complexity of the scheme it is one of Hime's hardest-hitting and most entertaining thrillers.. Later Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

NY, NY: Little Brown & Co, 2005. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Raised, embossed prev. owners stamp. Easy Rawlins, a black WWII veteran living in 1940s--1950s Los Angeles, California, is featured in the tenth title in this highly acclaimed series. A SHAMUS NOMINEE. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 1987. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges browning else fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The story of a Vietnam veteran who becomes a lawyer in a Georgia town and defends an African-American man who is on trial for the murder of a young woman. From the author of ROBAK'S CROSS and POISON SUMMER.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2006. 1st. Ed.. first printing, March 2006., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Not remaindered as many are. A SPOTTED OWL AWARD WINNER and a Finalst for SHAMUS AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL. It's 1969 and the city of Chicago is in turmoil. The celebrity trial of the Chicago Eight---charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention---has begun. Protests abound over the trial and the conflict has caught the attention of everyone from the Black Panthers to city gangs to local trade unions. Meanwhile, African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton and his adopted son, Jimmy, are keeping a low profile. They've been on the run from their native Memphis since Jimmy witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., but have slowly settled into a steady life in Chicago. Smokey continues to accept cases and to inspect property for Sturdy Investments, the… Read More

NY: Norton, 1990. 1st ed. Fine in first state dust jacket priced at $18.95 not $19.95. Author's first book and the first Easy Rawlins title. SIGNED COPY. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best first novel. A SHAMUS and CREASY AWARD WINNER. Filmed in 1995 with Denzel Washington in the lead role and also starring Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals and Don Cheadle.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 2001. 1st edition, June 2001, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Historical mystery set in 1830s New Orleans featuring Benjamin January, 5th in series. Impresario Lorenzo Belaggio has brought the first Italian opera--a magnificent version of Othello--to town. But who was it that tries to kill him and Benjamin outside the stage door as they come from rehersal?. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: St Martins Press, 2000. First Edition, July 2000, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Nelscott's debut novel and the one that introduced African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton. A more recen historical mysteriy, this one's set in Memphis in 1968. Highly thought of as it won the HERODOTUS AWARD for Best US Historical and was Nominated for an EDGAR AWARD for Best Novel and a SPOTTED OWL AWARD for Best Novel. It's February 1968, and tense race relations in Memphis are beginning to build into real conflict. The sanitation workers' strike has been going on for almost three weeks, and marches are beginning to turn into riots. African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton is hired by Laura Hathaway, a young white woman from up north, to look into her mother's reasons for remembering Smokey generously in her will. Smokey reluctantly takes the case, as much to satisfy his own curiosity about these people… Read More

NY,NY: Random House Inc, 2003. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nicholas Rey, the first Afro-American police officer in Boston, must track down killers among the literary society. Literary historical mysteries, book number one in the series. DEBUT NOVEL.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1998. 1st ed. FINE/FINE, unread copy in dust jacket. The third in the series. A CJ Floyd mystery set in Colorado.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1996. 1st edition, March 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover "When the daughter of a black federal judge gets carried away with her militant environmentalism, Denver bail bondsman and sometime bounty hunter C. J. Floyd is hired to retrieve her and the important documents she possesses. But when C. J. finds her, she's been strangled with the devil's hatband--a length of barbed wire--the symbol of the cattle industry she wants to destroy. The body count mounts as C. J.'s search for the murderer makes him a target for environmentalist crazies, gangbangers, police, and even a deadly, genetically engineered virus. This is a first novel, and the first in a series, and it's a worthy debut. C. J. is the archetypal lone-wolf American private eye; he's smart, tough, principled, and complex in the best Philip Marlowe tradition. But C. J. is African American, and his Denver… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1996. 1st edition, March 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover "When the daughter of a black federal judge gets carried away with her militant environmentalism, Denver bail bondsman and sometime bounty hunter C. J. Floyd is hired to retrieve her and the important documents she possesses. But when C. J. finds her, she's been strangled with the devil's hatband--a length of barbed wire--the symbol of the cattle industry she wants to destroy. The body count mounts as C. J.'s search for the murderer makes him a target for environmentalist crazies, gangbangers, police, and even a deadly, genetically engineered virus. This is a first novel, and the first in a series, and it's a worthy debut. C. J. is the archetypal lone-wolf American private eye; he's smart, tough, principled, and complex in the best Philip Marlowe tradition. But C. J. is African American, and his Denver… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1997. 1st ed. Fine unread copy in dust jacket.. The second in the series. Denver based African-American bail-bondsman bounty hunter, C.J. Floyd investigates the death of a famous Chicago D.J.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1997. 1st edition, March 1997. Fine unread copy in dust jacket.. The second in the series. Denver based African-American bail-bondsman bounty hunter, C.J. Floyd investigates the death of a famous Chicago D.J. "Doo-Wop Polk was one of the first great black disc jockeys. From Chicago radio station WPTN, he captivated black America with his unique patter and his ear for the hippest rhythm and blues. He survived payola and Mob influence, but he didn't survive an apparent heart attack that left him on a slab at Denver General Hospital with bail bondsman C. J. Floyd's business card in his pocket. Convinced that their father was murdered, Polk's adult children hire Floyd to find the killer. As Floyd delves deeper into the case, he not only finds the ghosts of Polk's business past but also a family tree with one whole branch labeled "suspects." Floyd's second appearance portends good things for the series. He's tough,… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker Publishing Co., 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. An ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. Fourth novel in the mystery series featuring New Orleans private eye Lew Griffin. Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.