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NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1983. 1st ed. Fine in dj, large tape repaired tears at front panel. Mystery writer longs to drop his crude--though highly successful--detective. NYC. 1st British.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good.

Quartet London 1984 Fine in dj. Mystery writer longs to drop his crude--though highly successful--detective. NYC. 1st British.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1992. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Lightly spotted at front end paper else near fine in near fine dust jacket, light chipping at spine ends, one small crease at front.not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Winner of the British Crime Writrs' LAST LAUGH DAGGER AWARD for most humorous crime novel. "A cabbie and part-time musician, Angel responds to a cry for help phoned in by his best friend, roadie Francis (Werewolf) Dromey, who has fallen afoul of a Breton "liberation group" by smashing up and losing possession of a truck in which they had hidden a shipment of drugs without the Werewolf's knowledge. Warned that the group will kill his friend if he doesn't find and return the drugs, Angel sets off, aided by his exotic former girlfriend, Lucinda (Lu Lu) Luger, who at 64 towers over the members of the heavy-metal band she manages, and by Werewolf's brother, Gearoid, a beekeeping monk.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. . Murder and mayhem accompanied by great humour involving hitmen, an embezzler, an alcoholic and a multitude of rich characters. Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Miami Herald , and the author of many bestsellers. BIG TROUBLE is the author's first novel. EDGAR Award Nominee. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Boulder: CO: Rue Morgue Press, 2000. Fine in decorated wraps. Oversize trade paperback. (orig. 1940). 4th title in series. rich Aunt Isabelle is on one of her periodic hospital visits. Illness is her hobby, and hospital stays are her recreation of choice. Jessie Warren, the old lady's niece, has been ordered by her mother to keep her aunt company and is installed in a guest room. Jesse is a redheaded smart aleck, not at all the usual kowtowing relative. Aunt Isabelle wants Jesse to marry a handsome young doctor, and this matrimonial scheme yields considerable humor. Both Jessie and Dr. Rand are more comfortable exchanging sarcasms than sweet nothings. Her redheaded niece is just glad that the hospital's murderer prefers blondes.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2005. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Bickering ex-lovers and a disappearing corpse highlight this 1952 comedy by the queens of screwball. There was no question that Agatha Bunson hated her cook. Em could cook. Just about everyone agreed on that point. Agatha, however, despised Em's slovenly ways and was forever cleaning up after her. If she could, she would have fired Em ages ago. But an odd clause in her father's will prevented her from doing that. Now Em was dead and Agatha assumed she must have done it, although she had no recollection of killing her. But lately, Agatha had been prone to walking in her sleep and she figured it was during one of these nocturnal rambles that she did in the disgusting old creature. What's done is done, Agatha thought, and so she propped Em up in a rocking chair and squirreled her away in a sealed closet. There'd be time enough later to figure out what to do with the body. Of course Em… Read More

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2002. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. A volatile father, a maddening beau, and a diabolical murderer mean trouble for a runaway heiress in this 1941 screwball comedy mystery. NYC. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2005. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback originally published in 1950. When Judith took a job at a country hospital, she didn't expect her "reputation" would follow her. Or that "the Black Smith" would once again walk the corridors. The Black Smith is vintage Little, complete with a couple you just know will bicker all the way to "I do," a corpse that won't stay put, a cast of characters that would do any loony bin proud, and a closed setting this time a country hospital where the staff works, lives and engages in a little mayhem on the side. Judith Onslow took the job as head nurse to start life over again after she was named corespondent in a messy divorce, only to discover that the brother-in-law of her ex-lover is the doctor in charge of the hospital. Then there's Shirley, the new switchboard operator, who arrives looking just a bit on the trampy side and then proceeds to turn herself into… Read More

St. Martin's, 1992. 1st ed., near fine in dj, worn at spine ends with a few cover creases. Set in a Seattle supermarket where the manager is looking at a dead body on the sale floor. Comic. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 2003. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Comic thriller about a ground breaking discovery that could revolutionize energy markets. "Some authors know how to have fun. R.J. Kaiser is one of them."--Detroit News. Dated and SIGNED by the author on title page plus a SIGNED letter to bookstore owner from the author. 456 pages. Attempting to get his miserable life back on track, Jonas Lamb, seeking to redeem himself in the eyes of his son Patrick and his ex-wife, helps Patrick, a brilliant genetic engineer, find financial backing for a revolutionary new energy source, but instead finds himself immersed in a volatile international conspiracy. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 2001. 1st edition. March 2001 Tiny indent at top of 2 pages else fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. WINNER of the AGATHA AWARD for best first novel and Nominated for a BARRY AWARD. The first Bubbles Yablonsky title set in Lehigh, PA. "Meet Bubbles Yablonsky, beautician-reporter-sleuth and blazing star of Strohmeyer's entertaining, establishment-bashing debut as a mystery writer. Like the mills that gird the book's seen-better-days steel town of Lehigh, Pa., the city is itself a seething cauldron. Battle lines are sharply drawn between the haves and have-nots. Bubbles is hell-bent on getting even with the overlords, especially her former husband, a heel who has gone over to the other side. Opportunity knocks when Bubbles incriminates a wealthy socialite in a brutal murder and then uncovers a murky past, where corpses are littered around the accused's steel-magnate husband. The going is never… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 2000. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. A Robin Hudson mystery -- after she is forced to relocate into the fabled Chelsea Hotel, Robin reluctantly finds herself in a murder investigation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2003. 1st prtg. (Originally published in 1947 in England, this is the first American edition). The fourth and final title in the Lady Lupin Quartet. Fine, unread copy of this trade size paperback. Lady Lupin Lorrimer Hastings is the young, lovely, scatterbrained and kindhearted newlwed wife to the vicar of St. Marks in Glanville, Sussex. Her old society pals, Tommy and Duds Lethbridge, first met in "Who Killed the Curate?", try to erase the memories of WWII by throwing an old-fashioned Christmas party in a manor house the've recently inherited. "Dancing with Death" is a marvelous portrait of the postwatr austerity in Britian, in addition to being perhaps the best plotted book in the series. The party does not go well from the start and on New Year's morning one of Dud's pretty twin cousins is found dying in her bed. Lady Lupin is called in and chaos soon follows.. First US Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 1999. 1st ed. Initials at front endpaper, lightly soiled else fine in fine dust jacket. Distinctive jacket art by Daniel Pelavin for her books. The 5th Stella and Stargazer mystery. "Always flamboyantly dressed and often accompanied by pet chameleon Fluffy, Stella the Stargazer (who pens an astrological advice column for a Denver paper) becomes part-time assistant director for a local, privately owned theater. During one rehearsal, unfortunately, someone attempts to murder the theater's owner; and while Stella's psychic sense didn't forewarn her, she still feels compelled to investigate. Her love life, meanwhile, goes on hiatus when her boyfriend lands a job in New York. An outrageous character tempered by warmth and humor and coupled with a well-grounded plot and recognizable Denver surroundings..." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by Pelavin, Daniel (Jacket Illustration). Book.

Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2006. 1st prtg. Trade paperback. When a UN ambassador's apartment gets an unexpected makeover, decorators Emily and Henry Bryce find themselves mixed up in murder faster than you can shake a martini. Pierre Marie Cloche, the United Nations ambassador from Gaad, is at a loss as to why somebody presented his wife with a lavish decoratingjob on their apartment, including a piano done in gold leaf and a secretary adorned with portraits of Marx and Engels. The media are quick to assume that he's living in luxury while his people are starving and that he's in the pocket oftheSoviets as well. So when the decorator responsible, Camille Lorenz, is found strangled to death, Cloche is naturally a suspect. But Henry and Emily Bryce, who helped Camille on the job, aren't so sure Cloche is to blame, and neither is their friend Detective Burgreen, who agrees with them that the ambassador is a gentle soul who is probably the victim of a plot to discredit him… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1993. 1st ed. A fine unread copy of this Dortmunder title. "Westlake fans (who should comprise the entire American reading public) will cheer the hilarious return of Manhattan con man John Dortmunder and his friends from their comic misadventures upstate in Drowned Hopes . The caper here turns on the femur of St. Ferghana, a 15th-century relic claimed by rival Eastern European governments in the newly created nations of Tsergovia and Votskojek. Whichever country is awarded ownership of the bone (by a dim archbishop) will gain the one available seat in the U.N. A Tsergovian cousin of Dortmunder's pal Tiny Butcher convinces the nefarious crew, including Stan Murch, Andy Kelp and others, to steal the bone from the Votskojek embassy, currently a boat berthed in the East River. Dortmunder's plan fails at the last minute, leaving the bone under Coast Guard custody on Governor's Island, half the gang in the DEA's hands and Dortmunder in a dungeon… Read More

Vantage NY 1990, 1990. 1st ed. Fine in dj. 2nd Amber family tile. Mountain-climbing expedition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

SIMON & SHUSTER, 1993. 2nd ed. Fine in dust jacket, with light remainder mark at page bottom. Debut novel.. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Remainder.

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. 1st ed. Light wear along edges, else near fine gold cloth hardback in dust jacket worn at edges, darkened at spine and with a few chips, small piece out at rear. ...Sultan,. Sultan & Sultan, Counselors at Law was the mustiest and most dignified of New York law firms. Its only earthly representative was Wm Sultan, an old young man of extreme decorum who busied himself with the preparation of his uncle's Life & Letters. Only in one respect did the offices of Sultan, Sultan & Sultan differ from the other aged and decorous offices which were its neighbors, and that was Sultan's Harem (though the phrase would have horrified Wm). The Harem was Sultan's office staff which Wm had chosen with unconscious, yet certainly unerring, taste. There was Roberts, the. blonde receptionist, an athletic girl with a strong will and a demure way with callers which was a business asset and a complete fraud; Kelly, the brunette secretary, who had a… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1987. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Her 2nd Nick Magaracz title. Still working for the state of New Jersey Nick is back investigating a murder tied to tax fraud and a falsified "death tape.".. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.