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N.Y.: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Both a BARRY AWARD NOMINEE & A SHAMUS NOMINEE. " Down and out in Atlanta, Ken Parker is a polygraph examiner whose life just can't get any worse - or so he thinks. His wife has just left him, his car has been repossessed and his disabled Gulf War veteran brother is being swindled by an insurance company. Desperate for cash, Ken accepts an illegal $50,000 job from beautiful defense attorney Myth Daniels to teach her client, embezzler Burton Sabini, how to beat a polygraph. Then matters spin downward from bad to horrific. A polygraph test subject whose life was ruined by Ken's faulty reading attacks Ken and then turns up dead in a Dumpster. Sabini passes his polygraph test but later is also found dead in an alley, with Ken's phone number on him. Under suspicion for both killings, Ken is now suspicious of Myth. Enter Hound Dog, a 21-year-old woman whose obsession is getting information from a police scanner to find… Read More

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1961. 1st ed. Ex-library copy with stamps and tape reains. Dust jacket is slightly trimmed and wrinkled at rear. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Book.

NY.NY: Knopf, 1975. First edition, so stated. Extremities are sunned, else very good-near fine copy in dust jacket with 2" closed tear at front, a couple of chips out, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Higgins tries on a new territory - this time crime and mayhem walk the halls of Washington poltical venues.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Garden City Publishing Co., 1926. 1st ed., thus. Light soiling to covers else very good, tight copy. Birkenhead's study of famous trials contains studies on the trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Eugene Aram, William Dodd, Captain Kidd, Warren Hastings, as well as ten cases in which Lord Birkenhead was himself engaged. 319 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

NY, NY: Warner Books Inc, 2005. 1ST. ED. AS NEW .AS NEW. with all the numbers. A DEBUT NOVEL featuring a jury consultant, CALLA GENTRY. Wonderful Collector's Copy. A SHAMUS WINNER. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY, NY: Simon, 1973. 1st. ed. FINE/FINE. An attorney takes on the eight year old cause of an ex- New York Met ballpalyer, accused of killing a man in prison.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Random House Inc, 1980. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. Jerry Kennedy, a criminal defense attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, is featured in the FIRST title in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2000. First edition, February 2000, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A MARTHA PATTERSON MYSTERY. "Sixty-three-year-old former lawyer Martha Patterson, back for her second civilized foray as an amateur sleuth (after Death in Good Company), feels the tension between artists at a reception in her friend Hannah Gold's Brooklyn studio. On display are a model--maquette--of Hannah's entry in a Minnesota competition and pieces by Hannah's new assistant, Kent Reed. Later that evening Martha receives an almost incoherent phone call from a hysterical Hannah. After promising to get help, Martha learns that someone has not only attacked Hannah in her studio and ruined her maquette but killed Kent. Shocked, she can't help wondering about Hannah's rival for the competition, Dennie Simm, and his wife, Olive, whose eyes seemed to have… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1973. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. A young man is accused of murdering a man over a well-being of a coon dog named MOLLY,. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY, NY: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1985. First edition, so stated. Fine in white dust jacket sunned along extremeties, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Jerry Kennedy, a criminal defense attorney in Boston, Massachusetts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1981. First edition, fine in dust jacket. This time Higgins introduces us to Jerry Fein, small-time slumlord and hard working lawyer. Theres an arsonist at work and Jerry must find and stop him.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Villard Books, 1993. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Mike Barnett traces late wife's role in mysterious Supreme Court case.Set in Louisiana. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Pr, 1997. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. A Helen West mystery featuring Inspector Bailey.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.