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London: Collins Crime Club, 1986. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Perry Trethowan investigates murder in the "Bodies" studio. "Bodies" is a soft porn magazine and the editor claimed it was practically a family publication. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Putnam, 1993. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. " Newspaperman, philanthropist and sleuth Jim Qwilleran leads a busy life in tiny Pickax City (pop. 3,000), but it is his prescient cats who beguile the reader in this lively mystery, the 16th in the Cat Who. . . series. Qwilleran is renting a huge but empty mansion from Junior Goodwinter, his managing editor, who inherited the white elephant from his feisty 88-year-old grandmother Euphonia Gage when she went to live in a Florida retirement community. When Euphonia is found dead, apparently a suicide, Junior is perplexed. He is still more confounded when her new will suggests that Grandma has gambled away her millions at the racetrack. The death of a local man whose wife was Euphonia's housekeeper raises the suspicions of the already skeptical Qwilleran. He sets up a sting operation with a lively Florida retiree, but his two best operatives are… Read More

NY: Putnam, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko & Yum Yum in their 14th adventure. Pickax City columnist and wealthy bachelor Jim Qwilleran travels to Scotland, leaving his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum at home, in one of the most lively recent entries in Braun's popular "The Cat Who . . . " series. Also on the Bonnie Scots Tour are Qwill's current woman friend, Polly Duncan, the Moose County librarian; and his recently returned former girlfriend, Dr. Melinda Goodwinter, who proposes marriage. Tour leader Irma Hasselrich (a friend of Polly's and a patient of Melinda's) dies of apparently natural causes; then a jewel case and the tour-bus driver disappear. Qwill, Polly and Melinda decamp the tour early; back in Pickax City, listening to tape recordings he made along the way--and to Koko's intuitive yowls--Qwill begins to suspect that Irma was murdered. Convincing others, however, takes time and an investigation. Although the cats play… Read More

N.Y.: Delacorte Press, 1998. First edition, so stated, December 1998 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on bookplate, mounted on half-title page. "Midwestern University English prof Beth Austin takes her third crack at solving a murder case (after The George Eliot Murders, 1995), again mining a literary classic for clues. This time, her mother's collegiate past and two Dickens tales, Bleak House and the unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood, provide the murder and the template respectively. Beth's mother, Laurie, discloses that, during her college stay at the same university in the late 1940s, there was a scandalous love triangle and an unsolved murder. Her account takes Beth?and readers?back to Dall Hall, a girl's dorm, and the friends there known as the Fourth Floor Gang. The girls' camaraderie is fractured by suspicions rising from some petty thefts; it is then destroyed when… Read More

NY: Mysterious Press, 1988. 1st ed.Fine in dust jacket, spine lightly sunned. Matt Cobb with a group of Mystery writers aboard a Caribbean Cruise Liner.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of the Uncorrected Proof. In classic noir tradition, English Professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and a famous Private Eye novelist enters. The author is dogged by Trouble (a Rottweiler) and by a problem. And since Sunnye Hardcastle (a Patricia Cornwell lookalike) will be a featured speaker in the English Department's upcoming conference on the murder mystery (from a Feminist Perspective), Karen is intrigued. The next thing you know, one midnight someone rushes out of the Enfield library with an armload of rare books. In fact, the library is missing a truckload of its treasures. Then a suspect is found dead in the stacks, his neck broken. With a real private eye on the case, the hunt is on--for the manuscript of Hammett's famous novel, The Maltese Falcon, for the missing books, and for potential murder suspects. A sparkling fifth entry in an award-nominated series by Fordham… Read More

Walker 1988 1st A. Fine in dj. Mexico;a valuable manuscript buried during the reign of Emperor Maximillian and a criminal known as 'The Bookworm'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dial Press, 2004. Later edition. Fine in dust jacket. A mysterious coded manuscript, a violent Ivy League murder, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide in a labyrinth of betrayal, madness, and genius. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atria Books, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. NOMINATED for an EDGAR AWARD. The third title to feature intrepid Marie Lightfoot, a true -crime writer. Marie faces an unusually challenging case because this time it's personal--painfully so, as it concerns the central mystery of her life: her parent's disappearance.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.