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NY: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st edition, October 1994, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light damp stain at lower page edges not affecting text in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed, without inscription, by the author on the title page. An AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE. Features LAPD detective Jessie Drake. Krich uses her Jewishness as a rich and integral part of her novels' plots. However, Krich's detective, Jessie Drake, is unaware of her own Jewish heritage until the LAPD assigns her to investigate a death threat against lawyer Barry Lewis. Although he's the son of concentration camp survivors, Lewis has agreed to defend the right of a neo-Nazi group to demonstrate in a Jewish neighborhood, and his family and friends are furious. What no one can guess is how violent the reaction to the situation will be, but even Jessie is stunned when the threats against Lewis turn into murder. Determined to find the… Read More

N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, 1997. First Edition, September 1997 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Kate Delafield title. Los Angeles. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1987. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. The second book in the acclaimed Whistler series. Whistler, a sentamental private eye in Hollywood, California was first introduced to his readers in " In La-La Land We Trust - 1986. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1987. 1sted. Very minor soiling at page edges else fine in dust jacket. The 2nd Whistler title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1999. 1st ed. Slight spine slant else near fine in dj. A Harry Bosch title. BARRY Award Nominee. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1999. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A BARRY AWARD Nominee. "Hollywood homicide detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch (Trunk Music, 1996, etc.) is up to his very stiff neck in politics, police corruption and racial tension. The echo of the Rodney King case is almost deafening when Howard Elias, an African American lawyer famous for suing the LAPD for racially motivated brutality, is shot dead on the short train run up a steep hill in downtown L.A. known as Angels Flight. Bosch and his team?a black woman named Kizmin Rider and a black man named Jerry Edgar?are assigned the highly sensitive case. Although Bosch sniffs racial and departmental political hokum among the brass, he doggedly focuses on finding the killer, knowing that cops will be among the suspects. It all smells even worse when Bosch discovers signs of evidence tampering by… Read More

NY: Villard, 2000. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. A weird and fascinating book about dinosaurs masquerading as people in the modern world. A very funny and wildly creative detective novel. "What would the world be like if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct? As this very funny book shows, for one thing, L.A. would be even weirder than it is now." Dave Barry. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY.: St Martins Pr, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ shows minimal shelf wear. A V. (VIC) DANIEL , Los Angeles private investigator.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

N.Y.: Bantam, 1994. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Dr. Alex Delaware The child psychologist is on an intricately plotted, murder-strewn course that started 20 years earlier when he was on staff at a Los Angeles children's hospital. Recently, Alex has become the target of ominous threats: weird laughter over the phone, a fish from his pond cruelly skewered, a tape of a child's voice repeating the words "bad love . " Initially he ties the threats to his work with two young sisters whose father, in prison for the murder of their mother, is claiming visitation rights. But Alex also remembers the phrase "bad love" was used by a child psychiatrist honored at a 1979 symposium he cosponsored at the hospital. A file search by his LAPD pal Milo Sturgis connects the phrase to two LA murders five and three years ago; inquiries by Alex reveal a surprisingly high death rate… Read More

Scribners, 1998. 1st ed. Uncorrected Proof, fine, pictoral wraps, with Review slip laid in. Her 1st book. Los Angeles. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1997. 1st edition, June 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine,as new, in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The author's critically acclaimed first book, an EDGAR AWARD Finalist. SIGNED (signature only) by the author on the title page. "This jaunty, humorous, and captivating first novel features a cast of quirky California characters and their misadventures. Lush-bodied Marianna picks on middle-aged co-worker Harold?who wrote a tell-all book about used cars?for help when a car salesman cheats her. Thus begins an itinerant tale of scam and counterscam, car distribution corruption, tender-hearted strippers, attempted murder, accidental murder, car chases, outwitted hoodlums, vituperative ex-wives, pot-smoking brothers, and incipient love. Quick shifts of scene steadily increase the suspense, but this is one of those books that ends too soon." --- LIBRARY JOURNAL. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard… Read More

Indianapolis and NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945. First edition, so stated. Bright red boards with gold lettering. Some wear at spine gutter, spine darkened, covers lightly soiled. A good to very good copy of a very scarce title which has just been re-issued in The American Mystery Classics by Otto Penzler after being out of print for over 50 years. Lt.(Insp.) Richard Tuck; Los Angeles, CA. A successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood Hills and, with him working to produce her novel for an upcoming film, the pair's recent marriage isn't the only way that they're connected. When the husband is found murdered on the wife's birthday using a method of poisoning that was described in one of her books, Victoria suddenly becomes the main suspect as her new happy life comes crashing down around her. The case appears straightforward from the outside but the LAPD investigator on the scene ( finds the truth to be anything but. Though all the signs point to Victoria,… Read More

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

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. 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 dysfunctional California family she recently worked for… Read More

NY, NY: Vilking, 1981. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Features Terry Traven who owns the Black Mask Detective Agency. Author's 1st book. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. During the 1960s Terry Traven had it all. He had a 1941 Buick, wide-lapel suits, spectator shoes, the Black Mask Detective Agency, and an underground newspaper friend who kept plugging him as the hard-boiled reincarnation of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. But that was the sixties ... Now it's the 1980s, and the drugs are hard and the rock is punk. The monied interests have moved in and the dream has gone sour. For Terry Traven, his mortgaged dream is just about to die of starvation when wealthy industrialist Athol Busby walks through the frosted glass door and asks him to find his son Lothar. Suddenly Terry finds himself embroiled in other people's fantasies -- fantasies that have come to life and gone awry in the nightmarish violence of punk life, the glittering, coke-induced visions of Beverly Hills' elite, and,… Read More

NY, NY: Myst Press NY 1984, 1984. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Owners blind stamp at title page. Her 2nd book. On the night he escapes the asylum, Tom does not take his medication. He slips out of bed soon after lights out, pockets a knife, and goes looking for a guard. At knifepoint, he takes the man’s clothes, cuts his throat, and walks out of the institution a free man. His brother is waiting outside the gate. They have work to do. As Tom and his brother cut a bloody swath across Los Angeles County, it falls to Blue Maguire and Spaceman Kowalski to find them. Even in the strangest precincts of the LAPD, there are no two cops quite like Spaceman, a hard-boiled detective of the old school, and Blue, his margarita-sipping, always-fashionable partner. Stopping the Hitchcock brothers will take them closer to the brink than ever before—but Spaceman and Blue are happiest on the edge.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1984. 1st ed. A Fine, pristine book in a fine, bright dust jacket. No remainder mark, uncommon thus. The first Lloyd Hopkins mystery. Someone is stalking the streets of Los Angeles.someone who can match Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins point for point in intelligence. But Teddy Verplanck has turned his mind to evil by protecting the innocent by killing them. He has been so successful for twenty years that not one of his victims has been connected to another. Basis for the film Cop starring James Woods as Hopkins. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1955. 1st printing, 1955. Vintage Paperback, Dell #835. Cover by Don Neiser. Slight soine roll , cover creases else very good. [.25 cover price]. "Tuesday, he looked down on the body of a Mexican girl who’d been clubbed to death with a spade . . . Thursday, he took the examination for lieutenant and had a lot of trouble with it . . . Friday, his aunt died and left him more money than he bothered to count . . . Then Joe Burke, a sergeant out of Central Homicide, Los Angeles, turned in his badge. He bought a house, a car, good liquor, and even went in for amateur theater - just in time for a bloody off-stage killing. Joe found himself back on the homicide detail, unofficially this time, in a case that was to teach him more about ruthless murder - and about women - than he had learned in a dozen years on the force." All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1986. First edition, so stated. Very light wear to covers else about fine in dust jacket with a tiny bit of discoloration at rear, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Second Alex Delaware mystery. "Dr. Alexander Davenport, a child psychologist in Los Angeles, is called in to evaluate the case of a leukemia patient whose parents want to discontinue chemotherapy. When the boy disappears from the hospital and his parents are found dead, the only leads are the boy's sensual older sister and a holistic-meditative cult called The Touch. Davenport's search for the child takes him to a small town near the Mexican border where he finally unearths the dark secrets kept by the boy's family and the townspeople. He also uncovers drugs and group sex in the commune and survives a few harrowing attempts on his life. (Particularly well-drawn is a failed assassination at the tale's end, which has intriguing mythic echoes.) As in his praised first… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1998. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. Nominated for the 1997 MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. WINNER of the GRAND PRIX, ANTHONY and MACAVITY AWARDS for Best Novel. The first novel introducing ex-FBI investigator Terrell McCaleb. The basis for the film starring Clint Eastwood. "Connelly follows up Trunk Music with a tautly paced, seductively involving thriller about a murder that is less random than it seems. Ex-FBI agent Terry McCaleb is recuperating from a heart transplant when beautiful Graciela Rivers walks up to his San Pedro houseboat, tells him that the donor of his new heart, her sister Gloria, was murdered in a convenience-store robbery and asks him to find the killer. Although his doctor warns him against it, McCaleb can't resist the case (any more than he could resist the serial-murder cases that caused his heart attack in the first place). With no license and little cooperation from the police, McCaleb reviews the… Read More