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New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press 1ST ED. FINE/FINE.A GUMSHOE WINNER & AGATHA & MACAVITY NOMINEE. The fifth entry in this marvelous series.Russ Van Alstyne, the Millers Kill, New York police chief, tells his wife that he is in love with Clare Fergusson, the St. Albans Chruch Episcopal priest and she throws him out. Now a few weeks later, her body is found in their kitchen, dead and mutilated, and naturally Russ and Clare are suspected in the killing. The investigation quickly becomes complex, and when Russ becomes too shook up to handle it properly, Clare shows fortitude and is able to persevere and help move things along. Filled with suspense and a surprise or two. Good, by the award-winning author of "In the bleak midwinter". A must read for any mystery reader.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1960. 1st edition, so stated. Small stain at head of spine, light wear to covers, else very good in dust jacket with rubbing to folds, chipped at head and foot, and small sticker pull where label was removed. Dust jacket not price clipped, $2.95 price intact in protective mylar cover. NY STATE.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/Good-Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Metropolitan Books, 1997. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Small stain at front endpaper and at page edges else about fine in near fine dust jacket, sall stain at rear along bottom edge, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. One by one, three young girls vanish in Aurelius, a small town in upstate New York. With the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye one another warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. A GOLD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Appleton, Century, Crofts , 1954. 1st ed. lightly soiled with minor wear along edges else very good in dust jacket, chipped at head and foor of spine, with a one long tape repaired tear at front, not price clipped, $3.50 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Set in upstate New York. For years the Delevan family image reflected only the best of everything - wealth, position, influence, and the kind of expensive good looks that take generations to cultivate. No one dared suspect that their glittering façade, their cherished privacy masked hidden lusts, furtive pleasures and twisted dreams that would soon erupt into a pattern of strange violence that threatened to destroy them all. Macdonald drew praise from such literary greats as Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King, who declared him to be 'the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller'. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1993. 1st edition, March 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "A suspense thriller, something of a departure for Heckler. Here, a distraught, increasingly desperate mother of a small son discovers and tracks her husband's killer- -who, by the close, is on the prowl for both his followers. Deena, husband Tim, and son Jon have a restaurant get-together in Manhattan, with court artist Martin and jewelry designer Paul- -old friends of Tim's whose families had summered at the same lake upstate. It was at the lake that two beloved women drowned--Paul's adored mother Sarah, and Jenny, the girl Martin was to marry. Deena, Tim, and Jon also vacation at the lake, and it is during a river raft trip that Tim is murdered, bludgeoned and drowned. The reader will learn the serial killer's identity soon enough, but Deena's chilling knowledge does not arrive until… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1993. 1st edition, March 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Advance copy with slip and publishers information sheet laid in. "A suspense thriller, something of a departure for Heckler. Here, a distraught, increasingly desperate mother of a small son discovers and tracks her husband's killer- -who, by the close, is on the prowl for both his followers. Deena, husband Tim, and son Jon have a restaurant get-together in Manhattan, with court artist Martin and jewelry designer Paul- -old friends of Tim's whose families had summered at the same lake upstate. It was at the lake that two beloved women drowned--Paul's adored mother Sarah, and Jenny, the girl Martin was to marry. Deena, Tim, and Jon also vacation at the lake, and it is during a river raft trip that Tim is murdered, bludgeoned and drowned. The reader will learn the serial killer's identity… Read More

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. 1st ed. soiling at page edges else near fine in dust jacket, chipped at spine, lightly soiled. In Saratoga to report a historic race, sportswriter Paddy Moretti suddenly finds himself in the midst of deception, greed, and violence and on the trail of the biggest story of his life. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light soiling at page edges, else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW SLIP laid in. In Saratoga to report a historic race, sportswriter Paddy Moretti suddenly finds himself in the midst of deception, greed, and violence and on the trail of the biggest story of his life. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1997. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. This book is a realistic account of what happens when a spy is suspected of working in the newsroom of a great American newspaper. The author is an acclaimed novelist and award-winning journalist whose fiction is cited on the CIA's web page as work that should be read as the truth.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 2000. 1st edition, with complete number line. Oversize wrappers, near fine copy of the Uncorrected Page Proofs. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. 1st 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 SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. "An unclaimed $22-million estate is up for grabs in first-time novelist Larsgaard's ingenious thriller. Sexy attorney Alex Moreno-the Albany, N.Y.-based partner to former cop Nick Merchant who now specializes in finding heirs to unsettled estates-slips a county deputy attorney a $10,000 bribe to get a sneak preview of four probate files 10 days before the official release date. One of the files contains the mind-boggling multimillion-dollar legacy of Gerald Jacobs, an 87-year-old Hudson, N.Y., recluse who died with no apparent heirs. Since Nick's customary finder's fee averages about 30%, this represents the proverbial… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1992. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Upstate New York. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2004. 1st edition, April 2004, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. An EDGAR AWARD FINALIST. "In Agatha winner Spencer-Fleming's triumphant third novel (after 2003's A Fountain Filled with Blood), Clare Fergusson, Anglican priest and ex-army helicopter pilot, and Sheriff Russ Van Alstyne investigate the hidden secrets, past and present, of a prominent Millers Kill, N.Y., familyâ?"and must also face the hidden secrets of their own hearts. When the roof of St. Alban's Episcopal Church springs a leak that threatens to destroy a beautiful stained-glass window, Clare calls an emergency vestry meeting only to discover that paying for the repairs is more complicated than she expected. Mrs. Marshall, a wealthy parishioner, agrees to donate the money, though it will mean the withdrawal of funds from the town health clinic. Shortly after… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2007. First edition, October 2007, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. "hort story writer Nikitas fills his engaging, atmospheric first novel, set in upstate New York, with Swedish mythology and American carnage. The life of 15-year-old Lucia Luc Moberg, who dresses goth and rebels against her mother, irrevocably changes after a trip to the mall with her S.U.N.Y. professor father, Oscar. Stealing a few CDs for her friends from a music and video store, she runs to the bookstore to find her father and begs him to leave immediately, feigning illness. Unfortunately for Luc, far worse awaits the Mobergs in the mall parking lot—an armed gunman who shoots and kills Oscar. The murder sets off a violent chain of events that tears apart the Mobergs and their community. Fans of Joyce Carol Oates, who provides… Read More

N.Y.: Viking, 1991. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. McCullough initiates a series featuring Reverend Ziza Todd, a youthful and sometimes irreverent amateur sleuth. Detective Nick Story and amateur sleuth Todd investigate when the bodies of Llewelyn Quick and Harry Van Schoonhoven are found in the home of Aunt Nan, a respected elder in the Utopian Smyrna Community, after her death, Called to the Olde Smyrna Community (a 19th-century Christian utopian society now known for its class-ring business) in upper New York state to conduct a funeral, Ziza finds herself in the midst of strange goings on.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Walker, 1992. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Anna Peters title. "This crisp, cinematic mystery begins with the drowning death of matinee idol and champion swimmer Henry Brook while he is filming a much-publicized movie on an estate in upstate New York. Independence Mutual, issuers of a multimillion-dollar policy on the actor's life, suspect (read: hope) the death was suicide and hire PI and narrator Anna Peters to investigate how Brook met his end. Peters is disillusioned to discover that her favorite actor was a middle-aged playboy with an underage girlfriend and that his tenuous financial situation was held together by an ex-wife whom he insulted at every turn. Learning that Brook lived with both women, Peters speculates that he was too happy to have killed himself. She also learns that both women had motive and opportunity for murder. After a near-fatal attack on the estate manager who may… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1991. 1st edition, July 1991, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "Another entrant in the son-of-Raymond-Chandler sweepstakes as Wilcox--who can write a wonderfully crusty, wry turn-of-phrase- -introduces upstate New Yorker Elias Hackshaw, who, with his sister and brother-in-law, produces the weekly Triton Advertiser, including his muckraking opinion column. Here, he takes aim at unscrupulous land-developer Oscar Kasnen, convinced that the shopping-mall builder is behind old man Jenkins's death-leap from a barn loft. (Jenkins's heirs were all too eager to sell off his land to Kasnen.) Then Jenkins's lawyer is put into a coma; an Indian who may have been Jenkins's illegitimate son is murdered (mistaken identity); and Hack, to the chagrin of pedantic, poker- playing banker Kimble, discovers that Kasnen's short-term loan guarantee is about to fold. Meanwhile, the… Read More

NY.NY: Random House Inc, 1994. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. The Visiting Professor to Upper State New York, this book is a delicious post-Cold War romp through the chaotic landscape of muddled America,. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.