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Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2000. 1st prtg. Trade size paperback. New Mexico Sheriff Bill Gastner's 2nd appearance. Missing Mystery #26 in the series from Poisoned Pen.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first book introducing Tuscon reporter Nate Bowman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Scottsdale: AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. 1st edition. A fine copy of the bound galleys, spiral bound. Review Copy with slip laid in. The 2nd book by New Mexico native Ulmer and features B&B owner Christina Garcia y Grant. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

Scottsdale: AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED and DATED April 2001, by the author on the title page.The 2nd book by New Mexico native Ulmer and features B&B owner Christina Garcia y Grant. "Author/lawyer/sleuth Christina Garcia y Grant tackles her second murder case, surrounded by familiar faces from Midnight at the Camposanto. Dr. Evelyn Bottoms, a charming newcomer to Taos (and self-proclaimed "recoverer" of local Spanish religious art) becomes a suspect when one of the employees at his gallery/museum is found murdered and another goes missing possibly with some sacred art. Christy defends Bottoms, whose attentions arouse jealousy in her tenant, Mac, who helps out at Christy's bed-and-breakfast hacienda. Exuberant descriptions of the changing indigenous culture, local characters, and New Mexico surroundings pervade an exciting plot." --… Read More

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1998. 1st edition, January 1998, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The second Texana Jones mystery. Publisher's information sheet laid in on which the author has SIGNED a brief note to bookseller. "Pity poor Gringo, Pete Rosales's pit bull. First, squatter Carl Sebastien claims that the dog has killed his goats; then the blood-dabbled Gringo bolts out of a church, leaving behind the savaged corpse of Isidro, the wandering saint-maker who's been working on the woodcarvings around the altar. Is Gringo on a crime spree, or was Isidro killed by a two-legged predator? Out of all the scarce humans in borderline Presidio County, only shopkeeper Texana Jones's veterinarian husband Clay can tell for sure--but Clay's detained at Gordon Mateo Suarez's fabulous Rancho de Sierra Vista, enjoying Suarez's bountiful, coercive hospitality--and by the time he returns… Read More

Santa Fe: New Mexico: Red Crane Books, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Author's 1st book. Murder & witchcraft set on Navajo & Jicarilla Apache lands. High praise from Hillerman. Small first printing of only 1000 copies. Ron Querry's debut novel, originally published in 1993 by Red Crane, is a foundational novel in contemporary Native American writing. Querry uses the alternating viewpoints of Gracie, Bernadette's younger sister, and Starr Stubbs, the wealthy New Yorker who lives just outside of Dulce, New Mexico-to detail the tragic end of Bernadette's life. The conflicting accounts create a compelling novel about heritage, family, and the dark magic of the twisted soul.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Villard, 1998. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Sylvia Strange, a forensic psychologist in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is featured in the first book in the series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Scottsdale, AZ,: Poisoned Pen Press, 2002. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof. first in a new series to feature insurance investigator Dan Mahoney. New Mexico setting. "Dan Mahoney, insurance investigator, lands in Tatum, New Mexico where several prize cattle on the famed Double Horseshoe Ranch have mysteriously died. The claims put a lot of money at stake for Dan's company. But that just scratches the surface of the high jinks afoot in Tatum. And the high stakes. A surprised Dan hadn't counted on witnessing a murder, falling in love, or becoming the pawn of federal agents. It's the flash flood that changes everything. Could cattleman Billy Roland Eklund have set up Eric Linden, pilot and family friend, who's caught in the roaring water? Tempted him to forfeit seven years of his life for two million dollars? And then had him killed? Or was it the lovely Elaine, Linden's wife, who had so much to gain? Dan stumbles across secrets that implicate his sister, his… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1996. 1st Edition, April 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED as both Martin and Wingate at front endpaper. "Family trees are gnarled and twisted, and many of the roots are hidden in the 12th outing (after Bird in a Cage) for Deb Ralston, a middle-aged Mormon police investigator in Fort Worth, Tex. Deb's son- in-law, a medical intern studying how human corpses decompose, finds he has an extra, unaccounted-for cadaver on his hands. Although the cause of death is determined to be a heart attack, there are still the questions of who the portly older man was and why someone has hidden his body. Nicknaming the corpse Uncle George, Deb quickly makes a connection between George and a missing genealogist. When their fingerprints don't match, she's perplexed. Then she learns that a San Francisco mortuary is missing a corpse that was shipped to Texas. What does any… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1995. 1st ed. Paberback Original, near fine - few reading creases, pages lightly aged tone. EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST PAPERBACK. A ranger for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Dominica "Dee" Laguerre patrols a Rhode Island-size piece of Nevada sagebrush. the hard-living progeny of of tough Basque sheep ranchers, she believes in the land and in the law. And now both are in deadly peril.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

NY. NY: Macmillan, 1970. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/FINE . Book shows slight bumping to top and bottom of spine, light weat along edges else fine. A COCK ROBIN MYSTERY. Simon Crane retired from the police force after a crooked cop tried to kill him. He was broke, out of work and thankful to be alive. It wasn't the end of the world -- until she appeared. She was Joanne Farrell, Crane's ex-girlfriend. Her boss, a top Mafia man, was dead and nearly three million dollars was missing. She knew she was the prime suspect. What she didn't know was that the Mafia had two other suspects: Mike Farrell, her ex-husband, an organization fall-guy with a chip on his shoulder... and Simon Crane. From then on Crane was on his own with forty-eight hours to turn over the three million or the real thief... or to find a quiet place to die. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Contemporary thriller set in a small Texas town to which Ruth Dunwitty returns, ostensibly to visit her grandmother but becomes enmeshed in the search for a missing teenage girl. Menace turns to to fear when layers of secrets and mistrust are peeled back to reveal a darkness deeper and more terrifying than anything Ruth could have imagined.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SI8GNED BY AYRES at title page. New Mexico. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1993. 1st ed.with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author at title page. A Neil Hamel title. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Ballantine, 1984. 1st editon, October 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Bound in original black pictorial stiff paper wraps with flaps. Small bookstore stamp at half-title page else a fine copy. Cover illustration by Larry Schwinger. A SHAMUS AWARD Nominee fpr Best paperback Original. Stephen R. Donaldson is one of America's acclaimed storytellers. But in the 1980s, he published three novels about private investigators Mick Axbrewder and Ginny Fistoulari, as paperback originals under the pseudonym "Reed Stephens." In 2001, Tor published a fourth novel about these characters, The Man Who Fought Alone, this time in hardcover under Donaldson's own name. -- Mick "Brew" Axbrewder is a P.I. who's seen better days. A while back, deeply into alcoholism, he accidentally shot and killed a cop. Worse, the cop turned out to be his own brother. Even worse, in a case not long after that, in order to protect Brew from the consequences of his… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 1985. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. BIBLIO MYSTERY. Review copy with slip laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

Ashland: OR: Story Line Press, 1999. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. First mystery by one of this generations best poets. A literary mystery which exposes the complicated passions and politics of the volatile animal rights movement.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/As New. Book.