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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. First American Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a Brodart removable archival cover. Black boards and black cloth spine imprinted in gold with title and authoe. Map on the end papers; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 278 pages. A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, No. 18. After an investigator from the Carabiniere looking into the illegal hauling of garbage asks for a favor, Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he's seen before. .

New York: Forge. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 254 pages. An Amos Walker Mystery, No. 19. Hardboiled detective Amos Walker returns for his nineteenth outing in his most challenging case yet. Ex-Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller wants Walker to break off his daughter's engagement to Hilary Bairn, a man he believes is after her two million dollar trust. Walker goes to Bairn's apartment, only to be ambushed by cops. A murder has taken place, and the victim is Fuller's daughter. Walker and the cops assume that Bairn is the murderer, but Walker has no idea what he is getting into. Walker is led to a meeting with a casino owner, who tells him Bairn owed money to a loan shark. The loan shark tells Walker that he is not the only one after Bairn. Soon Walker finds himself on the run from crooked cops and vile gangsters. Every time Walker thinks he's solved the case, he finds out he is farther from the truth than… Read More

New York: Mysterious Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprinted in metallic red with title and author. . 292 pages. A Hap & Leonard Mystery, No. 4. Hap Collins has just returned home from a gig working on an off shore oil rig. With a new perspective on life, Hap wants to change the way he's living, and shoot the straight and narrow. That is until the man who stole Leonard Pine's boyfriend turns up headless in a ditch and Leonard gets fingered for the murder. Hap vows to clear Leonard's name, but things only get more complicated when Leonard's ex shows up dead. To the police it is just a matter of gay-biker infighting, but to Hap and Leonard murder is always serious business, and these hit a little to close to home. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Price-clipped. Several tiny chips at base of dust jacket spine . Creamy white boards with title and teal spine imprinted in silver outline with title and author . 229 pages. Tucker Loomis is a hard and dangerous man with a ruthlessness all West Bay fears and respects, and an improbable amount of money. Wade Rowley is a common man who aspires to honour but gets caught up in the footwork of a skilled swindler. In a pitiless game, with a few harsh rules and just one way of keeping score, the wrong man will die. And another will get away with more than murder .

New York: Modern Library. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1995.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 5/8 inch closed tear to front cover of dust jacket . 524 pages .

New York: Picador / Henry Holt. As New. 2015. 1st Picador Edition. Trade Paperback. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 290 pages. A Philip Marlowe Novel, No. 10. It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere."So begins The Black-Eyed Blonde, a new novel featuring Philip Marlowe—yes, that Philip Marlowe. Channeling Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Black has brought Marlowe back to life for a new adventure on the mean streets of Bay City, California. It is the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client is shown in: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Marlowe sets off on his search, but almost… Read More

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. First American Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket protected in a removable Brodart cover. Small chip to the top of the dust jacket spine. Stated First American Ediion with full number line.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 276 pages. A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, No. 14. In a mystery that offers an unexpected take on life in contemporary Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti plunges into the unfamiliar Venetian underworld of illegal African immigrants as he investigates after a street vendor is killed in a scuffle. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wrinkling at head and tail of d j spine . Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Stated First Edition.. 255 pages. Burke, No. 5. In this savagely convincing novel, Burke finds himself in a fading Indiana mill town, trying to clear a boy charged with a series of sexually motivated shootings. He's intent on finding the real sniper--and his unlikely ally is a beautiful woman named Blossom, who has her own reasons for finding the murderer, as well as her own idea of vengeance. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket has sticker remnant on back. Pale green boards with author's initials in gold and light green spine imprinted with title and author in gold. Deckle-edged pages . 307 pages. Paramedic Shaw Chandler knows Miami's nitty-gritty all too well. But when a routine suicide call uncovers his long-lost father, it's anything but routine-and it appears it's anything but suicide. Then Shaw's mother falls victim to financial fraud, leaving Shaw with no choice but to return home to Key West-and into the arms of his old flame soap opera actress Trula Montoya. Trula's got her own skeletons and reasons for returning to Key West. Rekindling her relationship to Shaw can only complicate her life. But Trula and Shaw are about to learn that they can no longer run from their secrets or the past as they discover a lethal conspiracy and science run amok. And when a psychotic, rhyming… Read More

New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006.. First Edition. Hardcover. 337 pages. A Cliff Janeway Novel, No. 5. Denver bookman Cliff Janeway would have liked Candice Geiger. She loved books with a true bookwoman's passion. Her collection of first-edition children's books is the best that Janeway ever hopes to see. Sadly, Janeway and Candice Geiger will never meet. She died much too young. Now, twenty years later, her books remain a testament to an extraordinary woman's remarkable vision. Janeway first learns about the juvenilia collection when Candice's elderly husband, H. R. Geiger, passes away and Janeway travels to their Idaho home to assess the collection. The estate can't be distributed until the books are valued, so there's pressure on Janeway to do the job quickly. But one look at the books tells Janeway something's wrong. Valuable titles are missing, replaced by cheap reprints. Other hugely valuable pieces remain. Why would a thief take one… Read More

New York: Avon Twilight. Fine. 1998. Trade Paperback. No spine crease.. 248 pages. Fritz Brown's L.A.--and his life--are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem--a private eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music--he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown's life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap. Reopening this cas could be Fritz's redemption; his welcome back to a moral world and his path to a pure and perfect love. But to get there, he must make it through a grim, lightless place where evil has no national borders; where lies beget lies and death begets death; where there's little tolerance for Bach or Beethoven and deadly arson is a lesser mortal sin; and where a p.i.'s unhealthy interest in the past can turn… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover; Black boards quarterbound in black with title and author on spine in gold; bright yellow endpapers; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 374 pages. The Thorn Series, No. 5. In the quiet shallows of the Florida Keys, Thorn has made a home, tying fishing flies and trying to forget the violence of his past. Now Key Largo is his world. He fishes it, breathes it, makes love in it. Until a phone call from Miami changes everything plunging Thorn into the deep waters of madness and revenge...In Miami, Thorn's best friend, Sugarman, is fighting for his life. While working security for a luxury liner plagued by theft, Sugarman was attacked by a man with a knife in one hand and 400,000 volts of electricity in the other. And when the M.S. Eclipse sets sail for the Caribbean, both Thorn and Sugarman are swept into a voyage of terror...where a madman hijacks the… Read More

New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Assoc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black book and spine with title and author imprinted on spine in silver. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 336 pages. A Nathan Heller Novel, No. 15. It's 1962, and Twentieth Century Fox is threatening to fire Marilyn Monroe. The blond goddess hires Nate Heller, private eye to the stars, to tap her phone so she will have a record of their calls in case they take her to court. When Heller starts listening, he uncovers far more than nasty conversations. The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia—even the Russians—are involved in actions focused on Marilyn. She's the quintessential American cultural icon, idolized by women, desired by men, but her private life is... complicated...and her connection to the Kennedys makes her an object of interest to some parties with sinister intentions. Not long after Heller signs on, Marilyn winds up dead of… Read More

Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press. New. 2012. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 271 pages .

New York: Minotaur Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable archival cover. . 272 pages. As the lawlessness of Prohibition pushes against the desperation of the Depression, there are two ways to make a living in Los Angeles: join the criminals or collar them. Kitty Pangborn has chosen the crime-fighters, becoming secretary to Dexter J. Theroux, one of the hard-drinking, tough-talking PIs who pepper the city's stew. But after Dex takes an assignment from Rita Heppelwaite, the mistress of Harrison Dempsey, one of L.A.'s shadiest--and richest--businessmen, Kitty isn't so sure what side of the law she's on. Rita suspects Dempsey has been stepping out and asks Dex to tail him. It's an easy enough task, but Dex's morning stroll with Johnnie Walker would make it tough for him to trail his own shadow. Kitty insists she go along for the ride, keeping her boss--and hopefully her salary--safe. However, she's about to realize… Read More

Orlando, FL: Harcourt / A Harvest Book. Near Fine. 2003. Trade Paperback. 282 pages. Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents. Finding Jenna, however, is easy compared to staying alive once they've got her. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna's family and rival gang leaders while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of government. A Drink Before the War, the first in Lehane's acclaimed series with Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, is a remarkable debut that is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our… Read More

New York: Thomas Dunne Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 293 pages. Milan Jacovich Mystery, No. 12 .

London: A Hard-Case Crime Novel. Near Fine. 2015. Remainder dot on bottom of text block. No spine crease.. 234 pages. Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who’s looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes…He falls – and falls hard. Soon he’s working with her, against his employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from her husband and put millions in her bank account. But can they do it without landing in jail? And once he’s kindled his taste for killing...will he be able to stop at one? .

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. Mike Hammer Novels. After preventing the violent robbery of two college sweethearts who stumbled onto a priceless archaeological find, a femur from a man who may have been the biblical giant Goliath, P.I. Mike Hammer puts his personal life--including his marriage to his faithful Velda--on hold as he takes on Islamic terrorists and Israeli extremists out to seize the relic for their own purposes. .

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Medium blue boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and author. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 333 pages. A Cape Weathers Mystery, No. 3. Signed by Author. A former U.S. Senator vanishes days after his son goes missing. When theyare both found dead on a golf course, body parts missing, in Mexico, the Senatoras estranged daughter Rebecca resolves to discover what happened.Private investigator Cape Weathers doesnat really want the case. He canat stand politicians and doesnat know the terrain. But when it looks like the daughter may become the next victim, Cape crosses the border looking for answers.Cape asks his deadly companion Sally, trained by the Hong Kong Triads, to watch his back as he stumbles onto a conspiracy that leads from corporate boardrooms in San Francisco to strongholds in… Read More