Search Results: Titles starting with O from Blackbird Bookshop

New York: Henry Holt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Superficial scratches back panel jacket.. 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last week he bought a stack. They had stuff in them--Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks, he'll sell her the lot. Kinsey's never been one for personal possessions, but curiosity wins out and she hands over a twenty (she may be curious but she loves a bargain). What she finds amid childhood memorabilia is an old undelivered letter. It will force her to reexamine her beliefs about the breakup of that first marriage, about the honor of that first husband, about an old unsolved murder. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 318 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on blank . preliminary page. Hint of foxing top edge.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. When the head of San Francisco's largest HMO dies in his own hospital, no one doubts it is anything but the result of massive injuries inflicted by a random hit-and-run accidnet. But the autopsy soon tells a different story - an overdose of potassium killed him, and the attending physician becomes the prime suspect. An explosive story of bad medicine and hard-hitting justice that pits defense attorney Dismas Hardy and homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky against each other in the most dangerous case either has faced. ; Dismas Hardy; 8.1 X 5.1 X 0.9 inches; 408 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Mysterious Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Page edges browned; jacket a bit rumpled.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Clarity is hard to achieve when you're dealing with homicides, an excess of crossover witnesses, a grab bag of sleazy lowlifes, ruthless blackmail, a mysterious woman, and a political contest driven by a poisonous thirst for power. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 352 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Mysterious Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder stripe bottom edge; hint of . lean to book. Closed tear front bottom corner and light edge wrinkling to . jacket.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. When a museum administrator is stabbed to death with a hat pin, popular Boston detective Sarah Kelling must interrupt her seaside idyll and pursue her twelfth case. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 278 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with minor wear to cloth edges; . jacket with minor corner wear, creases front panel.. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. ODESSA is a secret organization that has protected the identities and advanced the destinies of former SS members. One of the rare major defeats it has suffered came in the spring of 1964, when a packet of dossiers arrived anonymously at the Ministry of Justice in Bonn. How and why did Peter Miller send the packet? ; 8.3 X 5.9 X 1.4 inches; 337 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light top edge spotting. Jacket with . light shelf wear.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Richard Jury finds himself a suspect in a murder investigation and sends Melrose Plant to the Lake District to investigate. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 333 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Prior owner name front endpaper; one . tiny spot to fore edge.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Superintendent Richard Jury investigates the death of Roger Healy at the Old Silent Inn, an investigation hampered by the silence of the dead man's wife. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 425 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; 1999 Anthony Award nominee for Best . Mystery Novel. Has been gently read.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A psychologically rich whodunit continues the police procedural series featuring Inspectors Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, as the odd couple delves into the past to investigate the disappearance of four little girls. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 374 pages .

New York: Peter Maurice. Very Good; For piano. From the motion picture of the same name starring . Roy Rogers (and Trigger) , with stills on the front cover. Light creasing.. 1947. Sheet Music .

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Alvah Bessie was imprisoned for 10 . months and blacklisted for being one of the Hollywood Ten brought up . before the HUAC. Jacket is rumpled with edge wear.. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. The story of the comedy nightclub circuit in the 50's. ; 8.30 X 5.60 X 1 inches; 250 pages .

New York: Remick Music. Very Good; For piano. From the motion picture of the same name starring . Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson and Alexis Smith, all pictured on . front cover. Small tear top edge, light creasing.. 1945. Sheet Music .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light edge wrinkles to jacket.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Boston attorney Brady Coyne has a generally placid life, but on one balmy June evening, that quiet life begins to fall apart. Brady receives a frantic call from the son of his friend and client, Dalton Lancaster. Dalt is in the emergency room, having been beaten by a group of thugs who warned him he has a week to pay off his debt. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 304 pages .

Hollywood: Martin Music. Good; For piano. General light creasing and small tears, with larger tears . top and bottom edge at fold.. 1946. Sheet Music .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; 1999 Shamus nominee Best PI Novel. . Jacket with small tear top spine edge.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. An attorney friend of Cuddy's has called in a favor, looking into the case of Alan Spaeth, a down-and-out divorce squeeze, racist, mysogynist, and from all appearances, a cold-blooded killer. However, Cuddy is convinced of Spaeth's innocence and he won't let even a guy like Spaeth fry for someone else's crime. ; John Francis Cuddy Mystery; 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 304 pages .

New York: Summit Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket a bit rumpled with scratches to . front panel; book has the Simon & Schuster running man remainder mark to . bottom edge.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fritz Thieringer and Maggie McGuane are a tough, streetwise team of private eyes just making ends meet in LA. They are hired to find out why a strange man is following dress manufacturer Max Isenbart. The case seems simple enough at first, but lead to a nightmarish web of relationships and violence. ; 8.75 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 352 pages .

New York: Avon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread; abrasion back board. . Light wrinkling to top edge of jacket.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Illegal cross-species organ transplantaion, eco-terrorists, and 50,000 extra-large baboons make for an outrageously funny tale of the merging of medical science and big business. ; 7 x 5 x 1 inches; 368 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good with no dust jacket; Minor wear to spine ends and corners.. 1951. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Having escaped New York with the hopes of finishing his latest mystery novel in peace in Los Angeles, Ellery Queen is shocked when a knock on his door lands him right in the middle of yet another mystery. - - Leander Hill, a prominent Hollywood jeweler, recently died of a heart attack after receiving a package containing a dead dog, a sight that literally frightened him to death. Hill's daughter is convinced the act was premeditated murder and enlists Queen's help to catch the killer. Now Queen must harness all of his skills to prevail over this unscrupulous mind. ; 7.75 x 5.25 x 1 inches; 219 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Slight fade to cloth at bottom of . front board. Jacket slightly rumples with laminate lifting to author name . on front panel.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Deputy US Marshall Karen Sisco is just stopping off to serve a summons and complaint on Florida's Glades Prison when a breakout occurs. She's disarmed and put in the trunk of her car with one of the escapees. ; 6.75 X 1 X 9.75 inches; 296 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Strong copy in lightly rubbed and . wrinkled jacket.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Hired by moneymen to funnel funds to anti-Aqurno rebels but interested chiefly in lining his own pocket, Booth Stallings seeks the help of the wily Artie Wu, pretender to the Chinese throne, in pulling off his dangerous scam. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 314 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Book has been gently read; jacket has . tiny tears to spine end and minor edge wear.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Actress Vic Bowering lands a role with a summer repertory company in a musical version of Macbeth, in a production marred by mysterious disasters, untimely deaths, and the interference of her beau, NYPD Sergeant Dan Duchinski and her almost ex-husband, Barry Laskin. ; 0.75 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches; 182 pages .