Search Results: Titles starting with R from Blackbird Bookshop

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Tiny dig to spine edge front panel jacket.. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege. Abandoned by her rebellious mother when she was an infant, she was the only child of a rich man already in his mid-fifties when she was born, and her adoring father thoroughly spoiled her. Now, at thirty-two, having had many scrapes with the law, she is about to be released on probation from the California Institution for Women, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence for embezzlement. It seems a straightforward assignment for Kinsey: babysit Reba until she settles in, make sure she follows all the niceties of her parole. Maybe a week’s work. Nothing untoward—the woman seems remorseful and friendly. And the money is good. But life is never that simple, and Reba is out of prison less than twenty-four hours when one of her old crowd comes… Read More

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2000. First American Edition. Hardcover. Lovejoy, the irrepressible antiques dealer, investigates a dangerous case involving phony gemstones, runs afoul of nasty thug Dieter Gluck, and comes to the aid of his old friend Colette Goldhorn, a recent widow with a teenage son who bears a remarkable resemblance to Lovejoy himself. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 344 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Suppose you quit your job, took out a second mortgage and borrowed every penny of your in-laws' nest egg to start up a sure fire new business. What if your partner ran off with all your money? What if you caught him? These are the questions Pete Hautman's hero faces. A wryly funny, Faustian tale of a good man gone bad. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 252 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. Author's . first mystery.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. When Fish and Wildlife Agent Venus Diamond contracts malaria, she is recalled from Bangkok, where she's been investigating an international bear poaching ring, back to Seattle. Venus is then assigned the murder case of a timber executive in Ozone Beach, Washington - a snooty Puget Sound resort town. ; 8.3 X 5.8 X 1.3 inches; 245 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Reissue of the 1896 first edition with blue . boards with gilt titles. Spine titles have darkened; minor edge soil and . corner wear.. 1922. Later Printing. Hardcover. First in the Randolph Mason series. #20 on the Queen's Quorum list, and a Haycroft-Queen Cornerstone. In this collection of 7 short stories, ugly but brilliant attorney, Randolph Mason, uses his legal wiles to get even the worst types of criminals freed on technicalities. ; 7.5 x 5 x 1.25 inches; 280 pages .

New York: Walker & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book is slightly canted with a small . black dot to bottom edge and a vertical crease to front pastedown.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Angela Stephens visits Jeremy Ransom and tells him she is going to be murdered and her husband will be the killer, according to the fortune teller. Jeremy dismisses the episode until Angela's corpse is found the following day. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 237 pages .

New York: Atria Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light wear to back panel of jacket; . top edge browned.. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. An ominous novel about a chain of killings, linked obscurely by great distances and the passage of years, and the settling of their blood-debts - past, present, and future. ; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.5 inches; 368 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by Hill on the title page. Jacket . protected in mylar.. 1992. First US Edition. Hardcover. When new evidence leads to the release of a prisoner that Chief Superintendent Andrew Dalziel helped his mentor, Walter Tallantire, put behind bars twenty years before, Dalziel must work fast to save his late friend's reputation. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 359 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Scribner. Near Fine; Uncorrected advance proof in blue paper wraps. Appears unread. . Slight lightening to spine.. 1994. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Charles Paaris has finally found work playing real-life missing property developer Martin Earnshaw on Public Enemies. As Charles reconstructs Martin's actions for the TV cameras, he begins to make some shocking discoveries. ; 8.3 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 189 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. While playing the part of missing property developer Martin Earnshaw on 'Public Enemies, ' a true-crime television series, actor-sleuth Charles Paris begins to uncover the shocking truth about the missing man's disappearanc. E; 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.75 inches; 189 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Barry Award nominee for Best Novel. . Jacket a bit loose on boards with light wear, smudge front panel.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. With a troubled past and a job that attracts too much attention from the law NYC PI John March has always been the black sheep of his staid banking family. Which makes the identity of his latest client all the more surprising: his smug older brother David. ; John March Mysteries; 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches; 304 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author twice on the . title page. Tiny tear top edge jacket. 2001 Sue Feder Historical Mystery . Award nominee.. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Charles Todd brings back Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge in another riveting mystery set in post-war England. Lancashire, England, June 1920. In a house with a red door lies the body of a woman who has been bludgeoned to death. Rumor has it that two years earlier, she'd painted that door to welcome her husband home from the Front. Only he never arrived. ; Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries; 8.9 X 6.0 X 1.2 inches; 352 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine; Advance Reader's Copy in glossy pictorial cover. Light shelf . wear; tiny bit of soil to bottom corner. Number 27 of the Top 100 . Mysteries of All Time (Mystery Writers of America).. 1981. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. Will Graham's unusual, fearful ability to project himself into the minds of psychopaths puts him on the trail of Francis Dolorhyde, whose bizarre and bloody murders of two suburban families have been triggered by his viewing of a William Blake watercolor. ; Trade PB; 348 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Book is clean, staight and tight with . light edge browning. Jacket with rubbing back panel and llight wear to . spine ends and corners.. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. When May Brightman asks foreign correspondent and Russian expert Robert Thorne to help find her father, a millionaire fur dealer who has mysteriously disappeared, a transcontinental hunt for Brightman--and a cache of gold--ensues. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 321 pages .

New York: Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Joe Gunther and his team at the VBI are faced with the most complex and deadly case of their careers when they are called in to investigate a series of violent deaths that appear to be unrelated to one another. ; Joe Gunther Series; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches; 304 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . 1995 Edgar Award for Best Mystery; 1995 Macavity Award nominee. Light edge . wrinkling and mild corner wear. Prior owner name on front endpaper.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Texas reporter Molly Cates, whose book describes the horrifying career of serial killer Louie Bronk, realizes shortly before Louie's execution, that he may be innocent and that her life is in danger. ; 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.4 inches; 324 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: E. P. Dutton. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Glassine jacket with small tear to top . edge of back panel. Top seal for the fake snow pocket is fragile .. 1987. First American Edition. Hardcover. Anna Kovina, a courageous and sexy policewoman investigating three murders in Siberia where the Russians are laying a pipeline against the Nenets Eskimos' protestation, encounters a Nenets former lover and a brash American power. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 306 pages .

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Back board slightly bowed. Jacket has . light edge wrinkling.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. With the fall of Soviet Communism, Inspector Arkady Renko returns from exile and once again takes up his career with the police, only to find himself embroiled in a perilous confrontation with Moscow's new crime elite. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 418 pages .

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Company. Very Good; Solid clean copy, with light spine fading and front cover . spots. 96 pages with 16 pages of ads following.. 1906. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 96 pages .

New York: E. P. Dutton. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with light rubbing and laminate . loss to bottom edge of back panel.. 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. In occupied France, a young divorcee and her lover, the head of a Resistance network, choose the country home of the lover's childhood friend as a cover for their political activities. Translated by Christine Donougher. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 191 pages .