Search Results: Thriller from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Villard Books, 1990. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fifth of Diehl's thrillers is this historical spy-thriller set in the months just prior to World War II. The Nazis have recruited an actor whom they believe is the perfect spy for a mission known only as "27." Hunting the perfect spy is an American playboy, an ex-bootlegger, driven by revenge. Top and bottom of text show a few light stains, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only some minor surface and edgewear. At 559 pages, this is a large, heavy book and may require additional postage depending on destination and priority.

New York: The Ballantine Publishing Group, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The eighth novel in Smith's award-winning mystery series set in New Orleans and featuring Police Detective Skip Langdon. This time she's hunting for the husband of a city councilwoman and finds corruption and murder; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Dutton, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Fine. Parrish's fourth novel, set in Phoenix, Arizona, is the story of a woman who refuses to surrender, even in the face of a murder charge while fighting a wealthy family backed by a corrupt legal system.

New York: Knopf, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hyde's fourth novel is this tense account of the investigation of the murder of Dr. Diana Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, whose murder divides her family and the small Colorado town where she lived and died; small check mark and initial 'S' in upper corner of front end page, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Connors' first novel is this highly-praised legal thriller featuring Martha "Marty" Nickerson an assistant district attorney for Barnstable County on Massachusetts' Cape Cod, who wins a guilty verdict in a murder case only to discover the real killer may still be at large and ready to kill again; check mark and single initial in corner of front end page and small indentation on fore edge of back cover, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows small tear at same place as indentation in cover, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Villard Books/Random House, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Lovett's highly-praised mystery series featuring Santa Fe forensic psychiatrist Sylvia Strange. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Armstrong's sixth mystery-suspense thriller features Charlie Galloway, suspended Los Angeles Police detective, searching for the murderer of his Filipino housekeeper and finding a national political conspiracy; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in dustjacket showing minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The last book in Thomas' long career that began in 1966 with an Edgar Award for his first novel, "The Cold War Swap." This final novel features cashiered Army Major Edd Partain, a former Intelligence operative in Central America, who hires on to help Millicent Altford, a "rainmaker" adept at shaking the Washington money tree recover $1.2 million stolen from her secret war chest. Two pages lightly dogearred; inside cover and front end paper show faint traces where a book plate and address sticker were removed, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. the last novel in Thomas' long line of highly-praised suspense/thrillers; previous owner's name on front end page, o/w Fine in like dustjacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel in Cornwell's widely acclaimed mystery series featuring Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief medical examiner; boards' upper corners slightly bumped, o/w a clean, tight, collectable copy.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edgar and Agatha Award-winning Walker's fourth novel features true crime writer Molly Cates investigating two mysteries: the supposed suicide of her father 25 years ago and a plot to kill the members of the Texas legistature; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Henry Holt, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Tirone Smith's fifth novel is a bibliomystery-thriller featuring Washington, D.C., true crime writer Denise Burke whose high-profile Congressman lover urges her to investigate an old murder, then begs her to drop the whole thing and finally dies in the arms of a call girl; text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows tiny tear at lower right corner of front panel, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Dell, 1970. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Dell 0199; one of Crichton's best novels, the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis at a government laboratory in Nevada during the 1960s; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a slight spine lean in white pictorial wrappers showing only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Scooter Libby's first and, thus far, only novel, written in his relatively peaceful years as a managing partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm before becoming a presidential assistant to George W. Bush and chief of staff and national security advisor to Vice President Cheney, followed by his 2007 conviction and later commutation on charges of perjury. This is a crime-thriller set in a blizzard in northern Japan in 1903 and features the apprentice, charged with running a crowded inn in its owner's absence, and who becomes involved with a group of mysterious travelers and is plunged into a storm of passion and violence resulting in murder. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket exceptionally free of surface and edgewear. Very Collectable.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Erickson's fifth book is a historical mystery-thriller beginning in 18th century Virginia and featuring Sally, a fourteen-year-old slave girl and her many incarnations through the next two hundred years; dustjacket shows small tear at lower corner of the front panel, very minor shelfwear, o/w a Fine, unread, collectable copy.

New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1982. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. an adventure-thriller set in the Canadian oil fields by the author of "The Guns of Navarone," and "Where Eagles Dare;" mass market paperback; First Printing of the First Fawcett Crest Edition; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear; Very Good to Near Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Smith's second novel in her Edgar Award-winning mystery series featuring New Orleans female homicide detective Skip Langdon; top of spine bumped, o/w text and boards clean and tight; dustjacket has a two-inch, tape-repaired tear upper left corner of front panel.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. the first of Huston's suspense-thrillers features a U.S. merchant ship hijacked by terrorists hoping to spark an international incident and causing a consitutional crisis as the President refuses to use military action while Congress attempts to start its own war; small remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Becoming hard to find.

New York: Warner Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/Very Good. Batman joins the award-winning author in this novel which represents another chapter in Vachss' crusade against child abuse; text and glossy pictorial boards are clean and tight; the half-dustjacket has a vertical crease on the inside back flap and a small ink smear in the author's name on front panel which appears to be a printing error.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1971. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From one of the grand masters of the adventure novel, a story of the murderous intrigue surrounding a movie crew's journey to a deserted island in the Arctic. Collectable Copy.