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NY: Dell (#D352), 1960. (1st thus). Paperback. VERY GOOD. As new except for light creases on covers. Faint edgewear and age-yellowed pages. "Locked in...a woman screamed...In the dark I made my way to the nearest cabin..."

NY: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster, 1991. Audio Book. VERY GOOD. 2-tape Audio Book. Slipcase has worn corners. Running time: @ 3 hours. Read by: Gerald McRaney. "Guadalcanal...daredevil pilot, Charles Galloway...infantry combat commander, Jack 'No Middle Initial' Stecker...ex-Marine Fleming Pickering..." ISBN: 0671730053.

NY: Carroll & Graf, 1986. (1st thus). Paperback. VERY GOOD+. As new except for hinge crease, slight rubbing to cover edges and bookstore stamp on first free page. Originally written in 1895 "a seminal crime novel - the original 'locked room' mystery…Second in historical importance only to Poe's ground-breaking short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue..." ISBN: 0881842389.

Toronto, ON: M&S/McClelland & Stewart, 1994. (1st edition). Paperback. FINE. As new except for 1 folded page corner. 2nd of the Dan Rudnicki, Canada's first fictional Ukrainian-Canadian private detective, series. A working holiday on a cruise up the British Columbia coast to Alaska turns into more work than holiday when a millionaire Japanese tycoon and a crew member are found murdered. ISBN: 0771035543.

N.Y. : G.P. Putnam's Sons / Penguin, 2006. (1st edition, 1st printing). Hardbound. FINE /Fine. As new - gift quality! Unclipped dust jacket. The last of the Sunny Randall Series "the Boston P.I. With a personal life as tangled as that of her clients…" ISBN: 0399153519.

NY: Ballantine, 1971. (3rd printing - Green cover). Mass Market Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for faint surface dents and faintest age tanning of pages. "Angel had seen that Chevrolet before. But the last time he’d been driving the damn thing, and this time he was put in the back seat to play passenger. "  0.7

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002. Oversize Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for gift inscription. 193 pages (9 x6.25"). Text in Portuguese. "policiais vivdas na sociedade contemporanea...Vidas que se entrelacam na paixao, na ganancia, trilhando caminhos que levam aos meandros do narcotrafico, onde a violencia nao tem limites."

NY: Ivy / Ballantine, 1990. (1st thus). Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new ! Faintest age tanning of pages and faintest rubbing of cover edges. "A Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery" "Black magic in Blacklin Country, Texas, Dan Rhodes swears it's murder…"

NY: Random House Audio, 2003. Audio Book. VERY GOOD. Unabridged. 13 CDs @ 16 hours in clean box with slightly scuffed edges. "the mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci...A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe... An astonishing truth concealed for centuries..."Read by Paul Michael. ISBN: 0739313126.

NY: Diamond, 1991. (1st edition). Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean, square. Creased spine and faint edgewear. Bookstore stamp. "a struggling young writer...a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...to write a true-crime account of the decade's most sensational murder trial..." ISBN: 155773593X.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal , 1973. (1st thus) . Paperback. NEAR FINE. Appears unread. Slight edgewear.

NY: The Mysterious Press / Time Warner, 1993. (1st edition). Hardbound. NEAR FINE / Fine. As new - gift quality! Has 2 faint pencil lines on exterior, bottom page edges (remainder mark?). "the burglar king of the bungled adventure…in the midst of an international incident of epic proportion…" ISBN: 0892964693.

Rudersberg, Germany: Editionnova, undated. Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! "Lisa Weigert und ihre Freunde lernenbeim Wiontersport in Ischgt doe Bruder Bardon kennen. Besonders der melancholische Martin Bardon weckt Lisas Interesse…" Kriminal Roman. Text in German 352 pages

Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, c June 2000. (1st edition). Paperback. VERY GOOD. As new except for gift inscription on first free page. "Good writing, good mystery writing, and arcane manuals of Eastern mysticism are normally three unrelated fields. No more. In these strange and compelling stories, you'll find all three as you enter the wonderfully odd world of C.F. Wong...not quite a private eye nor exactly a Zen sage..." ISBN: 1387802120.

Stuttgart, Germany: Christliches Verlagshaus Gmbh, 1976. Hardbound. VERY GOOD+. As new except for tilted spine. Dust Jacket is Intact and bright but slightly crumpled with light edge wear. Text in German. "Eine Familiengeschichte, in deren Wirrungen und unheilvollen Verflechtungen die "geliebte alte Dame", die Urahne de Familile, eine wichtige seelsorgerische Rolle uberimmt. Als Christin der Tat hilft sie manche familiaren Spannungen uberwinden, tragt zum Verstandnis tragischer Lebenssituationen bei..." ("A family story in whose confusion and ominous interconnections the 'beloved old lady', the ancestor of the family, takes on an important pastoral role as a Christian, helping to overcome some of the familial tensions, contributing to the understanding of tragic life situations ...") 168 pages. 5.5x8.25x1" (14x21.3x2.4

NY: A.L. Burt Company, c1920. Hardbound. GOOD-. Solid reading copy without dust jacket. Tight, faded green cloth covers, slight age tanned pages, light age soil to covers, clean pages, square. Softened spine ends and rubbed cover edges. Corner bump has left 5 dog eared pages and 2 pages with large corner crease with small rip on crease. 1930 gift inscription on first free page. Best selling author of the 1920s and 1930s including the "Fu Manchu" series of mysteries. 1.0

NY: Kensington, 2000. (1st thus). Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for faint single crease on spine and faint tilt. "Spring, 1922. Jazz is hot. Baseball is hotter - and bitterly segregated...Mickey Rawlings willing risks his career to step across baseball's color line...to match his skills against the very best in the game...a black semi-pro team...more than a game is at stake...a brutal lynching..." ISBN: 1575666561.

Possneck, Germany: Anders Bonniers Forlag, 2008. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, bright, clean & square. "In This Sweet Summertime". Text in Swedish. "En tidig sommarmorgon skjuts en gotlåndsk snickare och småbarnsfar kallblodigt ihjäl under sin joggingrunda vid Sundersands badstrand uppa på Fårö." ("Early in the summer morning, a Gotland carpenter and father of small children is shot dead in cold blood during his jogging round at Sundersand's beach up on Fårö.")

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal (#M2659), 1973. (1st edition). Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, faint yellowing, clean, tilted. Initial on list page. "Matt was on vacation in Mexico with nothing on his mind bigger than a fish, when some joker tried to shoot him in the back."

Paris, France: Collection L'Aventurier (#59)/ Fleuve Noir, 1961. Paperback. GOOD-. Tight, tanned pages, clean interior, light age soil to exterior, seriously curled. Creased spine and covers. 3/4# split to bottom edge of front spine hinge. Shelfwear to all edges Some pages have had small corner creases and cheap paper is starting to split on creases. Bookstore stamp on first free page. "Il faisait vraiment une chaleur a crever. De l'East River et de l'Hudson montait une a sorte de brume que le soleil pompait a meme les fleuves pour en habiller les grande-ciel dont les contours etaient flous et tremblotants dans l'azur ardent..." Text in French. 219 pages.