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Harper & Row. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060110864 . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover has very light edge & corner wear, slight soiling to outer edge of pages, blue dot from booksale on top edge of pages, interior clean & tight, with no markings. DJ has light edge/corner wear, a couple small tears, one old sticker mark/peel on front, slight soiling, price clipped. 278 pages. 8 vo. " The greatest philosophical mastermind turns detective in this witty and dramatic whodunit which takes place in Athens, 332BC, an unhappy city under the rule of the Macedonian barbarian' Alexander the Great. In the midst of this unrest, Boutades, an eminent citizen, is found brutally murdered. Suspicion falls heavily on young Philemon, and, by Athenian law, his cousin Stephanos is elected to defend his name in court...." ; 8vo .

Edmonton, AB: Macbee Publishing. Very Good. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. 0968798632 . Light wear to edges/corners, small peeled area on front, light scuffing to rear, interior pages clean & tight, 167 pages. Book Two in the Molly O'Connor Series: Molly O'Connor decides to take a leave of absence following the murders connected with Driftwood school. A Friend at a university in Arizona offers her lodgings, so she enrolls as a special student for the fall term. Soon after classes and rehearsals begin, she discovers that she has traded one set of problems for another.... Friends and acquaintances in the music department start having strange accidents. Certain that all these events are linked in some way, she asks Brian Donegan, the detective who led the investigation into the murders at Driftwood school, to help convince the police in Tucson that she isn't just another middle-aged meddler.... (os) ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

London: Cassell. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B005L8YLYM . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover is clean with minimal wear to edges and corners. Pages are unmarked other than old price on endpage, and a small blue number stamp on last two blank pages, one says 50, one says 100. Dustjacket has light edgewear, light soiling/scuffing, not price clipped, small scribble in pen on front, crease across front flap and slight crease across first few pages. By the author of 'The End of the Running' & 'Mantrap'. "The big square house stood isolated in the swirling water of the lake. The water was there because of the dam, and the dam was there because of the people. It spelt progress, and power. But to the man who lived in the house, it spelt ruin, the loss of everything he had owned. Kelly was a stubborn old man who refused to get out, refused to be compensated by the government, and refused to sell to young Toro, who… Read More

Time Warner. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0751536334 . Uncorrected proof (Softcover) under the original title: The Bomb Surgeon in 2005, same ISBN. Book was published under the title, 'The Operative'. Very nice condition, only light wear overall, slight soiling to outer edge of pages. No markings. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; In war torn Iraq, Stratton's closest friend is killed on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton's godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles, she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his core by the killing, uncovers an FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful Eastern European crime syndicates in America...... (500+) .

Avenel. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0517653516 . Large hardcover and dustjacket in very nice condition, no tears or chips, light scuffing/soiling to DJ and outer edge of pages. Pages clean and tight, with no markings. 580 pages. Includes stories by Isaac Asimov, Brian Garfield, Edward D. Hoch, John Jakes, Michael Gilbert, W. Somerset Maugham, Erle Stanley Gardner, Bruce Cassiday, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant, G. K. Chesterton and others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "Intriuge, drama, double-cross, secret codes, missing persons, politically sensitive documents - all these elements are found in the spy game. Spies - their dangerous missions and double lives - have always fascinated readers. In Cloak and Dagger, the editors have collected 35 espionage stories that will satisfy the secret spy in every reader...." (*Note: due to heavy weight, extra postage will be required) [990] .

London: Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002221489 . Hardcover is clean, slight soiling outer edge of pages, inscription on endpage, slight bumping/wear to corners & spine ends. Interior unmarked other than above. Jacket has light edgewear & a light edge wrinkling. ".....On the eve of Kennedy's historic visit to Berlin, Ulbricht's commissars plan their propaganda counter-strike from the red side of the Wall. Inside the impregnable fortress of Schloss Neustadt lies Father Sean Conlin, survivor of Dachau and lifelong apostle of human freedom. His jailers must make him admit to being a CIA hireling in the vital minutes when the whole world is watching. The West is determined to save him. Racing against time, gambling with their own survival, a small band of intrepid men take on a rescue mission that could sway the course of history. "; 8vo .

Trafford Publishing. Very Good+. 2004. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. 1412035910 . Signed/inscribed by author on title page: "To ___, Sweet Dreams, Cheryl K. Tardiff, Dec. 2004". Book is clean & unmarked. Cover has light scuffing & light edge rubbing, light wear to spine ends. "CFBI Agent Jasi McLellan leads a psychically gifted team in the hunt for a serial arsonist- a murderer who has already taken the lives of three innocent people. Unleashing her gift as a Pyro-Psychic, Jasi is compelled toward smoldering ashes and enters the killer's mind. A mind bent on destruction and revenge. ..." [302-osl]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages; Signed by Author .

Little Brown & Co. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0316608211 . Advance Reading Copy. Excellent condition. A few tiny corner creases to cover and a few pages, a little corner curling, otherwise clean & unmarked. Publisher's promotional material set-in. 293 pages. "Lorenzo Brown just wants to stay straight. After eight years in prison on a drug charge, he's come "uptown"-back to the Washington, DC neighborhood where he grew up, where his old cohorts still work their corners and their angles, trying to get ahead and stay alive. But Lorenzo's had enough of the life: Now he has a job as a Humane Society officer, policing animal abusers and protecting the abused. In the dangerous streets he used to menace, Lorenzo plays a part in maintaining order-and it's a role reversal some of his former friends don't appreciate. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo's parole officer, tries to help him, even as she battles her own demons and excesses.... "; 8vo .

London: The Thriller Book Club. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. Originally published by William Collins in 1975. Hardcover has slight edgewear, very clean, blue dot on top edge from previous bookseller, light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior is clean & unmarked except for slight seepage onto top edge of a few pages from the blue dot on top edge. Jacket has light edgewear, couple tiny tears, and a little wrinkling around edges, light soiling to rear, crease down front flap."....it seemed clear that someone was out to kill Douglas Cable, recently returned from Australia to inherit Havershaw and its newly built pool. His return had meant that his cousin's wife and daughter were no longer in charge of the beautiful house they loved. It also brought into their lives, and into the life of local doctor's daughter, Catherine Gifford, two more Australians, one an artist of talent, one an enigmatic character who asked questions about the others that… Read More

London: Eyre Methuen/Magnum. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 0413483908 . Clean, tight condition. Hardcover is clean & unmarked, slight edgewear, age tanning of pages. Jacket has light edgewear/scuffing, a couple tiny tears & creases, not clipped. 282 pages plus book ads. A journalist's greatest story - of drugs and prostitution....but also a scoop of death. Author's 2nd thriller for Methuen. (400noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1949 reset edition. Yellow Jacket series. HC/DJ - very good/good+. Pages clean and intact other than first endpage has a small area clipped out (approx. 2x1") , I assume to remove personal information and date written at bottom of same page. Pages are otherwise unmarked. Hardcover has light wear at corners and very light soiling. Dustjacket has some scuffing and light ink rubbing and several small edge tears/chips. Front flap is clipped. A Bulldog Drummond mystery. Bulldog and his associates are matched for the last time again arch-criminal Carl Peterson. (275noto); 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Constable. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 0094604304 . Hardcover & jacket in excellent condition, only very light wear overall, interior clean & tight, no markings. "Attempting his first novel, Chris almost accidently creates a seedy couple and their backward son, living in Shepherd's Bush. Although Chris can at first manipulate him, the man Ed soon outstrips his creator's intentions and control, and confronted with a choice between violence and mediocrity chooses violence. A powerful and haunting parable..." (*shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo; 188 pages .

Warner Books. As New. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0446529656 . Advance Reading Copy. Excellent condition, one tiny tear to bottom back cover which also affects last couple pages. clean, no markings. "The Mafia and the FBI compete to be the first to find a missing Columbia professor of Russian literature who may have Russian mob connections. Set in 1985, this crime novel is the product of a unique (and impeccably qualified) collaboration between the two headline authors: Bill Bonanno was a senior member of the Bonnano crime family, and former FBI agent Joe Pistone, better known as Donnie Brasco, went undercover to bust the mob in the 1980s. " (510); 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Toronto: Sumach Press. Near Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 1894549414 . Light corner wear to cover, a little scuffing. Interior clean, tight and unmarked. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; Hellie MacConnell retreats from a troubled relationship in Toronto to the quiet town of Banff, Alberta, where life is peaceful and nature abounds. But when her landlord turns up dead and Hellie' s bear-loving neighbour Arthur Elliott disappears, Hellie finds herself at the heart of a murder investigation. Is Arthur a dangerous extremist who will do anything to protect "his" grizzly bears? Is someone lurking in wait for Hellie, too? And what dark history is shared between Arthur and a visiting Texan hunter? A truly Canadian mystery set in isolated Banff, Grizzly Lies charms with small-town legend and chills with dark secrets. As Hellie delves deeper into the mystery of her landlord's death, she learns to listen to the stories of others, heal herself, and… Read More

London: Arthur Barker Ltd.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0213165155 . Bill Reade is the pseudonym of a well known writer of adventure and suspense novels. This is his first for Arthur Barker. Wear to HC is minimal, very clean, light soiling to outer edge of pages. Interior clean & tight, price on endpage, light stain to last page. DJ not clipped, very light edgewear, one small tear on back and light soiling, slight wrinkling of front. 172 pages. 8 vo. Ex-civil servant Tony Wilson unwittingly uncovers the Ibiza Syndicate whilst collecting a package from a local farmhouse for his boss and embarks upon a fantastic treasure hunt to locate works of art which went missing in the 1940's. (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo .

Leicester: Ulverscroft. Very Good+. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0708937837 . Very nice, clean, tight condition. Ex-library book with a few library markings, no jacket as issued. Very light corner wear, interior pages clean & tight. "In 1802, Lieutenant Richard Machen is released from active service in the Navy. He plans to travel to his old home on the Gower Peninsula, where he grew up in the company of the beautiful Jane Ashford. But when he breaks his journey in London, Machen witnesses a cruel murder, and when he arrives in Gower, all is sadly changed. The young officer is drawn into a mystery which will lead him inexorably towards the centre of an astounding plot to overthrow the government. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Pan Books. Near Fine. 1964. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Softcover. Very light corner wear, tiny tears spine bottom, slight rubbing along spine edges. Interior pages clean & unmarked, back 2 pages have a tiny edge tear. Age tanning to spine, back cover and pages.....A gripping thriller of London's River Police, whose swift launches patrol the Thames and guard the ships that lie in port. Inspector John Wade is given the toughest job of his life when he is assigned the task of running to earth a gang of gunmen in rubber gas-masks, rubber gloves and crepe rubber shoes, who rob banks and jewelers, and even commit murder under the very eyes of the police, and get away with it..... (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Lester & Orpen Dennys. Good+. 1990. First Edtiion. Softcover. 0886192714 . Moderate edge & corner wear, light soiling, price & a few other details crossed out on back with black marker. Slight corner curling. Interior pages clean & tight. 274 pages.From Publishers Weekly:McEwan's name will be on everyone's lips with his startling new novel, an impeccably constructed psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War. Basing his story on an actual (but little known) incident, he tells of the secret tunnel under the Soviet sector which the British and Americans built in 1954 to gain access to the Russians' communication system. The protagonist, Leonard Marnham, is a 25-year-old, naive, unsophisticated English post office technician who is astonished and alarmed to find himself involved in a top-secret operation.... McEwan's neat, tensile prose raises this book to the highest level of the genre; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0091597005 . HC/DJ - near fine. Hardcover has slight soiling outer edge of pages, slight corner bumping Interior clean and unmarked - first 2 pages are a little wrinkled. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing, not price clipped. Imagine that the Crimea, instead of being a peninsula in the Black Sea, is an island. And imagine that island as a capitalist playground with sleek architecture, more cars than people, and every kind of luxury - a thorn in the side of the USSR in much the same way that Taiwan is an irritant for Communist China.......a rollicking, suspenseful story of intrigue and romance that is also a cautionary tale about the USSR and the fate of the West." Translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim. (495) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Warner Books. Near Fine. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 0446527378 . Excellent condition, overall wear very light, slight soiling outer edge of pages, no markings. Author is a master of the legal thriller. First a powerful and infamous judge is gruesomely murdered. Then another judge is killed in the same manner. Attorney Joseph Antonelli delves into the heart of these mysterious events when he agrees to defend the man accused of the 2nd homicide. What he uncovers is a relentless conspiracy that threatens the very foundation of the judicial system....even as it traps him in "the perfect crime. " ; 8vo; 418 pages .