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New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Foxing to boards and edges; prior . owner and bookstore stamp, sticker pull to front endpaper, stains to page . 113. Jacket has closed tears to top edge of front panel, flap creases.. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 158 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Author's first novel. Book slightly . canted. Soiling to front panel of jacket, with light wrinkling to spine . ends.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. In the form of a secret journal kept by Charles Dickens's friend and protege, the novelist Wilkie Collins, the story focuses on a series of real, fully documented events in the life of Dickens during a time of extreme personal crisis. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 290 pages .

New York: Poisoned Pen Press. Near Fine; Uncorrected Proof, in yellow paper covers, of author's first . novel.. 2010. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Trade PB; 5.64 X 1 X 8.9 inches; 250 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on title page. Appears . unread.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. A story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations. ; 8.9 X 6.0 X 1.7 inches; 448 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book slightly canted with faint top . edge foxing; corner wear and edge wrinkling to jacket.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Four troubled people meet beneath Chicago’s shadowy streets and discover a woman who changes their lives forever. Stand-alone novel. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 386 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on blank . preliminary page. Light top edge toning.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. V. I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but as she learns, she can't escape it. When she takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, the detective faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw her into their family woes. ; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.4 inches; 416 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Small tear bottom corner of jacket's . back flap; minor foxing top edge and fore edge.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. After her golden retriever has puppies, and her yuppie neighbors put them to sleep while dog-sitting, V I ucovers a corporate network of murder and corruption. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 370 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Toned edges; scratches back panel . jacket.. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Camilla, Queen of the NIght, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls around the world. When tweens in Chicago's Camilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. ; V. I. Warshawski Novel; 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.7 inches; 448 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket lightly toned.. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. In the aftermath of the war in Vietnam, thousands of desperate refugees fled the killing fields for new lives in Southern California. But for those who settled in "Little Saigon," the war never really ended. The latest victim of the continuing struggle is Li Frye, a popular singer whose songs of hope and home have made her a heroine to her people. Ripped from the stage by masked gunmen, she has vanished into the dark alleys of Little Saigon, where outsiders are met with suspicion and a stony silence as impenetrable as the steaming jungles of Vietnam. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 354 pages .

New York: Hyperion. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Edge wrinkling to jacket. Book has a . slight lean.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Tim Hess, a cop fighting terminal cancer, accepts what he assumes will be his final case, tracking down a serial killer, and finds himself involved both professionally and personally with Detective Merci Rayborn, his superior on the case. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 359 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Light shelf wear to jacket.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. When Spenser comes to the aid of his long-time love, Susan, in her efforts to help her ex-husband Brad Sterling, he finds himself caught up in a twisted battle against some very bad men, shadowy mob connections, and a woman tormented by her past. ; 8vo .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on the title . page. Spine end heeled under for book and jacket.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Sunny Randall, a female Boston private detective and former police officer, has been hired by a rich family to find their daughter, a job that involves her with the worlds of prostitution, organized crime, and high-level political corruption. ; 1.5 x 9 x 6.2 Inches; 322 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front board bowed; jacket with crease . to front flap and back panel.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1871, the Polaris sailed with great fanfare from New York Harbor and began a historic journey to one of the earth's final frontiers. Seven months later, a handful of half-starved survivors returned with a story that shocked the nation. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.6 inches; 336 pages .

New York: Forge. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Initials top of front endpaper, blue . dot top edge.. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles, 1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl . . . Until she discovers she's a suspect in the murder of her former roommate, Ruby Carroll. Party girl Ruby died wearing a gown she stole from the wardrobe department at Paramount Pictures, domain of Edith Head. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 217 pages .

New York: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on front . endpaper, along with hand-drawn peace symbol. Book has a bit of lean with . a small stain to front pastedown and front top corner bump. Jacket a bit . rumpled.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. The peace of a New Hampshire summer night is shttered into a nightmarish collage of murder when Brett Allen discovers her boyfriend brutally slain, and finds herself the prime suspect in the crime. ; 9.4 X 6.6 X 2.1 inches; 437 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Little, Brown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signned by the author on half-title . page. Bookplate (blank) to front endpaper; small tear top corner front . panel jacket.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. While grieving her husband's murder, a young Colorado veterinarian meets a troubled FBI agent and begins to uncover the world's most sinister secret. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 416 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Signed by the author on the title . page. Book leans slightly. Jacket has light edge wrinkles.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. With rare authenticity, the author depicts the world of high-stakes presidential politics on the verge of an explosion that is as dramatic as it is thought-provoking. ; 8.1 X 5.8 X 1.3 inches; 497 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Judy Piatkus Publishers Ltd. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with slight lean.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. King Sarcowicz means well, but is careless of people. He's great with a computer, but give him a human being annd he's lost. When King and his two partners are called to New York, accidents begin to happen and Sergeants Larch and Malecki are called in. ; 8.75 x 6 x 1 inches; 224 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine; Uncorrected advance proof in blue paper wraps. Very slight lean.. 1993. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Backstage at the Broadway theater, someone is stealing scripts and personal items and selling them to collectors and the crime seems more peculiar than serious until the thief turns up murdered. ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches; 247 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Spot of light soil top edge near . spine; jacket lightly rubbed.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. New York Police Sergeant Marian Larch's personal life is heading toward a crisis and her professional life is a disaster. Then her longtime friend, Kelly Ingram requests her help in discovering who is stealing mostly unimportant memorabilia associated with Kelly's new play, The Apostrophe Thief. ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches; 247 pages .