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New York: Henry Holt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Has been gently read.. 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity's offices. To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millhone, it looked like the cops were walking away from the case. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 256 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: St Martins Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's debut novel. Appears unread, . light foxing top edge. Jacket a bit age-toned.. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. It was a good year for Harry Truman. The Fourth Avenue used-book dealers were in full swing. Harry had taken over one of those stores after his father's death and he knew how little financial reward there was in the business. Until a rare manuscript came his way. But there was something odd about it and Harry decided to check his treasure out with a fellow Harry's father believed could solve all literary problems - H. L. Mencken. ; 8.3 X 5.8 X 0.8 inches; 174 pages .

New York: Touchstone. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on title page. . Laid in is a publisher's postcard detailing a signing event in Bisbee, . Arizona. Top edge is toned.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. A masterful story of suspense that travels over generations, exposing two very different women with the same horrifying secret. Will Ali Reynolds become a victim herself, or will she escape from a deadly deceit that no amount of security can cover up? ; Ali Reynolds; 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.3 inches; 384 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: A. L. Burt Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Rebound in blue tweed cloth with paper . spine label and marbled pastedowns. Edge browning and small stain to fore . edge; small tear bottom of half-title page at gutter.. 1920. Third Printing. Hardcover. Dr Fu-Manchu is back once again! And this time the Devil Doctor is not alone. Sir Denis Nayland Smith and his associates learn of a deadly organization that stalks the shadows. Their goal is to undermine the balance of global power, and they allow no one to stand in their way. They are the terrorist assassins known as the Si-Fan. ; 7.75 x 5 x 1 inches; 308 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Blue boards with gilt spine titles. Book is . straight and tight with light edge wear. Prior owner name to front . pastedown. Underlining scattered through pgs 6-9; typo corrected on pg . 128; margin line to pgs 167-170. Jacket with chips to spine ends, rather . large one to the heel affecting the publisher name; smaller chips to . corners.. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. This practical "first-time" book for all Connecticut Lawyers and Law Students offers coverage in one volume of all matters relating to proof in trials. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.75 inches; 278 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on title page. 2012 . Thriller Nominee for Best Novel.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Brilliant forensic pathologist Edward Jenner returns in this explosive sequel to Precious Blood - an edgy, electrifying thriller set in a small-town coastal community where nothing is as it seems. ; 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.6 inches; 432 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; First Ben Abbott mystery. Inscribed by . the author on title page to members of the (now closed) Review Bookstore . in Newtown, CT. Light rubbing to jacket.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. In the picturesque village of Newbury, Connecticut, Ben Abbott is scrambling to save his family's recession-battered real estate agency when a New York City detective offers him $5000 to video a beautiful new resident who is cheating on her husband. ; Ben Abbott Mystery; 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches; 208 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. Fine book in . like jacket.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. A prominent doctor's inexplicable failure to diagnose a devastating disease takes a disillusioned lawyer and his gutsy client on separate quests for the final shocking truth in this edge-of-seat legal thriller of medical malpractice. ; 8.8 X 5.8 X 0.8 inches; 368 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light wrinkling top edge of jacket.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Lieutenant Tommy Hart, the navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he's just another war prisoner at Stalag 13 in Bavaria. But when a prisoner is murdered, Hart Is tapped to defend the suspect. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.75 inches; 490 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good; Advance Reading Copy in glossy pictorial cover. Reading crease . with slight lean, couple spots of edge soil, round sticker with . Patterson's blurb is starting to come off.. 1996. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. Spurred by the death of a younger sibling to pursue a medical career, surgical resident Abby DiMatteo is delighted by her recruitment into a cardiac transplant team, until she is forced to choose between two patients. ; Trade PB .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Small stain top edge.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Spurred by the death of a younger sibling to pursue a medical career, surgical resident Abby DiMatteo is delighted by her recruitment into a cardiac transplant team, until she is forced to choose between two patients. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 344 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket wrinkled bottom edge back panel.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Divorcee Fay Hubbard joins forces with her neighbor Ruth Willmark to investigate a murder in their small Vermont town after a mysterious ring turns up attached to a lone finger bone, a discovery that threatens to reveal long-hidden secrets from the past. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 290 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. As a private eye, Toby Peters has had some pretty impressive clients over the years, but none of them has been quite as memorable as his latest: a tough-as-nails, sharp-witted, damsel-in-distress named Mae West. Mae, it seems, has discovered that her only copy of her sizzling autobiography is missing. Without hesitation, Peters agrees to track it down. But after taking a beating from a man named Ressner --a thief, a master of disguise, and, even more dangerous, a frustrated actor -- Peter realizes that his job is just beginning. Following the trait of Mae's scandalous memoirs soon leads Peters into the midst of a family feud of Herculean proportions, and a California sanitarium from which he must make a daring escape worthy of Ressner. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 168 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Washington private investigator Tom Bethany and his girlfriend, married lawyer Hope Edwards, uncover the scandalous life of a television evangelist. ; 9 x 6 x 1 inches; 261 pages .

Sag Harbor: Permanent Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread. Bump back top corner; . edge wrinkling jacket at spine head.. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Moving effortlessly across the social divide with wry pal Jackie Swaitkowski and rich guy Burton Lewis, Sam Acquillo, the ex-boxer, ex-corporate infighter seems doomed to straddle the thin red line between envy and love, hate and forgiveness, goodness and greed. And sometimes life and death. Only this time, the life at stake is his own. ; 8.75 x 6 x 1 inches; 310 pages .

New York: Minotaur Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book slightly canted with small top . edge stain and tiny stain bottom corner page 174; jacket with light . scratches, rubbing to back panel.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. The Gourmet Detective returns to sample the cuisine at a Swiss resort, but after two editors turn up dead, he must find the killer before anyone else suffers from an untimely demise at the spa. ; 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; 230 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight lean, tiny spot of soil top . edge; jacket with minor edge wear.. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career - a case that starts with murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack's life forever. ; 9.2 X 5.9 X 1.1 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on the first . preliminary page. Minor rubbing front panel jacket.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Dismas Hardy's best friend, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky, has kept a secret from him...and everyone else. Hardy never knew that Abe had a daughter - until she was shot dead. It seems obvious that the heroin addict hovering over her body with a gun is the guilty party, and Glitsky has few qualms about sweating a confession out of him. But there is more to this murder - much more. And as both Hardy and Glitsky risk their lives to uncover the truth, others are working hard to stop them. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 451 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Warner Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book is clean, staight and tight with . browned edges. Tiny tear top corner and light scratching to back panel of . jacket.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. On the eve of his confirmation to serve on the United States Supreme Court, successful judge Gus Parham suddenly finds himself struggling against a rising tide of violence to protect both his past and his future. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 385 pages .

New York: Hyperion. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Fine book in jacket with slight rubbing.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A childhood friend has been charged with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitchcock Sewell, Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, know she didn't do it. Problem is, the friend has gone into hiding and she's taken Hitch's ex-wife Julia with her. ; 9.4 X 6.4 X 0.9 inches; 338 pages .