Search Results: Titles starting with J from Blackbird Bookshop

New York: Henry Holt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on half-title . page. Priorowner bookplate to front board, foxing top edge; jacket lightly . edge-toned.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. As Matthew Hope runs deeper into a dead boy's affairs, he runs into a far-from-grieving mother, a sexually-provoking sister and her punk boyfriend, a New Orleans whore with a steel-trap mind and sudden windfall, and more murder. ; 8.2 X 5.3 X 0.9 inches; 215 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Bantam Books. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder stripe bottom edge; slight . lean.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. In Southampton with her brother, Frank, Jane Austen turns sleuth when Frank's old friend, Captain Tom Seagrave, is accused of killing a French officer after the surrender of his ship and risks her own life to find the killer. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 291 pages .

New York: Bantam. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Slice across spine of jacket. Book . with light top edge foxing.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. From the drawing-rooms of the cultured and the devious, to secret caverns and coarse haunts, Jane's mission will take her far from a lady's proper venue...until even so canny a student of character and valiant adventurer must ask herself: is the prize worth the risk? ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches; 288 pages .

New York: Walker & Co. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Third printing. Fine book in like jacket.. 1991. Third Printing. Hardcover. Seven years after the disappearance of Daniel Wilson, Dave Garrett, a young Philadelphia disbarred attorney turned private investigator, is asked to make a last-ditch inquiry into the case. Wilson's family wants him declared dead but there are just three days left before the court hearing and a few well-placed questions convince Garrett that the previous investigator resigned in fear for his life. ; 8.3 X 5.9 X 1.1 inches; 195 pages .

London: MacMillan. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Toned edges; light wear jacket. UK . First Edition.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. It was almost immediately after 27 American tourists arrived in Oxford that one of their number was found dead in Room 310 at the Randolph Hotel. Missing from the room is a handbag containing a jewel-encrusted antique which the murdered woman was to donate to the Ashmolean Museum. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 275 pages .

New York: Crown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book leans a bit. Jacket shows light . wear and scratches.. 1992. First American Edition. Hardcover. A theft, a murder, and a busload of American tourists tax Morse's ability to the fullest. ; 9.0 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches; 275 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with crinkling and light wear.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. In the summer of 1999, best friends Raffi Kodikian and David Coughlin set off on a cross-country trek in the spirit of Jack Kerouac"s On the Road. The two stopped for an overnight trip in Carlsbad Caverns National Park carrying barely adequate supplies. But the adventure took a turn for the worse when they couldn't find their way out of the canyon. ; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.0 inches; 256 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Top corner of back pasetdown was glued . to back endpaper, and tear to back pastedown was created when separated.. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. A hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a king. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 348 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first novel. Hint of lean to . book.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Judgment Day is a brilliant medical/legal thriller that dares to explore the unthinkable: an AIDS vaccine even more virulent than the disease, and a drug company willing to kill to conceal it. ; 9.2 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 384 pages .

New York: Villard. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on half-title page.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Hannah Carey has acted the scene out many times before. Only now she wasn't acting. Now she had worked up her nerve and was walking into a Connecticut police station to accuse the greatest basketball player in the world of rape. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.0 inches; 320 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Browned page edges. 2002 Ellis Peters . Historical Dagger nominee.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. In London during Roman times circa AD 75, streetwise detective Marcus Didius Falco needs both his sharp wit and sharpened sword in a case of gangsters, gladiators, and brutal death in the city along the Thamesis. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 321 pages .