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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Laid in is promotional material from the signing event.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term “Grumpy Gus. ” A miser and a hoarder, Gus is so crotchety that after he takes a bad fall, his only living relative is anxious to find someone to take care of him and get back home as soon as she can. To help, Kinsey runs a check on the applicant, Solana Rojas. Social security, driver's license, nursing certification: It all checks out. And it sounds like she did a good job for her former employers. So Kinsey gives her the thumbs-up, figuring Gus will be the ideal assignment for this diligent, experienced caregiver. And the real Solana Rojas was indeed an excellent caregiver. But the woman who has stolen her identity is not, and for her, Gus will be the ideal victim. ; 9.25 x 6 x… Read More

New York: Minotaur Books. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Book has toned and lightly foxed . edges. Minor wear to spine top of jacket.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people are waking up in their high-security, alarm-equipped homes to find a note on their bedside tables reading "You're it". There is little sign of disturbance, nothing stolen, and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The local press dubs the burglar the Tag Man. ; 6.45 X 1.17 X 9.53 inches; 304 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Review copy of the author's debut . novel, with publisher's card laid in. 1971 Edgar Award nominee for Best . First Novel. Slight lean to book. Jacket with small tears and creases to . bottom edge.. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Kidnappers get more than they bargained for in this hilarious and touching caper. ; 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 191 pages .

New York: Atria Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance becomes the backdrop for a gripping tale of blackmail and murder. ; 6 X 1.1 X 9 inches; 320 pages .

New York: A. L. Burt Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Rebound in blue tweed cloth with paper . spine label. Edge browning. Page 23 yapped.. 1922. First Printing. Hardcover. Rohmer's Chinatown is full of the mystery and menace of the East. "The superficial inquirer comes away convinced that the romance of the Asiatic district has no existence outside the imaginations of writers of fiction. Yet here lies a secret quarter, as secret and as strange, in its smaller way, as its parent in China which is called the Purple Forbidden City." In the Limehouse you'll find crime, drugs, and Chief Inspector Red Kerry, struggling to keep a lid on this particular pot. ; 7.75 x 5 x 1 inches; 376 pages .

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library. Fine with No dust jacket as issued; Red leatherette-covered boards with . gilt tiles and decorations, and decorated paper endpapers. Three raised . bands on spine.. 1979. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 9 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 304 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Very Good; The Bloom Picayune not present. Light edge soil and shelf . rubbing, small crease front bottom corner with corresponding bend to first . few pages.. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. The people and beasts residing in Bloom County are busy as ever--Opus dances in an all-female nightclub, a Congressional investigation into space invaders is underway, and workers strike for a larger comic book size, in a collection of zany cartoons. .

New York: Pantheon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Red marker stripe top edge. Jacket . lightly browned and protected in mylar.. 1987. First American Edition. Hardcover. A clerk who believes he has decoded the messages of an actual spy ring, instead of a schoolboys' complex game, plans to use the network to find the man who has stolen away his wife. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 280 pages; An attractive married mayor of a small California town becomes obsessed with a beautiful high school student, leading to a confrontation between murderous husband and jealous wife. .

New York: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Rubbing to gilt spine lettering.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Tribal police officer Jim Chee and detective Lt. Joe Leaphorn find themselves working side by side again when Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk is arrested for robbing Native American graves--and possibly for murder. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 239 pages .

New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on the title page.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first book featuring Evan Michael Tanner in twenty-five years, finds the globe-trotting adventurer on a covert mission to stop Burma's drug trade and topple its corrupt government that matches him with an exiled Russian beauty. ; 0.9 x 9.1 x 5.8 Inches; 248 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on front . endpaper. Jacket slightly age-toned.. 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two men lie dead in the vestry of a London church. One is Sir Paul Browne - rich, cultivated, elegant - and the other is an alcoholic tramp. Their brutal fate pulls Adam Dalgliesh into the quicksand of a case whose mysteries touch not only its victims and suspects, but ultimately, the investigators themselves. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.5 inches; 459 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Harper. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on publisher's . promotional tipped-in page. Light wear to jacket, slight lean to book.. 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. An intimate epic, a NorCal Middlemarch set to the funky beat of classic vinyl soul-jazz, and pulsing with a virtuosic, pyrotechnical style all its own. ; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.7 inches; 469 pages; Signed by Author .

New Jersey: A. S. Barnes. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly rubbed and age-toned.. 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. A collection of twelve classic cases of murder that have one thing in common: the killers, whether they slew with calculated ingenuity or In a moment of passion , whether they were hopelessly mad or all too terrifyingly sane, attempting to conceal their crimes by hiding or destroying the bodies of their victims. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 192 pages .

New York: Morrow. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Review copy with publisher's card laid . in. Edges are browned; slight lean. Jacket with an aged look and minor . wear.. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. The Bear Garden is an English country mansion complete with its own private zoo. To outward appearances it serves as a respectable business management training school. But on weekends it has a secret life and Richard Streamer - young, handsome and aggressive - has received a weekend invitation. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 256 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Edge toning; light rubbing to jacket . back panel.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Kinky Friedman may have met his match in this superbly crafted, fiendishly clever tale of a murderer who's methodically killing off unsuspecting Manhattan men. And all the clues point toward Kinky. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 208 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read. Crease front . flap jacket.. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Although Father Tom Christmas serves his little church in Thronford Regis with a glad heart, he never expects to find himself skydiving to raise money for it. Nor, safely back on the ground, to see two other divers leap from the plane, then tangle in a midair punch-up and begin falling to the earth. ; 6 X 1.63 X 8.62 inches; 512 pages .

New York: Mills Music. Good; For piano. Sammy Kaye pictured on front cover. General wear and . creasing.. 1947. Sheet Music .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Book has soiling to fore edge. Jacket . with light edge wear and rubbing to back panel.. 1987. First US Edition. Hardcover. Karen Randolph is face-to-face with danger after learning that her husband, the chairman of Harding Handicrafts, disappeared with a large sum of money and his beautiful secretary. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 186 pages .

New York: Twelve. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against the Chinese. When Bird fails to uncover an authentic reason to slander the nation, he and Angel put the Washington media machine to work, spreading a rumor that the Chinese secret service is working to assassinate the Dalai Lama. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 335 pages .

New York: Crown Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket is price clipped and has minor . shelf wear. Book has been gently read.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Macklin, a professional thief, is hired by a Chicago mobster to help Pointy Williams and his gang break into a printing plant and steal thousands of dollars in food stamps, only to find himself betrayed, with both the underworld and the police in hot pursuit. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 242 pages .