A Is for Alibi
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1982. Book Club Edition. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. First of the Kinsey Millhone Mysteries.
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1982. Book Club Edition. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. First of the Kinsey Millhone Mysteries.
New York: Putnam Pub Group, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. "P" Is for Peril is the 16th novel in the "Alphabet" series of mystery novels by Sue Grafton. The novel focuses on the disappearance of Dr. Dowan Purcell, a nursing home administrator and.....
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. [American]. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Looking for a murder mystery with a touch of romance? This book is for you:Phryne must go undercover deeper than ever to solve the circus malaise. She must abandon her name, her title, her protection.....
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. [American]. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The nice men at P&O are worried. A succession of jewelry thefts from the first-class passengers is hardly the best advertisement for their cruises. Especially when it is likely that a passenger is the thief.Phryne.....
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. [American]. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Melbourne, 1929. The year starts off for glamorous private investigator Phryne Fisher with a rather trying heat wave and more mysteries than you could prod a parasol at. Simultaneously investigating the apparent suicide death of.....
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. [American]. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. "Another Down Under adventure that's definitely a cut above."―BooklistWhen the roaring 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her.....
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. [American]. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Australian social pillar Phryne Fisher's penchant for offbeat lovers involves her in a case that requires the close study of Judaism....Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with gorgeous young Simon Abrahams. But Phryne’s contentment at the.....
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. [American]. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Urn Burial, the next historical mystery featuring the sultry, sharp-as-a-whip Miss Fisher. Can she find a way to clear up a muddied murder?The redoubtable Phryne.....
New York: Morrow, William Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. When a con man attempts to pass off forgeries of Hemingway's lost manuscripts, he is tracked down by an interdimensional literary critic with a license to kill.
New York: St Martins Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Like Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, Hall brings to life Florida's alluring, addictive mix of sand and ocean, hibiscus and alligator, tanned skin and pastel stucco.Background Information:Crime novelist Hannah Keller's obsessive desire to.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Co Inc., 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fast, cinematic scene-shifting, garish gallows humor and James Hall nails the Florida Keys.Fisherman Thorn, first seen in the well-received Under Cover of Daylight , is getting his life together.....
New York: William Morrow & Co, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. More comic novel than mystery, The Chelsea Girl Murders takes its readers on a rollicking jaunt through the Big Apple. Whodunit isn't nearly as important as what's-Robin-gonna-do-about-it, and some of her solutions.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Hiaasen reminds one of Harry Crews in his depiction of a South full of eccentric people involved in crazy schemes. It is a measure of the writer's talent that no matter how bizarre.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Deke Hunter is a Massachusetts State Police plainclothesman. He proves that through hard work, bumbling and pure luck, he can sometimes, surprisingly, produce justice.
New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Joe Corey, a disillusioned Manhattan corporate lawyer, teams up with retired Defense Department bigshot Baldo Ianucci to solve a twenty-three-year-old murder--that of his wife's grandfather, who was killed with his own shotgun.....
New York: Harcourt, 2000. First Edition, Third Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Background Information:At End of Day is George V. Higgins at the top of his form and may be his most successful novel since his 1987 masterpiece, Outlaws. No one understood the world of modern urban.....
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. Original Illustration by Ernest Franklin. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket and Slipcase. The original drawing is of a Vietnamese man polling a boat [This book] proves Hillerman can write good fiction without calling in the Tribal Police. (Entertainment Weekly).
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Hillerman is a name-brand writer with a huge and well-deserved following. His evocation of the landscape of the Southwest is compelling. Joe Leaphorn remains his most fully-realized protagonist; his perspective on life, destiny, and.....
Harper & Row, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. 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.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Jessie Hunter expertly unfolds this taut drama, taking us inside the mind of the terrified, resourceful, and imaginative little girl, and also inside the mind of the bizarrely off-balance killer who is one.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. "P. D. James has burst the bounds of her territory . . . and written a novel that is subtle, rich, allusive, and most cunningly plotted. . . . We are held in tingling suspense." ― The.....
New York: Open Road, 2010. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In this sixth Max Freeman thriller a case of Medicare fraud leads a Florida PI into much darker territory in this crime novel by an Edgar Award winner.
New York: Bantam, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Laurie R. King, creator of San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli, has been praised by The New York Times Book Review for her "taut pacing...air of menace...superb characters."
Ithaca, New York: Mcbooks Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. 'Full of intrigue and suspense, historical authenticity and genuine good fun.' [James L. Nelson, author, The Only Life That Mattered].
New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Nick Merchant is an heir hunter, a little-known species of private investigator who searches for a dead person's next of kin when no will exists, and collects a percentage of the estate. Gerald.....