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Appointment in May: A Dave Garrett Mystery

By: Albert, Neil

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Walker: 1996

Seller ID: 607610

ISBN: 0802732798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . 244 pages. Private investigator Dave Garrett thinks that tailing an estranged wife for signs of infidelity will be a breeze. But the case quickly takes a more serious tone when she dies in a suspicious car fire
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Wormwood

By: Albert, Susan Wittig

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Berkley Prime Crime: 2009.

Seller ID: 608393

ISBN: 0425226093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Olive green boards with title and author in metallic red on spine; Inscribed "To Gail" and SIGNED by the AUTHOR; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 307 pages. China Bayles Mystery, No. 17. Signed by Author. China Bayles needs rest, and a historic Shaker village in Kentucky seems the ideal place for it. There she can learn about the intriguing, dwindling Shaker culture and its medicinal herbs. Unfortunately, the village is plagued with misfortune and strife. China wonders if, with the help of some age-old journals full of scandal, she can get to the bottom of it. But after a sho...
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A Fatal Waltz

By: Alexander, Tasha

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York, William Morrow: 2008

Seller ID: 607368

ISBN: 006117422X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Remainder mark on bottom of text block. Date written on free front end page . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards with black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 296 pages. A deadly dance between two implacable enemies...At her friend Ivy's behest, Lady Emily Ashton reluctantly agrees to attend a house party at the country estate of Lord Fortescue, a man she finds as personally odious as he is politically powerful. But on arrival she finds him to be the least of her problems. Among the guests is Kristiana von Lange, ...
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City of Silver: A Mystery

By: Alfieri, Annamaria

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Minotaur Books: 2010

Seller ID: 606045

ISBN: 031238386X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 336 pages. While the western-hemisphere city of Potosi prepares to defend itself against allegations that it has been minting impure silver, Mother Maria Santa Hilda is targeted for failing to prevent the suicide of a wealthy man's daughter.
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Murder in Vegas

By: Allen, Steve

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Zebra: 1991

Seller ID: 604894

ISBN: 0821734628

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover.. 265 pages. A Steve Allan Mystery, No. 5. While rehearsing at the Colosseum with legendary crooner Buddy Hamilton, Steve receives word that Buddy's glamorous young wife, Christie, has been murdered in a sauna, and he sets out to prove Buddy--the police's prime suspect--innocent
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Wake Up To Murder

By: Allen, Steve

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Kensington Books: 1996

Seller ID: 607367

ISBN: 1575660903

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the half-title page. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . Signed by Author. Steve Allen--America's favorite amateur detective--is back. This time, Steve and his glamorous wife, Jayne Meadows, return to television, just in time to tune in to a higly-rated new series--of murders.
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The Tiger in the Smoke

By: Allingham, Margery

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Pleasantville, NY, Impress Mystery: (1952) 2005

Seller ID: 606845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Pictoral cover. 326 pages. The Best Mysteries of All Time. London, 'the Smoke' to Cockneys and the hipsters who appropriate their slang, is living up to its nickname: an unusual cold snap has combined with the fug from coal-fires to produce the 'Great Smog', blanketing the city in choking shadow. And lurking in those shadows is Jack Havoc, a killer with a particular fondness for knives. Havoc is by far the most dangerous villain that Albert Campion has ever encountered, and his startlingly realistic menace, combined with the light touch common to all the Campion novels, gives the book a modern...
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The White Cottage Mystery

By: Allingham, Margery

Price: $10.95

Publisher: London, Bloomsbury Reader: 2016

Seller ID: 608774

ISBN: 1408880202

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reading crease on front and back cover; corner crease on front cover . 157 pages. Eric Crowther collected secrets and used them as weapons. Delighting in nothing more than torturing those around him with what he knew, there is no shortage of suspects when he is found dead in the White Cottage. Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry will have to look deep into everyone's past--including the victim's--before they can be sure who has pulled the trigger. The fact that Jerry is in love with one of the suspects, however, might complicate things. The White Cottage Mystery was Margery Allingham's...
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Fall from Grace

By: Arthurson, Wayne

Price: $12.99

Publisher: New York, Forge Books: 2011

Seller ID: 606205

ISBN: 0765324172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Debut novel. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 320 pages. A Les Desroches Mystery, No. 1. Leo Desroches goes straight—off the streets, into the newsroom, and up to his neck in murder. Marking the debut of Leo Desroches, one of the most unusual amateur detectives ever to appear in Canada or points south, this fast-paced, enthralling mystery is the story of a man who had everything, lost it all, and is trying to get it back. Leo Desroches doesn’t look like a native, but his mother was Cree, and he understands the problems of indigenous C...
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A Deadly Penance

By: Ash, Maureen

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Berkley Prime Crime: 2011

Seller ID: 605907

ISBN: 0425243362

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Paperback Original. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 288 pages. A Templar Night Mystery, No. 6. Templar Bascot de Marins is summoned to Lincoln Castle to learn who murdered a servant engaged in an illicit affair with a married woman. Even though the jealous husband had a motive, Bascot's investigation uncovers a more shocking revelation about the victim that would give him any number of potential enemies...
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Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch

By: Atherton, Nancy

Price: $25.95

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2012

Seller ID: 605814

ISBN: 0670023418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

Protected in a removable archival cover. Full number line.. 240 pages. An Aunt Dimity Mystery, No. 17. Nancy Atherton's seventeenth cozy mystery featuring the beloved Aunt Dimity-the original paranormal detective When Amelia Thistle moves to Finch, her new neighbors welcome her with open arms-and inquiring minds. Among them is Lori Shepherd, who isn't fooled by Amelia's unassuming persona. Amelia is, in fact, a world-famous artist with a rabid and eager-to-stalk fan base. In order to keep peace in Finch, Lori must help Amelia conceal her identity. Amelia, meanwhile, sets about working on the ...
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The Innocents

By: Atkins, Ace

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 2016

Seller ID: 608597

ISBN: 0399173951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Dark gray boards with author's initials and orange spine imprinted in black with title and author. Map on endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 367 pages. A Quinn Colson Novel, No. 6. After being voted out of office and returning to the war zone he’d left behind, Quinn Colson is back in Jericho, trying to fix things with his still-married high school girlfriend and retired Hollywood stuntman father. Quinn knows he doesn't owe his hometown a damn thing, but he can't resist the pull of becoming a lawman again and accepts a badge from...
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Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot: A Spenser Novel

By: Atkins, Ace

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, G. P Putnam's Sons: 2014

Seller ID: 608976

ISBN: 0399161589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Green boards with green spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Map on endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 308 pages. Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots marquee players a hard-nosed linebacker who s earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing his client. Heywood s troubles seem to be tied to a nightclub shooting from two years earlier. But when Heywood...
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Hemingway Cutthroat: A Mystery

By: Atkinson, Michael

Price: $5.95

Publisher: New York, Minotaur Books: 2010

Seller ID: 606060

ISBN: 0312379722

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 272 pages. There were no bullfights in 1937 Madrid, just bombs, freedom fighters, journalists, and plenty of corpses. Ernest Hemingway, covering the Spanish Civil War for the American press, came looking for stories and danger, and found something else: a friend murdered amid the ruins. With a new novel stirring in his head and his veins pumping with booze, Hemingway sets out to find who killed José Robles Pazos, a bureaucrat in the Popular Front, and who?s covering it up. There is, aft...
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Tourists Are For Trapping

By: Babson, Marian

Price: $11.00

Publisher: New York, St Martins Press: 1989

Seller ID: 608859

ISBN: 031203444X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and authorFull number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 170 pages. A Perkins & Tate Mystery, No. 3. Larkin's Luxury Tours number 79 is a traveler's nightmare. The problems had started in Zurich, Switzerland when one of the group died under mysterious circumstances. Now the remaining tour members have landed in London, tight-lipped, fearful, and ready to ask for their money back. It's up to Doug Perkins, of the PR firm of Perkins and Tate, to restore their spirits. Naturally, for the restoration of s...
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Even Yuppies Die

By: Babson, Marian

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, St Martins Press: 1996

Seller ID: 608861

ISBN: 0312139691

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and authro. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 190 pages. A Trixie and Evangeline Mystery, No. 4. Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair, Babson's feisty elderly heroines, are back, just as bickering, inquisitive, and delightful as ever. The two former film stars are at leisure (temporarily, of course) but they have, again of course, expectations of juicy parts in a movie in the near future.Meanwhile, circumstances force a move to a penthouse suite in an only partially remodeled London wareho...
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Death Of A Prince

By: Baker, Susan P.

Price: $25.95

Publisher: Waterville, ME, Five Star: 2005

Seller ID: 605837

ISBN: 1594142688

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Inscribed, dated and SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 302 pages. Signed by Author. Criminal defense attorney Sandra Salinsky is hired to defend Kitty Fulton for the murder of Kitty's father, plaintiffs' attorney Phillip Parker. The case is more complicated than it first appears, since Parker was Salinsky's mother's best friend. Salinsky and her mother, Erma Townley, are law partners. Although Fulton claims she is innocent, Sandra soon learns that Kitty had millions of reasons to kill her father, and not all of them were about money. To make matters worse, Edgar Saul, the prosecutor from hell, is assigned...
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Hell's Corner

By: Baldacci, David

Price: $7.37

Publisher: New York, Grand Central Pub.: 2010

Seller ID: 606801

ISBN: 0446195529

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Lightly bumped corner. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Map on endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Grey boards with darker gray spine lettered in metallic red. 438 pages. Camel Club Series, No. 5. On the night of a State Dinner honoring the British Prime Minister, a bomb detonates in what looks like a terrorist plot. The mysterious attackers have a special target in their sights, and it's up to the Camel Club to stop them, or face the catastrophic results.
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