New York, NY: Crime Club, Doubleday & Company, The, 1980. 8vo. faux leather over boards, dust jacket. 182 pages. First edition. A collection of twelve short stories of crime and wordplay centering on "the adventures of the Black Widowers". Black, white and red illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's red faux leather boards lettered in black at spine. Lightly rubbed tail and head of spine. Dust jacket in very good condition with a removed exlibris spine label..... READ MORE about CASEBOOK OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS

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New York: Doubleday, (2003). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 454 pages. First edition. The novel has helped perpetuate popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. According to the premise of the novel, the Vatican knows it is living a lie, but continues to do so to keep itself in power. It is a worldwide bestseller with more than 60.5 million copies in..... READ MORE about THE DA VINCI CODE

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New York, NY: Walker, 1974. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First US edition. Her third book a mystery involving two novelists. Fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about PLOT COUNTER-PLOT

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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 273 pages. First American Edition. DJ has light edge wear. It is clean, in a mylar cover. Book has clean covers, solid squared binding, and clean interior. READ MORE about THE SUN CHEMIST

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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (1975). 8vo. paper over boards, dust jacket. (viii), 182 pages. Book Club Edition. Self-appointed censor, Georgina Hampter, burns "dirty" books in the school library. One was by a local author, Lawrence Dilman, who is found murdered shortly after the book burning. A little digging by a local detective turns up an exotic murder weapon and a list of suspects that includes virtually everyone in Wingate, Connecticut. Hildegarde Dolson was Richard Lockridge's..... READ MORE about PLEASE OMIT FUNERAL

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New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 1976. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 151 pages. First edition first printing of this collection of short stories all featuring Kek Huuygens. All the stories were published earlier in separate magazines. Near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about KEK HUUYGENS, SMUGGLER

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New York: Stein and Day, 1973. small 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. 191+(1) pages. First edition. Best-selling author Osborne Kilgore takes out a very large life insurance policy, with his wife and publisher as beneficiaries. No one seems to like him very much, and, unfortunately for him, he likes wild mushrooms. Bookplate. "Eugene Franklin" is a pseudonym. Jacket slightly worn, else near fine. READ MORE about THE BOLD HOUSE MURDERS

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New York: Walker Publ. Co., 1982. small 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 189 pages. First edition. Bookplate of Philip Allen Metzger on front pastedown. Large stain on front free endpaper, date stamp on half-title page. Mark Exeter, publisher of the news weekly "Tomorrow" hires private eye Nick Nicoletti to look into matters relating to the magazine staff and to Exeter's own upcoming divorce. Soon, Nicoletti is also looking into Exeter's murder. READ MORE about MURDER AT TOMORROW

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The new 'November man' novel
New York: Crown Publishers, (1986). 8vo. quarter bound in cloth. (vi), 248 pages. The new 'November man' novel. "The November Man is back in action in his steamiest adventure yet as he heads for one of today's hottest political cauldrons-the Caribbean." Granger is the author of five previous novels about the November Man. He won the Edgar Award in 1980 and his articles appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers and is a columnist for the..... READ MORE about HEMINGWAY'S NOTEBOOK

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(New York): Viking, (1990). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 181+(1) pages. First edition. 11th David Brandstetter myster by Hansen, a prolific author of novels and short stories. Ink inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE about THE BOY WHO WAS BURIED THIS MORNING

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New York: Bantam, 1991. 8vo. quarter cloth, with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xi, 317 pages. First edition. What is Neil Bledsoe, "the most despised book critic in America" (dust jacket) doing at the Agatha Christie convention? Who is trying to do something to him? Near fine. READ MORE about THE CHRISTIE CAPER

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New York: St. Martin's Press, (1986). 8vo. paper over boards, dust jacket. 183 pages. First edition. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. The crown of the spine is a web of creases with color loss. The heel is in similar shape. There's a jagged, 1/2-inch tear in the top edge of the back panel. Both flaps show corner creases and the back flap is also creased from top to bottom..... READ MORE about STRANGLED PROSE

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New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1961. 8vo. cloth. (vi), 218 pages. First U.S. edition. Near fine. Lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about SILENCE OBSERVED

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. small 8vo. paper-covered boards. (viii), 181 pages. First edition. Very minor chipping to the dust jacket, else a near fine copy. Nick Polo rather enjoys being a bodyguard to journalist Jack Slate, who has come to Pebble Beach to play golf. But Slate's journalism has annoyed someone... A Nick Polo Mystery. READ MORE about POLO IN THE ROUGH

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New York, NY: Walker & Co, 1989. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 176 pages. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. READ MORE about GLADE MANOR MURDER

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New York: Trident Press, (1971). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 317 pages. First edition, second printing. A Sherlockiana story in which the Sons of the Copper Beeches, a branch of the Baker Street Irregulars, challenges its members with a "Chase." The winner gets a $100,000 collection of Sherlockian manuscripts. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. READ MORE about COPPER BEECHES

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London: Michael Joseph, (1991). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 308 pages. First edition. Signed on the title page by the author. Former journalist is plunged into a maze of political cover-ups and violent death which begins innocently enough on a sailing trip with some reforming juvenile delinquents. READ MORE about BLOOD KNOT

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New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2007. large 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 512 pages. First edition. "Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, the main chararcters from Back Bay and Harvard Yard, are back for another treasure hunt through time." (from the front dust jacket flap). A search for the "early, annotated draft of the Constitution" which could change America's perception of history, as well as its future. Fine copy. READ MORE about THE LOST CONSTITUTION

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New York: Random House, (1975). 8vo. boards. (vi), 150, (2) pages. First edition. The case revolves around Sarah Chayse, M.D., and her discovery in a paperback thriller. Ownership ink stamp on front free endpaper. Near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about PAPERBACK THRILLER

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1955). 8vo. half cloth, boards. 253, (3) pages. First edition with these illustrations. Given out as a dividend by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Illustrated by Douglass Gorsline. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE about PARNASSUS ON WHEELS

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New York: Delacorte Press, 1984. small 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. (vi), 253 pages. First edition. A Jack Journey novel. J. Journey, who writes on "historical crime and ancient felons," also collects crime books. A few months ago, he paid for a library amassed by a French police inspector, but it hasn't been delivered yet, and now the antiquarian dealer calls to say that it is no longer available, the refund is in the..... READ MORE about THE MAFIA DIARIES

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New York: Berkeley Prime Crime`, (1995). 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 281+(1) pages. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. With this atmospheric and suspenseful tale, the author introduces us to Joseph Wilder, a struggling novelist whose approach to crime is strictly literary--until his best friend's father is murdered in the West Indies. READ MORE about DANCE OF THE MONGOOSE

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(New York): Delacorte Press, (1992). small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 216 pages. First edition. A "Nameless Detective" mystery. Old man Arlo Haas is rightfully concerned by the near-catatonic behavior of his daughter, Grady. But is that any reason to call a private detective? READ MORE about QUARRY

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New York: New American Library, (1980). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xvi, 288 pages. First edition. A professor, reporter and CIA operative look into the death of a left-wing poet. Their search for his manuscript leads them to modern Chile, New York and Paris. Fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

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New York: Harper & Row, (1973). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 183 pages. First edition. The entire mystery centers on Sampson Trehune who "was by profession a book appraiser." Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THE ACUPUNCTURE MURDERS

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New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1943. 8vo. hardcover. 217 pages. There were some curious things happening at the auction sale, and then the murder. Very good exlibrary copy with markings. Lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about GOING, GOING, GONE: AN ASEY MAYO MYSTERY

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New York: Walker and Company, (1988). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 171+(1) pages. First edition of the author's first novel which introduces Neil Hamel, lawyer and sleuth. Judith van Gieson is a Shamus award nominee. Her two mystery series are now published by the University Of New Mexico Press. Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket. READ MORE about NORTH OF THE BORDER

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 252 pages. First edition. A literary treasure, the romantic letters between Edgar Allan Poe and Mrs. Nancy Richmond, are still in the possession of Richmond's daughter. A young scholar who is obsessed with Poe plots to steal the letters. Exlibrary copy with markings, else fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about POE PAPERS

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