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New York: Mysterious Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light wrinkling to back panel of jacket.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Petra Hudson, a long-inactive Soviet agent living in the US , disobeys a Soviet command--an action that forces her son, Allan Trotter, a superspy whose Soviet allegiance is inbred, into action. ; 1.1 x 9.1 x 6 Inches; 216 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first book. Toned edges.. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. David Loogan is leading a quiet life in Ann Arbor, Michigan, hoping to escape his violent past. But he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, publisher of the mystery magazine Gray Streets. When Tom offers him a job as editor, Loogan sees no harm in accepting. What he doesn't realize is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: plans go wrong, bad things happen, and people die. ; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.3 inches; 352 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Shamus award nominee. Two faint . splatter-type spots to top edge. Jacket has just a touch too much shelf . wear to be categorized as Near Fine.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. When Tom Bethany is hired by presidential candidate Dan Markham to investigate the background of J. Alden Kellicott, the man Markham hopes to appoint Secretary of State, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets about the death of Kellicott's daughter. ; 9 x 6 x 1 inches; 229 pages .

New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book has slight lean. Jacket has small . tear front top edge and tiny tear at corner; small chip back top edge. . This is the First Trade Edition; a signed first edition was privately . printed by The Franklin Library.. 1991. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. After his father's murder during a union power struggle, Peter moves in with his uncle and cousin Michael, and as the boys grow up, their paths diverge, until they are drawn into a deadly round robin of violence and revenge. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 274 pages .

New York: Kensington. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light bump to back bottom corner; . jacket with minor wear back panel.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Finally qualifying for the PGA championship at Winged Foot, ex-lawyer-turned-professional golfer Kieran Lenahan finds his ambitions threatened by the arson destruction of his pro shop, the death of a firefighter in the fire, and the mysterious death of his caddy. ; 7.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 313 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. On-the-outs police detective Jill Smith copes with tension on Telegraph Avenue and a cohort's puzzling disappearance. ; 8.4 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches; 304 pages .

New York: Pantheon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1996. First American Edition. Hardcover. Now commander of Naples's harbor detail, Aurelio Zen tries to help a seductive Neapolitan widow separate her daughters from their possibly Mafia-associated fiances and finds himself mistaken for the head of Naples's most powerful crime family as he investigates a bizarre series of crimes. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 247 pages .

New York: Crown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight bowing to front board.. 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis probe the baffling murder of Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College, Oxford, and follow a trail that leads to Edward Brooks, who himself disappears following a museum theft. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 295 pages .

New York: Pantheon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Tear top edge back panel jacket.. 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Aurelio Zen, a member of the elite Italian Criminalpol, is back in Venice after a long absence and under false pretenses: to investigate the "haunting" of an old family friend, but actually, and illegally, to find the body of the missing patriarch of a wealthy American family. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches; 297 pages .

London: MacMillan Pub Ltd. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; First UK Edition with ribbon marker in . place, slight lean; price-clipped front flap and minor wear to back panel . jacket.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. The residents of Bloxham Drive were accustomed to acts of minor vandalism and the odd spot of joy-riding, but they were unprepared for cold-blooded murder. ; 6.5 X 1.25 X 9.75 inches; 388 pages .

New York: Donald I. Fine Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder mark, some canting. Jacket . has tear to front top edge.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. After a chance encounter, an ex-marine is lured into protecting a woman from her Hollywood mogul husband and his mobster friends, who chase them from Las Vegas to Arizona to Mexico to Monte Carlo. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 280 pages .

London: Chivers Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Black Dagger Crime Series reprint of . the 1959 Edgar nominee for Best Mystery Novel. Both bottom corners bumped.. 1997. Reprint. Hardcover. Lawyer Jimmie Jarvis agrees to defend Teddy Adkins in a paternity suit, unaware that Adkins' involvement in a pregnancy is the least of the deeds he is hiding. ; 8 x 5 x 1 inches; 189 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Washington private investigator Tom Bethany and his girlfriend, married lawyer Hope Edwards, uncover the scandalous life of a television evangelist. ; 9 x 6 x 1 inches; 261 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: 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 .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with slight lean. Small first . edition run.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Network vice president Matt Cobb agrees to deliver an envelope for a London colleague, but his seemingly innocuous errand lands him in an English jail accused of murder. ; 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.7 Inches; 222 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light soil top edge; numbers (140 917 . 489 6/20) written on the blind side of the jacket, slight spine fade.. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. When a real-life mystery surfaces during a mystery cruise, troubleshooter Matt Cobb's investigation takes him and his two attractive companions amongst an odd assortment of mystery writers. ; 8.5 x 6 x 1 inches; 182 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine copy in like jacket.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. TV industry troubleshooter Matt Cobb tries to solve an impossible crime and trap the murderer of millionaire G. B. Dost, killed during a snowstorm that strands Cobb and others in a secluded mansion. ; 8.5 x 6 x 1 inches; 232 pages .

New York: Walker & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light edge wrinkles jacket.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Dorothy Martin has begun to fit in quite comfortably in her new home in Sherebury and now that her husband has retired, she's looking forward to some quiet time with him. But then the letter arrives. An old acquaintance in Hillsburg, Indiana, had died and left her a small inheritance. Along with a note that suggests that if he dies, he's been murdered. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 210 pages .