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New York: Mysterious Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Small closed tear top edge front . panel. Remainder mark bottom edge, light spots top edge, leans a bit.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He's a thinking man's cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer. ; 8.3 X 5.4 X 1.1 inches; 263 pages .

New York: Thomas Dunne. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Translated by Ebba Segerberg. Bump top . corner both boards.. 2008. First US Edition. Hardcover. Ann Lindell and her motley crew of colleagues are faced with a baffling murder case in which all the clues lead straight back to a popular restaurant named Dakar. ; 6 X 1.27 X 8.07 inches; 368 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Book is clean, straight and tight.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. A hard-hitting tale of power-hungry executives, self-righteous union bosses, ruthless mobsters, and the biggest flop ever to roll off a Motor City assembly line. ; 9.25 x 6.25 x 1 inches; 291 pages .

New York: William Morrow & Co. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read; light soil top . edge.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. During the excitement of Fat Tuesday, Seattle's carnival celebration, Thomas Black investigates the brutal murder of a computer software company executive, an investigation that culminates in a breathtaking chase up the famous Space Needle. ; 8.5 x 6 x 1 inches; 285 pages .

New York: Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Edges lightly toned.. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Charlie Howard, globe-trotting mystery writer, professional thief, and poor decision maker, is in Paris. He agrees to show a complete novice how to break into an apartment in the Marais. Twenty-four hours later, Charlie is hired to steal an ordinary-looking oil painting - from the exact same address. ; 8.4 X 5.6 X 1.2 inches; 288 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has een gently read. Light wrinkling . top edge jacket.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. When a bomb detonates outside a Harvard law school building, killing several, including a law student helping get Jackie Kelvinski out of an abusive marriage, Jackie is afraid that the bomb was set off by her unstable husband. Annie Squires tries to convince her that it's unlikely but before the Cambridge police get very far another bomb explodes at a Cambridge courthouse. ; Peter Zak Mysteries; 8.4 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches; 304 pages .

New York: Linden Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight lean to book. Jacket lightly . browned along top edge of back panel.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Bobbo Druff, the fifty-eight-year-old commissioner of streets, finds his ordinary life turned upside down by a series of bizarre events and by the people in his life including his wife, his son, his new lover, and his chauffeur. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 283 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with slight lean.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. When a suspicious fire leaves three firefighters dead, Chief Mac Fontana investigates and finds himself caught in a conflagration that threatens the department. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 268 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Wrinkling and edge wear back panel . jacket, superficial scratches elsewhere.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. When Norm Cooper, the straightlaced new dean of Canon Flubert, turns up dead, Robert Amiss and the Baroness find themselves investigating radical gay priests, feminist witches, and evil cult members, who all had much to gain from Norm Cooper's demise. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 222 pages .

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with browned edges and light spot . fore edge front board; jacket with tiny dig to front panel at spine, and . tiny tear top edge back panel.. 2011. First American Edition. Hardcover. Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 444 pages .

New York: MacMillan. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book has a slight lean; jacket spine . lightened.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. There was no way that Mary Alice Baker could have known that falling in love with Wrex was possibly the worst thing she could have done. For not long into the relationship, he asks her to do him a small favor: deliver a black briefcase at LAX airport in exchange for a small package. Mary Alice Baker blows up LAX airport. By mistake. ; 7.3 X 5.3 X 1.2 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Hyperion. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; This hilarious novel has been gently . read. Chris Elliott is an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and . comedian appearing in Something About Mary, and Cabin Boy, and as a . co-star on Everybody Loves Raymond.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. His name is Jack and he's a nineteenth-century serial killer. But this Jack doesn't rip...he thwacks. Jack the Jolly Thwacker is how he's known to history, Set in New York City in 1882, the story chronicles the adventures of police chief Caleb Spencer, reporter Liz Smith, and mayor Teddy Roosevelt, as they unravel the mystery of the world's first (and most bizarre) serial killer. ; 8.4 X 5.9 X 1.1 inches; 368 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Bump front top corner of book. Jacket . has a small stain to the back bottom corner on the blindside, that bleeds . through to the back flap.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Many people explore thes caves at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac. People have died in them before. They slip and fall, are crushed by loosened rocks, they die of natural causes. But do they also bury themselves? ; 6.5 X 1 X 9.75 inches; 256 pages .

New York: Bantam. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Small tear bottom corner front panel . jacket. Smokin' Hot stickers still in place.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been killed, but what is clear is that Stephanie's name is on the killer's list. ; 6.38 X 1.1 X 9.52 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. In the harsh, distant landscape of Lapland, shrouded in unremitting darkness of the Nordic winter, Police Constable Torsson receives a disturbing phone call from an outlying village: a man named Matti has been killed in a brawl at a mah-jongg party turned sour. ; 8.4 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches; 224 pages .

New York: Berkley. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Small tear top edge back panel jacket; . book with toned edges.. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. High up on the Rock of Gibraltar, Gideon Oliver will inspect his oldest bones yet. But a killer's on the loos and Oliver must remember - don't look down. ; 6.54 X 1.05 X 9.3 inches; 288 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book and jacket have two small holes . to top edge near spine; lightly toned edges.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Amos Walker comes between a wealthy, famous, and ailing architect and his young, adulterous wife, on whom he seeks to wreak a terrible vengeance. ; 9.25 x 6.25 x 1 inches; 306 pages .