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New York:: Random House,, (2009). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. His third novel, set in 1870, both literary history - regarding Charles Dicken's final unfinished novel - and an absorbing mystery. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 383 pp.

New York:: Riverhead Books,, (2015). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder dot). First printing. An historical thriller set in 1943 in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, as they meet in Tehran to finalize plans for D-Day. … Read more about this item

London:: The Crime Club by Collins,, (1983). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An Inspector Perry Trethowan mystery, involving a previously unknown Bronte manuscript, a crazy collector, a smooth millionaire, a shifty evangelist and lots of violence. SIGNED by the author on the front free end paper. 182 pp.

Naperville, IL:: Poisoned Pen Press,, (2022). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First US printing, a trade paperback original. A collection of short stories which meet Otto Penzler's definition of a bibliomystery: 'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… Read more about this item

Naperville, IL:: Poisoned Pen Press in association with the British Library,, (2023). SIGNED -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First thus, a trade paperback. A reprint of this bibliomystery originally published in 1956, the 100th volume in the British Library Crime Classics series. Sergeant Wiggin has become friends with an antiquarian bookseller - a "runner" who picks up whatever… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2017). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock). First US printing. A "thriller which interweaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie with an equally ingenious modern-day mystery that transforms the reader into the detective." One of the most effective and enjoyable novel within… Read more about this item

New York:: Shaye Areheart Books / Crown,, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. The author's first novel (3rd book) "Angel Robinson loves books, loves reading, but the Bay Area bookstore where she works is squeezed out of business, she has to find a new job. She lucks into… Read more about this item

New York:: The Viking Press,, (2001). First edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Fifteenth in the Homer Kelly mystery series - in this, Homer has been invited to attend the bicentennial celebration of Jefferson's presidency and finds himself in the middle of controversy over Jefferson's role in… Read more about this item

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1969.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (crease to corner of dj flap - overall, a tight and clean book.) . First printing. The author's second mystery featuring Dave Cannon, a young American rare book dealer. Set in a small English village, the story begins with… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2018). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good dust jacket (some rubbing and edgewear to the dj). First US printing. Another re-invention of the classic crime novel by the author of 'The Magpie Murders.' "One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor -… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2021). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First US printing. The third in the series of offbeat thrillers featuring disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator and Horowitz himself, as the ghost who documents his murder investigations. In this novel, they have been invited to… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2022). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. The third in the series of offbeat thrillers featuring disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator and Horowitz himself, as the ghost who documents his murder investigations - However, in a twist, it is Horowitz who… Read more about this item

New York:: Putnam,, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Mystery featuring Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore - this one is set at the Dixie Book Festival. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 277 pp,

New York:: St Martin's,, (1985). Hardcover -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (some wear to dj at ends of spine). Book club edition. Author's first mystery introducing journalist, playwright and amateur sleuth Gus Maltravers, who is determined to discover who stole a rare 16th Bible from the Vercaster Cathedral. Winner of the John Creasey award for best… Read more about this item

Lutz, FL:: Down & Out Books,, (2019). SIGNED -. Very good (some minor wear to the covers) .. First printing, a trade paperback. The seventh mystery in this noir series featuring jazz bass-playing private investigator August Riordan, who has returned to San Francisco to avenge the death of a friend and former partner, but finds himself caught up… Read more about this item

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Mystery featuring Detroit Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen, one which opens with his aged mother being nearly slain when a bomb disrupts an orderly environmental protest. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp.

London:: Bantam,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. In the 1920s and 1930s, brother and sister Susannah and Joshua toiled at their creative tasks in a remote cottage in a tiny Yorkshire village..."Neither wrote great literature, but Susannah's work was always the more popular. Perhaps that's why Joshua one day killed… Read more about this item

London:: Collins,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.. First printing. Barnard's 16th mystery - "Caroline and Roderick Cotterel live a quiet life in Sussex with their grown, retarded daughter and Roderick's senile, bedridden father Benedict, a once-famous and notorious novelist. But when Roderick's half-sister Cordelia asks to visit and look… Read more about this item

London:: Collins,, (1978). SIGNED (on label) hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. Barnard's rather hard to find fifth mystery novel centering on the death of a mystery writer - "Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs- a writer with a vast public that loved his best-selling mystery novels, and a small circle of family… Read more about this item

New York:: Atria Books, , (2004). First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (some toning to edges of textblock) .. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's first novel, one which moves between 1593 when London's most popular playwright - Christopher Marlow - was stabbed to death, and present day New York and… Read more about this item