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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth novel in the award-winning Hamilton's mystery series featuring private detective Alex McKnight. Based in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the eve of McKnight's 49th birthday, depressed over his failed marriage, failed baseball and law enforcement careers, McKnight agrees to go to a poker game at a posh… Read more about this item

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 2018. Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. The 27th book in the award-winning Estleman's long-running mystery-detective series featuring Detroit PI, Amos Walker, this time with a "guest appearance" from another Estleman series -- professional hit man, Peter Macklin. Walker finds himself a target as he serves as bodyguard to Macklin's estranged wife, Laurie, after death… Read more about this item

New York: Berkley Books, 1999. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. The 25th novel in Mystery Grand Master Parker's mystery-detective series featuring Boston private detective Spenser. This time Spenser is asked to investigate Susan Silverman's ex-husband, who has shown up after years of absence, broke and fighting a sexual harassment lawsuit. Spenser finds more sex abused women, crooked fundraising,… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. This is one of seven mystery novels written by Hay, a journalist and one of the founders of the National Press Club, in the late teens and early 20s of the last century. Many of these mysteries featured criminologist and consulting detective, Jefferson Hastings. This… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. The 12th novel in Roberts' mystery-detective series featuring Cleveland PI Milan Jacovich. This time, Jacovich is hired to look into the suicide of a young woman whose father doesn't believe his daughter was suicidal, and, as Jacovich begins digging, he unearths clues that the… Read more about this item

Blue Ash, OH: Tyrus Books, 2016. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. A new collection of crime and suspense short stories from Estleman, perhaps best known for his Detroit PI, Amos Walker but equally a master of both crime and western genres. Estleman, who selected 18 stories from hundreds published during nearly 40 years of writing, included… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The 24th novel in Haddam's highly-praised mystery series featuring former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian finds him in a small Pennsylvania town investigating the savage beating of a 91-year-old school board member opposed to including "intelligent design" in the science curriculum. First Edition, First Printing. About… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The 27th novel in Haddam's intelligent, highly-praised mystery series featuring former FBI agent-turned-private-detective, Gregor Demarkian. This time Demarkian must pick up the case where the police have been left with two badly burned corpses -- a teenaged boy working at the exclusive country club and… Read more about this item

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2013. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The second of the award-winning Pelecanos' novels featuring P.I. Spero Lucas and his 19th overall, most set in the Washington, D.C. area. This time Lucas hires on to retrieve a valuable painting that a woman's ex-boyfriend stole from her, the ex being the vicious leader… Read more about this item

London: Hard Case Crime/Titan Books, 2015. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. One of the most recent novels from the author of the Matthew Scudder series, the Bernie Rhodenbarr "burglar" mysteries, and the "sleepless" Evan Tanner novels. Doak Miller, retired NYC cop now a sometime Florida PI, meets a woman who wants to kill her husband. Or… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 2011. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The second novel for Stevens, whose debut bestseller, "The Informationist," won a Barry Award for best first novel. As with her first book, "The Innocent" is a crime-thriller featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe, a young woman whose work is to buy and sell information about, among… Read more about this item

New York: Forge Books/Tom Doherty Assoc., 2012. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 22nd novel in the award-winning Estleman's mystery-crime series featuring Detroit PI Amos Walker finds Walker in the midst of a war between gangs from Detroit's Mexicantown, trying to do a favor for a friend by extricating a sixteen-year-old combatant from the war zone. As he… Read more about this item

New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2002. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The award-winning Donaldson is well known for his bestselling science fiction/fantasy novels but in the 1980s, he published three paperback originals featuring Mick "Brew" Axbrewder, a private detective who shot and killed his brother, a cop, and now lives in an alcoholic haze with occasional… Read more about this item

New York: Mysterious Press, 1993. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The seventh novel from Crumley, who has been called one of the finest crime wirters of the post-Vietnam generation, and the second book in his series featuring Montana private investigator, C.W. Sughrue, who is hired to find the beautiful wife of a well-connected Republlican senator and finds… Read more about this item

New York: Villard Books, 1995. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth novel from sports columnist and reporter Lupica features DiMaggio, ex-baseball catcher, former lawyer, pretty fair jazz pianist and private investigator specializing in sports issues. This time a young woman has accused two NY Knicks basketball players, including superstar, Ellis "Fresh" Adair, of rape and… Read more about this item

New York: Avon Books, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The sixth novel in Ford's mystery-crime series featuring Seattle private detective Leo Waterman. This time Leo's just looking for a little time off to relax at a friend's "getaway" in the back country. Instead, his friend has incurred the wrath of every boater, hunter… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixth novel in Lutz's award-winning crime-thriller series featuring Florida private detective, Fred Carver, who walks with a cane but is far from disabled. This time, as a favor to a retired cop and friend, Carver looks into the comings and goings at the estate of… Read more about this item

Orlando: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The Goliath Bone" is one of several novels partly completed by Spillane before his death in 2006 and finished at his request by his friend and fellow crime fiction author, Max Allan Collins. The book features the return of Spillane's legendary New York private… Read more about this item

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2005. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fourteenth novel from Littell, who has been regarded as one of the master craftsmen of the spy-thriller since his first, the classic, "The Defection of A.J. Lewinter." In "Legends," Martin Odum, former CIA field agent, now a New York private detective, is… Read more about this item

New York: Dell, 1994. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Dell mass market paperback. The tenth novel in the award-winning Valin's noir mystery-crime series featuring Cincinnati private detective, Harry Stoner. This time Stoner's hired to find 35 priceless vinyl records stolen from a collector's vast collections and finds instead a… Read more about this item