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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1981. 1st.American edition, top of pages dusty else fine in dust jacket. Publishers stamp to bottom of book. A Mrs. van der Valk mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Marek, 1981. 1st ed. Light edgewear else near fine in dust jacket. Two best-selling authors team up in this spy novel set in Britain during WWII. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. 1st thus, [n.d.] orig. 1928. (From the books listed at rear panel it would seem this was published in 1934). Blue cloth with red lettering. Neat gift inscription at front end paper. Page edges age toned, elase a fine, tight copy in dust jacket, flap corners narrowly clipped, front cover lightly soiled and rubbed, shallow loss at top spine ends and flap corners. It is 1914 Germany, and war is certainly imminent. Olivia Dunbar, a British subject, is working as secretary for judge Dr. Von Nentsch; at his home. His home, is adjacent to Schlatz Castle; which is being used as a prison for German military officers. Olivia is alone one night when she encounters a man outside her window. He enters, and identifies himself as Major Vivian Abbott, a British officer. He tells a story of being stranded and seeking money for train fare. Then they hears the cannon sound from the Castle, a signal that a prisoner has escaped - and Abbott confesses it is he. He asks a sympathetic… Read More

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 2001. 1ST. ED. with complete number line beginning with letter A. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. A Thriller from Award Winning author "A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON " Lisbon, 1944: Andrea Aspinall, plucked out of academia by British intelligence so that her mathematical knowledge might help in the hunt for atomic secrets, disappears under a new identity in Lisbon, where such secrets are easily bought and sold. Karl Voss, already experienced in the illusions of intrigue when he arrives in Lisbon, is an attache at the German Legation, though he is secretly working against the Nazis to rescue Germany from annihilation. After a night of terrible violence, Andrea creates a family for herself from Voss's memory and the clandestine world they knew. In Portugal, in England, and in the chilly world of Cold War Berlin, she discovers that the deepest secrets aren't held by governments-and that death is a relative term. .… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: DONALD I. FINE, 1990. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. The author's first novel, nominated for an EDGAR Award.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY, NY: Harper, 1966. 1st. US edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, one small tear, unclipped $4.95 price intact. An Inspector van der Valk mystery,. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1994. 1st. ed. FINE/FINE. A DEBUT novel. 596 pages. "Touted as a blockbuster, this assured debut thriller delivers in full--and then some. A young American doctor haunted by his father's murder stumbles into a chilling international conspiracy and crosses paths with, among others, a weary L.A. cop investigating a series of surgically precise decapitations, a naive physical therapist and a hypercompetent German assassin. Dr. Paul Osborn, visiting Paris, recognizes the man whom he witnessed stab his father on a Boston street in 1966. Determined to learn the reason for his father's unsolved death and take revenge, Osborn hatches a plan that unexpectedly leads to the gruesome execution of a hired PI and to other killings. Clearly some serious powers are involved. Soon Osborn, aided by Vera Monneray, a Paris medical student, is hiding out from Paris police, Interpol and the L.A. cop who has been summoned to Paris. Meanwhile, Joanna Marsh… Read More

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 1ST. ED. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. An Art related mystery set during the WW II era.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2009. 1st printing. [originally published in 1945]. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. It's 1941, and the last place in the world British agent Tommy Hambledon wants to be is back in Berlin. He's more than happy to be in neutral Switzerland, safely posing as Theophilus Hartzer, a commercial traveler in railway wagons. But thanks to an unfortunate series of events, this identity is stolen by Sigmund Ulseth, a confidence man who claims to be a chemist on the verge of perfecting a revolutionary new explosive which he has promised to both the Nazis and the Swedes. After being left for dead by the fleeing Ulseth, Tommy is kidnapped by the Nazis, who mistake him for Ulseth and install him in a lavishly fitted laboratory in Berlin to complete his project. It's all because of that infernal beard, which Tommy had grown to conceal some scars and which now heightens his physical resemblance to Ulseth. Tommy, who knows nothing of chemistry, has to… Read More

NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. WINNER of the 2004 IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 2001. 1st. Ed. FINE.FINE. Joseph Kanon has chosen postwar Berlin, from 1945 to 1955, as the background for the love story of CBS war correspondant Jake Geismar, at the same time murder mystery, spy thriller, and historical novel. Basis for the Oecar nominated film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 2016. 1st US edition, complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Investigative team of Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein. Police Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to leave on her long-delayed honeymoon when she receives a phone call from police headquarters: An elderly woman has been shot and killed while walking her dog. Neither her grieving daughter nor any of her acquaintances have an explanation for the horrifying murder. Ingeborg Rohlehder was well-liked and a generous, loving woman. A short while later, another murder is committed and the modus operandi is eerily similar — a woman is executed by a precisely aimed bullet to the head that smashes through her kitchen window while she is baking cookies . . . and in both cases the same weapon fired the shot from a distance only a trained sniper could manage. Two more murders follow in short order. None of the victims had enemies and no one knows why… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 1st edition, November 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Claire Breslinsky, a Queens, N.Y., housewife and part-time photographer seen last in Foxglove, awaits a visit from longtime German friend Isolde Donnerwetter. But Isolde phones Claire from Munich to tell her that she isn't coming; instead, she's getting married... to Claire's old flame, Blacky von Ostewald, a plastic surgeon. Resourcefully, Claire convinces her photo editor to fund a visit to Germany, where she will shoot Saint Hildegarde's Mill, site of the wedding. Hearing of Claire's trip, her eccentric neighbor, Iris von Lillienfeld, tells Claire of her uncle's fortune in diamonds buried near the mill when the Nazis were taking over Germany. A murder near the mill sets the intricate plot on its course, during which hidden identities are revealed as Claire encounters… Read More

Naperville, Illinois, U.S.A.: Sourcebooks Inc Landmark, 2003. First edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "Set in a 1930s Berlin driven by street battles between the Communists and the rising Nazi Party. In this fraught climate, Det. Insp. Harry Wulff has three strikes against him: he is pro-Republic; his lover is a Jew, an early psychoanalyst named Johanna Davidov; and he has been detailed to Bernhard Weiss, a ranking Jewish officer working to expose the crimes of the Nazi Party. Meanwhile, the discovery of the strangled corpse of a transvestite prostitute in an alley puts Wulff on a collision course with a crazed killer who steals the identities of his victims. By juxtaposing the killer's psychosexual pathology with the corruption of the Nazis he eventually works for, Dold fosters an atmosphere of sordid menace..."--PW. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Arbor House, 1984. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near Fine in dust jacket, faded, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. After Mark Weir, a Chicago police lieutenant, is killed investigating a smuggling ring set up by army servicemen in Germany, his father, a retired general, decides to solve the case and find his son's murderers. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1978. 1st ed. A fine copy with Black cloth, gold lettering at spine in dust jacket, light wear along edges and small tear at spine. INSCRIBED by Rooth. Four people search for the contents of a mysterious railroad car diverted into Switzerland by German operatives thirty years before, as World War II ended. . Inscribed Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1992. 1st edition, so stated. Near fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket. . An Inspector Arkady Renko title. Moscow. The Soviet upheavals have fueled the glowing talent of Smith (Gorky Park), America's preeminent writer of Russia-based thrillers. Investigator Arkady Renko returns from exile on the Polar Star fleet to find the new Moscow a dramatic battlefield of warlords and entrepreneurs; behind it, as still as a painted backdrop, eight million people standing in line. An ingenious bomb kills Renko's informer the banker for freewheeling black marketeers-leading Arkady's team through the quicksand of mafia-dominated official graft. His workaholic forensics expert, Polina (who must wait in line for morgue time as well as for beets), identifies the bomb method, leading Arkady too close for aparatchik comfort. He is bumped from the case, but only after a clue from the dead man's fax (Where is Red Square?) points him toward a Munich connection.… Read More

NY, NY: Hyperion, 2007. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. His task was to raise a new brigade from throughout the German armed services to take part in an upcoming invasiion. Then he was to pick twenty of the finest of the brigade for " The Second Objective.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1979. 1st American edition, fine in unclipped dust jacket. Publicity photo laid in. An Inspector van der Valk mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.