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THE YELLOW VIOLET: A Rue Morgue Classic Mystery
by Crane, Frances
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- New
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- First Printing
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- 2005
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- Paperback
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- 9781601870483
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2005. This third outing In the Pat and Jean Abbott series is set in the early weeks of World War II at a time when everyone smoked and women wore girdles. Private detective Pat is back home in San Fancisco hours away from marrying Jean Holly when a fellow detective is murdered in his… Read more about this item Item Price
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MYSTERIOUS MR. FRAME
by Merrick, Mollie
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1938
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 164.30
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N.Y.: Ives Washburn, 1938. First edition. Publishers blue cloth with with yellow lettering at front cover and spine. Spine also has Washburn's colophon, a rooster on a book with the letter W, embossed at spine Spine lightly darkened, covers lightly soiled, else a near fine, tight copy. Now housed in homemade, clear acetate dust wrapper. … Read more about this item Item Price
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THE MAN WHO DIDN'T MIND HANGING
by Mavity, Nancy Barr
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- First Edition
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- 1932
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 39.43
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Garde: Crime Club Doubleday, 1932. 1st edition. Publishers black cloth with orange blocked lettering. Covers soiled, corners bumped, a few early pages spotted else very good copy. The fifth James Aloysius "Peter" Piper title; San Francisco, CA. Peter Piper, a young reporter, investigates the murder of a millionaire philanthropist, whose Chinese servant with a Ph.D. seems only too willing to… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE 7TH PASSENGER
by MacGowan, Alice and Perry Newberry
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- First Edition
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- 1926
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N.Y.: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1926. First edition. Orange cloth with black lettering. Spine lightly faded, corners bumped, covers lightly soiled, a very good, solid copy. Features Jerry Boyne; San Francisco, CA; 1907. Jerry Boyne who investigates the mysterious disappearance, in the middle of his re-election campaign, of District Attorney Ross Garrett, and in doing so, he uncovers a web… Read more about this item Item Price
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DAY OF THE MOON **SIGNED COPY**
by Jeffrey, William (Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey M. Walmann
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1983
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- 9780709011460
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 65.72
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London: UK: Robert Hale, 1983. First edition so stated. Precedes US edition by ten years. A fine, unread copy, in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by Pronzini on the first free end page. "Bill 1/2 of "William Jeffrey" Pronzini." . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Item Price
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DAY OF THE MOON **SIGNED COPY**
by Pronzini, Bill and Jeffrey M. Wallmann Writing as William Jeffrey
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1983
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- 9780709011460
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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London: UK: Robert Hale, 1983. First edition so stated. Precedes US edition by ten years. A fine, unread copy, in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by Pronzini on the first free end page. "Bill 1/2 of "William Jeffrey" Pronzini." . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Item Price
SGD 65.72
BINDLESTIFF **SIGNED COPY**
by Pronzini, Bill
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1983
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- Hardcover
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- 9780312078645
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 39.43
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N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Boldly SIGNED by Pronzini at front end paper. A "Nameless" bookmark is laid in. In Bindlestiff, Nameless begins to recover from the problems that were introduced in Scattershot. He has… Read more about this item Item Price
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HELL HATH NO FURY: A Searing Gangster Classic
by Bounds, Sydney Writing as Rex Marlowe
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- New
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- As New
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- First Edition
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- 1996
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.: Gryphon Books, 1996. 1st American Edition, so stated. [Pub. in England by John Spencer & Co., 1951] Volume #3 in Gryphon Gangster Novel Series. 114 pages. Introduction by Philip Harbottle. Trade size paperback with colorful dust jacket over paper covers which depicts the original cover of the British paperback. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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DEATH TRAPS; A Lynn MacDonald Mystery
by Strahan, Kay Cleaver
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition Thus
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- 1930
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 52.58
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N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Grosset & Dunlap edition [n.d.] 1930. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY. Adey # 1770. Some wear along edges, tiny piece out at head of spine, else very good+ in dust jacket, worn along edges, small 1"x1" sticker tear at front, some loss at head and foot of spine.in plastic cover. … Read more about this item Item Price
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FAIR GAME [aka A Running Duck] **AWARD WINNER**
by Gosling, Paula
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- Used - Very Good
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- Near Fine
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- 1st American Edition
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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- 9780698109216
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SGD 32.86
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N.Y.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978. 1st American edition, so stated. Revised and expanded from the original first published in Great Britain under the title A RUNNING DUCK. Author's first book. 1978 NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD WINNER. This classic thriller was the basis of the 1986 film "Cobra " starring Sylvester Stallone. Former library… Read more about this item Item Price
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BLOOD MONEY: A Private Operative Murder Story
by Hammett, Dashiel
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Printing
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- 1944
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 26.29
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N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1944. 1st paperback printing, Dell Mapback #53. (with the "Books are Weapons" paragraph on first page. Vintage Paperback. Front cover by Gerald Gregg. Map of "Ann Newhall's Home / Scene of th Murders," south of San Francisco. Map by Ruth Belew. Previous owner's name inked at head of front endpaper. Spine edge… Read more about this item Item Price
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MENACED ASSASSIN
by Gores, Joe
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1994
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- 9780892965427
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N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1994. First Edition, October 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "Mystery veteran Gores (Dead Man; 32 Cadillacs) claims psycho-thriller territory with this risk-taking, rewarding crime novel. After linking her boss and lover to organized crime, film-company exec Molly Dalton is killed… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Radical Departure **AWARD NOMINEE**
by Matera, Lia
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1988
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- Paperback
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- 9780553270723
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SGD 15.77
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1988. 1st edition of the Uncorrected Page Proofs. Second in the Willa Jansson series. Paperback Original. An EDGAR and an ANTHONY AWARD Nominee. Pale blue covers show light soiling, title and author's name are written in pen along the spine, as publisher ommitted priinting it. Publishers letter laid… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE SMART MONEY: First Laura Di Palma Book
by Matera, Lia
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1988
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- Paperback
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- 9780553272680
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 13.14
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N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1988. 1st edition. Uncorrected Page Proofs. About fine. The First Laura Di Palma Book. 1st Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Book. Item Price
SGD 13.14
Poor Butterfly
by Kaminsky, Stuart M.
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1990
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- Hardcover
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- 9780892964116
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1990. First edition, June 1990, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover....Kaminsky has garnered both The GRAND MASTER AWARD from Mystery Writers of America, 2006 and THE EYE LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD, 2007. " PI Toby Peters gets… Read more about this item Item Price
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BEYOND THE GRAVE [SIGNED COPY]
by Muller, Marcia; Pronzini, Bill
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1986
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- Hardcover
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- 9780802756510
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SGD 118.30
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N.Y.: Walker & Co, 1986. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in protective mylar dust jacket cover. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS at front endpaper, boldly and clearly! The author of The McCone Files teams up with the creator of the "Nameless Detective" for a collaborative mystery that bridges the San Franciscos of 1894… Read more about this item Item Price
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CONS, SCAMS AND GRIFTS
by Gores, Joe
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2001
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- Hardcover
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- 9780892965946
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 2001. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. A Dan Kearny Associates detective agency novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Fahey, Richard. Book. Item Price
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DEADFALL: A Nameless Detective Mystery **SIGNED COPY **
by Pronzini, Bill
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1986
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- Hardcover
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- 9780312185251
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 39.43
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NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1986. 1st ed. Near fine in near fine unclipped, dust jacket lightly rubbed. Boldly SIGNED by Pronzini at front free endpaper. A Nameless Detective Mystery. "Pronzini's tough but likable Nameless Detective is back in another baffling and entertaining mystery that begins when the San Francisco PI witnesses the brutal shooting of Leonard… Read more about this item Item Price
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MURDER ON THE RUN **AWARD FINALIST**
by White, Gloria
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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- 9780727843173
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Surrey; England & NYC: Severn House, 1992. 1st Hardcover edition. Slight spine slant else near fine in dust jacket. PI Veronica "Ronnie" Ventana of San Francisco in her first book. An ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE. "The satisfying momentum never flags from this first novel's opening moment when PI Ronnie Ventana's early morning jog turns into a… Read more about this item Item Price
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SHE CAME IN DRAG
by Wings, Mary
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- New
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- First Edition
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- 1999
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- Paperback
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- 9780425169353
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1999. 1st edition, June 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1 A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. P.I. Emma Victor, San Francisco. ""Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, we'll turn the patriarchy into rubble." So chants PI Emma Victor, caught in a militant Lesbian Revengers demonstration on… Read more about this item Item Price
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