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Jon Cleary: “Peter’s Pence” UK: Collins 1974. London. First Edition, True First. EDGAR AWARD WINNER. Murder, stolen art treasures and the Pope, a rousing mystery. (pc) Nice copy. F/F $275.00
Ex Otto Penzler Collection.
Liza Cody: “Dupe” UK: Collins 1980. London. First Edition, True First. CREASEY AWARD WINNER. Author’s first book. Introduces Anna Lee. Wonderful debut mystery. Nice copy. nF/nF $750.00
Michael Connelly: “The Black Echo” Little, Brown 1992. First Edition. SIGNED, with blue rebate band. EDGAR AWARD WINNER. Author's first book. First Harry Bosch mystery. Nice copy F/F $475.00
Patricia Cornwell: “Postmortem” Scribners 1990. First Edition. SIGNED at publication with author’s early, elegant signature. Author’s first mystery. Introduces forensic medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. EDGAR AWARD WINNER.ANTHONY AWARD WINNER. MACAVITY AWARD WINNER. CREASEY AWARD WINNER. WINNER of PRIXDU ROMANd’ADVENTURE. Medical examiner hunts a killer. Lovely copy. F/F $2250.00
Patricia Cornwell: “All That Remains” UK: Little Brown 1992. London. First Edition, True First Issue. Author’s first mystery. Third Kay Scarpetta mystery. Lovely copy. F/F $225.00
Patricia Cornwell: “Unnatural Exposure” Putnam, 1997. First Edition. The eighth Kay Scarpetta mystery. SIGNED. F/F $125.00
Patricia Cornwell: “Point of Origin” Putnam, 1998. First Edition. The ninth Kay Scarpetta mystery. SIGNED. F/F $75.00
Patricia Cornwell: “Black Notice” Putnam, 1999. First Edition. SIGNED. The tenth Kay Scarpetta mystery. F/F $125.00
Patricia Cornwell: “Trace” Putnam, 2004. First Edition. Kay Scarpetta mystery. SIGNED. F/F $95.00
Patricia Cornwell: “At Risk” Putnam, 2006. First Edition. Ambitious DA and her investigator examine an old murder which sparks new sudden violence. SIGNED. F/F $65.00
Patricia Cornwell: “Book of the Dead” Putnam 2007. First Edition. SIGNED. Scarpetta consults on seeming unconnected horrifying murders. F/F $65.00
James Gould Cozzens: “The Just and the Unjust” Harcourt Brace 1942. First Edition. HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE. Lovely copy. nF/nF $225.00
Robert Crais: “The Monkey’s Raincoat” UK: Piatkus 1989. London. First Edition, True First Hardcover of 1987 US paperback original. SIGNED. Author’s first book. Introduces Elvis Cole. Lovely copy. F/F $750.00
Robert Crais: “Lullaby Town” Bantam 1992. First Edition. SIGNED: “All best”. Elvis Cole mystery. Lovely copy. F/F $650.00
John Creasey writing as J. J. Marric: “Gideon's Fire” UK: Hodder and Stoughton 1961. London. First Edition, True First. EDGAR AWARD WINNER. Nice copy. nF/nF $225.00
James Crumley: “The Last Good Kiss” Random House 1978. First Edition. SIGNED. Author’s second, and highly regarded, mystery. A classic modern mystery. Lovely copy. F/F $275.00
James Crumley: “Dancing Bear” Random House 1983. First Edition. SIGNED. Author’s third mystery. Review Copy with materials laid in. F/F $275.00
Carroll John Daly: “Murder from the East” Stokes 1935. First Edition. Important early hardboiled mystery by a founder of the genre. Race Williams investigates Eastern intrigue as bullets fly. Minor chips, closed tears. Nice copy. nF/nF $1750.00
Carroll John Daly: “The Emperor of Evil” Stokes 1937. First Edition. Important early hardboiled mystery by a founder of the genre. Vee Brown hardboiled mystery. (pos) Minor chips, closed tears. Nice copy. VG+/VG+ $1750.00
Carroll John Daly: “Mr. Strang” Stokes 1936. First Edition. Important early hardboiled mystery by a founder of the genre. Murder and torture of a young girl mix with political corruption. Minor chips, closed tears. Nice copy. VG+/VG+ $975.00
Dianne Day: “The Strange Files of Fremont Jones” Doubleday 1995. First Edition. SIGNED, with EPIGRAPH: “I know what people say about me: that I am willful and opinionated, shockingly eccentric in my manner of dress. “ Author’s first book. Superb debut mystery of a vivacious Bostonian who moves to 1905 San Francisco. F/F $225.00
Len Deighton: “The Ipcress File” UK: Hodder & Stoughton 1962. London. First Edition, True First Issue. Author’s first spy novel. Brilliant espionage thriller. Filmed by Sidney Furie starring Michael Caine. Nice copy. F/F $1750.00
Len Deighton: “Funeral In Berlin” UK: Cape 1964. London. First Edition. Filmed by Guy Hamilton starring Michael Caine. F/F $475.00
Colin Dexter: “The Wench is Dead” UK: Macmillan 1989. London. GOLD DAGGER AWARD WINNER. In hospital recovering Chief Inspector Morse reads an account of an 1859 canal murder and becomes convinced the men hanged were innocent. Research and investigation gives him the solution. SIGNED. Lovely copy. F/F $225.00
Michael Dibdin: “The Last Sherlock Holmes Story” UK: Cape 1978. London. First Edition, True First. Author’s first book. Sherlock Holmes stalks Jack the Ripper. F/F $475.00
P.C. Doherty: “The Prince Drakulya” UK: Hale 1986. London. First Edition. Author’s important second book. An account of the life of Vlad, prince of Wallachia. Known as Dracula, later a vampire. Lovely copy. F/F $975.00
P.C. Doherty: “The Lord Count Drakulya” UK: Hale 1986. London. First Edition. Author’s important third book, published as a sequel to “The Prince Drakulya” but both were written by the author as a single novel. An account of the life of Vlad, prince of Wallachia. Known as Dracula, later a vampire. Lovely copy. Minor rub. nF/nF $750.00
P.C. Doherty: “Spy in Chancery” UK: Hale 1988. London. First Edition, True First Issue. Relates the first great spy scandal in English history. Philip IV of France takes Aquitaine from Edward I of England. Hugh Corbett is assigned to discover the spy in the English court. Pursuit takes him from hostile Wales to Paris in this brilliant 13th Century espionage thriller. Lovely copy. F/F $975.00
Arthur Conan Doyle: “The Valley of Fear” Doran 1914. First Edition, True First Issue. HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE. Sherlock Holmes detective novel. Filmed in 1916 starring HA Saintsbury. Expert professional conservation, in custom leather clamshell box. (pos) Lovely example. nF/nF $9750.00
A Conan Doyle: “His Last Bow” Doran 1917. First Edition. HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE. Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Very slight chips, closed tears. In custom clamshell box. Nice copy. VG+/VG+ $6500.00
A Conan Doyle: “The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes” Doran 1927. First Edition. HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE. Final twelve Sherlock Holmes mysteries. In custom clamshell box. Lovely copy. aF/aF $4500.00
John Dunning: “Booked to Die” Scribners 1992. First Edition. Author's first mystery, introduces policeman, and bookseller, Cliff Janeway. WOLFE AWARD WINNER, DILYS WYNN AWARD WINNER. SIGNED with special EPIGRAPH. Review copy with materials laid in. Lovely copy. F/F $1350.00
John Dunning: “The Bookman’s Wake” Scribners 1995. First Edition. Author’s second Cliff Janeway mystery novel. SIGNED with EPIGRAPH from the book. Review copy with materials laid in. Lovely copy. F/F $375.00
James Ellroy: “Brown’s Requiem” UK: Allison & Busby 1984. London. First Edition, True First Hardcover Issue of 1981 US Paperback Original. SIGNED. Author’s first book. Hardboiled mystery of disillusioned but tough private detective Fritz Brown, hired for surveillance but plunged into violent action. Filmed starring Michael Rooker. Lovely copy. F/F $750.00
Janet Evanovich: “One for the Money” Scribner 1994. First Edition. CREASEY AWARD WINNER. Author’s first book. Introduces Stephanie Plum, New Jersey bounty hunter. SIGNED, with EPIGRAPH: “There are some men who enter a woman's life & screw it up forever...present company excepted”. Lovely copy. F/F $475.00
Jasper Fforde: “The Eyre Affair” UK: Hodder & Stoughton 2001. London. First Edition, True First Issue. SIGNED. Author’s first book. Whimsical literary mystery. Lovely copy. F/F $250.00
(Ian Fleming) Christopher Wood: “James Bond and Moonraker” UK: Cape 1979. London. First Edition. James Bond pursues Space age espionage in Wood’s second Bond novel, and one of his best. Filmed starring Roger Moore from the Christopher Wood screenplay, with Richard Kiel as Jaws. Lovely copy. F/F $975.00
Ian Fleming: “Live and Let Die” UK: Cape 1954. London. First Edition, First State Issue. Second James Bond novel. Murder, intrigue, a fortune in lost treasure coins and James Bond. Lovely copy. nF/nF $15750.00
Ian Fleming: “Octopussy and The Living Daylights” UK: Cape 1966. London. First Edition. Two James Bond espionage adventures. (16s label over original price) Lovely copy. F/F $150.00
C.S. Forester: “Payment Deferred” Little Brown 1942. First Edition. HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE. (pos) Slight chips, small tear. VG+/VG+ $275.00
Dick Francis: “For Kicks” UK: Michael Joseph 1965. London. First Edition. SIGNED. Author’s third mystery. Daniel Roke goes undercover to investigate steeplechase corruption. Horse racing mystery. Very slightest chip, closed tear. Nice copy. VG+/VG+ $1250.00
Dick Francis: “Odds Against” UK: Michael Joseph 1965. London. First Edition. SIGNED. Author’s fourth mystery. Introduces ex-jockey Sid Halley. Horse racing mystery. Slightest closed tear. Lovely copy. virtually F/F $975.00
Dick Francis: “Bonecrack” UK: Michael Joseph 1971. London. First Edition. In charge of his father’s great stables, Neil Griffon battles against abduction and extortion. F/F $175.00
Dick Francis: “Slay-Ride” UK: Michael Joseph 1973. London. First Edition. SIGNED. Jockey Club investigator David Cleveland goes to Norwegian race course to look for a missing British jockey. F/F $295.00
Dick Francis: “Knock Down” UK: Michael Joseph 1974. London. First Edition. SIGNED. Retired jockey finds corruption and mystery in bloodstock auctions. Nice copy. F/F $225.00
Dick Francis: “Whip Hand” UK: Michael Joseph 1979. London. First Edition. SIGNED: “Christmas 1979 Shelagh & Marcus, Love & best wishes from Marg & me. Dick Francis”. EDGAR AWARD WINNER. Ex jockey Sid Halley investigates mystery in horse racing. Nice copy. F/F $175.00
Kinky Friedman: “Greenwich Killing Time” Morrow 1986. First Edition. Author’s first book. Murder in Greenwich Village, with sly and sharp humor. SIGNED. F/F $125.00
Alan Furst: “The Caribbean Account” Delacorte 1981. First Edition, True First Issue. SIGNED. Author’s third book. Shady private detective finds mystery and intrigue in the Miami environs. Nice copy. nF/nF $475.00
Alan Furst: “Blood of Victory” UK: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2002. London. First Edition. SIGNED. Russian émigré is recruited by British Secret Service to disrupt Romanian oil export to Nazi Germany. Nice copy. F/F $75.00
George Gibbs: “Out of the Dark” Appleton 1934. First Edition. Classic mystery tale featuring a Pennsylvania-Dutch detective. Very slightest chips. Lovely copy. nF/nF $175.00
Paula Gosling: “A Running Duck” UK: Macmillan 1978. London. First Edition, True First Issue. CREASEY AWARD WINNER. Author’s first book. Lt. Malchek protects the witness to a professional murder. Filmed as “Cobra” starring Sylvester Stallone, and filmed again as “Fair Game” starring Cindy Crawford. Nice copy. virtually F/F $875.00
Sue Grafton: “C is for Corpse” Holt 1986. First Edition. SIGNED. Third Kinsey Milhone mystery. Nice copy. F/F $1250.00
Sue Grafton: “G is for Gumshoe” Holt 1990. First Edition. SIGNED. Kinsey Milhone mystery. ANTHONY AWARD WINNER. SHAMUS AWARD WINNER. Lovely copy. F/F $125.00
Graham Greene: “Our Man in Havana” UK: Heinemann 1958. London. First Edition. Classic mystery of spies in Cuba. Filmed by Carol Reed from the author’s screenplay starring Alex Guinness, Ernie Kovacs and Maureen O’Hara. Lovely copy. F/F $275.00
Graham Greene: “The Honorary Consul” Simon and Schuster 1973. First Edition. SIGNED. Intrigue in Argentina. Filmed starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere. Slight rub. Nice copy. Virtually F/F $475.00
Graham Greene: “The Human Factor” Simon and Schuster 1978. First Edition. SIGNED. Double agents and murder. Filmed by starring Richard Attenborough and Derek Jacobi. Nice copy. Virtually F/F $475.00
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