Mystery


Agatha Christie, THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS, Dell - 1971 PB in good condition, complete, reading copy. Owner's name inside front flap. "The Great Manor of Chimneys was a quiet and secluded estate where politicians discreetly settle affairs of state - and often affairs of quite a different kind were cons ummated. But all was changed when a pack of shocking love letters, a set of scandalous memoirs, and the bloody corpse of a famous man turned Chimneys into a place of murder and menace." $1.50

Bob Larson, DEAD AIR, Thomas Nelson - 1991 HC F DJ F First Edition "A young girl is kidnapped by a secret cult and only one man can help her. Will he be able to face the fury of the Dark Raven?" $8.00

Charles Dickens, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, Franklin Library - 1988 HC (As issued) VF Cover of book is a copy of the original issue. Leatherbound $10.00

D. W. Buffa, THE DEFENSE, Fawcett Crest 1998 PB in good condition, reading copy, complete. "Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case - or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, and no one more quickly or more co mpletely than myself." Now the man he most admires, the honorable Judge Rifkin, has aked him a favor: Defend a drug dealer accused of raping his twelve-year old stepdaughter." Yet Antonelli's acceptance of this case sets in motion an explosive chain of corruption, betrayal and murder that will leave no one unscathed." $3.00

Ed McBain, THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL, Warner Books - 1994 HC VG, DJ VG - First Edition - Small tear on inside front cover of dust jacket, no pieces missing, just torn. "Matthew Hope has been shot-taking two bullets outside a bar in Calusa's seediest neighborhood. With Matthew in a postsurgery semicom a, the men and women who know him best go to the places he went, talk to the people he talked to, and desperately try to find out who wanted Matthew Hope dead." $25.00

Ed McBain Evan Hunter, POISON, Arbor House - 1987 HC F, DJ F, BCE $5.50

Ellis Peters, BROTHER CADFAEL'S PENANCE, Warner - 1994 HC VF, DJ VF, (Never Read), First Edition "A November filled with golden sunshine seemed a gentle ending to this year of the Lord, 1145, although England remained torn between those who supported Empress Maud as Sovereign and those who pledged their allegiances to her cousin, Stephen." $25.00

George Dawes Green, THE JUROR, Warner - 1995 PB NF 1st Edition Corners slightly curled. $2.75

James Patterson, JACK AND JILL, Little, Brown - 1996 HC F DJ F, DJ has some small chipping. Book spine 'bumped' on bottom. "In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-tier. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill"." $8.50

John Grisham, THE STREET LAWYER, Island Books - 1998 PB in VG Condition, complete. "Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm." "A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plush offices. When it is a ll over, the man's blood is splattered on Michael's face-and suddenly Michael is ready to do the unthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michael is leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker once lived." $3.00

John Grisham, THE FIRM THE PELICAN BRIEF A TIME TO KILL, Island Books PB As New Three paperbacks still in case and shrinkwrap. Great gift. $12.00

John Grisham, THE RAINMAKER, Doubleday - 1995 HC F DJ G+ - DJ has some rips in spine area, corners rubbed. $10.00

John Grisham, THE PARTNER, Island Books - 1998 PB VG+ small chip in bottom front cover. $3.50

John Le Carre, NIGHT MANAGER, Alfred A. Knopf 1993 HC VF, DJ VF, First Edition "We are in a new arena of intrigue when the old rivalries of great nations have been supplanted by the ravages of individual greed." $28.00

John Sherwood, BONES GATHER NO MOSS, Scribners - 1994 HC VF DJ VG+ - DJ jas some chipped corners, book has bookplate inside with former owners name. ISBN 0-684-19738-3 "But she knows just the woman for the job: English botanist and moss expert Jane Greenwood. Jane gratefully takes on the assignment and Celia thinks nothing more about it....until Jane disappears". $6.00

Joseph Wambaugh, THE GOLDEN ORANGE, Perigord / Morrow 1990 HC NF, DJ NF, (Never Read), First Edition "Winnie Farlowe, forty-year-old ex-cop is more interested in drinking than looking over yachts and bikinis." $25.00

Lillian Jackson Braun, THE CAT WHO SAID CHEESE, G. P. Putnam's Sons - 1996 HC VF, DJ VF, First Edition "Something smells in Pickax! As the Great Food Exlplo is about to begin, a killer is determined to make it an event Pickax city will never forget." $15.00

Michael Slade, PRIMAL SCREAM, Signet - 1998 PB in good condition, reading copy, complete. "The gift was sent to Detective Robert DeClercq anonymously from a secret admirer. It was no bigger than a baseball, bleached the same ashen white, with a fine, precise stitching that sealed a withered pair of lips and two sunken eyes." $3.00

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, FIRST OFFENSE, Dutton - 1994 HC VF DJ VF - has remainder mark on bottom. Slight rubbing along edges of dj "Ann Carlisle suddenly finds herself the target of someone who wishes to harm not only her but her teenage son". $8.00

Peter Deutermann, THE EDGE OF HONOR, St. Martin's Press - 1995 PB F Never read. Front cover, top right has small curl. "A Man on the Brink of his Destiny...A woman tempted by desire. A ship at war with itself. The Edge of Honor." $3.00

Robert Goldsborough, NERO WOLFE THE LAST COINCIDENCE, Bantam - 1989 HC VF, DJ NF, 1st Edition, Inside flap of dj has been bent at an angle. Top right corner. $8.25

Robin Cook, COMA, Little, Brown 1977 HC f, DJ VG, First Edition Former owners name inside. DJ has small tear on top (no part missing due to tear). "The Surgery was routine, the kind performed many time a day at Bostons' greatest hospital and the teams that worked in OR #8 were among the best in their field. But even their proficient skills feel useless as sometime terrifying began to happen. Certain patients never regained consciousness."s $28.00

Simon Shaw, DEAD FOR A DUCAT, St. Martin's Press - 1992 HC F 1st U.S. Edition $10.00

Stuart Woods, CHOKE - FICTION, Harper Collins - 1995 HC NF+, DJ NF, First Edition DJ has small "ripple" on front, top edge. "Chuck Chandler arrives in Key West, as many people do, at the end of his rope. He has, in turn, blown a career as a top tour tennis professional and a series of teaching jobs at plush clubs, usually because he has been unable to keep his hands off his female students. " $25.00

Susan Wittig Albert, ROSEMARY REMEMBERED - A CHINA BAYLES MYSTERY, Berkley - 1995 HC VF, DJ VF 1st Edition $10.00

Terence Faherty, DEADSTICK - AN OWEN KEANE MYSTERY, Worldwide Mystery - 1995 PB in good condition, reading copy, complete. Has an old book store stamp inside. "Why would a millionaire in his sixties, with no accusers to answer to or social ambitions to protect, move to reopen a forty-year-old scandal?" $0.75