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Sag Harbor: Permanent Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread. Bump back top corner; . edge wrinkling jacket at spine head.. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Moving effortlessly across the social divide with wry pal Jackie Swaitkowski and rich guy Burton Lewis, Sam Acquillo, the ex-boxer, ex-corporate infighter seems doomed to straddle the thin red line… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark top edge.. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. At the ripe old age of almost twenty-five, John Lago is already New York City’s most successful hit man. He’s also an intern at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, clocking eighty hours a week getting coffee, answering … Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. As a private eye, Toby Peters has had some pretty impressive clients over the years, but none of them has been quite as memorable as his latest: a tough-as-nails, sharp-witted, damsel-in-distress named Mae West. Mae, it seems, has discovered… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket with minor wear and small tear . top edge front panel.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. On a Sunday night in 1942, private eye Toby Peters wakes up in a Los Angeles hotel room with a headache, a corpse on the bed, and John Wayne pointing… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Toby Peters, a L. A. Private detective, is determined to save Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson from a Nazi assassin. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 212 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Convinced that her famous Scottish terrier, Fala, has been kidnapped and replaced with an inferior pooch, Eleanor Roosevelt asks L. A. Private eye Toby Peters to find the real Fala. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 174 pages .… Read more about this item

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. W. C. Fields hires private eye Toby Peters to nab the culprit who is robbing him one bank account at a time, but while on the thief's trail, the two find out there is another bad guy who does not want… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket has a tiny dig to edge of back . panel. Front endpaper has light crease.. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Private investigator Harris Stuyvesant is hired to find Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two-year-old from Boston who has been modeling and acting in Paris. Soon it becomes clear that one… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Review Copy with publisher's letter . laid in. Has been gently read.. 2004. Review Copy. Hardcover. Self-proclaimed movie geek, Roy Milano, is struggling to make ends meet while he pursues his "reel" love - publishing a newsletter of little-known Hollywood lore for like-minded cinemaphiles. However, when the phone rings… Read more about this item

Toronto: MIRA. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first novel and winner of the . Strand Critics Award. Has been gently read.. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don't know the… Read more about this item

New York: Crown. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Foxing to edges.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. A blazing hot day at the height of a Missouri summer. Through the bars of a cell on Death Row, two men meet for the first time. Steve Everett's life is unraveling. Frank Beachum's life is about to end. There are… Read more about this item

Pleasantville: Impress. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued; Part of the Best Mysteries of All . Time series, with brochure laid in. Reprint of the award-winning debut of . Inspector Ghote. Has been gently read.. 2010. Reprint. Hardcover. Inspector Ghote begins his career at the Bombay CID with two baffling crimes. A man is murdered in the… Read more about this item

New York: Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight toning to top and bottom edge.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Jackie Swaitkowski may not be the most buttoned-up lawyer in the Hamptons, but a plane crash before her very eyes is hard to miss. Just before the struggling air taxi takes a nosedive, the pilot tosses… Read more about this item

Pleasantville: Impress. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued; Prior owner label to front . endpaper. Red boards with gold titles (shows up as black in the scan) Part . of the Best Mysteries of All Time series with brochure laid in.. 2010. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of the first Inspector Rostnikov mysteries originally published in 1981. The inspector… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Second novel in the Kit Deleeuw series. The forty-something Suburban Detective takes us behind the scenes of his seemingly placid home town to show us what happens when violence lurks just behind the walls of comfortable suburbia. ; 8.2 X… Read more about this item

New York: St Martins Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Light edge wear to jacket.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. An Inspector Faro Mystery. Due at her sister's house two weeks ago, Mabel Keller is nowhere to be found. She had good reason to disappear, however, since her husband, Edinburgh's police surgeon, was rude, even hostile, at… Read more about this item

New York: Kensington Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Light crinkling to jacket.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. With their "decidedly homey characters, country charm, and upbeat tone", the Laura Fleming mysteries are as refreshing as mint iced tea served on a hot June day. Now the reluctant sleuth - and brand-new mom - is heading … Read more about this item

New York: Soho Crime. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; A Sister Conchita and Sergeant Kella . Mystery. Jacket with small dents front panel at spine edge.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. It's not easy being Ben Kella. In the past few days he has been cursed by a magic man, stumbled across evidence of a cargo cult uprising, and… Read more about this item

New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Kate Theodorus, Washington DC social worker and former cop, marries Joel Baker and creates a new life for herself. Three years later, Joel leaves the house to pick up groceries and never returns. When the police find evidence connecting… Read more about this item

New York: Summit Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; 2004 Lefty Award winner. Edge browning . to book.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Mumbo Jumbo marks the return of Calista Jacobs, the irrepressible children's book illustrator, whose newest adventure takes her to the American West and mystical beyond. She leaves her Cambridge home to join her… Read more about this item