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New York: William Morrow & Co., 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 44th novel in the award-winning McBain's 87th Precinct series, which set the standard for police procedural mystery novels. "Kiss" features Emma Bowles, wife of a successful businessman, who, after two near-fatal accidents, believes someone is trying to kill her even though her husband has hired her a bodyguard.… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Reichs follows her best-selling, Ellis Award-winning first novel, "Deja Death," with a second featuring forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan. First edition, first printing (with complete numberline). About 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, 379 pages in grey paper-covered boards with black backstrip and gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 1984. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. A collection of 10 short stories featuring Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie, who knows right from wrong and will make sure you know too, even if it means from the business ends of his .44s. Paperback original, first Bantam paperback edition, first printing. Abourt 4 1/8… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Thayer's fifth novel features Pennington, a deputy sheriff in a rural Wisconsin county, who is assigned to lead the investigation into the deaths of a politically and socially prominent husband and wife whose naked, shotgunned bodies are found in a "magic circle" in the middle of a wheat… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The ninth novel in Sandford's crime-thriller series featuring Detective Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Apprehension. This time he's investigating the theft of a pair of rare Amur tigers from the Minnesota Zoo, an investigation that quickly turns into a situation almost as serious as Flowers'… Read more about this item

New York: Jove Publications, Inc., 1980. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Originally published by Little Brown in 1955, this is the eighteenth novel in Marsh's mystery series featuring British Police Inspector Roderick Alleyn, who finds himself investigating a brutal murder among the gentry in the little English village of Swevenings, a pastoral paradise with… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hammett Award winner Hoffman returns to the West Virginia mountains setting of many of his best mystery-crime thrillers, for a story about the hunting trip-reunion of three men -- Walter, Drake and Cliff -- that becomes a nightmare when Cliff accidentally shoots the fourth member of their hunting… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The 14th novel in McGarrity's (writing as Bartholomew Gill) highly-praised police procedural mystery series featuring Irish Police Inspector Peter McGarr. This time McGarr is called in to investigate the murders of a man and woman, both police officers married to others, found naked and shot to… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1997. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 10th novel in Kellerman's crime-thriller series featuring Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, this time investigating a mass murder at a trendy Los Angeles restaurant where a lone gunman opened fire on the crowd of diners, killing thirteen and wounding thirty-one before… Read more about this item

Pleasantville, NY: Impress Mystery/Reader's Digest, 2005. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. An award-winning 1988 novel from Hillerman's mystery-crime series set in New Mexico and featuring Navaho detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. This time they are investigating theft and murder involving ancient Assazi relics and a woman anthropologist. This copy is a First Printing, First Edition… Read more about this item

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The twelfth book in McGarrity's crime-thriller series featuring recently-retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney, who has personal reasons for joining a state-wide manhunt for an escaped murderer on a crazed shooting spree. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The… Read more about this item

New York: The Dial Press/Davis Publications, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. An Ellery Queen mystery anthology of 5 novellas and 16 short stories based on selections from "Best Detective Stories of the Year" from 1963 to 1977 when that series was in its heyday. Authors selected include Symons, Asimov, Highsmith, Treat, Pentecost, Breen,… Read more about this item

Woodstock, VT: Foul Play Press/Countryman Press, 1994. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Cook's third mystery-crime novel features newly promoted English Detective Sergeant Judy Best, investigating the murder of a local Tory leader who has recently alarmed and angered a whole range of political opponents. She must find a killer while coming to terms with… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. His first novel and the Red Mask mystery which started Jack Olesker on a long-career as a Hollywood producer and director. "No Place Like Home," is set in a luxury Chicago high-rise apartment building where a former national sports hero turns serial killer,… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Simon's highly-praised noir crime-thriller series, set in 1980s Texas and featuring the Austin Police Department's only New Yorker, Dan Reles, sees him chasing a gunman across the state as he investigates the bombing of the family of an African-American community leader. Boards… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Penguin, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Simon's first novel is this widely-praised crime-thriller, the first of four books featuring Dan Reles, at 15 a refugee from his New York Mafia father and now, in 1988, a homicide detective with the Austin, Texas, police department. Reles has six days to track the killer… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sequel to the award-winning Parker's highly-praised "The Blue Hour." Once again, detective Marci Rayborn is the lead investigator in a case involving a fellow cop, friend and lover, Mike McNally, suspected of the brutal murder of a young prostitute. Signed by Parker on the title lpage.… Read more about this item

New York: Soho Press, Inc., 2007. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The ninth book in the award-winning Lovesey's police procedural series featuring British Detective Inspector Peter Diamond, this time searching for the serial killer who leaves his victims' bodies hanging in prominent public places. A slight spine lean o/w boards and text are… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. The second and hardest-to-find book in Jackson's highly-praised mystery-crime series featuring Detroit Detective Sgt. Fang Mulheisen, this time dealing with the murders of five railroad trainmen in a spectacular freight train crash and a hijacked boxcar loaded with automatic rifles as well as… Read more about this item

New York: Arcade Publishing, Inc., 2001. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine to Fine. The third novel in the award-winning Maitland's police procedural series featuring Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla. This time they're investigating the kidnapping of the pretty young wife of a criminal Brock has dealt with… Read more about this item