ADLER-OLSEN, JUSSI

The Purity of Vengeance a Department Q Novel

New York: Dutton, 2013. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0525954015. Remainder mark bottom page edges. DJ is near-fine condition.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.7 inches; 500 pages; "In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl Mørck already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties: New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners—the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl’s assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad, who is more determined than ever to see the vision of his youth take hold and whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil.". Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 19481

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 0525954015 Fiction::Mystery

BAGBY, GEORGE & AARON MARC STEIN

Killer Boy Was Here

Garden City: Crime Club by Doubleday, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows light edge wear. Book is missing back free end paper, previous owner's stamps and date stamp on front end papers. Glue remnants on front and back pastedowns under flaps. 'Anco copy' stamped on bottom page edges. Book was probably from a company library. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 185 pages; "George Bagby was the nom de plume of the American novelist Aaron Marc Stein (1906- August 29, 1985),[1][2] who specialized in mystery fiction. Bagby's focus was on police investigators, especially the fictional Inspector Schmidt, Chief of Homicide for the New York Police Department. In the Schmidt novels, mystery-writer Bagby himself appears as "the Watson to Schmidt's Holmes, following him on cases, and acting as biographer."" (Wikipedia). Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 15014

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: aaron marc stein pseudonym Fiction::Mystery

BARING-GOULD, WILLIAM S. (EDITOR)

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes Vol II Only

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1970. Second Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Map Endpapers. Boards show shelf wear, top corners bumped. DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears, chipping and soiling. Large 5cm X 4cm (approx.) area missing from DJ at top of spine and lower fore corner. Price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 824 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 19703

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: Fiction::Mystery LITERATURE

BEATON M. C.

Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor

London: Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2006. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1845294440. Slight creasing of DJ, top back corner bumped ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Agatha Raisin #17; 8.5 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 207 pages; "Agatha Raisin is lonely. Busy as she is with her detective agency and the meetings of the Carsely Ladies' Society, she still misses her ex-husband, James Lacey, so she welcomes his return to the cottage next door with her usual triumph of optimism over experience---especially when he invites her on holiday at a surprise location that was once very dear to him. With visions of a romantic hideaway in Italy or the Pacific dancing in her head, Agatha goes off happily with James to...Snoth-on-Sea, in Sussex.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 19884

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 1845294440 agatha raisin Fiction::Mystery

BLACKSTOCK, CYNTHIA & HOFBAUER JACKET ART

When the Sun Goes Down

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Hofbauer jacket art. Price clipped DJ has a short tear bottom back edge, a little sticker residue on FFEP ; DJ in Mylar, a tight solid book. ; 254 pages; A young woman goes to Thailand to investigate her brother's death. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 10832

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: Mystery River Kwai bangkok Fiction::Mystery

BLUNT, GILES

Forty Words for Sorrow

Toronto: Random House Canada, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679310576. DJ and boards show light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; John Cardinal series #1; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 326 pages; "When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up, except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. But time isn't only running out for him: there's also another young victim tied up in a basement wondering how and when he will die.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 18745

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 0679310576 John Cardinal Lise Delorme

BURLEY, W. J.

Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0575040564. Slight wear head and tail of DJ spine, previous owner's address sticker top front free end paper ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 186 pages; "When Edwin Garland dies of a heart attack, no one outside the expectant circle of his relatives is concerned, but the situation changes dramatically when, on the evening of the funeral, his son is shot dead. Chief Superintendent Wycliffe is faced with a seemingly motiveless killing, and Edwin's will, though mischievously contrived, offers no explanation.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20402

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 0575040564 MYSTERY wycliffe Fiction::Mystery

BURLEY, W. J.

Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin

London: Gollancz, 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 057503792X. Only slight wear to dust jacket, previous owner's sticker at top of front free end paper. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 192 pages; "Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to stay with a Penzance lawyer and his family, but when he arrives the weather is awful, the house miles from anywhere, and the family less than welcoming.". Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 20403

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 057503792X wycliffe Cornwall Cornish

CAVE, HUGH B.

Bottled in Blonde; the Peter Kane Detective Stories

Minneapolis, MN: Fedogan & Bremer, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1878252488. Illustrated by Jill Baumann jacket art. As new ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 8.70 X 5.80 X 1 inches; 241 pages; This is one of the 1000 copy first trade editions.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 15932

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 1878252488 MYSTERY Peter Kane

COLLINS, MICHAEL

The Resurrectionists

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1861591950. Signed by Author; Light wear to base of DJ ; Signed by author on title page. DJ in Mylar, unclipped. A bright solid, book ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages; North America is truly Michael Collins's heart of darkness. And it is a territory mapped with infinite precision in this new novel of murder and menace set in the frozen wastes of a winter town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Twenty years ago, when Frank was five, his parents burned to death in this former mining town. Now his uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger. When Frank hears that the stranger bears the name of a man who died twenty years before, he decides to head North. To dig up the dead.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 11111

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 1861591950 Michigan Fiction::Mystery

O'CONNELL, CAROL

Killing Critics

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399141685. 309 pages; Slight wear top of DJ. DJ unclipped. A tight bright book. Dust jacket in Mylar. Mallory is back in this tense thriller.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 6770

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 0399141685 Fiction Mallory

CONNELLY, MICHAEL

The Night Fire

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316485616. Only slight wear, shallow crease top fore edge of spine. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch # 22; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 416 pages; "Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, and his widow gives Bosch a murder book, one that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man. Bosch takes the murder book to Detective Renée Ballard and asks her to help him discover what about this crime lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. As she begins her inquiries -- while still working her own cases on the midnight shift -- Ballad finds aspects of the initial investigation that just don't add up.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21757

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 0316485616 harry bosch Mystery Fiction::Mystery

CONNOLLY, JOHN

The Burning Soul

New York: Atria Books, 2011. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1439165270. Small nick bottom edge of dust jacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Charlie Parker, Book 10; 9 X 6.10 X 1.30 inches; 406 pages; "“There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one’s humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before.”Randall Haight has a secret: He is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He has built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor’s Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is being tormented by anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He wants private detective Charlie Parker to make them go away.But another girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor’s Bay itself, and her family has its own secrets to protect. Now, in a town built on blood and shadowed by old ghosts, Parker must unravel a twisted history of violence and deceit involving the police and the FBI, a doomed mobster and his enemies, and Randall Haight himself.Because Randall is telling lies.". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 18326

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 1439165270 Charlie Parker Fiction::Mystery

COOK, BOB

Faceless Mortals

London: Victor Gollancz, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0575042893. Some creasing head and tail of DJ spine, previous owner's embossing first few pages, light yellowing of pages ; A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 204 pages; A political thriller - "Herbie Feigl, an obscure prep-school master, goes missing in Yugoslavia and a tabloid newspaper claims he is a spy". An ex MI6 Professor of Philosphy feels obliged to pursue the matter and discovers a mystery involving many agencies.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 10061

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 0575042893 MYSTERY Espionage CIA KGB Thriller Fiction::Mystery

CREASEY, JOHN

Death of a Racehorse

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973. Uniform edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0340164905. Previous owner's name top FFEP has been erased, DJ shows light edgewear & scuffing, short tear top back panel ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A tight solid book. ; an Inspector West mystery; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 190 pages; This is a reprint of the book which was originally released in 1959. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 12486

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 0340164905 Horse Racing Mystery Fiction::Mystery