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Mycroft Holmes

By: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem; Waterhouse, Anna

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Titan Books: 2015

Seller ID: 2308311

ISBN: 1783291532

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2015 Hard Cover. Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British of civil servants has strong ties to the faraway island of Trinidad, the birthplace of his best friend, Cyrus Douglas, a man of African descent, and where his fiance?e Georgiana Sutton was raised.
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Dead to the World (The Crime Club)

By: Baker, North; Bolton, William

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1944

Seller ID: 2294635

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Lacks jacket. Lightly soiled, small spot on rear board. 1944 Hard Cover. 246 pp. 8vo. A classic example of 1940s crime noir.
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King and Maxwell

By: Baldacci, David

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York / Boston, Grand Central Publishing: 2014

Seller ID: 2264501

ISBN: 1455521248

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

1st printing. Spine creased, light general wear. 2014 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 440 pp. David Baldacci brings back Sean King and Michelle Maxwell--former Secret Service agents turned private investigators--in their most surprising, personal, and dangerous case ever... It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father... after his supposed death. Tyler hires Sean and Mic...
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Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective

By: Baring-Gould, William S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Bramhall House: 1962

Seller ID: 2299207

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket lightly stained. 1962 Hard Cover. 336 pp. 8vo. This volume brings together for the first time every known fact that can be fully authenticated about the life of one of the world's most extraordinary men, and reveals much more about him that has not been heretofore generally known. From twenty years' research into every possible source, the author has written as definitive an account as could ever be assembled.
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Out of Order

By: Benoit, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: ., Poisoned Pen Press: 2006

Seller ID: 2197675

ISBN: 1590582527

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 234 pp. 8vo. At 27, Jason Talley of Corning, New York, leads an orderly life, precisely processing loans for a mortgage company. Its warmest spot is his friendship with Sriram Sundaram and his lively wife Vidya. One night Sriram secretly confides he's planning a trip home to India to visit his mother and asks Jason to hold her gift, a gorgeous red silk sari. The very next evening Jason arrives home to sirens and cops--Sriram and Vidya are dead. The cops call it a mu...
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The Mystery at Lovers' Cave [Lover's] (The Modern Reprint Library Series)

By: Berkeley, Anthony

Price: $250.00

Publisher: ., Jacobsen Publishing Company, Inc.: 1927

Seller ID: 2072271

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes scarce original jacket with C.V. Farrow artwork - currently the only copy in the trade that includes it. Ink gift note date 4/7/31 on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. Good. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 273 pp. 8vo. Reissue of 1927 Simon & Schuster original. Title given as 'The Mystery at Lovers' Cave' on title page, but 'The Mystery at Lover's Cave' on cover and jacket. The first Roger Sheringham mystery novel, and among the earliest books by popular British crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox, who wrote as Anthony Berke...
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The Capture of Paul Beck

By: Bodkin, McDonnell

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1911

Seller ID: 2287488

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Front endpaper missing, large stain on frontispiece and tissue guard, rear hinge starting. 1911 Hard Cover. vii, 312 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Matthias McDonnell Bodkin[1] (8 October 1850 7 June 1933) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Anti-Parnellite representative for North Roscommon, 189295, a noted author, journalist and newspaper editor, and barrister, King's Counsel (K.C.) and County Court Judge for County Clare, 190724. Bodkin earned a place in the history of the detective nove...
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An Unexpected Move; or, For Love of a Lass (Magnet Detective Library No. 355)

By: Campbell, Scott

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Street & Smith:

Seller ID: 2174981

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Edges rubbed with minor loss, rear wrapper replaced with cardstock, tape repair to spine, pages toned. 216, [2] pp. A detective novel published by Street & Smith, which specialized in dime novels and pulp fiction in the mid- to late- 19th and early 20th century.
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It Walks by Night

By: Carr, John Dickson

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1930

Seller ID: 2292852

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Reissue. Small internal chip from rear endpaper along hinge, minimal wear to jacket corners. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 328 pp. 8vo. Map of crime scene precedes text. A detective novel by the Golden Age mystery author who also wrote under the names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. Carr was considered a master of the 'locked room' sub-genre. This is his first novel, and the first mystery to feature the detective Henri Bencolin. Carr wrote four more featuring Bencolin, all of which were locked room mysteries.
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A Mysterious Graft; or, The Man Who Spoke (New Magnet Library No. 1158 - Nick Carter Series)

By: Carter, Nicholas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Street & Smith Corporation: 1903

Seller ID: 1953095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Binding repaired, pages heavily toned with faint stains to base of first section of pages. 1903 Trade Paperback. 209 pp., with numerous ads for various series preceding and following text. Color pictorial wrappers. One of numerous Nick Carter detective stories, which were first published in 1886, and remained popular through roughly 1950.
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The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake

By: Chandler, Raymond; Powell, Lawrence Clark

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1964

Seller ID: 2277468

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First collected edition. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, boards faintly soiled, ink name on front endpaper. 1964 Hard Cover. 625, [1] pp. 8vo. Four mysteries by the author known for his hard boiled detective stories, several of which inspired films.
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The A.B.C. Murders: A New Poirot Mystery [Hercule]

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1936

Seller ID: 2275039

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Reissue. Hinges loosening, loss from jacket corners. 1936 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 306, [4] pp. 8vo. Ais for Mrs. Ascher in Andover,Bis for Betty Barnard in Bexhill,Cis for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confidentbut leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.
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The Murder at the Vicarage (A Mercury Mystery)

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The American Mercury, Inc.: 1930

Seller ID: 2297524

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

One inch tear along spine base and rear wrapper, wrappers rubbed, ink marks on front wrapper, ink gift note on title page. 1930 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 126 pp. The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christies first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marpleas a dead body in a clergymans study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide. Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country ...
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Cards on the Table: A Poirot Story [Hercule]

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, The Crime Club: 1950

Seller ID: 2303833

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

4th printing. Includes facsimile jacket. Edges foxed, small Australian dealer plate on front endapper. 1950 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 286, [2] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, black titles. [Hercule] Poirot is invited to a dinner party held by Mr. Shaitana, a strange old man who informs him that four of his fellow guests are murderers who have pulled off their crime without getting caught. After dinner the criminals assemble to play bridge in a separate room with their host, and Shaitana is promptly killed. It's up to Poirot to ensure that the murderer doesn't get off a seco...
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Thirteen at Dinner (Hercule Poirot) [13] [Published in the UK Under Title: Lord Edgware Dies]

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1933

Seller ID: 2308128

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First American edition. No jacket. Hinges broken, bookplate removed from front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on front free endpaper, rear endpapers soiled. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 305 pp. Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1933[1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner.[2][3] Before its book publication, the novel was serialised in six issues (MarchAugust 1933) of The American Ma...
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The Body in the Library; Double or Quits; The Rio Casino Intrigue (Detective Book Club)

By: Christie, Agatha; Fair, A.A.; Mason, Van Wyck

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Detective Book Club: 1942

Seller ID: 2197669

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket. Front hinge weak, jacket corners a bit rubbed. 1942 Hard Cover. 800 pp. 8vo. Three books in one volume. Includes: The Body in the Library; Double or Quits; The Rio Casino Intrigue. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Dame Agatha Christie DBE (15 September 1890 12 January 1976), was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, have give...
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La Resurrection de Sherlock Holmes [The Return of Sherlock Holmes]

By: Conan Doyle (Doyle, Arthur Conan)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Paris, La Renaissance du Livre:

Seller ID: 2151662

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

No date, circa 1910. Wrappers & pages toned, wrappers protected by onion skin jacket. Good. 271 pp. A French translation of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]

By: Conan Doyle (Doyle, Arthur Conan); P.O.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Paris, Felix Juven:

Seller ID: 2151661

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Circa 1910. Spine creased with loss from head & foot, pages toned, binding shaken. vii, 274 pp. A French translation of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch No. 14)

By: Connelly, Michael

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown: 2009

Seller ID: 2305078

ISBN: 0316166316

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Crease down front jacket flap. 2009 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer.
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The Overlook (Harry Bosch No. 13)

By: Connelly, Michael

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown and Company: 2007

Seller ID: 2305079

ISBN: 0316018953

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor's death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder coul...
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The Closers (Harry Bosch No. 11)

By: Connelly, Michael

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown: 2005

Seller ID: 2305080

ISBN: 0316734942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Years after the death of a sixteen-year-old girl is ruled a suicide, detective Harry Bosch receives DNA evidence that reopens the case, which involves an investigation into a white supremacist with close ties to the LAPD.
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Chasing the Dime (Harry Bosch)

By: Connelly, Michael

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown: 2002

Seller ID: 2305081

ISBN: 0316153915

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top edge faintly foxed. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Henry Price has a whole new life-new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Price is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a nighttime world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Price tumbles through a hole, abandoning his ord...
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Blood Mud

By: Constantine, K.C.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2305348

ISBN: 0892966475

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Faint foxing to page ridge. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Private detective Mario Balzic, whose heart is acting up, returns to investigate the disappearance of guns from a local shop and finds himself confronted with a number of dangerous and powerful suspects, including a local politician and a police chief.
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Trailing the Josephine (The Adventure Library No. 39)

By: Cook, William Wallace

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Street & Smith:

Seller ID: 2174984

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed with minor loss from spine head & foot, pages toned. We have more books available by this author!. 272, [14] pp. A detective novel published by Street & Smith, which specialized in dime novels and pulp fiction in the mid- to late- 19th and early 20th century.
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Juggling with Liberty (The Adventure Library No. 17)

By: Cook, William Wallace

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Street & Smith:

Seller ID: 2174985

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Minor loss from spine head & foot, pages toned. We have more books available by this author!. 300, [18] pp. A detective novel published by Street & Smith, which specialized in dime novels and pulp fiction in the mid- to late- 19th and early 20th century.
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Hornet's Nest

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, Berkley: 1998

Seller ID: 2261379

ISBN: 042516098X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine creased. 1998 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 369 pp. Patricia Cornwell turns from forensics to police procedures in her latest novel,Hornet's Nest. This book is less a thriller than a character study of the main characters: Judy Hammer, chief of police in Charlotte, North Carolina; Hammer's deputy, Virginia West; and Andy Brazil, a young reporter assigned to ride with the police as they go about their jobs.
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The Case of the Gilded Fly

By: Crispin, Edmund

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Felony & Mayhem: 2005

Seller ID: 2275208

ISBN: 1933397004

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University. Center-stage is the beautiful, malicious Yseut, a mediocre actress with a stellar talent for destroying men. Rounding out the cast are more than a few of her past and present conquests, and the women who love them.
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Luther: The Calling

By: Cross, Neil

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Touchstone: 2012

Seller ID: 2305355

ISBN: 1451673094

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2012 Hard Cover. Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. Hes a homicide detective with an extraordinary case-clearance rate. Hes obsessive, instinctive, and intense. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. And yet there are rumors that Luther is badnot corrupt, but tormented. Prequel to BBC crime series by the show creator. After years of chasing the most depraved criminals in Londons gritty underworld, he seethes with a hidden fury he can barely control, making him do things any other detective wouldnt and shouldnt do.
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The Dangerous Edge

By: Daley, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1983

Seller ID: 2305562

ISBN: 0671470574

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip and author photo laid in. Jacket rear lighlty toned. Top edge lightly foxed with a faint stain. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 411 pp. The French Riviera 1954. In an imperfect world the perfect crime. And for the man wh o mastermlinded the breakin of the Banque de Nice, robbing it of its gold and precious stones--and its even more valuable secrets--it seemed the pefect crime. Then a dogged French detective was handed the case, and finally he had something to live for. Suddenly the act of violent bravado has drawn ...
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Silver Pigs

By: Davis, Lindsey

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, Fawcett: 1991

Seller ID: 2303605

ISBN: 0345369076

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Reprint. Lightly rubbed. 1991 Mass Market Paperback. It is A.D. 70, when Roman P.I. Marcus Didius Falco runs into comely Sosia Camillina on the steps of the Forum. It seems she's being chased by a few unsavories for a stockpile of silver pigs--silver ingots--but Falco wants more information. What he gets is a whiff of treason and a one-way ticket to his own funeral pyre....
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