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The Breath of God (Sherlock Holmes)

By: Adams, Guy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Titan Books: 2011

Seller ID: 2304176

ISBN: 0857682822

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

3rd printing. An exceptional copy. 2011 Trade Paperback. Holmes and Watson are visited by a psychic researcher name Dr. Silence, who believes a recent death may have been a murder.
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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Mystery and the Imagination Detailing the Adventures of the World's Most Famous Detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

By: Adams, John Joseph

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Night Shade Books: 2009

Seller ID: 2299086

ISBN: 1597801607

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third printing. Front wrapper lightly bumped, wrapper edges very lightly rubbed. 2009 Trade Paperback. 454 pp. Sherlock Holmes is back! Sherlock Holmes, the world's first--and most famous--consulting detective, came to the world's attention more than 120 years ago through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels and stories. But Conan Doyle didn't reveal all of the Great Detective's adventures...Here are some of the best Holmes pastiches of the last 30 years, twenty-eight tales of mystery and the imagination detailing Holmes's further exploits, as told by many of today's greatest storytellers, includin...
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Dead to the World (The Crime Club)

By: Baker, North; Bolton, William

Price: $12.00

Publisher: 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: 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: $7.00

Publisher: Bramhall House: 1962

Seller ID: 2275150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. A bit smoky. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 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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Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective

By: Baring-Gould, William S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bramhall House: 1962

Seller ID: 2299207

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket lightly stained. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 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. 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 Berkeley, Francis Iles, and A. Monmouth Platts. Ori...
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The Capture of Paul Beck

By: Bodkin, McDonnell

Price: $50.00

Publisher: 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, 1892–95, a noted author, journalist and newspaper editor, and barrister, King's Counsel (K.C.) and County Court Judge for County Clare, 1907–24. Bodkin earned a place in the history of the detec...
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The Troubled House (Red Badge Detective)

By: Booton, Kage

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company: 1958

Seller ID: 2294785

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No jacket. Spine edges rubbed, board corners rubbed, boards lightly soiled.ink note on front free endpaper. 1958 Hard Cover. 248 pp. The dead of night was a time of terror for Beth Bellamy at Sinister King House. Even before Beth Bellamy was offered the job of secretary to brooding, secretive novelist Stanley King, she had heard rumours that he was keeping his wife virtually a prisoner in his gloomy old house. But Beth discounted the ominous whispers and took the job anyway.
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The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

By: Burke, James Lee

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 2007

Seller ID: 2277197

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Signed by author without inscription. Publisher's insert and certificate of authenticity laid in. 2007 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 373, [1] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof B...
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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: 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: 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. We have more books available by this author!. 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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A Baffled Oath; or, The Cost of Deceit (New Magnet Library No. 1180 - Nick Carter Series)

By: Carter, Nicholas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Street & Smith Corporation: 1905

Seller ID: 1953096

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers soiled & lightly creases, pages heavily toned. 1905 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 215 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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In the Gloom of the Night; or, Nick Carter, Man of Might (New Magnet Library No. 1147 - Nick Carter Series)

By: Carter, Nicholas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Street & Smith Corporation: 1903

Seller ID: 1953097

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers soiled with light stain on rear corner, pages heavily toned. 1903 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 223 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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Farewell, My Lovely: A Philip Marlowe Mystery

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine: 1975

Seller ID: 2299299

ISBN: 034524611X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

5th printing. Lightly rubbed. 1975 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler's second novel in the Philip Marlowe series, transcends the genre it helped to create, and is now viewed by many as literature and as social criticism.
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Trouble is My Business

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Ballantine: 1980

Seller ID: 2299300

ISBN: 0345288629

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed. 1980 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A collection of four short stories featuring Chandler's most famous detective Philip Marlowe.
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The High Window (Philip Marlowe)

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Vintage: 1976

Seller ID: 2301318

ISBN: 0394721411

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Lightly rubbed. 1976 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune, the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.
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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: 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: 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. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident—but 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: 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 Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s 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...
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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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La Resurrection de Sherlock Holmes [The Return of Sherlock Holmes]

By: Conan Doyle (Doyle, Arthur Conan)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: 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: 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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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: 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: 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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Black Mask Vol. XXII, No. 1, April, 1939 [Volume 22, Number I]

By: Davis, Frederick C.; Kendrick, Baynard H.; Hodgkins, Fred; Tepperman, Emile C.; Fowler, B.B.; Fisher, Steve

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Pro-Distributors Publishing Co.: 1939

Seller ID: 2207303

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Edges rubbed with a few chips, pages lightly toned. 1939 Trade Paperback. 112 pp. A vintage issue of the popular and influential pulp magazine that catapulted the careers of writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Black Mask was also known for Rafael de Soto's iconic and colorful cover art. Includes: Hide the Evidence by Frederick C. Davis; The Gorgon's Head by Baynard H. Kendrick; Crime at the Crossing by Fred Hodgkins; Behind the Black Mask; Death - to the Highest Bidder by Emile C. Tepperman; A Sucker Has to Learn by B.B. Fowler; Latitude Unknown by Steve Fisher. Illustration...
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