W. W. Norton & Company, February 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Sifting through reams of seemingly unrelated intelligence, CIA analyst Katherine Rule discovers a chilling pattern: an ultrasecret Baltic submarine base...a crafty Russian spy-master in command...a carefully planned invasion about to be launched from dark waters. Her suspicions, however, are dismissed..... More
Pocket Books, August 1998. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Recently jilted by his young wife, Rene's father, John X. Shade, has come back to St. Bruno. Broke, boozed-out and too shaky to hold the pool cue that once made his fame and fortune, John X. seeks the sons he abandoned years..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), April 2008. Mass Market PaperBack. More
St. Martin's Griffin, August 2016. Trade Paperback. For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the promises made by his job. He was both a Chief Inspector of Special Investigations of the Shanghai Police Department and the deputy party secretary of the bureau. He..... More
Soho Press, September 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Marshal Guarnaccia is faced with the horrendous kidnapping for ransom of a lovely Contessa whose life is in his hands. Olivia, an American-born model, married Count Ugo Brunamonti, a feckless, soon impoverished aristocrat. After his death, she supported her children--Leonardo and Caterina--by starting..... More
Crooked Lane Books, September 2021. Hardcover. Acclaimed Southern mystery master Christopher Swann delivers a book that's literary fiction, a spy novel, and a relentless thriller all in one (Lee Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author), perfect for fans of Linwood Barclay and Michael Farris Smith. Nick Anthony has retreated to..... More
NYRB Classics, August 2017. Trade Paperback. A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time. Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former..... More
Random House, October 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. Stained, darkened textblock edges. Bowed spine. Cover is starting to loosen from textblock toward base of spine. Half circle of damp staining toward end of book at fore-edge, effecting only last 20 pages thereabout. (458 pages plus fifteen pages.). More
Harper Perennial, May 2020. Paper Back. New York Times-bestselling author Anthony Horowitz and eccentric detective Daniel Hawthorne team up again in a new mystery, the sequel to the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder, to delve deep into the killing of a high-profile divorce lawyer and the death, only a...... More
An Ace Book, 1968. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Very good+ overall. Mild toning at margins. Dust stained textblock edges, issued with pumpkin stained edges. One small black sharpie dot top text. I am not certain how to identify these Ace mass market originals, but this is clearly NOT a first..... More
Pocket, September 1950. Mass Market PaperBack. Appears to be 2nd Pocket book printing. Shelf worn, with chipping top & bottom of spine. Soiling & stray marks/stains to cover. Slant to spine. Red tinted textblock edges. (249 pages.). More
Random House, October 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Dell, January 1954. Mass Market PaperBack. Wear along spine. More
Minotaur Books, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate..... More
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, September 2008. Trade Paperback. With a New Introduction by Henning Mankell. The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (the best writers of police procedurals in the world), finds Beck hunting for..... More
Bantam Books, February 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Leaning spine. Stained cover with worn edges & spine. More
Dell Publishing Co. Inc., January 1967. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn copy with 2' split of the front cover from the hinge. Cover image unaffected. Introduction by Hammett's long-time companion, Lillian Hellman. More
Delacorte PressSeymour Lawrence, April 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Searching for a young woman who may or may not have been kidnapped, Spenser encounters a church militant and a heroin ring and struggles against his growing estrangement from the women he loves. First printing (full number line). Jacket is whole, with..... More
Dell Publishing Co., 1952. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear, darkened edges, leaning spine. More
Random House Inc, January 2003. Trade Paperback. From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish..... More
Brash Books, March 2019. Paper Back. The seventh novel in the legendary Hardman series. "The Hardman books are by far the best of the men's action-adventure series." Mother Jones Magazine It's Atlanta, 1974. Ex-cop Jim Hardman and ex-NFL player Hump Evans do odd jobs. Anything that pays. As long as..... More
Brash Books, May 2019. Paper Back. The 11th adventure in the ground-breaking Hardman series The Man, the "Black Godfather" of Atlanta, controls most of the crime in the city... but now someone wants to take it all away from him...by putting a bullet in his head and killing his crew..... More
Brash Books, August 2019. Trade Paperback. The gritty, hard-edged novel of sex, crime, and corruption in 1970s Atlanta...and the man who is paid to hide it all... by Ralph Dennis, author of the legendary Hardman series of detective novels. Vince Gorman is a ruthless lawyer with flexible morality who makes..... More
Brash Books, December 2018. Paper Back. "Dennis wrote with assurance. His prose was muscular, swift, and highly readable." Joe R. Lansdale, from his introduction Jim Hardman was an Atlanta cop until he was wrongly accused of corruption and thrown off the force. Now he works as an unlicensed PI, trouble-shooter..... More
