Hand in the Glove, The
N/A, April 1992. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Mystery & Crime
Justice Ends At Home and Other Stories
Viking Adult, August 1977. Hardcover. Octavo in dustjacket with mild shelfwear. Front flap is clipped. Black cloth covered spine with silver & red lettering along spine edge. Spine with moderate lean. Previous owner's address stamp on ffep. Good sound binding. Collection of early Stout stories originally published between 1914 and..... More
Prisoners Base
Bantam Books, November 1992. Mass Market PaperBack. When Priscilla Eads, heiress to cotton-towel millions, first pleads for Nero Wolfe's assistance, the portly detective decides to wash his hands of a case that has more than its share of dirty laundry. Just hours later Miss Eads and her maid are found..... More
A Prize for Princes (Stout, Rex)
Carroll & Graf, August 2001. Mass Market PaperBack. More
A Right to Die
Crimeline, November 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears. Susan Brooke..... More
Three for the Chair (Nero Wolfe)
Crimeline, August 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. Follow the world's greatest detective, Nero Wolfe, on a trail of money, mayhem, and murder in three cases of capital crime. The trail of bodies begins with the death of a self-made millionaire, a fortune in uranium, and the perfect weapon . .... More
The Nero Wolfe Cookbook by Rex Stout (1973)
Viking Press, January 1973. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards w/ gentle wear at corners; Text free of markings; An excellent copy, w/o jacket. More
Black Orchids. A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery. (Black Orchids & Cordially Invited To Meet Death)
A Tower Mystery / World Publishing Company, 1945. First Thus. Cloth. First printing of Tower Books Mystery. Octavo in heavily edgeworn & chipped dustjacket. Tape 'repairs' and tape residue, Tanning end pages and marginal darkening through text interiors. Tape residue on pastedowns front & rear. Pine green cloth covered boards..... More
The Exploding Memoir
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 2018. Trade Paperback. A mystery-fantasy thriller by the author of "Name of the Stranger" and "Murder in the Medina."Eddie Knox skips Pennsylvania before the local authorities can send him to reform school. After he settles in San Francisco's Chinatown, the mysterious Dr. Kublar takes him..... More
Shadow of the Lions
Algonquin Books, August 2017. First Edition. Cloth. "My lungs began to burn as I started sprinting. It wasn't just that I wanted to catch Fritz. I had the distinct feeling that I was chasing him, that I had to catch up with him, before something caught up with me." How..... More
A Fire in the Night: A Novel
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
Never Back Down (A Faulkner Family Thriller)
Crooked Lane Books, July 2023. Hardcover. She's fought against the darkness her whole life--but now she will discover what happens when that very darkness fights back in this thrilling follow-up to Christopher Swann's Never Go Home and Never Turn Back, perfect for fans of Michael Farris Smith and Brian Panowich..... More
Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp
Soho Crime, August 2023. Hardcover. A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another--with the help of an enterprising tortoise--in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full. It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants..... More
The FRANCHISE AFFAIR
Touchstone, August 1998. Paper Back. Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, The Franchise. It..... More
Man in the Queue
Touchstone, November 1995. Trade Paperback. A long line had formed for the standing-room-only section of the Woffington Theatre. London's favorite musical comedy of the past two years was finishing its run at the end of the week. Suddenly, the line began to move, forming a wedge before the open doors..... More
The Eighth Dwarf
Mysterious Press, December 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. In the wake of World War II, a spy and a dwarf conceive a lucrative plan to find a Nazi killer and deliver him to the Allies, playing one country against another in a dangerous game of intrigue. Reissue. More
Briarpatch
St. Martins Press-3pl, January 2003. Trade Paperback. "America's best storyteller." --The New York Times Book Review From Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comes Briarpatch, a thrilling mystery of one man's personal mission to find justice for his family. Now, the basis for the USA Network television series executive produced by..... More
Heed the Thunder
Armchair Detective Library, July 1991. First Thus. Cloth. The Armchair Detective Library reissued three versions of Heed the Thunder in 1991. This was the 'collectors' edition, not the most high-end 'limited' edition, nor the most ordinary and least collectible 'Trade' edition. Blue cloth covered with stamped silver lettering and decorative..... More
The Kill-Off
Mysterious Press, November 1987. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass Market paperback. Dust stained edges. Shelf worn. [186 pages plus two page list of Mysterious Press titles]. More
Killer Inside Me
Mulholland Books, August 2014. Trade Paperback. In The Killer Inside Me, America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky" Jim Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel..... More
The Killer Inside Me
Vintage, March 1991. Trade Paperback. In this nightmarish and exhilirating novel, Jim Thompson brings us into fearful intimacy with psychopathic evil. Octravo. Clean & sound with cover curling. [244 pages]. More
A swell-looking babe
Creative Arts / Black Lizard Book, January 1986. First Thus. Paper Back. 12mo. Previous owner's sticker affixed to half title page. More
Cliff's Edge
William Morrow & Company, February 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families in this thirteenth book in the beloved mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd. Restless and uncertain of her..... More
Fine Summer's Day: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
William Morrow & Company, September 2015. Paper Back. New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd takes readers into Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge's past--to his perplexing final case before the outbreak of World War I. On a fine summer's day in June, 1914, Ian Rutledge pays little notice to the..... More
