Category: Mystery--Suspense--Thriller (hardcover)

Assignment Budapest

By: Aarons, Edward S.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London & New York, White Lion Publishers : 1974

Seller ID: 015900

ISBN-13: 9780856171987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A scarce hardcover edition of a title first published in paperback in the USofA, featuring tough-guy operator Sam Durell, "a troubleshooter for an agency so secret that even the government didn't know about it." In this one, a Communist hatchet-man with the Hungarian secret police has slipped into America to assassinate an unknown victim, a victim which may even be Durell. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 160 pages. A bit cocked, bump to bottom edge of front cover, another to top edge of back cover, tanning, in dust jacket w/light wear to corners/spine ends, light edgewear.
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Once a Spy

By: Airth, Rennie

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape : 1981

Seller ID: 019137

ISBN-13: 9780224019026

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

This one features a former spy who gets caught up in the repercussions of a much earlier operation, and "tells an engaging tale of smuggling, graft, blackmail and revenge" (a serving from four of the main thriller ingredients -- although murder, the boss of them all, also plays more than a minor role). Charcoal cloth w/gilt lettering/device to spine, 245 pages. Slightly cocked, lightly tanned, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, impressions, minor crease to top right corner of front flap, full-length vertical crease to edge of rear flap.
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Passage of Arms

By: Ambler, Eric

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1960

Seller ID: 009104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

While on a world cruise, an American businessman and his wife become involved in a "tangled tale of intrigue which leads them from Hong Kong to Manila to Singapore and, finally, to Indonesia in the company of black-market operators, opium smugglers, gun runners, and political terrorists." This copy has both dust jackets, the first featuring a painting by John O'Hara Cosgrave II, the second designed by Jean Carlu. Wear to bottom corners, fading to top edge colour, sunning to bottom corners, tanning, moderate general wear. Outer jacket w/some chipping/short tears to corners/spine ends, somewh...
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Danger in Eden

By: Ames, Jennifer

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Avalon Books/Bouregy & Curl : 1950

Seller ID: 019188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A young woman who believes that three years earlier she witnessed "a slight, dark man, with luminous dark eyes, strike an injured man what appeared to be a fatal blow" comes face to face with someone whom she believes to be that same man, a situation just slightly complicated by the fact that she's in love with the man's stepson. Unease and romantic flutterings ensue. Coral boards w/black spine lettering, 256 pages. Moderately sunned spine w/a bit of edgewear, bumped spine ends, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, a bit of chipping to corners/spine ends, 1/2" tear to top of front fold, sunned ...
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The Goliath Scheme

By: Arden, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1971

Seller ID: 018745

ISBN-13: 9780396062875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The third Kane Jackson suspense thriller by Arden, which is one of the many pseudonyms employed by Dennis Lynds. Jackson has been hired to find a missing document in which three people have a special interest, but is that interest special enough to justify murder? Blue cloth w/black spine lettering, 188 pages. Minor wear to corners/spine ends, in price-clipped dust jacket w/rubbing, scraping to spine edges, short edge tears, a couple of scrapes near top. Internally tight and clean.
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The Cry from Street to Street

By: Bailey, Hillary

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, Constable : 1992

Seller ID: 011296

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Mary Kelly, a rich woman after fleeing the horrors of 1880's Whitechapel to become a brothel-keeper on the Canadian frontier, has returned to London to find and rescue her two sisters, but it's now 1888, and a monster who would later become known as Jack the Ripper is just embarking on his bloody mission. Bailey writes in a note at the beginning of her book, "The murderer known as Jack the Ripper killed six women in one square mile of East London between 7 August and 9 November 1888. These women were Martha Tabram, or Turner, Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes -...
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The Dark Room

By: Banks, Carolyn

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking : 1980

Seller ID: 011062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

When a man cannot be located after his perfect American family is found murdered, it becomes the job of a CIA operative to be sure that there is no link between the murders and an agency drug experiment in which the missing man was an unwitting participant. Lightly tanned edges, faint impression of pencilled price to top right corner of first end paper. Dust jacket w/impressions, light edgewear, 1/4" tear to bottom left corner of front cover, vertical crease to front flap. BOOK | 011062 TRAN | A ANAM | Banks, Carolyn TNAM | The Dark Room PBLS | Viking SUB1 | THRILLER, DRUG EXPERIMENTS, C...
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The Delicate Storm

By: Blunt, Giles

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Toronto, Random House Canada : 2003

Seller ID: 014856

ISBN-13: 9780679310587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. The second Detective John Cardinal mystery, following the award-winning 'Forty Words For Sorrow.' Two very different deaths -- one the dismembered corpse of an American tourist and the second a woman frozen to death nearby -- may be connected, and it is up to Detective John Cardinal, "whose flaws and mistakes still haunt him" to solve the mystery. Green boards w/gilt spine lettering, 283 pages. An unread copy in dust jacket w/light surface wear.
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The Delicate Storm (signed)

By: Blunt, Giles

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Toronto, Random House Canada : 2003

Seller ID: 014749

ISBN-13: 9780679310587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. The second Detective John Cardinal mystery, following the award-winning 'Forty Words For Sorrow.' Two very different deaths -- one the dismembered corpse of an American tourist and the second a woman frozen to death nearby -- may be connected, and it is up to Detective John Cardinal, "whose flaws and mistakes still haunt him" to solve the mystery. Green boards w/gilt spine lettering, 283 pages. An unread copy.
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Sudden Death

By: Brennan, Peter

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, Severn House : 1979

Seller ID: 009407

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A thriller with tennis as its central focus, featuring a street-wise, ruthless champion and an eager up-and-comer battling it out after a vicious series of events that has already seen two pros die. Dust jacket has impressions, light edgewear.
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Man and Wife

By: Brown, Beth

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Triangle Books : 1940

Seller ID: 015509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

From the front flap: "Marie Siccardi was the best operative for Lulu White, a dynamic, painted, wild woman who supplied those 'other women' to be found in a state of convenient undress when the lawyers and detectives and the outraged wife raided the hotel room to catch an erring husband. And Marie played a straight game with the mob until one night when they didn't play straight with her." Navy cloth w/red spine lettering, 305 pages. Slight wear to corners/spine ends, tiny spot to top edge, previous owner's name/address neatly to top of front end paper, in dust jacket w/some edgewear, scrapin...
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It Walks by Night

By: Carr, John Dickson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton (A Fingerprint Book) : 1976

Seller ID: 018519

ISBN-13: 9780241895030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Carr's first novel, originally published in 1930. This edition offered Henri Bencolin to a new generation of readers to see if they could solve the mystery of who beheaded the Duc de Saligny in a locked room of a Parisian gambling house. Cerulean cloth w/gilt spine lettering/fingerprint design, 168 pages. A 3/4" bump to bottom right corner of front cover, previous owner's signature neatly across top edge of first end paper, in dust jacket w/just a bit of edgewear. A pretty nice copy of a 1st Thus title that can hold that spot in your collection until you scrape up a few thousand dollars for t...
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THE BLACK SPECTACLES, Being the Psychologists' Murder Case

By: Carr, John Dickson

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton (A Fingerprint Book) : 1972

Seller ID: 018518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A Dr. Gideon Fell mystery, this one finding our celebrated sleuth solving the murder of a man who turns out to be the "conclusion of a series of senseless poisonings which have been terrifying the village of Sodbury Cross." First published in Great Britain in 1939 before being published in a second edition in 1969, this being the first reprint of that. Scarlet cloth w/gilt spine lettering/fingerprint design, 237 pages. Previous owner's signature to top of front end paper, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/light surface wear. All in all, a pretty nice copy of a not particularly common title.
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The Sleeper

By: Clark, Eric

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton / H&S : 1979

Seller ID: 007074

ISBN-13: 9780340243947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A spy who has remained inactive for decades finds his cover blown, with unpredictable consequences. Faintly soiled edges, moderate general wear. Dust jacket w/moderate edgewear, two short tears to top edge of front panel, rubbing, impressions.
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The Story Teller (signed)

By: Coel, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Berkley Prime Crime : 1998

Seller ID: 012735

ISBN-13: 9780425165386

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

The fourth mystery to feature Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden. While attempting to recover Arapaho sacred artifacts held in a museum, Holden is informed by an Arapaho storyteller that a one-of-a-kind rare and beautiful ledger book is missing from the museum's inventory list, and while investigating the omission she learns that an Arapaho student died under mysterious circumstances while researching the ledger. Dust jacket w/some gentle wrinkling to rear panel. A nice copy, unread.
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A Toast to To-morrow (Tomorrow)

By: Coles, Manning

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Toronto, Musson Book Company : 1943

Seller ID: 019172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Pseudonym of Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles. Sequel to 'Drink to Yesterday.' Caramel cloth w/emerald lettering to front cover/spine, 308 pages. Lightly smudged covers, tanned/dusty edges, quite mild wear to corners/spine ends, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/short tears/a bit of chipping to corners/spine ends
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Death is the End

By: Cooke, G. Walter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Geoffrey Bles : 1965

Seller ID: 012509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Sequel to 'Death Takes a Dive.' Features one of the more curious occupations of mystery/thriller protagonists: a garage owner and his wife. In this one, the Mitchells find themselves the victims of a protection gang. Blue cloth w/white spine lettering, 224 pages. A bit cocked, faintly soiled edges, light tanning, in price-clipped dust jacket w/chipping to corners/spine ends/edges, edge tears, some smudging to rear panel. Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve.
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The Soyuz Affair

By: Coulter, Stephen (pseudonym of James Mayo)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Granada : 1977

Seller ID: mys.00060

ISBN-13: 9780246110138

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Collins price sticker on front end paper, lightly dusted edges. Price-clipped dust jacket w/rubbing, impressions, a 1" slit at top right of rear panel (above rear gutter).
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Deep Lay the Dead

By: Davis, Frederick C.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday Crime Club : 1942

Seller ID: 005431

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good

An unemployed man who answers a letter from a stranger finds himself a central player in a mysterious series of events. Bumped/softened/worn corners, moderate wear to spine ends, tanned/dusty edges, previous owner's name on front free end paper, small abrasion to front pastedown where (apparent) sticker removal took some finish with it (covered by dust jacket flap). Dust jacket w/longish tears to spine edges, tears/chipping to corners, strip torn off top spine, slight sunning to spine, smudging to rear panel, general wear. Dust jacket now nicely ensconced in a protective mylar sleeve, which sp...
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One Virgin Too Many

By: Davis, Lindsey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Century/Random House UK Limited : 1999

Seller ID: 013268

ISBN-13: 9780712677028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing w/complete number sequence. The eleventh book in the author's Falco series set in first-century Rome. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 292 pages. Moderate general wear, in lightly rubbed dust jacket w/thin scratches, 1/4" tear to bottom spine, price sticker remnants to bottom of front flap.
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The Rendezvous and Other Stories

By: du Maurier, Daphne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. : 1980

Seller ID: 018672

ISBN-13: 9780575028456

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of 14 stories from the woman who gave us one of the best ever written in that form, a piece that some minor-league director (ok, it was the genius known as Alfred Hitchcock) turned into a mildly unsettling (ok, it was frightening as hell) film known as The Flying Things (ok, it was The Birds). Stories included here: "No Motive," "Panic," "The Supreme Artist," "Adieu Sagesse," "Fairy Tale," "The Rendezvous," "La Sainte-Vierge," "Leading Lady," "Escort," "The Lover," "The Closing Door," "Indiscretion," "Angels and Archangels," and "Split Second." Scarlet cloth w/gilt spine lettering...
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Conquest Before Autumn

By: Eden, Matthew

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Abelard-Schuman : 1973

Seller ID: mys.00282

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The third thriller featuring Marc Savage, newspaperman and ex-CIA operative, and Otis Stilwell, his erstwhile partner in "The Company." Gently bumped corners, tanned top edge, partially tanned fore-edge, some soil to top edge, wrinkle to front pastedown (printer's flaw), in price-clipped dust jacket w/sunned edges, moderate edgewear, 1/4" tear to bottom of front fold, some subsequent gentle creasing/crinkling, lightly rubbed.
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Guilt (signed)

By: Ephron, G.H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Minotaur : 2005

Seller ID: 016968

ISBN-13: 9780312335953

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

First printing w/complete number sequence. G.H. Ephron is the pseudonym of Hallie Ephron and Donald A. Davidoff. The fifth murder mystery to feature Peter Zak, a forensic neuropsychologist. In this one, not knowing if he might be the killer's target, Zak agrees to help the police profile a bomber who has already killed several people. Black boards w/gilt spine lettering, 293 pages. A bit cocked, gently bumped spine ends, lightly worn corners, bumps to top edges of both covers, in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/crinkling around edges, scraped area to top left corner of front flap, impression...
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The Bonner Deception

By: Estey, Dale

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : 1983

Seller ID: 015611

ISBN-13: 9780312087807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Brunswick writer's second novel, "an alternately cerebral and visceral tale of the ambiguities of modern espionage." Black cloth w/silver spine lettering, 298 pages. Light edgewear, two tiny soil marks to bottom fore-edge, provincial Department of Tourism stamp to second half-title, in price-clipped dust jacket w/a bit of edgewear, 1/4" tear to top right rear panel, 3/8" tear to top of rear fold.
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Finding Nouf (signed)

By: Ferraris, Zoe

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston & New York, Houghton-Mifflin Company : 2008

Seller ID: 019009

ISBN-13: 9780618873883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

When a 16-year-old Saudi Arabian girl from a prominent family goes missing, a desert guide is enlisted to help find her, but when he does she is dead, and he "takes it upon himself to find out what really happened to her." Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 305 pages. Light wear to corners/spine ends, bumped top spine, light edgewear, light scuffing, in dust jacket w/a hint of wear to corners/spine ends. A fairly nice copy.
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The Queen of a Day

By: Fletcher, J.S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson : 1927

Seller ID: 018579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Originally published in 1907, by Unwin. This might be a first Hutchinson edition, but I can't find any information to back up that suspicion, so don't take it as a fact unless you know more than I do about it (which, I admit, wouldn't be tough). A young doctor whose services are required by a young woman seeking help for her ailing father finds himself involved in a mystery and a romance. An uncommon title in hardcover. Red cloth w/black lettering/rule to front cover/spine, 280 pages + 32-page catalogue for other Hutchinson titles available in 1927. Strongly cocked, bumped corners/spine ends, ...
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Terror Tournament

By: Flynn, J.M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Bouregy and Company / Mystery House : 1959

Seller ID: 018276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A former cop who left the force under less-than-amiable circumstances is running his own detective agency, and has been hired to provide security at a three-day pro-am golf tournament. Naturally, the tournament's receipts are stolen, someone is killed, and the detective's hopes for an easy make-or-break job are jeopardized. Red cloth w/black spine lettering, 220 pages. This originally came with a Plasti-Kleer dust jacket protective sleeve, which means that there are flaws that wouldn't ordinarily be there (damn those Plasti-Kleer things). Black stains to top and bottom edges of both covers, di...
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Flat Spin

By: Freed, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sag Harbor, Permanent Press : 2012

Seller ID: 018805

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: About Very Good

The first of six mysteries (as of this writing) featuring Cordell Logan, "a literate, sardonic flight instructor and aspiring Buddhist with dwindling savings and a shadowy past." In this one he agrees to help his ex-wife track down her husband's killer -- although he's not nuts about it, since the dead guy is the man she left him for in the first place, but hey, there are those dwindling savings to think about, so.... Navy boards w/cerulean spine lettering, 299 pages. Spine cocked, bumped corners/spine ends, scuffed boards, in rubbed dust jacket w/thin scratches, bumped corners/spine ends. ...
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The Red Stockings

By: Fry, Pete

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Roy Publishers : 1962

Seller ID: 018275

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Private detective Pete Fry does some snooping around when the police don't seem interested in investigating the death of a Foreign Office official in Amsterdam. Crimson cloth w/black spine lettering, 158 pages. Bumped corners/spine ends, some soil to edges, 1" long x 1/4" high white stain to bottom edge of back cover, general wear, in edgeworn dust jacket w/sunned spine, chipping to corners/spine ends, scrapes/impressions, uneven 1" tear to top edge of rear panel, 1" long scrape/abrasion to rear fold, general wear.
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The Case of the Daring Decoy

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Morrow : 1957

Seller ID: 019229

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The 54th title in Gardner's Perry Mason series, this one finding the world's most famous fictional lawyer defending a client accused of murdering the secretary of business rival. Red cloth w/black lettering to front cover/spine, 281 pages + two-page list of other Gardner titles. Tanned edges, very minor wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name to top edge of front end paper, in dust jacket w/chipping to edges, thin scratches, impressions, moderately sun-darkened spine, short tears to folds, 2" tear to top of rear fold.
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Category: Mystery--Suspense--Thriller (hardcover)