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New York: Knopf, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fifth of sixteen crime -thriller novels by one of America's top satirists and humorists, "Strip Tease" features Florida Congressman David Dilbeck, exotic dancer Erin Grant, and assorted blackmailers, and political wheeler-dealers. Dilbeck is trying to avoid an election year scandal brought on by his loss of control around "naked… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The 34th of suspense-thriller mastercraftsman Leonard's forty-some novels features Deputy U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco and celebrity convict Jack Foley, who meet during a prison break in Florida. Sisco becomes part of the ensuing manhunt for Foley, who is planning a major robbery in Detroit, and both race toward a reunion… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Crowned Heads," a collection of four novellas about fictional Hollywood movies stars, was Tryon's fourth book, written, according to many reviewers to generate a mega-million-dollar, four-movie deal that was announced the same year the book was published. This copy is from the Book Club edition. About 5 3/4 x 8… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Bantam S2600: "Goodbye, Columbus," a collection of a novella and five short stories, is the late Roth's first book. It was the National Book Award winner in 1960. The title work is the story of a pair of passionate young lovers whose summer affair ends in… Read more about this item

New York: Signet/New American Library, 1971. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Signet P4491: Patten's 71st western genre novel in a prolific mid-20th century career features Frank Kaily's return to the New Mexico town that hanged his father to learn the town's secret before he became a victim. Paperback original, true first edition, first… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Perhaps the most famous trilogy in English literature, in which Galsworthy chronicled the fortunes and fates of lawyer, Soames Forsyte, and his family as it lived its collective lives during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The family was keenly aware of its social status as "new… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Lutz is the award-winning author of four different mystery series and more than four dozen novels but it is this stand-alone mystery-thriller that may well be his best remembered work. It features Allison Jones, who has just thrown out her unfaithful male live-in and placed a newspaper ad for… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Eye of the Needle," an Inner Sanctum award winner, is the fifth novel of this mid-20th century mystery writer, who got his start, as did many others of his era, with short stories for pulp fiction magazines such as "Black Mask" and "Ellery Queen MM." This book… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback -- Bantam A2236: An early novel from L'Amour's celebrated western series featuring the Sackett family. This one is about Tell Sackett, brother of Tye Sackett, the Mora gunfighter. Tell had to leave Texas after killing a man in a gunfight and now, in "high, lonesome country"… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback. Bantam T7499: Pedler & Davis first created and developed "Mutant 59" as the first episode for a BBC telervision series about a government agency that worked to combat and control environmental and technological disasters. They re-used and re-worked the plot for this 1973… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The 35th novel by Mystery Grand Master Parker in his mystery-suspense series featuring Boston private detective, Spenser. This time Spenser is dealing with a familiar character -- April Kyle, a teenaged runaway and prostitute, whom Spenser, in "Ceremony," helped escape the streets of Boston's "Combat Zone" for safer… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. Styron's fifth novel, the story of the relationship between three people living in a Brooklyn rooming house -- Sophie, a Polish Catholic concentration camp survivor; her lover, Nathan, a Jewish intellectural; and Stringo, the narrator, an ex-Marine trying to become a writer. The book won a Pulitzer Prize and… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 2017. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. For Delaney, better known as Anthony Capella, the bestselling author of "The Food of Love," "The Wedding Officer," "The Various Flavours of Coffee" and other novels, his first venture into the crime-thriller novel was successful enough that at least two more psychological thrillers are scheduled. This first, "The Girl… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co.. Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. An Ellery Queen omnibus containing the three mysteries set in the fictional New England town of Wrightsville ("Calamity Town," "The Murderer Is A Fox" and "Ten Days Wonder"). These three novels represent a change in the Queen character from the NYC genius solving his police detective's father's hardest… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The second of the three spy-thrillers in the Jason Bourne series written by Ludlum before his death in 2001 (later Bourne novels are by Eric Van Lustbader). Professor David Webb, still recovering mentally and physically from his first time in the role of Jason Bourne, international… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An omnibus edition of four late Lockridge mysteries featuring the husband-and-wife writing team's best-known protagonists, society sleuths, Jerry & Pamela North, who were also the featured characters in movies and a tv series. In "The Long Skeleton" (1958) the Norths find a writer's corpse in their hotel… Read more about this item

New York: The Mysterious Press, 2012. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Often considered the father of hard-boiled mystery and detective fiction, Hammett created among other now legendary characters such as Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon"), Nick and Nora Charles, the debonaire husband and wife detective team of "The Thin Man." "The Thin Man" was the basis… Read more about this item

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/Issued Without Jacket. Based on the award-winning and long-running "Law and Order" television program, this book was written by Wolf, the program's creator and executive producer, as a means of capturing and documenting the crime scenes which open the show and are the organizing… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. The 27th novel in Ellery Queen's classic series of mystery whodunnits featuring writer and amateur sleuth, Ellery Queen, is set in Queen's beloved New York City. Queen has several problems -- who is the lover of Mrs. Lawrence, the pretty, young, rich Broadway producer? How can she be… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. First Edition. . Decorative Cloth. Good Plus to Very Good/No Jacket. This is a best-selling romance novel built around an artist and his young model's attempt to resolve the issue of marriage or living together without marriage, a larger question in 1911 than today. Chambers, himself, started as a painter, a… Read more about this item