Soho Crime, 2021. Hardcover. One of Japan's great modern masters, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with this two-volume publication of her magnum opus.Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but.....
Ballantine Books, 2021. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined destinies and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal?"A powerhouse of a......
Houghton Mifflin, 2021. Hardcover. "Theroux's work is like no one else's." -Francine Prose, New York Times Book ReviewFrom legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey.....
New York: Dell Publishing, 1945. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 160pp. Collected and Edited by Ellery Queen. Dell mapback #223Six stories by the master of hard-boiled detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett featuring the Continental Op. What are they about? A pair of CRINKLY EARS at a prize fight, remembered after.....
New York: Dell Publishing, 1946. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 160pp. Collected and Edited by Ellery Queen. Dell mapback #223Six stories by the master of hard-boiled detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett. What are they about? A HOUSE in Turk Street which is the scene of a hair-raising adventure...PALE FRECKLES that.....
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1965. 7th Printing. Paperback. 4-1/8 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 196pp, 6pp ads. Pocket #50178. Four novelettes by the master of American detective fiction Raymond Chander taken from The Simple Art of Murder.Original price above Pocket kangaroo on front wrapper scratched out and filled in yellow.....
New York: Dell Publishing, 1947. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 191pp. Selected & edited by Ellery Queen. Dell mapback #308Six stories by master hard-boiled storyteller Dashiell Hammett.Edge-wear to spine, fragile lower hinge, good.
New York: Dell Publishing, ca. 1950. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 189pp, 3pp publisher's ads. Copyright 1927, reprint ca. 1950. Dell mapback #308Hell takes a holiday and a city block becomes a slaughterhouse when a gang of crooks takes the richest pickings ever got with civilian guns. And all.....
New York: Dell Publishing, 1950. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 160pp. Introduction by Ellery Queen, Cover Painting by Robert Stanley. Dell mapback #538Six tough stories with subject matter ranging from homicide to political intrigue in far-off places. Three feature the Continental Op at his man-eating best plus three other.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4", orange cloth, 173pp, illustrated, with a Postscript by the author. With six illustrations drawn by the author. A mystery whose fictional detective is Judge Dee, an actual person who lived in China 630 to 700 a.d., during.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 5-5/8 x 8-1/2", 1/2 yellow cloth, yellow paper over boards, xiv, 202pp, illustrated, includes a Postscript on the ancient Chinese judicial system and an account of the sources used. With ten plates drawn by the author.Judge Dee is assigned to.....
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-5/8 x 8-3/8", 1/2 black cloth, black paper over boards, 228pp. Signed by the author on the title page.In this eleventh Spenser novel, "Spenser is hired to find a young woman who may or may not have been kidnapped.....
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-5/8 x 8-3/8", 1/2 brown cloth, green paper over boards, 311pp. Signed by the author on the title page.In this twelfth Spenser novel, Hawk is in jail for murder and Susan has been kidnapped by her dangerous new boyfriend.....
Vintage, 2021. Paperback. Bruno's back! In his newest adventure, the chief of police finds himself tangled in a mystery that brings together a Russian oligarch and a rock star--and, of course, Bergerac red and white.It's summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a Périgordian sheep farmer learn that they have.....
PBS, 2014. DVD boxset. Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) returns to duty at Oxford City Police with four new gripping murder mysteries set midst the turning tides of 1960s Britain. Season #2, boxset, 2 discs, 4 episodes, 6 hours of entertainment: Trove – Four months after his brush with death, DC.....
PBS, 2013-2014. DVD, 2 boxsets. Two boxsets, First 2 Seasons (total of 5 discs, 9 episodes, 13.5 hours of entertainment). Full UK-Length Edition. Series #1, 3 discs, 5 episodes, 7.5 hours of entertainment: Pilot Episode – It’s 1965 and Detective Constable Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) arrives in Oxford to investigate.....
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1969. Re-issue. Hardcover. 5 x 7-1/2, blue boards, 184pp, pictorial endpapers, 8 illustrations in the text. On the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races (ca. 665 AD), the drummer of the favourite boat suddenly collapses on the banks of the Grand Canal, poisoned. Judge Dee, Tang.....
New York: Walker and Company, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8-5/8", brown paper over boards, 237pp, yellow endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page. Sixth and final novel in the mystery series set in New Orleans featuring black hard-boiled detective Lew Griffin. "In his old house in.....
Silver Spring, MD: Adventure House, 2003. First Trade Paperback Edition. 7x10", stiff pictorial wrappers, xix, 195pp, illustrated. Introduction by John Wooley. 13 mysteries featuring no-nonsense Hollywood private eye, Dan Turner. Each story is accompanied by the spot illustrations that accompanied them in Spicy Detective, the pulp magazine that originally published them.A......
