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BLOOD WORK **AWARD WINNER**
by Connelly, Michael
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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- 9780316153997
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$23.28
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1998. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. Nominated for the 1997 MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. WINNER of the GRAND PRIX, ANTHONY and MACAVITY AWARDS for Best Novel. The first novel introducing ex-FBI investigator Terrell McCaleb. The basis for the film starring Clint Eastwood. … Read more about this item Item Price
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THE TUMBLEWEED MURDERS: A Claire Sharples Botanical Mystery
by Rothenberg, Rebecca finished By Taffy Cannon
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 2001
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- Paperback
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- 9781880284438
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$16.63
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Santa Barbar: CA: Perserverance Press / John Daniel & Company, 2001. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Claire Sharples; California. PBO. Taffy Cannon completed this last novel of Rebecca Rothenberg's after her death. Passion, greed, deceit, and murder surface when plant pathologist Claire Sharples discovers a skeleton buried beside the Kern River and finds herself drawn into… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE CANNIBAL HEART
by Millar, Margaret
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- Good-Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1949
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$99.76
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N.Y.: Random House, 1949. First edition, so stated. Color variation to boards, very light edge wear in dust jacket, unclipped, $2.50 price intact, piece out at head of spine, a few closed tears, rubbed and soiled at rear. Millar gazes unflinchingly at the psychology of a deranged adult and their struggle to control their basest impulses. Suspenseful to the last,… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE SILVER TOMBSTONE
by Gruber, Frank
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Printing
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- 1948
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$26.60
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N.Y.: Signet Books / New American Library, 1948. First pbk printing October, 1948. Signet #689. Cover illustration by Robert Jonas. Cover crease at rear, paper uniformly age toned else a near fine, tight copy. Johnny Fletcher; Sam Cragg; California. While driving their old jalopy from New York City to California, penniless con man Johnny Fletcher and his strong-arm partner, Sam… Read more about this item Item Price
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NO POCKETS IN A SHROUD
by McCoy, Horace
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1948
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$46.55
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N.Y.: Signet Books, 1948. First U.S. edition, November 1948, so stated, of this paperback original. Signet #690. (revised from the British edition, first published in England in 1937.) Nicked at head and foot of spine, pages uniformly age toned, some very light soiling else a near fine copy of his second novel. Mike Dolan is a widely read columnist, but… Read more about this item Item Price
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DEATH WARMED OVER: Murder Shadows a Beautiful Blonde
by Collins, Mary
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- First Printing
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- 1949
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- Paperback
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N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1949. 1st pbk printing, September 1949 so stated. Bantam #718. Vintage Paperback. Cover illustratio by Gilbert Fullington. Reading crease, very light wear, a near fine copy. Janey Jeffries was married three weeks ago, but her husband had to go off to war, leaving her bored in Los Angeles. Things take a turn when one of the tenants… Read more about this item Item Price
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BITTER ENDING (Anatomy Laboratory Murder) **Dell Mapback #289"
by Irving, Alexander
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1949
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1949. 1st printing, March 1949. Dell Mapback #289, Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by F. Kenwood Giles. Back cover map of "the Anatomy Laboratory / Where Murder is Discovered," 6th floor of University Hospital, in a town (Stanford?), near San Francisco. Reading crease, spine edge rubbed, shallow loss at top spine end . Dr. Anthony Post;… Read more about this item Item Price
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GRAVEDIGGER: A Dave Brandsetter Mystery. **AWARD FINALIST**
by Hansen, Joseph
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1982
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- Hardcover
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- 9780030560637
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1982. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket lightly soiled at rear panel, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The sixth to feature Dave Brandstetter, death-claims investigator andone of the the first gay protagonist of a mainstream mystery series.SHAMUS AWARD… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE MAN WHO MURDERED HIMSELF **First Book Published By Century**
by Homes, Geoffrey, pseudonym of Daniel Mainwaring
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- First Printing
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- 1945
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$33.25
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Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Century Publications, 1945. 1st printing, thus. Although numbered as Century Mysteries #10, it is in fact the first book published by Century. [.25 cover price]. Digest size. Light spine curl, edges lightly rubbed, rear cover has two indentations which look as if someone hit it with a hammer (?), paper is age toned. Unusual copy. Features Robin… Read more about this item Item Price
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MURDER WITH A THEME SONG
by Rath, Virginia
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- First Edition
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- 1939
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- Hardcover
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$46.55
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Garden City, New York,: Doubleday Crime Club, 1939. 1st edition. Publishers orange cloth with black lettering at spine and design at spine and finished at front cover. Previous owner's inscription at front endpaper. Corners bumbed, light fade to spine panel, spine edges rubbed, soiled and lightly slanted, housed in homemade acetate dust wrapper. A Sheriff… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE GULL COVE MURDERS: Detective Pat Campbell
by Colter, Eli
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- No Jacket
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- First Printing
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- 1945
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- Paperback
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CA$24.61
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N.Y.: Detective Novel Classic, 1945. First paperback printing, May 1945. Detective Novel Classic #41, May 1945. Vintage Digest Paperback. The 1st of the three Private Eye Pat Campbell titles. Spine roll, reading crease, lightly soiled, pages age toned. Campbell investigates a murder at the Gull Cove Palisades, one of the most beautiful & rugged stretches… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BARBAROUS COAST
by MacDonald, Ross
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1956
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$997.56
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N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1956. First edition, so stated. June 18, 1956. Original strong reddish orange (#35) and pale yellowish pink (#31) paper -covered decorative boards. Spine lettering in black on white panels. Back has black borzoi device on pale yellowish pink rectangle. White endpapers. Top and bottom edges trimmed. Top edge… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE PUZZLE OF THE PEPPER TREE: A Hildegarde Withers Novel ( A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery)
by Palmer, Stuart
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- As New
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- 1st Prtg
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- 2008
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- Paperback
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- 9781601870308
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Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2008. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. The queen of spinster detectives, Miss Hildegarde Withers, looks into an impossible murder on board a plane bound for Catalina in the early 1930s. "I don't want to die," said the man in the brown suit, who was the last… Read more about this item Item Price
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KATAPULT
by Kijewski, Karen
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1990
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- Hardcover
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- 9780312046798
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$12.64
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N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1990. 1st edition, October 1990. Front endpaper neatly removed, top of page edges spotted else near fine in dust jacket with light chipping. 2nd Kat Colorado mystery by the California writer whose first book, KATWALK, won three major awards for Best First Novel. Sacramento locale. "Stubbornly independent Sacramento, Calif., P.I. Kat Colorado (… Read more about this item Item Price
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HIGH-HEEL BLUE **ADVANCE READER'S PROOF**
by Shah, Diane K.
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1997
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- Paperback
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- 9780684814315
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CA$9.98
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New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 1st printing of Advance Reader's Proof. Fine in wrappers. "Shah, coauthor of former LAPD chief Daryl Gates' autobiography and author of two paperback original mysteries set in 1947 L.A., goes hardcover with a lively contemporary procedural. Brendan Harlow, one of the few women to qualify for the elite Metro squad,… Read more about this item Item Price
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MURDER IN HASTE
by Weston, Garnett
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1935
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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CA$66.50
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N.Y.: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1935. 1st edition. Bright yellow publishers cloth shows some darkening along spine and edges, else a near fine, tight copy. First of the three 'Highway' titles. A handsome young man who calls himself Phelim O'Ferrell turns up at the office of Luther Crone, a California lawyer, and announces himself as the long-sought… Read more about this item Item Price
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CELESTE: THE GOLD COAST VIRGIN: The Novel of a Lusty, Glittering Era. **Dell Mapback #382**
by Marshall, Raymond
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Printing
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- 1950
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- Paperback
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N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. 1st pbk printing, February 1950. Dell Mapback #382. GGA. Cover illustration by Carl Mueller. Rear cover of "Map of 1905" Los Angeles and surronding area. Spine edge rubbed, cover creases else very good. A story of young love and adventure in oil-mad California in the early 1900s between a wealthy… Read more about this item Item Price
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FAIR GAME [aka A Running Duck] **AWARD WINNER**
by Gosling, Paula
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- Used - Very Good
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- Near Fine
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- 1st American Edition
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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- 9780698109216
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N.Y.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978. 1st American edition, so stated. Revised and expanded from the original first published in Great Britain under the title A RUNNING DUCK. Author's first book. 1978 NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD WINNER. This classic thriller was the basis of the 1986 film "Cobra " starring Sylvester Stallone. Former library… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE CAT SAW MURDER: A Rachel Murdock Mystery [Intro By Joyce Carol Oates]
by Hitchens, Dolores
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- New
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- First Printing
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- 2021
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- Paperback
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- 9781613162132
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N.Y.: Penzler Publishers, 2021. 1st printing, (originally pub 1939). Part of the American Mystery Classic series. Reissued for the first time in over half a decade, the book, originally published under the D.B. Olsen pseudonym, is the 1st in the long-running Rachel Murdock series. A fine, unread copy. When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BOY WHO WAS BURIED THIS MORNING
by Hansen, Joseph
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1990
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780670833245
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N.Y.: Viking Penguin, 1990. 1st. Fine in dj. Brandstetter, officially retired as a private eye, accedes to his lover Cecil's request to investigate the death of Vaughn Thomas, a co-worker at Channel 3 shot in a "combat pursuit" game by a real gun, not a paintball. Traveling to the home town of the young woman Thomas lived with,… Read more about this item Item Price
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