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New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light edge wrinkles to jacket.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Boston attorney Brady Coyne has a generally placid life, but on one balmy June evening, that quiet life begins to fall apart. Brady receives a frantic call from the son of his friend and client, Dalton Lancaster. Dalt is in the emergency room, having been beaten by a group of thugs who warned him he has a week to pay off his debt. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 304 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Strong copy in lightly rubbed and . wrinkled jacket.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Hired by moneymen to funnel funds to anti-Aqurno rebels but interested chiefly in lining his own pocket, Booth Stallings seeks the help of the wily Artie Wu, pretender to the Chinese throne, in pulling off his dangerous scam. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 314 pages .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Prior owner name and date to front . endpaper; light foxing top edge. Gold foil titles unrubbed (scan does not . do it justice) Jacket has light shelf wear.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. The author of Presumed Innocent returns to Kindle County, where a talented lawyer and $5.6 million dollars have suddenly disappeared, and Mack Malloy is hot on the trail. .

New York: E. P. Dutton. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Glassine jacket with small tear to top . edge of back panel. Top seal for the fake snow pocket is fragile .. 1987. First American Edition. Hardcover. Anna Kovina, a courageous and sexy policewoman investigating three murders in Siberia where the Russians are laying a pipeline against the Nenets Eskimos' protestation, encounters a Nenets former lover and a brash American power. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 306 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Book is clean, straight and tight with . a hint of top edge browning. Jacket has small edge chips and tears; front . flap crease.. 1990. First US Edition. Hardcover. After receiving little assistance from solicitor Malcolm Palfrey on a malicious damage case, defense attorney Rosa Epton is furious when Malcolm fails to appear in court, but then she learns of her co-attorney's apparent suicide. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 208 pages .

New York: Poseidon Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Book with "Running Man" remainder mark . and owner's initials, in a lightly wrinkled, age-toned jacket.. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Separated by the Cuban revolution and their love for the same woman, two adopted brothers--George Brocassie, on a mission to Cuba for the CIA, and Julio Alvarez, Castro's top agent and secret KGB mole--play key roles in the Cuban missile crisis. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 447 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The Monkeewrench crew faces a frightening armagedon that's lain dormant for sixty years. ; 8.9 X 6.2 X 1.2 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with light edge wrinkling, . rubbing, and vertical crease to front flap.. 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. There is nothing soft about the soft-drink industry.; 8.75 x 6 x 1 inches; 307 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book has a slight lean; light . wrinkling to jacket's spine heel.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of Thurber's ruminations on villainy features stories, articles, and essays that include Mr. Prebble Gets Rid of His Wife; Izzy and Moe; A Glimpse of the Flatpaws; Mr. Monroe Holds the Fort; The Man Who Knew Too Little. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 208 pages .

New York: Forge. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. The Dark Lady of the sonnets lures her former lover, prosperous playwright Will Shakespeare, to a reunion tryst. Now wretched with the pox and mired in poverty, she threatens England's literary hero with exposure and disgrace unless he pays her a considerable sum of money. Moments later, a suspicious fire breaks out and she leaps to her death. Bewildered by the whole sordid affair, Will visits royal courts and squalid London byways in an effort to seek out possible enemies who might want to ruin him. Aphorisms from poems and plays are neatly woven into Will's encounters with self-important luminaries like Lord Cecil, the king's "Master High and Mighty, " with obsequious servants and even with fishmongers who mug him in a back alley late one night. Murder and intrigue backstage at the Globe implicate poor Will in the death of a young boy suspected of having… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner Son's. Good with no dust jacket; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Straight and tight . with darkening to spine title and fading to spine; stains to edges and old . price in red wax pencil to front pastedown.. 1922. Later Printing. Hardcover. A collection of 7 short stories about Mr. Ephraim Tutt, a wily old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the law's injustices. ; 7.75 x 5 x 1.25 inches; 304 pages .

New York: Scribner. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book is straight and tight with fading . to top edge. Jacket has closed sliced tear to front panel (nearly . unnoticeable) and light rubbing; enclosed in mylar protector to prevent . further damage.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. When his son is arrested for the brutal murder of a local girl, New England politician Tom Baron turns to lawyer-detective Brady Coyne for help. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 226 pages .

London: Michael Joseph. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; First UK edition of Monkeewrench that . follows the US edition by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. The 2004 Anthony . Award winner for Best Novel. Pages browned.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in the past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game where the killer is always caught. But their game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life, down to the last detail. ; 9.2 X 6.3 X 1.5 inches; 416 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first book. Jacket has . sticker ghost to front panel; light soiling.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. A private detective who has lost faith in his Mormon religion discovers crime amid the Salt Lake City business community when he investigates the death of wealthy Ben Asher. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 246 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book appears unread and still has that "new . book" feel when opened. Jacket has edge wear to spine head.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Joan and Matthew Stock must use their powers of detection and deduction for self-defense when their return to London embroils them in a very personal case of murder and mystery. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 262 pages .