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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 358 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine over purple boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Miami attorney Gail Connor plunges into volatile Cuban-American politics in her third heady adventure (after Suspicion of Guilt.) When Gail's client, the Miami Opera, hires fast-rising singer Thomas Nolan to star in Don Giovanni, opera managers learn that Nolan recently performed in Havana. Much of Miami's Cuban community sees any such appearance as support for the hated Fidel Castro. Gail asks her fiance, Cuban-born lawyer Anthony Quintana, to intervene with the local exiles. Complicating matters is the fact that Anthony's brother-in-law, Octavio Reyes, leads the anti-Nolan talk on a Miami radio station. Just before a planned appearance on the Reyes show, Seth Greer, an old friend of Quintana and opera director Rebecca Dixon, is shot to death. Because the exiles, however passionate, seldom resort to violence, Gail wonders if Greer's death is related to his long-ago revolutionary work with Quintana and Rebecca in Nicaragua. The possibility leads her to wonder if her lover, who is adamantly secretive about his own history, could be the killer? The story and cast at first seem formulaic: the ever competent heroine, the macho but tender Latin lover, life among wealthy Miamians. The narrative triumphs, however, thanks to Parker's rich mix of tropical politics, edgy romance and secrets from the past. Condition: Jacket with light edge wear with some closed tears else a near fine copy in a very good to fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 360 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. Suburbia has rarely looked so perilous as in this ultimately exhilarating mystery, with its utterly believable, uniquely modern hero. After being forced out of a Wall Street firm in the wake of a major scandal, Kit Deleeuw becomes a part-time househusband and the only private investigator in Rochambeau, N.J., an affluent small town near New York City. When a teenage couple is found dead one winter's night, the local police conclude that the boy murdered the girl, then committed suicide. The evidence fails to convince the teens' friends, however, and they hire Kit to find the real killer. An elderly woman is wounded by a man wearing a stovepipe hat and cape; clues link the attack not only to the teens' deaths but to a killing spree of a hundred years earlier. As ominous events continue to darken the community, Kit and his wife, a therapist, decide that someone is trying to send the people of Rochambeau a message. But what could it be? Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 342 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition review copy with review statement laid in. Murder is the least of the chicanery at an L.A. fertility clinic in this tautly-moving tale. Even before her fiancÇ disappears, Dr. Lisa Brockman has bad feelings about the death of Chelsea Wright. The waitress had taken $2500 to serve as an anonymous egg donor to Lisa's Westwood clinic in order to tide herself over until she could start earning money as a teacher. Now that she's dead, though, she may cost the clinic thousands of times that amount. Someone has started a rumor that instead of implanting infertile women with their own fertilized eggs, the clinic has been switching eggs, leaving its clients pregnant with the children of strangers. The most devastating accusation--that Orthodox Jewish client Naomi Hoffman's eggs, so conscientiously shepherded at every step of the implantation process by a shomer tasked with insuring that her baby will be her own, are really Chelsea's--is turning out, despite all apparent evidence to the contrary, to be the hardest to disprove. Now Naomi and her husband, a rabbinic student, are going bonkers; Chelsea's grieving parents are preparing to sue for custody of the baby they're convinced is their grandchild; reporters across town have emblazoned the clinic on their Rolodexes; and it's all falling to Lisa to sort out, because the clinic director, her fiancÇ Dr. Matthew Gordon, has taken a powder--or been murdered to keep his mouth shut. Suddenly, Lisa finds her life (literally) threatened and (figuratively) falling apart. Beginning with a guided tour of current research on infertility problems and solutions, Krich (Speak No Evil, 1996, etc.) expertly ratchets up the tension (should Lisa trust the advances of fellow clinician Sam Davidson? What will happen if she goes undercover as an ob/gyn patient herself? How can she disprove the thickening legal allegations?), saving a few choice surprises for dessert. Krich makes use of the suspense formula to put a hot-button issue--the problems of parenthood in the age of fertility clinics--under the knife. Condition: Small bumped to head edge else a near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 189 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition.Ian Laidlaw is an equable man. Quiet, cultivated, efficient, head of the political science department at a Scottish university. His uneventful days are measured out with scrupulous care until Alicia Anna Davie laughs in his face one afternoon--and his ordered world crumbles about him. There is another side to Ian Laidlaw, a side that matches the scarred horror of the left side of his face, mangled in youth by a vicious hound. This side draws Alicia into a bizarre relationship; but as she toys with ugliness and danger, Laidlaw becomes locked into an obsessive passion at once disorienting and hideously destructive. Alicia's crime is the carelessness of youth--Laidlaw's punishment reflects the dislocation of his universe. A near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 384 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper spine with blue lettering to spine over blue boards with blind stamped pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The opening scene of Ferrigno's third crime novel (after The Cheshire Moon) is a reminder of how good and tough this West Coast-cool author can be: as two killers invade the home of California Superior Court Judge Teddy Krammerson, the judge meets death with dignity, but not before slamming one of his attackers in the face with a telephone (""`You have no idea how good that felt,'' he said. breathing hard, his eyes calm as smoke. `Opportunity knocks. I always answer.'""). In the face of rampant evil, the judge's stepson, investigative reporter Quinn, shows similar courage as he digs into the murder. The web of deceit involving new ripples from long-ago crimes that Quinn uncovers is so tangled, so ultra-Chandleresque, that the reader yearns for some violent action to cut it clean. But there's no relief until the final chapters, when Ferrigno thrusts Quinn into two shockingly bloody battles. Along the way, a gallery of memorable characters-the two killers, eccentric and scary angels of death; their wealthy, corrupt patron; Quinn's mysterious family friend who reappears after 28 years in prison-boost the sleuthing. And an affecting subplot about Quinn's loyalties in love-he is torn between his girlfriend and his estranged wife and daughter-enriches the tale. But finally, poor pacing and spaghetti plotting render what could have been a minor crime classic into just an above-average thriller. 150,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild and Mystery Guild featured alternates. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 300 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound i original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When a traveling opera troupe visits stately Bolitho Court to raise money for a local hospice, few in the audience can imagine the seething cauldron of suppressed violence that lies beneath the greasepaint smiles. After the Floria Tosca Grand Opera Company has spent a month on the road together, the pressure of sexual and musical rivalry has become unbearable for more than one member of the group. Not so surprising in a company that includes the dark and predatory Maria, her talented rival Isabelle, a professionally and sexually harassed musical director, and Rupert, who's barely in control of his drinking problem. So when death comes, it seems more inevitable than shocking. But then a second body is found. Condition: A fine copy in a near fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 165 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Beautiful Arly Walbridge is found hanging by a rope in a cottonwood grove. To sheriff Pickles Offut, the signs are clear: suicide, pure and simple. But Frank James, reporter and Arly's old lover, doesn't believe it. Rich in character, Barbed Wire is a taut, emotionally charged mystery that will keep readers guessing to the last page. Condition: Jacket spine sunned else a near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 367 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When Mike McCleary is shot one morning while jogging, Quin's investigation into the shooting thrusts her into the upper echelons of Palm Beach society. She encounters a Chilean fisherman, Alejandro Domingo, whose healing abilities have attracted numerous wealthy clients in Palm Beach, including the wife of a man running for the U.S. Senate. Videos, photos, and printed material all lead to the haunted Chilean, whose sister and daughter have disappeared en route to South America. Quin's investigation, with the help of fellow operative John Tark, himself a man with a dark past in South America, leads to the place where Alejandro plies his powers. Condition: slightly cocked else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 143 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. A recent revival of the Budapest Gambit at tournament level has resulted in the fundamental revision of many key variations and the development of important. Condition: Old sticker to back wrapper, point rubbed and gently bumped else very good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 258 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. It's strictly Friends & Family as V.I. Warshawski, "the detective mystery fans have been waiting for" (Time), makes return appearances in a collection of stories that bring new meaning to "ties that bind." Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense Attitude, V.I. is out to make a living--by the skin of her teeth. Condition: Fine in a fine jacket.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 325 pages. Royal octavo (9" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). Dan Cody loved his wife Janie. He loved her so much that he killed her. She was HIV-positive, and she begged him to do it. Or so he says. Now Dan's on the run with a new romantic obsession--Carol, the prison nurse. Their daring breakout had made the evening news, and Dan wants to set the record straight--he did it for love. This is Dan's story. And if Dan holds back some crucial part of the story, or even lies, you can be sure he has his reasons. Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

Condition: Very Good. 2013th Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 2013th Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $12.00, near fine, fresh copy, appears unused. MAMET, DAVID. Dr. Faustus: a play. New York: Vintage Books, 2004, with 1st printing number line ending in 1, 102pp., . A Vintage original. 9781400076482 ISBN 140007648X 4.30.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.