Pseud hunter evan mcbain ed (47 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 248 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When Ralph, a loving older brother upset by his brother's gay lifestyle, is accused of his murder and the evidence points to his guilt, Matthew Hope must work with a few fleeting but crucial clues to prove Ralph's innocence. Condition: Fine in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 230 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. When the affable owner of a checkered-tablecloth restaurant in Little Italy is cut down by the bullets of a pair of ski-masked thugs, 5th Precinct Police Detective Reardon has his hands too full to give a damn about some odd things going on uptown. For instance, why does a noted Madison Avenue art lover suddenly decide to sell his entire collection in an effort to raise a cool million? And why was a well-known Arab oil magnate assassinated? Almost too late, Reardon sees the connection between the deaths of a multi-millionaire and a small-time restaurateur, and the fluctuations in the international markets for crude oil, fine art, and precious metals. And now that he knows the truth, just how long has he got to live? Condition: Near fine in fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 321 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with silver lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Romance is the name of a new play opening uptown--a play about an actress who gets stabbed. But when the lead actress really does get knifed, the spotlight turns to the guys from the 87th. It's up to Detective Bert Kling, involved in a budding romance of his own, to get to the bottom of it all. Condition: Some of the corners dogeared, head corners gently bumped else very good in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 248 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This crime novel describes how Florida's Matthew Hope assumes defence of a husband against circumstantial evidence that he killed his actress wife. Hope is soon on the trail to solving the mystery but the actress, meanwhile, is stashed away - naked but for her red leather boots. Condition: Previous owner's name on front end paper, embossed imprint on half title page else very good in fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 350 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter dark blue cloth with silver lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The squadroom at 5:15 on New Year's morning looked much as it did on any other day. But an exceptionally heinous crime was already sending a wave of outrage through even the veteran cops of the 87th Precinct: a wealthy couple, returning home from New Year's festivities, discovered their baby -- and the infant's teenage sitter -- murdered. Parents themselves, detectives Carella and Meyer resolve to bring in the perpetrator at any cost. Meanwhile, gang warfare is overtaking the city's streets, threatening its very foundation. A sinister song of death and destruction echoes through the 87th, and it isn't "Auld Lang Syne." Condition: Jacket corners rubbed, closed tears at head, spine extremities rubbed, spine head small closed tears with creases else very good to fine in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 302 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4') bound in original publisher's quarter white cloth with gilt lettering to spine over orange boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Ed McBain, author of the bestselling 87th Precinct series, takes us "Downtown" in a bold departure of a novel that will have listeners cheering for a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York City. Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Manhattan bar with a couple of hours to kill. It's a couple of hours that almost kill him, as he's swindled, robbed, framed for murder, and hunted down by an assassin in one of the wildest, scariest, funniest, fastest twenty-four hours ever packed into one novel. Condition: Jacket spine sunned else near fine in like jacket.…

Hardcover_boards. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 271 pages. Black boards w/gold foil letters. Book design by Ellen R. Sasahara. DJ #55211 designed by Marc Cohen. DJ photo by Henry Horenstein. Author photo by Robert Clark. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. GIFT QUALITY. Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They're not such a big deal, you know. Even when the victim is a city councilman as well known as Lester Henderson. But this is the first time Fat Ollie Weeks of the 88th Precinct has written a novel, ah yes. Called Report to the Commissioner, it follows a cunning detective named Olivia Wesley Watts, who, apart from being female and slim, is rather like Fat Ollie himself. While Ollie's responding to the squeal about the dead councilman, his leather dispatch case is stolen from the back of his car -- and in it, the only copy of his precious manuscript. Joined by Carella and Kling from the neighboring 87th Precinct, Ollie investigates the homicide with all the exquisite crudeness, insensitivity, and determination for which he is famous. But the theft of his first novel fills Ollie with a renewed passion for old-fashioned detective work. Following the exploits of one of Ed McBain's most beloved detectives, this lively and complicated novel -- the fifty-second in the award-winning 87th Precinct series -- is perhaps his best book yet. Source: Publisher.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 212 pages. Octavo (9" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with silver and red lettering to spine over blue boards in original jacket. First edition. Ghosts is the 34th novel in Ed McBain's classic 87th Precinct series, originally published as a 1980 hardcover edition by The Viking Press. The story uniquely blends a gritty police procedural with elements of a supernatural thriller. Detective Steve Carella is tasked with solving the murders of a young woman, a popular ghost story author, and the author's publisher. Things take a strange turn when Carella's main leads begin coming from a beautiful psychic. Condition: Head and heal edges sunned. Jacket with light edge wear else very good in a better than very good jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 274 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Long Time No See (1977) is the 32nd novel in the classic 87th Precinct series, written by Evan Hunter under his famous pen name, Ed McBain. The gritty police procedural follows Detective Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer as they investigate the brutal murders of blind victims. The story begins with the murder of James Harris, a Vietnam War veteran who was blinded in the conflict and had his throat cut on the street. The very next day, his wife—who is also blind—is murdered in their home in the exact same way. As the bizarre killing spree continues, Detective Steve Carella must delve into the first victim's past, uncovering a complex web of war, torment, and secrets tied to a Vietnam nightmare. Condition: Corners gently bumped. Jacket heal corners small chip, light edge wear else very good in very good to fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 217 pages. Octavo (9" 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt and purple lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Detectives Carella and Meyer of the 87th Precinct have a case growing cold as they try to figure out who killed the calypso singer and the prostitute with the same gun. They are on a race to discover who the killer is before he goes on another rampage of sadistic sex. Condition: Page ends dusty, pages age toned. Jacket spine ends rubbed and chipped, corners lightly chipped else very good in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 165 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with green and silver gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Detective Bert Kling has had some rough luck with women. First his fiancée Cindy Townsend was gunned down in an infamous bookstore shooting. Then there was Cindy Forrest, who informed him one day that she was in love with a doctor at work and was gone. Now he s finally hit the jackpot. Kling just married the beautiful model Augusta Blair, and they are about to enjoy the first night of their marriage togetheruntil bad luck catches him again. Condition: Pages age toned, remainder stamp to heal end pages else very good to fine in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover_boards. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 291 pages. Black boards w/gold foil letters. Book design by Ellen R. Sasahara. DJ #16015 designed byDiane Luger & Jacki Merri Meyer. Author photo by Dragica Dimitrijevic. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. GIFT QUALITY. Once she had filled the concert halls of Europe with beautiful music. Once her name had been in headlines, her performances heralded in newspapers around the world. Now she lay dead on the cold floor of a cold apartment on the coldest night of the year: a little old woman with a shattered bottle of cheap liquor by her body and two fatal gunshot wounds to her chest. Svetlana Dyalovich, found dead at midnight, was one more homicide in one more endless night in the city. For detectives Carella and Hawes, no murder is ever routine, and while this one looks at first like a robbery, the evidence doesn't add up. And when Carella and Hawes interview Svetlana's hard-edged, lounge-singing granddaughter - a woman accompanied by two armed bodyguards - they start looking for a missing envelope full of money and for a killer who had more than robbery on his mind. Source: Publisher. Myles Sprinzen (illustrator).…

Hardcover_boards. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 184. Maroon boards w/Yellow letters on spine. DJ design by John Cayea. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Faint edge and shelf wear to DJ w/soft toning. Faint foxing to edges. Secure ship w/track #. Bid welcome to a memorable new McBain hero - Benjamin Smoke, an unlicensed private investigator with a very special preoccupation. smoke quit the police force three years ago with a gold detective-lieutenant's shield and a well-earned reputation as a no-nonsense cop. In twenty-four years he saw muggings, robberies, rapes, frauds, and murders, but there was one thing he never saw: the perfect crime. And that's why he quit the force: boredom. Benjamin Smoke wants a case he can't solve, a crime so perfectly conceived and executed, he'll know for sure that somewhere out there, there really is a master criminal. That is why, on Monday morning, he meets Abner Boone, undertaker.…

Hardcover textured. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 147. Maroon boards w/Yellow letters on spine. DJ design by John Cayea. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Faint edge and shelf wear to DJ w/soft toning. Faint foxing to edges. Secure ship w/track #. Detective Bert Kling has had some rough luck with women. First his fiancée Cindy Townsend was gunned down in an infamous bookstore shooting. Then there was Cindy Forrest, who informed him one day that she was in love with a doctor at work-and was gone. Now he's finally hit the jackpot. Kling just married the beautiful model Augusta Blair, and they are about to enjoy the first night of their marriage together.until bad luck catches him again. When Kling gets out of the shower, Augusta is gone, leaving behind one shoe-and cotton soaked in chloroform. Even harder than calling Detective Steve Carella with the news is standing on the sidelines while the rest of the men do all the work. But he'll have to-or he'll never see her alive again. A spine-tingling race against time as the detectives of the 87th do what they do best, So Long as You Both Shall Live is an extraordinary addition to the series, an Ed McBain masterpiece that marries taut police procedure with the personal stakes of a man who stands to lose everything-again.…

Hardcover_buckram spine. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 302 pages. Black buckram w/gold foil letters over steel gray boards. DJ #15269 designed by Linda Kosarin. Author photo by Mary Vann Hunter. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY Secure ship w/track #. Ed McBain, author of the bestselling 87th Precinct series, takes us "Downtown" in a bold departure of a novel that will have readers cheering for a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York City. Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Manhattan bar with a couple of hours to kill. It's a couple of hours that almost kill him, as he's swindled, robbed, framed for murder, and hunted down by an assassin in one of the wildest, scariest, funniest, fastest twenty-four hours ever packed into one novel. Source: Publisher. Stephanie and Mark Gerber (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING w/DJ wrapped in mylar. 24 cm 351 numbered pgs. Red cloth spine w/gold foil letters over vanilla boards w/matching paste downs. Book design by Liney Li. DJ design by David Gatti. Jacket illutration by Tom Canty. Author photo by Mary Vann Hunter. Apine straight, sewn binding tight. Pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. From the nationally bestselling author of Vespers and Widows, a masterfully plotted, razor-sharp suspense novel. Detective Steve Carella is faced with a wealthy blonde sporting a beautiful body and two attempts on her life. Her stockbroker husband has hired protection for her but nothing is as it seems in this thriller. Source: Publisher.…

1st Great Britain Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. Front free endpaper is missing with text not affected. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 157 pages; Physical description. : 157, [1]p. ; 22cm. Notes: Originally published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1976. - 'Portions of this novel appeared previously in the "Ladies' Home Journal"' - title page verso. Subject: English fiction. Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. 1 Kg.…

1st Great Britain Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. Front free endpaper is missing with text not affected. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 157 pages; Physical description. : 157, [1]p. ; 22cm. Notes: Originally published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1976. - 'Portions of this novel appeared previously in the "Ladies' Home Journal"' - title page verso. Subject: English fiction. Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 326 p. ; 18 cm. Summary: A psychiatrist saves a young woman from a mugging in New York's Central Park and a relationship develops. At first David Chapman only indulges in fantasies, but after seeing the woman dance in a musical, he embarks on an affair. It's a complicated business because he lives in another town and has a family. When the woman becomes the target of a stalker, things become even more complicated. Subject: Man-woman relationships - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Psychiatrists - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. New York (N.Y.) - Fiction. Modern fiction FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction. Romantic suspense fiction. Romantic suspense novels. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 326 p. ; 18 cm. Summary: A psychiatrist saves a young woman from a mugging in New York's Central Park and a relationship develops. At first David Chapman only indulges in fantasies, but after seeing the woman dance in a musical, he embarks on an affair. It's a complicated business because he lives in another town and has a family. When the woman becomes the target of a stalker, things become even more complicated. Subject: Man-woman relationships - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Psychiatrists - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. New York (N.Y.) - Fiction. Modern fiction FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction. Romantic suspense fiction. Romantic suspense novels. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages; 1959 Simon & Schuster. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Soundly bound copy in original dust jacket with publisher's $3.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed and worn at edges and less os to surfaces. Light to moderate toning to page stock. VG-/VG-. …

Hardcover_boards. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 5.75"x 8.5" 185 pgs. Light gray boards. Red metallic letters to spine. DJ #11222 designed by Lawrence Ratzkin. Autor photo by Mary Vann Hunter. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Dime size scrape to ffep. Secure ship w/track #. A long shadow looms above her. Then a hand clamps over her mouth and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short. Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Carlton Markham, who's been arrested for his filmmaker wife's murder but says he didn't do it. Witnesses fly forward to proclaim his guilt, but Markham's not giving up that easily on his innocence. And when Matthew digs deeper into the victim's business--from heavy financial backers to sleazy egomaniacs--he finds she may not have been the perfect lady she had seemed. The one piece of evidence that could set Markham free and finger the real killer is the victim's film reel. Only it's gone, along with the film's sexy star. Now Matthew needs to infiltrate the seedy side of the film industry in order to find the missing reel and solve the murder. From master storyteller Ed McBain, Puss in Boots is another Matthew Hope Mystery classic, the tale of a woman who aimed too high and the many men who fell for it all. Source: Publisher.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bruised, spine slightly sunned, some yellowing to page block. Not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy. 430pp. Lizzie Borden, America's most celebrated murderer, comes to vivid life in this riveting and chilling book by acclaimed author Evan Hunter as the portrait of a notorious woman unfolds with shocking clarity. Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty one. In recreating the events of that fateful day, August 4th 1892, in Fall River Massachusetts, and the extraordinary circumstances which led up to them, Evan Hunter spins a breathtakingly imaginative tale of an enigmatic spinster whose secret life would eventually force her to the ultimate confrontation with her stepmother and father. Here is Lizzie Borden freed of history and legend,a full bodied woman of hot blood and passion, fighting against her prim New England upbringing, surrendering to the late Victorian hedonism of London, Paris and the Riviera, yet fated to live out her meagre life in a placid Massachusetts town. Seething with frustration and rage, a prisoner of her appetites, Lizzie Borden finally snapped, but how and why she was led into her uncompromising acts is at the heart of this enthralling, suspenseful work of the imagination. Alternating the actual inquest and trial of Lizzie Borden with an account of her head spinning, seductive trip to Europe, Evan Hunter portrays Lizzie as she may really have been. Ed McBain (1926-2005), was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction. Jacket by Pat Doyle (illustrator). …

Soft Cover. Zustand: VG+. Reprint. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased); pp. 332 [last blank), [6 (pubs. advts.)], with diagrams. A very good copy. Inscribed to prev. owner on title page 'To Gwen - Best wishes! Ed McBain'. The forty-second title in this long running series of New York inspired crime novels. Signed by Author.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, (not price-clipped) now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description: 596p. : 21cm. Summary: In New York during the frenetic week before Christmas, a plagiarism trial has profound effects on a playwright, the plaintiff, and a best-selling novelist, the defendant. Subject: Authors- Fiction. Trials - New York (N.Y.) - Authors. New York (State) - New York. Genre: Fiction. Novel. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, (not price-clipped) now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description: 596p. : 21cm. Summary: In New York during the frenetic week before Christmas, a plagiarism trial has profound effects on a playwright, the plaintiff, and a best-selling novelist, the defendant. Subject: Authors- Fiction. Trials - New York (N.Y.) - Authors. New York (State) - New York. Genre: Fiction. Novel. 1 Kg.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Mysterious Press, [1988]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],320pp. Very light edge wear, jacket flaps rather yellowed, else a Very Good or better example. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page. Signed.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 253 pp. : 21 cm. Notes: Stated First Printing. Contents: Uncle Jimbo's marbles - The tourists - On the sidewalk, bleeding - The fallen angel - Alive again- The prisoner - S.P.Q.R.- The final yes - The innocent one - Pretty eyes - Million dollar maybe - Happy new year, Herbie. Subject: Short stories. Fiction. Fantasy - realism - characters. Topical.Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 253 pp. : 21 cm. Notes: Stated First Printing. Contents: Uncle Jimbo's marbles - The tourists - On the sidewalk, bleeding - The fallen angel - Alive again- The prisoner - S.P.Q.R.- The final yes - The innocent one - Pretty eyes - Million dollar maybe - Happy new year, Herbie. Subject: Short stories. Fiction. Fantasy - realism - characters. Topical.Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 326 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: SIGNED by the Author. This copy is not price-clipped. Summary: From the author of CRIMINAL CONVERSATION, the story of an obsessional relationship between a married and successful New York psychiatrist and a young Broadway dancer. A chance encounter in Central Park leads to adultery and tragedy. Subject: Man-woman relationships - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Psychiatrists - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. New York (N.Y.) - Fiction. Modern fiction. FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction, Romantic suspense, novels. 1 Kg.…