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Mass-market paperback. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Contains: Illustrations. Culinary Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. pb 145 Very good. Signed by previous owner.

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Fine. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 272 p. Death on Demand, 6. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. PB 162.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Previous owner's name and date on title page. No spine crease. 0.87 x 6.85 x 4.17 Inches. 304 pages. A Goldy Culinary Mystery, Book 4. It should be the happiest day of Goldy the caterer's life. After years of putting the disaster of her first marriage behind her, she has finally found the courage to love again. Soon she'll be walking down the aisle of St. Luke's Episcopal Church to wed the man of her dreams, Tom Schulz, a homicide detective who shares Goldy's passions for preparing food and solving crimes. But moments after Goldy's put the finishing touches on the scrumptious wedding feast, and just before the ceremony begins, she receives an urgent phone call from the groom. The wedding is off, and the reason is a killer.

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Very good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 368 p. Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, 3. Audience: General/trade.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: As New. First Paperback Edition. No spine crease. . 0.78 x 6.89 x 4.18 Inches. 272 pages. A Fremont Jones Mystery, No. 1. Brave, resourceful, adventurous Fremont Jones is a woman ahead of her time. Hungry for independence, she's traded in her conventional life in Boston for a career as a "type-writer" in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. But Fremont soon discovers that her clients aren't always what they appear to be, and that in doing her job she's transcribing her way into a wealth of mystery--and mortal danger. Dashing lawyer Justin Cameron well-nigh sweeps Fremont Jones off her feet--and into a situation ripe with perilous intrigue. A client meets an untimely death that Fremant suspects is linked to the paper she typed for him, of which she can recall but one small fragment. And her attempts to disentangle reality and imagination in the gothic tales penned by Edgar Allan Partridge--whose demeanor is one of terror under the barest restraint--send her up the rocky California coast on a mission of discovery from which she may not return. A riveting, atmospheric mix of intrigue and humor introduces a new investigator as cultivated as Sherlock Holmes and as spunky as Kinsey Millhone.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. No spine crease. 0.63 x 6.89 x 4.22 Inches. 224 pages. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery, No. 1. Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer andÂÂslippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. TheÂÂjury believed that it was his pretty young wifeÂÂNikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years.ÂÂNow, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Miihone's inÂÂfor trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover whoÂÂreally killed her husband. But the trail is eightÂÂyears cold, and at the end is a chilling twist evenÂÂKinsey doesn't suspect -- a second eight-year-oldÂÂmurder and a brand new corpse.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 330 pages. A Tonnemans Mystery, No. 5. The historical mysteries of Maan Meyers trace the Tonneman family, beginning with their arrival in New Amsterdam in 1664. Combining family secrets, police corruption, and romance, this fifth novel in the series invites readers to walk the beat with New York detective John "Dutch" Tonneman in 1895. When a journalist's murder is linked to a female photographer whom Dutch can't forget, fans of Victorian suspense are in for a treat.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 0.65 x 6.88 x 4.17 Inches. 224 pages. A Death on Demand Mystery, No. 1. At Annie Laurance's Death On Demand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, murder most foul suddenly isn't confined to the well-stocked shelves. Author Elliot Morgan's abrupt demise during a weekly gathering of famous mystery writers called the Sunday Night Regulars is proof positive that a bloody sword is sometimes mightier than a brilliant pen. With Annie is the unenviable position of primary police suspect, the pretty young mystery maven and her wealthy paramour, Max Darling, embark on an investigation into a classic locked-room mystery with high stakes. For failing to unmask a brutal and ingenious killer could mean prison for Ms. Laurance. While success could mean her death.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: As New. First Paperback Edition. No spine crease. 0.87 x 6.87 x 4.21 Inches. 288 pages. A Fremont Jones Mystery, No. 2. "With her independent spirit and youthful determination, Miss Jones is virtually invincible," raved The New York Times Book Review upon meeting Dianne Day's spunky and appealing new heroine in her debut, The Strange Files of Fremont Jones. Now Fremont Jones returns, awakened by a terrible rumbling, and nearly crushed by a falling armoire, to find herself in the midst of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.In the confusion and devastation that ensues, Fremont volunteers for the Red Cross, and learns to drive an automobile to transport supplies and handsome doctors, sparking romances along the way. Her sleuthing cohort, the elusive Michael Archer, vanishes, leaving Fremont alone to sleuth the mysteries uncovered by the earthquake and to wrestle with her romantic feelings for Michael. A smuggler's cache unearthed by the disaster leads Fremont straight into danger: kidnapped by murderous Ninjas, Fremont must find her way to safety--thwarted at every turn, as even friends become suspect. Alone Fremont picks her way through the menacing ruins of San Francisco and narrowly escapes with her life.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Faint spine crease. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 0.8 x 6.8 x 4.3 Inches. 242 pages. A Maggie Ryan Mystery, No. 6. Statistician Maggie Ryan returns to her alma mater to consult for Professor Charlie Fielding, who is conducting experiments on how skilled readers read. She is invited to a celebratory luncheon with retired professor Tal Chandler. But Chandler is found dead before he gets to the restaurant. The police say suicide, but Maggie offers a different reading of the crime scene, casting suspicion on Fielding, others in the psychology department and the dead man's grieving widow.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mild spine creasing. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 0.8 x 7 x 4.3 Inches. 226 pages. A Maggie Ryan Mystery, No. 7. On a sweltering summer day, reporter Olivia Kerr and her husband Jerry invite Olivia's colleague Dale Colby and his family to the beach. Accompanying them is a very pregnant Maggie Ryan, Jerry's sister, and her family. Dale's last-minute decision to remain at home to follow up on an important story results in a tragic discovery when the beach-goers return: Dale's body in a pool of blood inside his locked office. Vietnam veteran turned police officer Holly Schreiner leads the investigation, battling Maggieand demons of her own.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mild spine crease. Introduction by Waltr Mosley . 0.81 x 6.88 x 4.18 Inches. 288 pages. A Nero Wolf Mystery, No. 11. When a powerful government official turns up dead, the great Nero Wolfe takes notice. On the edge of financial ruin, the orchid-loving detective grudgingly accepts the case. Soon another victim is found, a stenographer's tape disappears, and the dead man speaks after a fashion. As the business world clamors for a solution, Wolfe patiently lays a trap.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Spine creasing. 0.76 x 6.87 x 4.25 Inches. 244 pages. A Death on Demand Mystery, No. 5. When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max Darling, and dons her thinking cap to probe intrigue and vengeance among Chastain's faculty. A Dangerous Thing. Max and Annie, with dubious help from three of their own great ladies of the mystery -- Annie's pixilated mother-in-law, a batty local dowager, and a Christie crime fanatic -- learn that just about everyone at the school had means, motive, and access to the murder weapons. From the secretly boozing professor of advertising to the muscle-bound campus cad who barters passing grades for a little extracurricular activity, anyone on the faculty is a possible killer -- waiting to strike again!.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: new. Mass Market Paperback. When a baby is abandonded on the doorstep of a young socialite widow, the woman thinks she knows the identity of the father: her deceased writer husband, the cad But who is the mother? Reluctantly, Nero Wolfe accepts the case, and Archie identifies the first clue: unusual buttons on the baby's overalls. Back in print after more than ten years, The Mother Hunt is the 18th novel by the Grandmaster of Mystery to be reissued in the Rex Stout Library. It's a matter of maternity that brings Lucy Valdon to the brownstone on West 35th, after a baby is left on her doorstep. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: new. Mass Market Paperback. They all thought they were about to die . . . and they were right. Dazy Perrit was an underworld kingpin until a hail of bullets sent him into early retirement. Ben Jensen was a well-connected publisher until a determined gunman severed all his connections. Eugene R. Poor made novelties like exploding cigars until one of them blew him to kingdom come. Only the gourmet sleuth, Nero Wolfe, and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, can solve the deadly equation of murder times three. Introduction by Randy Russell "It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."--The New York Times Book Review A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained--and puzzled--millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout. A repackaged Nero Wolfe mystery—the perfect companion for anyone who savors a good murder served up with true flair. Features an introduction by noted writer Randy Russell and never-before-published memorabilia from the life of Rex Stout. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: new. Mass Market Paperback. Madeline Fraser, radio talk show host extraordinaire, had a natural dread of dead air. So when one of her on-air guests signed off at the mike after drinking a glass of a sponsor's beverage, it was a broadcaster's nightmare come true. Enter Nero Wolfe. He agrees to take the case, with his sizable fee contingent on his solving the murder. But to Wolfe's surprise, everyone connected to the case now lies in unison about it. And as the portly detective soon discovers, the secret worth lying about only hides another worth killing for. Introduction by Maan Meyers "It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."--The New York Times Book Review A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained--and puzzled--millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout. Madeline Fraser, radio talk show host extraordinare, had a natural dread of dead air. So when one of her on-air guests signed off at the mike after drinking a glass of a sponsor's beverage, it was a broadcasters nightmare come true. Enter Nero Wolfe. He agrees to take the case, with his sizable fee contingent on his solving the murder. But to Wolfe's surprise, everyone connected to the case now lies in unison about it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. No spine crease. 0.75 x 6.89 x 4.19 Inches. 256 pages. A Death on Demand Mystery, No. 4. Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and detective Max Darling are finally tying the knot, but a bizarre sequence of events might unravel this blissful marriage before it begins. With the ceremony completed and the champagne goblets emptied, Max sweeps Annie into his arms for an amorous moment . . . when the phone rings and a woman on the other end of the line screams bloody murder!The newlyweds rush to the scene of the crime, only to discover that Ingrid Jones, Annie's bookstore assistant, has vanished, leaving the body of a neighborhood Peeping Tom on her living room rug. As the community of Broward's Rock, including a dotty New Age psychic and Annie's meddling new mother-in-law, mobilizes to find the missing woman, the cold corpse puts the honeymoon plans on the shelf . . . and Annie's love of investigation threatens to bring the big chill to Max's hungry heart.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mild spine crease. 0.88 x 6.87 x 4.24 Inches. 320 pages. A Death on Demand Mystery, No. 2 . When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to stage a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, she instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and-blood drama. The play's the thing wherein the curtain falls on mean-spirited grande dame Corinne Webster. While jeweled fingers point, accusing Annie of murder, the perpetrator lurks within the genteel cast of Murder-Most-Make-Believe . . . and the murder weapon is one of the props.In the tight-laced society of Chastain, Annie is guilty until proven innocent. With her fiance, Max Darling, Annie pieces together evidence to clear her nameuntil her chief witness is murdered. Now it will take all her sleuthing skills to discover the evil in the heart of Chastain's Beautiful People.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good paperback.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Bantam Paperback Edition. No spine crease. 1.1 x 7.2 x 4 Inches. 202 pages. A Nero Wolfe Mystery, No. 4. After the heir to a frozen-food fortune gets iced, Nero Wolfe's right-hand man becomes a suspect:"Goldsborough does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy" (Booklist). When Lily Rowan doesn't laugh at his jokes, Archie Goodwin knows something's wrong. Her niece Noreen has been running around with Sparky Linville, a club-hopping bad boy who's the terror of Manhattan nightlife, and the last time she went out with him, Noreen wasn't herself when she came home. All she would tell her aunt was that she had been assaulted. Springing into action, Goodwin waits for Linville outside of Morgana's, a chrome-and-glass palace that sits like a wart on Second Avenue. They nearly come to blows, but Linville's bodyguard intervenes, and Goodwin retreats to plan his next move. In the morning, Linville is dead, and Goodwin is the chief suspect. For years he has helped rotund genius Nero Wolfe out of jams, and now it's time for the master detective to return the favor.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: new. Mass Market Paperback. A doxy — a prostitute or paramour — is found dead, and one of Nero Wolfe's longtime acquaintances stands accused. Wolfe reluctantly lays out bait in the form of a showgirl — whose talents may equal his own. With a rich man footing the bills and a handsome lover on the side, Isabel Kerr was taken care of well. When someone takes care of her in a more final sense, her murder is pinned on a detective friend of Nero Wolfe's. Agreeing to help clear his buddy's name, Wolfe winds up entertaining a party of fools and lovers connected with the doxy's death. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: new. Mass Market Paperback. One by one they knock on the door of the incomparable Nero Wolfe, each with a case more perplexing than the one before. First comes the niece of a man who committed suicide by jumping naked into a geyser, only to return just in time to be murdered. Then it's the strange case of the murder victim's family covering up for the real killer, while a chef stews in jail. Finally a master horticulturist discovers the woman he wants to marry: dead and cooling in a hothouse. Three knocks on the door. Three cases of crime. Enter a world of mendacity, mixed motives, and masterful detection on West Thirty-fifth Street, where murder is always at home. Introduction by Jonathan Kellerman "It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."--The New York Times Book Review A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained--and puzzled--millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout. One by one they knocked on Nero Wolfe's door, each with a case more perplexing than the last: a suicide victim who turns up alive, only to be murdered anew; a murder victim's family who provides his killer with an alibi; and a master horticulturalist who finds the woman of his dreams—dead and cooling in his hothouse. Previous publisher: Viking. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: new. Mass Market Paperback. "It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."--The New York Times Book Review Embark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with sudden death at the Easter Parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked with corpses when death is in season. Here are four cunning cases that leave everyone guessing. When it comes to sleuthing out a clever solution, only Nero Wolfe has a clue. Emabark with Nero Wolfe on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring and sudden death at the Easter parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked when death is in season. Here are four cunning cases that leave everyone guessing. And only Nero Wolfe has a clue. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: new. Mass Market Paperback. It's a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe's hallowed turf--and leave a corpse strangled with Wolfe's own soup-stained tie. But no sooner does the gourmandizing sleuth clean up this first course of murder than he faces a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of homicidal intent--only to become the sole suspect when the corpus delicti is found. It's murder a la carte when the third course is served: a cop-hating landlady brings Wolfe counterfeit cash--that leads to genuine murder. It's up to Wolfe to see that the malefactors get their just deserts. Introduction by Stephen Greenleaf "It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."--The New York Times Book Review A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained--and puzzled--millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout. A deadly trio of Nero Wolfe classics. It's a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe's hallowed turf. It's a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of homicidal intent—only to become the suspect when the corpse is found. And it's murder a la carte when a cop-hating landlady brings Wolfe counterfeit cash that leads to genuine murder. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Bantam Paperback Edition. Mild spine crease. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 0.6 x 6.7 x 3.7 Inches. 189 pages. A Nero Wolfe Mystery, No 3. He was a man a lot of people hated, even in death. He was Hale Markham, a professor at an upstate New York College, a man infamous for his poisonous jealousy, backstabbing, and character assassination. His death is graded accidental. As Archie pokes about the ivy, Nero Wolfe is ensconced within his brownstone, professing no interest in the case.until Archie lands in jail. Now the enraged great detective must do the unheard of: he must haul his legendary girth from his favorite armchair and storm into the wilds of the outer world to snare a murderer magna cum laude.

PAPERBACK. Condition: Near Fine. Excellent Copies - Mass Market Paperbacks - Murder At The Spirit Cave & The Hangman's Tree - (2) Two Books All In Near Fine Condition. Covers Have The Tiniest Bit Of Shelf Wear. Page Edges Have Turned/Aged, Very Light Wear. No Stamps. Not Remaindered. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. First Mass Market paperback. NY, Crimeline, 1992 First Mass Market Paperback Edition. 294 pages Mystery novel. A fine unread copy with inside covers toned. See Photos bx146.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. Cover art by Paul Davis (illustrator). reprint. An Albert Campion Mystery, Vintage Mystery Reprint with Cover art by Paul Davis. A fine unread copy. See Photos Sr 2/3.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Later printing. New York: Bantam Books Crime Line [c.1996]. Good. 1996. Later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. 0553244388 . Later [8th] printing thus. 205+ pages. Very good copy with spine creased and cocked, cover creasing. See photo 801.

MassMarket. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. New York, Ny,: Bantam / Crimeline. Bantam , Ny, 1988 Later printing 210 page Mass market Paperback . Vintage Mystery Novel A very good copy with light wear to the covers. Tight and clean . See Photos 324.