Friday, December 10, 2010

Sally's Weekly Update for 12/10/10!

We're recovering from our Christmas Party!

To all of you who were here, thanks for making it such a wonderful evening.

We missed those of you who couldn't make it, but Dan will be posting photographs from the event later today.
If you are on Facebook and have not already done so, become a friend of The Mysterious Bookshop. There's always a lot of information on that site.

And here is the latest update!

Sally Owen
The Mysterious Bookshop
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com


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Weekly Update 12/10/10





The Mysterious Bookshop’s Christmas Party yesterday evening was a smashing success!

As well, as our loyal local customers, the following authors were here:

Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Michael Malone, Jason Starr, Reed Farrel Coleman, S.J. Rozan, Lisa Atkinson, Rupert Holmes, Nelson DeMille, Joe Kanon, Adam Dunn, Lee Child, Megan Abbott, Alafair Burke, Wallace Stroby, Jim Fusilli, Bruce DeSilva, Peter James, Ron Goulart, Thomas H. Cook, Jonathan Santlofer, Lindsay Faye, etc.

If I missed anybody, I apologize.

Contributors who were here signed copies of Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop edited by Otto Penzler.. We had an enormous number of pre-orders and the authors were extremely patient signing those copies and copies bought by party attendees. We have no more first editions of this title left!

We do however, have a very limited numbered of second editions signed by the contributors.



SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE



A Stranger in Mayfair is the fourth mystery by Charles Finch featuring gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox and his new wife, Lady Jane Grey. Lenox is asked by a colleague to consult in a murder case and then is abruptly called off the case, but not before he has learned some unsettling facts. A Soft Boiled Crime Club Main Selection. $24.99

Dead Like You by Peter James is up to his usual sinister and disturbing standard. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates a series of attacks on women where the victims’ shoes are taken. It reminds him of case from 1997. Is this a copycat or has the "Shoe Man" resurfaced? James has not found the wide audience here that he has in the U.K. That should change - he’s a wonderfully dark writer. $25.99



Not Signed But...



We have a wonderful collection for Patricia Highsmith fans. Selected Novels and Short Stories contains classics such as Strangers on a Train and the lesser known The Price of Salt, which she wrote under the name Claire Morgan, as well as a selection of her disturbing stories. $35.00



FOR COLLECTORS

The White Russian by Tom Bradby, Bantam, London. 2003. First Edition. $25.00

Author’s first book. Fine in fine dust jacket.

The Problem of the Wire Cage by John Dickson Carr, Harper, NY. 1939. First Edition. $300.00

A fine copy of this Dr. Fell mystery in the scarce tennis-related dust jacket, which is lightly worn along edges and spine ends, with a small chip at the bottom of the front panel.

The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle, Dodd, Mead, NY. 1907. First Edition. $375.00

Queen’s Quorum title. Corners and spine ends rubbed, else very good.

Mean High Tide by James W. Hall, Delacorte, NY. 1994. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

Charlie Resnick by John Harvey, Mysterious Bookshop, NY. 2008. First Edition. SIGNED. $60.00

Limited to only 100 hardcover copies, numbered and signed by Harvey. A profile of the great author’s most famous character. Very fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston, Ballantine. NY. 2007. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

Glitz by Elmore Leonard, Arbor House, NY. 1985. First Edition. SIGNED. $35.00

Review copy with publisher’s material laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Mr. Paradise by Elmore Leonard, Wm. Morrow, NY. 2004. First Edition. SIGNED. $30.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay, Doubleday, NY. 2007. First Edition. SIGNED. $40.00

Third Dexter thriller. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Report for Murder by Val McDermid, St. Martin’s Press, NY. 1987. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $40.00

Author’s first book. Introduces Lindsay Gordon. Fine in fine dust jacket.

The Falls by Ian Rankin, Orion, London. 2001. First Edition. SIGNED. $40.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons, Wm. Morrow, NY. 2002. First Edition. SIGNED. $30.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

Out on A Rim by Ross Thomas, Mysterious Press, NY. 1987. First Edition. 1987. $40.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

Ah! Treachery by Ross Thomas, Mysterious Press, NY. 1994. First Edition. SIGNED. $40.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hard-Core by Jim Thompson, Donald Fine, NY. 1986. First Thus. $30.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

More Hard-Core by Jim Thompson, Donald Fine, NY. 1986. First Thus. $30.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

The Scarab Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine, Scribners, NY. 1930. First Edition. $275.00

Former owner’s name and neat bookplate, else an exceptionally fine bright copy in a near fine dust jacket which has only the slightest rubbing at the top of the spine.

Murder in Canton by Robert Van Gulik, Scribners, NY. 1967. First U.S. Edition. $75.00

A Judge Dee Mystery. Fine in dust jacket.

Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson, HarperCollins, London. 2003. First Edition. SIGNED. $30.00

A Javier Falcon mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket.

The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow, Knopf, NY. 2008. First Edition. SIGNED. $30.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.



Sally

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

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