Party for HURT MACHINE by Reed Farrel Coleman 12/12/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:

Reed Farrel Coleman
discussing his new novel
Hurt Machine

Monday, December 12th
from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.

Admission is free.



The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY, 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com

Book Party for NEON PANIC by Charles Martin 12/09/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:

Charles Martin
discussing his new novel
Neon Panic

Friday, December 9th
from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Admission is free.




The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY, 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com

Party for HEADSTONE by Ken Bruen 12/01/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:

Ken Bruen
discussing his new novel
Headstone

Friday, December 2nd
from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Admission is free.




The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY, 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com

Sally's Weekly Update for 10/28/11

Here's the latest update. Sorry that there are so few copies available on some titles. This sometimes happens when we receive copies so badly damaged that we can't sell them to you, and we can't replace them.
Feeling a bit wintry here!

Have a very scary Halloween.

Sally Owen

The Mysterious Bookshop

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com



The Mysterious Bookshop

58 Warren Street

New York, NY 10007

Ph: 212-587-1011

Fax: 212-587-1126

Open Seven Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.



EVENTS

Tuesday, November 1st. 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.

Join us as we celebrate historical mystery fiction!

Tasha Alexander - A Crimson Warning

Lauren Willig - The Orchid Affair

Deanna Raybourn - The Dark Enquiry

will discuss their latest novels.



Wednesday, November 2nd. 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.

The Mysterious Bookshop and Mulholland Books celebrate the work of

Duane Swierczynski - Hell and Gone

Megan Abbott - The End of Everything

Q.R. Markham - Assassin of Secrets

Lawrence Block will be our guest moderator.



Refreshments will be served



THE MYSTERIOUS PRESS HAS GONE DIGITAL!

We’re happy to announce that the website for our digital publishing imprint, MysteriousPress.com has launched!

Right now we have eBooks availabe from Ken Bruen, Thomas H. Cook, James Ellroy, Adam Hall, Mark McShane, Ellery Queen, Ross Thomas, and Donald E. Westlake - and there are many more on the way.

The website also features exclusive content and video from our authors.

Visit us at www.mysteriouspress.com to learn more, and to find out how you can win three free eBooks (contest ends November 2).



BRINGING YOU UP TO DATE...



Ken Bruen - The Book of Virtue. Biblio Mystery # 1

This is here and is being shipped out.

We have very few these still available. If you haven’t ordered yours, there’s still time. First come, first served. Numbered copies $50.00 each. Lettered copies $100.00 each.

Lawrence Block - Afterthoughts

We will begin shipping out the hardcover edition of this title next week. $35.00



Lawrence Block - The Night and the Music

We are a few weeks away from shipping out the limited edition. This will be the only hardcover edition of this title and it is limited to 100 signed copies. $150.00 We still have copies available for sale

We also have the signed trade paperback $17.95

Michael Connelly - The Drop (Harry Bosch)

Numbered Limited Edition. $150.00. Lettered Edition. $275.00 SOLD OUT

This is printed and bound and we are awaiting delivery.

UK Edition (First Trade Edition)

We are expecting this to be delivered from the UK next week. SOLD OUT

US Edition

This will be here at the end of November. It will be our Crime Collectors Club Main Selection.

Michael Connelly has been in touch and has told us that he will not be touring for this title. He has, however, told us that he will visit four stores only (and we are one of them) to sign. Crime Club members will get their copy automatically, but Michael has volunteered to inscribe copies for anyone who wants one, or who wants to give a gift for the holidays. Place your order by December 4th and we’ll make sure it arrives for the holidays.



SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE



Raymond Benson was here to sign his thriller, The Black Stiletto in which Martin Talbot discovers that his mother, now stricken with Alzheimer’s, was the renowned Black Stiletto! Back in the 1950s the Black Stiletto battled Communist spies, took on the Mafia and stalked common crooks. As Talbot struggles with the revelations about his mother, one of the Stiletto’s old enemies resurfaces with a thirst for revenge. We have very few of this title left. A Thriller/Espionage Club Main Selection. $25.95




For Special Services by John Gardner has just been reissued along with two other titles featuring James Bond. The reason we mention this is that Otto Penzler wrote the new Introduction and will sign copies. Trade Paperback. $14.95



The Blood Red Indian Summer by David Handler finds Mitch Berger and Connecticut State Trooper Des Mistry dealing with their first genuinely racially charged case in the historic New England village of Dorset. A Soft-Boiled Club Main Selection. $24.99

We have only a few copies left of Double Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. In this outing, the unthinkable happens: Dexter is seen doing his thing to a very deserving recipient of his brand of justice. There is also a cop killer at large in Miami and Dexter must deal with this as well as someone who wants to expose him, mimic him, and ultimately kill him. A Hard-Boiled Main Club Selection. $25.95

Plus...

Audio: We have audio copies of Headstone by Ken Bruen. Read by John Lee, this is unabridged - 5 hours on 5 CDs $26.95



The Avengers 2012 Calendar is here! $15.95. I’m excited!



FOR COLLECTORS

Murder Recalls Van Kill by Spencer Bayne, Harper, NY. 1939. First Edition. $75.00

Bibliomystery. From the library of Rex Stout, with a non-authorial inscription to him. Near fine.

Burglars Can’t Be Choosers by Lawrence Block, Random House, NY. 1977. First Edition. SIGNED. $150.00

First Bernie Rhodenbarr novel. Very fine in a pristine dust jacket.

The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block, Dark Harvest, IL. 1992. First Hardcover Edition. SIGNED. $175.00

First Matthew Scudder novel, with a new introduction by Stephen King. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block, Dark Harvest, IL. 1993. First Hardcover Edition. SIGNED. $200.00

Second Matthew Scudder novel, with a new introduction by Jonathan Kellerman. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

Burning Angel by James Lee Burke, Trice, New Orleans. 1995. First Edition. SIGNED. $175.00

Limited to 150 copies, numbered and signed by Burke. Very fine in slipcase.

Spanish Blood by Raymond Chandler, World, Cleveland. 1946. First Edition. $100.00

About fine in dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and a small closed tear on front panel.

Brown’s Requiem by James Ellroy, Armchair Detective Library, NY. 1994. First American Hardcover Edition. SIGNED. $150.00

Author’s first novel, limited to 100 copies, numbered and signed, with a new introduction by the author. Very fine, without dust jacket, as issued, in a slipcase.

$106,000.00 by Dashiell Hammett, Spivak, NY. 1943. First Edition. $125.00

Digest-sized paperback original. Upper corner of rear cover chipped, top corners of several pages at rear creased, else an unusually nice copy.

The Contintental Op by Dashiell Hammett, Spivak, NY. 1945. First Edition. $150.00

Digest-sized paperback original. Near fine with minimal rubbing at edges.

The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett, Random House, NY. 1966. First Edition. $75.00

Edited by Lillian Hellman. Very fine in dust jacket.

Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen, Putnam, NY. 1987. First Edition. $50.00

Author’s second comic crime novel. Fine in dust jacket.

People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman, Harper, 1980. First Edition. SIGNED. $450.00

An absolutely fine, as new copy in price-clipped dust jacket.

The Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman, Harper, NY. 1982. First Edition. SIGNED. $150.00

An absolutely fine, as new copy in dust jacket.

Better Angels by Charles McCarry, Dutton, NY. 1979. First Edition. $50.00

Fine in dust jacket.

The Annex and Other Stories by John D. Macdonald, Eurographica, Helsinki. 1987. SIGNED. $200.00

Four stories collected in this edition, limited to 350 numbered copies, signed and dated. As new in stiff paper covers and dust jacket.

Promised Land by Robert B. Parker, Houghton Mifflin, Boston. 1976. First Edition. $300.00

Parker’s Edgar-Award winning novel. Fine in dust jacket.

The Judas Goat by Robert B. Parker, Houghton Mifflin, Boston. 1978. First Edition. $125.00

Parker’s fifth Spenser novel. Very fine in dust jacket.

Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg, Little Brown, Boston. 1976. First Edition. $50.00

The basis for the cult classic film, Cutter’s Way. Fine in dust jacket.

Sally

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

Party for NEW JERSEY NOIR 11/08/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
will host a party
celebrating the release of

New Jersey Noir
with editor Joyce Carol Oates
and contributors
Bradford Morrow,
Jonathan Santolfer, SJ Rozan,
Edmund White, Sheila Kohler,
Gerald Stern, Michael Carroll,
S.A. Solomon, CK Williams,
Hirsh Sawney, Jeffery Ford,
and Lou Manfredo.


Join us in celebrating the publication of New Jersey Noir ($15.95 Akashic Books)
with a greeting and reception.
Copies will be available for autographs. Light refreshments will be served.

Tuesday, November 8th
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm.

Admission is Free.

The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY, 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com

Sherlockian Party for THE HOUSE OF SILK by Anthony Horowitz and ON CONAN DOYLE by Michael Dirda 11/07/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:



Anthony Horowitz
discusses his new
Sherlock Holmes novel
The House of Silk

The author of the hit children's Alex Ryder series
has written a new official Sherlock Holmes novel
commissioned by the Arthur Conan Doyle estate



and Michael Dirda
discusses his nonfiction book
On Conan Doyle.

Monday, November 7th
from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

Admission is free.

The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY, 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com

Sally's Weekly Update for 10/21/11

Here's this week's update.

Have a great weekend.

Sally Owen
The Mysterious Bookshop
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com


The Mysterious Bookshop

58 Warren Street

New York, NY 10007

Ph; 212-587-1011

Fax: 212-587-1126

Open Seven Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.



Weekly Update 10/21/11





ALL LAWRENCE BLOCK ALL THE TIME!

The prolific grandmaster has collected every Matt Scudder short story into one volume. We are pleased to announce that The Mysterious Bookshop will publish The Night and the Music in a hardcover edition, limited to 100 signed and numbered copies for $150.00.



In addition, Block himself is publishing a trade paperback edition, which will be signed and priced at $17.95.

Reserve a copy of The Night and the Music as soon as possible. Please specify the edition you would like.

Bookseller discounts apply.



SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE



Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge is a novel about America at the dawn of the twenty-first Century. In September of 2000, a young programmer returns to his home in Thebes, a town so isolated that its inhabitants have their own language. His grandfather has died and he must clean out the house where his family has lived for five generations. While he’s there, he runs into a woman he loved as a child and begins a romance where the past and the present are dangerously confused. This extraordinary novel is about love, memory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world. $25.00



Doug Magee wowed his audience when he was here with his reading and description of his latest novel, Darkness All Around. During one harrowing week Risa’s alcoholic husband, Sean, disappears and her best friend is brutally murdered. Eleven years later, Risa has remarried and Carol’s murderer has been convicted. Then, as suddenly as he disappeared, Sean returns, sober, and convinced that he murdered Carol. $25.00

Doug also signed copies of the trade paperback edition of his first novel, Never Wave Goodbye. Lena Trainor plans to spend the next couple of weeks fixing her marriage. But minutes after she puts her daughter, Sarah, on the bus to sleep-away camp, a second Camp Arno bus arrives - the real one. Magee is a thriller writer to watch! $15.00



Zone One by Colson Whitehead is a post-apocalyptic novel (and aren’t we getting a lot of those lately?). A pandemic has devastated the planet and has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected; the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is over and the resettlement of Manhattan has become a top priority. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street, known as Zone One, but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. Mark Spitz (not the guy who won all those swimming medals at the Munich Olympics in 1972) is a member of a sweeper unit clearing lower Manhattan. Everything moves in an orderly way - and then it doesn’t! This is both a chilling horror story and a literary novel by one of the most interesting writers at work today. An Unclassifiable Crime Club Main Selection. $25.95



SIGNED FROM THE U.K.

Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders by Gyles Brandreth finds Wilde and his exhausted friend, Arthur Conan Doyle, at Bad Homburg, a spa, where they find, amongst Doyle’s fan mail, a severed finger. Then a lock of hair. And then a severed hand. The game, apparently, is not afoot. The trail leads the two of them of Rome and the Vatican and a case that involves miracles as well as murder. $50.00

Bryant & May and The Memory of Blood by Christopher Fowler finds the detectives from the Peculiar Crimes Unit involved in a murder at the New Strand Theatre. The play, The Two Murderers, seems less performance than prophecy when a cast party ends in the shocking death of the theatre owner’s son. $43.00

The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin is the second book in the Malcolm Fox series. Fox and his team from internal affairs are sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague. A British Crime Club Main Selection. $48.00



FOR COLLECTORS

The Specialists by Lawrence Block, Cahill, CA. SIGNED. First Hardcover Edition. $150.00

Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed, in a slipcase. Very fine book, dust jacket and slipcase.

Tabernacle by Thomas H. Cook, Houghton Mifflin, Boston. 1983. First Edition. SIGNED. $50.00

A fine copy of this uncommon title by one of today’s greatest crime writers. Fine in dust jacket with wear at spine ends.

Lullaby Town by Robert Crais, Bantam, NY. 1992. First Edition. SIGNED. $750.00

Author’s scarcest book. An immaculate, as new copy in like dust jacket. Signed on the title page.

Dancing Bear by James Crumley, Random House, NY. 1983. First Edition. $100.00

Author’s third novel. Very fine in immaculate dust jacket.

Poseidon’s Gold by Lindsey Davis, Century, London. 1992. First Edition. SIGNED. $75.00

Very fine, as new copy in dust jacket.

The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman, Harper, NY. 1985. SIGNED. $300.00

An absolutely fine, as new copy in dust jacket.

The Fala Factor by Stuart M. Kaminsky, St. Martin’s, NY. 1984. First Edition. $25.00

Toby Peters novel involving Eleanor Roosevelt and Buster Keaton in 1940s Hollywood. Very fine in dust jacket.

Smart Moves by Stuart M. Kaminsky, St. Martin’s, NY. 1986. First Edition. $25.00

Toby Peters novel involving Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson in 1940s Hollywood. Very fine in dust jacket.

Private Eye Action as You Like It by J.R. Lansdale & Lewis Shine, Crossroads Press, MA. 1998. First Edition. SIGNED. $100.00

Limited to 100 hardcover copies signed by both authors. As new without dust jacket, as issued, in slipcase.

Black is the Fashion for Dying by Jonathan Latimer, Random House, NY. 1959. First Edition. $45.00

A very fine copy by this important hard-boiled writer and noted Hollywood screenwriter, in an exceptionally clean and fresh dust jacket.

Dismas Hardy by John Lescroat, Mysterious Bookshop. NY. 2008. First Edition. SIGNED. $60.00

A 40-page profile of the author’s most famous character. Limited to only 100 hardcover copies. Very fine without dust jacket, as issued.

Swing Brother Swing by Ngaio Marsh, Collins Crime Club, London. 1949. First Edition. $60.00

Name on front endpaper, top edge a bit sunned, else near fine in rubbed and lightly chipped dust jacket.

The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Harcourt, NY. 1998. First. U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $45.00

Very fine in dust jacket.

Anatomy of a Killer by Peter Rabe, Abelard-Shuman, NY. 1960. First Edition. $125.00

The only American hardcover edition by this hard-boiled author. Neat date at top of front endpaper, else fine in dust jacket with the merest trace of rubbing at spine ends.

The Backup Men by Ross Thomas, Morrow, NY. 1971. First Edition. $100.00

Fine in dust jacket which has slight fraying at spine ends.

(Ross Thomas) The Highbinders as by Oliver Bleeck, Morrow. NY. 1974. First Edition. $100.00

Fine in dust jacket.

The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake, Simon & Schuster, NY. 1970. First Edition. $275.00

First Dortmunder novel and the basis for the Robert Redford film. The white dust jacket has a few lightly soiled spots but over all a fine, sharp copy of this increasingly difficult-to-find book.

The Chronicles of Humphrey Judd by Victor Whitechurch, Ferret Fantasy, London. 1990. First Edition. $25.00

Short story collection by the author of Thrilling Stories of the Railway. Queen’s Quorum title. These rare stories were published in magazines at the turn of the 19th century and never before collected. Limited to only 200 numbered copies, this being #11. Trace of soiling on the covers, else very fine pamphlet.



Sally

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

Party for Duane Swierczynski, Megan Abbott and Q. R. Markham 11/02/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
and Mulholland Books
celebrate three of today's best mystery writers:



Duane Swierczynski
author of
Hell and Gone,













Megan Abbott
author of
The End of Everything















and
Q.R. Markham
author of
Assassin of Secrets
will read and discuss their latest novels.







Fellow Mulholland author and MWA Grand Master
Lawrence Block
will be our guest moderator.

Wednesday, November 2nd
from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Admission is free.

The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com

Historical Mystery Book Party with Tasha Alexander, Lauren Willig and Deanna Raybourn 11/01/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:
An evening of historical mystery fiction at its finest!




Tasha Alexander
author of
A Crimson Warning,















Lauren Willig
author of
The Orchid Affair
and







Deanna Raybourn
author of
The Dark Enquiry

discuss their latest novels
and what it takes to write a great historical.


Tuesday, November 1st
from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Admission is free.

The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com

Sally's Weekly Update for 10/14/11

The latest update appears below.

Have a lovely weekend

Sally Owen
The Mysterious Bookshop
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com



The Mysterious Bookshop

58 Warren Street

New York, NY 10007

Ph: 212-587-1011

Fax: 212-587-1126

Open Seven Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.



Weekly Update 10/14/11





EVENT




Tuesday, October 18th 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.

Doug Magee will be here to discuss and sign his latest suspense novel

Darkness All Around $25.00





SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE



The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen is a literary thriller set in the not-too-distant future which features Zed, an agent from the far future whose job it is to insure that history is not changed (and there is a group from the future which would like to do just that) so that the world he comes from, the Perfect Present, is not endangered in any way. This absorbing novel challenges the reader at every turn as Zed tries to disrupt the Great Conflagration, an imminent disaster, by interfering with the lives of a CIA agent and a young Washington lawyer. A Thriller/Espionage Club Main Selection. $25.99



A Killer’s Essence is the latest grisly crime novel from Dave Zeltserman. Stan Green is a jaded New York detective who is assigned to one of the most shocking homicides of his career. There is one witness, but he’s a neurologically damaged recluse subject to hallucinations. When the murderer strikes again and again, Green’s best hope is this man and his ghoulish apparitions, but there is just a chance that this witness is not insane, but instead terrifyingly perceptive. $23.95



AWARD SEASON IN THE U.K.

Here’s a round-up of the Dagger Awards presented by the Crime Writer’s Association:



CWA Gold Dagger

Tom Franklin - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Steve Hamilton - The Lock Artist

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger

S.J. Watson - Before I Go To Sleep

CWA International Dagger

Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom - Three Seconds

CWA Dagger in the Library (Body of Work)

Mo Hayder



PAPERBACKS OF NOTE

Pegasus Books has reissued three of John Gardner’s James Bond novels:

Icebreaker, Licence Renewed, and For Special Services. $14.95 each

We have some copies of The Guardians by Canadian writer Andrew Pyper. Pyper (one of Sally’s favorite writers) steps into Stephen King territory here with the story of four men who grew up together and played on the local hockey team. Now, twenty-four years later, three of them return to their small hometown when one of their number commits suicide. Great stuff. $17.95



Who are the worst villains of all time? How many people did Agatha Christie kill with her pen? Who has really gotten away with murder? A Miscellany of Murder by The Monday Murder Club is a trivia lover’s delight as it poses and answers questions from History and Literature, to True Crime and Televison. $14.95



FOR COLLECTORS

One Night Stands by Lawrence Block, Crippen & Landru, VA. 1999. First Edition. SIGNED. $60.00

Collection of early short stories. As new in dust jacket.

Threesome by Lawrence Block, A.S.A.P. Press, CA., & Subterranean Press, MI. 1999. SIGNED. $75.00

Trilogy of novels, originally published under the Jill Emerson pseudonym. Limited to 300 copies, signed by Block and Phil Parks, the illustrator. Very fine without dust jacket, as issued.

Two For Texas by James Lee Burke, Huntington Beach, CA. 1992. First Hardcover Edition. SIGNED. $100.00

Limited to 400 copies in glassine dust jacket and slipcase. All very fine.



The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly, Little Brown, Boston. 1994. First Edition. SIGNED. $75.00

Third Harry Bosch novel. Very fine in dust jacket.

The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley, Random House, NY. 1978. First Edition. $100.00

Author’s second mystery and arguably the greatest private eye novel ever written. Very fine in immaculate dust jacket and without the seemingly ubiquitous remainder mark.

The Iron Hand of Mars by Lindsey Davis, Hutchinson, London. 1992. First Edition. SIGNED. $175.00

Fourth Marcus Didius Falco novel. Very fine, as new copy in dust jacket.

London Dossier by Len Deighton, Cape, London. 1967. First Edition. $100.00

Very fine in dust jacket.

Original Sins by Martin Edwards, Editor, Scorpion Press, Gladestry, Limited Edition. SIGNED. $150.00

Collected stories limited to 85 signed numbered copies. Signed by every contributor, including Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesey, Barbara Nadel, Andrew Taylor, Charles Todd, Laura Wilson, Simon Brett, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler. Fine in marbled boards with glassine cover.

L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy, Mysterious Press, NY. 1990. First Edition. SIGNED. $125.00

The great novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film of the same title. Fine in dust jacket.

Dead Skip by Joe Gores, Random House, N. 1972. First Edition. $100.00

Author’s second novel and the debut of the DKA team. Very fine in pristine white dust jacket, seldom found thus.

The White South by Hammond Innes, Collins, London. 1949. First Edition. $75.00

Adventure-mystery novel. Small stain on fore-edge, else a fine copy in a bright pictorial dust jacket with a closed tear on the front panel and light wear at top of spine.

A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky, Scribners, 1988. First Edition. $75.00

Review material laid in. Winner of the Edgar for Best Novel. Very fine in dust jacket.

City Primeval by Elmore Leonard, Arbor House, NY. 1980. First Edition. $60.00

Minor bump at base of spine, else very fine in dust jacket.

A Savage Place by Robert B. Parker, Delacorte, NY. 1981. First Edition. SIGNED. $150.00

Very fine in dust jacket.

Ceremony by Robert B. Parker, Delacorte, NY. 1982. First Edition. SIGNED. $125.00

Very fine in dust jacket.

Parker on Writing by Robert B. Parker, Lord John Press, CA. 1985. First Edition. SIGNED. $250.00

One of only 75 copies signed by Parker; there was also a 300-copy edition. Water stain on rear cover, trace of wear to leather spine tips.

Strip Jack by Ian Rankin, St. Martin’s NY. 1994. First U.S. Edition. $450.00

Very fine in dust jacket and scarce thus.

Flower in the Desert by Walter Satterthwaite,, St. Martin’s, NY. 1992. First Edition. $35.00

Very fine in dust jacket.

Chinaman’s Chance by Ross Thomas, Simon & Schuster, NY. 1978. First Edition. $125.00

Very fine in a dazzling dust jacket.

Twilight at Mac’s Place by Ross Thomas, Mysterious Press, NY. 1990. First Edition. SIGNED. $75.00

Limited to 100 numbered copies signed. Very fine in slipcase. Although issued without a dust jacket, this copy has a very fine dust jacket added.



Sally

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

Sally's Weekly Update for 10/07/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
New York, NY 10007
Ph: 212-587-1011
Fax: 212-587-1126

Open Seven Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.


Weekly Update 10/7/11


SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE



A Crack in Everything by Angela Gerst introduces Susan Callisto, a former real estate lawyer who is now a political consultant for people seeking low-level office. When Charles Renfrow offers Susan a large retainer to advise his campaign for mayor, she is wary: why would a scientist like Renfrow want to be mayor of a small Massachusetts town? Finding the answer to that question takes Susan through a maze of toxic secrets. $24.95



Death in the City of Light by David King is true-crime at its best. In Nazi-occupied Paris a serial killer was at work. Decapitated heads and body parts surfaced in the Seine and the Brigade Criminelle under Commissaire Georges-Victor Massau (an inspiration for Simenon’s Inspector Maigret) was charged with finding this fiend. The main suspect was Dr. Marcel Petiot, a charming and charismatic physician known for his many acts of kindness and generosity, not least of which was providing free medical care to the poor. A fascinating story. $26.00



Pirate King by Laurie R. King finds Mary Russell investigating rumors (sorry, make that rumours) of criminal activity surrounding the filming of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. Randolph Fflytte, megalomaniacal king of England’s silent-film industry, has recruited real buccaneers to lend authenticity to his film but during the filming, those “extras” are ignoring Fflytte and paying attention only to their dangerous outlaw leader. As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes must, with cat-like tread, restore order. A Soft-Boiled Club Main Selection. $25.00



The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman is told through the voice of Victoria Vick, a therapist whose patient, Y-, claims to own a “cloak” which renders him invisible. Using that cloak, Y- observes individuals, usually when they are alone and vulnerable. Vick becomes obsessed with her patient and, over time, his disturbing tales threaten her career, her marriage, and her own identity. An Unclassifiable Crime Club Main Selection. $25.00

The Best American Noir of the Century, edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, is now available in trade paperback. This is signed by Otto. $16.95

In Ghost Hero by S.J. Rozan, Lydia Chin is hired to track down a rumor: that there are new paintings by Chinese painter Chau Chun - Ghost Hero Chau - a brilliant artist whose works are highly prized. This rumor is racing through Manhattan, but something is amiss: not only has Chau been dead for twenty years, Lydia’s client is not who he claims to be. $25.99



The Ronin’s Mistress by Laura John Rowland is set in Japan in 1703. Forty-seven warriors storm the estate of the shogun’s master of ceremonies, Kira Yoshinaka. “You know why we’re here” they tell him before cutting off his head and parading it through the streets. Sano Ichiro, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is assigned to investigate the murder. $25.99


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We will be getting signed copies of Damned by Chuck Palahniuk, but would like to get an idea of how many copies we will need: A thirteen-year-old girl finds herself in Hell, but can find no explanation for how, or why, she’s there. Palahniuk says of his novel “If The Shawshank Redemption had a baby by The Lovely Bones and it was raised by Judy Blume.” $24.95


SIGNED FROM THE U.K.

The Fear Index by Robert Harris features Dr. Alex Hoffmann, a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold. Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks human relations, enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. Then somebody breaks into his house and Hoffman finds himself in a nightmare of paranoia and violence. By the time night falls, the financial markets will be in turmoil and Hoffman’s world - and ours - transformed forever. $48.00

FOR COLLECTORS

(Lawrence Block) Lawrence Block Bibliography 1958-1993, A.S.A.P. Press, CA. 1993. First Edition. SIGNED. $250.00
Limited to only 30 copies of the Contributor’s Edition. Additional material by Charles Ardai, Philip Friedman, Wendy Hornsby, and Phil Parks (Illustrator). Signed by Block and all contributors. Very fine grade paperback in a gray buckram slipcase.

Ehrengraf for the Defense by Lawrence Block, A.S.A.P. Press, Ca., 1994. First Edition. SIGNED. $250.00
Limited to 250 numbered copies; there also were 36 lettered and presentation copies produced. Handsomely bound in gray linen and enclosed in a stiff plastic slipcase. Signed by Block, Edward D. Hoch (who wrote the introduction), and Phil Parks (illustrator). Very fine book and slipcase.

Priest by Ken Bruen, Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2006. First Edition. SIGNED. $450.00
A Jack Taylor novel. Limited to only 16 lettered copies, signed by Bruen and Simon Kernick, who wrote the introduction. Bound in marbled boards and leather spine, stamped in gold. Pristine copy in a clear Mylar dust jacket.

Cross by Ken Bruen, Scorpion Press, Gladestry. First Edition. SIGNED. $450.00
A Jack Taylor novel. Limited to only 16 lettered copies, signed by Bruen, Denise Mina who wrote the introduction, and the publisher. Bound in marbled boards and leather spine, stamped in gold. Pristine copy in a clear Mylar dust jacket.

Uisce by Ken Bruen, A.S.A.P. Press, Ca. 2009. First Edition. SIGNED. $400.00
A hardcover bound in green linen. Limited to only 50 numbered copies (there also was a lettered edition of 26 copies and 10 P.C. copies and eight collector’s copies). This copy is marked Presentation Copy. Signed by Bruen, Michael Connelly (who wrote the introduction), Jan Burke (who wrote the afterword, and Phil Parks (illustrator). Very fine in plastic case. Scarce.

To the Bright and Shining Sun by James Lee Burke, Cahill, CA. 1992. First Hardcover Edition. SIGNED. $175.00
Limited to 400 copies in slipcase. Book and slipcase both very fine.

The Collection by James Crumley, Picador, London. 1991. First Edition. SIGNED. $225.00
Omnibus containing The Wrong Case, The Last Good Kiss, and Dancing Bear, as well as a new introduction by the author. There was no U.S. edition. Very fine in dust jacket.

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, Viking, NY. 1971. First Edition. $75.00
The basis for the superb suspense film of the same title. A fine copy in dust jacket, which the price inked out but is otherwise unusually fine and clean. Not a rare book, but a title that generally turns up in well-read (i.e. grubby) condition.

Bonecrack by Dick Francis, Michael Joseph, London. 1971. First Edition. SIGNED. $200.00
Very fine in dust jacket.

The Year of the Scorpion by Michael Hartland, Scorpion Press, Bristol. 1991. First Edition. SIGNED. $125.00
Limited to only 75 copies, handsomely bound in marbled boards and quarter leather. With an appreciation by Eric Homberger and Ted Allbeury. As new in glassine dust jacket. Signed by Hartland.

Naked Came the Manatee by Carl Hiaasen and 12 other writers, First Edition.SIGNED. $200.00
Serial novel. Contributors include Elmore Leonard, James W. Hall, and Dave Barry. Very fine in dust jacket. This copy is signed by every contributor.


The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman, Harper, NY. 1982. First Edition. SIGNED. $400.00
An absolutely fine, as new copy in dust jacket.

Wine of the Dreamers by John D. MacDonald, Greenberg, NY. 1951. First Edition. $300.00
Author’s first hardcover, a science fiction novel. About fine in dust jacket, which has a mildly sunned spine and a small chip on rear panel.

(John D. MacDonald) A Macdonald Potpourri by Walter & Jean Shine, Un. Of Florida Libraries, FL. 1989. First Edition. $125.00
An invaluable reference, without which it is impossible to determine the first printings of MacDonald’s books. Very fine.

On Crime Writing by Ross Macdonald, Capra Press, CA. 1973. First Edition. SIGNED. $150.00
The hardcover issue, limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by Macdonald. A slight trace of rubbing to foot of spine, a light mark on front cover, else fine.

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Harcourt, NY. 1996. First U.S. Edition. $100.00
Author’s second book - an outstanding bibliomystery. Very fine in dust jacket.

(Reference) 1001 Midnights by Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller, Arbor House, NY. 1986. First Edition. $200.00
Massive guide to 1001 titles of mystery fiction. Little bumped at base of spine, else very fine, fresh copy in a pristine dust jacket.

The Money Harvest by Ross Thomas, Morrow, NY. 1975. First Edition. SIGNED. $125.00
Fine in a fine dust jacket, which has a tiny chip at top of spine.

The Sands of Windee by Arthur Upfield, Angus & Robertson, Sydney. 1959. First Australian Edition. $150.00
Napoleon Bonaparte book first published in England in 1931 and now impossibly rare. A fine copy in dust jacket, which has a closed tear at top of spine.

The Heat Islands by Randy Wayne White, St. Martin’s, NY. 1992. First Edition. $250.00
Author’s second Doc Ford novel. Fine in dust jacket, which is lightly rubbed at edges and corners.


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