Signed Copies Now Available at The Mysterious Bookshop

It's been a busy week here at the bookshop, what with the likes of, ahem, Joyce Carol Oates and Anthony Horowitz popping in to sign copies of their latest and greatests. While she was here, Joyce Carol Oates signed her new collection of stories, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares. Follow tried and true themes of exploitation, kinapping and the cruelty of children, this is Joyce at her dark and disturbind best ($24.00).

We also have signed copies from Michael Dirda, Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis, and more! Don't beleive us? Why don't you stop in and see for youself?
Check out our full list of our newly signed titles after the jump!

On Conan Doyle by Michael Dirda contains essays, both memoir and appreciation, by this Pulitzer-Prize winning critic and book columnist for the Washington Post. As well as the essays on Holmes Dirda gives us a rare insider’s account of the activities and scholarship of The Baker Street Irregulars. $19.95

As expected, our event featuring Michael Dirda and Anthony Horowitz was very well attended. Horowitz signed copies of the U.S. Edition of The House of Silk. This new Holmes story, authorized by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate is, according to Otto, simply the best Sherlock Holmes novel written since...since..well, since The Hound of the Baskervilles. High praise indeed. $27.99

The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis is available with tipped-in signatures, the only signed copies available in this country. This novel from Denmark (watch out Sweden!) begins when Nina Borg agrees to go to the train station to pick up a suitcase for a friend. Inside she finds a boy - drugged but alive - and Nina is soon involved in a nightmare of murder and human trafficking. A First Mystery Crime Club Main Selection. $24.00

Another well attended event was the launch of New Jersey Noir, edited by Joyce Carol Oates. These tales from the Garden State were signed by all the contributors who were present as well as by Oates. We have many pre-orders for this titles, but there are some still available. $24.95




Please Note




V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton goes on sale next Monday. Our signed copies are here but are not available until then. If you would like to order a copy of the latest Kinsey Millhone mystery, let us know. A Crime Collectors Club Main Selection. $27.95

FOR COLLECTORS:

(Crime Novels) American Noir of the 1930s & 40s, Library of America, NY. 1997. First Edition Thus.
Contains The Postman Always Rings Twice/Cain; They Shoot Horses Don’t They?/McCoy; Thieves Like Us/Anderson; The Big Clock/Fearing; Nightmare Alley/Gresham; I Married a Dead Man/Woolrich. Fine in fine dust jacket. $45.00

(Crime Novels) American Noir of the 1950s, Library of America, NY. 1997. First Edition Thus. Contains The Killer Inside Me/Thompson; The Talented Mr. Ripley/Highsmith; Pick-Up/Willeford; Down There/Goodis; The Real Cool Killers/Himes. Fine in fine dust jacket. $45.00
The Wrong Case by James Crumley, Random House, NY. 1975. First Edition. SIGNED. Near fine in like dust jacket. $650.00


The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing, Harcourt Brace, NY. 1946. First Edition. Some wear at spine ends, else near fine in like dust jacket. $125.00


Wild Horses by Dick Francis, Scorpion Press, Bristol. 1994. First Edition. SIGNED. Limited to only 99 copies, handsomely bound in marbled boards and quarter leather. With an appreciation by H.R.F. Keating. As new in glassine dust jacket. $125.00


To the Hilt by Dick Francis, Scorpion Press, Bristol. 1996. First Edition. SIGNED. Limited to only 99 copies, handsomely bound in marbled boards and quarter leather. With an appreciation by Margaret Yorke. As new in glassine dust jacket. $125.00



Second Wind by Dick Francis, Scorpion Press, Bristol, First Edition. SIGNED. Limited to only 99 copies, handsomely bound in marbled boards and quarter leather. With an appreciation by Simon Brett. As new in glassine dust jacket. $125.00



The Black Tower by P.D. James, Scribners, NY. 1975. First U.S. Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. $75.00



Vane Pursuit by Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press, NY. 1989. First Edition. SIGNED. A Peter Shandy mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. $20.00


The Frumious Bandersnatch by Ed McBain, Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition. SIGNED. A novel of the 87th Precinct. Fine in fine dust jacket. $35.00


The Fiend by Margaret Millar, Random House, NY. 1964. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. $50.00


A Red Death by Walter Mosley, Norton, NY. 1991. First Edition. SIGNED. Author’s second Easy Rawlins mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. $150.00.


The Octopus on My Head by Jim Nisbet, McMillan, AZ. 2007. First Edition. SIGNED.Fine in fine dust jacket. $35.00.

Empire of Sand by Robert Ryan, Headline, London. 2008. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in 1915, this novel features a young intelligence officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence who is convinced that an Arab revolt is the only way to remove the Ottoman presence and leave a free, self-governed Arabia. Fine in fine dust jacket. $56.00.