FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK ORIGINALS SPECIAL SALE

We are now up to the letter M.  The A thru D titles you see were either not sold, or we have duplicates.

Sally Owen

The Mysterious Bookshop

sally@mysteriosbookshop.com

FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK ORIGINALS
SPECIAL SALE--$10.00
Not all books were published first in hard covers. Many major figures saw many of their books produced as paperback originals, including such giants as Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, Lawrence Block, Ed McBain, and Donald E. Westlake. Sorry, you won’t their books among the following offerings, but all books listed below are the true first printings and most are out of print. Every book is a very fine, as new, unread copy, unless otherwise noted.
Abbott, Jeff, Distant Blood
Adams, Deborah, All the Great Pretenders
Adams, Deborah, All the Dearly Beloved
Adamson, Lydia, A Cat with No Regrets
Adamson, M.J., Not Till a Hot January
Adcock, Thomas, Dark Maze
Adler, Warren, We Are Holding the President Hostage
Albert, Marvin, Get Off at Babylon
Altman, Thomas, Dark Places
Albert, Marvin, Stone Angel
Amey, Linda, At Dead of Night
Albert, Marvin, Stone Angel
Anders, K.T., Legacy of Fear
Anderson, James, Murder She Wrote: Hooray for Homicide
Andrews, V.C, Seeds of Yesterday
Andrews, V.C, Dark Angel
Andrews, V.C, Garden of Shadows
Appel, William, The Watcher Within
Appel, William, Whisper…He Might Hear You
Arnold, Catherine, Imperfect Justice
Arnote, Ralph, Fatal Secrets
Arnote, Ralph, Fallen Idols
Arnston, Harrison, Trade-Off
Asen, Dennis, Deadly Impression
Axler, Leo, Final Viewing
Axler, Leo, Grave Matters
Banks, Carolyn, Groomed for Death
Barnes, Dallas, City of Passion
Barton, Dan, Banshee (cover creased)
Baxter, Philip, Double Blind
Belsky, Dick, Live from New York
Beres, Michael, Sunstrike
Berman, Susan, Spiderweb
Berrenson, Marc, L.A. Snitch
Berrenson, Marc, Bodily Harm
Berrenson, Marc, Special Circumstances
Bickham, Jack M., Murder at Oklahoma
Birkett, John, The Queen’s Mare
Biscuit, Harrison, The Search for Savage Henry
Bishop, Claudia, A Taste for Murder
Bishop, Paul, Kill Me Again
Blake, Christina, Deadly Legacy
Blonski, Anna, Body Parts
Borton, D.D., One for the Money
Borton, D.D., Two Points for Murder
Bourgeau, Art, The Elvis Murders
Bradford, Kelly, Footprints
Brandel, Marc, Murder in the Family
Braun, Lilian Jackson, The Cat Who Played Brahms
Brightwell, Emily, Mrs. Jefferson Takes Stock
Brightwell, Emily, The Ghost and Mrs. Jefferson
Bryan, Kate, Murder at Bent Elbow
Bugge, Carole, Who Killed Dorian Gray?
Bunzel, Reed, Pay for Play
Burke, James, Fatal Choices
Burkey, Dave, Rain Lover
Burton, Anne, The Dear Departed
Burton, Tony, The Department of Correction
Byrd, Max, Fuse Time 

Sally's Weekly Update for 02/24/12

 

 

 

Going to be watching the Academy Awards this Sunday, and rooting for Meryl Streep to win Best Actress.  I'd also have liked Iron Lady to get a Best Film nom, but nooooooo.

 

The other big news of the weekend is that The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson is available in paperback.  Its been a long wait for fans who wouldn't read it any other way.

 

Have a good weekend - oh, and take a look at the Update which contains some wonderful titles - many of which are from the UK.

 

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 Monday thru Saturday, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.

Weekly Update 2/24/12

February 26^th will be the last Sunday we are open. I have already changed the information above to reflect our new schedule.
EVENTS
Monday, February 27^th 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947 - 1950
is edited by Joseph Goodrich who will be here to discuss his book and take questions. Two actors will also be on hand to read from the letters. $14.95
Thursday, March 1^st, 6.30 - 8.00 p.m.
Book release party for first novel Living Proof by Kira Peikoff
In the future, where destroying a viable embryo is considered first-degree murder, fertility clinics operate with heavy government supervision. When one in particular begins to have an astoundingly high rate of success, The Department of Embryo Preservation sends in an undercover agent to find out why. A timely book! $24.99
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
Alex Berenson was here this week signing his latest thriller, The Shadow Patrol, featuring John Wells. The CIA’s Afghanistan station in Kabul is in trouble after a deadly mistake. Recruiting has dried up and the agency’s best sources in Afghanistan are being picked off. At Langley, the CIA’s chiefs wonder if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station. John Wells returns to the country where his career began and finds out one thing for certain: Americans are dying and an American is responsible. Wells must unearth the truth and keep from being killed himself. This is a Thriller/Espionage Main Selection. $26.95

 The Man From Primrose Lane by James Renner begins when a man in West Akron, Ohio who always wears mittens and is known as the Man from Primrose Lane is suddenly murdered. Four years later, David Neff, the bestselling author of a true crime book about an Ohio serial killer, is introduced to the odd case of "the man with a thousand mittens" and decides to investigate. The closer David gets to uncovering the true identity of the Man from Primrose Lane, the more he begins to understand the dangerous power of his own obsessions and how they may be connected to the deaths of both the old hermit and his beloved wife. A First Mystery Club Main Selection. $26.00

Party for HARD TARGET by Howard Gordon 03/02/12

 

 

The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:

Howard Gordon
discussing his new novel
Hard Target

Friday, March 2nd

from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Admission is free.

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

Party for LIVING PROOF by Kira Peikoff 03/01/12

 

 

The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:

Kira Peikoff
discussing her debut novel
Living Proof

Thursday, March 1st

from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Admission is free.

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

New eBooks from TheMysteriousPress.com: Charlotte Armstrong and Andrew Bergman

We've got 16 new eBooks available for sale today from Charlotte Armstrong and Andrew Bergman over at our digital imprint MysteriousPress.com!

The Edgar Award-winning Charlotte Armstrong was one of the United States’ finest authors of classic mystery and suspense. Her first novel, Lay On Mac Duff! (1942) was well received, spawning a three-book series. Over the next two decades, she wrote more than two dozen novels, winning critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base. The Unsuspected (1945) and Mischief (1950) were both made into films--the latter was renamed Don't Bother to Knock, starring Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark and Anne Bancroft. A Dram of Poison (1956) won the Edgar Award for best novel. The Chocolate Cobweb was made into Merci Pour La Chocolat by noted French Director, Claude Chabrol, in 2003. She died in California in 1969.

Click here to see the full list of Armstrong Books we've made available!

Andrew Bergman is a successful comedy screenwriter and occasional author of hard-boiled mysteries. Bergman sold Tex X, a novella about a black sheriff in the old west, to Warner Brothers. The studio hired him to turn his story into a screenplay, as part of a team of comedy legends led by Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor. The result was Blazing Saddles (1974). After that early success, Bergman published the first two novels in a mystery series starring Jack LeVine, a hard-boiled Jewish PI. After The Big Kiss-Off of 1944 (1974) andHollywood and LeVine (1975), he continued writing and directing films, producing such classics as Fletch (1985), The Freshman (1990) and Soapdish (1991). In 2001 he returned to LeVine in Tender Is LeVine.

Click here to see the full list of Bergman books we'va made available!


For a full list of MysteriousPress.com titles, visit our website!

Sally's Weekly Update for 02/17/12

Gosh, you're a tough audience!  I promise I will never again suggest that there is no sporting event going on over the weekend.   It is obvious that I have some very serious blind spots.

I'll stick to Downton Abbey to which I am very seriously addicted.

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. *
* Soon to be open Six Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Weekly Update 2/17/12
EVENT
Monday, February 27^th 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947 - 1950
is edited by Joseph Goodrich who will be here to discuss his book and take questions. Two actors will also be on hand to read from the letters. $14.95
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
The Next One to Fall is Anthony Award-winning Hilary Davidson’s second novel featuring travel writer Lily Moore. Lily is in Peru with her friend, photographer Jesse Robb, visiting the Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu, where they discover a woman clinging to life at the bottom of an ancient staircase. Just before she dies, the woman tells Lily the name of the man who pushed her. But when the local police investigate, the forensic evidence they find doesn’t match what Lily knows. $24.99
Shooting Hollywood by Melodie Johnson Howe is a collection of Diana Poole stories. Poole is blonde, sexy and in her 40's and trying to rebuilt her acting career by playing middle-aged parts. But Hollywood is brutal and Diana Poole finds crime in that world of glitz, glamour and greed. Melodie Johnson Howe was "one of the last of the starlets." Limited to 175 signed and numbered copies with a separate pamphlet entitled Acting Tips. $43.00
Stewart O’Nan stopped by to sign copies of The Odds. On the eve of their thirtieth anniversary, Marion and Art Fowler liquidate their savings and book the bridal suite at Niagra Falls’ ritziest casino. While they sightsee by day, at night they risk it all at the roulette while, fighting to rescue their home, fix their finances and, against even greater odds, save their marriage. $25.95

New Books from MysteriousPress.com: Brian Garfield and John Harvey

The Mysterious Press has 30 new books by Brian Garfield and John Harvey!

The author of more than seventy books, Brian Garfield (b. 1939) is one of the country’s most prolific writes of thrillers, westerns and other genre fiction. Raised in Arizona, Garfield found success at an early age, publishing his first novel when he was only eighteen. After time in the Army, a few years touring with a jazz band, and a Master’s Degree from the University of Arizona, he settled into writing full time.

Garfield is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America and the Western Writers of America, and the only author to have held both offices. Nineteen of his novels have been made into films, including Death Wish (1972), The Last Hard Men (1976) and Hopscotch (1975), for which he wrote the screenplay. To date, his novels have sold over twenty million copies worldwide. You can purchase his eBooks here.


John Harvey (b. 1938) is an incredibly prolific British mystery writer. He is the author of more than one hundred books, as well as poetry and scripts for television and radio, Harvey did not being writing professionally until 1975. Until then he was a teacher, educated at Goldsmiths College, London, who taught literature, drama and film at colleges across England. After cutting his teeth on paperback fiction, Harvey debuted his most famous character, Charlie Resnick, in 1989's Lonely Hearts, which the English Times called one of the finest crime novels of the century.

A police inspector noted for his love of both sandwiches and jazz, Resnick has starred in eleven novels and one volume of short stories. The BBC has adapted two of the Resnick novels, Lonely Hearts and Rough Treatment (1990), for television movies. Both starred Academy Award nominated actor Tom Wilkinson and had screenplays written by Harvey. Besides writing fiction, Harvey spent over twenty years as the head of Slow Dancer Press. You can purchase his eBooks here.

Happy Reading!

Congratulations to Joyce Carol Oates, new New Jersey Hall of Famer

We are happy to announce that the prolific Joyce Carol Oates will be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on June 9th along with actors Christopher Reeve and Michael Douglas, jazz singer Sarah Vaughn, basketball Coach Bob Hurley, athlete Milt Campbell, and even Annie Oakley. "The people of our state should be proud of these individuals who have attained remarkable success through a combination of hard work and dedication. The Hall of Fame not only serves as an inspiration for young people but challenges them to pursue their dreams and strive to become the best that they can be no matter what direction their lives take them," says Governor Christie. Tickets go on sale to the general public on March 1st. Click here for more information.


Joyce Carol Oates is the author of 50 over novels, won the National Book Award for her novel them (1969), and has had three Pulitzer Prize nominated works: Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000). She recently published The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, a novella and short story collection with The Mysterious Bookshop. Congratulations JCO!

Sally's Weekly Update for 02/10/12

 

 

 

No major sporting events (that I know of) to distract you from the Weekly Update.

 

Have a good 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 2/10/12


* Take note you Sunday shoppers, we will only be open for three more Sundays: the 12^th, the 19^th, and the 26^th of February. After that, we will be open six days a week.
EVENT
Wednesday, February 15^th, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. Hilary Davidson will be discussing and signing copies of The Next One to Fall.
Travel writer Lily Moore is vacationing in Peru where she comes across a woman lying on the steps of Machu Picchu. The woman whispers her killer’s name before dying but the evidence seems to point to someone else entirely. $24.99
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
Josh Bazell was here signing Wild Thing, the follow-up to Beat the Reaper which did so extraordinarily well here last year (the staff loved it!). Former mob hitman Dr. Pietro Brnwa is on the run from the mob after the events in that first book and what better way to hide in plain sight than to take a job protecting paleontologist Dr. Violet Hurst who is employed by a reclusive billionaire obsessed with a legend supposedly living in the remote Boundary Waters area of Minnesota. Bazell’s footnotes alone are worth the price of admission. A Hard Boiled Crime Club Selection. $25.99
We have signed copies of Kill Shot by Vince Flynn. Mitch Rapp, CIA agent, is steadily working his way through a list of men responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack. When he kills a target asleep in his bed in Paris, a trap is sprung and Rapp finds himself in the fight of his life. $27.99
Mark Twain’s Medieval Romance and Other Classic Mystery Stories has been anthologized and edited by Otto Penzler who has signed copies. These ingenious mystery stories are by such literary luminaries as Stanley Ellin, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury and Mark Twain. This was originally published as Uncertain Endings. $25.95

Party for BLOOD RELATIONS; THE SELECTED LETTERS OF ELLERY QUEEN 1947-1950 with Joseph Goodrich 02/27/12

Joseph Goodrich will discuss his new book 

BLOOD RELATIONS: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF ELLERY QUEEN 1947-1950 

(Perfect Crime, $14.95) 

and we'll have a live dramatization!

Monday, February 15th

6:30-8:00 pm

The Mysterious Bookshop

58 Warren Street

New York, NY 10007

(212) 587-1011

info@mysteriousbookshop.com

Mysterious Bookshop Staff Favorites for February 2012

Otto’s favorites:

Hunter, Stephen, Soft Target, Simon & Schuster. The protagonist who first helped Hunter find a place on the best-seller list was the former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Bob “the Nailer”), then readers were introduced to Bob’s previously unknown son, Ray Cruz, in Dead Zero and he’s back in Soft Target. When John Wayne walked into a bad situation, one sensed that all was going to be all right, as it is when one of Hunter’s tough guys enters the narrative. And rarely has any hero encountered a more difficult—virtually hopeless—situation than that confronted by Cruz. It begins on the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year, and takes place in the completely enclosed “America—the Mall,” the biggest shopping center in the world, filled with 10,000 people preparing for Christmas. Santa Claus is shot in front of hundreds of young children and their parents, and a cacophony of gunshots follows, killing and wounding scores of innocent citizens. A gang of heavily armed terrorists has gone on a killing spree and forced a thousand people into a large central area, where they become hostages. In this ultra-modern building, everything—temperature, music, lighting, even the doors—is controlled by computers, and the evil genius who has hatched this heinous plot has locked everyone in—and everyone else out. The police are called, along with snipers and SWAT teams, but they are helpless against the locked mall, knowing that any assault will result in the terrorists opening fire on the huddled crowd, causing untold hundreds of deaths. Fortunately, Cruz had been commandeered into going Christmas shopping by his girlfriend, Molly Chan, and, and when the shooting started, paralyzing with fear everyone else, it just made Cruz angry. The odds were about twelve against one (though Cruz gets help from a surprising source), which isn’t nearly as one-sided as one might think. The suspense never softens as Cruz tries to save the terrified hostages. Signed copies available. $26.99

Also recommended:

Morrow, Bradford, The Uninnocent, Pegasus. Never has a book deserved its title more than this brilliant and disturbing short story collection. Alienation appears to be the principal theme that binds these noir stories, often causing unexpected violence and death. The title story features a brother and sister, plus their unborn “Christmas brother,” and describes their youthful devotion to each other, but to no one else—not even to their dog or their best friend. In “The Hoarder,” a teenager becomes obsessed with his older brother’s girlfriend and secretly follows (and photographs) her every move. The unstated, casual undertone of impending tragedy in these stories will remind you of Roald Dahl or Shirley Jackson at their most chilling. $25.00

Dan, Ian and Sally's favorites after the jump!

February Newsletter

Our February Newsletter is now posted online.  Below are the links

http://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/home/newsletter/newsletter.pdf

http://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/home/printnewsletter/print_newsletter.pdf

Sally Owen

The Mysterious Bookshop

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

Sally's Weekly Update for 02/03/12

Great excitement in New York.  Apparently there's an important football game being played on Sunday.  Downton Abbey will also be shown.

Meanwhile, here's the update.

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 2/3/12

Now that the event season is upon us, I’m thinking we’re probably in for some inclement weather!!
EVENT
Wednesday, February 15^th, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. Hilary Davidson will be discussing and signing copies of The Next One to Fall.
Travel writer Lily Moore is vacationing in Peru where she comes across a woman lying on the steps of Machu Picchu. The woman whispers her killer’s name before dying but the evidence seems to point to a different man. $24.99
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE.
Pure by Julianna Baggott is the first in her post apocalyptic trilogy which takes place after the Detonations. Pressia is about to reach the age when she must turn herself over to the military to either be trained as a soldier or, if she is too damaged and weak for that, to be used as a live target. Meanwhile there are those who escaped unmarked and they live safely within the Dome. Partridge finds this a stifling environment and he suspects that his mother is still alive. He will risk his life to leave the Dome and find her. $25.99
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson is receiving extraordinary reviews. Set in North Korea, it tells the story of Pak Jun Do, the son of a lost mother and an influential father, who becomes a professional kidnapper. Driven to the limit of what any human being can endure he takes on the role of rival to Kim Jong II in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, an actress "so pure, she didn’t know what starving people looked like." An Unclassifiable Crime Club Main Selection. $26.00

Party for THE NEXT ONE TO FALL by Hilary Davidson 02/15/12

Hilary Davidson discusses her new novel 

THE NEXT ONE TO FALL

Wednesday, February 15th

6:30-8:00 pm

Admission is Free

The Mysterious Bookshop

58 Warren Street

New York, NY 10007

(212) 587-1011

info@mysteriousbookshop.com