Norwegian crime writing sensation Jo Nesbo stopped by The Mysterious Bookshop to sign copies of his new bestseller THE SNOWMAN this afternoon!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Jo Nesbo at The Mysterious Bookshop
Norwegian crime writing sensation Jo Nesbo stopped by The Mysterious Bookshop to sign copies of his new bestseller THE SNOWMAN this afternoon!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Party for THE DEVIL SHE KNOWS by Bill Loehfelm 06/02/11
The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:
Bill Loehfelm
discussing his new novel
The Devil She Knows
Thursday, June 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
Friday, May 13, 2011
Sally's Weekly Update for 05/13/11!
I was going to tell you how lucky Friday 13th is for The Mysterious Bookshop (we opened on that date) ...and then my printer went kaflooey.
Now I'm going to see if the Update can be sent out.
If you get this, have a wonderful weekend. And even if you don't...
Sally Owen
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 5/13/11
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
The White Devil by Justin Evans is set at The Harrow School in London where American Andrew Taylor is enrolled.. When one of his schoolmates dies mysteriously Andrew is blamed and becomes an outcast. He becomes obsessed with Lord Byron, who attended Harrow two centuries before, and finds himself trying to solve a two-hundred-year-old literary mystery that threatens his life and the lives of his schoolmates. An Unclassifiable Club Main Selection. $24.99
The Burning Lake is Brent Ghelfi’s fourth novel featuring Alexei Volkovoy (Volk) who investigates the murder of a journalist in Putin’s Russia. We have very few of this title. $24.95
Tabloid City by Pete Hamill tells of one fateful day in New York City. A wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered setting off a storm of activity: The editor of the city’s late afternoon tabloid stops the presses; the NYPD gears up for a high profile case; a disgraced hedge fund manager tries to flee the country; and an angry extremist plots a deadly attack. A Thriller/Espionage Club Main Selection. $26.99
The Big Book of Adventure Stories is the latest mammoth book edited by Otto Penzler. Stories are set on the open seas, on desert islands, and in lush and dangerous jungles. Authors include Jack London, H. Rider Haggard, Alistair MacLean, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, and Cornell Woolrich. The complete novel of Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs is here, as is the story that introduced The Cisco Kid. It will be Otto’s joy to sign this for you. $25.00
PAPERBACKS OF NOTE
This is a new feature - a once-a-month look at some noteworthy paperbacks.
Once again - noteworthy paperbacks. Unsigned.
Akashic is publishing three titles in their Noir series this month: $15.95 each
Pittsburgh Noir features original stories by Stewart O’Nan, K.C. Constantine, Nancy Martin, Terrance Hayes, Kathleen George, etc.
San Diego Noir features original stories by T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Gar Anthony Haywood, Luis Alberto Urrea, Lisa Brackmann, etc.
Cape Code Noir features original stories by Paul Tremblay, Dave Zeltserman, Jedediah Berry, Dana Cameron, etc.
Butcher’s Moon, a Parker novel by Richard Stark has been reprinted by the University of Chicago. $15.00
Darkside is Belinda Bauer’s follow-up to her Gold Dagger-winning first novel, Blacklands. $15.00
Room by Emma Donoghue was nominated for a number of awards and is a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. $14.99
Two titles by Ira Levin have been reissued: Sliver, which has been long out of print. $14.95. And A Kiss Before Dying which has a new introduction by Otto Penzler. $14.95
The best vampire book ever written? Anno Dracula by Kim Newman always makes that list and it is available once again. $9.99
Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders is the latest in Gyles Brandreth’s series. Wilde investigates a murder in the house of the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle, a murder which threatens to destroy the very heart of the Royal Family. Can’t have that, can we? This has been published in the U.S. simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. $15.00
Stark House has reprinted Gang Girl and Sex Bum by Don Elliott in their Erotic Classics series. Don Elliott is Robert Silverberg and, unlike some of his contemporaries, he is not embarrassed about his early years writing "adult" paperbacks. Silverberg writes the introduction here. $19.95
Please note that in our May Newsletter online we have created a Classic Reprints category.There is also a listing of Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Whisperer, and The Avenger stories now available in large paperback format. We have just received The Shadow # 48, Doc Savage #47 and The Avenger #5 And of course, there is a complete listing of ALL May/June paperbacks
SIGNED FROM THE U.K.
The Devil’s Edge by Stephen Booth finds DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry investigating when a band of home invaders who have been terrorising a community leave a dead body behind them. $45.00
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson is a first novel causing much excitement in the U.K. That excitement is beginning to catch on here. What if you lost your memory every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past? And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story? Welcome to Christine’s life. After we put aside the copies for the British Crime Club, we only have a few left. First come first served. A British Crime Club Main Selection. $35.00
FOR COLLECTORS
Incredible Ink by Howard Browne, McMillan, Tucson, 1997. First Edition. SIGNED. $100.00
Limited to 350 signed and numbered copies. Fine in fine dust jacket. Boxed.
The Devil by Ken Bruen, Mysterious Bookshop, NY. 2010. First Edition. SIGNED. $150.00
Limited to 100 copies. Fine in boards as issued.
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, Penguin, London. 2008. First Edition. $54.00
A James Bond novel set in the Cold War. Written by Faulks to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth on May 28th 2008. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle, Dodd Mead, NY. 1907. First Edition. $375.00
Illustrations by The Kinneys. Shelfwear top and bottom of spine, else near fine.
Jade Woman by Jonathan Gash, Collins Crime Club, London. 1988. First Edition. SIGNED. $60.00
A Lovejoy novel. A flawless copy in dust jacket.
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George, Bantam, NY. 1988. First Edition. $75.00
Author’s first novel. Slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine, else fine in fine dust jacket.
Amateur in Violence by Michael Gilbert, Davis, NY. 1973. First Edition. $60.00
One complete short novel and ten short stories. Edited and with an introduction by Ellery Queen. A paperback original. Fine.
M is for Malice by Sue Grafton, Holt, NY. 1996. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.00
Kinsey Milhone. Dust top edges, else fine in like dust jacket.
The Columbo Collection by William Link, Crippen & Landru, VA. 2010. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00
Twelve original stories featuring the disheveled and unflappable Lieutenant Columbo. Just one more thing....a Bonus Story, Columbo’s Mistake, in pamphlet form, is included.
Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh, Sheridan, NY. 1941. First Edition. $250.00
Near fine in bright dust jacket with slight rubbing on creases and tiny chips top of spine.
The Devil’s Mantle by Frank L. Packard, Doran, NY. 1927. First Edition. $250.00
Library stamp on front endpaper, else fine in dust jacket showing slight wear top and bottom of spine.
Heresy by S.J. Parris, HarperCollins, London. 2010. First Edition. SIGNED. $33.00
Authors first novel. Set in England in 1583 and introducing Giordano Bruno, a radical monk who has fled the Inquisition for the court of Elizabeth I. Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth’s chief spymaster, sends Bruno to Oxford University rumored to be a hotbed of Catholic dissent, where Bruno finds himself not only drawn into college intrigues, but also stalking a cunning and determined killer through the cloisters of Oxford.
Cardington Crescent by Anne Perry, St. Martin’s, NY. 1987. First Edition. $100.00
Very fine, as new copy in dust jacket.
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming, St. Martin’s, NY. 2002. First Edition. SIGNED. $200.00
Author’s first novel. Introduces Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alysteyne. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Trouble in Triplicate by Rex Stout, Viking, NY. 1949. First Edition. $100.00
Three stories featuring Nero Wolfe: Before I Die; Help Wanted, Male; and Instead of Evidence. Near fine in dust jacket showing wear at the extremities.
The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Little Brown, NY. 2010. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $24.99
It’s wartime, and the Carver family leave the capital and move to a small coastal village where they’ve recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things begin to happen. For all ages.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
Now I'm going to see if the Update can be sent out.
If you get this, have a wonderful weekend. And even if you don't...
Sally Owen
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 5/13/11
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
The White Devil by Justin Evans is set at The Harrow School in London where American Andrew Taylor is enrolled.. When one of his schoolmates dies mysteriously Andrew is blamed and becomes an outcast. He becomes obsessed with Lord Byron, who attended Harrow two centuries before, and finds himself trying to solve a two-hundred-year-old literary mystery that threatens his life and the lives of his schoolmates. An Unclassifiable Club Main Selection. $24.99
The Burning Lake is Brent Ghelfi’s fourth novel featuring Alexei Volkovoy (Volk) who investigates the murder of a journalist in Putin’s Russia. We have very few of this title. $24.95
Tabloid City by Pete Hamill tells of one fateful day in New York City. A wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered setting off a storm of activity: The editor of the city’s late afternoon tabloid stops the presses; the NYPD gears up for a high profile case; a disgraced hedge fund manager tries to flee the country; and an angry extremist plots a deadly attack. A Thriller/Espionage Club Main Selection. $26.99
The Big Book of Adventure Stories is the latest mammoth book edited by Otto Penzler. Stories are set on the open seas, on desert islands, and in lush and dangerous jungles. Authors include Jack London, H. Rider Haggard, Alistair MacLean, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, and Cornell Woolrich. The complete novel of Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs is here, as is the story that introduced The Cisco Kid. It will be Otto’s joy to sign this for you. $25.00
PAPERBACKS OF NOTE
This is a new feature - a once-a-month look at some noteworthy paperbacks.
Once again - noteworthy paperbacks. Unsigned.
Akashic is publishing three titles in their Noir series this month: $15.95 each
Pittsburgh Noir features original stories by Stewart O’Nan, K.C. Constantine, Nancy Martin, Terrance Hayes, Kathleen George, etc.
San Diego Noir features original stories by T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Gar Anthony Haywood, Luis Alberto Urrea, Lisa Brackmann, etc.
Cape Code Noir features original stories by Paul Tremblay, Dave Zeltserman, Jedediah Berry, Dana Cameron, etc.
Butcher’s Moon, a Parker novel by Richard Stark has been reprinted by the University of Chicago. $15.00
Darkside is Belinda Bauer’s follow-up to her Gold Dagger-winning first novel, Blacklands. $15.00
Room by Emma Donoghue was nominated for a number of awards and is a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. $14.99
Two titles by Ira Levin have been reissued: Sliver, which has been long out of print. $14.95. And A Kiss Before Dying which has a new introduction by Otto Penzler. $14.95
The best vampire book ever written? Anno Dracula by Kim Newman always makes that list and it is available once again. $9.99
Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders is the latest in Gyles Brandreth’s series. Wilde investigates a murder in the house of the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle, a murder which threatens to destroy the very heart of the Royal Family. Can’t have that, can we? This has been published in the U.S. simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. $15.00
Stark House has reprinted Gang Girl and Sex Bum by Don Elliott in their Erotic Classics series. Don Elliott is Robert Silverberg and, unlike some of his contemporaries, he is not embarrassed about his early years writing "adult" paperbacks. Silverberg writes the introduction here. $19.95
Please note that in our May Newsletter online we have created a Classic Reprints category.There is also a listing of Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Whisperer, and The Avenger stories now available in large paperback format. We have just received The Shadow # 48, Doc Savage #47 and The Avenger #5 And of course, there is a complete listing of ALL May/June paperbacks
SIGNED FROM THE U.K.
The Devil’s Edge by Stephen Booth finds DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry investigating when a band of home invaders who have been terrorising a community leave a dead body behind them. $45.00
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson is a first novel causing much excitement in the U.K. That excitement is beginning to catch on here. What if you lost your memory every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past? And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story? Welcome to Christine’s life. After we put aside the copies for the British Crime Club, we only have a few left. First come first served. A British Crime Club Main Selection. $35.00
FOR COLLECTORS
Incredible Ink by Howard Browne, McMillan, Tucson, 1997. First Edition. SIGNED. $100.00
Limited to 350 signed and numbered copies. Fine in fine dust jacket. Boxed.
The Devil by Ken Bruen, Mysterious Bookshop, NY. 2010. First Edition. SIGNED. $150.00
Limited to 100 copies. Fine in boards as issued.
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, Penguin, London. 2008. First Edition. $54.00
A James Bond novel set in the Cold War. Written by Faulks to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth on May 28th 2008. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle, Dodd Mead, NY. 1907. First Edition. $375.00
Illustrations by The Kinneys. Shelfwear top and bottom of spine, else near fine.
Jade Woman by Jonathan Gash, Collins Crime Club, London. 1988. First Edition. SIGNED. $60.00
A Lovejoy novel. A flawless copy in dust jacket.
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George, Bantam, NY. 1988. First Edition. $75.00
Author’s first novel. Slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine, else fine in fine dust jacket.
Amateur in Violence by Michael Gilbert, Davis, NY. 1973. First Edition. $60.00
One complete short novel and ten short stories. Edited and with an introduction by Ellery Queen. A paperback original. Fine.
M is for Malice by Sue Grafton, Holt, NY. 1996. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.00
Kinsey Milhone. Dust top edges, else fine in like dust jacket.
The Columbo Collection by William Link, Crippen & Landru, VA. 2010. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00
Twelve original stories featuring the disheveled and unflappable Lieutenant Columbo. Just one more thing....a Bonus Story, Columbo’s Mistake, in pamphlet form, is included.
Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh, Sheridan, NY. 1941. First Edition. $250.00
Near fine in bright dust jacket with slight rubbing on creases and tiny chips top of spine.
The Devil’s Mantle by Frank L. Packard, Doran, NY. 1927. First Edition. $250.00
Library stamp on front endpaper, else fine in dust jacket showing slight wear top and bottom of spine.
Heresy by S.J. Parris, HarperCollins, London. 2010. First Edition. SIGNED. $33.00
Authors first novel. Set in England in 1583 and introducing Giordano Bruno, a radical monk who has fled the Inquisition for the court of Elizabeth I. Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth’s chief spymaster, sends Bruno to Oxford University rumored to be a hotbed of Catholic dissent, where Bruno finds himself not only drawn into college intrigues, but also stalking a cunning and determined killer through the cloisters of Oxford.
Cardington Crescent by Anne Perry, St. Martin’s, NY. 1987. First Edition. $100.00
Very fine, as new copy in dust jacket.
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming, St. Martin’s, NY. 2002. First Edition. SIGNED. $200.00
Author’s first novel. Introduces Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alysteyne. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Trouble in Triplicate by Rex Stout, Viking, NY. 1949. First Edition. $100.00
Three stories featuring Nero Wolfe: Before I Die; Help Wanted, Male; and Instead of Evidence. Near fine in dust jacket showing wear at the extremities.
The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Little Brown, NY. 2010. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $24.99
It’s wartime, and the Carver family leave the capital and move to a small coastal village where they’ve recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things begin to happen. For all ages.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Jessica Speart on WINGED OBSESSION
Author Jessica Speart dropped by last month to discuss her fascinating new book WINGED OBSESSION!
Friday, May 6, 2011
Sally's Weekly Update for 05/06/11
Thanks to all of you who weighed in on the hats worn at the Royal Wedding :)
Here's the latest 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 5/6/11
Many of you have asked to be on a list to automatically receive any future Robert B. Parker books. .
As I’ve mentioned to some of you, the Parker franchise will continue - but with new authors.
We do know that Ace Atkins will continue the Spenser series.
There may be no more books written by Parker, although there is a possibility that he was working on a novel when he died and that novel will be completed by another author.
Let’s deal with this on a case by case basis. We’ll let you know as future "Robert B. Parker" books are published, give you as much information as we can, and you can make the decision then whether or not you want them. We will send you nothing automatically.
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
Cara Black signed copies of Murder in Passy featuring Aimee Leduc who tries to clear her father of murder charges and battle police corruption. A Soft Boiled Crime Club Main Selection. $25.00
After a very successful event last night, we have only five signed copies left of The Serial Killer’s Daughter by Heywood Gould. Peter Vogel, a college senior, is obsessed with Hannah Seeley, a classmate. Their relationship continues after graduation when Hannah finally confesses that someone is stalking her; someone would like to see her dead. Possibly because she is the daughter of the infamous Robbinsgate Killer, now sitting on California’s death row. $25.00
Lisa Lutz has teamed up with her ex, David Hayward, to write a tag-team novel which looks to be as much about them as about their creations, Paul and Lacey Hansen. In Heads You Lose, Paul and Lacey are pot-growing siblings eking out a living in Northern California. When they discover a headless corpse on their property, they move the body and wait for somebody else to find it. But it reappears a few days later and two amateur sleuths are born. However, the authors begin to disagree about how the story should unfold; the body count rises, victims and suspects develop surprising characteristics and the rivalry between the siblings and between the authors reaches homicidal intensity. The authors clearly survived this ordeal. Both have signed! $24.95
Jan Merete Weiss joined Cara Black at the store to introduce her investigator Captain Natalia Monte of the Naples Carabinieri. In These Dark Things, Monte is called in to investigate the death of a college student and discovers links between the dead girl and the Camorra, a brutal Napali criminal organization that predates the Mafia. $24.00
Please pre-order the following titles:
Chris Adrian, another of The New Yorker’s 20-Under-40, will be signing The Great Night, an enchanting tale set in San Francisco’s Buena Vista Park. When three people become inexplicably lost in the park, it sets the stage for a retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as the release of an ancient menace bent on causing chaos in the city. $26.00
Eva Gabrielsson has written about her life with one of the most popular authors of the past couple of years. There Are Things I Want You to Know About Stieg Larsson and Me is being published in June. Gabrielsson will be in New York and, although we cannot guarantee it, we are hoping she will stop by to sign copies of this memoir. $23.95
We have just learned that Erik Larson will sign copies of In The Garden of Beasts. This portrait of Berlin during the first years of Hitler’s Chancellorship is told through the stories of two people: William E. Dodd, who became America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s regime and Dodd’s daughter, Martha, who was mesmerized by the glamor of Berlin’s salon society. Larson gives us a stunning history of the Third Reich and its leaders. $26.00
Jo Nesbo will sign the U.S. edition of The Snowman. With the first snow of the season falling, a young woman goes missing. Then another. And another. Detective Harry Hole is called in the solve what looks to be a serial killer loose on the streets of Oslo. A Hard Boiled Club Main Selection. $25.95
FOR COLLECTORS
Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Bobbs-Merrill, IN. 1911. First Edition. $75.00
Queen’s Quorum. A very good copy.
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block, Morrow, NY. 1991. First Edition. SIGNED. $35.00
A Matthew Scudder novel. Slight shelf wear top and bottom of spine in like dustjacket.
A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block, Morrow, NY. 1992. First Edition. SIGNED. $20.00
A Matthew Scudder novel. Previous owner’s raised library stamp on half-title page, else fine in like dust jacket.
Dead Man Twice by Christopher Bush, Doubleday Crime Club, NY. 1930. First U.S. Edition. $100.00
Name, else about fine in an unusually nice dust jacket with only light wear at top of spine.
Poison in Jest by John Dickson Carr, Harper, NY. 1932. First Edition. $150.00
Slight wear top and bottom of spine and previous owner’s name on front endpaper, else about fine.
And So to Murder by Carter Dickson, Morrow, NY. 1940. First Edition. $400.00
About fine in like dust jacket.
She Died a Lady by Carter Dickson, Morrow, NY. 1943. First Edition. $185.00
Previous owner’s bookplate on inside board, else about fine in dust jacket rubbed top and bottom of spine.
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy, Mysterious Press, NY. 1988. SIGNED. $20.00
Chapter one, produced in advance of the first book publication for promotional purposes. Twenty pages, stapled. Very scarce. Inscribed and Signed by Ellroy.
Odds Against by Dick Francis, Harper & Row, NY. 1965. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $400.00
Author’s fourth book. Top and bottom of spine scuffed, else near fine in like dust jacket.
Hammett by Joe Gores, Putnam, NY. 1975. First Edition. $65.00
Near fine in dust jacket with slight rubbing top and bottom of spine.
A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky, Scribners, NY. 1988. First Edition. $75.00
Edgar-winning Best Novel of the Year. Inspector Rostnikov. A very fine, pristine copy.
Mildred Pierced by Stuart M. Kaminsky, Carroll & Graf/Otto Penzler, NY. 2003. $10.00
Advance proof copy. Toby Peters. A trifle dust on the top of the front cover, else very fine in wrappers.
The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald, Knopf, NY. 1965. First Edition. $300.00
A very fine fresh copy.
Blue City by Kenneth Millar, Knopf, NY. 1947. First Edition. $375.00
Date and small rubber stamp on front endpaper, else near fine in dust jacket, which has a darkened spine, light chips at top of spine, and a closed tear at the top corner of the front panel. The author’s third (of four) crime novels before he began to use the pseudonym John Ross Macdonald and, later, Ross Macdonald.
Stolen Woman by Wade Miller, Gold Medal, NY. 1950. First Edition. $45.00
One of the past hard-boiled authors of mainly paperback originals. Fine and scarce thus.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine, Scribners, NY. 1935. First Edition. $175.00
A fine, bright copy in a price-clipped dust jacket which is lightly rubbed.
A Brother’s Blood by Michael C. White, Harper, NY. 1996. First Edition. SIGNED. $100.00
Author’s first novel. Edgar Award Nominee. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
Here's the latest 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 5/6/11
Many of you have asked to be on a list to automatically receive any future Robert B. Parker books. .
As I’ve mentioned to some of you, the Parker franchise will continue - but with new authors.
We do know that Ace Atkins will continue the Spenser series.
There may be no more books written by Parker, although there is a possibility that he was working on a novel when he died and that novel will be completed by another author.
Let’s deal with this on a case by case basis. We’ll let you know as future "Robert B. Parker" books are published, give you as much information as we can, and you can make the decision then whether or not you want them. We will send you nothing automatically.
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
Cara Black signed copies of Murder in Passy featuring Aimee Leduc who tries to clear her father of murder charges and battle police corruption. A Soft Boiled Crime Club Main Selection. $25.00
After a very successful event last night, we have only five signed copies left of The Serial Killer’s Daughter by Heywood Gould. Peter Vogel, a college senior, is obsessed with Hannah Seeley, a classmate. Their relationship continues after graduation when Hannah finally confesses that someone is stalking her; someone would like to see her dead. Possibly because she is the daughter of the infamous Robbinsgate Killer, now sitting on California’s death row. $25.00
Lisa Lutz has teamed up with her ex, David Hayward, to write a tag-team novel which looks to be as much about them as about their creations, Paul and Lacey Hansen. In Heads You Lose, Paul and Lacey are pot-growing siblings eking out a living in Northern California. When they discover a headless corpse on their property, they move the body and wait for somebody else to find it. But it reappears a few days later and two amateur sleuths are born. However, the authors begin to disagree about how the story should unfold; the body count rises, victims and suspects develop surprising characteristics and the rivalry between the siblings and between the authors reaches homicidal intensity. The authors clearly survived this ordeal. Both have signed! $24.95
Jan Merete Weiss joined Cara Black at the store to introduce her investigator Captain Natalia Monte of the Naples Carabinieri. In These Dark Things, Monte is called in to investigate the death of a college student and discovers links between the dead girl and the Camorra, a brutal Napali criminal organization that predates the Mafia. $24.00
Please pre-order the following titles:
Chris Adrian, another of The New Yorker’s 20-Under-40, will be signing The Great Night, an enchanting tale set in San Francisco’s Buena Vista Park. When three people become inexplicably lost in the park, it sets the stage for a retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as the release of an ancient menace bent on causing chaos in the city. $26.00
Eva Gabrielsson has written about her life with one of the most popular authors of the past couple of years. There Are Things I Want You to Know About Stieg Larsson and Me is being published in June. Gabrielsson will be in New York and, although we cannot guarantee it, we are hoping she will stop by to sign copies of this memoir. $23.95
We have just learned that Erik Larson will sign copies of In The Garden of Beasts. This portrait of Berlin during the first years of Hitler’s Chancellorship is told through the stories of two people: William E. Dodd, who became America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s regime and Dodd’s daughter, Martha, who was mesmerized by the glamor of Berlin’s salon society. Larson gives us a stunning history of the Third Reich and its leaders. $26.00
Jo Nesbo will sign the U.S. edition of The Snowman. With the first snow of the season falling, a young woman goes missing. Then another. And another. Detective Harry Hole is called in the solve what looks to be a serial killer loose on the streets of Oslo. A Hard Boiled Club Main Selection. $25.95
FOR COLLECTORS
Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Bobbs-Merrill, IN. 1911. First Edition. $75.00
Queen’s Quorum. A very good copy.
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block, Morrow, NY. 1991. First Edition. SIGNED. $35.00
A Matthew Scudder novel. Slight shelf wear top and bottom of spine in like dustjacket.
A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block, Morrow, NY. 1992. First Edition. SIGNED. $20.00
A Matthew Scudder novel. Previous owner’s raised library stamp on half-title page, else fine in like dust jacket.
Dead Man Twice by Christopher Bush, Doubleday Crime Club, NY. 1930. First U.S. Edition. $100.00
Name, else about fine in an unusually nice dust jacket with only light wear at top of spine.
Poison in Jest by John Dickson Carr, Harper, NY. 1932. First Edition. $150.00
Slight wear top and bottom of spine and previous owner’s name on front endpaper, else about fine.
And So to Murder by Carter Dickson, Morrow, NY. 1940. First Edition. $400.00
About fine in like dust jacket.
She Died a Lady by Carter Dickson, Morrow, NY. 1943. First Edition. $185.00
Previous owner’s bookplate on inside board, else about fine in dust jacket rubbed top and bottom of spine.
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy, Mysterious Press, NY. 1988. SIGNED. $20.00
Chapter one, produced in advance of the first book publication for promotional purposes. Twenty pages, stapled. Very scarce. Inscribed and Signed by Ellroy.
Odds Against by Dick Francis, Harper & Row, NY. 1965. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $400.00
Author’s fourth book. Top and bottom of spine scuffed, else near fine in like dust jacket.
Hammett by Joe Gores, Putnam, NY. 1975. First Edition. $65.00
Near fine in dust jacket with slight rubbing top and bottom of spine.
A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky, Scribners, NY. 1988. First Edition. $75.00
Edgar-winning Best Novel of the Year. Inspector Rostnikov. A very fine, pristine copy.
Mildred Pierced by Stuart M. Kaminsky, Carroll & Graf/Otto Penzler, NY. 2003. $10.00
Advance proof copy. Toby Peters. A trifle dust on the top of the front cover, else very fine in wrappers.
The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald, Knopf, NY. 1965. First Edition. $300.00
A very fine fresh copy.
Blue City by Kenneth Millar, Knopf, NY. 1947. First Edition. $375.00
Date and small rubber stamp on front endpaper, else near fine in dust jacket, which has a darkened spine, light chips at top of spine, and a closed tear at the top corner of the front panel. The author’s third (of four) crime novels before he began to use the pseudonym John Ross Macdonald and, later, Ross Macdonald.
Stolen Woman by Wade Miller, Gold Medal, NY. 1950. First Edition. $45.00
One of the past hard-boiled authors of mainly paperback originals. Fine and scarce thus.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine, Scribners, NY. 1935. First Edition. $175.00
A fine, bright copy in a price-clipped dust jacket which is lightly rubbed.
A Brother’s Blood by Michael C. White, Harper, NY. 1996. First Edition. SIGNED. $100.00
Author’s first novel. Edgar Award Nominee. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
Friday, April 29, 2011
Sally's Weekly Update for 04/29/11
First the Edgar Awards!
Then the Royal Wedding (did you ever see so many ridiculous hats?)
Happy weekend from the low -key staff of The Mysterious Bookshop.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
New York, NY 10007
Ph: 2112-587-1011
Fax: 212-587-1126
Open Seven Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Weekly Update 4/29/11
The staff of the Mysterious Bookshop was decked out in its finery last night for the 65th Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner which was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Here’s a partial list of the winners:
BEST NOVEL
The Lock Artist - Steve Hamilton
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Rogue Island - Bruce DeSilva
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Long Time Coming - Robert Goddard
BEST FACT CRIME
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
BEST SHORT STORY
The Scent of Lilacs - Doug Allyn (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
For a complete listing of the awards go to:
www.mysterywriters.org
(At least one of us is very tired this morning because she had to get up very early to watch the Royal Wedding!!)
EVENTS
Tuesday, May 3rd 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Cara Black and Jan Merete Weiss will be here to discuss their novels.
Cara Black - Murder in Passy $25.00 Set in Paris
Jan Marete Weiss - These Dark Things $24.00 Set in Naples
Thursday, May 5th 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Heywood Gould will discuss his new novel
The Serial Killer’s Daughter $24.95
When college senior Peter Vogel develops a crush on a fellow student he discovers she is the daughter of the Robbinsgate Killer, responsible for the death of 11 people. Now someone is stalking her, and the two of them must elude a mysterious figure bent on exacting revenge.
Edgar Week means parties and very few signings that do not result in sell-outs, so nothing to offer you this week in the way of signed first editions. But it does give us a chance to highlight books that will NOT be signed:
No Sherlockian should be without Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder. This indispensable companion to the world’s greatest detective is also a must for those of you who are just plain curious about the great man. $19.99
Sixkill is a Spenser mystery by the late Robert B. Parker. Many of you have asked us to automatically send you any books by Parker which may be published, but if you haven’t done so and would like a copy, please let us know so that we can have enough first editions on hand when the book is released next Tuesday. $26.95
The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell is a paperback original which brings together three of this terrific author’s early books: Under the Bright Lights; Muscle for the Wing; and The Ones You do. Dennis Lehane says "Woodrell is the least-known major writer in the country right now." So get to know him. $16.99
FOR COLLECTORS
Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand, Chivers Press, London. 1988. $20.00
A Black Dagger Crime reprint. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand, Chivers Press, London. 1990. $20.00
A Black Dagger Crime reprint. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Heads You Lose by Christianna Brand, Chivers Press, London. 1993. $20.00
A Black Dagger Crime reprint. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Tour de Force by Christianna Brand, Chivers Press, London. 1997. $20.00
A Black Dagger Crime reprint. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly, Little Brown, NY. 1993. First Edition. SIGNED. $125.00
Author’s second Harry Bosch mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Closers by Michael Connelly, Little Brown, NY. 2005. First Edition. SIGNED. $26.95
Harry Bosch. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly, Orion, London. 2009. First Edition. SIGNED. $48.00
Harry Bosch. True first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Dancing Bear by James Crumley, Random House, NY. 1983. First Edition. $100.00
Spine very slightly slanted, else fine in fine dust jacket.
The Lonesome Badger by Frank Gruber, Rinehart, NY. 1954. First Edition. $75.00
Fine in dust jacket showing some wear at extremities.
Innocent Blood by P.D. James, Scribners, NY. 1980. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $40.00
Fine in fine dust jacket.
Black is the Fashion for Dying by Jonathan Latimer, Random House, NY. 1959. First Edition. $45.00
Small stain on inside back board else fine in like dust jacket.
The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, Overlook Press, NY. 2002. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. $35.00
Reprint of author’s Edgar Award-winning first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 1995. First Edition. $35.00
Biography. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Secret Lovers by Charles McCarry, Dutton, NY. 1977. First Edition. $85.00
Fine in fine dust jacket.
Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin, Orion, London. 2000. First Edition. SIGNED. $50.00
Fine in fine dust jacket.
Death is Not the End by Ian Rankin, Minotaur, NY. 2000. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $15.00
Novella. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Patience of Maigret by Georges Simenon, Routledge, London. 1939. First Edition. $275.00
A near fine copy.
Hard Frost by R.D. Wingfield, Constable, London. 1995. First Edition. $50.00
Fine in fine dust jacket.
(Cornell Woolrich) Night Has a Thousand Eyes by George Hopley, Farrar & Rinehart, NY. 1945. First Edition. $750.00
A fine copy in dust jacket rubbed top and bottom of spine.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
Then the Royal Wedding (did you ever see so many ridiculous hats?)
Happy weekend from the low -key staff of The Mysterious Bookshop.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
New York, NY 10007
Ph: 2112-587-1011
Fax: 212-587-1126
Open Seven Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Weekly Update 4/29/11
The staff of the Mysterious Bookshop was decked out in its finery last night for the 65th Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner which was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Here’s a partial list of the winners:
BEST NOVEL
The Lock Artist - Steve Hamilton
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Rogue Island - Bruce DeSilva
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Long Time Coming - Robert Goddard
BEST FACT CRIME
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
BEST SHORT STORY
The Scent of Lilacs - Doug Allyn (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
For a complete listing of the awards go to:
www.mysterywriters.org
(At least one of us is very tired this morning because she had to get up very early to watch the Royal Wedding!!)
EVENTS
Tuesday, May 3rd 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Cara Black and Jan Merete Weiss will be here to discuss their novels.
Cara Black - Murder in Passy $25.00 Set in Paris
Jan Marete Weiss - These Dark Things $24.00 Set in Naples
Thursday, May 5th 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Heywood Gould will discuss his new novel
The Serial Killer’s Daughter $24.95
When college senior Peter Vogel develops a crush on a fellow student he discovers she is the daughter of the Robbinsgate Killer, responsible for the death of 11 people. Now someone is stalking her, and the two of them must elude a mysterious figure bent on exacting revenge.
Edgar Week means parties and very few signings that do not result in sell-outs, so nothing to offer you this week in the way of signed first editions. But it does give us a chance to highlight books that will NOT be signed:
No Sherlockian should be without Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder. This indispensable companion to the world’s greatest detective is also a must for those of you who are just plain curious about the great man. $19.99
Sixkill is a Spenser mystery by the late Robert B. Parker. Many of you have asked us to automatically send you any books by Parker which may be published, but if you haven’t done so and would like a copy, please let us know so that we can have enough first editions on hand when the book is released next Tuesday. $26.95
The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell is a paperback original which brings together three of this terrific author’s early books: Under the Bright Lights; Muscle for the Wing; and The Ones You do. Dennis Lehane says "Woodrell is the least-known major writer in the country right now." So get to know him. $16.99
FOR COLLECTORS
Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand, Chivers Press, London. 1988. $20.00
A Black Dagger Crime reprint. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand, Chivers Press, London. 1990. $20.00
A Black Dagger Crime reprint. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Heads You Lose by Christianna Brand, Chivers Press, London. 1993. $20.00
A Black Dagger Crime reprint. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Tour de Force by Christianna Brand, Chivers Press, London. 1997. $20.00
A Black Dagger Crime reprint. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly, Little Brown, NY. 1993. First Edition. SIGNED. $125.00
Author’s second Harry Bosch mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Closers by Michael Connelly, Little Brown, NY. 2005. First Edition. SIGNED. $26.95
Harry Bosch. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly, Orion, London. 2009. First Edition. SIGNED. $48.00
Harry Bosch. True first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Dancing Bear by James Crumley, Random House, NY. 1983. First Edition. $100.00
Spine very slightly slanted, else fine in fine dust jacket.
The Lonesome Badger by Frank Gruber, Rinehart, NY. 1954. First Edition. $75.00
Fine in dust jacket showing some wear at extremities.
Innocent Blood by P.D. James, Scribners, NY. 1980. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $40.00
Fine in fine dust jacket.
Black is the Fashion for Dying by Jonathan Latimer, Random House, NY. 1959. First Edition. $45.00
Small stain on inside back board else fine in like dust jacket.
The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, Overlook Press, NY. 2002. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. $35.00
Reprint of author’s Edgar Award-winning first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 1995. First Edition. $35.00
Biography. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Secret Lovers by Charles McCarry, Dutton, NY. 1977. First Edition. $85.00
Fine in fine dust jacket.
Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin, Orion, London. 2000. First Edition. SIGNED. $50.00
Fine in fine dust jacket.
Death is Not the End by Ian Rankin, Minotaur, NY. 2000. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $15.00
Novella. Fine in fine dust jacket.
The Patience of Maigret by Georges Simenon, Routledge, London. 1939. First Edition. $275.00
A near fine copy.
Hard Frost by R.D. Wingfield, Constable, London. 1995. First Edition. $50.00
Fine in fine dust jacket.
(Cornell Woolrich) Night Has a Thousand Eyes by George Hopley, Farrar & Rinehart, NY. 1945. First Edition. $750.00
A fine copy in dust jacket rubbed top and bottom of spine.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
Party for A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF by Lawrence Block 05/19/11
The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:
Lawrence Block
discussing his new novel
A Drop of the
Hard Stuff
Thursday, May 19th
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
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