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

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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

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New York, NY 10007

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The Best American Noir of the Century is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

‎'The Best American Noir of the Century' by Otto Penzler and James Ellory is the Kindle Deal of the Day! Get your copy of this fantastic anthology for only $1.99 by clicking here.

Sally's Weekly Update for 01/27/12

I was up at an ungodly hour this morning watching the semi-final match from Australia between Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.  Worth losing the sleep. Meanwhile, here is Update number 300!!!

SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
Taken, the much anticipated Elvis Cole/Joe Pike thriller from Robert Crais is here. Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing daughter when she gets a ransom note. But Morales isn’t really worried: she thinks her daughter has run off with her boyfriend and that they need money. But Morales is wrong. Her daughter and boyfriend have indeed been kidnapped Cole and Pike find the place where the couple were taken and they think it looks as bad as it can possibly be. But they too are wrong. A Crime Collector’s Club Main Selection (January). $26.95

Elmore Leonard was here signing copies of Raylan, featuring his character Raylan Givens, who is also the star of the hit TV series Justified. U.S. Marshal Givens is the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at a time and always shoots to kill. A Crime Collector’s Club Main Selection (March) $26.99

Walter Mosley was also here (at the same time as Leonard) signing copies of his latest Leonid McGill mystery, All I Did Was Shoot My Man. Eight years ago Zella Grisham shot her fella, Harry, when she found him in bed with her friend (I should think so!), although she doesn’t remember doing so. The district attorney was inclined to be lenient until $50,000 from a recent heist was found in Zella’s storage unit. When Zella gets out, she hires McGill, who for several reasons, is convinced of her innocence. A Crime Collector’s Club Main Selection (February). $26.95

More after the jump!

Elmore Leonard and Walter Moley at The Mysterious Bookshop!

The Mysterious Bookshop was thrilled to have both Elmore Leonard and Walter Mosley drop by yesterday! Here they are with our own Otto Penzler! Mr. Leonard signwed copies of his new novel RAYLAN and Mr. Mosley signed copies of his new novel ALL I DID WAS SHOOT MY MAN.

The Mysterious Bookshop Winter Sale Special

The return of one of our most popular sales. The $10 Sale.


The list only goes to the letter D.


Sally Owen

The Mysterious Bookshop

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com





WINTER SALE SPECIAL



All Books Only $10 Each!



Now that winter seems finally and truly arrived, what better time to stay toasty with a good book? Here is a list of great reading in all genres that have been on our shelves for a while. Every book listed is a hardcover first edition, published in the United States, in dust jacket in as-new condition.



Abella, Alex, Dead of Night, 1998. Charlie Morell, a Cuban-American lawyer and PI, faces evil cloaked in the rituals of African-American santeria, which is as scary as voodoo.



Adcock, Thomas, Drown All the Dogs, 1994. NYPD Detective Neil Hockaday tries to learn why his father vanished during World War II.



Albert, Susan Wittig, Witches’ Bane, 1993. It is Halloween in a small Texas town and, when one of the holiday celebrants is brutally murdered, lawyer and herbalist China Bayles is accused of practicing witchcraft.



Albert, Susan Wittig, Hangman’s Root. 1994. Lawyer-turned herbalist China Bayles finds herself in the middle of an animal rights dispute in Texas that ends in murder.

More sales after the jump!

Sally's Weekly Update for 01/20/12

 

 

 

I hate winter!!  I have been out sick with the dreaded lurgie (as we Brits say - I think you call it the 'flu).

I'm feeling better thank you but I am way behind with my emails and wanted to let you know that I will be answering you all in the order your emails were received. 

 

I also wanted you to know that, every now and again, I lose one of your emails.  I can't explain it, but I usually find out when you follow up asking where your order is.  99% of the time I acknowledge emails so if you feel that far too long has passed since you wrote, please don't hesitate to give me a nudge.

 

Now on to the good stuff....

 

 

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 1/20/12

* Open Seven Days until Monday, February 27^th. From then on we’ll be open six days, Monday thru Saturday, 11.00 a.m.- 7.00 p.m. THE EDGAR AWARD NOMINEES ARE ANNOUNCED
Here are the first three categories:
BEST NOVEL
The Ranger by Ace Atkins
Gone by Mo Hayder
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
1222 by Anne Holt
Field Grey by Philip Kerr BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Red on Red by Edward Conlon
Last to Fold by David Duffy
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen
Bent Road by Lori Roy
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Company Man by Jackson Bennett
The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle
The Dog Sox by Russell Hill
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis Other categories may be found on the Mystery Writers of America website: www.mysterywriters.org
Winners will be announced at the Edgar Award Banquet on April 26^th. SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
A Study in Sherlock edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger is a collection of stories inspired by everybody’s favorite detective. We have first editions signed by the two editors plus Jerry Margolin, S.J. Rozan, Neil Gaiman (whose story has been nominated for an Edgar Award) and Jan Burke. This paperback original is now in its third printing, so first come... $15.00
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus is a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck the country: the sound of children’s speech has become to lethal to adults. For Sam and Clare it seems the only way to escape their daughter’s malevolent speech is to run away. But that’s not so easy. They still love her and in a few years she too will be susceptible to the language toxicity. Rave reviews from Michael Chabon and Jonathan Saftan Foer for this. The stunning dust jacket was designed by Peter Mendelsund. An Unclassifiable Crime Club Main Selection. $25.95
What It Was by George Pelecanos, a thriller featuring Derek Strange, has been published as a paperback original ($9.99), but also as a limited, signed and slipcased edition for $35.00.
Cell 8 by Roslund & Hellstrom is here. In Ohio, a young man is awaiting execution for the murder of his girlfriend. When he dies of a heart disease it would seem that the case is closed. Six years later on a ferry between Finland and Sweden, a man attacks a drunken lout leaving him in a coma. Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens is assigned to this seemingly straightforward case and finds that there is a shocking connection between his case and the closed case in the United States. Signed by both authors. $24.95
Tom Rob Smith signed the U.S. edition of Agent 6, his third novel featuring Leo Demidov who, this time out, must struggle with a devastating conspiracy that shatters everything he holds dear. $25.99
FOR COLLECTORS
The Man with Three Chins by Delano Ames, Regnery, NY. 1968. First U.S. Edition. $35.00 Juan Llorca mystery. One neat "Withdrawn" stamp, else about fine.
Death Dives Deep by Michael Avallone, Signet, NY. 1971. First Edition. $45.00 8vo, paper. Fine in wrappers.
London Bloody London by Michael Avallone, Curtis Books, NY. 1972. First Edition. $45.00 8vo, paper. Fine in wrappers
Deceiver’s Door by Christopher B. Booth, Chelsea, NY. 1929. First Edition. $100.00 The adventures of a gentleman who has proclaimed himself "the greatest criminal in the world." Front hinge cracked, else about fine in fine pictorial dust jacket with minor chipping at spinal extremities.
The Stoat by Lynn Brock, Collins Crime Club, London. 1940. First Edition. $85.00 A very scarce book in first edition. Very good-near fine in orange cloth binding.
The Animal Factory by Edward Bunker, Viking, NY. 1977. First Edition. SIGNED. $750.00 The basis for the Steve Buscemi-directed cult favorite of the same title. Very fine in dust jacket.
High Sierra (W.R. Burnett), Edited by Douglas Gomery, U. Of Wisconsin Press, WI. 1979. First Edition. SIGNED. $250.00 The very scarce hardcover edition. Fine in dust jacket. Signed by Gomery.
The Asphalt Jungle by W.R. Burnett, Knopf, NY. 1949. First Edition. $1,000.00 Basis for the legendary noir film directed by John Huston starring Sterling Hayden. Very fine in dust jacket.
Killed on the Rocks by William L. DeAndrea, Mysterious Press, NY. 1990. First Edition. $15.00 Under-valued author who won Edgars for his first two books. He was also one of the last practitioners of "impossible crime" stories, of which this is one - when a body is found on a crest of newly fallen snow, dozens of yards from the nearest house, with no footprints leading to or from the body. Very fine in dust jacket.
The Plague Court Murders by Carter Dickson, Morrow, NY. 1934. First Edition. $75.00 Lending library stamps, some pages wrinkled due to a binding error, else very good.
Unidentified Woman by Mignon G. Eberhart, Random House, NY. 1943. First Edition. $20.00 Fine in dust jacket, which has a tiny chip at top of spine.
The Blind Pig by Jon A. Jackson, Random House, NY. 1978. First Edition. $175.00 Author’s second book. Very fine in dust jacket without the ubiquitous remainder mark.
Uniform Justice by Donna Leon, Heinemann, London. 2003. First Edition. SIGNED. $50.00 As new in dust jacket.
Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon, Heinemann, London. 2004. First Edition. SIGNED. $40.00 As new in dust jacket.

The Killing Floor by Arthur Lyons, Mason/Charter, NY. 1976. First Edition. $500.00 Fine in dust jacket.
Dead Ringer by Arthur Lyons, Mason/Charter, NY. 1977. First Edition. SIGNED. $85.00 Near fine in dust jacket.
The Judas Goat by Robert B. Parker, Houghton Mifflin, Boston. 1978. First Edition. $100.00 Fifth Spenser novel. Page tops dusty, else fine in dust jacket.
Triangle by Teri White, Charter, NY. 1982. First Edition. $45.00 Author’s first book, an Edgar-winning paperback original. A minor bump at top of the spine, else very fine, unread copy and scarce thus. Laid in is a signed letter from the editor.
69 Babylon Park by Harry Whittington, Avon, NY. 1962. First Edition. $45.00 Paperback original. About fine in wrappers with some light rubbing to extremities.
Poontang and Other Poems by Charles Willeford, New Athenaeum Press, FL. 1966. First Edition. SIGNED. $3,000.00 In stiff, gray wrappers. Fine with small bump to bottom corner. By far the rarest of Willeford’s works.
Sally
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