The hardboiled author of the Mike Hammer novels writes to his friend, the reporter and TV journalist Hy Gardner about his father's health problems and rumors of the mob working with Fidel Castro to smuggle drugs into the US. "Word in from sources south has come up with a cutie.......

First Edition. The author's first book and the first novel featuring the African American private eye Easy Rawlins. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Mosley on the title page. Jacket correctly priced at $18.95 (later jackets are priced.....

First Edition. The fifth Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn Navajo police mystery. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a dent on the front panel. This copy is nicely inscribed by the author, "For Anne here's my favorite plot Tony Hillerman." A short.....

A deluxe reissue of Hillerman's Edgar Award-winning mystery. This edition has illustrations by the Navajo artist Ernest Franklin and an introduction by Margaret Coel. This is one of 100 copies with an original drawing by Franklin on the half title. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a......

First Edition. A novel set in Southeast Asia. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Hillerman on the title page.

First Edition. The fourteenth volume in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Published simultaneously in the US and UK. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. With an information card from the.....

First Edition. The 20th installment in the Travis McGee series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, signed by MacDonald on the half-title page.

First Edition. The first US hardcover edition of the second Travis Magee book (originally published as a paperback original in 1964). The British publisher Hale issued the first hardcover. First US hardcover edition (first printing with "First hardbound edition 1976" on the copyright page and no later printings noted). A......

First Edition. The first hardcover edition of John D. MacDonald's third novel, from 1951. According to the title page, the print run was just 400 copies. First hardcover and UK edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

First Edition. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Burke on the title page.

First Edition. The first hardcover edition of this 1958 novel. "Two real people, two nice people, became creatures of passion—and guilt." First UK and first hardcover edition. A very good copy in a like dust jacket. Slight spine lean; black dust jacket with minor loss at the corners and a......

First Edition. An early hardcover novel from MacDonald. This stand-alone book is a comic novel set in an art school in Cuernavaca, Mexico. According to Firsts Magazine (Nov. 2002), only 3000 copies were sold. First edition (stated first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The.....

First Edition. The hardcover version of the 7th Travis McGee novel, "the most difficult of all [Lippincott's] McGees to find" (Firsts Magazine, Nov. 2002). First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printing). A FAIR copy, lacking the front free endpaper, stamped Discard on the half-title, and with old.....