Anthony O'neill

2003 Scribner paperback edition. Clean pages with small illustrations. Tight binding. No marked or bent pages. Cover in great shape with no creases or scratches.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A Novel

An atmospheric thriller set in nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Anthony O'Neill's elegant, darkly masterful novel is full of psychological suspense and first-rate horror. Evelyn is a clever orphan at the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls. Enchanted by a cheerful lamplighter who fires the streetlamp outside her window each evening, she mesmerizes the other girls with flights of fancy. In a time before Freudian awareness of sexuality and the subconscious mind, such tales are forbidden by the institute's governor, who warns Evelyn to cease her nocturnal storytelling. Evelyn defies him -- and is cast out of the orphanage and sacrificed to a shadowy figure claiming to be her long-lost father. Who is this man, and why does he lock Evelyn away in a hunting lodge? Years later, the mutilated body of a professor of ecclesiastical law turns up on one of Edinburgh's finest streets; the grave of a famous colonel is ravaged; a shady entrepreneur is slaughtered while dashing for a train; and a retired lighthouse keeper is ripped to shreds while walking his dog -- all this after Evelyn, now a young woman, has reappeared in the city. What connects the victims? And what of Evelyn, anguished and appealing, who repeatedly claims to have dreamed the murders in great detail -- each time blaming a mysterious "lamplighter"? Leading the official investigation is Carus Groves, a conceited yet effective police inspector desperate to cap his unremarkable career with a sensational case. Heading up the unofficial investigation is a disillusioned professor of logic and metaphysics, Thomas McKnight, and his assistant, Joseph Canavan, a strapping young gravedigger. Using reason, intuition, philosophy, and luck, these men race to solve the murders and unveil the source of Evelyn's torment, and in so doing penetrate the very gates of Hell.

The Lamplighter

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1962 Signet paperback edition. Clean pages. Good binding. No marked pages and no creases. Cover in good shape for its age. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest 

Joseph Geary

2003 Vintage Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings inside and no bent pages. Cover in excellent condition.

Nicholas Greer is a writer who’s broke and on the verge of divorce. The life of Frank Spira, the controversial painter he’s been researching for six years, has become more real to him than his own. Nick has just finished writing his book when he gets a call telling him that one of Spira’s closest friends, Jacob Grossman, a man who went missing twenty-six years ago, has been spotted in Manhattan.

Nick tracks Grossman down, hoping to find answers to the few niggling questions that remain. Instead he gets news of a work created by Spira, which the artist supposedly destroyed. If it existed, it would be worth millions. When Grossman is brutally murdered an hour after the interview, Nick finds himself drawn into a search for explanations. Only as he comes to understand the disturbing truth behind the lost painting, does he realize that he too is the object of someone’s scrutiny, a ruthless art collector for whom the missing work is Spira’s crowning achievement. Moving between London, New York, and Tangier, Spiral is a relentlessly suspenseful story of art and obsession.

Spiral

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Charles. Dickens

G. K. Chesterton

2019 Dover paperback edition. Clean bright text. Tight binding. No marks inside and no bent or creased pages. Cover has a few tiny edge nicks, but otherwise in nice shape. The classic mystery by Charles Dickens, with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton.

A sense of impending evil hovers over a cathedral town, where one man, an outwardly respectable opium addict, is consumed with jealousy over the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, to a lovely young lady. So enraged is he, that he even plots the younger man's murder. But Drood's sudden disappearance halts further scheming and leaves only one big mystery. What happened to Edwin Drood? And what became of his body?
Unfinished at the time of his death, Charles Dickens's intriguing story has become all the more tantalizing for its lack of an ending, leaving a grim puzzle that avid readers, over the years, have tried to solve. A gem for lovers of murder mysteries and the legions of Dickens fans, The Mystery of Edwin Drood remains a gripping and haunting masterpiece.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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1976 Jove Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No marks or creased pages. Cover has one light center crease, a few tiny edge nicks, but good condition. Straight center. 

The MAIN 

Robert Littell

2005 Penguin Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings and no bent pages. Cover has one very tiny edge nick, but otherwise in great condition. 

With An Agent in Place, Robert Littell proves once again that he is a master storyteller in the ranks of John le Carré, Len Deighton, and Graham Greene. Deep in the vastness of the Pentagon and the bowels of the massive KGB center in Moscow are old Cold Warriors who refuse to fade away. Yet how can they wage their battles when there are no enemies anymore? Their answer is Ben Bassett. Sent to Moscow as a lowly embassy "housekeeper," Bassett meets a fiercely independent, passionate Russian poet, Aïda Zavaskaya, and falls under her spell. Together they become pawns in a dreadful game that leads to the clandestine heart of the Soviet system itself.

An Agent in Place

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Mario Puzo

2009 Maclehose Press paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. Some light penciled marks on top of first page. No markings inside, or bent pages, but all pages have light edge tanning. Cover has light edge crease on rear (corner), and a light wrinkle at top front. 

In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, recovered from the appalling injuries he suffered and determined to revenge the death of his wife at the hands of the same men, he begins a quest to track down and kill each one of his tormentors. Dark, violent and graphic, this is an addictive thriller about how far one man will go to exact his own justice.

Six Graves to Munich

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Loyd J. Overfield II

1990 Bison Books paperback edition. Clean bright text. Tight binding. Gift message written on top of first page. No markings inside and no bent pages. Cover has price sticker on rear, but otherwise in nice shape. 

The Official Communications, Documents and Reports

Noting that the documents pertaining to the Battle of the Little Big Horn are often garbled in editing and quoted out of context, Loyd J. Overfield set out to compile the original orders, letters, and telegrams that put a great fighting machine into motion and soon conveyed the shock of its destruction. Far more readable than today's official documents, they carry the sound of individual voices and clearly state the circumstances surrounding Custer's fall. The communications of this collection begin with Custer's successful plea to President Grant, who in a fit of pique had originally forbidden him to join his regiment in fighting the hostile Indians. A series of carefully spelled-out field orders is followed by a letter from Major Marcus Reno asking for medical aid for his wounded men after two days of fighting. Included are dispatches from Reno, Gen. Alfred H. Terry, Col. John Gibbon, Capt. Frederick Benteen, and Capt. E.W. Smith. The rosters of officers and enlisted men who fought at the Little Big Horn will be of interest to Custer buffs and historians and also to family genealogists trying to trace ancestors who made history there. Overfield has provided primary sources that amount to a detailed postmortem of events from participants only too aware that history would ask questions.

The Little Big Horn 1876

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George Laycock

Paul Schullery

1996 Lyons Press paperback edition. Clean text with illustrations. Tight binding. No markings inside and no creased pages. Cover in very nice condition.

The Dramatic History and Lore of the First Frontiersmen

To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung buckskin survivalists.

The Mountain Men

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Dean Koontz

2003 Bantam Books hardcover edition with dust jacket. Clean text. Solid binding. Unmarked boards. No marks or bent pages. Cover has lightly bumped edge at top front, but otherwise good. Dust jacket has wrinkled edge at top in same area.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Now a major motion picture starring Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe, and Addison Timlin, and directed by Stephen Sommers
"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd's otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different.
A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd's deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.
Today is August 14.
In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares--and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.

Odd Thomas

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Daniel Levin

2010 Riverhead Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings inside and no bent pages. Cover in great shape with no edge ware or creases.

Jonathan Marcus, a young American lawyer and former doctoral student in classics, is summoned to Rome for a case and stumbles across a message hidden inside an ancient stone fragment. The discovery propels him and UN preservationist Dr. Emili Travia into a coldblooded modern plot to erase every remnant of Jewish and Christian presence from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, in the process redefining history itself.

The Last Ember

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Helene Wecker

2014 HarperCollins paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings inside and no creased pages. Cover has a few tiny edge nicks, but otherwise good.

Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian Desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Struggling to make their way in 1899 New York, the Golem and the Jinni try to fit in with their immigrant neighbors while masking their true selves. Meeting by chance, they become unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures, until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But a powerful menace will soon bring the Golem and the Jinni together again, threatening their existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice. Marvelous and compulsively readable, The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of folk mythology, historical fiction, and magical fable into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.

The Golem and the Jinni

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William Ryan

2011 Minotaur Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings and no bent pages. Cover in excellent condition with no flaws.

Moscow, 1936, and Stalin's Great Terror is just beginning. In a church, a woman is found dead, her body on display. Captain Alexei Korolev of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Militia is assigned, but the NKVD is watching and exile is a real possibility. Committed to the case, Korolev enters the realm of the Thieves, rulers of Moscow's underworld. But as more bodies are found, Korolev begins to question whom he can trust and who are the real criminals. With Alexei Korolev, William Ryan has given us one of the most compelling detectives in modern literature, a man who will lead us through a fear-choked Russia to find the only thing that can save him--the truth.

The Holy Thief

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David Benioff

2009 Plume paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings inside and no creased pages. Cover has a few nicked edges, but otherwise good with no creases or scratches. 

Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.

City of Thieves

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Eliot Pattison

1999 St. Martin’s Minotaur paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings inside and no bent pages. Cover has a few chipped edges, a few edge nicks, but otherwise good with no creases or scratches. 

When a headless corpse turns up on a Tibetan mountainside, veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun is released from prison to investigate the crime, and he quickly uncovers a conspiracy involving American mining interests, corrupt Party officials, and Tibetan sorcerers. Winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

The Skull Mantra

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Daniel Suarez

2013 Signet Novel Paperback Edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings or bent pages. Cover has one tiny edge nick at top rear, but otherwise in nice shape with no creases.

A scientist and a soldier must join forces when combat drones zero in on targets on American soil in this gripping technological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez. Linda McKinney studies the social behavior of insects—which leaves her entirely unprepared for the day her research is conscripted to help run an unmanned and automated drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into a faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention. Together, McKinney and Odin must slow this advance long enough for the world to recognize its destructive power. But as enigmatic forces press the advantage, and death rains down from above, it may already be too late to save mankind from destruction.

Kill Decision

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Kathy Reichs

2006 Pocket Star Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No marks or bent pages. Cover in excellent shape. Basically looks new. 

Death du Jour

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Robert Harris

2008 Pocket Star Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings or bent pages. Cover in excellent condition.

Retired British prime minister Adam Lang sets out to write a tell-all memoir of his life and political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the former leader's term.

The Ghost

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2002 Pocket Star Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No marks inside and no bent or creased pages. Cover in great condition. 

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs takes forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan behind the scenes of a major commercial airliner crash in this pulse-pounding thriller.

"Buckle up and take this voyage," says People. The journey begins with Temperance Brennan hearing shocking news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down in the mountains of western North Carolina, taking with it eighty-eight passengers and crew. As a forensic anthropologist and a member of the regional DMORT team, Tempe rushes to the scene to assist in body recovery and identification.

As bomb theories abound, Tempe soon discovers a jarring piece of evidence that raises dangerous questions--and gets her thrown from the DMORT team. Relentless in her pursuit of its significance, Tempe uncovers a shocking, multilayered tale of deceit and depravity as she probes her way into frightening territory--where someone wants her stopped in her tracks.

Fatal Voyage

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Charles Cumming

2013 St. Martin’s Paperbacks edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings and no bent pages. Cover has a very light center crease, but otherwise in really nice shape.

A Foreign Country
Charles Cumming

On the vacation of a lifetime in Egypt, an elderly French couple is brutally murdered. Then, days later, on the streets of Paris, a young French accountant is kidnapped. When Amelia Levene, who in six weeks is due to take over as the first female Chief of MI6, disappears without a trace while in the south of France, it is the gravest crisis MI6 has faced in more than a decade. Desperate not only to find her but to keep the press from learning that she has gone missing, Britain's top intelligence agents turn to one of their own: disgraced former MI6 officer Thomas Kell.

Tossed out of the Service only months before, the spy is given one final chance to redeem himself--all he has to do is find Amelia Levene: quickly, quietly, and at any cost. Following an espionage trail that leads him to France and then Tunisia, Kell uncovers a shocking secret and a conspiracy that could have unimaginable repercussions for Britain and its allies. All that stands in the way of personal and political catastrophe is Kell himself...

A Foreign Country

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Stephen Cole

2013 BBC Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. Penciled marks on top of first page. No other markings include, and no bent pages. Cover in excellent condition.

50th Anniversary Edition

The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection: Eleven classic adventures. Eleven brilliant writers. One incredible Doctor.

Doctor Who: Ten Little Aliens

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1963 Lancer Books paperback edition. Clean text. Good binding. No markings inside and no creases pages, but all pages have edge tanning with age. Cover has edge discoloring, but no edge creases, scratches or marks. Includes short stories by Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, and many others.

Maiden Voyages in Space and Time 

FIRST FLIGHT 

Richard Rayner

2005 Harper paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings and no bent pages. Cover in nice condition with no creases or scratches.

Working as an architect during the growth boom of McCarthy-era Las Vegas, Maurice Valentine is seduced by the beautiful Mallory Walker and fears that she may be using him to get close to a powerful mobster, a situation for which Valentine finds himself rendered a pawn in a mysterious game of revenge. By the author of The Cloud Sketcher. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

The Devil's Wind

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Dan Fesperman

2009 Vintage Crime Paperback Edition. Super clean tight copy. Basically looks like new.

An unflinching thriller from Dan Fesperman that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. When Nat Turnbull’s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Nat’s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them down. Following a trail of cryptic clues, Nat's journeys to Germany, where he soon crosses paths with Berta, a gorgeous and mysterious student and Kurt Bauer, an arms billionaire with a dark past. As their tales intersect, long-buried exploits of deceit emerge, and each step becomes more dangerous than the last.

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Anthony O'neill

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Spiral

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The MAIN

Robert Littell

An Agent in Place

Mario Puzo

Six Graves to Munich

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The Little Big Horn 1876

George Laycock; Paul Schullery

The Mountain Men

Dean Koontz

Odd Thomas

Daniel Levin

The Last Ember

Helene Wecker

The Golem and the Jinni

William Ryan

The Holy Thief

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City of Thieves

Eliot Pattison

The Skull Mantra

Daniel Suarez

Kill Decision

Kathy Reichs

Death du Jour

Robert Harris

The Ghost

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Fatal Voyage

Charles Cumming

A Foreign Country

Stephen Cole

Doctor Who: Ten Little Aliens

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The Devil's Wind

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The Arms Maker of Berlin

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