Jonathan Kellerman, The Butcher's Theater

Bantam, 1988, signed first edition

$45.00

NF-/NF: slight soiling to boards and to page edges at top; very slight soiling to jacket, and faint wrinkling to jacket at top of spine. There’s a serial killer at work in Jerusalem, and Police Inspector Daniel Sharavi must find him fast.




Jonathan Kellerman, Time Bomb: An Alex Delaware Novel

Bantam, 1990, signed first edition

$45.00

F/F. A sniper in a California schoolyard is gunned down, and the sniper's father wants Delaware to do a psychological autopsy, an investigation he feels sure will clear his family's name.




William Murray, Tip on a Dead Crab: A Shifty Lou Anderson Mystery

Viking, 1984, signed first edition

$75.00

F/F: very slight wrinkle to jacket at bottom of spine. The first in the Shifty Lou Anderson mystery series, about a close-up magician whose real passions are horse racing and beautiful women. And where Shifty goes, trouble follows. Enthralling, funny and full of surprises.




William Murray, When the Fat Man Sings: A Shifty Lou Anderson Mystery

Bantam, 1987, first edition, not signed

$25.00

F-/F-: slight dents to bottom of boards; very slight edgewear to jacket at spine, top and bottom, otherwise fine. Shifty’s off to New York and the opera, where he encounters a crooked horse trainer, a jealous mistress, a cuckolded lion tamer and a shadowy hit man.




William Murray, The King of the Nightcap: A Shifty Lou Anderson Mystery

Bantam, 1989, signed first edition

$40.00

F/F. From Santa Anita to Tijuana, Shifty's on the move, trying to track down his winnings from a slippery runner on the lam. With publicity photo laid in.




William Murray, The Getaway Blues: A Shifty Lou Anderson Mystery

Bantam, 1990, signed first edition

$25.00

F-/F-: bottom corners of boards very slightly bumped; three small chips to laminate on front of dust jacket. Down on his luck, Shifty Lou augments his meager income by palying part-time chauffeur to an elderly oddball millionaire who loves the tracks almost as much as Shifty Lou does. Suddenly, a stunning brunette with showgirl legs turns up claiming to be the long-lost daughter of the millionaire. But is she?




William Murray, I'm Getting Killed Right Here: A Shifty Lou Anderson Mystery

Perfect Crime (Doubleday), 1991, signed first edition

$25.00

F/F-: two very small chips to laminate of jacket. What is the connection between the death of a notoriously heavy bettor and the decades-old struggle for water rights in one of California’s richest valleys? And, yes, there's a beautiful woman involved.




William Murray, We're Off to See the Killer: A Shifty Lou Anderson Mystery

Perfect Crime (Doubleday), 1993, signed first edition

$25.00

F/F. Shifty’s off to Vegas for a magic gig, where a suspicious murder and a sexy lady groom keep things interesting.




William Murray, Now You See Her, Now You Don't: A Shifty Lou Anderson Novel

Henry Holt, 1994, signed first edition

$25.00
F/F-: wrinkle on dust jacket, back lower corner, and at top of spine, otherwise bright and clean. Eighth in the series about this close-up magician and horseplayer supreme. All leg and curly hair, Megan Starbuck is the woman of his dreams. It doesn't hurt that she also knows her horses. If only she wouldn't keep disappearing…




William Murray, A Fine Italian Hand: A Shifty Lou Anderson Mystery

Evans, 1996, signed and dated first edition

$20.00

F-/F-: pushed in cloth at spine, very small dent at bottom of boards; dust jacket is slightly wrinkled at top of spine. Ninth Shifty Lou novel, this one has Shifty Lou in Milan at the annual meeting of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, trying to track down the murderer of a gorgeous American model.




Rex Stout, The Hand in the Glove

Farrar & Rinehart, 1937, first edition, not signed

$150.00

NF/no dust jacket: Cloth of boards slightly fraying at corners, faint moisture stain at bottom of front board, with bleeding to end paper. Meet Dol Bonner, fabulous female private eye as she hunts a sinister strangler.