Not previously owned:
Karen Alvtegen, MISSING. Felony & Mayhem, signed first hardcover edition; three copies available. Two copies available at $55.00; new, with very slight bumps to either top or bottom corners; one copy at $70.00 in pristine condition. Sybilla Forsenstrom has been homeless on the streets of Stockholm for 15 years. Living by her wits, she finds ways to get herself food and shelter when she needs it, sometimes in the city's best hotels. When a series of murders seem tied to her, the police believe that she's responsible – and Sybilla needs to find out what's going on before she is arrested or killed.
Ken Bruen, CROSS. Scorpion Press, numbered limited #58 of 77, signed by author, $172.50, As New/As New, quarter-moroccan leather binding, marbleized boards wrapped in mylar sleeve, issued without dust jacket. Small (eighth-inch), faint red mark on bottom page edges from publisher.
Jeff Lindsay, DEXTER IN THE DARK. Doubleday, 2007; $29.00 (signed first edition). As New/As New, not previously owned.
Eric Stone, GRAVE IMPORTS. Bleak House Books, 2007, signed and numbered edition available through independent bookstores only, $45.00 (limited run of 250 copies). As New/As New, not previously owned. Ray Sharp's investigation of a Chinese art supplies company unearths a smuggling ring; the trail leads from the boomtown of Shenzhen, to the Thailand hideout of a war criminal, and finally to the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Cornell Woolrich (edited by Francis M. Nevins), LOVE AND NIGHT: Unknown Stories. Dennis McMillan, $35.00 (first trade edition, signed by the editor). As New/As New, not previously owned. Woolrich biographer Francis M. Nevins is editing and compiling all of the short stories and novellas written by Cornell Woolrich, who also published under the name William Irish. This first volume collects non-mystery stories written early in Woolrich's career.
Previously owned:
James Lee Burke, A STAINED WHITE RADIANCE. Hyperion, 1992, $80.00. First edition, not signed. F/F. The fifth entry in the Dave Robicheaux series.
James Lee Burke, BLACK CHERRY BLUES. Little, Brown, 1989, $150.00. First edition, not signed. F/F. The third in the Dave Robicheaux series.
Robert Crais, LULLABY TOWN. Bantam Books, 1992. The third novel in the popular Elvis Cole series. Two copies available:
1) $600.00, signed first edition, signed on title page. F-/F-: two small (sixteenth inch) tears to page 21 with wrinkled pages at bottom edges of pages 21-30; 2 inch surface scratch to jacket on back, very slight wrinkling to jacket at top and bottom of spine and top right corner, otherwise jacket is fine and bright.
2) $800.00, signed first edition, signed on title page. F/F: gorgeous copy.
Robert Crais, STALKING THE ANGEL. Bantam Books, 1989, $65.00; signed and inscribed first edition, inscribed on title page, "To Larry, Hope you enjoy, all best, Robert Crais, 17 March 90." F/NF: two small surface scratches on front of jacket, several light surface scratches on rear, light rubbing front and back, very light edge wear to jacket at spine bottom. The second Elvis Cole novel –- check out the groovy author photo on the rear flap!