Mystery & Thrillers June 2016
THE HOURS OF THE VIRGIN.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "Estleman doesn't write pretty travelogues; the pavements of his mean streets are always slippery with bodily fluids. But for all the noir trappings of his style, with its moody nightscapes of lonely streets and empty rooms, this is one genre author who follows the procedures without debasing the language or insulting the intelligence." - Marilyn Stasio, NY Times book review, 8/22/99. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
LADY YESTERDAY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...the various plot-strands are woven together without excess contrivance; the lowdown Detroit backgrounds are, as usual, sketched in with moody conviction; and, flavored with jazz-club nostalgia and world-weary gallantry, this is one of the most satisfying-if least flashy--of the Walker exploits." - Kirkus reviews, 4/21/87. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
NEVER STREET.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Estleman returns to Walker after a seven year hiatus. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
NICOTINE KISS.
New York: Forge:, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
NICOTINE KISS.
New York: Forge:, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
POISON BLONDE.
New York: Forge:, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
RETRO.
New York: Forge:, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
SILENT THUNDER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...it's all told in prose as rich and soothing as heavy silk by an author who exhales the soulful legacy of Chandler's p.i. through nearly every word he writes here." Kirkus review. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
SINISTER HEIGHTS.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
A SMILE ON THE FACE OF THE TIGER.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...another bravura performance from a master of the hard-shelled private-eye novel, as well as an author's fond tribute to the forgotten heroes of his genre. Estleman's Detroit gumshoe, a serious drinker-thinker who lives by a tough-guy code that went out of fashion with the Edsel, is sick of hearing that he looks as if he just slouched out of a 1950's paperback novel. But when a publisher hires him to find Eugene Booth, a has-been pulp legend who skipped out on a lucrative contract to reissue his best book, Walker finds himself staring at a streaky mirror image of himself -- if he lives so long." - Marilyn Stasio, NY Times book review, 8/20/00. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
SUGARTOWN.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker novel. Winner of the PWA Shamus award for best novel. "Plenty of action and solid writing in the Chandler tradition make SUGARTOWN the same kind of potent book as its predecessors in the Amos Walker series." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238. Review slip laid in. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344.
SWEET WOMEN LIE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "Dizzyingly complex, requiring many closing pages of plot exposition; and the harsh spy-vs.-spy stuff ill-suits the low-key Walker. But, as always, Estleman's expert pacing, stylish writing, and somber sense of place and character--every dive, every face tinged with tragedy--raise this above the average, and occasionally into the sublime." - Kirkus review, 4/1/90. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
THE WITCHFINDER.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page Estleman. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...when a renowned Detroit architect hires him to find the cad whose cruel and cunning deception turned the architect against the woman he loved. Since this distinguished client is on his deathbed, Walker can't afford to waste any time; but then, Walker never does waste time -- or words, or energy, or anything else. With his classical job skills and austere code of ethics, this no-nonsense shamus is one of the most efficient guys in his profession. ''I'm a traditionalist,'' says Walker, who does his investigating the old-fashioned way (upfront and chin to chin), using an interview technique (he needles people) that works with everyone from yuppie priests to hired killers." - Marilyn Stasio, NY Times book review, 5/17/98. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
LAYOVER IN DUBAI.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2010. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Fesperman on a tipped in signature page. Modern thriller set in the middle east.
LIE IN THE DARK.
[New York, Soho Press, Inc., 1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Fesperman on the title page. The author's first novel. Crime novel set in Sarajevo. This novel won the British Crime Writer's Association award for best first novel.
THE PRISONER OF GUANTÁNAMO.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2006. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed and dated by Fesperman on the title page. Thriller novel.
THE SMALL BOAT OF GREAT SORROWS.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2003. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Signed by Fesperman on the title page. The author's second crime novel, set in Europe with the character introduced in the his novel, detective Vlado Petric. Apparently preceded by the U.K. edition.
THE WARLORD'S SON.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2004. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Signed by Fesperman on the title page. Thriller set in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
BLOOD TYPE.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1992]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A John Marshall Tanner mystery novel. Murder and danger to the blood supply in San Francisco. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 454-456.
ELLISPSIS.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore: Scribner, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A John Marshall Tanner mystery novel. While convalescing from a gunshot wound Tanner meets another patient, a young woman. After discharge, agreeing to stay in touch, she is murdered and Tanner investigates. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 454-456.
FALSE CONCEPTION.
New York: Otto Penzler Books, [1994]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A John Marshall Tanner mystery novel. Tanner investigates a surrogate mother. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 454-456.
GRAVE ERROR.
New York: The Dial Press, [1979]. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. The first John Marshall Tanner novel. In the traditional of Ross Macdonald. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 454-456.
TOLL CALL.
New York: Villard Books, 1987. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A John Marshall Tanner mystery novel. Someone is threatening Tanner's secretary. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 454-456.