Fiction - Crime Books at Dial a Book Sydney

The deception : a Mike Felice detective novel / Anthony Santoro.
Santoro, Anthony
Book Number: 41277
ISBN: 1920910638
Publisher: Melbourne Bas Publishing 2005
8vo softcover 269pp very good. Cover title.
Price: $8.00

H Is for Homicide
Grafton, Sue
Book Number: 43611
ISBN: 080501084X
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. 1991
8vo hardcover 256pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00

The Feng Shui Detective
Vittachi, Nury
Book Number: 44789
ISBN: 0312320590
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur January 21, 2004
8vo hardcover in d/w - clipped. 288pp near fine. Set in Singapore and featuring C.F. Wong, a "geomancer" or feng shui master, this lighthearted novel blends, blurs and contrasts the three main ethnic groups of the Asian city-state-Chinese, Malays and Indians. Along with his cohorts, Madame Xu and Dilip Kenneth Sinha (both psychics), the gifted, if often reluctant, detective gets drawn into a plot to save a young girl who has an extraordinarily bleak future, psychically speaking. Wong is dragged to Australia to solve the case by his intern, Joyce McQuinnie, a British-Australian teenager forced on him by a valued client. McQuinnie makes a great foil for his crankiness and obsession with order.
Price: $15.00

Knives have edges
Woods, Sara
Book Number: 26957
ISBN: 0030845343
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1968. First edition.
8vo hardcover 216pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

The seven per cent solution
Meyer, Nicholas.
Book Number: 25108
ISBN: 0340194146
Publisher: London Hodder and Stoughton 1975
8vo hardcover 224pp very good / good d/w. The first of "rediscovered" Sherlock Holmes adventures, THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION is now a new classic. These reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., recount the unique collaboration of Holmes and the equally great detective of the human psyche, Sigmund Freud, as they solve a mystery on which the lives of millions may depend.
Price: $8.00

The Janissary Tree
Goodwin, Jason
Book Number: 51369
ISBN: 0571229247
Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
8vo softcover 352pp very good. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to find out: Yashim, a man both brilliant and near-invisible in this world, an investigator who can walk with ease in the great halls of the empire, in its streets, and even within its harems--because, of course, Yashim is a eunuch. His investigation points to the Janissaries, who, for four hundred years were the empire's elite soldiers. Crushed by the sultan, could they now be staging a brutal comeback? And can they be stopped without throwing Istanbul into political chaos? This first book in the Investigator Yashim series is a richly entertaining tale, full of exotic history and intrigue.
Price: $6.00

The Wine of Angels (Merrily Watkins 1)
Rickman, Phil
Book Number: 55786
ISBN: 9780857890092
Publisher: Pan Macmillan 1999
8vo. Softcover. 591pp. Very good. The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a seventeenth-century clergyman accused of witchcraft... a story that certain long-established families would rather remained obscure. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets... A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily Watkins and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries.
Price: $8.00

Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon
Gores, Joe
Book Number: 55423
ISBN: 9781409113249
Publisher: Orion Books 2009
Trade paperback. 337pp. Very good.
Price: $8.00

The Meaning Of Night: A Confession
Cox, Michael
Book Number: 39709
ISBN: 0719568366
Publisher: Murray 2006
Large 8vo. softcover.600pp. very good.
Price: $10.00

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession
Grann, David
Book Number: 52751
ISBN: 9781847378859
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
8vo softcover 352pp near fine. Whether he’s reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed skiff with a scientist hunting the elusive giant squid, David Grann revels in telling stories that explore the nature of obsession and that piece together true and unforgettable mysteries. Each of the dozen stories in this collection reveals a hidden and often dangerous world and, like Into Thin Air and The Orchid Thief, pivots around the gravitational pull of obsession and the captivating personalities of those caught in its grip. There is the world’s foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes who is found dead in mysterious circumstances; an arson sleuth trying to prove that a man about to be executed is innocent; and sandhogs racing to complete the brutally dangerous job of building New York City’s water tunnels before the old system collapses. Throughout, Grann’s hypnotic accounts display the power—and often the willful perversity—of the human spirit.
Price: $10.00

HOUSE OF GREEN TURF
PETERS, ELLIS
Book Number: 51473
ISBN: 0356200191
Publisher: Macdonald 1991
8vo Hardcover in d/w. 192pp very good. Inspector Felse Investigates.
Price: $15.00

The Ace of Knaves
Charteris, Leslie
Book Number: 57495
ISBN:
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton 1951
8vo. Hardcover in yellow d/w. 255pp. Bight clean copy with no marks, d/w very good, light wear at extremes hole punched in spine.
Price: $9.00

Featuring The Saint
Charteris, Leslie
Book Number: 57494
ISBN:
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton 1951
8vo. Hardcover in yellow d/w. 319pp. Bight clean copy with no marks, d/w very good, light wear at extremes.
Price: $9.00

Double for the Toff
Creasey, John
Book Number: 55796
ISBN:
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton 1959
8vo. Hardcover in price clipped d/w with slight wear to top extreme otherwise very good. Copy is in very good condition, with no foxing or toning.
Price: $12.00

Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories and a Novel from the
Conan Doyle, Arthur
Book Number: 30763
ISBN: 0890090572
Publisher: Castle 1982
8vo hardcover 636pp, b/w illus. very good / good d/w. Gathers nearly forty of Holmes' cases, including his investigation of a great black hound which carries out the terrible provisions of an ancient family curse.
Price: $10.00

Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Book Number: 28509
ISBN: 0706426525
Publisher: Octopus Bks, 1986
4to hardcover 318pp in colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

The Sinister Ray
Dent, Lester
Book Number: 49685
ISBN: 0936071044
Publisher: Gryphon Books, Brooklyn, New York 1987
8vo. softcover. 176pp. b/w illus. Very good+.
Price: $10.00

The Billiard Table Murders: A Gladys Babbington Morton Mystery
Baxter, Glen
Book Number: 38308
ISBN: 0330321420
Publisher: London Pan 1991
4to softcover 248pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Ever since the two bizarre deaths on the tennis courts of St Drunston's, the shadow of suspicion has fallen on the shoulders of Gladys Babbington Morton. Detective Inspector Trubcock of Scotland Yard is sent to investigate the murders.
Price: $8.00

Newton's Swing
Paling, Chris
Book Number: 54314
ISBN: 0224060589
Publisher: Jonathan Cape 2000
8vo softcover 288pp near fine.
Price: $6.00

Raffles, a Thief in the Night (Fingerprint Bks.)
Hornung, E W
Book Number: 30303
ISBN: 0241893585
Publisher: London H Hamilton, 1976
8vo hardcover 184pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00