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Charles Palliser : The Unburied Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. Dr. Courtine, an academic, is invited to spend the days before Christmas with an old friend from his youth. Austin's house is in the Cathedral Close of Thurchester and Courtine hopes to be able to use the Cathedral library to track down an elusive 11th Century manuscript. Biblio mystery set in Victorian England. F/F. $25.00.
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Sarah Dunant : Under My Skin Scribners, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First US Edition. Private Eye Hannah Wolfe checks into an exclusive health spa to investigate sabotage. But sabotage is just the beginning in this world where people will do almost anything in the name of beauty. Even murder. F/F. $25.00.
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Mary Willis Walker : Under the Beetle's Cellar Doubleday, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and eleven of his charges have been held beneath the ground of the group's compound for forty-six days. Crime reporter Molly Cates sets out to discover everything she can about the cult's leader. ANTHONY AWARD. HAMMETT PRIZE. MACAVITY AWARD. MARTIN BECK AWARD. F/F. $35.00.
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Michel Faber : Under the Skin Canongate, London, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. An extraordinary novel about a young woman who drives the roads of Scotland obsessively picking up young men. In wraps as issued. Author's First Novel. Fine. $65.00.
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Frances Fyfield : Undercurrents Little Brown, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Twenty years ago Henry Evans met Francesca Chisholm while backpacking around India. He loved her, but when her father died, she went home and Henry went on with her travels. It is a decision that haunts his adult life and now he has come to England to find her. What he discovers is that Francesca is in prison for murdering her five-year-old son. F/F. $10.00.
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Don DeLillo : Underworld Scribner, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's magnus opus. F/F. $40.00.
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Robert Dallek : An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 Little Brown, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. The definitive biography which discloses just how sick Kennedy was and discusses his numerous love affairs. F/F. $20.00.
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Ward Just : An Unfinished Season Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in Chicago in the 1950s. F/F. $30.00.
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Pat Barker : Union Street Putnam, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. First hardcover edition of author's first novel. Fine copy in price clipped dustjacket. F/F. $50.00.
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Ruth Rendell : An Unkindness of Ravens Hutchinson, London, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Chief Inspector Wexford mystery. Slight mfg imperfection bottom of back board, else fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $80.00.
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Gillian Linscott : Unknown Hand St. Martin's Press, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Bibliomystery set in Oxford, England. Slight chips and shelfwear. NF/NF. $5.00.
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John Connolly : The Unquiet Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Charlie Parker mystery. With CD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.
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Patricia Carlon : The Unquiet Night Soho Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. A woman and her niece become aware of a strange young man staring at them at a nature reserve. He realizes that they are the only people who can connect him to the girl he has just strangled. So he begins to stalk them, terrifying the inhabitants of the small Australian town in which they live. F/F. $5.00.
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David Craig : Up From the Grave Macmillan, London, 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. (Bill James). Thriller. Fine in dust jacket showing shelfwear top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's name fep. Scarce. VG+/VG+. $30.00.
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Bill James : Up From the Grave Macmillan, London, 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. Less a crime story, more a character study of Assistant Chief Constable Davidson and his relationship with his colleagues. Bill James wrote this as David Craig. VG+/VG+. $30.00.
