IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
First printing of the first mystery introducing Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective who helps solve a murder case in a racist community in South Carolina.
First printing of the first mystery introducing Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective who helps solve a murder case in a racist community in South Carolina.
First printing of the first book in the Anna Pigeon series of mysteries revolving around United States national parks.
First printing of Block's first hardcover publication, a revenge thriller he wrote because he couldn't shake the plot idea suggested by another writer.
First edition in book form of these popular comedic stories, featuring a simple midwestern man who learns detective work via a correspondence school course advertising: "We can make you the equal of Sherlock Holmes in twelve lessons."
First edition of Michael Crichton's first book written under his own name, an important early techno-thriller that established his career.
First edition of this undersea psychological thriller, later adapted into a film starring Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L. Jackson.
Signed first printing of the best-selling serial-killer thriller, first in a continuing series starring detectives Lincoln Rhymes and Amelia Sachs.
First edition of Elkins's first novel, introducing the smooth-talking, mystery-solving physical anthropology professor Gideon Oliver.
Signed first printing, a gorgeous copy, introducing Grafton's beloved Kinsey Millhone, a hard-up detective in Southern California.
Signed first printing of the Kinsey Millhone mystery, in which the private detective finds herself investigating a murder when all she wanted to do was get paid by the man who stiffed her.
Signed first printing of this Kinsey Millhone mystery, in which the detective is framed and must unravel the layers of fabricated evidence against her.
First edition of this legal thriller, John Grisham's second book and first bestseller, later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Cruise.
First edition in book form of the hard-boiled classic, in which private detective Sam Spade chases a valuable artifact with the femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy, rarely found with the original dust jacket (here professionally restored).
First printing of the modern thriller, following FBI trainee Clarice Starling's increasingly chilling interviews with Hannibal Lecter while in search of a serial killer.
Signed first edition of Carl Hiaasen's first solo novel, a comedic tale of the disaster that ensues when a group of eco-terrorists decide Florida would be better off without tourists.
First paperback edition.
Signed first printing of the Western by the gay rights icon, written as a companion to the film treatment for what would become the acclaimed movie starring John Wayne.
Signed first edition of Laurie R. King's first book, the first of her series about lesbian detective Kate "Casey" Martinelli.
Handsome first printing of the first appearances of the novellas that would become two major films in the King canon.
Signed first printing of the novelization of Melissa Mathison's original screenplay by the World Fantasy Award-winning Kotzwinkle.
First edition in book form of this suspenseful romance with an active, adventurous heroine, the drama turning on questions of power and property.
Special cloth-bound edition, the first hardcover edition, of this sensation novel by one of the most popular women writers of dime novels, who specialized in romances and dramas for working-class girls and women.
First edition of the thriller that launched the Bourne series of books and films about an amnesiac assassin.
Inscribed first edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel, detailing murder and punishment in the "moneyless side of the modern West" (jacket).
Signed first hardcover edition of the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series, first published as a paperback original in 1968.