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9781419703997 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2012, cover price $17.95
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9780307740762 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 11, 2011), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him—that’s how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine.
9780786204199 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1995), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Bret's desire to find his wife's murderer revives forgotten details of his violent past
9780446359009 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 1, 1991), cover price $4.50
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An army veteran arrives in Blue City to find that his father has been murdered and the authorities are unwilling to pursue the case
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9780940595118 | Reissue edition (Natl Book Network, October 1, 1987), cover price $2.99 | About this edition: An army veteran arrives in Blue City to find that his father has been murdered and the authorities are unwilling to pursue the case
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9780307740731 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 11, 2011), cover price $15.00
9780446358842 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 1, 1992), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: An army veteran arrives in Blue City to find that his father has been murdered and the authorities are unwilling to pursue the case
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9780786204625 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 1995), cover price $21.95
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9780446358972 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, February 1, 1991), cover price $4.50
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9780786186839 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2004), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: County Probation Officer Howard Cross attempts to prove that Fred Miner is not responsible for kidnapping a millionaire's four-year-old son.
9780786186082 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2004), cover price $24.95
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9780786126934 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2004), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: County Probation Officer Howard Cross attempts to prove that Fred Miner is not responsible for kidnapping a millionaire's four-year-old son.
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Product Description: It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail. Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip—fast. He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl's hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring...read more
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9780446358910 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 1, 1991), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail.
9780893407681 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1984), cover price $12.95
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9781433278686 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2010), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantel of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald.
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9781433278716 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantel of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald.
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9788439722205 | Italian edition edition (Random House Mondadori, June 1, 2010), cover price $23.95
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A whimsical but informative gastronomical guide to the world of food provides an alphabetically arranged compilation of trivia, little-known facts, jargon, and hidden information about all aspects of food, ranging from 'Affinage' to 'Zest.' Original. 30,000 first printing.
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9780767926911 | Clarkson Potter, October 9, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A whimsical but informative gastronomical guide to the world of food provides an alphabetically arranged compilation of trivia, little-known facts, jargon, and hidden information about all aspects of food, ranging from 'Affinage' to 'Zest.
Miscellaneous:
9780307427526 | Clarkson Potter, November 4, 2009, cover price $12.95
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9781433278624 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her.
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9781416908111 | Atheneum, July 7, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: I have a grumpy grandpa!
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9781433278419 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2009), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: When Archer is hired to get the goods on the Frenchman whos run off with his clients girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affectionsuntil he discovers the mysterious foreigner is connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.
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9781433278440 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: When Archer is hired to get the goods on the Frenchman whos run off with his clients girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affectionsuntil he discovers the mysterious foreigner is connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.
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9781433278402 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2009), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: When Archer is hired to get the goods on the Frenchman whos run off with his clients girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affectionsuntil he discovers the mysterious foreigner is connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.
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9780375838026 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 22, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman.
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9780891900955, titled "Blue Hammer" | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1976, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.
9780816164318 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1976), cover price $13.50 | About this edition: The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.
9780394404257 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1976, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Hired to find a purloined painting, reputedly the work of a man who vanished in 1950, Lew Archer unveils an assemblage of murder and family rivalry and deceit
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9780307279064 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 8, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.
9780446358859, titled "Blue Hammer" | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, June 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.
9780553275483 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, March 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.
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9780307279057 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 8, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel.
9780446358958, titled "Instant Enemy" | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, December 1, 1991), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Lew Archer's search for a pretty seventeen-year-old runaway leads into trouble, violence, and murder along the Sunset Strip
9780553247381 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, February 1, 1985), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Lew Archer's search for a pretty seventeen-year-old runaway leads into trouble, violence, and murder along the Sunset strip
9780893403331 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1981), cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel.
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9781416916215, titled "Bye-Bye, Crib: Ss." | Simon & Schuster, March 4, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A big boy and his best stuffed friend seek the courage to move to a gigantic new bed.
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9780307279033 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 4, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Detective Lew Archer journeys inside the dark underbelly of glittering Malibu society when he is hired by a hotheaded husband to find his gorgeous wife, an aspiring Hollywood actress, taking on corrupt cops, a bisexual boxer turned filmdom star, and a Hollywood mogul with a dark past as he stumbles upon the secrets of a grisly murder.
9780446358828 | Reissue edition (Grand Central Pub, August 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace.
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9780786199167 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2000), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace.
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9780786110476 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace.
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9780307279040 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 4, 2007), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Hired by a strung-out addict who claims that his father has been murdered, detective Lew Archer investigates the mysterious run of bad luck--including bizarre accidents, suspicious deaths, and madness--experienced by the family of the wealthy and powerful Senator Hallman.
9780446358880 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, November 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia.
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9780754085195 | Unabridged edition (Black Dagger Crime, July 1, 1998), cover price $19.50 | About this edition: A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry.
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9780307278999 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 10, 2007), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Hired to follow a runaway, private detective Lew Archer soon finds himself trying to solve a mystery involving a beautiful temptress, a missing maid, some stolen jewelry, a mad Detroit mobster, and a young gentleman.
9780446358965 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, December 1, 1992), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Private detective Lew Archer is hired by a mysterious woman to locate her former housekeeper and recover pieces of stolen jewelry
9780553273526 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, January 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Private detective Lew Archer is hired by a mysterious woman to locate her former housekeeper and recover pieces of stolen jewelry
9780893403355 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1981), cover price $14.50 | About this edition: A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry.
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Hired by Mrs. Samuel Lawrence to find her wandering daughter, Galatea, who had been last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, P.I. Lew Archer follows a trail of death and mayhem that takes him from the slum alleys of Southern California to the luxury of Palm Springs. Reprint.
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9780307278982, titled "The Way Some People Die" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 10, 2007), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Hired by Mrs.
9780446359023, titled "The Way Some People Die" | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, June 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs.
9780893402501 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, August 1, 1984), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs.
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9788420606514, titled "El coche funebre pintado a rayas / The Zebra-Striped Hearse" | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $18.95
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9788420606262, titled "El blanco en movimiento / The White Man on the Move" | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $15.95
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9788420605074 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $12.95
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9788420602097, titled "Dinero negro / Black Money" | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $13.95
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