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 Carol Lea BENJAMIN -- Pit Bull
  • The Dog Who Knew Too Much: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery New York: Walker and Company, 1997. Cloth, 8vo, dust jacket, 207 pages. The second "Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery" features a black akita and a Greenwich Village milieu. 1st edition. As new condition. $18.00
  • A Hell of a Dog: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery New York: Walker and Company, 1998. Cloth, 8vo, dust jacket, 260 pages. The third "Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery" set in New York City features a rottweiler and several other breeds (German shorthaired pointer, Tibetan terrier, boxer, Border collie and terrier among them). 1st edition. As new condition. $18.00
  • Lady Vanishes: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery New York: Walker and Company, 1999. Hardcover, 8vo, dust jacket, 264 pages. Another mystery set in Greenwich Village and drawing on Dash's therapy dog experience; a puli therapy dog is also featured. 1st edition. As new condition. $18.00
  • The Long Good Boy: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery New York: Walker and Company, 2001. Hardcover, 8vo, dust jacket, 238 pages. A dachshund plays an important role in this mystery set in New York City. 1st edition. Very good condition (corners bumped), in very good dust jacket. $16.00
  • The Wrong Dog: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery New York: Walker and Company, 2000. Hardcover, 8vo, dust jacket, 231 pages. A bull terrier is featured in this new "Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery." 1st edition. As new condition. $18.00
  • This Dog for Hire: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery New York: Walker and Company, 1996. Cloth, 8vo, dust jacket, 242 pages. First in the thoroughly enjoyable series, set in New York City's Greenwich Village. A basenji is a featured character. Winner: PWA Shamus Award for Best First Novel. 1st edition. As new condition. $25.00
  • This Dog for Hire: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery New York: Dell, 1997. Wraps, 12mo, 293 pages. Paperback edition of the above title. 1st thus. Very good condition (pages faintly browned). $4.00

    Peter BOWEN -- Wolf
  • Wolf, No Wolf: A Gabriel Du Pré Mystery New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Cloth (gilt-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 213 pages. The action centers on wolf reintroduction in Montana. Stated 1st edition/1st printing. Very good condition, in very good dust jacket (a single small tear). $15.00

    Rita Mae BROWN and Sneaky Pie BROWN -- Pembroke Welsh Corgi
  • Murder at Monticello, or, Old Sins New York: Bantam Books, 1994. Hardcover, 8vo, 298 pages; black-and-white illustrations by Wendy Wray. Another "Mrs. Murphy Mystery" featuring the corgi Tee Tucker. 1st edition/1st printing. Very good condition, in very good dust jacket in Mylar; a collectible copy. $15.00
  • Murder on the Prowl New York: Bantam Books, 1998. Hardcover, 8vo, 320 pages; illustrations by Wendy Wray. The corgi Tee Tucker assists Mrs. Murphy, the crime-solving cat, in this entertaining novel. 1st edition/1st printing. Very good condition (spine slightly rolled), in very good dust jacket. $14.00

    Melissa CLEARY -- German Shepherd
  • And Your Little Dog, Too: A Dog Lovers' Mystery New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1998. Illustrated wraps, 16mo, 203 pages. German shepherd Jake, a former police dog, stars in this series; an orphaned terrier plays an important role in this entertaining installment. 1st printing. Good condition (endpapers lightly browned). $2.00

    Susan CONANT -- Alaskan Malamute
  • A Bite of Death New York: Berkley, 1994. Wraps, 12mo, 179 pages. 3d printing. Near fine condition. $4.00
  • Animal Appetite New York: Bantam, 1998. Wraps, 12mo, 270 pages. 1st thus. Near fine condition. $4.50
  • Black Ribbon New York: Doubleday, 1995. Hardcover, 8vo, 260 pages. Stated 1st edition. Very good condition (faint ink stamp on free endpaper), in very good dust jacket in Mylar. $12.00
  • Black Ribbon New York: Bantam, 1996. Wraps, 12mo, 260 pages. 3d printing. Near fine condition. $4.00
  • Bloodlines New York: Doubleday, 1992. Hardcover (gilt-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 271 pages. 2d printing (January 1993). Very good condition, in very good dust jacket. $10.00
  • Bloodlines New York: Bantam, 1994. Wraps, 12mo, 256 pages. 2d printing. Near fine condition. $4.00
  • Gone to the Dogs New York: Bantam, 1992. Wraps, 12mo, 243 pages. 6th printing. Very good condition (pages faintly browned). $4.00
  • Paws Before Dying New York: Berkley, 1991. Wraps, 12mo, 197 pages. 3d printing. Very good condition (pages faintly browned). $4.00
  • Ruffly Speaking New York: Bantam, 1994. Wraps, 12mo, 284 pages. 1st thus. Very good condition (pages faintly browned). $4.00
  • Stud Rites New York: Bantam, 1997. Wraps, 12mo, 236 pages. 1st thus. Very good condition (pages faintly browned). $4.00

    Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE -- Bloodhound/Mastiff Mix
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles New York: Penguin, 1981. Wraps, 12mo, 174 pages. Handsome paperback edition of the classic Sherlock Holmes tale, with an evocative image of the fearsome hound on the front cover. 14th printing. Very good condition (pages faintly browned). $3.50

    Jack ELLIS -- Labrador Retriever
  • Seeing Eye New York: Zebra, 1995. Wraps, 12mo, 415 pages. Shadow, a Labrador retriever guide dog, is central to this chilling novel of sight restored to a blind man, with complications. 1st printing. Very good condition. $4.00

    Alicia GIMENEZ-BARTLETT
  • Dog Days New York: Europa Editions, 2006. French fold (with a striking portrait of a reclining black dog on the front cover), 8vo, 311 pages plus 5 pages of publisher's advertising; translated from the Spanish by Nicholas Caistor. Rottweiler Morgana plays a pivotal role in this noir tale of the profits and horrors of dog trafficking. Featuring Barcelona police inspector Petra Delicado, the mystery also introduces a Pyrenean mastiff named Nelly and a mongrel called Freaky. 1st American edition/3d printing (2009). Near fine condition. $6.00

    Gerald HAMMOND
  • Doghouse New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Cloth (gilt-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 190 pages. The third in the Capt. John Cunningham series; gun dogs are featured. Stated 1st American edition. Good condition (minor coffee stains on fore and bottom edges), in good dust jacket in Mylar. $22.00
  • Mad Dogs and Scotsmen New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Cloth (silver-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 185 pages. A black Labrador retriever named Jove is kidnapped in this novel in the "John Cunningham Mystery" series. 1st American edition. Near fine condition , in very good dust jacket (small wrinkle at head of dust jacket spine). $16.00
  • Whose Dog Are You? New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Cloth (silver-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 176 pages. Sporting spaniels figure in this Capt. John Cunningham mystery, set in Scotland and Texas. 1st American edition. Very good condition, in good dust jacket (edgewear). $15.00

    David HANDLER -- Basset Hound
  • The Girl Who Ran Off with Daddy New York: Doubleday, 1996. Cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, 304 pages. Stated 1st edition. Near fine condition, in near fine dust jacket. $14.00
  • The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald (A Stewart Hoag Mystery) New York: Bantam, 1996. Wraps, 12mo, 199 pages. Lulu the basset helps solve crimes on the New York literary scene. 2d printing. Very good condition (pages faintly browned). $4.00
  • The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald (A Stewart Hoag Mystery) New York: Bantam, 1990. Wraps, 12mo, 199 pages. Lulu the basset hound helps solve crimes on the New York literary scene. 1st thus. Good+ condition (spine shows wear; pages faintly browning). $6.00

    Sue HENRY -- Sled Dogs
  • Murder on the Iditarod Trail New York: Avon, 1991. Wraps, 12mo, 246 pages. 5th printing. Very good condition (pages faintly browned). $4.00
  • Murder on the Yukon Quest New York: Avon, 1999. Hardcover (gilt-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 291 pages. Sled dogs and mystery, set in Alaska. Probable book club edition, near fine condition; dust jacket in Mylar. $9.00

    Joan HESS -- Basset Hound
  • Busy Bodies: A Claire Malloy Mystery New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1995. Cloth (gilt-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 246 pages. 1st edition, good+ condition, in good+ dust jacket; $8.50. A second copy: 1st edition, near fine condition, in very good dust jacket; $10.00

    Stuart M. KAMINSKY -- Scottish Terrier
  • The Fala Factor: A Toby Peters Mystery New York: The Mysterious Press, 1985. Wraps, 12mo, 174 pages. Mystery novel featuring President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Scottish terrier Fala. 1st thus. Good condition (slight wear and very faint browning to pages; small remainder punch). $7.00
  • The Fala Factor: A Toby Peters Mystery New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Cloth (silver-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 174 pages. Mystery novel featuring FDR's Scottish terrier Fala. Stated 1st edition. Very good condition, in very good dust jacket (small closed tear at tail of spine) in Mylar. $20.00

    Jean V. KEATING -- Papillon
  • Amorous Accident: A Dog's Eye View of Murder Williamsburg: Astra Publishers, 1995. Pictorial wraps (with a color photo of a papillon on the front cover), 8vo, 254 pages. Papillon Sky plays a pivotal role in this mystery novel surrounding a doctor's murder and the dogs found in the victim's lab. 1st edition. As new condition. $10.00

    Virginia LANIER -- Bloodhound
  • Death in Bloodhound Red New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1996. Wraps, 12mo, 531 pages. 1st thus. Very good condition (pages faintly browned). $4.00
  • The House on Bloodhound Lane New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1997. Wraps, 12mo, 371 pages. 1st thus. Very good condition. $4.00

    Cynthia MANSON, edited by
  • Canine Crimes II New York: Putnam Berkley, 1997. Wraps, 12mo, 214 pages. Thirteen stories, from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, by Margaret Maron, Cyril Hare, Mary Kittredge, Stephen Wasylyk, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Ron Goulart, Ross MacDonald, Barbara A. Smith, Pauline G. Smith, Charlotte Armstrong, Gene KoKayKo, Francis M. Nevins, and Robert Campbell. Great reading! 1st printing. Near fine condition. $5.99

    Patricia MOYES -- Greyhound
  • The Curious Affair of the Third Dog: An Inspector Henry Tibbett Mystery New York: Owl/Henry Holt, 1986. Wraps, 12mo, 217 pages. Set in Great Britain's greyhound racing scene. 8th printing. As new condition. $5.95

    Michel PARRY, edited and introduced by
  • The Hounds of Hell: Stories of Canine Horror & Fantasy New York: Taplinger, 1974. Cloth (gilt-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 192 pages. Sixteen tales by the likes of Bierce, Christie, Lovecraft, Saki, and Turgenev. 2d printing. Very good condition (small stain on free endpaper), in very good dust jacket (minor chip and tear). $14.00

    Georges SIMENON -- Mixed Breed
  • Maigret and the Yellow Dog San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1988. Wraps, 12mo, 135 pages; translated from the French by Linda Asher. Originally published as Le Chien jaune and first issued in English as The Patience of Maigret. 1st thus/2d printing. Near fine condition. $5.00

    Mary Willis WALKER -- Labrador Retriever
  • Zero at the Bone New York: Bantam, 1997. Wraps, 12mo, 306 pages. A dog trainer, who may be forced to sell her black Labrador, encounters skulduggery at the Austin Zoo. Winner of the Agatha Award. Near fine condition. $4.00

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