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A suspense story in which an ill-assorted group of hoodlums join forces to plan and execute the theft of a $500,000 emerald
Hardcover:
9780671205416 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1970, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: John Dortmunder and company are hired by the U.
Paperback:
9780445406087 | Reissue edition (Popular Library, May 1, 1987), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: A suspense story in which an ill-assorted group of hoodlums join forces to plan and execute the theft of a $500,000 emerald
Hardcover:
9780671211806 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1972, cover price $5.95
Paperback:
9780445408838 | Reissue edition (Mysterious Pr, June 1, 1987), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Five men are seized by an ingenious idea when a local bank is temporarily housed in a trailer
Hardcover:
9780871311498 | M Evans & Co, July 1, 1974, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Seven inmates at a state penitentiary plan to use the tunnel they have constructed to rob a bank in the nearby town
Paperback:
9780445403444, titled "Help I Am Being Held Prisoner" | Reprint edition (Popular Library, September 1, 1989), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Harry Kunt, an incurable practical joker, has the opportunity to practice his craft in a new setting when he is sentenced to five-to-fifteen years in the state pen
Hardcover:
9780871311689 | M Evans & Co, March 1, 1975, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Art Dodge, on the make and fancy free, meets twin heiresses and becomes his own twin brother Bart and the exhausted husband of Liz and Betty
Paperback:
9788420428611 | Santillana USA Pub Co Inc, July 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Alfaguara.
9780445407190 | Reissue edition (Popular Library, August 1, 1989), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Art Dodge, on the make and fancy free, meets twin heiresses and becomes his own twin brother Bart and the exhausted husband of Liz and Betty
Hardcover:
9780871312211 | M Evans & Co, October 1, 1976, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A one-million-dollar reward is offered to the finder of an eighteen-inch-tall, solid-gold statue of a dancing Aztec priest stolen from a museum in South America and located somewhere in New York City
Paperback:
9781468306828 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, July 30, 2013), cover price $13.95
9780445407176 | Reprint edition (Popular Library, October 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A one-million-dollar reward is offered to the finder of an eighteen-inch-tall, solid-gold statue of a dancing Aztec priest stolen from a museum in South America and located somewhere in New York City
'A Travesty' follows the antics of movie critic Carey Thorpe who after accidently killing his girlfriend plays all the roles in the classic detective story, and 'Ordo' is a character study of a man faced with an astonishing event from his past
Hardcover:
9780871312266 | M Evans & Co, March 1, 1977, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: 'A Travesty' follows the antics of movie critic Carey Thorpe who after accidently killing his girlfriend plays all the roles in the classic detective story, and 'Ordo' is a character study of a man faced with an astonishing event from his past
Paperback:
9781555042189, titled "Enough" | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, March 1, 1987), cover price $13.95
Hardcover:
9780871312495 | M Evans & Co, October 1, 1977, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The hapless Dortmunder gang, hired to hoist a priceless oil painting from a fashionable East Side Manhattan townhouse, runs into trouble after meeting up with a group of drunken Scots, tourists and several strange Jet Setters
Paperback:
9780445407152 | Reissue edition (Mysterious Pr, December 1, 1994), cover price $5.50
9780893407391 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1984), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Comic crime hero Dortmunder and his gang of bungling thieves are back in a hilarious caper--out of print since 1979.
Hardcover:
9780745180014 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, March 1, 1991), cover price $17.95
9780871313225 | M Evans & Co, March 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A South American dictator conceals millions of dollars worth of valuables in a dismantled castle being flown to Paris and a quickly assembled, international gang of thieves--each with national eccentricities--set out to steal the entire castle
Paperback:
9780792704645 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, May 1, 1991), cover price $15.95
9780449243824 | Fawcett Books, January 1, 1981, cover price $2.50 | also contains Diamonds and Deceit
Hardcover:
9780708906057 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, April 1, 1981), cover price $29.99
Hardcover:
9780670765690 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1983, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Having unsuspectingly lifted the hottest rock in town, John Dortmunder is the prey of the FBI, the New York City police, terrorist groups from three nations, and all of New York's petty and not-so-petty crooks
Paperback:
9780446403467 | Reprint edition (Mysterious Pr, August 1, 1994), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Having unsuspectingly lifted the hottest gem in town, John Dortmunder becomes the prey of the FBI, the New York City police, terrorist groups from three nations, and all of New York's petty and not-so-petty crooks.
9780812510522 | Reprint edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, March 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Having unsuspectingly lifted the hottest rock in town, John Dortmunder is the prey of the FBI, the New York City police, terrorist groups from three nations, and all of New York's petty and not-so-petty crooks
Hardcover:
9780892960637 | Mysterious Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This collection of stories traces the hard-working, danger-filled days of middle-aged Brooklyn detective Abe Levine, a man struggling with conflict and death
Paperback:
9780812510546 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, July 1, 1985), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: This collection of stories traces the hard-working, danger-filled days of middle-aged Brooklyn detective Abe Levine, a man struggling with conflict and death
Hardcover:
9780892960989 | Mysterious Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tom Diskant, a writer, struggles to get a Christmas anthology published, and wishes his estranged wife would get involved with someone else so that he could marry his girlfriend
Paperback:
9780812510584 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, November 1, 1986), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Tom Diskant, a writer, struggles to get a Christmas anthology published, and wishes his estranged wife would get involved with someone else so that he could marry his girlfriend
Kirby's scam includes the building of a fake Mayan pyramid on his land in Belize and the manufacture of artifacts to sell to unsuspecting tourists, but his scheme is complicated by the presence of Belizan bureaucrat innocent St. Michael, who sold him theland
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Hardcover:
9780517656242 | Ballantine Books, May 1, 1985, cover price $2.99 | also contains Standing in a Senator's Shoes | About this edition: Kirby's scam includes the building of a fake Mayan pyramid on his land in Belize and the manufacture of artifacts to sell to unsuspecting tourists, but his scheme is complicated by the presence of Belizan bureaucrat innocent St.
9780892961238 | Mysterious Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Kirby's scam includes the building of a fake Mayan pyramid on his land in Belize and the manufacture of artifacts to sell to unsuspecting tourists, but his scheme is complicated by the presence of Belizan bureaucrat innocent St.
Paperback:
9781931755085 | Mystery Vault Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $14.95
9780812510560 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, July 1, 1986), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Kirby Galway's plan to sell Mayan artifacts to unscrupulous collectors in the U.
Hardcover:
9780816142750 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, December 1, 1987), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A bungled burglary leaves master thief John Archibald Dortmunder at the mercy of a congregation of hard-nosed devout nuns who charge him to recover the kidnapped Sister Mary Grace in exchange for their silence
9780892962402 | Mysterious Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A bungled burglary leaves master thief John Archibald Dortmunder at the mercy of a congregation of hard-nosed devout nuns who charge him to recover the kidnapped Sister Mary Grace in exchange for their silence
Paperback:
9780812510607 | Reprint edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, January 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A bungled burglary leaves master thief John Archibald Dortmunder at the mercy of a congregation of hard-nosed dvout nuns who charge him to recover the kidnapped Sister Mary Grace in exchange for their silence
Paperback:
9780939767052 | Dennis McMillan Pubns, January 1, 1988, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Relates the story behind one of the staged 'murders' of the Mohonk Mountain House and provides plot details, suspects, and a solution to the mystery
9780893662738 | Ultramarine Pub Co, June 1, 1987, cover price $6.95
Paperback:
9780445406148 | Reprint edition (Popular Library, July 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Aloysius Engel, a middle-echelon gangster newly promoted to be assistant to the 'Big Man,' is instructed to retrieve hidden drugs from a new grave, but finds only an empty coffin and begins a ghoulish chase after the missing corpse
Paperback:
9780445408814 | Reissue edition (Mysterious Pr, August 1, 1987), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A typographical error puts J.
Hardcover:
9780765309181 | Forge, January 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Fred Fitch, a hapless sucker for any type of con, inherits three hundred thousand dollars from his long-lost Uncle Matt, an ex-crook murdered by persons unknown, who have now set their sights on Fred.
Paperback:
9780445406124 | Reprint edition (Popular Library, September 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Fred Fitch, a hapless sucker for any type of con, inherits three hundred thousand dollars from his Uncle Matt, an ex-crook murdered by persons unknown
Paperback:
9780939767045 | Dennis McMillan Pubns, January 1, 1988, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A mystery game includes the basic plot, profiles of each suspect, an outline for questioning, and the solution of the murder
Hardcover:
9780816147403 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, September 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Newswoman Sara Joslyn goes to work for a notorious supermarket tabloid in Florida and finds herself dealing with assorted big stories and a corpse in a Buick
9780892961764 | Mysterious Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Newswoman Sara Joslyn goes to work for a notorious supermarket tabloid in Florida and finds herself dealing with assorted big stories and a corpse in a Buick
Paperback:
9780445408074 | Reissue edition (Mysterious Pr, May 1, 1989), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Newswoman Sara Joslyn goes to work for a notorious supermarket tabloid in Florida and finds herself dealing with assorted big stories and a corpse in a Buick
CD/Spoken Word:
9780792799672 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, December 1, 2000), cover price $23.98 | About this edition: What would it take to lure a serious young newswoman from a respectable New England paper to the most notorious supermarket tabloid in America?
9780792799672 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, December 1, 2000), cover price $23.98 | About this edition: What would it take to lure a serious young newswoman from a respectable New England paper to the most notorious supermarket tabloid in America?
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780792722168 | Chivers Audio Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: En route to her new job at the Weekly Gazette, Sara stumbles across a bloody corpse in a Buick Riviera.
9781558004474 | Dove Entertainment Inc, January 1, 1992, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: En route to her new job at the Weekly Gazette, Sara stumbles across a bloody corpse in a Buick Riviera.
Hardcover:
9780892961771 | Mysterious Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Amoral Jack Pine becomes a Hollywood star, with his boyhood friend Buddy Pal ever silently watchful until Jack commits an unforgivable crime in the name of success
Paperback:
9780445408869 | Reprint edition (Mysterious Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Amoral Jack Pine becomes a Hollywood star, with his boyhood friend Buddy Pal silently watchful until Jack commits an unforgivable crime in the name of success
Hardcover:
9780892962990 | Mysterious Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: A collection of crime stories set in the future blends science fiction and mystery and features the novella 'Anarchaos,' about a man who travels to a hellish, chaotic planet to find his brother's murderer
Paperback:
9780445409170 | Reprint edition (Popular Library, September 1, 1990), cover price $4.95
Paperback:
9780881501568 | Reprint edition (Countryman Pr, March 1, 1990), cover price $6.00 | About this edition: Grofield is recovering from a wound in Mexico City when Ellen Marie Fitzgerald comes through his hotel room window, seeking protection
Paperback:
9780881501575 | Reprint edition (Countryman Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $6.00 | About this edition: When mob boss B.
Hardcover:
9780892961788 | Mysterious Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Dortmunder, a bungling burglar, is roped into a scheme to help a former cellmate, Tom Jimson, retrieve a cache of stolen money buried under a reservoir, when Jimson threatens to blow up the reservoir dam to get his loot
9780892964215 | Mysterious Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $75.00
Paperback:
9780446400060 | Reissue edition (Mysterious Pr, January 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Learning about a disagreeable old man's plot to dynamite a dam in order to reclaim a buried fortune beneath the reservoir, John Dortmunder fears for the hundreds of potential drowning victims and plans another way to get the treasure.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781558003163 | Dove Entertainment Inc, July 1, 1991, cover price $15.95
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