Search Results: ANTIQUES from Murder By The Book

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Prime Crime, 2001. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Lara McClintock, an antiquities dealer and shop owner in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is featured in the Archological mysteries. this is the fifth in the series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1989. 1st US edition. Near fine in dust jacket. "Antiques dealer Doran Fairweather and her husband, Rodney Chelmarsh, last seen in "Uneaseful Death" , have become the parents of Christopher, adored by all, including his crippled half sister Helena. Even though money is tight, Doran falls for and buys a carved wooden cherub she sees as the image of Christopher. After refusing to sell the cherub to both a collector and a dealer, the Chelmarshes discover it may be connected to a murder. One night they return home to find their house has been searched, another night they find their babysitter beaten unconscious, the carving half pried from the wall above the baby's crib, and Christopher gone. Although the police, seriously unhappy over Doran's previous involvements in murder, order the Chelmarshes off the investigation, Doran follows the kidnapper's instructions for exchanging the carving for the baby. When that fails, she follows other leads to… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 1994. 1st. US edition, so stated, with complete letter line ABCDE. Fine in dust jacket. "Art dealer Jonathan Argyll has delivered an overpriced Titian (The Titian Committee, LJ 9/1/93) to the Moresby Museum in Santa Monica, expecting to receive a check momentarily. During a museum party to announce the acquisition of a Bernini statue, however, someone murders the museum's opinionated billionaire owner. When Argyll's acquaintance, a shady Spanish art dealer who may have smuggled the Bernini statue out of Italy, becomes the prime suspect, Argyll calls upon Italian art squad investigator Flavia di Stefano for assistance. Art history, literary language, and wry humor realize another auspicious combination." -- Library Journal. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1994. 1st Am. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover, lightly rubbed at edge. Medieval antiques specialist Arnold Landon.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Headline, 1995. 1st ed., slight spine slant, with light soiling at page edges else near fine in dj. Art dealer Tim Lacy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1989. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, rubbed at edges and spine head, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The fourth Peter Marklin series. Antique toys. "een first in Tinplate , antique toy-dealer Peter Marklin, with tippling sidekick Gus Tribble and girlfriend Arabella Trench, is once more drawn to amateur sleuthing when a local Dorset schoolteacher is ostracized--because he has AIDS--and then murdered soon after the proceeds from a recent benefit are stolen. While liberals and conservatives on the school's board of governors battle for control, Peter befriends Tony Thorn, a student with entrepreneurial predilections, and his girlfriend Ella, a young gymnastic star..." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London, England: Heinamann, 1987. 1st ed. FINE/FINE. An elegant British mystery set among the antique parlors of England. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1994. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.very light soiling at page edges. Arnold Landon of the Department of Antiquities and Museums. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: Headline, 1996. Fine in dj. Art dealer Tim Lacy. 1st ed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Prime Crime, 2001. 1st edition, November 2001, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. Author's debut novel and first in series. A BARRY AWARD Nominee. Former FBI agent Jeff Talbot, a professional antiques picker, is forced to draw on his old crime-solving skills when a priceless French cabaret set, commissioned by Napoleon for Josephine, goes up for auction and rival collectors start turning up dead. . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 1st US edition, April 1991, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Antique dealer Doran Fairweather's . British cozy. "Hardwick's sixth mystery to feature Doran Fairweather, an English antiques dealer with a knack for discovering murder along with objets d'art , benefits from a vibrant atmosphere created by the interaction of intriguing characters. Suffering from malaise after a miscarriage and the loss of her business partner to a more lucrative job, Doran hopes to spark new interest in her shop by branching into Pre-Raphaelite work ; she is soon surprised to have a number of rare Rossetti drawings fall into her possession. Obsessed with Rossetti's dreaming figures and fascinated by a mysterious, eccentric man who entrusts her with one apparently rare artwork, Doran quickly links the art to murder when two bodies turn up posed in imitation of the Rossetti… Read More

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st eition, February 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Review Copy with slip laid in. Boston setting. "Despite her accumulating sorrow for her long-comatose husband, the bickering of her two grown sons and a downturn in her Boston interior decorating business, Olivia Chapman finds time to poke her nose into the investigation of a potential client's murder. Shortly after Jane Griscom asks Olivia to appraise a collection of American furniture she has inherited, Jane's altruistic husband Jonathan is gunned down in the seedy neighborhood where he was supporting a grass-roots rent strike. Olivia becomes heavily involved with the family as she encourages Jane, who is intimidated by Jonathan's four grown children, to start a preschool in the neighborhood where Jonathan was killed. Then Jane too is shot, and Olivia is directly, though falsely, implicated. While… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Prime Crime, 2001. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Lara McClintock, an antiquities dealer and shop owner in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is featured in the Archological mysteries. this is the sixth book in the series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martins, 1982. 1st ed. An ex-lib copy of Gash' s sixth effort.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Ex-Library.

N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977. 1st. Edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges dusty, lightly soiled, else near fine in dust jacket, with minor shelf wear, spine edges rubbed, as well as edges rubbed, unclipped $6.95 intact. When Mary Ann Rutherford eloped with an unknown antique dealer, all the world wondered. An when the beautiful heiress killed herself three months later, all the world mourned--and blamed Jimmy, the shy, bewildered husband. Soon the Rutherford empired unleashed its forces to discredit and destroy him. Only Jimmy's sister, Jennifer could hope to save him. Only she could slip inside the Rutherford fortress and discover why Mary Ann had been so terrifed of her father--and what dreadful secret he thought Jimmy knew. What she found was a powder keg of blackmail, corruption, and terror ready to explode...and take Jennifer's life with it.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2006. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Mrs. Otis Carver walked into Link Simpson's gun and antique shop one hot August morning and shot herself. At least that's what everybody thought. Those delightfully mad interior-decorator sleuths - the Bryces - were upstairs conferring with Link about the legality of selling guns to hysterical women without permits when they heard the shot. When they got downstairs, Mrs. Carver was dead. Link's lawyer suggested suicide because Mrs. Carver was so unattractive. The Bryces had their hearts set on murder. By the time they had uncovered a pink glove, poisoned toothpaste, glass on the stairs, and several motives-including a luscious TV actress who was an intimate friend of Mr. Carver-the plot had thickened considerably. And the Bryces were happily off on one of the zaniest cases in the history of homicide. "Glass on the Stairs" was fIrst published in 1954 and is the third of the… Read More

NY: Avalon, 1964. 1st ed. Light soiling at bottom edge of dark blue cloth, page edges lightly spotted else near fine in lightly soiled dj, stained at rear panel. Whit Traxler might have been called an antique dealer. But Whit only dealt in antiques that really interested him-and only when it pleased him. The Auction Atelier of Kyle Dormer & Son was one of his favorite places. Not only were the Dormers honest and agreeable people to deal with, but at their place one saw a cross section of society-people with their emotions bared. Now Dormer & Son had something that interested Whit-he wasn't sure, of course, but it looked remarkably like a Rembrandt--Rembrandt's Gloved Saskia, he called it. It was a painting of Rembrandt's wife, Saskia, and in the lower corner could be glimpsed a gloved hand. The picture was boxed and behind a dusty glass, but Whit coveted Saskia. And so did a lot of other people. When an antique dealer decides that he will go to any lengths to get a painting, it… Read More

NY: Harper & Row, 1978. 1st U.S.edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Quarter bound in red cloth with black paper covered boards; light wear along edges else near fine in near fine lightly used dust jacket, with a few small nicks, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 2nd book and 2nd in the Lovejoy series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1991. 1st edition, October 1991, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Werner, Honi. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1991. 1st edition, October 1991, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, unclipped jacket is clean with a bit of light surface rubbing - else fine. SIGNED BY GASH, signature only, at half-title page. Publishers sheet laid in. "The inimitable Lovejoy , still on the run from British authorities, has arrived in New York as an illegal immigrant--and he loves Manhattan. Magda, his prostitute next-door neighbor in a fleabag hotel, has found him a job tending bar, and he's trying to master U.S. mores and slang (just as abstruse as his East Anglian lingo). As usual, he interrupts the first-person narration of his adventures with fascinating antique lore, and the marvelous "divvy" chime still warms his chest when he spots a genuinely valuable specimen. This talent gets Lovejoy involved with some extremely rich, extremely peculiar, extremely lethal Americans who are playing a mysterious game. A convoluted series of events… Read More