Search Results: Atlanta from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1991. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The feisty heroine of this charming, neatly crafted mystery, Kate Mulcay is a self-reliant widow, an Atlanta news hound who lives alone in a backwoods cabin and occasionally covers the police beat. Then a neighbor, Garney Wilcox, is murdered. A local businessman disliked by nearly everyone, Wilcox is the victim of extreme overkill--poisoned, bludgeoned and electrocuted, he is mourned by few save his sweet, octogenarian stepmother, Miss Willie, who stuns everyone by promptly confessing to the crime. Sibley ( Turned Funny ), herself an Atlanta journalist, gives Kate free rein in protecting Miss Willie from her own intentions while uncovering dark deeds ranging from rape to incest to drug-running. Old Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald songs, a raging pit bull, Girl Scout cookies, a "beeper" that vibrates instead of… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: N A L, 1999. 1st edition, June 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy. Paperback Original. Atlanta locale. Temporarily relieved from his homicide duties, police detective C.R. Payne is working undercover in Atlanta's seediest hangouts. Pretty tame stuff--until a patron of one of the local bars is found dead in a nearby motel. And when he uncovers the victim's powerful political connections, he figures that solving this case is his ticket back to the job he loves. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harper, 1992. 3rd printing. Fine in dj. Her 1st book; A Callahan Garrity title. An ANTHONY & MACAVITY AWARD Nominee. "In this high-caliber debut, Trocheck introduces wry Everywoman J. Callahan Garrity, a former cop and failed gumshoe who now runs a cleaning service in Atlanta, Ga. While cleaning the home of snooty society lady Lilah Rose Beemish, Callahan is hired to trace Kristee, the family's Mormon nanny, who has absconded with furs, jewels and, Callahan learns, incriminating business secrets gleaned from Lilah's husband Bo during their affair. Callahan's investigation leads her to Kristee's zealous Mormon boyfriend, to a miffed lesbian who loved the missing woman and then to Kristee's body, stored in a fur vault with Lilah's black sable. Bo and Lilah seem increasingly likely suspects as Callahan digs up dirt about Bo's shady multimillion-dollar real estate deal, all the while operating her business and coping with the discovery of a lump in her breast.… Read More

N.Y.: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. A Callahan Garrity title. Music industry, "Callahan Garrity, who runs a cleaning service in Atlanta and performs an occasional investigation, gets an intriguing glimpse of music-industry exploitation and corruption when she's hired to find a member of her favorite singing group of the '60s, the VelvetTeens. Hoping to make a comeback, Vonette Hunsecker and her cousin Rita Fontaine want Callahan to find Rita's sister, Delores, who left the group in 1967. The case gets more complicated when Rita, who has scrapped in public with Stuart Hightower, the still-flourishing manager and producer who used up the VelvetTeens and tossed them aside, is found snoozing by his pool, reeking of scotch and holding the gun that has killed him. Callahan's investigations reveal a host of folks nursing grudges against Hightower, among them his ex-wife, who once… Read More

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1994. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Uniform age toning throughout text block, else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "When Patti McNair is senselessly blown away in an Atlanta carjacking with her young son asleep on the back seat, her cousin Callahan Garrity suspects that it may not have been a random act. Callahan is a part-time PI, a former Atlanta cop, and the full-time owner of the House Mouse cleaning service, catering to wealthy Atlanta suburbanites. She sweeps into action, tapping all of her best contacts, despite her family's insistence that she leave widower Bruce and his children alone. There are just too many unanswered questions. Why has Patti's sister moved in with Bruce and the kids? Why has Bruce split with his law partner to team up with a clutch of seedy comedy-club owners? Callahan threads her way through project gangs, a tax-starved public infrastructure, and her… Read More

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 1990. 1st ed. Near Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at title page. Frank Clemons, a homicide detective in Atlanta, Georgia, later a private eye in New York City, is featured in the third book in this series.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 1990. 1st ed. Near Fine in dust jacket, has small nicks at top of spine. Frank Clemons, a homicide detective in Atlanta, Georgia, later a private eye in New York City, is featured in the third book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Dodd, 1975. 1st ed. page edges lightly soiled else near fine in dj, rubbed along extremities, wear along edges, a couple of small nicks. Driver's License, credit cards, Social Security card - the proofs of Bill Kirby's identity. The day he put the match to them he ceased to exist. For his safety, the Justice Department had persuaded him to go underground. But how long would his carefully manufactured identity fool the Bookkeeper - a hit man who knew how to use computers to find his target?. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Harper Collins, 1997. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Murder of a would-be micro-brewery owner in Atlanta investigated by Callahan Garrity.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1997. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the half title page in full. In five superlative mysteries, cleaning-lady-and-sleuth Callahan Garrity has patrolled the uneasy border where antebellum and New South converge. Now, in her most timely and intricate adventure yet, she must step in when hippies, yuppies and crackers clash with murderous consequences. Overnight, it seems, Callahan's Atlanta neighborhood is morphing from a genial mix of hobo and boho into an upscale, cappuccino-drenched quarter. The most unsettling portent of this change is that YoYos, a venerable headshop, is being forced out of business so that a microbrewery can take over its prime location. As the neighborhood gears up for its raucous Halloween revels, Callahan realizes that trouble is brewing. Not only is a fierce tornado bearing down on Atlanta, but Wuvvy, the… Read More

New York, NY,: Dell Publishing, 1978. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, $8.95 intact, with protective mylar cover. Near fine in dust jacket, a couple of small nicks, crease at inside flap.. Author's first book. Made into the movie of the same name in 1981, directed by and starring Burt Reynolds as Sharky and Rachel Ward as the young woman he has to protect.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.