Search Results: British Mystery from Murder By The Book

NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1998. 1st. U.S. edition, February 1998, with complete number line beginning with 1. Front hinge cracked else near Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Mike Yeadings, a police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, are featured in the thirteenth book in this series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2000. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Wesley Peterson, a detective sergeant, and Gerry Heffernan, his boss, in South Devon, England, are featured in the second book in this highly acclaimed series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, England: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Hill at title page. Joe Sixsmith, quite possibly Britain's only black, balding, middle-aged, laid-off lathe operator-turned-private eye, is featured in the second title in the series. Sneaking through a graveyard to escape his maneuvering aunt after choir practice, Joe stumbles across a boy's corpse in a cardboard box - and that's just for starters. Soon Joe's casebook is more crowded than Karaoke Nite at his favorite pub. Retired colonial Mrs. Dora Calverley demands to know how the boy got in the box; wild young Gallie Hacker wants Joe to identify the stranger poking into her grandda's past; and Butcher, his friend from the legal aid society, is strangely keen to dig the dirt on a school bureaucrat's out-of-school activities. Ever valiant for truth, Joe makes his mild-mannered… Read More

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2008. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Inspector Purbright is on loan to the police in Chalmsbury to investigate a series of bombings. He quickly learns that Chalmsbury may be the Sodom to Flaxborough's Gomorrah. Detective Inspector Purbright finds himself on loan to the police in Chalmsbury, a town that neighbors Flaxborough and is very like it in the general licentiousness of its citizenry. It seems that one ofthem has been blowing up the town's monuments and all the efforts ofthe Chalmsbury police force to find the miscreant have been in vain. Also, explosives have gone missing from the Flaxborough civil defense center where, by an odd coincidence, Chief Inspector Hector Larch ofthe Chalmsbury police force spends his Tuesday nights. Determined not to get in Larch's way, Purbright takes his time getting to know the locals, but when one of them is killed in the latest explosion, he steps up his investigations. With almost… Read More

NY,NY: Fawcett Books, 1992. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A Victorian mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2003. 1st. US ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Mike Yeadings, a police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, are featured in the sixteenth book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: UK: Collins Crime Club, 1987. 1st ed. A touch of foxing to the page edges else fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Hill at title page. A GOLD DAGGER AWARD FINALIST. This is the tenth episode in the adventures of DI Peter Pascoe and his large, profane, heavily biased, but also brilliant boss, Superintendent Andy Dalziel, head of Mid-Yorkshire CID. This time it all turns on the death of the elderly and long-widowed Gwen Huby and the fact that she’s never given up hope that her only son, who was MIA in 1944 in Italy, is still alive somewhere. So she leaves her entire estate to him, with the proviso that if he still hasn’t turned up a century after his birth, it all goes to two charities and a fascist political group. The other members of the two related families aren’t happy. They’ve been counting on their assumed inheritance. And then an Italian stranger turns up at the graveside, disturbing the funeral with a loud claim to be the missing heir. The family lawyer… Read More

NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1996. 1st. Ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Kate Baeier, a Portuguese journalist turned private investigator, in London, England, is featured in the second title in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1997. First U.S. Edition, February, 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Mike Yeadings, a police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, are featured in the twelth book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2001. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Mike Yeadings, a police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, are featured in the fourteenth book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Time Warner Books, 2004. 1st Edition. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at title page. It's Detective Inspector Bill Slider's day off and he had hoped to have some quiet time with Joanna, his pregnant fiancée. But a woman's body is found in the park and he finds himself back to work sooner than he expected. At first glance, it looks as though the woman is the latest victim of the "Park Killer." But it doesn't take Slider and his partner Atherton long to establish that someone else was trying to pass the killing off as the handiwork of the notorious serial killer. This murder doesn't fit the pattern; this one was personal. The woman's modest income and outlandish lifestyle don't match up. Turning to the two most popular motives---money and passion---Slider and his team turn up some puzzling anomalies in her life, not the least of which is the number of men she… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2005. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Detective Bill Slider finds himself embroiled in an investigation of the "Park Killer"--and the more Slider investigates, the more convinced he becomes that he's dealing with more than one murderer........ . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ has tiny nicks to top front and spine bottom. Mike Yeadings, a police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, are featured in the ninth book in the series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY. NY: Scribner, 1992. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/FINE. Book has previous owners named inked out of FFP.A non-series book by Stallwood, whose regular series is about Kate Ivory, a novelist turned amateur detective in Oxford, England.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. This is the ninth effort the author's series featuring Thomas Lynley, a Scotland Yard Inspector, and Sergeant Barbara Havers, forensic pathologist, Simon Allcourt-St. James, and his lab assistant Lady Helen Clyde, in London, England. An internationally acclaimed author and series. Adapted in both the USA and UK for television.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997. 1st. Edition, Auguat 1997 with complete number line beginning with 1. Light rubbing at extremetie, slight spine slant esle near fine in dust jacket, very lightly rubbed, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. This is the ninth effort the author's series featuring Thomas Lynley, a Scotland Yard Inspector, and Sergeant Barbara Havers, forensic pathologist, Simon Allcourt-St. James, and his lab assistant Lady Helen Clyde, in London, England. An internationally acclaimed author and series. Adapted in both the USA and UK for television.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2002. First U.S. edition, February 2002, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Mike Yeadings, a police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, are featured in the fifthteen book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1988. UNCORRECTED PROOF. covers sunned along edges and spine, else a near fine, tight copy. A collection of English crimes and going ons. SHORT STORIES.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Little, Brown and Company, 1987. First edition, so stated. Sliight spine slant else near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, visiting his friend Melrose Plant in Long Piddleton, looks into the murder of Simon Lean, whose body is discovered stuffed into an antique secretaire a abattant. Working with help from the usual cast of zany characters, Jury goes about his business in his customary leisurely and self-assured manner and pieces together a very strange tale of greed, jealousy, and murder..." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Little, Brown and Company, 1987. 1First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Richard Jury of Scotland Yard title. "Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, visiting his friend Melrose Plant in Long Piddleton, looks into the murder of Simon Lean, whose body is discovered stuffed into an antique secretaire a abattant. Working with help from the usual cast of zany characters, Jury goes about his business in his customary leisurely and self-assured manner and pieces together a very strange tale of greed, jealousy, and murder..." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.