Search Results: CHICAGO from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Miramax Books, 2002. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Uncorrected Proof. Chicago cop Gus Carson was bad, crooked, and dangerous before he went to war. But, having survived a Japanese submarine attack in the Pacic, he returns a changed man. So it is plain lousy luck that hes with a pretty hooker in a brothel when a gunman murders two people there. Old habits die hard, and Carson takes the gunman down, saving the state of Illinois the cost of a trial...and gets suspended from the police department for his good deed. Now, with few prospects and no cash, Carson accepts a job that smells fishy from the start: an aspiring politician hires him to find a kidnapped black racketeer. The hunt will send Carson on a dangerous ride through the city, where his life soon isn't worth the price of a beer. And for those who don't remember the 1940s, thats five cents. A page-turning noir detective story, 46, Chicago proves Monroe to be a new master of the genre.. 1st Edition. Printed Wrappers. Fine.… Read More

NY: Signet AE4710, 1987. 1st ed. Paperback Original, one crease at front, very minor wear at rear else fine tight copy. The 2nd Jimmy Flannery title. Chicago. SIGNED COPY.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine.

N.Y.: Forge, 2006. First edition, December 2006, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine. Life's a sneaky mistress, though, and has a way of suckering you into caring. Lew's found that he's really good at helping people get out of bad situations. That he matters. And Lew's therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells him that unless he's willing to leave the planet, it's about time that he goes back to Chicago and closes the door to the past so that he can finally get on with the rest of his life. Lew… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. 1st edition, February 1998, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. . "Chicago private investigator Malachy Foley approaches life as though he were treading water. Though he won't help himself out of his malaise, he will help a friend--or even a high-school classmate, Lambert "Lammy" Fleming, who's accused of molesting a neighborhood teenage girl. The mildly retarded Lammy is unable to defend himself--not good when the girl's dad is a low-rung mobster and her uncle is the local godfather. Foley figures Uncle Dominic is the guy with the taste for young girls, but to prove it, he must buck both the cops and the Mob. Also impeding Foley is an ongoing investigation that may involve an insider placed within the family as a snitch. This third Mal Foley case is a solid effort distinguished by the realistically portrayed relationship that… Read More

Santa Barbar: CA: Fithan Press, 1990. 1st edition, December 17, 1990 of this Paperback Original. Library of Congress Copyright Office stamp at front endpaer. Light shelfwear else about fine. Aron Ash lives in Chicago with his girlfriend, Lisa Hardrow. Or he did until last night. Noe the question is what happened to Lisa. Did he dispose of her body in Lake Michigan, as he suspects, or did she tell him she was moving to New York? Aron Ash--mysteries that go beyond murder. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1988. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed "Best Wishes / Eugne Izzi at front free endpage. His 2nd book. "Izzi's debut in The Take was enthusiastically praised, and his second novel deserves more praise for its fully dimensional characters, wicked wit and heady pace. Set in Chicago, the action starts and never lags when Sgt. Jimbo Marino, as an undercover detective, comes up with evidence against the mob. Unfortunately, the city politicos, avid for publicity, insist that Jimbo appear on a TV-news program while they boast of his success. That means GiGi Parnell, the worst of the bad guys, recognizes the detective who had sent him to prison 10 years earlier. Now free, GiGi is bent on vengeance, robbing and killing former pals who betrayed him, all the while making plans to murder Jimbo..." ---PW . Izzi died mysteriously in 1996.… Read More

N.Y.: Morrow, 2007. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by the author at title page. A highly regarded first novel as it was nominated for five awards and won one!. It is a GUMSHOE AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel and was an ANTHONY, BARRY, ELLIS and THRILLER AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. A disillusioned newspaper reporter turned private detective, Ray Dudgeon isn't trying to save the world. He just wants to do an honest job, and do it well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds for survival make for a sucker's bet. While working on a movie in Chicago, Hollywood locations manager Bob Loniski saw something he shouldn't have. Now he's a prosecution witness against a suspected member of the Chicago Outfit. Petrified, he comes to Ray for protection. Ray's mob contacts insist that they have no interest in Loniski, so he takes the bodyguard gig. Then people start dying and everything goes to hell. . Signed by… Read More

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1993. First edition, so stated, 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 title page. "Amateur sleuth Alex Phillips and his sister Maddy, a blind, crippled hypnotist/psychologist living as a wealthy recluse on an island in Michigan, make a riveting return from their debut in Death Trance . Here they investigate a murder involving one of Maddy's former patients in Chicago. In a series of hypnosis-induced flashbacks--following a bloody opening scene in medias res --Alex tells Maddy about what happened when he went to Chicago to see her ex-patient Loretta, who had recently written to Maddy for help. After several meetings with Loretta and her family, Alex is shocked to find Loretta's hated stepmother dead and Loretta holding what may be the murder knife and eager to confess to the killing. Listening to Alex's hypnosis-induced… Read More

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Chicago. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Delacorte Press, 1990. 1st Edition, March 1990 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. MACAVITY AWARD FINALIST for Best Novel. Laid in is a page INSCRIBED, SIGNED and DATED (year of publication) at title page from another copy of "Burn Marks". "The sixth adventure of Chicago private eye Victoria Iphenigia Warshawski begins with arson and proceeds to homicide as the intrepid V.I. contends with ambitious politicians, a construction-business scam, a corrupt cop and the best intentions of her closest family friends. Trouble erupts when her sweet, crafty and alcoholic aunt Elena, burned out of her SRO hotel, appears with a young hooker friend at V.I.'s Northwest Side apartment. The friend's body is found, along with V.I.'s wallet, at a major downtown construction site soon after the detective is bewildered by mysterious warnings not to get involved with the political campaign of a Hispanic… Read More

N.Y.: Avon Books, 1994. 1st printing, December 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Spine edge rubbed, magic marker across bar code on inside front cover, else about fine. Vietnam vet, Chicago cabbie and sometime investigator Cooper MacLeish is always willing to help out a good friend-- which is why he agrees to accompany third-rate newshound Melvin Moreland to a midnight meet with a nervous informant. But it isn't information they find spread out on the floor of a city-owned garage, but the skewered remains of the unfortunate whistleblower. Suddenly, Coop's altruism has landed him neck-deep in the middle of a scandalous conspiracy as wide and murky as Lake Michigan itself-- a dangerous mess of dirty little secrets, mob double-dealings and bloody political hands that could drag down the high and mighty... if they don't strangle MacLeish first.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Mass Market Paperback.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The second Wild Onion, Ltd., mystery. The sharp partnership is made up of lawyer and private investigator, husband and wife, Dugan and Kirsten. They are hired to investigate a series of blackmail threats to a local clergyman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1989. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. His third book. Chicago setting. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Tough police thriller set in Chicago by this African-American author. Holton is a twenty-seven year veteran of the Chicago Police Force; this is his third novel, all featuring Detective Larry Cole.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Otto Penzler Books, 1994. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket (bright yellow) shows very faint soiling else near fine.fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR at title page. NOT A REMAINDER as so many of this title seem to be. "Chicago detective Joe Kiley wants revenge. His partner, Nick Bianco, was murdered while investigating the death of a young stripper. Kiley and Bianco both thought the girl's death was connected to a local mobster, but when a janitor at the club where the girl worked confesses to the crime, Bianco's murder becomes even more puzzling. What did he see on his stakeout? At every step, Kiley's investigation is stonewalled from within, forcing him to conclude that the department doesn't want Nick's killer found. He continues to investigate Nick's death with the help of a female officer, who promptly dies in an iffy suicide. Now Kiley has two… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2006. 1st. Ed.. first printing, March 2006., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Not remaindered as many are. A SPOTTED OWL AWARD WINNER and a Finalst for SHAMUS AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL. It's 1969 and the city of Chicago is in turmoil. The celebrity trial of the Chicago Eight---charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention---has begun. Protests abound over the trial and the conflict has caught the attention of everyone from the Black Panthers to city gangs to local trade unions. Meanwhile, African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton and his adopted son, Jimmy, are keeping a low profile. They've been on the run from their native Memphis since Jimmy witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., but have slowly settled into a steady life in Chicago. Smokey continues to accept cases and to inspect property for Sturdy Investments, the… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2003. First edition, August 2003, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Boys4U is the world's most popular singing group - at least among teenaged girls - and they have closed out their sold-out world tour with a series of shows in Chicago's brand new arena. The premier group of the inexplicably popular "boy band" trend, they've just finished their very last concert of the tour. While hundreds of tour members, well-wishers, label executives, and various hangers on wait to celebrate another wildly successful tour, the lead singer is found murdered - shot in the back of the head at close range - in the shower of the backstage dressing area. To make matters more distressing, the crime itself was almost impossible - there was tight security on the shower area at all times, the only other people back there were the other members of the band, and none of the… Read More

N.Y.: Donald I. Fine, 1987. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Full of lascivious, compliant women, ribald comedy, high spirits and a tendency to push vulgarity to its limits, this book could have played well at Minsky's. A raid on the author's mind might uncover an intention to burlesque the mystery form itself - one explanation for the amount of high-caliber wit that has been lavished on a mediocre story line. Chicago detective Tut Willow is hired by Sister Rosetta, an aging lush in nun's clothing, to locate her niece, Gladys Hornsby, a beautiful model. Since Gladys was once a prime romance in Tut's life, he is eager to comply. Once found, Gladys confesses that she is now the mistress of a rich voyeur, who may toss her out if certain pornographic photos she once posed for come to light. She asks Tut to find the pictures, which may be in the hands of a blackmailer. While he's… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1992. 1st ed., with number line beginning with 1. Fine in dj, lw at edges. A novel of murder in 19th century Irish Chicago. "In this unusually accomplished debut novel, first published in Ireland, Maher marvelously evokes the atmosphere of late-19th-century Chicago, particularly that of its Irish community. She uses a true crime--the 1889 murder of prominent Irish physician P. H. Cronin--to reveal the tensions dormant in the city. Tom Martin is an ex-seminarian who has lost his Catholic faith; the American-born son of Irish immigrants, he has never given much thought or concern either to his roots or to the deep involvement of many Irish expatriates in the rising tide of revolution against the hated British. As a reporter covering Cronin's violent death for the Chicago Tribune , Tom begins to learn the secrets of the Clan na Gaelsp ok , an undercover society that will stop at nothing to further the cause of Irish independence. The novel begins and ends 20 years after the… Read More

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Hyperion Books, 2007. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A BARRY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "Konrath's fourth drink-inspired mystery to feature Lt. Jacqueline Jack Daniels (after 2006's Rusty Nail) is a particularly potent mix of equal parts mirth and mayhem with a dash of sex and a twist (or two) of plot. When an extortionist prefaces his demands for a payoff from the city of Chicago by spreading enough botulism toxin to cause more than 30 deaths, Jack's previous successes and her resultant celebrity are enough to put her in charge of the case. The poisoner has more tricks up his sleeve and unleashes an almost unimaginable arsenal of toxins. Despite a horrific death count, Konrath infuses plenty of humor. Best of all, he gives the reader ample opportunities to stay abreast of or even ahead of his sleuth, but it will take a clever reader to unravel the… Read More