Search Results: HOLLYWOOD from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Simon and Schuster: An Inner Sanctum Mystery, 1946. 1st. spine lettering rubbed, very light wear to edges, else about fine. Hollywood. 1st. spine lettering rubbed, very light wear to edges, else about fine. Hollywood. Mystery set in Hollywood when the stand in for an actor is murdered while the real star is away. The star assumes the life of the murdered man to solve the crime. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2002. 1st edition, March 2002 ,with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 2nd book in series. 1963, Elvis Presley has just completed filming "Kissin' Cousins," a hillbilly romantic comedy of which he is instantly ashamed. His romance with Ann-Margret has just become public knowledge and Priscilla is on the warpath. It is a critical period for Elvis, a time in which he must sort out his own contradictory feelings and make life-changing choices. Against this backdrop, one "Squirm" Litteljon, an old army friend, contacts Elvis. Littlejon is serving life in a California penitentiary for the murder of a young actress on the MGM lot and he insists he was framed. Elvis figures that taking the case is just what he needs to escape all those people making demands of him, both professionally and romantically. So begins a fast-paced mystery train-ride that takes Elvis from the… Read More

Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A.: Backcountry Pubns, 1982. 1st edition, so stated. . Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A stand alone mystery by the gifted writer of the Dave Bransetter, gay death-claims series. Seventeen-year old Alan Tarr lies in an abandoned beach house ,his legs in casts, waiting for the man who tried to kill him....and his father. BACKTRACK is beautifully written with fully-realized (memorable) characters, exquisitely evoked mood, and biting humor. Hansen here focuses on the Hollywood the glamour peddlers never show. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1989. 1st edition, April 1989, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A toby peters mystery featuring General Douglas MacArthur - # 14 in series. "t's September 1942, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur has hired private eye Toby Peters to recover some incriminating papers that might keep the general from going into public life after the war. The papers, and funds that could help MacArthur finance a campaign, have been stolen by a civilian aide, Andrew Lansing. Meanwhile, Peters is offered the services of another detective, former Pinkerton op Dashiell Hammett, who's hiding out from Lillian Hellman while trying to recover his health so he can enlist in the army. The chase leads the two to Angel Springs, Calif., and to the mysterious and eccentric millionaire, Mr. Pintacki, who has his own ideas about keeping America great, which don't include a general as president. After Peters discovers… Read More

N.Y.: St Martin , 1988. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. California politics and Hollywood's glamour set collide. "Son of a dashing old movie star, Jon Storm is an ex-cop from L.A. who has been living in self-imposed exile on the west coast of Mexico since a bum rap forced him to resign from the force. Upon learning that his longtime best friend and former partner has died in the line of duty while protecting a candidate for the Senate during an assassination attempt, Storm returns to California to investigate. The candidate, another childhood friend, is a '60s radical married to a character who seems modeled after both Linda Ronstadt and Jane Fonda. Storm's undercover search brings to light a series of murders and uncovers a Soviet plot to place an agent in the White House. Hansl (Sunstroke), depicts an assortment of Southern California habitats, from wealthy movie enclaves to biker… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Faherty's second in his series featuring private detective Scott Elliott investigating murder and movie making in 1950's Hollywood. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1996. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The first Lucy Freers mystery. In a town once described as the Sodom of the New World, the family craze is in full swing--movie stars posing pregnant on the cover of 'Vanity Fair,' powerhouse agents breast-feeding at Spago--giving rise to the latest show-biz phenomenon--the Hollywood mom. Lucy Freers, an animation filmmaker, is one of this new breed. Her marriage to the well-known Hollywood producer Kit Freers is developing widening rifts and her daughter, Chloe, seems to be learning her values from MTV. And when glamorous neighbor Julia Prentice is found naked and dead in Lucy's pool, the façade of her perfect life is irrevocably shattered. Desperate to restore some normalcy to her life and to unlock the puzzle behind wild Julia's demise, Lucy submerges herself beneath the veneer of family values in… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1992. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The fourth in this zingy series featuring New York actress/sleuth Jocelyn O'Roarke (Death Mask, etc.) brings her to Hollywood to work in a TV movie scripted by longtime friend Austin Frost. Jocelyn's affair with Police Detective Gerrard has soured; there's no work in New York; and Jocelyn's grateful for the job, even realizing a big part of it will be helping onetime child star Ginger Jellicoe with this comeback venture after her bout with drugs and failed marriages. Photography Director Buddy Banks is a stalwart friend to Ginger--he's godfather to her little girl Hollie, whose actor father, Tim Hayes, still seems to care about Ginger, though divorce is imminent. Work on the movie proceeds edgily until Buddy is found murdered in his darkroom. Finding out why and who (and keeping Ginger from being another… Read More

Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1968. 1st ed. Page edges beginning to age tone else near fine in dust jacket, chipping at spine ends, soiled. The 1st Bart Challis, Los Angeles PI. A Sunset Strip dancer dies at the hands of an unknown killer and PI Challis is hired to find out who did it.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Random, 1959. First edition, first printing (so stated). Light wear at edges else near fine in dust jacket, moderate wear, soiling to whit jacket, a couple of closed tears, price clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1993. 1st edition, October 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Kaminsky has garnered both The GRAND MASTER AWARD from Mystery Writers of America, 2006 and THE EYE LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD, 2007. "The client this time (1943) is Bette Davis's husband Arthur Farnsworth, whose aeronautical research on a modified bombsight has brought him to the attention of a gang that wants to swap the plans for an old sound-recording that Toby would rather forget--a record of how Davis's first husband, Ham Nelson, blackmailed Howard Hughes over a little performance coaching she gave him--and threatens to kidnap the star if Farnsworth won't play ball. " --KIrkus. # 17 in series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005. 1ST ED. Fine copy in dust jacket of her debut mystery. Short listed for 2006 EDGAR AWARD, ANTHONY AWARD & BARRY AWARD for Best First Novel. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney's office. Lora's comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love with a mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant with a murky past. Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, the bond between Lora and Alice is marred by envy and mistrust. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alice's personal history and possibly jealous of Alice's hold on her brother Lorna assumes the role of amateur detective and finds a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution, and ultimately, murder. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1969. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1996. First edition, January 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Even Fred Astaire can't dance his way out of trouble without help from Toby Peters, detective to the stars in wartime Hollywood. In Toby's 19th entertaining case (after Tomorrow is Another Day), mob moll Luna Martin wants dance lessons. Her boyfriend, nicknamed "Fingers" because he removes those of his enemies, invites the great dancer to instruct Luna -- or suffer bodily harm. After Luna bats her eyelashes once too often at the star, however, a nervous Astaire, fearing wrathful Fingers, hires Toby to stand in. But Toby doesn't "know a tango from a funeral march." The disappointed Luna complains, but not for long; someone cuts her throat. Fingers is ready to resume his former profession but doesn't want a scandal. A deal is cut: if Toby can find the killer, he can live. Such a deal. . First… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1992. 1st ed. Fine copy of advance uncorrected proof with publishers letter laid in. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Avon, 2001. 1st ed. Reading crease, slight spine slant else a very good+ copy of this Paperback Original and LEFTY AWARD WINNER and ANTHONY Award Nominee.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atria Books, 2003. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Hired to provide security for a movie being filmed in Prague whose cast and crew have been plagued by threats, Wine stumbles across the corpse of the Grand Rabbi of Prague, who proves to be yet another aspiring screenwriter, clutching a screenplay based on a vicious anti-Semitic tract. The lurking presence of mysterious Arabs, abductions and bombings suggest that an Al Qaeda cell is targeting the film project, though some clues indicate that a personal, rather than ideological, motive, is behind the harassment campaign.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

NY: Scribners, 1986. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, very lightly soiled at edges, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. First Stony Winston title set in the Hollywood film-porn industry. "Stoney Winston, Harvard grad and would-be Hollywood script-writer, is functioning meanwhile as a general factotumprop-man, "director," anything that pays the rentfor the shifty operator of a grubby little studio making sexy soda-pop commercials. Suddenly everything changes: an 18-year-old girl specializing in straight hard-core pron is missing; her stepmother is being blackmailed to pay up or a particularly damning film will be released and she will face certain ruin in business. Can Stoney--tough-talking, without illusions, endowed with an uncommon gift for finding anything --find film and girl? The hunt will lead him through the porn foundries and other moral sewers of movieland, through bloodshed and assorted mayhem. Stinson is clever… Read More

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1999. 1st edition, March 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "In their second successful collaboration (after 1 Ragged Ridge Road), Tony Award-winning director Foglia (Master Class) and former cultural correspondent for the Washington Post Richards create as protagonist a man attacked in New York and robbed of his wallet, his identity and his memory. Having been knocked unconscious in Central Park, perhaps the victim of attempted murder, Brent Stevens is clueless as to his former life. When personal fitness trainer Tina Ruffo comes to his aid after he collapses outside the fabled Dakota apartment house, the aerobics maven from Queens finds that she can't resist helping the handsome stranger. Using the key to the hotel room found in his pocket, the pair discover his name and some salient facts, and begin to reconstruct his past and understand why he is now in peril. Meanwhile, out in… Read More

N.Y.: Morrow, 1992. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus title. "With typically creative prose and plotting, Kellerman immerses LAPD Detective Decker ( Sacred and Profane , LJ 6/1/87) in an absorbing post-Rodney King police procedural. Decker, still practicing a rediscovered Judaism and catering to the moods of his pregnant wife, investigates the brutal beating and rape of an elegant spa's owner. Crucial--and engaging--elements in the case soon appear: a retarded stable hand; secretive resort employees; an earthy, manipulative mother; three malicious stepbrother doctors; and valuable stolen memoirs. Full attention to detail and characterization cap a masterful effort. " -- Libfrary Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.