Search Results: ITALY from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Penguin, 2014. 1st printing. Front fore edge is sunned else very good or better. Not remaindered. A rash of burglaries has Inspector Salvo Montalbano stumped. The criminals are so brazen that their leader, the anonymous Mr. Z, starts sending the Sicilian inspector menacing letters. Among those burgled is the young and beautiful Angelica Cosulich, who reminds the inspector of the love-interest in Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric romance, Orlando Furioso. Besotted by Angelica's charms, Montalbano imagines himself back in the medieval world of jousts and battles. But when one of the burglars turns up dead, Montalbano must snap out of hisfantasy and unmask his challenger.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket. Book.

NY: St. Martin, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. . "Set in 72 B.C., during the slave revolt led by Spartacus, Saylor's ( Roman Blood ) second historical mystery follows Roman PI Gordianus the Finder to the resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples. The cousin and factotum of Marcus Licinius Crassus, the wealthiest man in Rome, has been bludgeoned to death, apparently by two slaves who have run away. An ancient Roman law decrees that when a master is killed by a slave, the remainder of the household's slaves must be slaughtered. Gordianus and his adopted son Eco have three days to find the real murderer and save the villa's other 99 slaves. A convoluted plot reveals fraud, embezzlement and arms smuggling (spears and swords traded for silver and jewels); sensuously written subplots hinge on arcanic poisons and clandestine love affairs among a cast that includes a Crassus's second-rate philosopher-in-residence and a retired actor who doubles as a female impersonator. Richly detailed… Read More

N.Y.: Walker and Company, 1987. 1st. Fine in dj. Ins. Peroni/ ITALY.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Penguin Books, 2010. 6th printing. Near fine copy of trade paperback. In About Face, she returns with a dazzling mystery that puts Brunetti's own family at risk. Soon after meeting Franca Marinello, the wife of a wealthy Venetian businessman, Brunetti comes across her name in his investigation of a trucking company owner found murdered in his offices. Though charmed by Franca's love of Virgil and Cicero, he must now unravel her connection to the Carabinieri's prime suspect. As Brunetti delves into the murder, he comes face to face with violence and corruption as dangerous as he's ever seen. Later Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book.

NY: Soho Crime, 2015. 1st printing with complete number line beginning with 1. A near fine copy of the trade paperback. Northern Italy, 1993: After what seems like several lifetimes as a policeman in the Questura, Commissario Trotti is ready for retirement. Soon, he'll be able to fulfill his dream of moving to the countryside villa he co-owns with his cousin, where his daily business will be tending to goats and chickens. But despite Trotti's stubbornly old-fashioned investigative methods and his disregard for social niceties, there are several people trying to talk him out of retirement. Trotti's boss offers him a golden opportunity as head of the Questura's new child abuse division. Meanwhile, Fabrizio Bassi, a reckless, womanizing private detective who worked under Trotti years ago before being kicked off the force, approaches him for help. Bassi has been investigating the death of a murdered doctor, and he has a conspiracy theory that extends to the highest reaches of government.… Read More

N.Y., N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2015. 1st printing, with complete number line beginning with 1. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy. Small remainder dot at bottom of pages. Commissario Trotti of Italy’s Polizia di Stato is called to the scene of the brutal murder of an old friend, schoolteacher Rosanna Belloni, who has been found bludgeoned in her apartment. Trotti’s superiors warn him off the case, but he is determined to hunt down the killer. There are lots of loose ends. Rosanna’s sister, a notorious drug addict, is missing. Is a recent, unexplained suicide in the River Po connected to the murder? Where does the discovery of a car dredged up from the delta fit in? Faced with a seemingly unsolvable mystery, Trotti must also grapple with obstructive colleagues and problems arising in his private life.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Remainder.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 1994. 1st. Ed. ABCDE line stated. Book has glue marks where someone used it to ??? Jacket shows no signs of glue, thus I presume not the original jacket to this book.NOT A LIBRARY BOOK. Hinge cracked, lightly soiled page edges. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Good/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. 1st. ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light spine slant else near fine in dust jacket. A Commissario Guido Brunetti title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Mysterious Press, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The thirteenth book in the Marcus Didius Falco series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1984. 1st ed. Not for Resale stamp at top of pages, two lines drawn at page edges else near fine in dust jacket, chipping at spine ends, a couple of closed tears . 2nd Amos Hatcher-art historical detective work.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1984. First edition, so stated. Tiny rubbed spot at head of spine else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. INSCRIBED COPY. Short inscription by Banks at half-title page; ""for - - / Best wishes, / Oliver Banks." 2nd Amos Hatcher-art historical detective work. The murder of a New York art dealer leads Amos Hatcher to Rome and to a killer obsessed with the sixteenth-century artist Caravaggio . Inscribed Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Woodstock, VT, U.S.A.: Foul Play Press, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Anthropologist Penny Springs and Archaeoligist Sir Toby travel to a Roman villa situated on top of an unexcavated catacomb and murder.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: The Penguin Press, 2005. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through interviews with such locals as a suicidal poet, a surrealist painter, and a master glassblower learned about the region's rich cultural history. By the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. 414 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Scribner, 1995. 1st Edition, October 1995. A near fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof in wrappers. "The fourth Kate Brannigan mystery finds the British equivalent of Kinsey Millhone trying to crack a case in which a ring of smash-and-grabbers is stealing artwork from country estates. Kate is involved because her security firm was responsible for one of the burgled homes. The owners of the estates are reluctant to bring in the police because so much of their income is generated by tourist excursions through their homes and they fear the publicity. In one of the homes, the intruders' activity is recorded, and Kate recognizes one of them--it's Dennis, Kate's close pal and her connection to the criminal underworld. She has some hard choices to make but is willing to put them off if she can recover the stolen property. Dennis points her in the right direction, but soon the case takes a far more sinister turn, with people connected to the thefts turning up dead all over the… Read More

N.Y.: Pantheon, 1996. 1st ed. near fine in dust jacket. Zen is in Naples. "Assigned to Naples, policeman Aurelio Zen takes time to assist a local wealthy widow: he refuses to let her daughters marry their supposedly Mafia-connected fiances. Soon involved in a case of murder and mistaken for Mafia himself, Zen plays out Dibdin's version of a darkly comic opera." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: UK: Century Books, 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Imperial Rome. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. With three maps. In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite—a senator, had to follow what was known as "The Course of Honor." This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a slave, even a freed slave. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl in the imperial palace, he doesn't know she is a slave in the household of the imperial family. But he is inexorably drawn in by her intelligence and charisma. Yet as Vespasian slowly rises from near-obscurity and as emperor after emperor plays out their own deadly, seductive games of lust and conquest, the future is something no one could imagine. No one could believe that a country-born army man might win… Read More

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2007. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. A six page introduction by Tom and Enid Schantz. When a man is found suffocated to death in an escape tunnel under impossible conditions, British POWS turn detective. Based in part on Gilbert's own experiences as a prisoner-of-war during World War II, The Danger Within (Death in Captivity in Britain) is often considered one of the author's best books. British prisoners in Campo 127 . are concerned when they learn that the Allies are about to invade Italy since this means that it's only a matter of time before the Germans seize control of their camp and so escape plans are escalated. But it appears that there may be a spy in the camp and when a man turns up dead under extremely odd circumstances in an escape tunnel, the prisoners have even more to be concerned about. It was filmed in 1959 with Richard Attenborough, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. "A superb, though… Read More

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2007. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. A six page introduction by Tom and Enid Schantz. When a man is found suffocated to death in an escape tunnel under impossible conditions, British POWS turn detective. Based in part on Gilbert's own experiences as a prisoner-of-war during World War II, The Danger Within (Death in Captivity in Britain) is often considered one of the author's best books. British prisoners in Campo 127 . are concerned when they learn that the Allies are about to invade Italy since this means that it's only a matter of time before the Germans seize control of their camp and so escape plans are escalated. But it appears that there may be a spy in the camp and when a man turns up dead under extremely odd circumstances in an escape tunnel, the prisoners have even more to be concerned about. It was filmed in 1959 with Richard Attenborough, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. "A superb, though… Read More

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2008. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman is bewildering. That is, until Inspector Alessandro Cenni of the State Police discovers that this retired cultural attaché was not only a difficult tenant and a blackmailer, but a bisexual swinger who recently had a female lover in residence. The dead woman grew up in occupied Venice, and one of her secrets from World War II might have surfaced. And the bucolic village is not that innocent: it was the site of a scandalous murder fifty years earlier. Cenni’s boss wants a scapegoat, and the woman’s young former lover is the obvious target, but Cenni cannot bring himself to close the case without bringing the true perpetrator to justice.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1996. 1st US edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. A Jonathan Argyll art-world title. Rome. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.