Search Results: MISSOURI from Murder By The Book

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st edition, September 1994, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed, without inscription, by the author on the title page. "In Trust Me on This , his comedy mystery published in 1988, Westlake and the reader both had a great deal of fun with the scurrilous goings-on at a supermarket tabloid whose models are on view every day at--well, supermarkets. This time the Weekly Galaxy is covering (and how!) the murder case against popular Missouri country singer Ray Jones. So is pretty Sara Joslyn, a Galaxy escapee who now works for a trendy New York magazine called--well, Trend. Ray is also being pursued for zillions in back taxes by the IRS and seems determined, despite his lawyers' best efforts, to screw up everything in sight, in court and without. Meanwhile, can Trend expose Galaxy 's hideous newsgathering methods and get their own… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1992. 1st edition, July 1992. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. . The 2nd Attorney Rachel Gold mystery. "Chicago attorney Rachel Gold is sent to St. Louis, her old hometown, to see whether she can prove that Stoddard Anderson, managing partner of the local office of pedigreed law firm Abbott & Windsor, was insane when he killed himself--thus providing a bigger payoff for his widow Dottie, who needs every penny. The background questions about Anderson--for instance, why did he quadruple his accident insurance only a few months before he died, and what was he doing for the three days between disappearing from home and slitting his wrists in an airport hotel?--fade when Rachel learns from gallery owner Remy Panzer that Anderson had promised to help smuggle a jewelled golden cast of Montezuma's penis into the country. Aided by the likes of funky law prof Benny Goldberg… Read More

Saint Martin's Press, 2001. 1st ed. Uncorrected proofs, pictorial wrapper, near fine. Florist Bretta Solomon. When Flower Shop owner Bretta Solomon leaves her hometown of River City, Missouri, and heads for a florist convention in Branson, she's surprised to find a letter from Vincent and Mabel McDuffy slipped under her hotel room door, begging for help. The McDuffys seem to know of Bretta's success as an amateur sleuth around River City, and that, coupled with their admiration for Bretta's late husband, a police officer, has inspired them to ask Bretta to find out what happened to their daughter, who died of a heart attack a few months ago. The trouble is, Bretta can't find the McDuffys-after leaving her several messages at the hotel, they seem to have vanished. And although she's curious to track them down and find out exactly what they want her to do, she's got her hands full already running the design contest at the annual florist convention, coping with… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's second gardening mystery, featuring Bretta Solomon, the leading florist in River City, Missouri.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2003. 1st edition, 1st printing, January 2003, Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Robin Lobianco participates in a ménage à trois with a married couple, expecting nothing more than one evening of wild sex. But when they profess their love for her and ask her to move in with them, she rejects them. Soon the couple begins stalking her.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown 1992, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Review Copy with photo and review slip laid in. The second B.F. Hopper mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Crown, 1995. 1st ed. near fine in dust jacket, A HAMMETT AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel of the Year. "Though this is only Klavan's fourth novel under his own name (he received two Edgar Awards for pseudonymous mysteries), his stylistic range and thoroughly compelling plots have earned him a loyal readership -- an audience that should be broadened with this gripping tale. Here Klavan puts an intensely human, often intriguingly quirky face on a familiar plot device: the race to save a convicted killer on death row. When a St. Louis News staffer crashes her car hours before her scheduled interview with Frank Beachum (the interview itself to take place just eight hours before Beachum's execution), reporter Steve Everett is handed the assignment. Everett, 35 (and possessing "wicked, sharply angled brows and a wicked, sharply angled smile"), is already under pressure: though married, he has been shtupping the boss's wife, which creates no little tension at work and at home.… Read More