Search Results: NYC from Murder By The Book

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1983. 1st ed. Fine in dj, large tape repaired tears at front panel. Mystery writer longs to drop his crude--though highly successful--detective. NYC. 1st British.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good.

Quartet London 1984 Fine in dj. Mystery writer longs to drop his crude--though highly successful--detective. NYC. 1st British.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martins, 1998. 1st edition, September 1998, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The fifth Lydia Chin & Bill Smith mystery series. "While lots of amazing events happen in Rozan's fifth book in her superlative Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, none surprises more than the moment when Lydia's mother actually admits that she approves of the way her daughter does her job. Mrs. Chin has always hated that her daughter's work as a PI puts her in danger and bad company, namely that of men, like Bill, who don't make suitable husbands. But when Lydia refuses to knuckle under to the demands of a Chinatown patriarch, her mother astonishes her by praising her "professional manner"?and then gives her a clue that helps her unravel a mystery involving the smuggling of people and drugs. Since Bill took center stage in the Shamus Award-winning Rozan's last book, No Colder… Read More

NY: A.L. Burt, 1924. Re-issue, 1st thus. Author's first book. Light wear along edges, spine lightly darkened. Small ink stamp from circulating library at inside covers.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. Book.

Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.: Cool Grove Publishing, Incorporated, 1997. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. Review Copy with hand written letter laid in. " Former black prosecutor Nina Halligan swore vengeance on the man responsible for the slaughter of her family. Now a PI but still carrying a chip on her shoulder, she looks for a connection between the widow of a moderate Civil Rights leader and several acts of murder and assault directed at the slain leader's former associates. This well-crafted and riveting first novel by the author of The Big Mango features hidden agendas, violent ambitions, and political manipulations. For African American mystery collections. [The book was first published in 1997, as a paperback and with limited distribution, by Cool Grove Press]. " -- Library Journal. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

NY: Dell Distributing, 1991. 1st ed., A fine unread copy of this Paperback Original and SHAMUS Award Nominee novel. New York P.I. Joe Noonan. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

NY: Dell Distributing, 1991. 1st ed., reading crease, very light edgewear else near fine copy of this Paperback Original and SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE novel. New York P.I. Joe Noonan. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

London, United Kingdom: Century, 2003. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Jacket still has "As Good As Michael Connely or Your Money Back" sticker. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best first novel. The stronghold of white-collar crime in the rarefied world of high finance -- this is the setting for Peter Spiegelman's edgy, suspenseful, sharply-honed debut novel. John March, who walked away from his family's venerable merchant bank for the life of a rural deputy sheriff -- a life that would explode in personal tragedy and professional disaster. Three years later, he's back in Manhattan, working as a PI and running from his grief and the expectations of his wealthy family. March takes the case of Rick Pierro, a self-made man who has everything–and who's in danger of losing it all. An anonymous, poisonous threat has implicated him in a vast money-laundering scheme already under… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Donald I. Fine Books, 1992. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Bishop Regan and Davey Goldman were created as an homage to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. Third in the series, NYC. "Last seen in The Fundamentals of Murder, the appealing investigative team of brainy, paraplegic Bishop Francis X. Regan and his wisecracking Jewish assistant, PI Davey Goldman, takes on murder and the mob in midsummer Manhattan. After attending a party with the cast of an off-off-Broadway musical, Davey agrees to help one of the actors, Jim Kearney. Jim needs information on the possibly shady background of his long-lost half-brother, Nick, who is the offspring of their father's previously secret first marriage. Nick has recently surfaced and asked Jim for a large loan to cover his debts to the mob. The next day Nick is discovered shot to death with Jim's gun. Tracing leads,… Read More

Ballston Lake: NY: Granovetter Books, 1992. 1st Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Murder is the high stakes in this bridge game.. 3rd in series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1985. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. 1903 & Teddy Roosevelt is President when he becomes ensnared in a trap set by some of the country's most powerful industrialist to discredit his administration, he finds himself prevented from going to the authorities so he pursues the murderers himself. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Dutton 1994 1st ed. Fine in dj, SIGNED COPY. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Dutton, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dj. With the passing of Ted an interesting item to add to any collection. A million-dollar baseball card collection is stolen and Bernie is framed for the heist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Dutton, 1994. 1st ed.Page edges soiled, spine slant esle very good in near fine dust jacket.. With the passing of Ted an interesting item to add to any collection. A million-dollar baseball card collection is stolen and Bernie is framed for the heist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.

Crime Club Doubleday, 1972. 1st ed. Tape remains at endpapers and boards, residue at rear endpaper else very good copy in moderately soiled, lightly worn dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1995. 1st Vintage Crime Black Lizard Edition , July 1995 with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges showing some mild age toning else a fine copy. Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City’s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the ‘hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death. 340 pages. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Dave Moser and his partner investigate the death of a beautiful young woman found dead in the water missing both her eyes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NAL, 1989. 1st ed., covers very lightly rubbed else fine. Advance reading copy, wraps. NYC Police procedural.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

N.Y.: Warner, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. EDGAR AWARD WINNER Best First Novel. SIGNED COPY. Basis for the 2001 film of the same name starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore, and Ann Magnuson. Directed by Kasi Lemmons with Green's screenplay. "In this remarkable first novel, the caveman is Romulus Ledbetter, a Juilliard graduate, husband and father, former mental patient and current resident of a cave in Manhattan's Inwood Park. His valentine is the naked body of Scotty Gales, a homeless former photographer's model. The police say Gales simply froze to death, but Romulus knows that he was killed by agents of the evil Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant, who rules the world from his offices in the Chrysler Building. Sometimes aided--and sometimes humored--by everyone from his daughter Lulu (a police officer) to people he meets on the street, Romulus tracks Scotty's murderer, doggedly following his twisted vision of reality into a world of money and violence where things and… Read More

London, England: Little, Brown, 1994. 1st UK ed. Fine /Fine. in dust jacket.. EDGAR AWARD WINNER Best First Novel. . Romulus Ledbetter is a Julliard trained pianist who makes his home in a cave in New York's Inwood Park.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.