Search Results: Private Investigator from Murder By The Book

NY: Evans, 1981. 1st ed. Light wear at edges else near fine in dust jacket. Author's second book featuring soft-boiled Seattle sleuth John Denson. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1997. First edition, November 1997, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. SIGNED by Pedrazas on title page. Features Florida private eye Harry Rice in his second case following the Award Winning "The Harry Chronicles".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/As New. Book.

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

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.: Gryphon Books, 1996. 1st US edition (originally published by Badger Books, February, 1956). . Trade paperback with full color dust jacket, as new, hardboiled adventure; Gryphon Gangster Novel #2. 159 pages World-Wide Investigations on Madison Avenue, New York, is the world's largest detective agency. Headed by Mike Lantry, the agency will take any case, anywhere, at any time--including some strange dealings in even stranger parts of the world. But Lantry--shrewd, tough, and quick with his fists--never gives up until a case is solved. Murder, kidnapping, extortion, robbery, smuggling, you name it, and World-Wide has dealt, will deal, or is dealing with it. But back when the agency was just starting, when it just comprised Lantry himself and occasional part-timers, and when it was on the verge of folding, the missing wife of a multi-millionaire launched Lantry on his way! This is his first sensational case, a first-rate mystery tale set in the Big Apple of the 1950s. Put… Read More

New York: Poseidon Press, 1987. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. The second book in the acclaimed Whistler series. Whistler, a sentamental private eye in Hollywood, California was first introduced to his readers in " In La-La Land We Trust - 1986. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1987. 1sted. Very minor soiling at page edges else fine in dust jacket. The 2nd Whistler title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Forge, 2007. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE.DJ has tiny paper slash to back cover. Amos Walker, Vietnam vet private eye in Detroit, Michigan, is featured in the latest entry into this American classic series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Bantam, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Featuring Alaskan private detective Cecil Younger, this time aboard a cruise ship investigating the controversy surrounding the ship's doctor. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1989. 1st edition, June, 1989, so stated. Near fine in dust jacket. The husband-and-wife team's fifth Fiddler mystery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY, NY.: St Martins Pr, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ shows minimal shelf wear. A V. (VIC) DANIEL , Los Angeles private investigator.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 1991. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. An Anna Lee title. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a pedophile, or has she just run off to marry a much older man? What connection does this man have to the stolen merchandise and to the designer's husband? The Florida Keys and a handsome U.S. operative give Anna her first blissful taste of the sunny, fog-free New World even as she handily attempts to answer these questions and dodge the bullets that seem to her so quintessentially American" --PW. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1992. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. An Anna Lee title. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a pedophile, or has she just run off to marry a much older man? What connection does this man have to the stolen merchandise and to the designer's husband? The Florida Keys and a handsome U.S. operative give Anna her first blissful taste of the sunny, fog-free New World even as she handily attempts to answer these questions and dodge the bullets that seem to her so quintessentially American..." PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 1991. 1st ed. front hinge cracked, else fine in dust jacket. An Anna Lee title. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, very light wear at head and foot of spine, in protective mylar cover. "In streetwise private detective James Shaw, Haiblum ( Murder in Yiddish ) has created a multifaceted sleuth who defies genre stereotyping. Here Shaw has been hired by a tenants' union to discover who is trying to force the elderly and improverished residents out of their rent-controlled building. Shaw is Jewish; he has a soft heart, a social conscience and a passion for classical music. He is also shrewd, unflappable and more than a match for the pugnacious thugs continually on his trail. In the course of his tedious and labyrinthine search for the owners of the building and those responsible for harassing tenants, he calls on the aid of perhaps his greatest asset--his uncle Max. A former detective with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Lower East Side, Max leads Shaw to a trio of… Read More

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1956. First edition, so stated. June 18, 1956. Original strong reddish orange (#35) and pale yellowish pink (#31) paper -covered decorative boards. Spine lettering in black on white panels. Back has black borzoi device on pale yellowish pink rectangle. White endpapers. Top and bottom edges trimmed. Top edge stained greenish blue.[ Ross Macdonald / Kenneth Millar: A Descriptive Bibliography; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983 by Matthew Bruccoli] Tiny stain at spine else about fine in original unclipped dust jacket ($2.95 price], lightly soiled, tiny chippings at ends, some surface dust soiling to rear panel. The first appearance of Millar's penname "Ross Macdoald". The sixth book in the Lew Archer Series. The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by her hotheaded husband and her rummy "uncle," Lew Archer sniffs around Malibu and finds the stink… Read More

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1992. First Edition, December 1992, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's third book in this series. "Doolittle drops Boston PI Tom Bethany into a shark tank of S & L looters who gathered under deregulation and slipped through the federal net with the cash clenched in very sharp teeth. Bethany champions four Boston retirees who invested in Sunbanc, a failed Texas savings and loan run by Dr. Denton Somerville, who escaped retribution by dying. Brought up to speed on how the S & L rats operated by Washington contracts from his Carter campaign days, Bethany also learns that without a few hundred lawyers and investigators for as many trials, he has no chance of getting the duffers' money back--legally. Deciding to track the leftover loot anyway, the PI heads for Houston. Posing as a reporter, he interviews memorable locals, happy to spill their guts about the Doc and his… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1989. 1st edition, June 1989, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy of this Paberback Original. Newark P.I. Ezell "Easy" Barnes. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best Paperback.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

NY: Villard, 1985. 1st edition, so stated. Near fine in lightly used dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A John Marshall Tanner title. A MACAVITY AWARD FINALST for Best Novel. "John Marshall Tanner recounts his latest grim experiences in Greenleaf's fifth novel about this California private eye. In Berkeley, Lawrence Usser is notorious for defending criminals as insane and therefore not guilty. When the lawyer is arrested for the vicious murder of his wife Dianne, her parents hire Tanner to prove the accused sane, to prevent him from escaping justice. Questioning people close to the Ussers, Tanner clashes with Lawrence's psychiatrist who has also treated the couple's young daughter Lisa, a runaway. The detective finds Lisa strung out on drugs and holed up with a gang playing weird games in Berkeley's sub-human corners..." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Award Nominee.

N.Y.: Vintage Crime, 1989. First Vintage books edition, July 1989. Light soiling at page edges else about fine. Editied by Lillian Hellman and with a 23 page introduction by her. Nine short stories, many featuring the Continental Op. Includes the unfinished novel, Tulip. 451 pages. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1989. 1st edition January 1989, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first mystery. Introducing Private detective Jack Ross. Nevada setting. Hired by a young prostitute to find her long-missing grandfather, Reno private eye Jack Ross tracks the cold trail across the deserts and back alleys of the city to one of Nevada's most influential families. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.