Search Results: Review Copy from Murder By The Book

NY, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. REVIEW COPY. Austria. "The Alpine village of Kirchwald, with its onion-spired church and brightly frescoed buildings, was an ideal setting for a winter sports holiday. But Kate Paterson hadn't come to the Austrian Tyrol to ski. It was here that the man she loved had been killed in a climbing accident and Kate, in her grief, simply wanted to see his burial place. On her first visit to the mountain slopes, she was surprised and mildly flattered to find herself in the company of four attentive men. They had heard about the climbing accident. Stephen Marsh, who had known Matt Danby, thought that there was some mystery about his death; Phil Sloan, a helpful holidaymaker, agreed that Kate had a right to discover more. But Toni Hammerl, the ski instructor, disagreed. And Jon Becker, who lived in Innsbruck and obviously knew more than he was prepared to say, gave her a terse 'Don't probe, it will do you no good.'… Read More

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1980. 1st ed. Slight spine slant, top of page edges dusty else near fine in dust jacket rubbed along edges. REVIEW SLIP laid in. The Derbyshire village of Spentlow, where Chief Superintendent Kenworthy and his wife had chosen to spend their autumn holiday, was in the grip of celebrations organized by he Vicar to commemorate a remarkable incumbent of a hundred years ago. It was also in the grip of a long-standing feud between two prominent families, the Allsops and the Brightmores, and of the machinations of Davina Stott, a precocious, pretty adolescent, who had a lead part in the centenary celebration play. One evening Kenworthy walked home with her from rehearsal. Next morning her body was found on the Anathema Stone. The Anathema Stone, round which superstitions clustered, had originally been part of a Bronze Age barrow, but for the last two hundred years it had lain in Farmer AIlsop's yard. Recently a local archaeological society had tried to make him restore it to… Read More

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 1st Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Review copy with slip laid in. "Michael Kilian, writing here as Rex Dancer, has established himself in the last several years as a first-rate writer of political and historical novels as well as of mysteries.. Bad Girl Blues, set in sultry New Orleans, is his best effort yet. Main character Andy Derain, a burnt-out New York photographer, finds a dead body in the courtyard of his French Quarter shop. Strange that his former love Candice, now married to powerful Texan Ben Browley, should be with him at the time! Believable characterization of even minimal characters, excellent writing with touches of humor built beautifully into the dialog, well-paced plot development, and doses of violence and sex that are never overdone but add to the storyline..." -- LJ. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

Scribners, 1998. 1st ed. Uncorrected Proof, fine, pictoral wraps, with Review slip laid in. Her 1st book. Los Angeles. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Walker Publishing Co., 1999. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW slip laid in. SIGNED by author on title page. The fourth mystery featuring jazz pianist Evan Horne. "Jazz pianist Evan Horne improvises with the FBI in his latest after-hours murder investigation (following The Sound of the Trumpet). When a popular "smooth jazz" saxophone player is fatally stabbed in Horne's Southern Californian town, the piano man is called in by his best pal, Santa Monica homicide detective Danny Cooper, to decipher the clues left at the concert-hall crime scene, including the phrase "Bird Lives!" scrawled in blood on the dead man's dressing-room mirror. Soon it's revealed that two other fusion jazz musicians--a guitarist and a piano player--have recently been murdered in New York City, and Horne helps move the case forward by figuring out the significance of the dates on… Read More

Walker 1989 1st Am. Fine in dj, Review Copy..

NY: St Martins Press, 1991. First edition, January 1991, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY. 3rd sheriff Pete McPhee title, set in a small Carolina town. "Greed is the real killer in this intriguing third mystery (after Snowshot ) of McBriarty's Sheriff Peter McPhee series. Here the young owner of a North Carolina gold-plating shop asks McPhee to investigate the disappearance of her boyfriend/business partner, who vanished soon after the couple discovered a gold mine. McPhee learns that the missing man was secretly stealing a large share of his partner's profits from the mine. Investigating at the mine shaft, he uncovers the young man's corpse and evidence that the murderer plans to return to mine more gold. The sheriff's fears that the killer is a lunatic are realized when the sole witness to the homicide, a Labrador retriever, is killed savagely. Closing in on the guilty… Read More

NY: Walker Publishing Co., 1984. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 3rd Prof. Neil Kelly title. REVIEW COPY. Kelly, deflected from sabbatical research by the murder of a friend's infant son, finds he may unwittingly have what the killers are after. The story is soon deep in ominous international dealings and a journey through memory to Kelly's boyhood in prerevolutinary China.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

NY: Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket with review slip laid in.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

NY,NY: Simon, 1970. 1st ed. Fine in dj. REVIEW COPY. Author's 1st book. Oklahoma Setting. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 1984. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Review copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: Morrow, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover 3rd PI Jack Kyle title; Dallas. Review Copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker 1988, 1987. 1st A. Page edges beginning to spot lightly else near fine in fine dj, Review Copy. Oxford don Ambrose Usher title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Review Copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1989. 1st.near fine in dj slightly nicked at foot of spine.Review copy. Jockey Ken Eagle. "Comparison with Dick Francis's horse-world thrillers are inevitable but Geller's accent is decidedly American and, with the jockey-narrator-hero's lover a female jockey, very up-to-date. When Tricia Martin's horse collapses in a race, Ken Eagle saves her from serious injury. With Tricia safe in the hospital Ken publicly threatens Marcano, the horse's nasty trainer, for doping his mounts. Then Marcano is murdered and the police discover Ken's watch at the scene and a bloodstained shirt in Ken's closet. The frame-up doesn't work but sets Ken to sleuthing about the murder and Marcano's method of "juicing" his horses. Geller isn't quite up to Francis's mastery, but the story moves quickly and the racing color is terrific." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.

NY: Bobbs-Merrill 1975, 1975. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, some light soiling to white at rear panel, else near fine, not price clipped, $6.95 price intact, Review copy, INSCRIBED to fellow mystery writer Michael Kurland.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y: Pocket Books, 1994. 1st ed. page edges very lightly soiled else about fine in dj. REVIEW COPY. A bit of Florida noir in this story about Eddy Priest, a non-practicing lawyer aiming for the simple life as a sailboat salesman on Florida's west coast. Beautiful Corey Darrow tells him of a plot to discredit her in her water management job in Okee City, north of Miami, and of her fears that she is being followed . When she's found in her car, drowned in a drainage canal with a Magnum in her hand, Eddie is guilt-stricken. Corey's equally beautiful sister, Sawnie, asks his help in probing Corey's death. Eddie is smitten all over again, and soon he and Sawnie are deep in a struggle with a ruthless sugar planter and his homicidal henchmen, two of the nastiest villains of recent fiction.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: Dodd, 1970. 1st. ed. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Fine in moderately rubbed dust jacket, un-clipped ($4.50 price is intact) . California setting. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light soiling at page edges, else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW SLIP laid in. In Saratoga to report a historic race, sportswriter Paddy Moretti suddenly finds himself in the midst of deception, greed, and violence and on the trail of the biggest story of his life. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st US edition, October 1990, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. "When he finds the butchered remains of a wandering gypsy at the site of an abandoned church in the English town of Kentside, planning officer and architectural authority Arnold Landon suspects homicidal Ranging Wolf cult. Bureaucrat cum sleuth, Landon (from Men of Subtle Craft ) has received veiled threats from members of the devil-worshiping sect and learns that the group has a penchant for blood sacrifice. When he shares his suspicions with the police, however, they label him deranged. When a second, equally grisly murder implicates a noncult suspect, the authorities ascribe the homicides to a heated territorial dispute. After Landon falls prey to a vicious attack by an unknown assailant, he realizes that the killings may be the product of a deranged mind. And he soon… Read More