Search Results: SAN DIEGO from Murder By The Book

Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 2001. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Out-of-print. One of 250 clothbound copies SIGNED and NUMBERED by the author [this being #120]. Cover illustration by Carol Heyer. The first collection of short mystery stories by the Anthony Award winning author of the Jill Smith and Kiernan O'Shaughnessy detective novels. This anthology also collects two of the most imaginative detective stories ever written -- tales of "The Celestial Detective" who investigates crime in the Afterlife -- or, perhaps more accurately, crimes that sent someone to the Afterlife. Seventeen stories broken up into four sections with each having its own introduction by Dunlap. Includes a Dunlap checklist. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "A Tale of Two Cities: A Jill Smith Story".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Heyer, Carol. Book.

Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 2001. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy, still in shrinkwrap of this trade paperback. Civer illustration by Carol Heyer. The first collection of short mystery stories by the Anthony Award winning author of the Jill Smith and Kiernan O'Shaughnessy detective novels. This anthology also collects two of the most imaginative detective stories ever written -- tales of "The Celestial Detective" who investigates crime in the Afterlife -- or, perhaps more accurately, crimes that sent someone to the Afterlife. Seventeen stories broken up into four sections with each having its own introduction by Dunlap. Includes a Dunlap checklist.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Heyer, Carol. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1997. 1st edition, February 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Child abuse investigator Bo Bradley is back to confront the curious case of The Dollmaker's Daughters. Fianna is not your usual fifteen-year-old. You can find her most nights at Goblin Market, a dark and misty club where teenage would-be vampires come to play.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Delacorte, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, a fortyish former forensic pathologist turned series private detective, witnesses the horrible-if spectacular-accidental death of a 19-year-old stuntwoman. The "accidental" death turns out to be murder, so Kiernan pursues the murderer, who apparently had struck under similar circumstances ten years earlier.San Diego.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A.: Council Oak Books, 1991. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Part of the Brown Bag Mystery Series. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Kit Powell, San diego's newest television reporter, lands in the middle of a pro-football mystery--is it just bad luck, or is there a reason why career-ending injuries, losing seasons, and mysterious deaths have become regular occurances with the Sharks?. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 4 1/2" x 7". Book.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A.: Council Oak Books, 1991. 1st edition. Fine in dj,. Kit Powell, San diego's newest television reporter, lands in the middle of a pro-football mystery--is it just bad luck, or is there a reason why career-ending injuries, losing seasons, and mysterious deaths have become regular occurances with the Sharks?. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Playboy, 1982. 1st printing of James McClure's short story of the San Diego Police Department "To the Letter, Harry" (illustrated by Will Northerner). About fine. Interview with Sugar Ray Leonard. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers, Stapled. Near Fine. Magazine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Villard, 1991. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. The Second Kiernan O'Shaughnessy mystery . SIGNED COPY. Signed by Dunlap at title page. San Diego.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1993. 1st edition, April 1993 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in an acid-free archival acetate cover. Dust jacket illustraton by John Dawson. SIGNED COPY and dated (6-4-93) by the author at title page. "Set a few months before the events in Kuhlken's previous novel, The Loud Adios, this book finds Tom Hickey still a civilian, still, if somewhat precariously, married, and part owner of a nightclub in wartime San Diego. The war is World War II, and Hickey is making money, due to the phenomenal appeal of the club's very young female singer, Cynthia Moon. Hickey's partner, Paul Castillo, has his mysterious sources for such rare wartime luxuries as creamery butter and Maine lobster, but it is Cynthia who draws the crowds. Except now Cynthia Moon has disappeared. Business drops precipitously and sometime private detective Hickey sets off on a search for her. She is elusive, but Hickey encounters her bizarre… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1993. 1st edition, April 1993, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Beautiful prose and a hopelessly convoluted plot distinguish this prequel to Kuhlken's well-received The Loud Adios of 1991. It's winter of wartime 1942 and San Diego nightclub owner and sleuth Tom Hickey is trailing his missing headliner, the enchanting chanteuse Cynthia Moon. After taking her diary and a drawing of three tattooed figures from her rented room, he locates her embittered father dying in a nursing home and then heads into the Sierra Nevada mountains. There, in a period piece of Twin Peaks -style lunacy, he finds a cult, including Cynthia's acquisitive mother, Venus, living in the Otherworld with the Master, the Bitch, Laurel, and assorted other flawed acolytes, all intending to harm the missing girl, who is on a mission of her own. Hickey's personal odyssey is a subplot that works much… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1991. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Edgar winner Rex Burns writes as Sehler to introduce a new hero: ex-marine officer Jack Steele a former U.S. Marine Corps official in Washington, forced into retirement in San Diego, after reporting on a treasonous congressman, where he is asked to trace the runaway granddaughter of an old family friend.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.