Search Results: TENNESSEE from Murder By The Book

Johnson City: TN: Silver Dagger, 2000. 1st printing, with complete number line beginning with 1. Trade paperback. Light soiling at bottom of page edges from shelfwear but book is brand new, unread. Silver Dagger is a consortium of Southern Mystery writers who have come together to publish a collection of quality mystery novels in hardcover (limited to1,000 copies only) and simultaneously in trade paperback. "Dan McClain bought the old Vickers farm hoping to find a peaceful retreat in Jesus Creek, Tennessee, but the town's unique reality hits home when skeletons start popping up in McClain's yard, followed by the murder of a beloved local resident. Are the crimes connected? Amateur sleuth and genealogist Delia Cannon is determined to unearth the answer. As ghostly remnants of a long ago murder linger in the shadow of present day tragedy, Delia's passion for truth draws the attention of a killer who isn't about to let a decades-old crime come to light.. First Printing.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1996. 1st ed. reading creases, one small tear at rear cover, edgewear else a very good to near fine copy of this Paperback Original. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. A Nashville PI Harry James Denton title . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

New York: St Martins Press, 2000. First Edition, July 2000, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Nelscott's debut novel and the one that introduced African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton. A more recen historical mysteriy, this one's set in Memphis in 1968. Highly thought of as it won the HERODOTUS AWARD for Best US Historical and was Nominated for an EDGAR AWARD for Best Novel and a SPOTTED OWL AWARD for Best Novel. It's February 1968, and tense race relations in Memphis are beginning to build into real conflict. The sanitation workers' strike has been going on for almost three weeks, and marches are beginning to turn into riots. African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton is hired by Laura Hathaway, a young white woman from up north, to look into her mother's reasons for remembering Smokey generously in her will. Smokey reluctantly takes the case, as much to satisfy his own curiosity about these people… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 2002. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Reader's Edition, wraps. Blues history professor Nick Travers.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 1998. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Picking up from an unfinished manuscript of his late father, Graham Landrum, Robert Landrum follows the further adventures of the ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the quiet little town of Borderville, Tennessee. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Scribners, 1992. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Both an ANTHONY & AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. The 2nd Sheriff Spencer Arrowood title. "Revisiting some of the characters from If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O, Edgar Award winner McCrumb weaves Appalachian folklore and death, in natural and unnatural forms, into a story that meanders like a mountain stream through the hills of east Tennessee before rushing to its turbulent conclusion. Wake County Sheriff Spencer Arrowood asks Laura Bruce, wife of the local Baptist minister, who is now an Army chaplain stationed overseas, to comfort the bereaved at the scene of a bloody murder. Ret. Maj. Paul Underhill, his wife and two of his four children are dead, shot apparently by one of the sons, who took his own life after killing the others. Laura serves as advocate for the surviving children, Maggie and Mark, who want to remain in the… Read More

Putnam, 1996. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The 7th Kat Colorado title. Murder mixes with those country-music familiars, booze and cheating, when the grown-up problems of a childhood chum draw PI Kat Colorado (last seen in Alley Kat Blues) into the rhinestone world of the C&W tour scene. Despite her years with a thieving, wandering ex-husband, country singing star Dakota Jones remains the warm person Kat remembers. Dakota even agrees to help aspiring singer Hope Delaney, a previously unknown relative who, Kat suspects, is not the simple, down-home girl she seems. So why is Dakota receiving threatening notes and bunches of dead roses? And why was her Memphis audience stampeded by a flash grenade? Enhanced security and Kat's reassuring presence enable Dakota to keep performing until a singer who resembles her is murdered, the body left with a note saying, "Now we're even, Dakota."… Read More

N.Y.: Scribners, 1990. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Pages show some age-tonong else near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Introduces Sharyn McCrumb's popular ballad series featuring Sheriff Spencer Arrowood. A MACAVITY AWARD WINNER for Best Novel and an ANTHONY AWARD FINALST for Best Mystery.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Johnson City: TN: Silver Dagger, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in lightly rubbed dj. Her 1st book. Willi Taft, a fiesty Studio singer in Nashville, is bored with her life. More excitement than she wants comes her way when a local private investigator lands her in the middle of a murder investigation. This copy is SIGNEDby Saums at title page.. Silver Dagger is a consortium of Southern Mystery writers who have come together to publish a collection of quality mystery novels in hardcover (1,000 copies only) and trade paperbacks.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Charter, 1985. 1st ed., light reading crease, very minor wear along edges, previous owners name, else near fine copy of this Paperback Original. The 2nd book to feature reporter Snake Kirlin. Tennessee locale. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1998. 1st ed. A very light reading crease with very light wear along edges else near fine copy of this Paperback Original. A Harry James Denton Mystery novel set in Nashville. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER and an EDGAR AWARD NOMNEE. The bestselling toast of Tennessee, author Robert Jefferson Reed has made big bucks with his little book of folksy homilies like "Never go to bed angry" and "Eat your vegetables." He should have included "Don't commit murder." For when Reed's wife hires P.I. Harry James Denton to catch her hubby in a tryst with a sexy secretary, Harry finds the author of Life's Little Maintenance Manual strangled and drowned in his own hot tub. Caught at the scene of the crime, Harry is pegged as the prime suspect and must work double duty to avoid the specter of prison--and to pluck a murderer out of a dead man's tangled past. . . . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

Bend, Oregon, U.S.A.: Salvo Press, 1999. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this trade Paperback Original, with publishers publicity information laid in. Memphis in May, The International Barbecue Contest, The Cotton Carnival and now two murders. And it's all on the shoulders of failes cotton farmer and current Memphis homicide detective, J.W. Ragsdale, to solve both crimes before the tourists start to leave in droves.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

Nashville, TN, U.S.A.: Cumberland House Publishing, 1998. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's first book. P. I. Cody Rainwalker sets out to discover who is stalking and brutally executing the citizens of Hightower town, apparently at random. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1994. 1st edition September 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. AGATHA AWARD FINALST and a MACAVITY AWARD FINALST for Best Novel. The second Henrie O [Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, ex- journalist] mystery. "Agatha Award-winning Hart takes her retired Missouri newspaperwoman, Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, introduced in Dead Man's Island, to Tennessee, where she becomes the honorary aunt of a young man accused of killing his wife. Henrie O is vacationing at the mountain cabin of her friend Margaret, who is recovering from heart surgery, when Margaret's nephew, Craig Matthews, arrives distraught and bloodied. As he tells of having found his kitchen demolished and his wife Patty Kay murdered, Henrie O realizes that the weak-willed, perhaps devious, Craig has set himself up as the killer by running from the scene. As a favor to Margaret, she decides to investigate.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1994. 1st edition September 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Slight spine slant, rear panel has indentation lines, else near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. AGATHA AWARD FINALST and a MACAVITY AWARD FINALST for Best Novel. The second Henrie O [Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, ex- journalist] mystery. "Agatha Award-winning Hart takes her retired Missouri newspaperwoman, Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, introduced in Dead Man's Island, to Tennessee, where she becomes the honorary aunt of a young man accused of killing his wife. Henrie O is vacationing at the mountain cabin of her friend Margaret, who is recovering from heart surgery, when Margaret's nephew, Craig Matthews, arrives distraught and bloodied. As he tells of having found his kitchen demolished and his wife Patty Kay murdered, Henrie O realizes that the weak-willed, perhaps devious, Craig has set himself up as the killer by running from… Read More

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam"s Sons, 1993. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Despite a couple of shaky plot turns, readers will gladly succumb to McDonald's laconic wit and smooth pacing in this 10th entry in the Fletch series. Ex-reporter Irwin Maurice Fletcher--just Fletch, please--is in semi-retirement in Tennessee where, after three marriages, he has settled in with Carrie, a plainspoken "Southern country woman." One dark and stormy night (yes!), Fletch's heretofore unknown son, Jack, arrives, accompanied by a South African killer, a kidnapper and a drug dealer who escaped from federal prison with him. Beguiled by 20-ish Jack, Fletch is soon effectively in charge of getting the escapees away from the cops and in to Alabama where a group of white supremacists have encamped to await their leader, the killer. Although in looks and manners, Jack surely has not fallen far from the paternal… Read More