Search Results: Theater from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1992. 1st American edition, November, 1992 so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Features actor-detective PhilipFletcher. 1st A. Fine in dj, features actor-detective Philip Fletcher. "Noel Coward could have written this snappy show-biz tale starring English actor Philip Fletcher, the clever, lecherous and charming murderer Shaw introduced in Murder Out of Tune. Invited to join the repertory productions of Twelfth Night and Macbeth scheduled to open in London and move to New York, Philip plays Malvolio in the former and Banquo in the latter, which stars an American movie idol as the main Thane. The ill will between Philip and the young star leads to a fierce public fight. When Philip discovers the young man stabbed to death in a nearly empty theater, he must extricate himself nimbly, especially since the authorities have remained suspicious of his earlier crime capers. Thrust into public attention after assuming the… Read More

London: UK: Headline, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dj. First book in the Robert Fairfax Georgian mystery series set in the vibrant age of 1760's London - Tom Jones and Moll Flanders Hannah March is a pseudonym for crime writer Tim Wilson.. "He once had a bright future ahead of him but when his father committed suicide, his estate and fortune was forfeited to the crown. Now Robert Fairfax, after a period of dissipation, has finally got his life together and is working as a tutor for Matthew Hemsley, a young man who comes from a powerful and rich family. To give the student some polish, he is taking him to London to introduce him to the people who will one day be a part of his future. Matthew finds himself more interested in the social whirl of London and finds himself in love with the toast of the London Theatre Miss Lucy Dove. When she sends him a letter asking him to meet her at her home, he sneaks away from Robert to meet her. When Robert tracks him down, he finds Lucy dead and Matthew unable to… Read More

Headline London 1999 1st ed. Fine in dj. First book in the Robert Fairfax Georgian mystery series set in the vibrant age of 1760's London - Tom Jones and Moll Flanders. Set in London's Covent Garden, we find a pupil of Robert Fairfax is accused of murdering a woman. It's up to him to prove his pupil innocent.otherwise he will die on the gallows. Hannah March is a pseudonym for crime writer Tim Wilson.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Scribners, 1988. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Jocelyn O'Roarke theatrical mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: St Martins Press, 2001. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The 11th Elizabethan Theatre mystery featuring Nicolas Bracewell. "Murder makes a late entrance in Marston's (The Wanton Angel, etc.) 11th Elizabethan adventure, but enough else of interest is going on to keep the reader engaged. The inn yard of the Queen's Head, London, home of Lord Westfield's Men, lies icy, cold and deserted in the wake of a long bitter winter that has left the members of the company unemployed and desperate. When they get the opportunity to perform six plays at the Essex estate of Sir Michael Greenleaf, the leaders of the company are elated. However, there are two conditions: they must accept Davy Stratton, the son of a successful Essex merchant, as an apprentice, and one of the plays that they perform must be entirely new. An interview with young Davy persuades them to accept him, while a new play, The Witch of Rochester, written by… Read More

N.Y.: Cmopolitan Book Corporation, 1928. First American Edition. Original yellow cloth, front board and spine stamped in dark blue, some light soiling and rubbing to boards, in original dust jacket with $2.00 price, spine a bit sunned, but no chips or tears. Authors' First Book. Bibliomystery. This is the basis for the 1930 film, "Murder!, starring Herbert Marshall and Norah Baring, and co-written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It concerns Martella Baring, a young actress, who is put on trial and convicted of murder and a fellow actor Sir John Saumarez who takes up her cause and tries to prove her innocence. . While the London theater provides the background for murder, the murderer is caught with the help of a rewritten play. This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the auction of Firsts: The Library of Robin and Kathryn Smiley.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Lucas, Sidney Seymour. Book.

Putnam, 1979. 1st ed. A fine, beautiful copy in dust jacket. Murder in a theatrical family; the 2nd Mici Anhalt title; review slip and photo of author laid in. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2004. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Cleo Delaphine was the Lentement Decorating Shop’s most disagreeable customer but that didn’t mean the staff was exactly glad to see her dead, even if she did have a reputation for being slow-paying. The Lentement’s owner, Emily Murdock, was far more interested in talking employee Henry Bryce into marrying her. Henry, on the other hand, had other ideas. His last wife had cried a lot and ended up throwing a cup of hot coffee in his face. He wasn’t anxious to go there again. Still, Emily and Henry couldn’t help but wonder if the gun they discovered in the bust of Daniel Webster had anything to do with Cleo’s murder. After all, the cops hadn’t found the murder weapon. Emily figured the gun could have been there for the entire year the bust had sat on the shelf waiting for her to make some repairs, so she reattached it inside the bust and sent Henry to the Belasco… Read More

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Century Publications, 1944. 1st printing. Digest size. Century Books #12, [.25 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. Covers lightly darkened, pages are age toned, very small nick at foot of spine. Scarce mystery about a killing that occurs on opening night of a Broadway play and "involves, before its solution, the most important figures in the whole production -- the rich producer, equally famous in New York and Hollywood, the titled and fabulously clever author, the beautiful star herself, and all the lesser members of the cast and backstage crew." All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good-Near Fine. Vintage Paperback.

London: UK: Bantam Press, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped. , "Marston's fourth novel set in the world of Elizabethan theater will have its audience calling for encores. Brimming with life, colorful dialogue and, of course, drama, the story follows the tribulations of Nicholas Bracewell, stage manager of the acting troupe Lord Westerfield's Men. As he oversees rehearsals and performances, Bracewell must also salve the fragile egos of actor and ladies' man Lawrence Firethorn; lovelorn and talented playwright and actor Edmund Hoode; and even aspiring poet Abel Strudwick, a humble waterman who ferries passengers across the river Thames. On Strudwick's boat Bracewell and the waterman discover a corpse in the river that may be linked to misfortunes assailing the company and to a crime that is close to home for Bracewell. Young hatter apprentice Hans Kippel, who works for Bracewell's landlady and lover, Anne Hendrik, returns from an errand traumatized and… Read More

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1991. 1st ed. cover stained,spotted at page edges else very good in dust jacket showing some of the staining at rear. Marston's fourth novel set in the world of Elizabethan theater will have its audience calling for encores. Brimming with life, colorful dialogue and, of course, drama, the story follows the tribulations of Nicholas Bracewell, stage manager of the acting troupe Lord Westerfield's Men. As he oversees rehearsals and performances, Bracewell must also salve the fragile egos of actor and ladies' man Lawrence Firethorn; lovelorn and talented playwright and actor Edmund Hoode; and even aspiring poet Abel Strudwick, a humble waterman who ferries passengers across the river Thames. On Strudwick's boat Bracewell and the waterman discover a corpse in the river that may be linked to misfortunes assailing the company and to a crime that is close to home for Bracewell. Young hatter apprentice Hans Kippel, who works for Bracewell's landlady and lover, Anne… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. 1st ed. Near fine in dj. Dr. Fell title. Fell and well-known writer Philip Knox were sailing across the Atlantic to New York along with Lady Tiverton (who'd once been Margery Vane, the well-known actress). In the U.S. Fell and Knox find their lives tangled with Miss Vane's along with a ghost who haunts the opening of a production of 'Romeo and Juliet'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

N.Y.: Walker, 1994. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Hunter is a playwright and this is his 1st novel. Chicago setting and theatrical background. "Meet Jeremy Ransom, a veteran homicide detective in Chicago who considers most of his partners "twits" and is currently rereading Dickens, a chapter or two of Bleak House while soaking in the tub at the end of the day. He sounds unlikely but is, in fact, the charmingly believable center of playwright Hunter's debut novel. Three recent, seemingly random murders are connected when elderly Emily Charters identifies the victims as fellow members of the audience at a performance of Love's Labour Lost at a small North Side storefront theater. Emily goes to the police with her observation, but only after more killings does Ransom finally believe that the audience must have witnessed something that incriminates the killer...Hunter achieves a… Read More

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1995. 1st edition, June 1995, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Mystery. An Elizabethan Theater Mystery featuring Nicholas Bracewell. "As Marston's seventh excellent Elizabethan theater mystery (after The Silent Woman) opens, Lord Westfield's Men are performing in the yard of the Queen's Head when the lead character misses his cue. It's not stage fright: he's dead. Nicholas Bracewell, book holder and sleuth, devises an ingenious way to finish the show, but the company needs a new play fast. A mysterious manuscript called The Roaring Boy arrives; based on a recent scandalous murder, it argues that justice miscarried horribly in the case. From the moment they decide to stage the play, Nicholas and his troupe are embroiled in a real-life drama involving beatings, murders, treason, torture, incest, arson, blooming love and a… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1994. 1st edition, May 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Edward Marston's new mystery novel continues the adventures of Nicholas Bracewell, book holder for an Elizabethan theater troupe, who handles myriad practical details, soothes wounded egos, navigates backstage politics, and arranges each evening's performance of a play by Lord Westfield's Men. The Silent Woman begins with fire, a catastrophe that displaces the troupe from its London home and sends it on the road to earn its keep. Before the actors depart, Nicholas is troubled by a terrible event: a young woman, disguised as a man, is murdered before she can deliver an urgent message to him. His heart is further burdened by a quarrel with Anne Hendrik, the kind woman with whom he has reached a mutual understanding. The traveling band of actors keeps Nicholas fully occupied. Lawrence… Read More

N.Y.: Dodd, 1984. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Julian Quist title. A bomb, set off in the backstage area of a Broadway theatre, destroys the building, kills a dozen or more actors and members of the stage crew. The star of the play is the glamorous Elissa Hargrove, movie star and controversial political figure and client of Quist, is presumed one of those that reached the hospital DOA. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.