Search Results: Vancouver from Murder By The Book

Toronto: Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, 1995. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Light soiling at page edges else near fine in dust jacket very lightly soiled at rear panel, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Willows and Parker title. Set in Vancouver. An ELLIS AWARD FINALST. "Shelley has it made. Not only is he tall, dark, and handsome, but he is blessed with a great body, a decided comfort to someone who truly believes that “skin deep is plenty deep enough.” Moreover, he has arranged his life in a way that affords him maximum enjoyment for minimum effort. He moves from one classy house-sitting job to another, supporting himself with petty theft and the occasional bouncing job in downtown Vancouver bars, using his spare time to work on his tan, develop his pecs, and polish his snazzy Datsun SX300. But on one fine hot day in August, Shelley makes two big mistakes. First, he breaks into a car belonging to off-duty police detectives Jack Willows… Read More

NY: Viking, 1989. 1st ed. Fine copy in dust jacket with remainder line at bottom of pages. ARTHUR ELLIS Award Winner for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Remainder.

NY: Viking, 1989. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD WINNER for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Seattle, WA, U.S.A.: Seal Press, 1988. 1st edition, October 1988, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Introduces private eye Meg Lacey in this paperback original. Light wear along edges, reading crease, else near fine. Vancouver locale. " This mystery boasts a gripping plot with a psychological twist and debuts a strong, feminist, highly appealing detective. In seemingly unrelated cases, Meg Lacey is hired to find two missing young women, 15-year-old Lillian Kubicek and 19-year-old Alison Chase. Lillian is found dead of a heroin overdose, and Meg believes she can tie the death to Alison's fiance Danny Haswell who owns a nightclub that Meg suspects is a cover for child-pornography and drug rings. What starts as mere guesswork is substantiated when Meg and her friend Johanna, a prostitute, visit the club on "ladies' night" and witness debauchery that unnerves even hardened Johanna. Eventually Meg finds someone within Haswell's organization who will… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1979. 1st US ed. A fine copy a near fine copy of still bright, white dust jacket which is unusual. Author's first novel which was the WINNER of the SEAL AWARD for the MOST PROMISING FIRST NOVELIST IN CANADA.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Vancouver / Toronto, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges lightly soiled else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 2nd Meg Lacey title. Vancouver locale. "When Vicky Fischer hires Vancouver p.i. Meg Lacey (Ladies' Night, 1988) to track down her sister Sherry and nephew Mark, she sets in motion two murders and one stomach-turning case of child abuse (so extreme that the wife-beating that preceded seems inconsequential). Sister Sherry, she says, is mentally unstable. Sherry's husband Greg, who is liked by almost everyone, says so too. Then Sherry is found dead, as is an old codger who seemed to be lurking around her apartment. Greg's alibi--that old mystery chestnut, the mis-set clock--is quickly picked apart, but while Meg tackles him, the cops are busy hassling Sherry's neighbor Ed, a black man with a record of assault, who, coincidentally, is having an affair with… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Vancouver police detectives Jack Willows & Claire Parker. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998. 1st edition of the Advance Reading Copy, fine, unread copy. Vancouver police detectives Jack Willows & Claire Parker. 288 pages. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Counterpoint, 2002. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINEGrey boards, black quarter cloth, silver foil to spine. Canadian author; shortlisted for the Giller Prize. In mylar. Set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Both a HAMMETT AWARD WINNER and a ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. Lawyer, Arthur Beauchamp, retires to an idyllic island off the British Columbia but is drawn back by the arrest of a colleague for rape. Set in Vancouver and in the Gulf Islands. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.