Search Results: VENICE from Murder By The Book

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 2005. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. slight slant to spine else near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A HAMMETT PRIZE AWARD WINNER. 405 pages. Like all of war torn Europe in 1946, Italy is trying to resume its tempo, but Adam Miller, U. S. war crimes investigator in Germany, is thrown into the middle of a murder and a cover-up upon arriving to reunite with his mother. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. 1st. ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light spine slant else near fine in dust jacket. A Commissario Guido Brunetti title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: St Martins Press, 1992. 1st edition, March 1992, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, a couple of tiny nicks at spine heel, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. small nick at head and foot of spine. 2nd Soho art dealer Rhea Buerklin. Shocked by the murder of one of her clients on the steps of the Venice Opera House, Rhea sets out to find the truth.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: The Penguin Press, 2005. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through interviews with such locals as a suicidal poet, a surrealist painter, and a master glassblower learned about the region's rich cultural history. By the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. 414 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2008. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman is bewildering. That is, until Inspector Alessandro Cenni of the State Police discovers that this retired cultural attaché was not only a difficult tenant and a blackmailer, but a bisexual swinger who recently had a female lover in residence. The dead woman grew up in occupied Venice, and one of her secrets from World War II might have surfaced. And the bucolic village is not that innocent: it was the site of a scandalous murder fifty years earlier. Cenni’s boss wants a scapegoat, and the woman’s young former lover is the obvious target, but Cenni cannot bring himself to close the case without bringing the true perpetrator to justice.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1995. 1st edition, November 1995, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Small stain at top corner of pages else near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A murderer stalks the members of the Coleridge and Other Romantic Poets Society -- first in Venice, during their Byron-Shelly tour of Italy and then follows them back to England. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1995. 1st pbk printing December 1995, so stated, complete number line beginning with 1. Paper beginning to age tone, else near fine copy. The 3rd title in the series featuring Venice Police Commissario Guido Brunetti. Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera--a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before night is out, Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless, death.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Saksa, Cathy. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. 1st. Ed. F/F/ A Commisario Guido Brunetti mystery from the critically aclaimed internation mystery writer Donna Leon. READING THIS OR ANY OF HER BOOKS ALLOWS YOU TO SIT AT HIS FAMILY TABLE, MEETS HIS RELATIVES AND THEN WALK THE DARK SIDE OF VENICE. A MUST READ FOR ANY TRUE MYSTERY READER.. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. 1st. Ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Leon at title page. Venice. Signed by Author. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Morrow, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 2nd in the series to feature American expatriate writer Urbino Macintyre, set in Venice during Carnivale. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008. 1st American edition, so stated and with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Venetian map endpapers. When a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti’s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work in Africa, calls on him with a request, Brunetti suspects the man has hidden motives. An American-style Christian group has begun meeting in private homes in the city, and it’s possible the priest is merely wary of the competition. Nevertheless, Brunetti and his wife, Paola, decide to go undercover. But when a girl’s body is found floating in a canal, Brunetti must put everything aside to investigate But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewelry that she carries. So Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order… Read More

NY. NY: St Martins Press, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Follows the adventures of big-time art thieves around the world from Venice to New York. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: William Morrow & Co, 1993. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. An Urbino Macintyre, American espatriate in Venice, tries to help the Contessa, when affairs of the heart attack a relative.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket.Venetian mystery featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1999. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Langton is a WINNER OF THE GRAND MASTER AWARD from the Mystery Writers of America. Cover and Illustrations by Langton. "The Homer Kelly series is usually set in Massachusetts (Homer and wife Mary teach at Harvard), but occasionally Langton takes the amiable pair--ever-enthusiastic Homer and more subued but equally perceptive Mary--on the road. This fourteenth entry finds them returning to Italy, scene of The Dante Game (1991). The venue here is Venice rather than Florence, but the travelogue tone is equally infectious, as Homer settles in to study Renaissance manuscripts, and Mary sets out, guidebook in hand, to see the city. She does exactly that (tourists would do well to follow her footsteps), but along the way, she becomes involved with a handsome doctor, who turns out to be a particularly vile murderer. The tangled plot jumps… Read More

N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. 1st American Edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Leon's Guido Brunetti novels have been justly celebrated for their nuanced portrayal of Venice and their character-driven emphasis on human relationships. Both of those attributes are displayed nicely in her latest effort, the fifteenth in this long-running and much-loved series. When police commissario Brunetti and his assistant, Vianello, help out one of Vianello's friends, who has been arrested in an environmental protest, they find themselves embroiled in a family feud involving the friend's wife and her father, the owner of a centuries-old glass factory on the nearby island of Murano. No actual crime takes place until the novel is nearly half over, and even then, the death of a night watchman at the glass factory appears accidental. More than ever in this series, the emphasis here is not on mystery--the bad guy is obvious from the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1999. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Langton is a WINNER OF THE GRAND MASTER AWARD from the Mystery Writers of America. Cover and Illustrations by Langton. Homer Kelly is in Venice for a rare book conference. "The Homer Kelly series is usually set in Massachusetts (Homer and wife Mary teach at Harvard), but occasionally Langton takes the amiable pair--ever-enthusiastic Homer and more subued but equally perceptive Mary--on the road. This fourteenth entry finds them returning to Italy, scene of The Dante Game (1991). The venue here is Venice rather than Florence, but the travelogue tone is equally infectious, as Homer settles in to study Renaissance manuscripts, and Mary sets out, guidebook in hand, to see the city. She does exactly that (tourists would do well to follow her footsteps), but along the way, she becomes involved with a handsome doctor, who… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2003. 1st American edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent’s worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice’s elite military academy. Brunetti’s sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician -- a man of impeccable integrity, all too rare in politics. Dr. Moro is clearly devastated; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seem convinced that the boy’s death could not have been suicide, neither appears eager to talk to the police or involve Brunetti in any investigation of the… Read More

N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on special page. Endpaper maps of Venice. "In Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all. Fifteen years ago a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, surviving only thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her in a state of permanent childhood, unable to learn or mature. The drunk man claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day he couldn't remember a thing. Now, at a fundraising dinner for a… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Villard, 1991. 1st ed. fine in near fine dust jacket. NYC Police Lt. Frank Janek.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.