Search Results: Authors starting with J from Murder By The Book

Greenwich: CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1957. 1st printing, July 1957, Gold Medal #s688. [.35 cover price] Vintage Paperback. Cover by Richard Powers. Although there are others that try to cast doubt on Theo's Durrant's conviction, this is the only one that explains exactly why the jury found him guilty. Based on the lead detective's notes -- the discovery of which in the wreckage of the San Francisco earthquake must have bordered on the miraculous -- and the many, many, many interviews everyone involved in the case (including Durrant himself) gave to the press -- this is deeply researched and wonderfully told. This was Jackson's last book as he died before he could finish and his good friend took over where he left off. 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.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Illus. by Powers, Richard. Vintage Paperback.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2001. 1st prtg. A few dog-eared pages else near fine copy of this trade paperback. Hard-boiled. Detroit setting. A Det. Sgt. "Fang" Muleheisen title. James Crumley called the book "without a doubt one of the finest novels ever written--smart, funny and completely convincing. I've re-read the novel a dozen times....it's one of my favorites".. 1st Prtg. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. 1st Edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Joe Service and Helen Sedlacek, two of the featured players in Jackson's superb Fang Mulheisen novels, are now on their own. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. First edition, first printing, so stated. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Jackson at title page. "Back on the streets in top form is Detroit's soiled, yet sensitive Sgt. "Fang" Mulheisen, whose last appearance was in the praised Grootka . Having rubbed out mobster Sid Sedlacek and his driver, hit man Hal Good is picked up as a possible witness and taken to jail while Mulheisen oversees the crime scene. A quick ID switch with a drunk in a nearby cell lands Hal back on the streets, in possession of a large chunk of money taken from Sid (who'd taken it from his boss, hence the contract), and pursued by both Mulheisen and another gun-for-hire. Meanwhile, Mulheisen meets up with a woman from his past and falls for her all over again, even though her husband has a few too many links with the latest profusion of homicides. With dialogue that's droll and dark, a series figure who's one short step from terminal burnout and a seamy… Read More

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. 1st ed. fine in dj. A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen title. It's springtime in Detroit and Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen has settled in for a period of repose - he thinks. But when a young kid arrives with an E-mail cartoon message addressed to Mulheisen depicting a murder and an alluring young historian suddenly wants to know all about Grootka, Mulheisen begins a scavenger hunt to uncover the notebooks Grootka left behind. It turns out that Grootka knew a lot more than he ever told Mulheisen, or anyone. Such as what happened to Jimmy Hoffa one lonely weekend in an isolated African-American resort town on the Great Lakes, and the advice Grootka gave him: "When push comes to shove, kick is better." Mulheisen soon discovers that neither the young historian nor modern jazz's rising star is what he seems.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan, 1995. 1st ed. LIMITED EDITION, 1 0f 300 copies bound in cloth SIGNED and NUMBERED by Jackson. Fine in dust jacket, in slipcase, this being #140. "The trajectory of marginal Detroit mobman Joe Service continues to leave a mess in its aftermath, the clearing up of which seems to be the eternal lot of Detroit copper Fang Mulheisen, now in his sixth appearance. In Deadman (1994), Joe was left in Montana, shot in the head. Here, still recovering from his coma, he takes off for Salt Lake City with his smitten nurse, Cathleen Yoder, who was lusted after by the female shooter in the previous novel. Joe and Cathleen become lovers, but his memory isn't as functional as his sex drive: he can't remember where his money is, and he has violent encounters with some large angry hoods from Tonga, whom he isn't sure really exist. Meanwhile Fang is falling hard for a rural woman in Montana, where he is still tracing Joe's part in previous killings. Jackson… Read More

N.Y.: Random House, 1977. 1st ed, so stated. with numberline down to "2" in keeping with Random House's methods for identifying first printings at the time. Mild age toning to edge of the bords, and to pages, else fine in dust jacket, not price-clipped. [$6.95 price intact] NOT a remainder copy or book club, as many are. Jackson's first Detective Sargeant "Fang" Mulheisen title. Detroit. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. 1st. Trade Ed. [There was an earliier limited edition published by Dennis McMillan] Fine in dust jacket, lightly sunned at spine. SIGNED by Jackson at title page Fang” Mulheisen, a police detective in Detroit, Michigan, is featured in the sixth title in this incredible series. Jackson's use of multiple characters. that weave in and out of the plot, will have you waiting for his next effort. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Woodstock VT.: Foul Play Press, 1990. 1st edition, Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen, introduced in The Diehard , here investigates three linked murders in a Detroit precinct where men are men and women are helpless "babes," rated according to physical attributes. Grootka, a tough, retired cop and Mulheisen's former mentor, finds the body of pimp Books Meldrim in a car trunk. Twenty years earlier, Books informed on a man who allegedly raped and killed a girl; Grootka interrogated the suspect, who then escaped. Now Grootka insists that the misogynistic criminal has returned for revenge, finding evidence in the recent violent death of an old woman. Mulheisen follows as the streetwise Grootka unravels the clues. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. 1st ed. A fine copy in pictorial wraps. Review sheet laid in. Det. Sgt. "Fang" Muleheisen title. Detroit. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994. First Edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by author at title page. Fang Mulheisen, Detroit police detective extraodinaire, is back - this time on a mission to the high dusty plains of Montana, where Helen Sedlacek seems to have surfaced. Readers of Jackson's previous work will remember that Helen, daughter of the late, hardly lamented Mafia don Big Sid Sedlacek, exacted vengeance for her father's murder by chopping down the leader of the Detroit mob with a double-barreled 12-gauge, then disappeared with a truck full of stolen cash. Now, months later, a man fitting the description of Joe Service -- Helen's lover and Mulheisen's longtime underworld nemesis -- arrives in a Butte hospital in a coma, having been shot in the face at close range. Then Mario Soper, a mob hit man with an open contract to kill Joe, turns up dead in a… Read More

Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY. It is the story of a young Pinkerton agent from "back east" who is thrust upon the violent streets. of Butte, Montana in 1917.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Walker, 1992. 1st ed. Uncorrected Page Proofs. Sunned along edges, else near Fine, wraps. The first hardcover appearnce for Miss Danford after three pbk originals. Hawaii at the turn of the century. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof.

NY,NY: Simon, 1970. 1st ed. Fine in dj. REVIEW COPY. Author's 1st book. Oklahoma Setting. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: KENSINGTON, 1994. 1st ed., fine in dj. Author's 1st book. "This entertaining debut introduces Kate Austen, a resilient young northern California mom. When her husband sets off to "find himself" in Europe, Kate is pregnant and jobless, and their daughter is only five. Then her next-door neighbor is murdered. Kate doubts that the killer was an intruder-nothing of value was stolen, and it wasn't like the orderly Pepper Livingston to have left a window open. Along with her acerbic best friend, Kate begins to look at her neighbors in a new light, especially Pepper's cool husband, Robert. Searching through Pepper's things at the request of nearly divorced homicide Lt. Michael Stone, Kate finds a matchbook in an old purse of Pepper's and a hidden diaphragm; she is also shown an earring the police have found in the hallway. Later, after she and Michael have become more intimate, she uses these clues to come up with the culprit and motive. . First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read More

N.Y.: Kensington Pub Corp, 1995. 1st edition, so stated, August 1995. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The second Kate Austen mystery. "The everyday life of a prosperous California suburb takes on livelier aspects when Kate Austen visits a neighbor, wealthy divorcee Mona Sterling, and finds the woman dead, apparently a suicide. The almost-divorced Kate, last seen in Murder Among Neighbors, and her friend Sharon Covington, convinced that Mona-flush with financial victory after a messy divorce-would not have taken her own life, start their own investigation, to the express disapproval of Kate's love interest, Lt. Michael Stone of the Walnut Hills' police. Not only does Kate have to cope with her fledgling art consultancy, her five-year-old daughter, Anna, and her feckless soon-to-be ex-husband, Andy, but she also has temporary custody of Mona's sullen and rebellious teenage daughter, Libby, who fiercely resents her father and his new trophy… Read More

KENSINGTON, 1997. uncorrected page proof, fine in wraps. the 2nd Attorney Kali O'Brien title. 368 pages. First Edition. Wraps. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1992. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Paper beginnig to show age toning, else fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Devon MacDonald title. Review Copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj. The 3rd PI Devon McDonald title. Minneapolis setting. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1999. 1st edition, March 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. top of page edges lightly age toned else about fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Authors first novel , a medical and legal thriller. A California surgeon is framed for a brutal hit-and-run murder. The author has been a medical examiner and lives in Northern California.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.