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

N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1981. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine in lightly soiled, white dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. An English intelligence officer carries out a high-level penetration of the Japanese High Command during World War II in a disturbing tale of treason, assassination, eroticism, and death. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York and Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975. 1st hardcover edition, so stated. (Originally published as a paperback original in May 1964). Blue cloth shows some light fading along extremeties, page edges show some minor staining else a near fine copy in unprice clipped [$6.95 price intact at lower edge of front flap] dust jacket. The jacket has minimal wear along the extremities, a couple of small nicks at spine head, but does not display any of the typical spine fading associated with most copies. The First Travis McGee Title. An unusually difficult title. Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He’s also a knight-errant who’s wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: He’ll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half. McGee isn’t particularly strapped for cash, but how can anyone say no to Cathy, a… Read More

N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1982. 1st ed.,with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Not price-clipped. A boat explodes off the Florida, killing three people under mysterious circumstances. Its owner, Travis McGee's best friend Meyer, loses his last living relative. It all seems an unfortunate tragedy. Until Travis McGee starts to dig into the details. Suddenly, he and Meyer are on the track of a killer.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1979. First U.S. Hardcover Edition, [paperback original published by Gold Medal, 1972], so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Cover illustration by Don Brautigan. Travis McGee, with help from his friend Meyer, outwaits and outwits a deranged killer as he searches for a missing wife on the remote Caribbean island of Granada where he tangles with a baby-faced businessman with a lust for murder. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Brautigan, Don. Book.

Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.: Capra Press, 1983. 1st prtg. Very lightly soiled else near fine. Foreword by Eudora Welty. This slim volume is comprised of 21 short nonfiction offerings from Ross Macdonald, with the overwhelming majority dating from the 15 years between 1964 and 1979. One is a transcript of an interview given by Macdonald. The remaining 20 are essays that were written as magazine articles, book forewords and the like.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Lippincott, 1979. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, small piece of laminate at front top is bubbled, not price clipped, $9.95 price intact, in protective mylar cover.1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, lightly frayed at top edge. MacDonald's eighteenth novel featuring Travis McGee. WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD for Best Mysterty.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket with just a trace of wear at edges. Archer is plunged into an intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the coast of southern California. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1956. First edition, so stated. June 18, 1956. Original strong reddish orange (#35) and pale yellowish pink (#31) paper -covered decorative boards. Spine lettering in black on white panels. Back has black borzoi device on pale yellowish pink rectangle. White endpapers. Top and bottom edges trimmed. Top edge stained greenish blue.[ Ross Macdonald / Kenneth Millar: A Descriptive Bibliography; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983 by Matthew Bruccoli] Tiny stain at spine else about fine in original unclipped dust jacket ($2.95 price], lightly soiled, tiny chippings at ends, some surface dust soiling to rear panel. The first appearance of Millar's penname "Ross Macdoald". The sixth book in the Lew Archer Series. The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by her hotheaded husband and her rummy "uncle," Lew Archer sniffs around Malibu and finds the stink… Read More

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition, December, 1957. Paperback Original. Dell First Edition #D-112. [.35 cover rice]. Vintage Paperback. Covers lightly age toned else about fine, tight copy. Edges of text block have lmost of its dye still bright. Cover illustration by Victor Kalin. Sam Glidden owed all his success to the opportunities he'd received from Thomas McGann, president of the Harrison Corporation. But now McGann was dead, and Mike Dean, a wildly flamboyant business speculator, was looking to add the Harrison Corporation to his long list of conquests. Lots of the Travis McGee character in Sam. This is a very good story mixing corporate greed, character strength & weakness, good & evil. Set mostly in the Bahamas.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Kalin, Victor. Vintage Paperback.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1931. 1st edition, so stated. Light wear along edges, very lightly rubbed, else a near fine copy in homemade acetate dust protector. In his introduction to this documentary novel, Philip MacDonald says: "In this book I have striven to be absolutely fair to the reader. There is nothing -- nothing at all -- for the detective that the reader has not had. More, the reader has had his information In exactly the same form as the detective -- that is, the verbatim report of evidence and question." "Anthony Gethryn is vacationing in Costa del Chica, Spain, when he receives from Assistant Commissioner Sir Egbert Lucas, C.I.D., the transcript of the coroner’s inquest into the death of Maxwell Brunton. Brunton had been murdered in his study one night, a crime that could have been committed only by someone residing in the house. Brunton, according to the testimony, was a philanderer and a man easily given to anger, but he also had… Read More

N.Y.: Avon Classic Crime Collection, 1970. 3rd Avon printing [1st Classic Crime Collection printing]. February 1970. Avon #PN268 .A victim is bludgeoned to death with a woodworker’s rasp in this first case for the famed gentleman detective Anthony Gethryn. Ex-Secret Service agent Anthony Gethryn is killing time working for a newspaper when he is sent to cover the murder of Cabinet minister John Hoode, bludgeoned to death in his country home with a wood-rasp. Gethryn is convinced that the prime suspect, Hoode’s secretary Alan Deacon, is innocent, but to prove it he must convince the police that not everyone else has a cast-iron alibi for the time of the murder. "Between September 1969 and November 1971 Avon Books published thirty-eight books in the Avon Classic Crime Collection Series. They had a distinctive design of three colored stripes running diagonally across the front cover, spine, and rear cover that made them easily recognizable." Jeff Meyerson, The Mystery Fancier… Read More

Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 2001. In an important literary discovery, Macdonald biographer, Tom Nolan, unearthed three previously unpublished private-eye stories by Macdonald. "Death by Water" written in 1945, features Macdonald's first detective Joe Rogers, and two novelettes from 1950 and 1955 are detailed cases of Lew Archer. LIMITED EDITION: one of 400 copies 9This being #122) SIGNED and numbered by Nolan [with a facsimile of the author's signature]. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "Winnipeg, 1929" by Macdonald in pocket at inside of rear cover. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. Signed by the Editor. First Edition. Cloth. New/As New. Illus. by Miller, Deborah. Book.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1930. 1st American edition. Light stain at front & rear corners, else a very good, tight copy in striking dust jacket lightly browned, some light surface wear at spine and at rear cover, else a solid copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

London: Robert Hale, 2000. 1st Hardcover edition (orig. 1957 in pbk). with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. LIMITED to 400 copies. Issued as a tribute to the timeless excellence of John D. MacDonald's writing; also in acknowledgement of the half-century anniversary of the publication of his first novel in 1950; and in recognition of the long association in publishing history of the firm of Robert Hale in promoting JDM's work. Hale's quality of vision was further complemented, in the decade from 1963, by the commissioning of 25 distinctive dustjackets from the artist Barbara Walton who also did the jacket for this book in a uniforme edition with "Judge Me Not". There is no American hardcover edition.. First Hardcover. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Barbara Walton. Limited Edition.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Not price clipped. Published as a paperback original in 1960, this is MacDonald's favorite among his own novels. New introduction by MacDonald. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Knopf, 1976. 1st ed. Top edge of boards faded and bottom edge lightly rubbed, else near fine in d/w. Lew Archer is hired to find a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of the celebrated Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home in Santa Teresa.. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1986. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket very lightly soiled along top edge. A gripping story about a multimillion-dollar land swindle--& the brave, stubborn man who uncovers it--in the fragile barrier islands off the Mississippi coast.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: St. Martin's, 1999. 1st edition, November 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Bibliomystery. When Her Majesty offers Dido Hoare, London's most intrepid antiquarian bookseller, the opportunity to buy her personal library in Oxford, Dido can't believe her good fortune. It turns out to be her last bit of good fortune for some time.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges tanning as usual else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Bibliomystery. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. When Her Majesty offers Dido Hoare, London's most intrepid antiquarian bookseller, the opportunity to buy her personal library in Oxford, Dido can't believe her good fortune. It turns out to be her last bit of good fortune for some time.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1971. 1st edition, May 1971. Fawcett Gold Medal #T2412. Spine edge very lightly rubbed, a couple of small, minor nicks, else a near fine copy in wrappers. Seven stories; 4 have appeared in PLAYBOY and 3 have never before been published.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.