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

N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, 1921. 1st edition, 1st printing as signified on copyright page with the date 1921 with no other date or printing listed. spine & boards are somewhat soiled, stained & faded, with small red stain at rear. "Pawned" was a 1922 American silent melodrama film directed by Irvin Willat, and starring Tom Moore, Edith Roberts, Charles K. Gerrard, Josef Swickard, Mabel Van Buren, and James O. Barrows. Packard wrote the screenplay.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1993. 2nd Printing, January 1993, so stated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at title page. An AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Mystery. Introduces Bo Bradley, a child abuse investigator with San Diego's juvenile court system, who gets involved with an non-Indian deaf boy found on the Barona Ranch Indian Reservation. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 2001. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. A Blue McCarron novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1993. First edition, 1st printing, January 1993, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Black of jacket shows some light rubbing. An AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Mystery. Introduces Bo Bradley, a child abuse investigator with San Diego's juvenile court system, who gets involved with an non-Indian deaf boy found on the Barona Ranch Indian Reservation. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Her 2nd Bo Bradley title. Bo tracks kidnapped eight-year-old Hannah Franer to an obscure cult in New York's Hudson Valley. But the cult leader, an Iroquois mystic who is as wise as she is ageless, convinces Bo that the evil lies elsewhere. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1998. 1st Edirion, September 1998, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. A MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEEfor Best novel. . "Blue McCarron has a Ph.D. in social psychology. She teaches and writes while living reclusively in an abandoned motel in the middle of the California desert with her Doberman, Bronte. A minister's kid, she has an imprisoned felon for a twin and a broken heart from grieving over her lost lover, Misha. When a body is found trussed up in a public freezer and widow Muffin Crandall, 61, claims she killed an intruder in self-defense and then did some dumb things, including freezing the corpse for five years, Muffin's brother Dan hires Blue to free his much older sister by analyzing her. It is apparent to Blue and forensic psychiatrist Rox that Muffin's story is a hoax. But who… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1998. 1st edition, September 1998, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges beginning to age tone else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEE. "Blue McCarron has a Ph.D. in social psychology. She teaches and writes while living reclusively in an abandoned motel in the middle of the California desert with her Doberman, Bronte. A minister's kid, she has an imprisoned felon for a twin and a broken heart from grieving over her lost lover, Misha. When a body is found trussed up in a public freezer and widow Muffin Crandall, 61, claims she killed an intruder in self-defense and then did some dumb things, including freezing the corpse for five years, Muffin's brother Dan hires Blue to free his much older sister by analyzing her. It is apparent to Blue and forensic psychiatrist Rox that Muffin's story is a hoax. But who is Muffin protecting? Who wants her dead?… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1997. 1st edition, February 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Child abuse investigator Bo Bradley is back to confront the curious case of The Dollmaker's Daughters. Fianna is not your usual fifteen-year-old. You can find her most nights at Goblin Market, a dark and misty club where teenage would-be vampires come to play.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Ballantine, 1993. 1st edition, March 1993, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Hopi Indians-Santa Fe. First book in series. "In Page's accomplished debut mystery, the Hopi kachinas referred to in the title--wooden representations thought by the tribe to embody the gods themselves--have been pilfered from their sacred cave and are making their way around the art-world black market in violation of federal law. On their trail are Larry Collins, a maverick FBI agent; Tony Ramirez, a Santa Fe police sergeant assigned to investigate the murder of one of the black marketeers; and Mo Bowdre, a local artist who took up sculpture after being blinded in a mining accident. With his Hopi girlfriend, Connie Barnes, Bowdre solves the mysteries of the murder and the theft ".... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2003. 1st. Ed. Fine in dust jacket. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER of the Mary Higgins Clark Award. A Faith Fairchild mystery set in Massachusetts. INSCRIBED by the author at title page.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj. The Fairchild family is on a 2 month stay in Lyon. SIGNED by the Author on the Title Page, Publisher's Promotional Bookmark for this book laid in. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1992. 1st prtg. Light wear at edges else a near fine copy in wraps. The 3rd Faith Fairchild title; small town Massachusetts locale. SIGNED COPY.. Signed by Author. 1st Prtg. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 3rd Faith Fairchild, former New York City caterer, investigates a suspect retirement home in the small New England town where she now lives. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1994. 1st edition, October 1994, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, very light rubbing at corners, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Laid in is a bookmark for this title in the series.. Featuring recipes, quilting lore and murder, Page's sixth entry in the Faith Fairchild series centers around the Massachusetts housewife and caterer's next-door neighbor, occasional employee and friend, Pix Miller. Early in the summer on Sanpere Island, Maine, Pix and her daughter check the construction work on the Fairchilds' summer cottage and discover a quilt-wrapped body buried where the foundation will soon be poured. Dead is Mitchell Pierce, an antiques seller and house restorer with a host of enemies on the island. While her daughter begins work at the island summer camp, Pix wonders about the blue X stitched on the edge of… Read More

NY,NY: William Morrow & Co, 1999. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A Faith Fairchild mystery set in New York City. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY,: William Morrow & Co, 2005. 1st. Ed FINE/FINE - A Faith Fairchild mystery. An AGATHA AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. A Faith Fairchild mystery set in ski country of Vermont.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

NY, NY.: Dood, Mead, 1946. 1st. Ed..A fine copy in un-clipped dust jacket [$2.50 price intact]. Jacket shows wear at spine edge and a few nicks along the top edge at both front and rear. A Music related mystery surrounding a missing Stradivarious violin. Marco Page is Harry Kurnitz.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Pantheon, 1984. 1st American edition, so stated. Fine in dust jacket, one small scrape at bottom edge. J. Pierpont Morgan has hired the 20th century's most accomplished and audacious thief, Adam Worth, to steal the Mona Lisa for him. Both get more than they bargined for. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Calver, Dave. Book.

NY: Berkeley Prime Crime, 2000. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1, page edges show very light tage toning else a fine, unread copy. Pbk Original. Featuring Kathryn Ardleigh, an American living abroad in Victoria's England, and penning pseudonymous. "Shilling Shockers" for an eager, sensation-hungry populace, and Sir Charles Sheridan. Kathryn has found a kindred spirit in Jennie Jerome Churchill. but there is a serious scandal threatenting Jennie---and the political future of her son Winston. She is being blackmailed by someone who claims to have proof that Winston's father was none other than Jack the ripper . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Berkeley Prime Crime, 1998. 1st prtg, thus (originally published by Avon in 1994). Very light reading crease else about fine. 1st thus. (originaly published by Avon in 1995). Small sticker pull atr front else near fine. 1st in this highly successful Paperback Original series featuring Kathryn Ardleigh, an American living abroad in Victoria's England, and penning pseudonymous "Shilling Shockers" for an eager, sensation-hungary populace.. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Book.