Search Results: Titles starting with A from Murder By The Book

Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st ed. Fine in slipcase w/o dj as issued. 1 of 250 copies SIGNED by Ambler. A number of stories and essays and lectures on true crime cases.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Limited Edition.

Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st ed. Fine in slipcase w/o dj as issued. 1 of 250 copies SIGNED by Ambler. A number of stories and essays and lectures concerning true cimes.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Limited Edition.

N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. 1st Grosset reprint edition. Orange cloth covers show some wear at extremeties, very lightly soiled else a very good - near fine copy, in home-made acetate dust wrapper. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY. Adey #4. "Thatcher Colt tries a new kind of informer, one with a link to the Great Beyond. Mrs. Lynn, a medium, claims she heard the "voice" of a young dead girl whose body has allegedly been cut to pieces then sunk. Fraud? That's what Colt (and the reader) think at first, but both have to reconsider their opinion when the corpse turns up right where Mrs. Lynn - oh, sorry, Madeline Swift - told us it was. Despite its paranormal overtones, "Startled Lady" reads rather like an early procedural. Realism, at least by Golden Age standards, is the greatest strength of this book. Abbot obviously did a lot of research on forensics and procedures, providing a sometimes fascinating testimony on police methods in the thirties. But this realism is also… Read More

N.Y.: Covici Friede, 1932. 1st edition. Yellow cloth shows some soiling otherwise a good, tight copy with very little wear. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY, Adey #2. Laid in is a laminated copy of the dust jacket reduced so as to be used as a bookmark. The book is now housed in a home-made acetate dust wrapper. "The circus was playing Madison Square Garden and Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt was there looking into some "accidents" that had befallen the troupe and led to one death. Some of the star acts had received letters warning them not to perform opening night, which happened to be Friday the Thirteenth. All the artists insisted they would go on anyway. "The Queen of The Air," Josie LaTour plunges to her death from the high rings and it doesn't take Colt long to figure it's murder. The suspects are many. From the husband, family finances are tight and she has a big insurance policy, to the catcher in the act who has loved for years, since before she married her… Read More

N.Y.: Doubleday, 1994. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Bantam, 2004. 1st edition, October 2004, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. White boards are clean and bright with blue lettering. Fine in fine dust jacket, light wrinkle at spine foot, not price clipped,in protective mylar cover. An EDGAR, a MACIVITY and a NERO AWARD WINNERS as well as ANTHONY, a BARRY and a SHAMUS AWARD FINALIST. The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island...and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting piece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a world changed forever on a clear September morning. S. J. Rozan masterfully ratchets up the tension one revelation at a… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dj. A HERODOTUS HISTORICAL AWARD WINNER as well as an ELLIS PETERS DAGGER AWARD WINNER as Best Historical Mystery. A suffragette Nell Bray title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

LYLE STUART, 1989. 1st ed. S.F. private eye Jeremiah St. John's 2nd case.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1996. First edition, November 1996, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Rita Mondragon is lying comatose and near death in a Santa Fe hospital, and her normally even-tempered partner and paramour, private detective Joshua Croft, is on a razor’s edge. This is the second time Rita’s been shot by Ernie Martinez—the first was years ago when he killed her husband and put Rita in a wheelchair—and now the recently escaped convict is on the run with his equally twisted cellmate Luiz Lucero. Despite a massive police manhunt, and warnings from the FBI and the DEA to back off, Croft sets out to capture the killers himself. As the crazed convicts leave a trail of murder and destruction behind them--from New Mexico to Las Vegas to Denver and across Kansas and Texas--one by one, their pursuers drop by the wayside. Suddenly a strange twist of fate has left only one man hunter remaining--… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1996. First edition, so stated, November 1996. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by Satterthwait at title page. Rita Mondragon is lying comatose and near death in a Santa Fe hospital, and her normally even-tempered partner and paramour, private detective Joshua Croft, is on a razor’s edge. This is the second time Rita’s been shot by Ernie Martinez—the first was years ago when he killed her husband and put Rita in a wheelchair—and now the recently escaped convict is on the run with his equally twisted cellmate Luiz Lucero. Despite a massive police manhunt, and warnings from the FBI and the DEA to back off, Croft sets out to capture the killers himself. As the crazed convicts leave a trail of murder and destruction behind them--from New Mexico to Las Vegas to Denver and across Kansas and Texas--one by one, their pursuers drop by the wayside. Suddenly a strange twist of fate has… Read More

NY: Putnam Pub Group, 2002. 1st US. Fine in dust jacket. A GOLD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE. "Acid Row" is the name that the residents of a crime-ridden, decaying housing project have given to their home. Gangs control the streets and the place is a clear danger zone. Into this battleground comes a young doctor named Sophie Morrison to visit a patient. She does not know that she is entering the home of a known pedophile. Reports are circulating that a child has disappeared and the vigilantes are out in force. Sophie is trapped at the center of this terrifying siege, with a man who can and will harm her.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Demoralized by the arrest of his candidate for the Senate, brilliant political tactician Greer Whitaker gets involved in a sensitive national security operation with the CIA, an operation with deadly implications.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Hyperion, 1996. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. When a fatal bomb erupts, Britt Montero, a "Miami New" police reporter, finds herself in the middle of her biggest story so far, "The latest Britt Montero mystery involves the Miami News crime reporter in two cases. The first concerns a missing 12-year-old boy. In researching a story about the boy's disappearance, Britt uncovers a disturbing pattern in which a number of physically similar young boys have vanished. The other case begins spectacularly when a local Hispanic television commentator is killed via car bomb. His recent stance on a free Cuba had obviously angered one of Miami's Cuban activist groups. But the headlines quickly become personal as Britt is forced to examine the life of the father she never knew. Tony Montero, a freedom fighter, was executed in Cuba by Castro. A diary he kept while incarcerated may still… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1993. 1st ed. near fine in dj, lightly rubbed at edges. African setting . When the witty, sophisticated New York couple Thomas and Sandrine Curry accompany their friend Theodore Furst on a trip to Burundi in 1963, their plans for a leisurely photo safari give way to diplomatic intrigue, romantic complications, and murder. After they spot guerilla fighters through their viewfinder and witness a military ambush, Thomas and Sandy are escorted from their campsite to a rural inn. That night, gunshots destroy any hope of sleep: One of the guests has been killed in his room, and Sandy sees the suspect flee on foot. Believing that the Currys are an important source of clues, local authorities draw them into what seems to be a simple murder investigation. But in the secretive, politically charged world of postcolonial Africa, Thomas and Sandy are slow to trust anyone - even each other. When they attempt to explore connections between the murder and the ambush, they suddenly… Read More

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1994. 1st edition, June 1994 so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by author Jeremiah Healy directly on the title page in his bold hand. "Boston PI Cuddy is coping with the aches and pains of age and accumulated injuries, the vagaries of his romance with assistant D.A. Nancy Meagher and two oddball clients interested in splitting the same case. After Pearl Rivkind's elderly husband--furniture mogul "Honest Abe"--was murdered, his secretary, Darbra Proft, took a New Jersey vacation from which only her suitcase returned. Pearl wants Cuddy to solve Abe's murder, while Darbra's obnoxious brother hopes to prove his sister is dead. Cuddy reluctantly accepts the dual case, discovering for starters that no one is grieving for the missing Darbra. Assorted friends and relations prove both suspicious and uncooperative, motives abound and another corpse turns up… Read More

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1994. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Boston PI Cuddy is coping with the aches and pains of age and accumulated injuries, the vagaries of his romance with assistant D.A. Nancy Meagher and two oddball clients interested in splitting the same case. After Pearl Rivkind's elderly husband--furniture mogul "Honest Abe"--was murdered, his secretary, Darbra Proft, took a New Jersey vacation from which only her suitcase returned. Pearl wants Cuddy to solve Abe's murder, while Darbra's obnoxious brother hopes to prove his sister is dead. Cuddy reluctantly accepts the dual case, discovering for starters that no one is grieving for the missing Darbra. Assorted friends and relations prove both suspicious and uncooperative, motives abound and another corpse turns up before solutions do. Along with his nose for crime, Cuddy demonstrates--with his customary terse wit and… Read More

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by Hall at title page. Stanley Hastings gets a phone call from an old college aquaintance who is currently the producer of a summer stock theater in rural Connecticut. It seems an actor has died of a heart attack, and an actor is immediately needed.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Pyramid G425, 1959. 1st edition, July 1959. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Cover by Richard Powers. Reading crease, light edgewear else a near fine copy. Masochism and Sadism / seething with hatred / driven by desire / blind with jealousy / ridden by fear. Driven by forces stronger than themselves they find fulfillment in the climax of violence. Here are their stories--twelve electryfing experiences probed by some of the finest writers of our time--twelve revelations that strip bare the dark reaches of human passion. Includes : William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Robert M. Coates, Flannery O'Connor, Paul bowles, Katherine Mansfield, Charles Beaumont, Shirley Ann Grau, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Moore, Villiers De I'Isle-Adam and Ellis St. Joseph.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Powers, Richard. Paperback Original.

Harcourt 1980 1st. VF/VF. REVIEW COPY. Mexico. 1st. VF/VF. REVIEW COPY. Mexico..