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

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Kotzwinkle on half-title page. Jimmy McShane has seen plenty, but he's never seen anything like the murder of Tommy Rennseler. A wealthy antiques dealer with a passion for Egyptian artifacts, Rennseler was killed like an ancient Egyptian: injected with cobra venom and ritually disembowelled. When he's hired by the dead man's daughter, McShane realizes that he's never seen anything like Temple Rennseler, either. She's beautiful, exotic and - obsessed with the Game of 30, a centuries-old form of chess that - perhaps - foretells the future. As McShane gets closer to the killer, he finds himself trapped in a more deadly game, with Manhattan as the gameboard.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Harper & Row, 1967. 1st ed. Precedes the British edition. Fine in dust jacket with $4.95 price still intact. A QUEEN'S QUORUM title. Short stories featuring Calder and Behrens. The book was dedicated to Jacques Barzun.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1976. 1st ed. Some light brown spotting at top of page edges else fine in dust jacket, protected in clear Mylar wrapper. SIGNED at free front end paper and SIGNED again at title page. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: Headline, 1991. 2nd ed. with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st novel. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 2009. 1st printing. Near fine copy of trade paperback. An ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel. Boston neurologist Patrick Lazerenko cannot believe his ears: Is it possible that his mentor and dear friend, the doctor Hernan Garcia de la Cruz was once a sadistic torturer in his homeland of Honduras? As de la Cruz faces a war crimes tribunal, Lazerenko arrives in the Hague hoping to help exonerate the doctor, not least because of his love for de la Cruz's daughter Celia. GARCIA'S HEART beats with a riveting blend of science and suspense, perfect for fans of David Balducci and John le Carre. (starred review).. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Trade Paperback.

NY: Scribner's, 1983. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Previous owner's name else near fine in lightly used dust jacket. Rosamund "Roz" Howard is an associate professor at Vassar who is looking for an extraordinary bit of research that she can publish and help her case for tenure. She's ecstatic when she is offered the plum job of editing the diaries and letters of Lady Viola Montford-Snow. Lady Viola was a well-known English novelist as well as the creator of gorgeous gardens at her home at Montford Abbey. Wondering why she was chosen out of all the qualified candidates, but not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, Roz travels to England only to find that it is not exactly the ideal scholarly situation she had anticipated.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Garden City, New York,: Doubleday Crime Club, 1930. 1st edition. Very minor wear to cloth else a near fine copy. The first book in the series featuring hymn-singing criminal lawyer Joshua Clunk, who investigates stolen industrial secrets and a string of murders on the palatial estate of the Garston family and in the surrounding villages. This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the George Cloos collection of detective fiction.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price-clipped, 21s net price intact, lightly rubbed and soiled at rear and at spine. Study of two of the most bizarre and baffling London murder mysteries of the century. With photo illustrations. Black cloth covers. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Walker, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj. PI Truman Smith title. Texas.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Seattle, WA, U.S.A.: Seal Press, 1990. 1st edition, October 1990, so stated 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges lightly soiled else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original. Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Mystery . Gaudi Afternoon, was made into a film directed by Susan Seidelman in 2001 starring Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Taylor and Juliette Lewis. "As in The Dog Collar Murders , Wilson exploits the mystery genre to explore a feminist perspective on timely subjects--here, gender roles and child custody. Professional translator Cassandra Reilly turns amateur sleuth when Frankie Stevens needs someone fluent in Spanish to accompany her to Barcelona to locate her estranged husband Ben, who has disappeared. However, Cassandra soon learns that very little is what it seems. Frankie and Ben aren't separated, they're divorced. Moreover, Ben (actually Bernadette) isn't an ex-husband, but an ex-wife: Frankie is a transsexual. The bone… Read More

NY: Scribners, 1973. 1st ed. Page edges and cloth starting to fox else near fine in price clipped dj. Set on Martha's Vineyard. Mystery by this famed Biographer of Hemingway.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

N.Y.: Walker, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. Author's first book. . Liz Conners, a thirty-three-year-old former English professor turned freelance writer, and her lover, a Cambridge police officer, investigate the murder of her next-door neighbor . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Walker, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. Author's first book. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Liz Conners, a thirty-three-year-old former English professor turned freelance writer, and her lover, a Cambridge police officer, investigate the murder of her next-door neighbor . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1996. 1st Edition, April 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "Family trees are gnarled and twisted, and many of the roots are hidden in the 12th outing (after Bird in a Cage) for Deb Ralston, a middle-aged Mormon police investigator in Fort Worth, Tex. Deb's son- in-law, a medical intern studying how human corpses decompose, finds he has an extra, unaccounted-for cadaver on his hands. Although the cause of death is determined to be a heart attack, there are still the questions of who the portly older man was and why someone has hidden his body. Nicknaming the corpse Uncle George, Deb quickly makes a connection between George and a missing genealogist. When their fingerprints don't match, she's perplexed. Then she learns that a San Francisco mortuary is missing a corpse that was shipped to Texas. What does any of this have to do with the Daughters of the American… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1996. 1st Edition, April 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED as both Martin and Wingate at front endpaper. "Family trees are gnarled and twisted, and many of the roots are hidden in the 12th outing (after Bird in a Cage) for Deb Ralston, a middle-aged Mormon police investigator in Fort Worth, Tex. Deb's son- in-law, a medical intern studying how human corpses decompose, finds he has an extra, unaccounted-for cadaver on his hands. Although the cause of death is determined to be a heart attack, there are still the questions of who the portly older man was and why someone has hidden his body. Nicknaming the corpse Uncle George, Deb quickly makes a connection between George and a missing genealogist. When their fingerprints don't match, she's perplexed. Then she learns that a San Francisco mortuary is missing a corpse that was shipped to Texas. What does any… Read More

NY: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 1998. 1st ed. Fine unread copy in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at title page. Author's first book. .A former Air Force major offers a military thriller involving a colonel whose investigation into the brutal murder of a general reveals a conspiracy stemming from the Vietnam War and presents him with a serious moral dilemma. 376 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Warner 1992, 1992. First edition, first printing November 1992. very light soiling at page edges else fine in dust jacket unclipped. When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is reluctant to take the case when he learns that his partner will be a woman with whom he had a tempestuous affair and an unpleasant parting. But duty calls and intrigue begins when they learn that several top-level people may have been involved with the "golden girl" - and many have wanted her dead. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Arlington Heights:IL: Dark Harvest 1992, 1992. 1st hdcvr ed. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by both PICKARD and CAROLYN G. HART who wrote intro. Fine in dust jacket, in slipcase as issued. [Mass. setting]. Jenny Cain investigates when a class of fourth graders finds the body of a formerly wealthy patron of the arts tucked into a priceless Chinese bed at the local art museum.. Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

N.Y.: Macmillian Publishing Co,, 1956. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in dust jacket with some minor wear at folds, very light chipping at head and foot of spine, lightly soiled at rear. Although both corners of front flap are clipped, the $3.75 price is intact. Includes a frontis portrait plate. In this unique biographical adventure, Charles Norman has gone to original sources to give us Thomas Griffiths Wainewright's life, his homicidal activities, his ingenious forgeries, his suspenseful trials and final retribution. Thomas Griffiths Wainewright was a journalist, critic, wit, forger and murderer; a friend of Charles Lamb; he hobnobbed with Coleridge, Dickens, DeQuincey. Charles Dickens visited him in Newgate prison. He also murdered his uncle, his mother-in-law and his sister-in-law -- he was apparently averse to harming strangers.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Bock, Vera. Book.

Bowling Green, OH, U.S.A.: Popular Press Bowling Green University, 1980. 1st ed. Fine in very lightly rubbed dust jacket, in protective mylar cover. Study and analyses of Agatha Christie work and her impact on the Mystery genre. If you want to learn how to construct a detective story this would be a good place to start. The Queen of Crime's techniques of plot construction, characterisation and list of golden rules are explored thoroughly and entertainingly. Includes notes, bibliography and index. 232 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.