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

N.Y.: Doubleday, 1999. 1st ed. near fine in dust jacket. Elvis Cole series. A DILYS AWARD WINNER and A 6 TIME AWARD FINALIST. "In his eighth book about wise-cracking Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole, Crais has expanded his narrative reach and broadened his characters' horizons to produce a mature work that deserves to move him up a notch or two -- into Parker or Connelly country. He's done this by focusing on Joe Pike, Cole's tough and hitherto totally enigmatic partner. It's Pike who breaks in on Cole's reunion with Lucy Chenier, his lawyer/broadcaster lover who has just moved from New Orleans, to ask for Elvis's help in tracking down the missing daughter of a rich and powerful Hispanic businessman. When the girl turns up murdered in Griffith Park, it's Pike who gives a nerdy medical examiner valuable assistance; and when it turns out that the girl's death is linked to several other murders, it's Pike who is charged with killing the chief suspect.… Read More

N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1993. First edition 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. "Prolific crime writer Woods is back in form with a propulsive thriller featuring a movie mogul embroiled in multiple murders. ... Here with the help of a dynamic protagonist whose ambitions fuel a wild ride and an explosive ending. Vincente Michaele Callabrese works as a shake-down artist for the mob in New York City's Little Italy, but moviegoing is his passion. Early in the story, he changes his name to Michael Vincent and makes a break for L.A., where with the help of powerful studio head Leo Goldman he fufills his dream of becoming a big-time producer. Vincent's cosa nostra connections keep in touch, particularly old pal Tommy Provenzano, whose rise to power in New York parallels Vincent's in Hollywood. Eventually, Vincent's desire to bring a gentle turn-of-the-century novel to the… Read More

N.Y.: Henry Holt & Co, 1995. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. 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.: Morrow, 1979. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Light soiling to page edges, else near fine in dust jacket, lightly rubbed, a couple of small, light scrathes, in protective mylar cover, not price-clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Scribners, 1969. 1st ed. Yellow cloth with bright red lettering. Dampstain at top corner, unnoticeable to jacket but a darkened stain to cloth, jacket, not price clipped, $3.95 price intact, in protective mylar cover. A Judge Dee mystery with ten illustrations drawn by the author in the chinese style.. End-papers printed in red show the four panels of the lacquer screen.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Book.

Seattle, WA, U.S.A.: Seal Press, 1988. 1st edition, October 1988, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Introduces private eye Meg Lacey in this paperback original. Light wear along edges, reading crease, else near fine. Vancouver locale. " This mystery boasts a gripping plot with a psychological twist and debuts a strong, feminist, highly appealing detective. In seemingly unrelated cases, Meg Lacey is hired to find two missing young women, 15-year-old Lillian Kubicek and 19-year-old Alison Chase. Lillian is found dead of a heroin overdose, and Meg believes she can tie the death to Alison's fiance Danny Haswell who owns a nightclub that Meg suspects is a cover for child-pornography and drug rings. What starts as mere guesswork is substantiated when Meg and her friend Johanna, a prostitute, visit the club on "ladies' night" and witness debauchery that unnerves even hardened Johanna. Eventually Meg finds someone within Haswell's organization who will… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1994. 1st ed. fine in dj. 2nd Owen Archer title set in 1365 York, England.. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Crown 1990 UNCORRECTED PROOF, wraps, fine. A Left-Handed policeman novel. UNCORRECTED PROOF, wraps, fine. A Left-Handed policeman novel..

N.Y.: Ace Books, Inc, 1992. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in great wraparound dust jacket by Richard Hescox., not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Lady Callahan's back in business! Private detective Joe Quigley . Once again, readers get to visit Lady Sally's house. This time, protagonist Joe Quigley, P.I., is trying to crack the case of The Man Who Wasn't There. Along the way, he finds a lot more than he bargained for! Even for Lady Sally's, things are getting weird. Eventually, Joe is let in on the real reason Lady Sally opened up her shop in the first place, and the question becomes, can Lady Sally fulfill her mission? The fate of all existence hangs in the balance.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Hescox, Richard. Book.

Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 1st. Fine in dj. Amos Walker title; SHAMUS AWARD FINALIST for Best Novel. Detroit. A chance encounter with an old flame sends Detroit PI Amos Walker on a hunt for her long-lost father. Iris was a great beauty when Amos Walker first saw her--a Jamaican goddess striding stark naked through an unworthy whorehouse. When he bumps into her at a high-class steakhouse just outside of Detroit, she still looks good. She’s come back from the Caribbean to seek out her father. Raised by her mother, Iris grew up thinking the man was dead, but has just learned the old trombone player may still be alive. Walker offers to dig for him: a welcome-home present for an old flame. The search leads him straight to the dark heart of the Detroit jazz scene, a seedy world where Walker is right at home, and into the crosshairs of some of the cruelest men in a very mean town. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 1st. Fine in dj. Amos Walker title; Shamus Award nominee; Detroit. A chance encounter with an old flame sends Detroit PI Amos Walker on a hunt for her long-lost fatherIris was a great beauty when Amos Walker first saw her—a Jamaican goddess striding stark naked through an unworthy whorehouse. When he bumps into her at a high-class steakhouse just outside of Detroit, she still looks good. She’s come back from the Caribbean to seek out her father. Raised by her mother, Iris grew up thinking the man was dead, but has just learned the old trombone player may still be alive. Walker offers to dig for him: a welcome-home present for an old flame. The search leads him straight to the dark heart of the Detroit jazz scene, a seedy world where Walker is right at home, and into the crosshairs of some of the cruelest men in a very mean town. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY. "The latest case for the Hometown Heroes of Raven's Wing, Conn., lands the quartet of senior-citizen sleuths in a series of tragic, unpredictable murders. Dr. Trevor Bradford asks fellow Hero, Mildred Bennett, to visit a distraught patient whose oldest son, a seminarian, has just died, apparently of autoerotic asphyxiation. Louise Cannivan tells Mildred about a phone call she received suggesting that her son's death was murder and asks the Heroes to investigate. Reluctantly they agree and visit the seminary where the dead boy roomed with the Heroes' protege, Cameron Maine (seen in The Pumpkin-Shell Wife ) . Beginning with this slender thread, McShea weaves an intricate mystery involving a disillusioned priest, an angry father, a blind veteran firefighter and the Heroes in escalating homicide before the pattern is completed. Readers may quibble over the tenuous connection between the group and their latest… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1985. 1st ed. light edgewear else near fine Author's debut novel. . Laguna Beach locale. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SI8GNED BY AYRES at title page. New Mexico. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1994. 1st edition, December 1994, so stated A very faint stain at page edges, else fine in unclipped dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best Private Eye Novel of the Year. A Milan Jacovich title; Cleveland locale. "Milan's latest case has him paying back a long overdue favor to Mob boss Victor Gaimari. Even though Milan dislikes Gaimari, the mobster once helped him save a kid's life, so when Gaimari asks Milan to head out to the posh suburb of Lake Erie Shores to make sure the mayoral election goes smoothly, Milan can hardly say no. Ostensibly, he's supposed to play bodyguard, political adviser, and baby-sitter to Barbara Corns, who's running for mayor on a "Back to Basics" theme. Milan can't believe the candidate is in any danger, especially in such a white-bread-and-mayonnaise town. But there's more to the story than Victor has let on, and after the wife of Barbara's opponent is killed, Milan figures he had better put… Read More

N.Y.: Viking Penguin, 1999. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Here, Jury's pal Melrose Plant leases Seabourne, a lovely oceanside house in Cornwall, where four years earlier two children died from an inexplicable fall down a flight of stone steps. Their parents fled to London; their grandfather, who owns Seabourne, refitted a local stately home into a hospice/nursing home, where he now lives. Melrose befriends Johnny Wells, a vivacious teenager with ambitions to become a magician, who lives with his Aunt Chris. When Chris vanishes and another woman, whom Chris detested, is found dead in neighboring Lamorna, Melrose calls Div. Comdr. Brian Macalvie of the Devon and Cornwall Police Department, whom Plant and Jury first met as a hot-tempered constable in "Help the Poor Struggler". As two more murders follow, Melrose and Macalvie realize they are investigating two different cases, with… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan U.K., 2003. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Review slip from the US distributor. The fifth Merrily Watkins title. 550 pages. It appears that the unlovely village of Underhowle is home to a serial killer. But as the police hunt for the bodies of more young women, Rev. Merrily Watkins fears that the detective in charge has become blinkered by ambition. Meanwhile, Merrily has more personal problems, like the anonymous phone calls, the candles and incense left burning in her church, and the alleged angelic visitations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Morrow, 1992. 1st edition, so stated, , with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Sailing. Caribbean "The third entry in Gibbs's nautical mystery series (launched with Dead Run ) boasts strong characters, plenty of rocky romance and a convoluted plot that requires readers to transfer loyalties several times en route to the blood-spattered conclusion. Jake Adler, a military man with connections to a dubious right-wing organization, charters the yacht Glory and involves its owner Gillian Verdean, the captain (and Gillian's lover) Jeremy Barr and the cook Patrick O'Mara in a clandestine operation on the fictional Caribbean island of St. Philip. Although the plot, which involves powerful governments, doesn't really convince, Gibbs generates a satisfying kinetic rush with all the mayhem: freak car accidents, collisions at sea, abductions and a sinister island house with a dungeon. Lush locales and… Read More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Seal Books, 1992. First edition, April 1992, 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. With her children grown and gone to America and her ex-husband left behind in Montreal, Elinor is finally free to chart the uncertain waters of the single life in Toronto. But just when her escape seems complete, Elinor is lured back to Montreal for the funeral of her aunt and namesake and is stunned to find herself the sole heir to the old woman's pride and joy: a gloriously dilapidated apartment building complete with a perforated roof, buckled floors, and a janitress from hell. In short, her aunt's bequest is likely to leave Elinor in the poorhouse. So she moves into a top-floor unit under an assumed name and plunges into the adventure of renovation, hoping to avoid the interference of both her well-meaning pillar-of-the-Anglo-community… Read More