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

N.Y.: The Macaulay Company, 1930. 1st edition. Wear at edges, lightly soiled, spine label is darkened and cracked, rear cover has remains. A scarce Inspector Conlin mystery told as a series of tabloid articles. New York. Author's only mystery. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Book.

NY: Harcourt, 2005. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket with publicity information slip laid in. Arson investigator Billy Nightingale and his brother-in-law, Officer Sebastian Bly, are called in to investigate a house fire that killed two young children. Suspicious details at the fire scene--and the discovery of a baby underneath the porch--put Billy and Sebastian on the trail of a murderous mother while Sebastian and his wife, Annie, raise baby Meredith without revealing her dangerous and frightening past. . Meredith grows up to be a promising young ballerina, but the truth threatens their charmed family circle as Merry's biological mother returns to finish what she started. Inspired by a real-life case of multiple murders in New York State.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Diamond NY 1992 1st ed. Fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. Author's 1st book. Features college film instructor Jackie Walsh.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y: Diamond, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine , unread copy of this Paperback Original. Author's 1st book. Features college film instructor Jackie Walsh.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1996. 1st editionb, so stated. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Color Endpaper painting by W.B. Van Ingen. 2 black and white maps. "Harry Pendel is the "Tailor of Panama," a haberdasher whose clients include the Panamanian president, the commanding American general, and most of the country's powerful and influential men. Harry is happily married to Louisa, daughter of an American engineer and devoted staff member to a liberal Panamanian politician. But Harry's life is a lie; he has invented the person whose life he lives. He is also badly in debt, the result of having been double-crossed by his own bank. That debt, and knowledge of the jailbird he once was, are what make Harry prey to a smarmy British agent who believes Harry knows or can learn the deepest secrets of Panama. Harry doesn't, but he's adept at making up what people want to hear, even if it is a geopolitical conspiracy on a grand… Read More

Latham: NY: British American Publishing, LTD., 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Tailspin is an intriguing mix of fictional method and dazzling fact, a key perhaps--a coda most certainly--to one of America's most publicized murders of the 20th century. This story of Major Call's life is a dramatized narrative supported by fact. onners brings his FBI expertise to bear on the did-he-or-didn't-he story of Major Call. 500+ pages with 80 pages of exhibits.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. Book.

N.Y: St Martins Press, 1987. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Izzi at title page. Publisher's information sheet laid in. Chicago setting. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. 1st U.S. edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The skull is buried in the snow. Little Justin and Adrian think at first that it's a football -- but footballs don't have eyeless, noseless sockets and grinning teeth. Detective Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill is the first policeman on the scene. He finds the skeleton of what appears to be a young man dressed in jeans. He could have been a derelict who died of drugs, he could have fallen down an embankment from a nearby highway -- or it could be murder. But who is he? Nobody has been reported missing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Woodstock VT.: Foul Play Press, 1984. First edition, so stated. Slight spine slant, previous owners name at fep, light soiling to page edges else near fine in dj, lightly soiled rear panel. The collected crime stories of Davis with an introduction by her.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

North Haven: CT: Catbird Press, 1994. Uncorrected page proofs, wraps. Now, for the first time in English all 48 of Capek's tales are available.. First Trade Paperback. Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof.

Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 2000. 1st printing. Nineteen stories, with a checlist of her works. A fine, unread copy of Trade Paperback in shrinkwrap. In 1983, Carolyn Wheat burst on the mystery scene with her Edgar-nominated novel about Cass Jameson, one of the first female lawyers in a crime series. Wheat's work is filled with sympathy for the underdog. In Three Time Loser, Cass is torn between her feelings for an elderly woman and her job of giving the best defense for a young immigrant. In Crime Scene a young female cop is encouraged to cry out of pity for a murder victim, and in doing so solves the crime. Some of the 19 stories are lighter in tone, including a clever pastiche of Sherlock Holmes and a case involving cats and smuggling. Includes an introduction and prefaces by the author, and a Carolyn Wheat checklist.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. New/No Jacket. Book.

Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 2000. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, one of 225 copies, this being #165, SIGNED and numbered by Wheat. Nineteen stories, with a checlist of her works. Accompanying each copy of the limited edition is a seperately printed pamphlet "Life, For Short". Sold out from publisher. "Seventeen years ago, Carolyn Wheat burst on the mystery scene with her Edgar-nominated first novel about Cass Jameson, one of the first female lawyers in a crime series. Since then Wheat has written five more novels and some of the finest recent short stories in the genre. Throughout Wheat's work is sympathy for the underdog and the helpless. The title story in Tales Out of School, her first short story collection, explores how an abused child reacts to unexpected violence. In "Three Time Loser," Cass Jameson finds herself torn between her sympathy for an elderly woman and her job of giving the best defense for a young Jamaican immigrant.… Read More

Toronto, ON, Canada: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988. 1st ed. A fine copy of this Trade Paperback Original. 367 pages "Josef Skvorecky`s novels have established him as a major author around the world, but his less well known essays include some of his most stimulating writing. Talkin` Moscow Blues is the first-ever collection of Skvorecky`s essays, reviews, and interviews. Here are deeply personal stories about the friends and events that have shaped his beliefs and his writing; thoughtful examinations of the nature of art, politics, and freedom; reviews of writers such as Faulkner and Kafka, and filmmakers Jiri Menzel and Francis Coppola. And sprinkled throughout are Skvorecky`s lively commentaries on the foibles of both East and West. Skvorecky has lived under the spectrum of political regimes - from the rightist oppression of the Nazis to the leftist oppression of the Soviets - and he has resisted the influence of both sides. As an amateur musician in Czechoslovakia he slipped verboten… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper, 1989. 1st. Fine in dj. "...here Hillerman sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee in Washington, D.C., as each uses vacation time to follow separate cases that will connect in a clash of violence at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History. Chee has come at the request of Janet Pete, a Navajo lawyer with a case that involves a ceremonial mask of Yeibichai, or Talking God, maternal grandfather of all the other Navajo gods, and a museum curator named Henry Highhawk, who claims Navajo ancestry and wants to be included on tribal rolls. Leaphorn's interest rises from a puzzling homicide case--an unidentified corpse found near Gallup, N.M., with a note mentioning a pending Yeibichai ceremony. Just as Leaphorn's tenacity reveals the dead man was a leftist Chilean terrorist, Highhawk is killed (in a spooky late-night scene in the Museum) and the pivotal role of the Talking God mask comes into play..." PW. First… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Chee & Leaphorn. 1st. Fine in dj. "...here Hillerman sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee in Washington, D.C., as each uses vacation time to follow separate cases that will connect in a clash of violence at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History. Chee has come at the request of Janet Pete, a Navajo lawyer with a case that involves a ceremonial mask of Yeibichai, or Talking God, maternal grandfather of all the other Navajo gods, and a museum curator named Henry Highhawk, who claims Navajo ancestry and wants to be included on tribal rolls. Leaphorn's interest rises from a puzzling homicide case--an unidentified corpse found near Gallup, N.M., with a note mentioning a pending Yeibichai ceremony. Just as Leaphorn's tenacity reveals the dead man was a leftist Chilean terrorist, Highhawk is killed (in a spooky late-night scene in the Museum) and the… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st edition, November 1990, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, very minor rubbing at edges, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publisher's Review slip laid in. The first Detective Herb Villon mystery. 1929 Hollywood and "talkies" are about to take over, but not everyone is happy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Werner, Honi. 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.

Harpenden, Herts: England: No Exit Press, 1999. 1st printing with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine , unread copy, wrappers. Evan Tanner title. 1st Prtg. Mass Market Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Book.

NY: Dutton, 1998. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. An Evan Tanner title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Walker, 1973. 1st ed. Near fine in very good dust jacket, rubbed at extremities, light chipping at spine head.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.