Search Results: AMERICAN WEST from Murder By The Book

Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1992. A novel about politics amd romance as the new Southwest opens before hungry eyes. 1st Ed. DJ has small rubbings on top and spine, else, tight and clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

NY,NY: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2001. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Emmett Quanah Parker, a part-Comanche, part-white Bureau of Indian Affairs agent, and Anna Turnipseed, a part-Modoc, part-Japanese FBI special agent, in New Mexico and elsewhere, are featured in the third book in this series. Plese inquire about price for all five books in series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1989. 1st edition January 1989, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first mystery. Introducing Private detective Jack Ross. Nevada setting. Hired by a young prostitute to find her long-missing grandfather, Reno private eye Jack Ross tracks the cold trail across the deserts and back alleys of the city to one of Nevada's most influential families. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1999. First edition, so stated, January 2000 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publisher's sheets laid in. The fifth title in the Marshal Lilly Bennett series. Out West, where open spaces are practically sacred, land developers are considered the closest thing to Satan, so it's really no surprise to Lilly Bennett when members of the Johnson clan - the evil spirits behind the Johnson Land Company - start getting bumped off. She finds herself hanging out with a bevy of Las Vegas showgirls, dining with mobsters, and hosting a party for Wayne Newton and then finds herself hot on the trail of an unlikely serial murderer and finds herself drugged and lost in the Nevada desert.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 2001. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Beautiful copy. ** SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. "Alix, who owns a gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyo., agrees to help stage an art auction to benefit wildlife conservation in the Yellowstone-Grand Teton ecosystem. Planning the auction raises longstanding, simmering conflicts between ranchers and environmentalists to a fast boil. Two events involving a wolf bring the environmental fight to a head: a local ranchhand who shoots a wolf faces prosecution under the Endangered Species laws, while a reclusive artist whom Alix represents has contributed to the auction a haunting portrait of a wolf, a painting that the committee chair refuses to allow in. (The sad-looking wolf on this book's dust jacket lacks the ferociousness of the wolf portrait.) The strong feelings that the wolf engenders… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. The plan was to develop the virus in Montana. The cattle were the first test. The next step would be production in Argentina and then it would be time to sell. But they didn't count on the one man who could stop them-- a hard-headed rancher named Judd Jefferson, who had nothing left to lose.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2004. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, New book. The 2nd mystery featuring Native American Lee Nez, a nightwalker - a Navajo vampire. Laid in is a SIGNED Navajo inspired bookplate, signed by both authors. He's also a New Mexico state police officer. Paired with FBI agent Diane Lopez, Lee is tracking down violent smugglers who have killed two cops while bringing silver and turquoise across the border from Mexico. Shocked to discover that the smugglers are Navajo shapeshifters/skinwalkers, Lee and Diane realize they must wipe out the whole pack, and fast, before the skinwalkers realize there's a nightwalker on their tails. Werewolves and vampires are deadly enemies.a Navajo vampire and New Mexico State Policeman.. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2004. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, One of 104 copies SIGNED and lettered by Scott Phillips. Bound in goatskin morocco and handmade paper, with slipcase. Dustjacket design by Michael Kellner. McMillian calls it "..a wonderful 'Willefordian' novel of the Kansas frontier, in which he incidentally solves the Bloody Bender mystery. It's a truly fine noir 'Western'".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Kellner, Michael. Limited / Lettered Edition.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2004. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket and slipcased. LIMITED EDITION, One of 300 copies SIGNED and numbered by Scott Phillips. Dustjacket design by Michael Kellner. McMillian calls it "..a wonderful 'Willefordian' novel of the Kansas frontier, in which he incidentally solves the Bloody Bender mystery. It's a truly fine noir 'Western'".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Kellner, Michael. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

NY, NY.: Kensington Pub Corp, 1994. 1st. Edition, November 1994, FINE/FINE. Angela Biwaban, an ex-embezzler Anishabe princess, in Minnesota, is featured in the third title in this series. Author is a Rhode Island resident.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: St Martins Press, 1996. 1st edition, July 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. Author's first book. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at half-title page. Chloe Newcomb is a Victim Witness, a volunteer social worker in an Arizona desert town who helps soften the bad news after an accident or crime. Called to a suicide scene, she recognizes the dead man as a figure from her East Coast activist past, a former lover she hasn't heard from in 20 years. In her first novel, Thornton manages to make Chloe both original and recognizable, the kind of person you'd expect to find liking country music (her title comes from a George Strait song), enjoying diner food and flirting with good-looking cowboys. And her descriptions of the desert under various conditions of time and weather make you understand why people choose to live there.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1990. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn mystery. "Plumbing more deeply than ever the Navajo culture of Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, Hillerman ( Talking God ) weaves an understated, powerful tale from strands of ancient Navajo mythology, modern greed and ambition, and, above all, the sorrows and delights of his characters. Although Chee is badly burned in an attempt to rescue fellow officer Delbert Nez, who has been shot and left in his burning car, he blames himself for Nez's death. On medical leave and off the case, Chee tries to facilitate the prompt prosecution of elderly shaman Ashie Pinto, found near the murder site in a drunken stupor, the weapon in his hand still smoking. Leaphorn, too, becomes unofficially involved when he agrees to investigate the charges against Pinto on behalf of the latter's… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crime Line, 2002. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. Features Apache, cowgirl, rancher, private eye Trade Ellis.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1982. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket, no tears and not price clipped, $12.50 original price is still present A Jim Chee mystery. The corpse had been “scalped,” its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee’s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man’s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Santa Fe: New Mexico: Red Crane Books, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Author's 1st book. Murder & witchcraft set on Navajo & Jicarilla Apache lands. High praise from Hillerman. Small first printing of only 1000 copies. Ron Querry's debut novel, originally published in 1993 by Red Crane, is a foundational novel in contemporary Native American writing. Querry uses the alternating viewpoints of Gracie, Bernadette's younger sister, and Starr Stubbs, the wealthy New Yorker who lives just outside of Dulce, New Mexico-to detail the tragic end of Bernadette's life. The conflicting accounts create a compelling novel about heritage, family, and the dark magic of the twisted soul.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Santa Fe: New Mexico: REDCRANE BOOKS, 1993. 2nd printing, reading creas else near fine.Ron Querry's debut novel, originally published in 1993 by Red Crane, is a foundational novel in contemporary Native American writing. Querry uses the alternating viewpoints of Gracie, Bernadette's younger sister, and Starr Stubbs, the wealthy New Yorker who lives just outside of Dulce, New Mexico-to detail the tragic end of Bernadette's life. The conflicting accounts create a compelling novel about heritage, family, and the dark magic of the twisted soul.. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2001. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Texas setting. "The best parts of Martin's fifth Texana Jones mystery (after 2000's Death of a Myth Maker) are the lyrical descriptions of the setting, the gritty Texas border country along the Pecos River. When a travel writer dismisses her own town of Polvo as "a hot, dreary little place full of barking cur dogs," Texana, who runs a trading post, agrees but adds, "On a clear day the sky above is pale turquoise, the dust motes turn the harsh sunlight golden, and the shadows of mesquite leaves dance in the wind." ' Forty years earlier, a Hollywood film crew came to Polvo to make a movie about Pancho Villa. A project adviser, who as a boy had served with Villa, was found murdered on an island between Texas and Mexico, and the crime was never solved. Now a television crew has come to town to do a… Read More

NY, NY: Kensington Publishing Corp., 1993. 1st. Edition, July 1993, NEAR FINE PBO. .Shows only minimal shelf wear, slight reading creases. "Trainor's ( Target for Murder ) second Angela Biwaban mystery returns the shallow and vain Native American princess to her family's Utah home, where greedy loggers have placed more than trees at risk. Angie's cousin Billy, a forest ranger and Ute tribal council candidate, is waging a legal battle to transfer federal forest acreage into tribal hands in order to save the land from clearcutting. While Billy is a friend to the land, he has many enemies--a fact that soon proves fatal. Naturally, there are many suspects in Billy's slaying, including good ol' boy millionaire Cue Broward; stuffy Mormon patriarch Truman Sager; dim-witted, sadistic lawman Ty Braddock; local bad seed Jack Sunawavi; and a host of other Utah Saints and sinners. So it's up to Angie, a self-described clothes horse who fancies herself a combination of all three of… Read More

Niwot: CO: University of Colorado Press, 1995. 1st edition. Fine in dust jacket. Author's First Book. SIGNED COPY. When the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his tepee at the Ethete powwow, the evidence points to the chairman's nephew, Anthony Castle. But Father John O'Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, and Vicky Holden, the Arapaho lawyer, do not believe the young man capable of murder. Together they set out to find the real murderer and clear Anthony's name. The trail that Father John and Vicky follow winds across the high plains of the Wind River Reservation into Arapaho homes and community centers and into the fraud-infested world of Indian oil and land deals. Eventually it leads to the past--the Old Time--when the Arapahos were forced from their homes on the Great Plains and sent to the reservation. There in the Old Time, Father John and Vicky discover a crime so heinous that someone was willing to commit murder more than a hundred years later to keep it… Read More

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Intrigue Press, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. First Drew Gavin title. Drew, a former star defensive end for the University of New Mexico, is a sportswriter for the Albuquerque Gazette. When an old college sweetheart asks him to help her husband buy more time from a bookie named Three Eyes Sanchez, Drew agrees only to find himself fighting to save his life.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.