Search Results: Baltimore from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: St. Martin 1993, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. Andrea Perkins, art restorer, is in Southern California on a commission at the Huntington Museum. "Top-notch characterization, authoritative use of setting and an accelerating pace more than make up for this mystery's slow start. In the pristine, fenced garden of a Los Angeles museum, a vandal defaces a statue and a homeless man is shot. Murder and vandalism are nothing new to L.A. residents, but these crimes take place in San Marino, an upscale suburban-like enclave. LAPD plainclothes detectives Tina Roberson and Eduardo Lopez learn that the victim had been a chronic gambler, called Goochie after the Gucci shoes he favored. Meanwhile art restorer Andrea Perkins (seen last in The Balmoral Nude ), arrives at the museum to recondition Gainsborough's Blue Boy , and winds up sharing guest quarters with the other primary players in the case. Coincidence abounds as Andrea figures in the… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press 1ST ED. FINE/FINE.A GUMSHOE WINNER & AGATHA & MACAVITY NOMINEE. The fifth entry in this marvelous series.Russ Van Alstyne, the Millers Kill, New York police chief, tells his wife that he is in love with Clare Fergusson, the St. Albans Chruch Episcopal priest and she throws him out. Now a few weeks later, her body is found in their kitchen, dead and mutilated, and naturally Russ and Clare are suspected in the killing. The investigation quickly becomes complex, and when Russ becomes too shook up to handle it properly, Clare shows fortitude and is able to persevere and help move things along. Filled with suspense and a surprise or two. Good, by the award-winning author of "In the bleak midwinter". A must read for any mystery reader.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 1991. 1st ed. front hinge cracked, else fine in dust jacket. An Anna Lee title. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 1991. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. An Anna Lee title. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a pedophile, or has she just run off to marry a much older man? What connection does this man have to the stolen merchandise and to the designer's husband? The Florida Keys and a handsome U.S. operative give Anna her first blissful taste of the sunny, fog-free New World even as she handily attempts to answer these questions and dodge the bullets that seem to her so quintessentially American" --PW. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, Inc., 1998. 1st North American edition, so stated, 2nd printing. A fine copy of the trade paperback. WINNER of the NED KELLY PRIZE FOR CRIME FICTION, Australia's Edgar Award. Angelo Agnelli has been Minister for the Arts for twelve hours and already artists have started killing themselves. Or so it seems when Marcus Taylor's body is fished from the Arts Centre moat. Was it really an act of protest over the state of arts funding? And what's the political damage if the suicide note becomes public? The career of Murray Whelan, minder and general dogsbody to the hapless Agnelli, hangs by its usual slender thread. If he can put the fix in here, he might have a chance of staying employed. But as Murray soon discovers, in the world of culture vultures they don't just sit around waiting for you to die before they start tearing the flesh off your bones.. 1st Ed. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

Dutton, 1999. Fine in dj, SIGNED by Block. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Delacorte 1990, 1990. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. Coyne [Boston].. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 2005. 1st edition,April 2005, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A GOLD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE. Nick Conover is the CEO of a major corporation, a local boy made good, and once the most admired man in a company town. But that was before the layoffs. When a faceless stalker menaces his family, Nick, a single father of two since the recent death of his wife, finds that the gated community they live in is no protection at all. He decides to take action, a tragedy ensues - and immediately his life spirals out of control. At work, Nick begins to uncover a conspiracy against him, involving some of his closest colleagues. He doesn't know who he can trust - including the brilliant, troubled new woman in his life. Meanwhile, his actions are being probed by a homicide detective named Audrey Rhimes, a relentless investigator with a strong sense of morality - and her own, very personal reason for… Read More

Santa Ana, California, U.S.A.: Seven Locks Press, 2008. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. A new interpertation of the Kennedy assassination by an author who has written non-fiction books about Kennedy and Washington politics.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1992. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1989. 1st American trade edition, so stated. A signed edition was previously printed by the Franklin Library. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "James ( A Taste for Death ) sets her 11th novel on Larksoken, a remote windswept headland in Norfolk, where the presence of a huge nuclear energy plant serves as a metaphor for the power of the past to rule over her characters. Commander Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, in Larsoken to settle an estate left him at the death of a relative, is drawn into the investigation of a serial killer, the Whistler. Dalgliesh's neighbors include the power station's director, Alex Mair; his elegant sister Alice, a cookbook author; acting administrator--and Alex's former lover--Hilary Robarts; and anti-nuclear activist Neil Pascoe. The next signature killing , of the widely disliked Robarts, turns out to have occurred hours after a young man who firmly establishes his identity as the… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 1st ed . Page edges lightly soiled else about fine in dust jacket. A bibliomystery by an English bookseller. Bookseller Mathew Coll's fifth adventure. While in Verona to do some research on Romeo and Juliet, Coll becomes involved in the murder investigation of a bibliophile and scholar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1996. 1st edition, August 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. When the head of the dairy department at Balaclava Agricultural College disappears and his wife is found murdered, Professor Peter Shandy must investigate the sordid mess of inheritance, deceit, and milk.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1985. 1st edition, November 1985, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Cover by John Jinks. In this never-before-published Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice) novel, Mandy Vernick is 16, sassy, too wise for her years, obsessed with finding her real father. Abused by her mother's truck-driver boyfriend, Mandy escapes on a bus to Baltimore, where she calls the man she thinks is her father and receives a cool brushoff. She spends the night in a motel with another teenage stray, Rick, and the pair become involved in a bank robbery with two hoodlums who get shot and leave Mandy and Rick holding the bagliterallyof money. Nobody's on to them, and Mandy spends some of the money on a new mink coat in which to confront her father. When Rick leaves and Mandy's mother, Sally, now married to an old friend, tracks her down, there's a shoot-out that changes… Read More

N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1986. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 2nd Harvey Blissberg title. SIGNED BASEBALL CARD of Harvey Blessing (Rosen himself) laid in. Ex-Red Sox center fielder Harvey Blissberg (Strike Three You're Dead is now a private eye in Cambridge. He's hired to find a missing Boston Celtics star and then, quickly, a missing Washington Bullets player. Both athletes have vanished from Boston's Logan Airport, the Celtic last seen in the company of "a man with a beard." Blissberg can't find any connection between the players, and there are hints that drugs are behind the disappearances. Then the two bodies turn up in separate lockers in the Eastern terminal, both shot, but with different guns. Blissberg finds a very tenuous connection that takes him to Providence, where he uncovers the old, possible murder of a high-school basketball star that may involve a legendary… Read More

N.Y.: Scribner 1995, 1995. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York: Hyperion, 2000. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A DILYS AWARD Nominee. Author's first book. Hitchcock Sewell, elegible bachelor and undertaker gets taken in by the wiles of a mysteirious woman. " Grave "happenings begin to happen - can he " plot " his way out.. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Avon Books, 1999. 1st edition, April 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "Darryl Billups, a black Baltimore newspaper man, briefly relinquishes his editorial duties to pursue a serial killer. Police respect his skills as an investigative reporter but warn him away from two disturbingly related cases of apparent race-related murder: youngish black professionals, no forced entry, Confederate flag decals left as markers. Lean prose, wit, and humanizing sidebars lend credence to both plot and setting. A strong second to Up Jumped the Devil." -- LJ. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fine. Book.

NY,NY.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1993. 1st. Edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "In her latest Richard Jury novel (after The Old Contemptibles ), Grimes sends her Scotland Yard superintendent to the States to investigate a murder but assigns most of the sleuthing to his pal Melrose Plant. Jury and Inspector Wiggins take a busman's holiday in Baltimore to look into the murder of a young American, the nephew of a friend of Jury's acquaintance Lady Cray, at a cabin in Pennsylvania. Plant has come along to visit his friend Ellen Taylor, a novelist whose student at Johns Hopkins was recently murdered near the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. The intricate plot also involves the murder of a homeless man in a Baltimore alley and unfolds in oblique, unexpected turns, hinging on the partial manuscript, found by the dead student, of what might be a lost Poe short story and on the ambitions of descendants of an old Baltimore family. Jury and Wiggins talk… Read More

NY,NY: Hyperion Books, 2001. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE SIGNED by author and dated. A Sewell Funeral Home of Baltimore mystery.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.