Search Results: bibliomystery from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Dodd, 1987. 1st ed. page edges lightly soiled esle about fine in near fine dj . "New England's Smedley Library is a haven for strange academic and library types. When the rare books begin to disappear and copies of Tottle's Songs and Sonnets appear in their stead, a crew of zanies investigates. Then there is murder. This is an entertainment that pokes fun at everyone and everything. The plot moves swiftly along to the unmasking of the culprit." -- Library Journal. The author is a Professor of Medieval Literature. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dodd Mead, 1987. 1st ed.Near fine in dj lightly rubbed at edges. Rare books are missing from the Library and staff members are turning up dead. INSCRIBED COPY. The author is a Professor of Medieval Literature at Providence College.. Inscribed Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Indianapolis and NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945. First edition, so stated. Bright red boards with gold lettering. Some wear at spine gutter, spine darkened, covers lightly soiled. A good to very good copy of a very scarce title which has just been re-issued in The American Mystery Classics by Otto Penzler after being out of print for over 50 years. Lt.(Insp.) Richard Tuck; Los Angeles, CA. A successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood Hills and, with him working to produce her novel for an upcoming film, the pair's recent marriage isn't the only way that they're connected. When the husband is found murdered on the wife's birthday using a method of poisoning that was described in one of her books, Victoria suddenly becomes the main suspect as her new happy life comes crashing down around her. The case appears straightforward from the outside but the LAPD investigator on the scene ( finds the truth to be anything but. Though all the signs point to Victoria,… Read More

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in very good dust jacket rubbed at edges, light wear at spine head and foot. A Nameless Detective mystery. thirty-five years ago, Harmon Crane, king of the classic pulp writers, took his own life in his locked study. Nameless is hired by his son to find out why. Unconvinced that his efforts will unearth any new answers, Nameless still can't resist the chance to delve in his favorite world, that of pulp fiction and its creators.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1985. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket, very lightly rubbed at edges, one small closed tear at rear. SIGEND boldly by Pronzini. A Nameless Detective mystery. thirty-five years ago, Harmon Crane, king of the classic pulp writers, took his own life in his locked study. Nameless is hired by his son to find out why. Unconvinced that his efforts will unearth any new answers, Nameless still can't resist the chance to delve in his favorite world, that of pulp fiction and its creators.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1951. 1st edition. Publishers bright red cloth, with yellow and white lettering at spine, some light wear along edges, some foxing to pages else a very good/near fine copy in dust jacket, lightly chipped along bottom edge, spine edges rubbed, not price clipped, $2.50 price intact, moderately soiled. Very Scarce. Young Rena Austen, newly wed, is afraid she’s made a terrible mistake. Her husband, once a dashingly romantic figure of a wounded war hero, has become a moody lay-about, and they are sharing a gloomy house on the Upper East Side of New York with his unpleasant, always-there family. When her husband reacts in a frighteningly angry way to Rena pulling a particular volume off the library shelf, she has had enough, and flees her home in fear for her life. She is afraid no one will believe her, that she will be thought insane. Thankfully, Henry Gamadge is on hand to solve the mystery of the book -- and the dead body that inevitably turns up. Despite… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribners, 1995. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. the 2nd Cliff Janeway title. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel as well as A GOLD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE and a MACAVITY AWARD FINALIST for Best Novelr Award. "In the long-awaited sequel to Booked to Die, Denver policeman-turned-bookdealer Cliff Janeway is hired by sleazy ex-cop Clydell Slater to retrieve Eleanor Rigby (really), who has jumped bail and fled to Seattle. Things get complicated when she turns out to be young, pretty and a talented book scout. The latter, almost by itself, seems to convince Janeway that she is innocent. Rigby may have the key to the location of a previously unknown fine press edition of Poe's The Raven. When Eleanor disappears, Janeway teams up with reporter Trish Aandahl, biographer of the Grayson brothers, who produced the rare Poe volume. Aandahl is convinced the brothers were both murdered over 20 years ago. To find Eleanor and The Raven, Janeway and Aandahl must connect the killing of… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribners, 1995. Book club ed., near fine in dust jacket. the 2nd Cliff Janeway title. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1987. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Cambridge don, John Fenchurch in his second comedic mystery, is awash in more puzzles than just the disappearance of priceless treasures from the college library.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY.: St. Martin, 2001. First edition, January 2001, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The 9th Roger the Chapman title set in the English countryside during the last years of the War of the Roses (1455-1485). Roger links the mysterious disappearance of a bridegroom and his brother to the recent discovery of an ancient manuscript written in a strange language. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

No Exit Press London 1997 Precedes US edition. Fine in dj. Another low print run British edition. Bibliomystery. 1st ed, first state with "settle" for settled" on first line of text.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Scribner, 2004. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Cliff Janeway bibliomystery novel. Cliff Janeway is back! The Bookman's Promise marks the eagerly awaited return of Denver bookman-author John Dunning and the award-winning crime novel series that helped to turn the nation on to first-edition book collecting. First, it was Booked to Die, then The Bookman's Wake. Now John Dunning fans, old and new, will rejoice in The Bookman's Promise, a richly nuanced new Janeway novel that juxtaposes past and present as Denver ex-cop and bookman Cliff Janeway searches for a book and a killer. The quest begins when an old woman, Josephine Gallant, learns that Janeway has recently bought at auction a signed first edition by the legendary nineteenth-century explorer Richard Francis Burton. The book is a true classic, telling of Burton's journey (disguised as a Muslim) to the forbidden holy cities… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday Crime Club, 1988. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Murder of a publisher & the discovery of his collection of erotica.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Tor 1992, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. 1st Midnight Louie title. Murder at the Las Vegas ABA Book Convention. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan, 2001. First Edition. The true first edition in a small print run, 1,000 copies. SIGNED COPY. This is a gem of black humor and intrigue about a paperback crime novelist less politely known as "slasher trash" who takes over the English department of La Siberia Tech, a marginal school at best on the Rio Grande River. He teaches a new course centering on The Wild Bunch of Modern Literature -- a course he concots to feature crime novelists who are personal friends of his--which causes consternation among the older faculty and then a seemingly inexplicable murder.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Small Press.

Woodstock, VT, U.S.A.: Countryman Press, 1988. 1st erd. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Some scandal--laden manuscripts, missing for forty years, have just turned up in that august institution, THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM, the world's foremost gentlemen's library. "Biographer Austin Layman is pleased, if not wholly flattered, by an invitation to join Boston's exclusive Carttail Club, a bastion of eccentric Brahmins. At a dinner given to honor the elderly Thistlewaite twins, a mystery develops: Were the recent deaths of three club members accidental or intentional? When a fourth member is found with a solid gold, ceremonial porcupine quill embedded in his heart, a verdict of murder is most certainly suggested. Help and hindrance comes from all corners as Layman traces the violence back to a distant scandal, the evidence of which is neatly packed into a file kept on the shelves of the Boston Atheneum. McAleer has drawn together a promising batch of odd characters and set them down firmly… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2001. 1st edition, January 2001, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Karen Pelletier, assistant professor of English at prestigious Enfield College in Massachusetts, has opened a can of 44-year-old worms by telling New York Times writer Marty Katz that, in her opinion, Oblivion Falls was the greatest literary work of the past century. Like Grace Metalious's 1956 cause célèbre, Peyton Place, Oblivion Falls blew the steamy lid off a respectable New England college town, made ground-breaking strides up the bestseller lists, and made a brilliant if briefly lit star of its author, the now reclusive Mildred Deakin. And now, thanks to Pelletier's intentionally provocative throwaway answer to a snooty writer's question, Oblivion Falls is back in the limelight: an Oprah's Book Club selection, at the top of the Times bestseller list, and one of 's top… Read More

NY: Crime Club Doubleday, 1973. 1st ed. remainder spray at bottom of pages, near fine in dj, a few small closed tears, lightly soiled. Her 1st Mystery with bookstore owner Conan Flagg. SIGNED by Wren and Meg the cat. Oregon setting.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Scribners, 1983. 1st ed. Page edges mildly age darkened else near fine in dust jacket lightly soiled at rear panel. 3rd in the Inspector Perry Trethowan series. Perry and Jan are in a local pub for a nice relaxing drink when retired school teacher Edith Wing shows them a large piece of yellow paper covered with tiny writing and purports it to be "just like the Brontes.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan U.K., 1991. 1st ed. One tiny spot at foreedge else fine in dust jacket. The 2nd in the Sheila Mallory series set mostly in Oxford and at the Bodleian Library.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.