Search Results: Film from Murder By The Book

London: UK: Scribners, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dj. An Inspector Roper title. Chief Inspector Roper, sent to investigate ageing film star Rita Cavallo's mysterious disappearance, is soon stepping over a whole body. It appears to have been dead for several days, since in fact, Rita Cavallo has flown her marital nest. Very soon, he starts to open a few of Miss Cavallo's cupboard doors.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: International Polygonics, LTD, 1990. 1st printing, June 1990, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. (Orig. pub. by Simon, 1944). Pages just starting to age tone else a near fine copy of this trade Paperback. Sanders, as himself, is finally getting a break from playing The Falcon and The Saint films by making a Western. Someone is shot during a scene, despite all the guns supposedly being loaded with blanks. When it’s quickly discovered it may have been Sanders’ gun that did the killing, he removes the evidence. He’s suspected anyway, yet can’t reveal what he’s done because it will only make him look more guilty. So Sanders must use everything he’s learned playing The Falcon and The Saint in order to find the real killer.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Zann, Nicky. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 1990. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Comic fantasy mystery caper with real and cartoon characters which will appeal to fans of WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT. Publishers material laid in. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Faherty's second in his series featuring private detective Scott Elliott investigating murder and movie making in 1950's Hollywood. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1996. 1st edition, January 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Toby is hired to protect Fred Astaire. "In 1943, Arthur Forbes is a respected California businessman, but not too many years earlier he lived in Detroit and was known as Fingers Intaglia because he liked to remove the fingers of his victims. Luna, his mistress, wants to learn to dance, and she wants Fred Astaire to teach her. Fred doesn't have time for private lessons, particularly when the client wants to focus on the horizontal mambo. To get Luna and her lover off his back, Astaire hires Toby Peters, private eye to the stars. When Luna drops dead at Toby's feet, Fingers is ready to resume his former profession but doesn't want a scandal. A deal is cut: if Toby can find the killer, he can live. Such a deal. The nineteenth Toby Peters mystery will delight Kaminsky fans. It has all the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1996. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The first Lucy Freers mystery. In a town once described as the Sodom of the New World, the family craze is in full swing--movie stars posing pregnant on the cover of 'Vanity Fair,' powerhouse agents breast-feeding at Spago--giving rise to the latest show-biz phenomenon--the Hollywood mom. Lucy Freers, an animation filmmaker, is one of this new breed. Her marriage to the well-known Hollywood producer Kit Freers is developing widening rifts and her daughter, Chloe, seems to be learning her values from MTV. And when glamorous neighbor Julia Prentice is found naked and dead in Lucy's pool, the façade of her perfect life is irrevocably shattered. Desperate to restore some normalcy to her life and to unlock the puzzle behind wild Julia's demise, Lucy submerges herself beneath the veneer of family values in… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1992. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The fourth in this zingy series featuring New York actress/sleuth Jocelyn O'Roarke (Death Mask, etc.) brings her to Hollywood to work in a TV movie scripted by longtime friend Austin Frost. Jocelyn's affair with Police Detective Gerrard has soured; there's no work in New York; and Jocelyn's grateful for the job, even realizing a big part of it will be helping onetime child star Ginger Jellicoe with this comeback venture after her bout with drugs and failed marriages. Photography Director Buddy Banks is a stalwart friend to Ginger--he's godfather to her little girl Hollie, whose actor father, Tim Hayes, still seems to care about Ginger, though divorce is imminent. Work on the movie proceeds edgily until Buddy is found murdered in his darkroom. Finding out why and who (and keeping Ginger from being another… Read More

N.Y.: Signet Books, 1962. 1st edition, July 1962, so stated. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Signet Books #s2158 [.35 cover price]. Very light wear to cover else a fine, as new, tight copy. Features Tom Kincaid. The Tom Kincaid trilogy concludes with a hardboiled tale of movies and gambling! DEATH in Vegas...Two hopheads pull a heist in a crowded casino, your casino, Kincaid ....DEATH in the Nevada hills. A wrist twists, a knife strikes, and a beautiful girl lies dead on a movie set -- your movie, Kincaid ....DEATH is something you’ve always lived with if your name’s Tom Kincaid and you’re a professional gambler who’s willing to bet against long odds. DEATH is something you’ve got to expect, Kincaid -- especially when you’ve put up a million to back a movie, Gun For Sale, starring your girl. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1992. 1st ed. Fine copy of advance uncorrected proof with publishers letter laid in. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

NY: Scribners, 1986. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, very lightly soiled at edges, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. First Stony Winston title set in the Hollywood film-porn industry. "Stoney Winston, Harvard grad and would-be Hollywood script-writer, is functioning meanwhile as a general factotumprop-man, "director," anything that pays the rentfor the shifty operator of a grubby little studio making sexy soda-pop commercials. Suddenly everything changes: an 18-year-old girl specializing in straight hard-core pron is missing; her stepmother is being blackmailed to pay up or a particularly damning film will be released and she will face certain ruin in business. Can Stoney--tough-talking, without illusions, endowed with an uncommon gift for finding anything --find film and girl? The hunt will lead him through the porn foundries and other moral sewers of movieland, through bloodshed and assorted mayhem. Stinson is clever… Read More

NY: Viking, 1970. 1st ed. bottom pf page edges lightly soiled, light wear to edges else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, $5.95 price intact, in protective mylar cover. A professional assassin wants to retire and fears his latest assignment is designed to end up killing him. Meanwhile his wife has left him. Two plot lines converge after several digressions and false starts, blind alleys and plenty of sex and violence.. Filmed as The Disappearance with Donald Sutherland and Christopher Plummer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Lynx, 1989. 1st edition, March 1989, with complete number line beginning with 1. A near fine, unread copy; paperback original; INSCRIBED and dated 5/2/89 at title page. Murder movie filming turns into a real-life drama for late-night talk show host Veronica Slate. Tampa locale; . Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book.

Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2002. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Author's debut novel. SIGNED COPY. Chicago documentary filmaker Ellie Foreman. "Sharp humor and vivid language distinguish Hellmann's Chicago-set debut. Ellie Forman, a recently divorced suburban mom, supports herself and her daughter by making documentaries, including a historical film, Celebrate Chicago, which has gained her local fame. The discovery of her name on a scrap of paper among the effects of an elderly gentleman, recently deceased in a Chicago rooming house, sets off a sinister chain of events and weaves an ever tightening web of intrigue. Preoccupied with her former husband's mounting stock losses, Ellie fails to put the pieces together until two more deaths and two attempted murders hit close to home. When her ex disappears and leaves her with a staggering amount of debt, Ellie panics, then turns her fear into determination to control her destiny. After taking on a new… Read More

NY: Walker, 1982. 1st ed, thus. (orig 1950). Near fine in dj lightly rubbed at extremeties. Fen and a motion picture studio.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Citadel Press, 1991. 1st prtg. Near fine copy of this large, oversized paperback. 253 pages, Heavilly illustrated. Addresses the continuing appeal of the literary detective turned film hero, chronicling his screen career from sixty-second film to television movies and appraising Holmes' milieu and cinematic impersonators. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1992. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1983. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges lightly soiled else Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Peters must help Mae West recover her sizzling autobiography. Kaminsky has garnered both The GRAND MASTER AWARD from Mystery Writers of America, 2006 and THE EYE LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD, 2007. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1988. 5th printing. Ungar Film Library. Trade size paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Covers lightly age toned. Illustrated throughout with b&w film stills. "Here at last is the book on Hitchcock--the underground classic of film criticism that has shaped all subsequent studies of this cinematic giant. "It was first published in 1957, and its authors were two young contributors to Cahier du Cinema, the influential film periodical. They were both soon to become directors of international renown."--from back cover. Includes Filmography. Later Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Schuman, Jacqueline. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 1983. 1st ed. Fine in unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Lovesey at title page. Laid in is a bookplate stating that 20 copies of this book were signed on June 28th 1983 and that this is numbered 5. A murder mystery at the Keystone Film Company, 1915 with Mack Sennett, 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Norman.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 1983. 1st ed. Fine in unclipped dust jacket. A murder mystery at the Keystone Film Company, 1915 with Mack Sennett, 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Norman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.