Search Results: Gardening from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Scribners, 1993. 1st ed. Advance uncorrected page proof, fine, spine lightly sunned, wraps. English village setting featuring amateur sleuth and professional horticulturalist Celia Grant. 256 pages. English horticulturalist Celia Grant becomes ensnared in the intrigue involving a young seductress, a radical environmental protection group, and a businessman who is furious over his wife's exclusion from the Melbury Village Garden Society. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 1998. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Picking up from an unfinished manuscript of his late father, Graham Landrum, Robert Landrum follows the further adventures of the ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the quiet little town of Borderville, Tennessee. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2001. 1st prt., a fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Once again, sheila Pim paints a vivid and affectionate portrait of life in a small Irish town in this 1952 novel as death strikes beekeeper Jason Pendergast. Jason Prendergast built his fortune taking minerals from the earth near the Irish town of Drumclash, but bees became the real passion of his life once the mines gave up the last of their riches. When he dies after dining on honey from one of his own hives, village beekeepers suspect local bees are feasting on poisonous plants and infecting hives with deadly nectar. But the Civic Guard prefers to look for a human hand and suspicion falls on Phoebe Prendergast, a niece who gave up a promising career on the stage to look after the old man. The dead man's solicitor can't believe in Phoebe's guilt and conceals from the police the fact that the old man was about to add a codicil to his will disinheriting her should she return to the stage --… Read More

Saint Martin's Press, 2001. 1st ed. Uncorrected proofs, pictorial wrapper, near fine. Florist Bretta Solomon. When Flower Shop owner Bretta Solomon leaves her hometown of River City, Missouri, and heads for a florist convention in Branson, she's surprised to find a letter from Vincent and Mabel McDuffy slipped under her hotel room door, begging for help. The McDuffys seem to know of Bretta's success as an amateur sleuth around River City, and that, coupled with their admiration for Bretta's late husband, a police officer, has inspired them to ask Bretta to find out what happened to their daughter, who died of a heart attack a few months ago. The trouble is, Bretta can't find the McDuffys-after leaving her several messages at the hotel, they seem to have vanished. And although she's curious to track them down and find out exactly what they want her to do, she's got her hands full already running the design contest at the annual florist convention, coping with… Read More

Scribners 1986 (August), 1986. 1st ed. Uncorrected page proof, fine, wraps. Bright green card board covers. Celia Grant title. Although the coroner found Mary Lindsay innocent of the murder of her elderly mother, someone is playing cruel tricks to get her to confess, and horticulturalist-sleuth Celia Grant must track down the real killer. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's second gardening mystery, featuring Bretta Solomon, the leading florist in River City, Missouri.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2008. 1st ed. A fine copy with publishers sheet laid in. Paula Holliday has left her glamous city life and her career as a media executive to move to the suburbs and start a gardening business. Paula is delighted to get her hands dirty, digging thru the slugs and fighting off the deer, but when she happens upon a mummified body while restoring the gardens at Halcyon, she gets much more than she bargained for. Then, when a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula's friends is arrested for the crime, Paulamust take matters into her own hands, and with the help of a a still-hot aging rock star, a wise-cracking former colleague, and a sexy Mexican laborer, Paula is going to dig up the truth and save her friend, no matter what it takes. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1990. 1st A. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. English village setting featuring amateur sleuth and professional horticulturalist Celia Grant. "Celia Grant, the diminutive, white-haired heroine of Sherwood's horticultural mysteries ( Flowers of Evil ), is facing financial ruin because a new commercial garden center is taking business away from Archerscroft, her nursery, in this lively and enjoyable addition to the series. Hoping to earn a hefty fee, she agrees to work for Victor Stratton, a man fanatically devoted to Shakespeare and anything Elizabethan. But the disreputable Strattons--who while away their time with blackmail, conspiracy and theft--are involved in the sordid death of a rapist. When Celia decides to abandon her effort, the abrasive and obsessive Inspector Porter persuades her to carry on, "committing herself to constructing a fake Elizabethan garden in the worst of taste for a half-made client… Read More

Wichita: KS: St. Kitts Press, 1999. The 1st Callista Bagley gardening mystery set in Kansas. Interspersed with the mystery Callie shares her own gardening tips. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).