Search Results: Indiana from Murder By The Book

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1995. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publishers sheet laid in. "Set in eastern Indiana, this powerful mystery, featuring Deputy Marty Hopkins in her second appearance (after Gravestone), starts with the disappearance of a teenage boy and ends by connecting religious fanaticism of generations past to suffering and murder in the present. Johnny Donato was last seen near the riverside ruins of the New Concord community, a 19th-century sect with utopian ideals and a rigid devotion to celibacy. Leading efforts to restore New Concord, with the help of a church youth group, is developer Bob Rueger, who, Marty discovers, may have other than historical motives. After Johnny's mauled body is disgorged by the river, two more teens disappear, including Rueger's daughter..." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Knopf, 1990. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Vachss ( Flood ) is not for everyone, but fans of his hard-hitting series about Burke, the tough ex-con who mercilessly tracks criminals and degenerates down to society's seamiest depths, will find this fifth installment as riveting as his previous thrillers. The Burke novels read almost as one continuing story, with enough references to previous events and characters to leave the new reader, if not baffled, at least feeling on the outside looking in. Even more discomfiting is the fact that Vachss comes close to rendering the term "hard-boiled" obsolete. Many scenes are uncomfortably graphic and intense in themselves; their cumulative effect is extraordinarily powerful. This time, Burke leaves behind the familiar New York underworld and his band of street "brothers" when a former cellmate's call for help takes him to a small Indiana town where the… Read More

N.Y.: Atheneum, 1989. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in an acid-free archival acetate cover. The divorce of an affluent and argumentive couple in Wyler, Indiana, turns nasty when the husband is found murdered and the wife flees, sweeping attorney Andrew Broom into a murder defense. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1994. 1st edition, September 1994 with complete number line beginning with 1 Near fine in dust jacket, a couple of creases, unclipped. The 2nd Joan Spencer title. Joan Spencer, violist and manager of the Oliver, Indiana Civic Symphony, is busy with preparations for the group’s performance at the hugely popular annual quilt show. But when the body of show organizer Mary Sue Ellett is found under a quilt, the competition takes on a sinister tone. Joan suspects Mary Sue’s death had to do with a missing will that the entire Ellett family has been circling like vulture to locate. But looking for cold hard motives among the soft down turns up some surprising stitches–and the handiwork of a devious killer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1991. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Albert Samson, a middle-aged, low-key PI in Indianapolis, Indiana, is featured in the eigth book in the series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY.NY: St Martins Press, 1995. 1st. Eition, April 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author at title page. A '' Deets" Shanahan title. This fourth outing presents the Indianapolis private eye with a case involving the conflicts in a tragic family while at the same time Deets is facing a crisis in his own personal life. The four brothers in the wealthy Lindstrom family - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - were star basketball players in high school and definitely headed for stardom in the game and in life. But not only have they not lived up to their promise of all-round success, they now seem in their adulthood to have been destined for disaster. Matthew has been crippled in a climbing accident, Mark threw himself from the top of a skyscraper, Luke has become a paranoid heroin addict. Only John seems to have escaped - so far. Meanwhile, Shanahan has a dread of his own: His grown son, who… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1998. 1st ed.,with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Fresh out of law school, Nora Lumsey - a farm-bred, big-boned woman, recovering bigot, and a compulsive meddler - has just begun her clerkship for Judge Carter Albertson of the Indiana Court of Appeals when she is instructed to draft an opinion affirming the conviction of Dexter Hinton, a deaf black child who has confessed to the murder of an elderly white woman in a drive-by shooting. When Nora discovers a personal connection to Dexter's family, she finds her passion to do justice at odds with her role as a ghostwriter for the judge and "handmaiden to the law," and she is torn between her idealism and her ethical obligations to the court. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Scribner, 1995. page edges lightly spotted, else fine in dj; lawyer Andrew Broom. Indiana locale; golf. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

Scribner, 1995. page edges lightly spotted, else fine in dj; lawyer Andrew Broom. Indiana locale; golf. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1997. 1st edition, May 1997, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Oliver, Indiana, is now home to widow Joan Spencer and her college student son Andrew (Buried in Quilts, 1997, etc.). Joan is director of the Senior Citizens' Center and plays viola in the town's symphony orchestra, which is doing Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore at Oliver College. The cast--students and townspeople- -includes local Justice David Palmer, whose little daughter had been saved by Joan in a recent tornado. Also backstage are carpenter Zach Yoder and his boss Virgil Shoals, both heavily involved in repairing tornado damage--such as Joan's torn-up porch and the next-door house of elderly Henry Palmer, David's uncle, whose fall through a floor put him in the hospital. It's two weeks after the tornado when, on the opening night of Ruddigore, David Palmer… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1997. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. " In the small town of Oliver, Indiana, a well-liked judge is murdered onstage during a local performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta 'Ruddigore'. The director of the Senior Citizens Center, Joan Spencer, is playing the viola in the orchestra when it happens, and her ties with the judge's family--and with nearly everyone else in Oliver--draw her into the investigation. This third mystery in the series is a neatly plotted cozy filled with deft touches: Joan's affectionate relationship with her college-age son; what to do in Indiana during a tornado; the surreal dream of knowing, even in sleep, that you have to pee. Joan's relationship with local police officer Fred Lundquist is traced in the tentative dance of older lovers, as the debris of their past (she's a widow; he's… Read More

NY, NY: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1981. 1st. Ed. Fine in dust jacket very lightly sunned. . Albert Samson, a middle-aged, low-key PI in Indianapolis, Indiana, is featured in the fifth book in the series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY.: Morrow, 1984. 1st Ed. Fine in dust jacket. Albert Samson, a middle-aged, low-key PI in Indianapolis, Indiana, is featured in this sixth book. Samson seeks the truth behind a fifty-year-old murder and becomes involved with a woman no one has seen in decades and a long-retired detective who may know more than he seems to. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY.: Morrow, 1984. 2nd Ed. Pge edges very lightly soiled else a fine copy in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Signed in full at title page by author. Albert Samson, a middle-aged, low-key PI in Indianapolis, Indiana, is featured in this sixth book. Samson seeks the truth behind a fifty-year-old murder and becomes involved with a woman no one has seen in decades and a long-retired detective who may know more than he seems to. Signed by Author. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Atheneum, 1990. 1st ed., complete number line beginning with 1. Spine slant else Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Andrew Broom becomes embroiled in murder when a children's book illustrator is gunned down in his Indiana backyard, a crime that baffles the police who are unaware of a fortune in German bonds that is buried in the yard. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Walker, 2002. 1st ed., Fine copy in pictoral wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof of the new Hilda Johansson title. South Bend, Indiania in 1903 with the circus in town. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

NY,NY.: St Martins Press, 1990. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ has ink marks to ffp, and someone has removed (poorly) the book sellers price from back of jacket, ruining ISBN patch. Page edges spotted else near fine in dust jacket. Introducing Dietrich "Deets" Shanahan who investigates the murder of a man who was about to change his will. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.