Search Results: KENTUCKY from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Pyramid Books, 1954. 1st Edition. Pyramid Books #112, 1954. Paperback Original. Cover Art by Julian Paul, Fine, bright, tight copy. Written by Janice Holt Giles, who was noted primarily for her historical novels set in Kentucky, under the pseudonym of John Garth. 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.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Paul, Julian. Vintage Paperback.

N.Y.: Walker, 1991. st ed. Fine in dj. Author's first book. Eastern Kentucky. INSCRIBED COPY. Inscribed to Andy Thurman of Spenser's Mystery Book Store in Boston, MA. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Walker Publishing Co., 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Top of pages lightly dusty else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Eastern Kentucky. "Berkley Jordon, deputy sheriff of Buxton, Ky., wants to win the 1933 election for high sheriff more than anything else--except for finding the murderer of Bitsy Trotter. An autopsy reveals that the horribly butchered victim was pregnant, and Bitsy's hot-tempered beau, Sal Manochio, believes he's the father. But there's another candidate, Harry Buxton Jr., Bitsy's secret lover and scion of the owner of virtually every enterprise in the small mining town. Jordon considers both men suspects in the slaying, but community pressure leads to a bitter choice: he can arrest Manochio and lay off Harry Jr., or he can forfeit the election. Doubting Manochio's guilt and Harry's innocence, the deputy sheriff continues his investigation. When… Read More

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. 1st ed. Spine slant, cloth lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket, price clipped, small chip out along rear top, lightly soiled. SIGNED full name at front end-paper.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Portland:OR: USA: Floating Word Press, LLC, 2008. 1st edition, Trade Paperback Original. A fine, unread, as new copy with publishers informational slips laid in. The female corpse snagged along the Mississippi riverbank wasn’t the only life that washed ashore that year. Throughout the South, Hurricane Katrina had inflicted death and destruction as quickly as a serpent’s strike. In this third Jack Vu mystery, Air Force Investigator Jack Vu finds himself displaced by Katrina, along with countless others. He has lost his home, a boat christened “The Arctic Wing", which had provided him solitude and solace on the water, much like the Mekong Delta of his youth. Forced to now live in an overcrowded barracks, Jack actually looks forward to investigating the apparent suicide of a female Air Force officer in Louisville, Kentucky because it affords him a clean private hotel room. One death soon becomes two, and Vu finds himself partnered with Big Easy cops Dorene Gates and Bruce Hill,… Read More

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1983. 1st US ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, small crease and light sticker remains. Captain Clay and Sergeant Manion search for the killer of a young schoolteacher whose body is found in the garage of an elderly woman's home in the pastoral village of Humber Falls, Kentucky. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1994. 1st ed. Paperback Original. Reading crease, light wear at spine ends else near fine copy. Author's 1st book. Kentucky. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Paperback Original. 245 pages.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Book.