Search Results: Long Island from Murder By The Book

Garden City, New York,: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. 1st edition, so stated. Original green cloth with lettering to the front panel and the spine. lightly soiled with some wear at spine edges and extremeties, else a very good+ tight copy. Peter Clancy on Long Island. Scarce title. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Book.

New York: Putnam Pub Group, 2004. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Decorated map endpapers. 394 ppg. WINNER OF THE CWA CREASEY DAGGER AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL. "A mysterious drowning rekindles a conflict between a Basque-American fisherman and a powerful Long Island family in screenwriter Mills's smart, complex debut novel, a fascinating murder mystery that begins in the post-WWII years when Conrad Labarde hauls up the body of Lillian Wallace in his net while earning his livelihood in the waters off the Hamptons. At first the drowning looks like a tragic accident, but when the autopsy report raises the possibility of murder and Labarde's history with the Wallaces is uncovered, police chief Tom Hollis suspects Labarde of playing a central role in Lillian's death. Further investigation, however, casts suspicion on the powerful Wallace family... As Mills weaves together the various plot… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf, 2001. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 5.5 x 8.25 inches, part of Carroll & Graf's 'Novella' series, An Otto Penzler Book. 87 pages. From the marbeled precincts of New York's uptown museum scene to the galleries and lofts of trendy Soho to a gated Mafia mansion on the platinum coast of Long Island, Lustbader's novella sweeps Tess Chase into the perilous pursuit of a long-lost painting by Renaissance master Raphael.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A young man mysteriously drowns near the compound of one of the richest families in the Hamptons. His brother is determined to get to the truth at all costs and is pitted against an opponent more mysterious and powerful than he first thought.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Atheneum, 1980. First edition, fine in fine dust jacket, very lightly sunned at top edge, not price clipped, $9.95 intact, with protective mylar cover. Artist/ amateur sleuth, Persis Willum. Persis takes a reluctant leave from her art gallery to serve as a board member of the troubled Waldheim Museum on Long Island. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1988. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. His first mystery. "Gibbs, former editor of Yachting magazine, knows the boating world and his first novel reflects it. Young Gillian Verdean's great-uncle Dennis dies of a brutal beating on board the ketch Glory. Dennis's past -- mainly rum and gun-running-- was shady at best and it soon becomes clear that some of his associates are after Glory, which apparently holds a treasure, the nature and whereabouts of which were known only to Dennis. Two arms-suppliers to Col. Qadaffi, the slick Visconti and the nasty Hals, vie to wrest the boat from Gillian. Hals even plants ex-mercenary Patrick O'Mara aboard as a spy, a plan that seems destined for success when hunk O'Mara and Gillian fall into bed. Even the beautiful Emerald, ex-girlfriend of Uncle Dennis, a porn star looking for money to set herself up as a madam, has designs on the ketch. Eventually Gillian,… Read More

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1946. 1st pbk printing, March 1946. Dell Mapback #107. Vintage Paperback. Front cover by Gerald Gregg. Rear Map by Ruth Belew. Map of "Blessingbourne-- Scene of Murder" Michael & Claudia Bethune's country house, High Hampton, Long Island, NY. The 3rd Basil Willing title. Reading crease, light wear along edges with some minor chipping else a very good-near fine copy. When Dr Basil Willing rents a small shack for a vacation on Long Island he becomes embroiled with his landlady, Claudia Bethune. Claudia wants to learn the secrets of her relatives and friends, so she steals a truth serum and holds a dinner party for her nearest and dearest. In the early morning hours, as Dr Willing returns to his cottage, he sees what he thinks is a fire and investigates. He finds Claudia near death at the table and hears footsteps fading up the stairs. Someone didn't want Claudia to learn the truth about them, and soon Dr Willing finds himself a… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1993. 1st edition, July 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED & DATED, at KEY WEST. "Secrets from the past collide with the fiscally strained present of the fictional Long Island town of Waggs Neck Harbor to create a swirl of passions in this sprightly first mystery starring Wyn Lewis, a tenacious lawyer/realtor. World-famous artist Jackson Hall returns to his old hometown where his former schoolmate, Phineas Browne, now the mayor, harbors hopes for broad renovation and an influx of tourists. At the same time, another classmate, local eccentric Percy Curry, dies foolishly in his bathtub. Hall, who had often borne the brunt of cruel pranks played by the Fat Boys, a club of wealthy schoolboys that included Curry and Browne, is now hated by his many past lovers and their long-slighted offspring. Even so, the next corpse is the mayor's. Within this maelstrom… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Who's out to kill the most influential and controversial broadcaster in America? When a hit and run Rolls Royce slams Leicester Dils while out for his midnight jog, correspondent Beecher Stowe and his sidekick try to find out who is out to kill the Cowboy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1935. First edition, so stated. Fine in homemade acetate dust jacket.. Very scarce. "The Hangover Murders, the only novel published by the pseudonymous Adam Hobhouse, and one of only two Borzoi Murder Mystery titles, is known today almost exclusively as the basis for the 1935 screwball comedy mystery film, Remember Last Night?, a pretty good entry in the string of imitations of the William Powell/Myrna Loy Thin Man series. More’s the pity, because the novel is even more remarkable. Except for the basic premise and a few of the tamer plot elements, it is also wholly different from the screen version. Screwball, yes. Comedy, no. The basic premise, unlike the rest of the book, is simple: a group of rich, alcoholic Long Islanders wake up from a night’s debauch with monumental hangovers, to discover that their host has been shot to death sometime during the night. One or more of the menage is likely guilty, the problem being that none of them can… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dodd Mead, 1985. First edition, so stated. Fine in dust jacket showing modest rubbing. When Ralph Simmons finds his friend Professor David Black's severed head in an ice bucket, he asks Black's devoted law students to construct a psychological profile of the murderer and becomes himself the target of the killer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Kensington Pub Corp, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Authors first mystery featuring golf pro Kieran Lenahan on Long Island. "The pseudonymous Daly, a practicing attorney, scores a birdie with this spirited first mystery, set in the world of pro-am golf. Kieran Lenahan, the golf pro at Milton Country Club in Westchester County, N.Y., has just earned a berth in a local PGA tournament when the police inform him that the body of one of his club's co-owners has been fished out of a water hazard. Lenahan, a former lawyer, is stunned to hear he has been named in the dead man's will and designated to evaluate a set of rare Blitzklubs, legendary clubs made by the Nazis, for the estate. Then the clubs are stolen, and Lenahan's young shop assistant, a reforming juvenile delinquent, is arrested for the murder. As Lenahan searches for the clubs, tries to free his assistant and prepares to play his opening PGA round, he stumbles on the dead man's marital problems and a case of… Read More

N.Y.: Kensington Pub Corp, 1995. 1st edition, May 1995. Fine in dust jacket. Authors first mystery featuring golf pro Kieran Lenahan on Long Island. "The pseudonymous Daly, a practicing attorney, scores a birdie with this spirited first mystery, set in the world of pro-am golf. Kieran Lenahan, the golf pro at Milton Country Club in Westchester County, N.Y., has just earned a berth in a local PGA tournament when the police inform him that the body of one of his club's co-owners has been fished out of a water hazard. Lenahan, a former lawyer, is stunned to hear he has been named in the dead man's will and designated to evaluate a set of rare Blitzklubs, legendary clubs made by the Nazis, for the estate. Then the clubs are stolen, and Lenahan's young shop assistant, a reforming juvenile delinquent, is arrested for the murder. As Lenahan searches for the clubs, tries to free his assistant and prepares to play his opening PGA round, he stumbles on the dead man's marital problems and… Read More

N.Y.: Croydon Publishing Co., 1945. First pbk printing. A Croydon Award Mystery #6. Vintage Paperback, Digest size. Cover illustration by L.B. Cole Authors First book. Reading creases, a few cover creases, bottom of page edges show damp stain, covers rubbed, pages age toned else a very good copy of scarce edition. One of the interesting features is that the front cover has author's name spelled Dennis (sic) but it is corrected at title page Mike James; Long Island, NY. Nice people don't commit murder and the Long Island citizens in this mystery are all out of the top drawer. But a beautiful actress, who looked and acted like one of the Borgias, is found dead, and murder makes a villian." . First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Good-Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Cole, L.B.. Digest. Vintage Paperback.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1988. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Art world.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.