Search Results: Mexico from Murder By The Book

NY, NY: Random, 1976. 1st edition. Light wear at edges, cheap paper age toned else fine in dust jacket. Gilly Decker is rich, fifty and married to a human vegetable. Cut down by a stroke on their honeymoon, Marco has given up. He hungers only for pills and thirsts only for the fluid in the hypodermic needle. Gilly Decker has lost one husband and is about to lose another. Why, then, should she send the bright young lawyer, Tom Aragon, to the wastes of Mexico to look for her first husband? It must be all of eight years since B.J. Lockwood took off with one of the servants - so is she after B.J.'s money, B.J.'s son, or sweet revenge - and can she foresee the deadly future?. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Cancun setting.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan, 1997. First edition, December 1997, so stayted with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by author Kent Harrington directly on the half-title page. Dust jacket and interior art work by Scott Musgrove. The publisher calls this ".a book that is as close to the "essential" noir novel as I've ever read." Calhoun is an American drug agent working in Tijuana, indulging in the excesses and corruption of that Mexican border town. He supplements his income - and tries to to cover his losses at the dog track - by smuggling illegal aliens across the border into California. His partner of choice is a Mexican federal cop. His partner of necessity is a well-bred, young, violent British fixer. The pressure on Calhoun mounts as he's "hired" to mule a group of Chinese girls across the border; unknown to him the girls have ingested balloons of… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1994. 1st ed. fine in dj the 2nd Luis Balam title. Mexico. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st edition, July 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Deadly tricks of the international spy trade illuminate various tactics of survival, collaboration, disinformation--and the creative process--in this complex tale of journalism and subversion in Latin America. Cycling back and forth in time and through a protean array of distinct narrative voices and points of view, Mexican crime novelist Taibo ( No Happy Ending ) gradually gives shape to a whirlwind of brief fragments from the lives of his diverse characters. These include Leon Trotsky, Stan Laurel and Houdini, each of whom is presented in an unexpected but somehow credible context. The various narrative threads intersect in 1980s Mexico, where Alex, who comes from an obscure intelligence office in New York, orchestrates his masterpiece of deception, a scheme to vilify the Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua; and… Read More

NY: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st ed. Translated from the Spanish by Beth Henson, cover art by José Ortega, fine in dust jacket, very slight rubbing otherwise a fine copy. "In Taibo's irresistible noir-meets-magic realism approach, wit and politics are central to the narrative. Jose Daniel Fierro seems an unlikely candidate for police chief in the Mexican border town of Santa Ana. A crime writer who has never fired a gun, he's also something of a coward. On the other hand, he's a quick study, a mine of crime fiction and movie lore-and he's alive, which is than can be said for the two previous chiefs of his town, a communist outpost that boasts a colorful revolutionary and counterrevolutionary past. After Jose deals with his first few crimes, the story picks up steam when the stabbed and naked corpse of an American woman is discovered in the church. In her nearby motel room, Jose finds a bloody yellow dress and the picture of a young child. Looking for the killer sends him… Read More

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1991. 1st edition, August 1991, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. WINNER OF THE PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA Best First Private Eye Novel. "The Long Goodbye meets The Wild Bunch in this dark, atmospheric tale of mystery, violence, and international intrigue in 1943 Tijuana, where Clifford Rose's ethereally innocent sister Wendy has been kidnapped by a crew of Nazi Satanists. As ringleaders Juan and Frank Metzger and monstrous Se¤or Zarp dangle Wendy just out of Clifford's reach, he gets a big assist from p.i.-turned-MP Tom Hickey (still trying to exorcise his own departed womenfolk), Hickey's old partner Leo Weiss, and a one-eyed cabbie named Tito, all of whom will carry on the wildly escalating fight--even after Clifford, among many others, abruptly checks out--to rescue Wendy, foil a German plot to overthrow the government of Baja California, and… Read More

Scribners, 1978. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Espionage novel by an anonymous former senior intelligence officer. This American edition is slightly different that the first British according to the copyright page. Author once held a senior intelligence post, hence the alias. 3 or 4 lines underlined in pencil. .. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1943. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Original yellow cloth , spine stamped in burgandy, light soiling to binding, erasure marking on front pastedown. Original dust jacket, not price clipped, $2.00 price at flap, lightly sunned at spine, some rubbing, light soiling, some foxing to fore-edges of jacket panels, with no nicks or chips out of jacket. SCARCE... Norbert Davis was among the most talented of all the writers who specialized in pulp fiction in the Thirties and early Forties. Although he was primarily a magazine writer (he graduated from the pulps to such slicks as The Saturday Evening Post in 1943, he published three mystery novels featuring the detective "team" of Doan and Carstairs. Each of these is fast-paced, occasionally lyrical in a hard-edged way, and often quite funny. Davis, in fact, was one of the few writers to successfully blend the so-called hard-boiled story with farcical humor. The Mouse in the Mountain is… Read More

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2006. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this new trade paperback. When pretty little Ina Kell arrived in Manhattan full of foolish dreams about making it big in show business, she had no idea how quickly she'd be in the headlines. But when TV personality Tony Fagan is murdered in the apartment building where she's staying and she disappears shortly thereafter, the search is on, led by Inspector Oscar Piper and his longtime friend Hildegarde Withers. The chief suspect is playboy Junior Gault, whose company sponsored Fagan's show and who was the target of some intemperate remarks Fagan made on the air. Hildy and her beloved poodle Talleyrand soon find themselves in Tijuana, where a clever street urchin named Vito becomes her right-hand man. She's soon joined by Oscar, Junior's socialite fiancee Dallas Trempleau, and other refugees from the Big Apple. And while Hildy may be retired from teaching, she's clearly not ready to put her… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1993. 1st Ed. with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Walker 1988 1st A. Fine in dj. Mexico;a valuable manuscript buried during the reign of Emperor Maximillian and a criminal known as 'The Bookworm'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2004. 1st prtg. A fine , unread copy of this trade paperback. Inspector Oscar Piper was off on a junket to Mexico in the summer of 1937 (surrounded by a bunch of Democrats, huffed Miss Withers) when a customs inspector on a train headed for Mexico City sniffs a very potent bottle of cheap perfume and promptly drops dead. Quite naturally, Oscar telegraphs Hildegarde in Manhattan about the perfume and quite naturally Miss Withers packs her bags and heads south of the border, figuring Oscar is out of his depth if he has to rely on deductive reasoning rather than a rubber hose. Why any of the occupants of the train should want to kill a harmless Mexican customs inspector is so puzzling that everyone assumes that the real intended victim is a self-made rich American woman who seemingly has rededicated her life to shopping. Her husband ought to be the prime suspect but he seems devoted to her, although he was spotted giving cash to a pretty young redhead when he… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1996. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Taibo's hugely popular detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne returns from the dead (?) in this latest of the inventive series set in Mexico City.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.