Search Results: Michigan from Murder By The Book

NY: Mysterious Press, 1986. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Third Macklin title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

St. Martins 1982, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Mitch Mitchell, a diver in Huron Harbor, Michigan, is featured in the second book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

St. Martins 1982, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dj. 2nd Michelle Mitchell title. Michagan. SIGNED COPY.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1993. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. "Amateur sleuth Alex Phillips and his sister Maddy, a blind, crippled hypnotist/psychologist living as a wealthy recluse on an island in Michigan, make a riveting return from their debut in Death Trance . Here they investigate a murder involving one of Maddy's former patients in Chicago. In a series of hypnosis-induced flashbacks--following a bloody opening scene in medias res --Alex tells Maddy about what happened when he went to Chicago to see her ex-patient Loretta, who had recently written to Maddy for help. After several meetings with Loretta and her family, Alex is shocked to find Loretta's hated stepmother dead and Loretta holding what may be the murder knife and eager to confess to the killing. Listening to Alex's hypnosis-induced… Read More

Guilford: CT: Lyons Press, 2002. 1st ed. Advance uncorrected proof, near fine in pictorial wrappers. Second title in the "Woods Cop" series with conservation Officer Grady Service. Michigan. "Compelling ideas and taut suspense distinguish the second in Heywood's series featuring DNR Conservation Officer Grady Service. Set in the Mosquito Wilderness Tract of Michigan, it's a tense and harrowing narrative most of the way... When protests and bombs planted by animal rights activists apparently result in a double murder at a wolf lab, a rare blue wolf, the symbol for luck, escapes into the wild. But the wolf represents more to the Ojibwa tribe: the animal is an omen for Armageddon if it's captured or killed. Service suspects the murders are more than they seem, and it's up to him to solve them and defuse the potentially explosive situation..." -- PW. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

Kansas City: MO: Andrews & McMeel, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj, lightly rubbed. Father Koesler title. When a man confesses to Father Koesler about murdering a priest, Father Dunn, the new priest at the rectory, overhears the conversation and challenges the seal of confession, which guarantees silence.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2001. 1st prtg. A few dog-eared pages else near fine copy of this trade paperback. Hard-boiled. Detroit setting. A Det. Sgt. "Fang" Muleheisen title. James Crumley called the book "without a doubt one of the finest novels ever written--smart, funny and completely convincing. I've re-read the novel a dozen times....it's one of my favorites".. 1st Prtg. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book.

Kansas City: MO: Andrews McMeel Pub, 1991. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. Father Robert Koesler, Detroit's Catholic priest and amateur sleuth, returns in Kienzle's latest snappy mystery. When a prostitute wearing a nun's habit is shot to death, it seems the intended victim may have been the dead woman's sister, who is in fact a nun. When a church finance officer who wants to shut down inner-city parish schools is murdered, homicide cop Alonzo Tully wonders if a serial killer is on the loose or is someone targeting members of the Detroit archdiocese? Suspicion centers on a married ex-priest eager to return to active ministry, and on a postal clerk, leader of an ultra-conservative grop that wants to "get the Church back on track." Tully, of course, leans on Father Koesler for churchly insights that will help crack the case. While the improbable ending is a letdown, earlier suspense, witty characterizations and candid exploration of the Church's inner workings make this… Read More

Brownsville: OR: Story Line Press, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book and the 1st Stuart Mallory, PI, title. Michigan setting. "Featuring two-fisted PI Stuart Mallory, this first novel launching a planned series fails despite some welcome fresh elements. The locale is new--the city of Lansing and the lakes and dunes of western Michigan--and Mallory is also studying for a graduate degree in sociology. Kathy Whitman, a sexpot with as much honesty as Hammett's Brigid O'Shaughnessy, gets in touch with him for the first time in 15 years. She wants protection from her mob-financed lover and boss, Sam Pendergrass, who has threatened to kill her. She has stolen Sam's computerized books, she says, and testified against him before a grand jury. Before Mallory learns Kathy's secret, he has slept with her, been in a number of fights, faced murder charges and almost… Read More

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 1st edition with publishers colophon at copyright page. Red cloth with black lettering and design. Light soiling around edges, slight wrinkle in cloth at front, corner bumped else a near fine, tight copy. Semple's first and only mystery novel. Set in Michigan. Now housed in homemade clear acetate dust wrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A James Qwilleran, Koko, and Yum Yum mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1987. 1st ed. Reading crease, spine edge rubbed, wear along extremeties , cover creases, else a very good copy of this Paperback Original. An ANTHONY Award Nominee.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1992. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Crime writer Qwilleran and his cats Koko & Yum Yum.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1987. 1st ed. Reading crease, spine edge rubbed, wear along extremeties else a very good copy of this Paperback Original. An ANTHONY Award Nominee.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1996. 1st edition, January 1996, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publishers publicity sheet laid in. "The town of Blackwater Bay, Mich., the inspired setting for A Few Dying Words, is back. Gold Dagger winner Gosling uses two main characters to hold together this intricate tale of big-time mob doings and small-town dirty laundry: Jess Gibbons, a 30-something home-economics teacher; and stolid Sheriff Matt Gabriel. In the middle of a harsh winter, Jess, a little bored and a little depressed, can't know that when a local fisherman glimpses a corpse floating beneath the ice, events will conspire to give her more excitement than she bargained for. Meanwhile, Matt is mystified by the corpse's identity, and the homecoming queen has been throwing wild parties and may be living a secret life. Jess is still cooking gourmet meals for her five housemates, but the air is charged and… Read More

Mysterious Press, 1996. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket, small remainder stamp at bottom. A BLACKWATER BAY MYSTERY.. First Edition. Hard Cover. NF/NF. Book.

Kansas City: MO: Andrews McMeel Pub, 1987. Kienzle's reputation has grown with the success of eight bestsellers about Detroit priest Father Koesler. Catalyst in the ninth is the sudden death of a vicious critic, Ridley Groendal. His longtime homosexual lover, Peter Harison, testifies that Groendal died after a huge dinner, which taxed his weak heart, but Koesler suspects murder. He questions several people who grew up with him and the dead man, including their former mates at the seminary where Groendal abruptly gave up studying for the priesthood. Koesler's investigation discloses the motives for the critic's malicious attacks on innocent victims, whom he blamed for his own failures. As the priest talks to men and women whose lives and careers Groendal had ruined, the shocks proliferate. The strongest occurs in the final, unforeseen disclosure. Kienzle's ninth may be hailed as his most complex and finest mystery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. 1st. Trade Ed. [There was an earliier limited edition published by Dennis McMillan] Fine in dust jacket, lightly sunned at spine. SIGNED by Jackson at title page Fang” Mulheisen, a police detective in Detroit, Michigan, is featured in the sixth title in this incredible series. Jackson's use of multiple characters. that weave in and out of the plot, will have you waiting for his next effort. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Fine in dj. BIBLIOMYSTERY. Amos Walker title; Walker's missing friend 's book on Vietnam may contain a secret Detroiters are dying to know. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Kansas City: MO: Andrews McMeel Pub, 1989. 1st ed. Lightly soiled at page edges else near fine in dust jacket. Burnishing the reputation he has earned with The Rosary Murders , Kienzle again sets series hero Father Koesler among criminals in Detroit. The priest visits a dark, cheerless cloister where four monks draw the media and swarms of citizens when one of the friars reputedly works a miraculous cure. Although skeptical, homicide detective "Zoo" Tully takes his ailing lover to the cloister and the monk heals her instantly. There is no perceived connection between the murder of an old bum, a case assigned to Tully, nor to the attempted murder of Koesler's friend, reporter Pat Lennon, as she writes about the secretive community. But Koesler, versed in Catholic rituals and wise to the ways of con artists, performs wonders of his own. 312 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.