Search Results: MISSISSIPPI from Murder By The Book

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1986. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket very lightly soiled along top edge. A gripping story about a multimillion-dollar land swindle--& the brave, stubborn man who uncovers it--in the fragile barrier islands off the Mississippi coast.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Johnson City: TN: Silver Dagger, 2000. 1st pbk printing, with complete number line beginning with 1, like new condition with minor shelf wear. Silver Dagger is a consortium of Southern Mystery writers who have come together to publish a collection of quality mystery novels in hardcover (limited to 1,000 copies only) and simultaneously in trade paperback. Maggie McLendon should be at home in Houston, studying for her Ph.D. qualifying exams, but a letter from her great aunt arrives, bearing bad news. Maggie's grandfather, Henry McLendon, whom she has never met, is seriously ill in Jackson, Mississippi. Maggie's father, English professor Gerard McLendon, has been estranged from his family since Maggie was an infant, but now there is perhaps one last chance for the McLendons to be reunited. The family welcomes Maggie and Gerard to Jackson, and Gerard has a chance to reconcile with his father. But a murderer strikes, savagely, and Gerard McLendon looks like the chief suspect. Maggie must… Read More

NY: Putnam, 2000. 1st ed. Previous owner's name at fep, else fine in dust jacket. Anna Pigeon in Mississippi's Natchez Parkway. A BARRY Award Winner and ANTHONY Award Nominee.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Putnam, 2000. Book club edition. fine in dust jacket. Anna Pigeon in Mississippi's Natchez Parkway. A BARRY Award Winner.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2000. 1st ed., July 2000. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Casper Perinovich has shrimped the waters off Biloxi's Point Cadet for longer than anyone can remember. Pushing eighty, Casper is still one of the toughest and smartest old birds left on a waterfront increasingly being taken over by big-money casinos. To Jack, Casper is like a second father. Two weeks into a tough investigation and in need of a break, Jack heads out fishing with Casper, only to have disaster strike. A lifelong Point Cadet resident and vocal opponent of the casino development encroaching on his Gulf Coast town, Casper returns home, flips on his light switch, and his house explodes around him. The value of Casper's land, it seems, may have been worth killing over. And as good a man as Casper is, he's got a long list of enemies, everyone from a band of Vietnamese gangs, some angry local rednecks, a… Read More

N.Y.: Harcourt, 2008. 1st edition, so stated with complete letter line beginning with A. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. "Edgar-winner Cook (Red Leaves) examines the slow collapse of a prominent Southern family in this magnificent tale of suspense set in 1954. Jack Branch, who's returned to his hometown of Lakeland, Miss., and taken a job at the same high school where his father once taught, is dismayed to learn that one of his students in his class on historical evil is the son of the town's infamous Coed Killer. Eddie Miller's father confessed to torturing and killing a local girl when Eddie was five, but died in jail before he could stand trial. Hoping to help Eddie step out of his father's shadow, Jack proposes that the boy write a research paper on the Coed Killer. Eddie is soon immersed in the project, which grows in scope until it encompasses the entire town's sordid past. When Jack's own father's history is brought into… Read More

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. 1st paperback printing, May 1951. Dell Mapback #505. Vintage Paperback. Color front cover illustration by Bob Stanley. Rear cover map of "Natchez in the Mississippi, " with two insets: --"Melrose," old house in Natchez & -- "Connelly's Tavern". Spine edges rubbed, reading crease, light spine roll, creases at rear. Magnolias and murder -- live oaks and dead women -- romance and violence -- are what three unsuspecting women find on the Garden Club pilgrimage to glamorous Old Natchez. Expecting to recapture the magic of the Old South, they become involved, instead, in an ancient feud of love and death, where the romantic sins of the past come to life in very modern murder! 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.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Illus. by Stanley, Robert… Read More

Aurora: CO: Write Way Publishing, 2000. 1st ed. Unedited Advance Reading Copy, spiral bound, pictorial wrappers. A fine, unread copy. The fourth PI Ivan Monk title. "Old Man Spears was a quiet, regular attendee at the Abyssinia Barber Shop, a man nobody paid much attention to until the day he dropped dead, while the other regulars -- including Ivan Monk -- sat around playin' the dozens and cracking jokes on one another. It turns out Spears played in the famed Negro Baseball Leagues along with Monk's cousin, Kennesaw Riles, who had been ostracized by the family for his questionable testimony, which put a political firebrand in a southern prison more than 25 years before. Then Riles dies, but not from natural causes. As Monk becomes immersed in finding out who murdered his cousin, his mother is brutally attacked, and the case turns personal. Events take him to the Mississippi Delta to solve these crimes. There Monk hunts for a killer and crosses paths with the remnants of the racist… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1997. 1st edition, March 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Grisham 's best-plotted novel yet, gripping the reader mightily and not letting go. Nor is there the dispersal of belief that often follows his knockout openings. Patrick Lanigan is tracked down to his hideout in Brazil, where he lives modestly near the Paraguayan border. Surely, Jack Stephano thinks, Patrick could not have spent the $90 million he ran off with four years ago. Jack has spent $3 million tracking Patrick down, and he wants that money. He wants it so much that he's blithely torturing Patrick to discover its location. The problem is that Patrick doesn't really know. He's given power of attorney to his lover, the brilliant Brazilian lawyer Eva Miranda, and she has been shuttling the money from bank to bank around the world, keeping it untraceable. When Patrick fails to call her at four in… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Mississippi setting. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.