Search Results: New Hampshire from Murder By The Book

NY: Viking, 2003. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket with remainder mark at bottom of pages. The 3rd title featuring Will Buchanan, a Renaissance man - high school science teacher, avid hiker, sensitive lover, and six feet of rugged good looks, wit, intellect, and forest savvy. His beat is New Hampshire's fabulous White Mountains, with their rushing water, sun-dappled woods, and still, moonlit nights.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Remainder.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1999. 1st ed. Complete number line. Fine in fine dust jacket. A story of a family of three on a wilderness hike that results in nine year old Jessica spending the night lost in the woods listening on her transistor radio to her hero, relief pitcher, Tom Gordon. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2000. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. This copy has been SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, jointly as Philip Lawson, and then also as themselves; Michael Bishop and Paul Di Filippo. "In the aftermath of his father's death, Will Keats's life finally seems to be settling down to some semblance of normalcy again in his new home with Adrienne and her daughter Olivia. Olivia is a bright, lively eight-year old who loves nothing more than The Wizard of Oz, except maybe her pony, Roogy Batoon. Until Will looks out during a sudden autumn thunderstorm to see Roogy running free. Leaving Olivia in front of her favorite video, Will goes to retrieve the pony. But when he returns to the house, Olivia is gone, and a trail of muddy bootprints indicates she didn't leave on her own. The trail leads to the door of Adrienne's disreputable ex-husband, Byron,… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 1987. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Light soiling at page edges else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1996. First edition, September 1996, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Very minor soiling at page edge else fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. New England College setting. Publishers informational sheet laid in. 354 pages. "At 21, Kristina Kim is a senior at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. She is beautiful, pleasant, and the star player on the women's basketball team. Surrounded by her close friends Jim Shaw, Conni Tobias, and Albert Maplethorpe, Kristina has her whole life before her. But a week after Thanksgiving her body is found frozen in the deep snow near her dormitory. Spencer Patrick O'Malley, the detective in charge, coincidentally met Kristina shortly before her death and even had a date with her the week after the holiday. As Spencer conducts his investigation, he uncovers many peculiarities; for example, why did none of her trusted friends report Kristina missing in the nine days previous… Read More

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1995. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dj. Boldly and legibly SIGNED by Healy at title page. "Healy's John Cuddy, the Boston-based PI with an old-fashioned code of honor, has starred now in 10 books, and his latest is a humdinger. Stopping on the highway to help a young woman change a tire, Cuddy is reminded by the awkward kid with her of a buddy he lost in Vietnam -- and always felt guilty about-- and promises to help if the boy should ever need it. Next day the driver is found dead and the boy has disappeared. Without missing a beat, Cuddy takes up the case, finds the boy's uptight religious parents and finds also a scary Southerner who may have killed the girl and who seems obsessed with a tub-thumping religious evangelist based in the Florida Keys. True to his code, Cuddy is off to Florida and, eventually, after a lot of skilfully laid-on local color and another murder, to a slam-bang climax as the horrible secret of what has… Read More

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. 2nd ed. Near fine in dust jacket. Author's first book. Remainder stripe at page bottom. Set in the late 1640's, in the Piscataqua settlement on the New England coast. A young woman has been found murdered and a young Englishman is asked to take up the case. Based on an actual unsolved murder that took place near what is now Exeter, New Hampshire. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.