Search Results: NEW ORLEANS from Murder By The Book

NY, NY: St. Martin, 1991. 1st Ed. NEAR FINE/ NEAR FINE. DJ shows minimal shelf wear, pages yellowing. Skip Langdon, a policewoman in New Orleans, Louisiana, is featured in THE SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY,NY.: Hyperion Books, 1994. 1st, Ed. FINE/FINE . Set in New Orleans at the beginning of the twenty-first century, deals with people before they are " removed " from thier present world. "If an author's ability to lay an indelible stamp on a particular time and place is any measure of merit, then Gifford deserves applause. The latest work by the author of Wild at Heart returns to the locale he's making increasingly his own--a sultry, sleazy Big Easy fueled by cheap bourbon and lit by the late-night glare of TV screens. Even the bit players in this teeming cast of hookers, cons and wildeyed street preachers rejoice in names like Wilbur "Damfino" Nougat or Coco Navajoa. As usual, Gifford's narrative structure sprawls as picturesquely as the French Quarter itself: a series of loosely connected vignettes bordering on the grotesque rather than a unified story line. Continuities of plot or character threaten to develop only to be interrupted by sudden swerves and… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 1st ed. Lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket small tear at bottom corner. New Orleans 1st Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. "Michael Kilian, writing here as Rex Dancer, has established himself in the last several years as a first-rate writer of political and historical novels as well as of mysteries.. Bad Girl Blues, set in sultry New Orleans, is his best effort yet. Main character Andy Derain, a burnt-out New York photographer, finds a dead body in the courtyard of his French Quarter shop. Strange that his former love Candice, now married to powerful Texan Ben Browley, should be with him at the time! Believable characterization of even minimal characters, excellent writing with touches of humor built beautifully into the dialog, well-paced plot development, and doses of violence and sex that are never overdone but add to the storyline..." -- LJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 1st Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Review copy with slip laid in. "Michael Kilian, writing here as Rex Dancer, has established himself in the last several years as a first-rate writer of political and historical novels as well as of mysteries.. Bad Girl Blues, set in sultry New Orleans, is his best effort yet. Main character Andy Derain, a burnt-out New York photographer, finds a dead body in the courtyard of his French Quarter shop. Strange that his former love Candice, now married to powerful Texan Ben Browley, should be with him at the time! Believable characterization of even minimal characters, excellent writing with touches of humor built beautifully into the dialog, well-paced plot development, and doses of violence and sex that are never overdone but add to the storyline..." -- LJ. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1993. 1st edition, July 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A novel of murder and mayhem set in New Orleans . Author's first book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Random House, 1995. 1st ed., fine in dj. New Orleans locale. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Hyperion, 1995. 1st ed. Book plate very neatly removed from front end paper leaving a darkened area else near fine in dust jacket. A Robicheaux title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

Hyperion, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Dave Robicheaux title. Dave becomes involved with the local Mafia boys, one who's a childhood friend.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 1st edition, March 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The second tile to feature spunky Cajun hairdresser Claire Claiborne in New Orleans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. " In a quick-paced sequel to The Maya Stone Murders , New Orleans PI and Vietnam vet Micah Dunn is waiting for a client named Julia Morvant at the airport when her plane explodes; traces of a bomb are found in the wreckage. Dunn, feeling guilty that he couldn't aid Morvant in life, forms a Laura -like obsession with her in death. Her roommate says that Morvant was a high-priced call girl and reports that the last thing Morvant said to her was that she would "make Marc Antony look like a piker." Armed with this useless clue, Dunn is trying to piece Morvant's life together when a Vietnam buddy, now working for a shadowy Pentagon outfit, recruits him to help track down a killer-for-hire named Rivas, believed responsible for the bombing as well as a murder attempt on a congressman and his wife.… Read More

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Kensington Pub Corp, 1998. 1st. Edition, February 1998, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Wesley Farrell mystery set in New Orleans. "Israel Daggett's release from prison and possible desire for revenge worry several people in 1938 New Orleans. The ambitious woman who framed the now ex-cop for murder plots his death, the crucial eyewitness to his purported crime hides, someone murders Daggett's "woman," and Wesley Farrell, determined sleuth and reluctant police ally, wants answers. Skinner, a skillful storyteller (Skin Deep, Blood Red, LJ 1/97), works each character's unique background into the dusky atmosphere of Depression-era New Orleans as he stirs up a vibrant underworld of jazz clubs, drugs, and crime. A superb and captivating historical mystery." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. 1st ed.,with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author at title page. His first book. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel and a BARRY AWARD FINALST for Best First Novel. New Orleans in 1907, there is a new music called "jass" and a serial killer on the loose murdering prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. Author's First Book and highly regarded. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y: St. Martins, 1986. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. In protective mylar dust jacket cover. Near fine in dust jacket, lw at edges. The 4th Michael Spraggue title finds him involved in a gastronomic mystery in New Orleans. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1995. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges beginnig to tan else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at title page. Author's second book in the Tubby Dubonnet series, New Orleans. "Tubby is divorced, fond of his city and of good food and always on the lookout for a new romance. What he finds instead is loads of trouble. First his friend, peanut-oil shipper Potter Aucoin, is found floating in his own oil; then Aucoin's foreman is shot in Tubby's building after a visit. Meanwhile, Tubby's collegiate daughter wants his help on behalf of an environmental group that's investigating local companies polluting the Mississippi, and pretty and seemingly docile Tania Thompson shoots a drug dealer she believes killed her brother and winds up running for her life to a bar Tubby is thinking of buying. Then there's the man who runs a local gambling casino who seems to… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bloomsbury, 2003. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 438 pages. Introducing Cree Black, a parapsychologist with a haunted past. The 150-year-old Beauforte House, located in the Garden District in New Orleans, has some secrets. When Lila Beauforte takes up residence in her ancestral home as an adult she begins to see some of those secrets literally come to life. Terrified by an insidious and ultimately violent presence, Lila is losing her characteristic tenacity. Fearing for his sister's sanity, Ronald Beauforte reluctantly calls Cree Black for help. Based out of Seattle, Cree Black and her partner take on the world beyond our senses. Detectives of the spirit, the so-called ghostbusters are able to conjure ghosts with the hope of exorcising them out of people's lives. A natural empath with a Ph.D. in psychology, Cree is susceptible to the emotional vulnerability of her… Read More

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's second book in the Tubby Dubonnet series, New Orleans. "Tubby is divorced, fond of his city and of good food and always on the lookout for a new romance. What he finds instead is loads of trouble. First his friend, peanut-oil shipper Potter Aucoin, is found floating in his own oil; then Aucoin's foreman is shot in Tubby's building after a visit. Meanwhile, Tubby's collegiate daughter wants his help on behalf of an environmental group that's investigating local companies polluting the Mississippi, and pretty and seemingly docile Tania Thompson shoots a drug dealer she believes killed her brother and winds up running for her life to a bar Tubby is thinking of buying. Then there's the man who runs a local gambling casino who seems to be offering Tubby a sinecure-with his pretty assistant… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking, 1987. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. A great mystery series set in New Orleans. Assistant D.A. Denise Lemoyne & her journalist fiance.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1994. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Author's first book. New Orleans setting. ..."Tubby Dubonnet is a lawyer who likes fishing, beer and off-track betting. His clients include a cross-dresser referred by the very doctor he's suing for a botched skin-creolizing, and a lakefront bar owner who has held on to a nearly $1 million payoff after a shrimpboat marijuana bust. The bar owner hands over the money locked in a gym bag to Tubby, then is murdered, leaving behind a death scene portrayed with jarring comic understatement. Tubby grapples with the temptation of riches and the threats of claimants, and, as he sorts out the rogues from and among the buttoned-downs, he dispatches the villain and finds a home for the cash in a conclusion that's as cleverly convoluted and amusing as the rest of this tale, the first in the series. " --PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking, 1987. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. From the author's of A Project Named Desire. A great mystery series set in New Orleans. Assistant D.A. Denise Lemoyne & her journalist fiance.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1987. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket, light wear at edges, closed tear at right hand corner else very good. 2nd in the Matt Sinclair series set in New Orleans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.