Search Results: OKLAHOMA from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: St. Martin 1991, 1991. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. A Sheriff Milt Koval title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Simon, 1970. 1st ed. Fine in dj. REVIEW COPY. Author's 1st book. Oklahoma Setting. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Law school dropout takes over the sheriffing of a small Oklahoma town. NERO WOLFE WINNER. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The second entry in the series. Oklahoma setting. " Now, Sam is sheriff, and his photographer wife Nicky is busy with the Maids and Matrons decorating a haunted house for Halloween fun--when a hitchhiker, Damon Revels, is killed in ``Dracula's'' room, with an orange pentagram lipsticked on his chest, a candle by his side, and a ritual knife clogging up his arteries. Whodunit? It turns out that alcoholic ex-junkie Revels had ties to Holton, but no one admits knowing him. Moreover, George Bullock over at the school is stirring up the crowds and the press with tales of satanic cults, and three students seem awfully guilty--but each of them about something different. Sheriff Sam finally sorts it all out, but not before Nicky is trapped in the house with the crazed killer..." --Kirkus Review. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1994. 1st ed. Near fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket. Three convicts escape from a maximum security penitentiary. With guile, fury, and surprisingly fine manners, they slash and shoot their way through Oklahoma and North Texas in a frenzy of violence, madness, and murder. And threy're having a damn good time....Until they encounter state trooper Bud Pewtie. When these dirty white boys ambush this Smokey, an unforgettable, heart-stopping chase gets under way.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St Martins Press, 1992. 1st. Edition, Feruary 1992 with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, light wear, in an acid-free archival acetate cover. - Previous owners name in ink on first page. FLAT-SIGNED by Hager on title page. During the opening ceremonies of the Cherokee Heritage celebration, two participants discover the body of a third-grade girl, brutally murdered, and half-Cherokee police chief Mitch Bushyhead must search for the killer. Signed by Author. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1989. First edition, so stated with complete number line. The author's first book. Features Milton Kovak of Oklahoma sheriff's homicide unit. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a little light rubbing at spine panel and corners. Chief Deputy Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Oklahoma Sheriff's Department had a rapist and murderer on his hands. To make the whole thing really stink, the victims were little old ladies, the nice cookie-baking, sweater-knitting kind. His prime witness is Mrs. Laura Johnson-about thirty-five, three kids, and absentee husband-the sexiest woman Milt had ever seen. She'd identified a man in a green Chevy emerging from the murder scene. Find that man, he figured, find the killer. Between digging unsuccessfully for leads and fighting-equally unsuccessfully-his growing attraction for the warm and inviting Laura, Milt figures the only solution is a new line of work. But Milt Kovak's not the kind of guy to take the easy way out-not… Read More

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1998. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author at title page. A Chief Mitchell Bushyhead story, set in modern Oklahoma Cherokee society.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: St. Martin, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Freelance Western writer Taggart Roper takes a job to look into a recently murdered local prostitute's past which leads him straight to the estate of a rich and famous television evangelest.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.: Intrigue Press, 2001. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket. INSCRIBED COPY " To Anne, A fellow reader and writer, Best wishes, Marcia Preston". Author's first mystery. A MACAVITY AWARD Nominee. Chantalene has terrible nightmares from when she was a child: a dark barn in a wind-swept moonlit field with her mother screaming within and her father hanging from the rafters for a crime he did not commit. She hides in the fields, watching as four hooded figures emerge their faces hidden in shadows. But deep in the recess of her memory, she knows who they are. She returns to her hometown of Tetumka, Oklahoma to get to the bottom of the crime.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Walker, 1992. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Vivid characters and romance dominate this charming mystery (the first in a projected series) set in a retirement home in Norman, Oklahoma. Single mother Laura Michaels, studying for her master's degree in social work and making a living as assistant manager of the Timberdale Retirement Center, is dismayed when she finds resident Cora Chandler dead in her apartment. Although Cora had been very sick, little things bother Laura, such as the lingering smell of cigarette smoke in the non-smoking woman's bedroom and the overpowering odor of Ben-Gay in the living room. Handsome deputy sheriff Aaron Lassiter decides that Cora died of natural causes, but Laura feels she must use her group sessions with various residents to find out if the dead woman had any enemies or if there might have been reasons for killing her. Laura gets a threatening note… Read More

Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in pictoral wraps, advance reading copy. Molly Bearpaw, investigator for the Native American Advocacy League, delves into the murder of a noted jurist when private passions and ancient politics collide at a weeklong celebration of Cherokee culture. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Molly Bearpaw, investigator for the Native American Advocacy League, delves into the murder of a noted jurist when private passions and ancient politics collide at a weeklong celebration of Cherokee culture. Oklahoma. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st edition, April 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The redbird is the daughter of the Sun. And if she had been brought home safely, the people could have brought back their friends from the ghost country... The tale of the redbird explains the origin of death in Cherokee myth, and it is a story intricately woven into the rich fabric of this remarkable new Molly Bearpaw mystery. It is autumn in Oklahoma. The woods are strewn with hackberry leaves, and a chill is in the air. For Molly Bearpaw, an investigator for the Native American Advocacy League, it is a lovely time of year, while for her elderly grandmother, it is a time of foreboding. When a terrible crime is committed at the Cherokee National Museum, it fulfills the old woman's worst premonitions and plunges Molly into a struggle for the truth. At the museum, amidst looms and basket weavings, a… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1997. 1st edition, May 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Two small stains at page edges else near Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The 4th title in the Molly Bearpaw series by five-time Oklahoma Writers Federation Teepee Award Winner & Oklahoma Writer of the Year in 1992. When a woman is murdered in Tahlequah's Native American Research Library, Molly Bearpaw, the major crimes investigator for the Cherokee nation, must untangle the suspects and deal with her own family history to solve the case. Publisher's publicity sheet laid in . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Review Copy.