Search Results: RAILROAD from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Random House, 1955. 1st edition, 1st printing, so stated. light edgewear else a near fine copy in dust jacket, not price clipped, $2,75 price intact, .lightly chipped at spine ends, soiled at rear panel, and a couple of small nicks, in protective mylar cover. Murder rides a Canadian Transcontinental Express.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Michael Joseph Limited, 1988. 1st ed. Pages show age toning else near fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Francis at half title page. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: The Viking Press, 1950. 1st edition, August 1950, so stated. Very light fading to cloth else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, $ 3.00 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Author's first book. (Listed in Hubin in the electronic version) Train setting. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by English, Bill. Book.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1997. 1st ed. Near fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof, wrappers. Someone is sabotaging America's trains. An FBI agent and a railroad enthusiast (a "foamer" in Amtrak jargon) team up to try to stop culprit as he targets one of the longest railroad tunnels in North America with a trainload of passangers. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: The Aspen Press, 1976. First U.S. edition. Fine in wrappers, as issued. Introduction by Tom and Enid Schantz. Limited Edition, One of 500 copies. The first U.S. edition of Queen's Quorum item #13 and Phillpott's first book. [originally published in 1888]. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine/No Jacket. Limited Edition.

London: Reprint Society, 1961. 1st thus (orig 1960). A suspenseful crime novel of a train robbery by two ex-paratroopers at odds with society and the ensuing exciting, man-hunt conducted by chief Inspector Mallard.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Pocket Books, 1988. 1st edition, March 1988, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback Original, very minor nick at top of spine edge else fine tight copy. The 1st Jake Hatch, the Railroad Detective, title. The night was pitch black, filled with driving rain when the California Zephyr jolted to a stop on a desolate stretch outside McCook, Nebraska. Somebody pulled the emergency brake, catapulting Jake Hatch out of the train --- and onto a severed corpse. He stumbled over the trousered bottom half. Someone else found the torso, neatly divided at the belt. It was Hatch's job to piece together the truth. All he had to go on was a book of sonnets and a money clip in one pocket, and three cigarette butts and a lipsticked handkerchief in the other. And a plugged nickel, now hidden in his own pocket, leading him to a criminal mastermind, a case of espionage, and an almost perfect murder.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

NY: Pocket Books, 1989. 1st ed. Paperback Original. Hole punched at rear cover, store stamp at title page, reading creases else a very good copy. The 2nd title to feature railroad detective Jake Hatch. the Burlington Northern was speeding through Iowa when passengers spotted six Indians riding alongside in pick-ups. suddenly, they began firing pot-shots and millionaire Harold Chaney was dead.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone. Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves traveling by train through the Indian Territories. Their first marshaling duty starts out as a simple mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border, but when the Governor of Texas, his wife and daughters climb aboard with their bodyguards and $500,000 in tow, their journey suddenly becomes a lot more complicated. The problem is Bloody Bob Brandice. He and Virgil have had it out before, an encounter that left Brandice face-down in the street with two .44 slugs lodged in him. Now, twelve years later on a night train struggling uphill in a thunderstorm, Brandice is back -- and he’s not alone. Cole and… Read More