Search Results: Russia from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1982. 1st ed. Fine in dj, one tiny chip out at rear. When British Intelligence asks Michael Holly, a mechanical engineer, to run an errand for them in the Soviet Union, the consequences of capture are never mentioned. But what seems a simple handover carries unimaginable risks, and now Holly is facing fifteen years imprisoned in a gulag in the midst of the frozen tundra. Along with his fellow inmates, Holly has to find the strength to fight the camp's brutal regime in any way he can. But Camp 3 is the place where hopes and dreams are brought to die. Against the might of the Soviet state, is Michael Holly strong enough to sustain his will to survive. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Random House Inc, 1983. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. the first book in the Game,Set and Match Trilogy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Armchair Detective Library, 1992. 1st hdcvr ed. [Originally published in paperback by Berkley in 1983]. Fine, unread copy in slipcase w/o dj as issued. LIMITED EDITION, One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Kaminsky, with a new intro by him. 2nd Rostnikov title. Bound in burgundy cloth without dust wrapper as issued in matching burgundy slipcase, gilt stamping to front board and spine, pencil sketch of the author by Carolyn Hartman at front board. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE in 1985 for Best Paperback Original. "The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink, gossip, and flirt. But the party is about to come crashing down. Four men - one American, one Japanese, and two Russians - will all be dead by morning, poisoned. To keep the killings under wraps, the Kremlin hands the investigation over to the famously discreet police investigator Porfiry Rostnikov. A hard-boiled cop with more than three decades'… Read More

N.Y.: Fawcett, 1996. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Kaminsky at title page. Crime in post-communist Russia has only gotten worse: rubles are scarce, blood, plentiful. In the eyes of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his metropolitan police team, new-found democracy has unleashed the desperation that pushes people over the edge, and has emboldened those already on the path to hell. A trio of nasty cases confirms their worst fears. Deputy Inspector Sasha Tkach must find the murderous thieves who have terrorized an impoverished neighborhood. His blood-stained quarry turns out to be a gang of brothers, aged seven, nine, and eleven years old. Policewoman Elena Timofeyeva joins the tax police in a raid on a house filled with Czarist treasures, worth billions of rubles. The next day every last relic and work of art has disappeared without a trace. And relentless Inspector Emil Karpo will… Read More

N.Y.: Grand Central Pub, 2008. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. 436 pages. A CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD WINNER and a CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE. Under Stalin's iron grasp, the Soviet Union has little crime and is considered a paradise for its workers; however, millions of people still live in constant fear of harm or death, for if they so much as read the wrong book, their crime against the ideals of the State are punished with death. Leo Demidov has spent his life defending this system, serving his country for the greater good, as an officer of the MGB, the State Security Force. But when Leo learns that a murderer is on the loose, killing innocent people at will, his life is turned upside down. Demoted and denounced by the MGB, which refuses to acknowledge the existence of the killer, Leo must find the truth and catch a ruthless killer. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

NY: Scribners, 1988. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A fine copy in dj of this terrific crime novel set in the USSR. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Mystery. 5th Inspector Rostnikov title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1988. 1st ed. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, nor remaindered. Author looks to the skies and one of the most remarkable technological competitions of our time--the race to develop "Star Wars." 543 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Armchair Detective Library, 1991. 1st hardcover edition. A fine, unread copy in slipcase. ONE of 100 NUMBERED COPIES [this being #98], SIGNED by Kaminsky, bound in burgundy cloth without dust wrapper as issued in matching burgundy slipcase, gilt stamping to front board and spine, pencil sketch of the author by Carolyn Hartman at front board, a very fine unread copy. A new introduction by Kaminsky. The 1st Rostnikov title. Set in Moscow, the debut Ratnikov novel demonstrates how Kaminsky captures the flavor of that city. This powerful sense of time and place is doubly remarkable because Kaminsky had never been to Russia before he wrote the book. His depictions of Rostnikov coping with a corrupt Moscow police force, underlying KGB pressures, and the overall inefficiencies of working in the then Soviet Union are dead-on. Death of a Dissident shows a master storyteller at his finest. . Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Limited Edition.

London: UK: Harper Collins Crime Club, 1999. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. The second in the delightfully witty and diverting new crime series set in Tsarist Russia from the award-winning Michael Pearce. A dreamy province of Tsarist Russia. An ambitious young lawyer anxious to make his way. And the One-Legged Lady, one of the most important ikons in the district, goes missing. Exactly how important she is, the sceptical Dmitri, whose task it is to track her down, will soon find out. Who has taken her and for why? The sinister Volkov, from the Tsar’s Corps of Gendarmes, suspects the theft has something to do with a wave of popular feeling at a time of famine -- which means trouble for some innocent people, unless Dmitri gets there first. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read More

New York: Donald I Fine, 1994. 1st ed. Page edges lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket, publicity sheet laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam, Incorporated, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. A Kurt austin Adventure.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1993. 1st Ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. a novel of the end of the Soviet Union. This author Ralph Peters also writes as the pen name Owen Parry. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: UK: Michael Joseph, 1996. 1st prtg (issued simultaneously with hardcover). Reading crease else near fine. MI6's David Nash cordinates the race to stop the russian mafia from markleting a stockpile of biological weapons.. 1st Prtg. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Renko is in Cuba and not likeing it one little bit. A HAMMETT AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. "The body, at least what was left of it, was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from Moscow. Only the day before, he had received an urgent message from the Russian embassy in Havana that his friend Pribluda was missing and asking that he come. The Cubans insisted that this corpse floating in an inner tube was Pribluda, but Arkady wasn't so sure. "You don't investigate assault, you don't investigate murder. Just what do you investigate?" Arkady asks Ofelia Osorio, a detective in the Policía Nacional de la Revolución. "Or is it simply open season on Russians in Havana?" The comrades of the Cold War have parted bitterly, and the Russians who used to swarm through Havana's streets are now as rare as they are despised, much more so than Americans. Havana is overrun with… Read More

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2005. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. American Forces know that unconditional surrender will leave Germany decimated, puts out feelers to other leaders. Only Winston Churchill refuses. What can be done to save the fate of Germany.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1984. The second Hunter titlefinds him entangled with killers from Russia, whose souls are as cold as their winters. 1st Ed. PBO . Book store stamps to front page, covers rubbed and soiled, slight spine lean. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Set in Russia at the time of the attempted coup of 1991. "This fast-paced, highly engaging political thriller begins on the eve of the attempted coup against President Gorbachev in August 1991. Written by a policy analyst, and briskly translated by the author of the Russian detective Ivan Duvakin series, this thinly disguised roman a clef probes into the backgrounds of those responsible for the abortive coup and the frantic events that led to their downfall. A secretary who discovers a discarded planned announcement of the impending military takeover is found out by the KGB and winds up dead. Andrei Alekseevich, a young "half-wild intellectual" and Yeltsin supporter, also inadvertently learns about the planned coup from his father, Georgi, a hardliner and high-ranking military officer. Andrei is eventually kidnapped and confined to a plush dacha to sit out the… Read More

NY, NY.: Farrar 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. A historical look at Lenin during the terrible years around World War I. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2005. 1st Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ show minimal wear. After the Cold War the C.I.A. things the KGB has planted an atomic device deep within the heart of Washington, D.C.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Follows the steps of a sucessful Soviet businessman as he strolls through the wreakage of today's Russia with seemingly, ease.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.