Search Results: SCOTLAND from Murder By The Book

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan Pub Ltd, 1995. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Travelling incognito on a secret mission to the Borders to clear the name of the Prince of Wales (in a scandal which could jeopardize his future as king), Inspector Faro unearths a plot of mayhem and murder. Descended from Border reivers, the powerful Elrigg clan rule like feudal barons, owning everything and everyone, including the forced of law and order. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. 1st. Ed. Near fine in dust jacket. A delious romp through the Highlands of Scotland.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Garden City, New York,: Doubleday Crime Club, 1958. 1st. Edition . About fine in dust jacket shows nicks , small chips and bruises. Scottish private investigator Mark Raeburn is hired by the beautiful Cara to locate the famous red opal tied by legend to Napoleon's Josephine . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. Book.

NY: Putnam, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko & Yum Yum in their 14th adventure. Pickax City columnist and wealthy bachelor Jim Qwilleran travels to Scotland, leaving his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum at home, in one of the most lively recent entries in Braun's popular "The Cat Who . . . " series. Also on the Bonnie Scots Tour are Qwill's current woman friend, Polly Duncan, the Moose County librarian; and his recently returned former girlfriend, Dr. Melinda Goodwinter, who proposes marriage. Tour leader Irma Hasselrich (a friend of Polly's and a patient of Melinda's) dies of apparently natural causes; then a jewel case and the tour-bus driver disappear. Qwill, Polly and Melinda decamp the tour early; back in Pickax City, listening to tape recordings he made along the way--and to Koko's intuitive yowls--Qwill begins to suspect that Irma was murdered. Convincing others, however, takes time and an investigation. Although the cats play… Read More

New York: Canongate Books, 2003. 2nd prtg. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. The author's first novel initially appeared in the UK as a paperback original, where it won the CWA CREASEY DAGGER AWARD Best First Mystery in 2002. "Yet another talented Scottish author makes a debut with this dark and twisty thriller, boasting a highly unusual hero and a compelling background that shows extensive inside knowledge. The protagonist ("hero" is not quite the word) is Rilke, a promiscuously gay auction dealer working for a struggling Glasgow firm. On an appraisal call one day at the house of Roddy McKindless, a wealthy and recently deceased citizen, he comes across an extensive library of pornography, which includes pictures suggesting a "snuff"-the slaughter of a woman for sexual purposes. Rilke finds himself, to his surprise, engaged in trying to find out who the girl in the picture was, and whether she was really killed. Using his seamy contacts in the city-a pornographer, a… Read More

N.Y.: Summit Books, 1991. 1st Am ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Boating. the seas off the west coast of Scotland. Since the appearance of his first nautical thriller, Llewellyn ( Death Roll ) has enjoyed favorable comparisons to Dick Francis, employing his sailing background and experience as successfully as Francis has exploited the world of horseracing. Llewellyn also creates complex heroes whose clear strengths --and foibles--are a large part of each book's appeal. Just such a man is divorce lawyer Harry Frazer, whose new boat is damaged in a late-night collision off the west coast of Scotland, landing him in a situation rife with violence and murder. Both courageous and compassionate (he is sole support of a self-destructive sister), Frazer confronts a deadly environmental threat to the Scottish village where he ends up after his accident. His love for an American woman he meets there spurs some rather implausible heroics,… Read More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, spine sunned, not priice clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY with slip & publicity dept. sheet laid in. Golf mystery, set at St. Andrews during the British Open. Fifth entry in Anna Peters series. Even while honeymooning in scenic Scotland, Anna Peters can't resist investigating a series of threats to an American golfer when her husband Harry must cover the British Open for Sports Illustrated. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: Little Brown and Company, 2010. 1st US edition, January 2010, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie-retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast-wants something that money can't buy. Fellow art-lover Allan Cruickshank is bored with his banking career and burdened by a painful divorce. And Robert Gissing, an art professor, is frustrated that so many paintings stay hidden in corporate boardrooms, safes and private apartments. After the auction-and a chance encounter with crime boss Chib Calloway-Robert and Allan suggest the "liberation" of several paintings from the National Gallery, hoping Mike will dissuade them. Instead, he hopes they are serious. As enterprising girlfriends, clever detectives, seductive auctioneers and a Hell's Angel named Hate enter the picture, Ian Rankin creates a highly-charged… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Scotland.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Carroll & Graf, 2001. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Two reviews are laid in. Follow up to her award winning first novel. Set in Glasgow. "Following her Creasy Award-winning debut, Garnethill (1999), Mina delivers a second powerful novel with the same self-destructive characters, notably protagonist Maureen O'Donnell, and the same grim, gritty British locales. Maureen, while working at a shelter for abused women in Glasgow, gets pulled into the search for a missing shelter client, Ann Harris, the wife of her friend Leslie's feckless cousin, Jimmy. When Ann's mutilated corpse turns up in the Thames, Maureen agrees to go to London to investigate for Leslie, in part to escape her depressing life, burdened by flashbacks to her lover's murder, fights with her new boyfriend, a job she dislikes, estrangement from her alcoholic mother, and a long-absent abusive father whose sudden return frightens her and haunts her dreams. In seedy… Read More

United Kingdom: Headline Book Pub Ltd, 2003. 1st ed. Fine in very lightly rubbed dust jacket. The heat is on for Bob Skinner, Scotland's most revered and, in some circles, most feared cop. His career hangs by a thread, as a recent illness gives his enemies a weapon to use against him. A body found in the detritus of a flood is identified as the hated brother whose existence Skinner has kept hidden for years. On the crime front, an incendiary device destroys a valuable painting in Edinburgh's Royal Scottish Academy. As Skinner and his team tackle these crises, his wife Sarah-left in America to recover from the tragic death of her parents-finds comfort with an old college lover. When fate leaves her staring at a seemingly inevitable murder conviction, Skinner will need all his fearsome resources to sort out the tangled mess of his life.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Orion, 2001. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Finalist for the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel DI Rebus title. 399pgs. A student has gone missing in Edinburgh...She's not just any student, but the daughter of extremely well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another rebel, high on daddy's money and more. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a six inch coffin abandoned at a rural beauty spot and an Internet role-playing game run by a mysterious cyber guru. Rebus takes the unpromising historical material and runs with it, leaving DC Siobhan Clarke to take her chances with the virtual Quizmaster. She's young enough to know how to navigate the net, but is she old enough and wise enough to pick up the clues in such a complex case? Rebus takes his eye off the ball,… Read More

St. Martin's, 2001. Winner of the St. Martin's/ Malice domestic Award for Best first Mystery. Orkney Islands, Scotland. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A collection of 12 Inspector Rebus stories.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y: Soho Press Inc, 2012. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition (due in November 2012). Publisher's papers laid in. The first book in a new series set in Scotland. "Murder." It's the only word in a note clutched by the dismembered hand found on the lush green of a golf course in St. Andrews, Scotland. When DCI Andy Gilchrist learns the note is addressed to him, he realizes the thing he feared most has come to pass: a killer is deliberately targeting him.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Remains of book store label at inside cover else fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. An academic, historical look at a Scottish college professor who is really two people - one by day and one by night.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Dodd, Mead, 1976. 1st ed. Very light foxing, some very minor soiling else fine in dust jacket with a trace of wear along top edge. Price of $7.95 intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: UK: Headline, 2005. 1st ed. Page edges lightly tanned else fine in fine dust jacket. Somewhere in Scotland the unthinkable is about to happen - something that should shatter the very bedrock of society. And for Deputy Chief Inspector Bob Skinner, deadlines are looming. Four ruthless Albanian gangsters have infiltrated Edinburgh's underworld and MI5 are al over it. They believe the criminals are trying to move into the city's drug scene. But do they have a bigger, more audacious objective?.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Witshire: England: Black Dagger Crime , 1995. 1st thus. Fine in dj. Foreward by Leo Harris. SIGNED at title page. The 2nd in Miss Pink Series with no US printing since 1975. Climbers in Northwest Scotland.. Signed by Author. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. 1st edition. with complete number line beginning with 1. Publisher's black cloth boards with bright pink lettering to spine; slight spine slant, outside page edges lightly soiled else near fine in price clipped dust jacket, lightly soiled with a couple minor nicks. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.