Search Results: Uncorrected Proof from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Miramax Books, 2002. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Uncorrected Proof. Chicago cop Gus Carson was bad, crooked, and dangerous before he went to war. But, having survived a Japanese submarine attack in the Pacic, he returns a changed man. So it is plain lousy luck that hes with a pretty hooker in a brothel when a gunman murders two people there. Old habits die hard, and Carson takes the gunman down, saving the state of Illinois the cost of a trial...and gets suspended from the police department for his good deed. Now, with few prospects and no cash, Carson accepts a job that smells fishy from the start: an aspiring politician hires him to find a kidnapped black racketeer. The hunt will send Carson on a dangerous ride through the city, where his life soon isn't worth the price of a beer. And for those who don't remember the 1940s, thats five cents. A page-turning noir detective story, 46, Chicago proves Monroe to be a new master of the genre.. 1st Edition. Printed Wrappers. Fine.… Read More

Gateway , 1998. Uncorrected Page Proof, fine in wraps. The 1st title in the Inspector Lestrade series and the only one to be published. previously in the United States. Gatesway has announced that it intends to re-issue all 16 titles. 1st thus.. Printed Wrappers. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 1st ed. Near fine copy of the advance reader's edition, wraps. The American debut of this Australian writer who won the prestigious Australian/Vogel Award in 1994 for his first novel, 'Swimming in Silk'. A hardscrabble Australian outback town called Angel Rock .. The inexplicable disappearance of a four-year-old boy .. The apparent suicide of a teenage girl .. The highly charged questions surrounding the silence of the townsfolk .. The mysteries of the land itself begging to be answered .. The outside -- a detective from Sydney -- uncovering the secret community history of deep-rooted family feuds and dark, unshakable obsessions.". First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

NY: Holt, 1981. UNCORRECTED PROOF. wrappers, reading crease else about fine.. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof.

Scribners, 1998. 1st ed. Uncorrected Proof, fine, pictoral wraps, with Review slip laid in. Her 1st book. Los Angeles. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

Myst. Press NY 1988 1st ed. Near fine in wraps. Uncorrected Proof. Featuring the Prince of Wales as a Detective.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof.

Villard 1998 [July] Uncorrected Page proofs, fine in decorated wraps. Political Thriller. 1st ed..

NY: Evans & Co. 1st ed. Uncorrected page proofs, wraps.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof, fine, unread copy in wraps. Arkansas Attorney Gideon Page novel. 1st ed.. 1st Prtg. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Book.

Guilford: CT: Lyons Press, 2002. 1st ed. Advance uncorrected proof, near fine in pictorial wrappers. Second title in the "Woods Cop" series with conservation Officer Grady Service. Michigan. "Compelling ideas and taut suspense distinguish the second in Heywood's series featuring DNR Conservation Officer Grady Service. Set in the Mosquito Wilderness Tract of Michigan, it's a tense and harrowing narrative most of the way... When protests and bombs planted by animal rights activists apparently result in a double murder at a wolf lab, a rare blue wolf, the symbol for luck, escapes into the wild. But the wolf represents more to the Ojibwa tribe: the animal is an omen for Armageddon if it's captured or killed. Service suspects the murders are more than they seem, and it's up to him to solve them and defuse the potentially explosive situation..." -- PW. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

Scribners, 1986. 1st ed. Uncorrected page proof, near fine. Spt. Trethowan in Soho, bodybuilding. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1995. Uncorrected Proof. Printed wrappers lightly soiled. "Wiltse's fifth thriller to feature FBI agent John Becker (Into the Fire, etc.) effectively paints nearly every main character as the elusive serial killer preying on young women in the commuter hamlet of Camden, Conn. The rain-swollen Saugatuck River floats a bone into a local backyard, prompting the attention of the vacationing Becker and his old friend "Tee" Terhune, the town's police chief; Becker's assessment that the bone is human is confirmed by nerdy local orthopedist Stanley Korn. After marks on the bone reveal that the body it belongs to was cut in pieces before burial, an upriver search turns up a charnel house of companion bones in the loose soil of a Christmas tree farm. A prime suspect arises when Tee gets anonymous tips that one of his officers, the loathsome McNeil, who likes to sleep with high-school girls, is involved in the killings. Meanwhile, Becker's wife, Karen, an FBI honcho… Read More

Penguin, 1995. 1st ed. Advance reading copy in wraps. Near fine very lightly sunned along spine edge and lightly rubbed. A novel by PULITZER WINNING author. Charleen is a divorcee in her mid-thirties, eking out a living as a poet and part-time assistant for an obscure scientific journal. Although she is quick to count her blessings - a son whom she loves, a blossoming relationship with a man, and friends who care about her - Charleen wonders how her life turned out the way it did. Is she a failure? Or is she still struggling to escape the limited world of her childhood? Her search for answers is as exasperating as the meager paycheck she takes to the bank every week. But when she returns home to attend her mother's wedding, Charleen is caught up in a series of unexpected - and terrifying - events. And in coping with these big and small emergencies, she is forced to come to terms with the life she has led and the decisions she has made.. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Grove Press, 1993. 1st ed., fine in decorated wraps, uncorrected proof. "In transposing to an Iranian setting the conventions of the thriller--the hard-drinking detective, the threatened heroine, the frantic escape from a brutal adversary--Koenig invests his story with unusual resonance. Here the familiar figure of the honest cop plays his role in the unfamiliar milieu of Teheran's fundamentalist Islamic society, as he becomes a threat to the government itself. Conducting a routine murder investigation to solve the death of a sexually mutilated young woman, chief homicide detective Darius Bakhtiar discovers the existence of a state-sponsored terrorist group, the Brides of Blood. This secret sorority of virgins, fanatical in their religious devotion, are trained to martyr themselves in terrorist aggression. After Bakhtiar uncovers evidence of sanctioned efforts to arm Iran with biological weapons, he and Maryam Lejavardi, the beautiful former Bride he has begun to protect and love, are… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. Uncorrected page proofs, very lightly soiled else about fine. SIGNED. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Walker, 1993. 1st ed. Spine darkened from sun, along with top of rear cover, covers lightly soiled, unread copy. Advance Uncorrected Proofs of her Debut Novel with a letter from Michael Siedman, noted Mystery editor, laid in and signed by Siedman "Gritty realism and a modern sensibility permeate this promising debut set in Billings, Mont. Half-Jewish, half-Irish Catholic, PI Phoebe Siegel is hired by farm wife Mary Kuntz to investigate the extreme personality change that has transformed her formerly drug-abusing teenage daughter Jennifer since she began treatment with Dr. Victor Stroud at the Whispering Pines sanatorium. Initially reluctant, Phoebe takes the case when Mary discloses that a Stroud-induced complaint by Jennifer may have led to the suicide of Phoebe's beloved policeman brother, Ben, a few years earlier. Phoebe, who discovers Mary is the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the state, sneaks into Whispering Pines and finds disturbing evidence of coercion and… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Soho Pr Inc, 2009. 1st ed. Due out May, 2009. Advance Uncrrected Proofs, Pictorial wrappers. AS NEW. In 1763 James Boswell and the literary celebrity Dr. Samuel Johnson take a boat down the Thames to visit Greenwich. Unknown to this pair, they are being stalked by John Boswell, James' younger brother, who has been recently released from an asylum for the insane. John carries a pair of miniature pistols that each fire a single golden bullet and there is murder in his heart. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

Scribner 2000 (May) A Fey Croaker LAPD novel. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Henry Holt & Co, 1997. Advance Reading Copy, near fine in wraps. Included with publishers letter is a copy of a three page letter, highly praising the book by Stephen King. A chilling psychological thriller about a town corroded by the fear of having a killer in its midst -- a nightmare version of Our Town. A GOLD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

Crown, 1993. 1st ed. Uncorrected Page proofs, near fine in wraps. NYC. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof.