Search Results: Wayne 18 from Murder By The Book

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dj. A HERODOTUS HISTORICAL AWARD WINNER as well as an ELLIS PETERS DAGGER AWARD WINNER as Best Historical Mystery. A suffragette Nell Bray title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1992. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Lightly spotted at front end paper else near fine in near fine dust jacket, light chipping at spine ends, one small crease at front.not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Winner of the British Crime Writrs' LAST LAUGH DAGGER AWARD for most humorous crime novel. "A cabbie and part-time musician, Angel responds to a cry for help phoned in by his best friend, roadie Francis (Werewolf) Dromey, who has fallen afoul of a Breton "liberation group" by smashing up and losing possession of a truck in which they had hidden a shipment of drugs without the Werewolf's knowledge. Warned that the group will kill his friend if he doesn't find and return the drugs, Angel sets off, aided by his exotic former girlfriend, Lucinda (Lu Lu) Luger, who at 64 towers over the members of the heavy-metal band she manages, and by Werewolf's brother, Gearoid, a beekeeping monk.… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2002. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Boston's gritty, female private eye digs into the murderous ways of the Big Dig.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2004. 1st. ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Another fine effort by Boston private eye, Carlotta Carlyle.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Hyperion Books, 1999. 1st. ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED. Another in the great Boston female private eye, Carlotta Carlyle series.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book Club.

NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1998. 1st. ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Another in the fine Carlotta Carlyle, Boston female private investigator. LEFTY WARD WINNER.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, lightly rubbed at rear panel. A LEFTY AWARD NOMINEE. A. Stephanie Plum title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Delacourte, 1995. 1st edition, May 1995, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in an acid-free archival acetate cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. "When Boston-area cabbies are targeted in a series of attacks, the professional and personal lives of Carlotta Carlyle bloom with mystery in this lively yarn. The part-time PI and part-time cab driver last seen in Snapshot is hired by the Small Taxi Association to investigate the attacks. On the same day, she discovers four microphones hidden at Green & White, the company she drives for. Sam Gianelli, her "on-again, off-again lover" and Green & White's co-proprietor, wants the bugs left undisturbed-though he won't say why. Sam's friend Frank sells Carlotta a new computer; on the way home she and Sam are shot at. Violence edges closer to Green & White, leading to serious injury for Sam and his co-owner, Gloria.… Read More

Tulsa: OK: Council Oak Books, 1991. 1st ed., complete number line. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Part of the Brown Bag Mystery Series. "Seeing Las Vegas, city of dreams, through the skeptical squint of private investigator J. Pletcher is one of the pleasures of this novel by Biggle, a writer of mysteries and science fiction ( The Glendower Conspiracy ; Monument ). Summoned to Vegas to investigate a keno scam at Diamond D's casino, Pletcher soon discovers the murder of casino employee Harley Dantzig, which he thinks may be related to the scam. Absorbing the background detail which anchors this caper, we learn that keno is patterned on the national Chinese lottery brought to America by coolies; that intricate audiovisual psychology is involved in slot machine jackpots; and that Vegas divides tourists into ``Georges'' who tip or ``toke'' handsomely and ``stiffs'' who don't. Pletcher, helped by amateur detective Leda Rauchman, ``whose face wouldn't launch a… Read More

New York: Hyperion, 2000. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A DILYS AWARD Nominee. Author's first book. Hitchcock Sewell, elegible bachelor and undertaker gets taken in by the wiles of a mysteirious woman. " Grave "happenings begin to happen - can he " plot " his way out.. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Knopf 1997, 1997. 1st. ed., fine in dust jacket. A delicious ropmp through the workings of the Florida Lottery and some of the characxters that play and exploit it.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1992. 1st ed, with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Winner of the British Crime Writers' Association LAST LAUGH DAGGER AWARD. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 2003. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A LEFTY AWARD WINNER and an AGATHA AWARD Nominee.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

N.Y.: Knopf, 2007. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A BARRY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. The third John March novel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dj, 2nd Carlotta Carlyle.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Delacorte, 1993. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover page edges lightly soiled else near fine in lightly rubbed dj. Carlotta Carlyle title, Boston.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Delacorte, 1991. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Scribners, 1996. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover . Her 2nd book. INSCRIBED COPY at title page. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book Club.

LONDON, UK: Victor Gollancz, 1994. 1ST. ED. UK. FINE/FINE. A romp through a theatrical production with detective Phillip Fletcher, who turns out to be just as good a cop as he was a murderer. LAST LAUGH DAGGER WINNER. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.