Search Results: Authors starting with C from Storbeck's

Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and address stamped on front paste down (hidden by dj flap) . Texas map on end papers . 213 pages. This book might well be called a "living history" of the West Texas farm country. It portrays a bygone culture and illuminates the events of an era, not through a recitation of names and dates, but through the lives of real people who lived the times. The story sweeps across a full century, from the Civil War days preceding when the mainstream had shifted away from the small rural communities and toward the developing cities .

New York: Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books. Fine. 1995. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. No spine crease.. 245 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Gray cloth binding with title and author on spine in silver. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 336 pages. Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, No. 2. When the body of a young woman is discovered in Portland’s Forest Park, Archie is reminded of the last time they found a body there, more than a decade ago: it turned out to be the Beauty Killer’s first victim, and Archie’s first case. This body can't be one of Gretchen's—she’s in prison—but after help from reporter Susan Ward uncovers the dead woman's identity, it turns into another big case. Trouble is, Archie can't focus on the new investigation because the Beauty Killer case has exploded: Gretchen Lowell has escaped from prison. Archie hadn't seen her in two months; he'd moved back in with his family and sworn off… Read More

New York: A Dell Book. Near Fine. 2004. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Includes preview of False Prenises . 372 pages. A Domestic Bliss Mystery, No. 1. Interior decorator, Erin Gilbert heads to picturesque Crestview, Colorado for a friendly (if sharks are friendly) competition: She’ll design a room in one home; and the impossibly handsome Steve Sullivan—her main rival—will do a room in another. The prize? A big feature in Denver Magazine, showcasing their interior design business. Who could have dreamed the uproar to ensue in a neighborhood full of eccentric homeowners, jealously hidden secrets and a few marriages in need of total makeovers. Trapped together in the midst of chaos, could the charming Steve turn out to be a…friend?But between her custom, cushy pillows and dramatic drapery, Erin uncovers a very undecorative dead body, too many suspects, and a killer who seems to have designs…on her! .

New York: Dial Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004.. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Cream boards with cream spine imprinted in red metallic with title and author . 372 pages. A stunning first novel in the vein of Umberto Ecco and Dan Brown. Two friends find the key to the labyrinth that holds the secrets of an ancient text called the "Hypnerotomachia." But when a fellow researcher is murdered, they suddenly realize they are caught in a web of great danger. .

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book. As New in As New dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Blue boards with title and author in gold. Bright yellow endpapers. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 334 pages. Ruddy McCann Series, No. 1. Ruddy McCann, former college football star, is now Kalkaska, Michigan's full-time repo man and part-time bar bouncer. His best friend is his basset hound Jake, with whom he shares a simple life of stealing cars. Simple, that is, until Ruddy starts hearing the voice of dead realtor Alan Lottner in his head. When Alan demands Ruddy find his murderers, Ruddy attempts to ignore it. When Alan also demands he clean up his act, Ruddy tells him to back off, but where can a voice in your head go? .

London: Picador. Fine. 2008. 1st Picador Edition. Trade Paperback. 283 pages. An Inspector Montalbano Mystery, No. 7 .

New York: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 2021. Trade Paperback. 254 pages. Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call, but this time it's not Catarella announcing a murder, but a man called Riccardino who's dialed a wrong number and asks him when he'll be arriving at the meeting. Montalbano, in irritation, says: "In ten minutes." Shortly after, he gets another call, this one announcing the customary murder. A man has been shot and killed outside a bar in front of his three friends. It turns out to be the same man who called him. Thus begins an intricate investigation further complicated by phone calls from "the Author" in tour de force of metafiction and Montalbano’s last case. .

New York: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 2014. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 293 pages. An Inspector Montalbano Mystery, No. 17. The last four books in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series have leapfrogged their way up the New York Times bestseller list, perfectly positioning Angelica's Smile to ascend to even greater heights.A rash of burglaries has got Inspector Salvo Montalbano stumped. The criminals are so brazen that their leader, the anonymous Mr. Z, starts sending the Sicilian inspector menacing letters. Among those burgled is the young and beautiful Angelica Cosulich, who reminds the inspector of the love-interest in Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric romance, Orlando Furioso. Besotted by Angelica's charms, Montalbano imagines himself back in the medieval world of jousts and battles. But when one of the burglars turns up dead, Montalbano must snap out of his fantasy and unmask his challenger. .

London: Picador / Pan Macmillan. New. 2014. 1st UK Paperback. Trade Paperback. 297 pages. An Inspector Montalbano Mystery, No. 16. Montalbano opened the door to step out. But Gallo held him back, putting one hand on his arm. 'What's in there, Chief?' 'If it's what I think, it's something so horrific that it'll haunt your dreams for the rest of your life ...' When a crazed elderly man and his sister begin firing bullets from their balcony down onto the Vigata street below, Inspector Montalbano finds himself a reluctant television hero. A few days later, when a letter arrives containing a mysterious riddle, the Inspector becomes drawn into a perplexing treasure hunt set by an anonymous challenger. As the hunt intensifies, Montalbano is relieved to be offered the assistance of Arturo Pennisi, a young man eager to witness the detective's investigative skills first hand. Fending off meddling commissioners and his irate girlfriend, Livia, the inspector will… Read More

Raleigh, NC: Betty J. Camin. Very Good. 1985. Hardcover. Several neat marginal notes in pencil. 172 pages .

London: Society of Genealogists. Near Fine. 1990. Corrected Edition. Trade Paperback. Reading crease on front cover . 89 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. As New. 1988. 1st Pocket Edition Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 343 pages. Down-on-his-luck private eye Whistler becomes enmeshed in the corruption, depravity, lust, and violence that lurks behind the facades of the rich and beautiful when he takes the job of protecting Nell Twelvetrees from her sadistic, estranged husband .

Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books. As New. 2005. Paperback. 262 pages. Caroline County, Virginia, is known among family history researchers as one of the "burned records" counties. Hundreds, if not thousands, of priceless documents went up in smoke during the nineteenth century due to the ravages of the Civil War, or from a combination of poor storage, wooden construction and ineffective firefighting methods. Fortunately for researchers, Kimberly C. Campbell discovered a cache of Caroline County marriage records in the Library of Virginia in Richmond. She learned that clerks were required to make full copies of the marriage registers and send them to the state auditor in Richmond. Even though that city, too, was burned at the end of the Civil War, many of the marriage records survived and can be found in the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics. A deft compilation of many sources, this volume greatly expands upon the basic marriage records with the addition of information found… Read More

Dallas, TX: Durban House. Near Fine. 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 285 pages. Greg McKenzie Mysteries. Signed by Author. Molly Saint hires new PI's Greg and Jill McKenzie to check into her husband's background, then disappears. It starts them on a tangled trail of deceit. Complicating matters further, Greg gets drawn into a troubling police investigation stemming from the assassinatiion of the Federal Reserve Board chairman at a Nashville hotel. The case resurrects old problems with a Murder Squad detective and his colleagues among Nashville's finest. The deeper the McKenzies dig, the more deadly illusions they face. After threats, break-ins and another murder, the charade ends in a shocking showdown. .

Dallas,TX: Durban House. Near Fine. 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Inscribed and SIGNED by the AUTHOR . 243 pages. Signed by Author. Colonel Greg McKenzie has unknowingly smuggled a first century Hebrew scroll out of Israel into the U.S. Someone wants it back. McKenzie's wife, Jill, is taken hostage: her life for the scroll. A Nashville police officer wants to know why McKenzie hasn't filed a missing person report on his "missing" wife. And the secret of the scroll has the potential to turn the Arab-Israeli desput into a raging holocaust. .

San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. Oversize. 144 pages. Then and Now Series .

New York: Kensington Books. New. 2012. First Trade Edition. Trade Paperback. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 344 pages. A Capucine Culinary Mystery, No.3. When the senior food critic for Le Figaro is found face-first in a plate of Ravioles d'homard, there seem to be as many suspects as there are restaurants in the City of Light. Yet Capucine feels she'll solve the case quicker than it takes to find a 3-star rating in the Michelin Guide. Un problem, murders of food critics have become an epidemic. And there are just as many suspects, including a sexy starlet, an award-winning novelist, and a smorgasbord of aggravated chefs. While Capucine struggles to zero in on the murderer's tastes, she is confronted with a false dilemma: file and forget the case, leaving restaurant critics across France vulnerable to a killer's episodic cravings, or use her husband, Alexandre, himself a famous food journalist, as irresistible bait. .

New York: McGraw-Hill. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue boards quarterbound in maroon with title and author imprinted in gold on the spine. Parchment endpapers. Full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 . Index. . 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.6 Inches. 224 pages. In the beginning, a hardworking group of Cistercian monks ran out of ink for their office equipment. When they saw the high price of replacement cartridges, they decided to launch their own company, selling ink and toner cartridges online at competitive prices. Soon, they caught the attention of two marketing and management consultants who-inspired by the monks' dedication to charitable work-formed MonkHelper Marketing, Inc. to help promote and ultimately run the business. This is the gospel according to LASERMONKS Based upon the centuries-old principles of St. Benedict, LaserMonks' unique approach to business has set a new standard for socially conscious companies. Their unusual and fascinating story is a… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004.. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprinted in red metallic with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 335 pages. A Shane Scully Mystery, No. 4. A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house. Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, LAPD, as an uninvolved and unbiased… Read More