Search Results: Authors starting with C from Murder By The Book

NY: Random House, 1991. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket light 1/2 ring mark at front. Debut novel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dj which shows wear at corners, lightly rubbed. Boulder, CO setting. Reporter Maxey Burnell is co-owner - along with her attractive, infuriatingly irresponsible ex-husband, Reece - of an alternative weekly newspaper in Boulder, Colorado. Driving home late one night Maxey is nearly sideswiped by a runaway van - victim of a teenager's prank, according to the police. But soon after, her landlady, Mrs. Waterford, is killed in a similar accident, and distraught Timothy Waterford asks Maxey to look into his grandmother's death. As Maxey investigates, murder and mayhem get a little too close for comfort. The van incident was only the beginning, and before she's through, the complaints will include arson and attempted murder.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

St. Martins, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Newspaper owner Maxey Burnell's third title; Nebraska locale. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY.: HarperCollins, 1993. 1st. ed. AS NEW. A PBO of the 1st MAXEY BURNELL, female journalist series . Colorado setting. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Paperback Original.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2007. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A SPOTTED OWL NOMINEE for Best Novel. Damaged Portland Detective Archie Sheridan is a broken man after his ten year hunt for the mysterious and beautiful serial killer, Gretchen Lowell. Lead into a trap by his suspect, Gretchen kidnapped and tortured Archie for ten days, only to release him and turn herself in. Now, addicted to pain killers and unable to escape the trauma, Archie must pull himself together to lead a task force investigating a new serial killer. Gretchen, Archie, and a hungry young newspaper reporter Susan Ward will find themselves unlikely allies in the investigation to catch a killer, and free themselves of past demons once and for all.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Birmingham: MI: Strand Magazine, 2012. 1st ed. Fine as new copy. A Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Lindsay Faye, and stories by Faye Kellerman,Charles Todd, John M. Floyd and a NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED story by by the late James M. Cain! The interviews are with Jonathan Kellerman and Jeff Lindsay. also, the 2011 Strand Critics Award Nominees. 80 pages. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Alford, Michael. Magazine.

NY: Knopf, 1946. 1st ed. Publisher's original red cloth, spine lettered in gold is faded else about fine in dust jacket, original $2.00 price intact, light chips at head of spine and at edge, appx 1/2 of a quarter size sticker pull at front, rear panel darkened. One of Cain's few historical novels, dealing "with the West of the silver boom," and carrying all the hallmarks of his masterful first-person storytelling. Cain wrote of this novel, "I have tried to put real human beings before the reader, to explain, as plausibly as I can, how a gunman got that way, what the prostitute was doing there, why the mine-owner was a bit of a heel, and so on. Also, I have tried to present the life of the times as it was, and as few people nowadays seem to realize it was.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Co., 1945. 2nd printing, December 1945. Tower Books (T-321) (originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1942). Pages browning as usual, very light wear, near fine in dust jacket, light wear at head and foot of spine, light edge wear. Jacket design by Adler & Lubalin. "A tense, swift story of raw passions and political corruption by the master of the hard-boiled novel." [front jacket]. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1985. 1st edition, November 1985, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Cover by John Jinks. In this never-before-published Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice) novel, Mandy Vernick is 16, sassy, too wise for her years, obsessed with finding her real father. Abused by her mother's truck-driver boyfriend, Mandy escapes on a bus to Baltimore, where she calls the man she thinks is her father and receives a cool brushoff. She spends the night in a motel with another teenage stray, Rick, and the pair become involved in a bank robbery with two hoodlums who get shot and leave Mandy and Rick holding the bagliterallyof money. Nobody's on to them, and Mandy spends some of the money on a new mink coat in which to confront her father. When Rick leaves and Mandy's mother, Sally, now married to an old friend, tracks her down, there's a shoot-out that changes… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1999. 1st ed. Title in ink at spine, very light wear to bright red covers of the Uncorrected Page Proofs. Previous unpublished novel, with an afterward by Cain biographer, Roy Hoopes.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Continuim , 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dj, after a concise biographical chapter,Skenazy evaluates Cain's entire body of work. Includes film stills, filmogrophy, bibliography. The views of other critics on Cain's work are presented and a full chapter is devoted to Cain and film. Skenazy not only points out the enduring influence of Cain's early novels on film noir, he also demonstrates how Cain's less than successful career as a screenwriter had influenced his greatest novels.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1985. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket with appx 2" light scratch at cover. A young girl, desperate to escape her abusive stepfather, leaves her small town and becomes involved in a bank robbery that ends with three men dead.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. 1st ed. very minor wear at page edge else fine in dj. 19 selected ss and scetches together with one of his finest novellas. Edited and with a 15 page Introduction by Cain biographer, Roy Hoopes. The book is in three parts, each with a lengthy introduction by Roy Hoopes. Taken together Hoopes's essays constitute a concise biography of Cain providing the background (both personal and social) for his fiction. The first section is a collection of satirical newspaper columns written for H. L. Mencken’s American Mercury, very much in the Mencken style. The second section is the heart of the book, and a real treasure, nine short stories. The third part is the long story ,or short novel, Money and the Woman (aka The Embezzler). . First Trade. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

Knopf NY 1947 1st. cvrs lightly soiled, erasure at fep, else VG.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book.

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: Black Lizard, 1989. 1st prtg. reading crease else near fine copy, wraps. Not an ex-library copy. Sylvia Shoreham’s Hollywood dreams came true long ago. Critically beloved for her beauty, talent, and style, she was on her way to international stardom when a bad contract committed her to seven years of trashy comedies and half-baked melodramas. Her marriage to her producer husband has become a rotten, loveless sham, so Sylvia’s silver screen life verges on a nightmare. To escape her celluloid hell, she’s got only one option: Forget Hollywood. It’s time for a Reno vacation. She comes to Nevada hoping for a divorce from her husband, Vicki, and an end to her contract, but the ugly side of the business follows her. To protect herself from Vicki, she enlists Nevada’s biggest Sylvia Shoreham fan. He’s six feet tall, strong as a mule, and just happens to be Reno’s sheriff. When her divorce turns into a war, this Hollywood icon will be glad to have him… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1984. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. With an Afterword by Roy Hoopes. A previously unpublished novel by the author of such powerful classics as The Postman Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, Cloud Nine is a tale of murderous violence precipitated by uncontrolled lust.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1984. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. With an Afterword by Roy Hoopes who wrote biography of Cain. A previously unpublished novel by the author of such powerful classics as The Postman Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, Cloud Nine is a tale of murderous violence precipitated by uncontrolled lust. When a pregnant sixteen-year-old blonde tells Graham Kirby that his brother is the father, Kirby finds himself caught up not only in the girl's problem, but also in a murder committed and in one about to happen. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Meritet, Michael P.. Book.

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Books, 1994. 1st edition, April 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. A new, unread copy. Not remainder marked. Not an ex-library copy. Seven brutally ingenius tales of murder, passionate and cold-blooded, written by a poet of the hard-boiled. There's Black, a stranger in town, who gets drafted into a gang war just because he had the bad luck to trip over a corpse on his way from the station. There's the glamorous Bella, whose boyfriends have the distressing habit of stabbing one another while she naps in the next room. And of course there's Johnny Doolin, who hires himself out as a bodyguard--only to find that his client has no interest in staying alive. The men and women in Seven Slayers are exactly what the title promises: people who kill for love or money or for the sheer, perverse joy of homicide. And this riveting collection is one of the few surviving books by Paul Cain (aka Peter Ruric, aka George… Read More

Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: Blood & Guts Press, 1987. 1st hdcvr ed. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. 1 of 250 SIGNED & NUMBERED[this being #58] by William Nolan who wrote the introduction. (Published as a paperback orignal in the 40's). Seven brutally ingenius tales of murder, passionate and cold-blooded, written by a poet of the hard-boiled. There's Black, a stranger in town, who gets drafted into a gang war just because he had the bad luck to trip over a corpse on his way from the station. There's the glamorous Bella, whose boyfriends have the distressing habit of stabbing one another while she naps in the next room. And of course there's Johnny Doolin, who hires himself out as a bodyguard--only to find that his client has no interest in staying alive. The men and women in Seven Slayers are exactly what the title promises: people who kill for love or money or for the sheer, perverse joy of homicide. And this riveting collection is one of the few… Read More

Ace Charter #09162, 1981. 1st ed. First Ace Carpenter title; very lightly soiled else near fine, unread copy; Paperback Original. California. Author's first book. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.