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

N.Y.: Tor, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. "Philadelphia is plagued by a series of psychosexual killings that will repulse and engross readers of this slightly over-the-edge thriller about a martial artist gone mad. Scruffy homicide Lt. Bill Fogarty gets nowhere on the case until smooth Joey Tanaka, a young half-American assistant medical examiner (and All-Japan Championship karate finalist), identifies wounds on an art student/stripper victim as typical of Praying Mantis Kung Fu--a karate style based on the insect's attack moves. La Plante's unbalanced half-Vietnamese villain seeks perfection by mimicking the mantis's deadly mating ritual: he sexually attacks his victims, male and female, before savagely doing them in. A police sketch of the killer resembles Tanaka, which worries Fogarty. Then the killer ruthlessly batters Fogarty and kidnaps Tanaka's lover, Rachel--raising the stakes. La Plante flirts with the supernatural when… Read More

NY,NY: Random House Inc, 1997. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Lorraine Page, a down-on-her-luck ex-cop in Los Angeles, California, is featured in the second title in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Forge, 1995. 1st ed. With complete number line beginning with 1. fine in dj. "Into his warped Philadelphia microcosm La Plante (Leopard, LJ 6/15/94) places a twisted, avenging bodybuilder who abuses steroids, valium, and crystal meth; a brutal, sadomasochistic doctor; and a drug-pushing, bulked-up control freak who fears for his livelihood. Capt. Bill Fogarty teams up with assistant medical examiner Josef Tanaka in order to investigate the particularly gruesome murders that stem from the shenanigans of this threesome. Fogarty's growing relationship with a woman coupled with Tanaka's impending fatherhood, however, result in added complications. Solid, gritty prose, thrilling tension, and inevitable violence..." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Random House Inc, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Lorraine Page, a down-on-her-luck ex-cop in Los Angeles, California, is featured in the DEBUT title in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Eton Books, Inc, 1953. 1st edition, Paperback Original. 25 ¢ cover price. Vintage Paperback. Small crease at front, head of spine is frayed, worn, else near fine. She was an expensive call girl and spending a night with her came high. But he never figured on a price as high as murder. The photograph did justice to her generous statistics. Any private eye would enjoy tracking her down, and Hal Darling was no exception. Her name was Marion Lodge. She’d put her impressive body to good use as a call girl before she’d dropped out of sight almost a year before. Hal was being paid a fortune to find her. But someone else was also looking for Marion -- with a knife. Hal had to get her fast, or the killer would strike first.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first book introducing Tuscon reporter Nate Bowman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1997. 1st edition, April 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "This roughly plotted mystery begins as Tucson, Ariz., botanist Gray Napoleon drives the body of his friend Ryder Joaquin back from Los Angeles for a proper Tohono O'odham tribal burial. When he stops for gas at a lonely desert town called Why, someone steals the coffin from the rear of his old four-wheel. Back in Tucson, two bruisers named Ben and Jerry beat him badly and demand to know what happened to the body. The thugs work for Torrance Power, an octogenarian who owns much of the land and many of the politicians in Southern Arizona. Power tells Gray that a precious Tohono O'odham calendar stick, made from a saguaro cactus rib and inscribed with symbols of important moments in tribal history, was probably in the missing coffin. Power threatens to harm Gray's Apache friend Maria Kazhe unless he finds… Read More

NY: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. Later printing of earlier 1950 edition. Reading creases, spine edge rubbed else near fine, tight copy. Vintage Paperback. Dell Mapback #1534. A 1950 guide to New York City by Daily Mirror newsmen Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer. They take you behind the scenes to explore and expose the denizens and the operations of the raffish half-world of Crime, politics, intrigue and passion. They lead you into swank night clubs and into squalid nests of vice and perversion. They take the lid off Broadway and Swing Lane. They tell the truth about glamour girls, show girls, party girls, models, and the White Way wolves. They sketch many after-dark characters who have made the city famous, or infamous. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Vintage Paperback.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dj, SIGNED COPY. A John Rawlings title set in 18th Century London. On a hot summer day in London, Apothecary John Rawlins and his friend, Summers, join others for a swim in Peerless Pool. To their shock, they find the body of a woman who had been severely beaten, chained, weighted down and tossed into the pool to drown. Sir John Fielding, head of the Bow Street Runners, asks for Rawlins help to find the killer. What they don't expect is for the trail to take him to a lunatic asylum, among the beau monde of Bath, and on the trail of someone who has been stealing children.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Avon, 1993. 1st ed. PBO, fine unread copy. Campus cop Peggy O'Neill.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Avon Books, 1992. 1st edition, December 1992, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. Campus cop Peggy O'Neill. The discovery of Cameron Harris's body stunned the university. But some members of the Tower Writers' collective are more than a bit relieved that the poison pen of the bestselling author has been silenced. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. Fine copy of the trade paperback. Following on the trail of her successful "The Sherlock Holmes Crossword Puzzle Book", Mrs. Tepper presents an entirely new collection of crossword puzzles to test the wits of crossword-puzzle fans and followers of Conon Doyle’s famous detective. As in the earlier book, each mystery is told in condensed form. It includes the problem, the action, and the clues-- but not the solution. That will be found among the words of the crossword puzzle that follows the story. Solve the puzzle, fill in the spaces below it, and--presto--the solution. Then test your ability as a sleuth by turning to the answer page at the back of the book; there you’ll also find an entertaining epilogue to the mystery. (And, once again, between the puzzles, intriguing glimpses of Sherlock Holmes and his world are featured.) In addition to the short adventures, a complete novel, The Hound of the Baservilles, is included, told in ten… Read More

N.Y.: Kensington Pub Corp, 1995. 1st edion, October 1995, so stated, Fine in dust jacket. Lamb's protagonist, Teal Stewart an efficient new partner in a prestigious Boston accounting firm, discovers two murder victims (both killed in the same way) in two days--one a local homeless woman Stewart recognizes, the other a vindictive former female employee who was in the process of suing Teal's firm for gender bias. The murders complicate an already tense office atmosphere fraught with rumor, sexual scandal, corporate politics, and possible accounting irregularities, and Teal also struggles with an on-again-off-again affair with an architect.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Pages beginning to age tone as usual else about fine in dust jacket. A novel about London, not the Dickensian capital of stews and gin palaces; this is London now , with its own profusion of maladies spawned by unfettered progress--and smouldering pockets of discontent threatening law and order. Lambert, in a departure from the thrillers which have made his reputation, has written an extradinary novel, multi-layred, compassionate, conspiratorial, unforgettable.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY with publisher's printed review slip laid-in. FIRST Whitney Logan novel. "Whitney Logan is eight months out of law school at UCLA and owes her landlord $850, so she's not too picky when a well-dressed brunette walks in off the street and offers her $1000 in cash to look for a missing Guatemalan maid. What follows in this promising first novel is a rough-and-tumble mystery-thriller that moves from run-down movie lots to immigrant barrios to Baja Mexico and back. Logan is one tough attorney--her idea of relaxation is dumbbell presses at Gold's Gym--but immigration law is not one of her strengths. Neither is the Los Angeles underclass, so she hires as her guide Lupe, a street-smart hooker in a red mini-dress, and the result is a partnership that transcends their differences, and that is handled… Read More

N.Y.: Grossman Publishers, 1976. 1st ed. Page edges very slightly darkened else fine in dust jacket. An inquiry into the lives of the masters of suspence: John Buchan, Wilkie Collins, G.K. Chesterton, Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, Georges Simenon, Alfred Hitchcock and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Saturday Review Press Dutton, 1974. 1st. Ed. near fine/near fine - book and DJ show shelf wear, with nicks and bruises. Harry Bridges, the American newspaperman with an "in" at the Kremlin. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. In 1948 an archaeological team in Turkey is slaughtered after making an earth-shattering discovery. More than fifty years later, another group of archaeologists, this one made up of Americans, is murdered in the Judean desert. Chief Inspector Danielle Barnea of Israel's National Police is called in to investigate, accompanied by Palestinian detective Ben Kamal, whose nephew was among the victims. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2000. In 1948 an archaeological team in Turkey is slaughtered after making an earth-shattering discovery. 1st ed. Fine in dustt jacket. INSCRIBED and dated 4/22/00. "To ---. One more first edition to add to your collection. Thanks for not waiting until it costs $1.99! See you again next year for KEEPERS OF THE GATE. All my best, Jon Land". More than fifty years later, another group of archaeologists, this one made up of Americans, is murdered in the Judean desert. Chief Inspector Danielle Barnea of Israel's National Police is called in to investigate, accompanied by Palestinian detective Ben Kamal, whose nephew was among the victims. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Forge, 1995. 1st edition, December 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "After 1700 people die mysteriously in a shopping mall fire outside of Boston, Dr. Susan Lyle, an infectious disease specialist with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, discovers that an unknown biological organism has drained the humans of all of their hemoglobin. Lyle's search puts her on the trail of a 15-year-old genius who has developed a deadly organism. Also searching for the boy is Blaine McCracken, an adventurer and ex-CIA agent, and he and Susan join forces. To their horror, they uncover a secret government organization that specializes in weapons research and biological experiments. The action is riveting, the writing is sharp, and readers will not be disappointed with the dramatic climax in this novel ". -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.