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

Garden City: NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1971. 1st edition, February 26, 1971. Fine in dj lightly sunned at spine else Fine. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. Private detective Corbo is once again working for Diamond of Diamond Ltd., a woman as cold and brilliant as the gem whose name she bears. The action races from London to Antwerp to a bloody climax in the Belgian countryside, where Corbo, trapped by a bizarre form of sexual blackmail, finds himself with too many enemies, not enough friends, and time running out.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.

Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2004. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy in publisher's shrinkwrap. Fourteen previously unpublished scripts from the radio show, "The Adventures of Ellery Queen". Trade paperback "Ellery Queen is the American detective story," wrote Anthony Boucher -- and he meant not only their detective novels, but also their critical writings, their editing, and their appearance on television and the radio. From 1939 until 1948, Lee and Dannay wrote a hugely popular radio mystery show, The Adventures of Ellery Queen, which like the EQ books stopped the action toward the end and challenged the audience to deduce whodunit. From the more than 350 surviving scripts, we have chosen fourteen of the most challenging: • The case of the Tontine whose members die off one by one • The disappearance of Napoleon’s Razor on a cross-country railroad train • The case that Sherlock Holmes failed to solve • The strangling in a… Read More

Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 1999. First Edition. LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 250 numbered copies, this being #193. Accompanying each copy is a separately printed pamphlet, reproducing in reduced size original manuscript and typescript pages of The Tragedy of Errors. Published in honor of the 70th anniversary of the first Queen novel it is the first completely new Queen book in almost 30 years. It is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final, but never published EQ novel. It also contains the six hitherto uncollected Queen short stories and a section of some 22 essays, tributes and reminiscences by family members, friends and some of the finest current mystery writers. Sold out from publisher.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Limited Edition.

NY: Lancer Books, 1966. 1st ed. Paperback Original. spine edges lightly rubbed, slight spine slant with light edgewear. Ellery Queen & Sherlock Holmes stalk Jack the Ripper. Ellery had banished his father to a tropical island for a well earned rest, fully intending to spend the time alone finishing his latest novel free from all distractions. His plan was working beautifully until a friend arrived carrying a mysterious manuscript - a hitherto unknown case file written by none other than Dr Watson and detailing Holmes' encounter with Jack the Ripper. The narrative then alternates between Watson's descriptions of the 1888 crimes and Ellery's investigations in the 1960's. [ "Ellery Queen is added to the print version in the 'framing story'; Ellery Queen sequences written by Dannay & Lee; Sherlock Holmes sequences primarily by Paul W. Fairman, 1916-1977, q.v., with Dannay-Lee input." -- Hubin: Crime Fiction IV] The book was written AFTER the movie; directed by… Read More

Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 1999. One of approxiamately twelve hundred trade paperbacks published simultaneously with the limited edition. Still in publishers shrinkwrap. Published in honor of the 70th anniversary of the first Queen novel it is the first completely new Queen book in almost 30 years. It is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final, but never published EQ novel. It also contains the six hitherto uncollected Queen short stories and a section of some 22 essays, tributes and reminiscences by family members, friends and some of the finest current mystery writers.. First Trade Paperback. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Book.

N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. 1st ed. very lw, else near fine in dj, lightly chipped along top, tape repaired tear at rear. Based on the motion picture.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

NY,NY: Simon and Schuster: An Inner Sanctum Mystery, 1945. 1st ed. Near fine copy in lightly chipped dust jacket, not price-clipped ( $2.00 price intact) A PETER DUL UTH title set in Reno. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: International Polygonics, LTD, 1990. First IPL printing June 1990, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. [Originally published in 1945 by Simon.] Oversize trade paperback. An unread, new copy. Peter Duluth; Reno, NV. Lieutenant Peter Duluth and his actress wife Iris are spending his leave at the Lake Tahoe home of wealthy Lorraine Pleygel. Other guests include Lorraine's brother, and a group of women who are establishing Reno residence in order to obtain divorces. However, Peter, though worldly he may be, is uneasy when their hostess produces the estranged husbands in the whimsical belief that she is pinch-hitting for Cupid. The first lovely lady dies in Peter's arms while dancing.... First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. New/No Jacket. Illus. by Zann, Nicky. Book.

N.Y.: International Polygonics, LTD, 1991. 1st printing, October 1991, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Broadway producer Peter Duluth's actress wife Iris is out of town for a while visiting her ailing mother. Peter is induced to go to a party held by their overweening upstairs neighbors, belle dame actress Lottie Marin and her subjugated husband Brian. There he meets Nanny Ordway, a young wannabe writer who seems like a fish out of water. Because he's lonely and she's broke and hungry, he takes her out for a burger. They see each other a few more times, always strictly platonically, and finally he lends her the key to the Duluth apartment so she can write there during the day, while he's out, rather than try to do so in the dumpy Greenwich Village apartment she shares with another girl. It never dawns on him that others might regard his friendship with Nanny rather differently until, on Iris's return, they go back to the apartment from the airport to find… Read More

NY: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1957. 1st Dell printing, March 1957, so stated. Dell #D-192, [.35 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. Spine edges lightly rubbed, reading crease, covers lightly creased, edges lightly sunned. Number 4 of the Dell Great Mystery Library. The panel choosing the books for Dell consisted of Anthony Boucher, Humphrey Bogart and Louis Untermeyer. Peter Duluth title. Broadway producer Peter Duluth sought solace in a bottle after his wife’s death; now, two years later and desperate to dry out, he enters a sanitarium, hoping to break his dependence on drink—but the institution doesn’t quite offer the rest and relaxation he expected. Strange, malevolent occurrences plague the hospital; and among other inexplicable events, Peter hears his own voice with an ominous warning: "There will be murder." It soon becomes clear that a homicidal maniac is on the loose, and, with a staff every bit as erratic as its idiosyncratic patients, it seems everyone… Read More

Santa Fe: New Mexico: REDCRANE BOOKS, 1993. 2nd printing, reading creas else near fine.Ron Querry's debut novel, originally published in 1993 by Red Crane, is a foundational novel in contemporary Native American writing. Querry uses the alternating viewpoints of Gracie, Bernadette's younger sister, and Starr Stubbs, the wealthy New Yorker who lives just outside of Dulce, New Mexico-to detail the tragic end of Bernadette's life. The conflicting accounts create a compelling novel about heritage, family, and the dark magic of the twisted soul.. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

Santa Fe: New Mexico: Red Crane Books, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Author's 1st book. Murder & witchcraft set on Navajo & Jicarilla Apache lands. High praise from Hillerman. Small first printing of only 1000 copies. Ron Querry's debut novel, originally published in 1993 by Red Crane, is a foundational novel in contemporary Native American writing. Querry uses the alternating viewpoints of Gracie, Bernadette's younger sister, and Starr Stubbs, the wealthy New Yorker who lives just outside of Dulce, New Mexico-to detail the tragic end of Bernadette's life. The conflicting accounts create a compelling novel about heritage, family, and the dark magic of the twisted soul.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. 1st edition. Covers sunned at edges, paper beginning to age tone, else very good in dust jacket with rubbing to folds, spine panel faded with wear to ends, corners nicked, rear panel darkened, , not price clipped, $2.00 intact, in protective mylar cover. Her firs book-length detective story. "Diana Blakeley, engaging young narrator and perceptive amateur sleuth of this deftly plotted and swiftly moving story, began having trouble at the first evening party given to her and her doctor husband after their return from their honeymoon. One of the doctor's patients, a lovely but neurotic young girl, insulted Diana and slapped her face. When Diana discovered that this girl had for some time been 'on the make' for Allen Blakeley and had tried her best to force him into matrimony, she knew she had made a bitter enemy. But when this girl, Diana, and Allen attended the same dance it was not the worried Diana who suffered. The 'favors' at the dance were tiny daggers, quite… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1998. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in near fine dust jacket, light edgewear, with a couple of small nicks, small stain at rear panel. SIGNED COPY. "With this stunning novel about a woman and a marriage that begins in passion and becomes violent, the Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist and bestselling author of One True Thing and Object Lessons moves to a new dimension as a writer of superb fiction. "If literature were judged solely by its ability to elicit strong emotions," Kirkus Reviews said about One True Thing, "columnist-cum-novelist Quindlen would win another Pulitzer." And the same will be said about Black and Blue, a brilliant novel of suspense, substance, and importance. In Black and Blue, Fran Benedetto tells a spellbinding story: how at nineteen she fell in love with Bobby Benedetto, how their passionate marriage became a nightmare, why she stayed, and what happened on the night she finally decided to run away with her… Read More

St. Martin's, 1992. fine in dj, one closed tear, light wear at spine head and foot. Their first book; set in NYC and Pennsylvania Dutch Country. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.