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

N.Y.: Black Lizard Books, 1988. 1st Black Lizard prtg. Near fine. Paperback. " Pander wore dark glasses and fancy suspenders and he moved into the San Pietro rackets like a sandblaster gone berserk. Fell, the boss, was mysteriously away and Pander grabbed the chance to bury his hands in the heavy money. Then Fell came back. At his side was Cripp, the human adding machine with the beautiful face and the twisted leg. With them came murder... wholesale." Publisher. 1st Prtg. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Kiwan. Book.

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: Black Lizard Books, 1988. 1st Printing (originally published in 1957). A fine, unread copy. Paper beginning to age tone as usual. Donald Westlake has named Peter Rabe as "by far the best" of the Gold Medal writers of the 1940's and 50's.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Kirwan, Jim. Book.

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. 1st American edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "... set in rural England, a decent, frustrated man meets a dynamic stranger who embodies the explosive force of his pent-up rage. Derek Cartwright and Hugh Packer share a similar dilemma: both are saddled with elderly in-laws whose presence seems to be ruining their lives. Sadistic bully Packer wants his father-in-law out of the way so he can acquire the old man's fortune. Cartwright, on the other hand, convinces himself that his motive is altruistic: he wants to free his wife from the burden of caring for her mother, a task she assumed in expiation for her guilty sense of relief when the couple's handicapped daughter died. Packer quickly realizes the possibilities and involves Cartwright--against his will--in a murderous plot in which each will kill the other's resident in-law. When Inspector… Read More

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. 1st U.S. edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. In her fifth book, Radley once again displays her gift for depicting life in the English countryside. Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill is called on to investigate the disaapearance of a young woman on the eve of her wedding. The insular Suffolk village locals seem to close ranks against Quantrill and his young aide Hilary Lloyd, who suspect some of them of conspiracy in an illegal scheme. Quantrill's problems are complicated by the presence of ambitious Inspector Martin Tait, involved with Quantrill's daughter and trying to convice his rich Aunt Con to reinstate him in her will. After a leisurely setting of scene and tone, the book explodes . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: UK: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1987. 1st ed. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Clanger Bell, well-known local drunk, is run over and killed by new resident, Jack Goodrum. As everyone, including the police, have been expecting this to happen because of Clanger's well known habit of jay walking when under the influence no one is surprised. The Coroner quickly decides, thanks to three reliable witnesses, that Jack had no chance to avoid Clanger and the death is ruled to have been accidental. But Clanger's sister is not happy with the verdict and contacts the police. DCI Quantrill and DS Hilary Lloyd find themselves trying to investigate a murder case that they don't believe in. In the meantime Quantrill is having problems with his son and thinks he is falling in love with Hilary. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1988. Frist American edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Clanger Bell, well-known local drunk, is run over and killed by new resident, Jack Goodrum. As everyone, including the police, have been expecting this to happen because of Clanger's well known habit of jay walking when under the influence no one is surprised. The Coroner quickly decides, thanks to three reliable witnesses, that Jack had no chance to avoid Clanger and the death is ruled to have been accidental. But Clanger's sister is not happy with the verdict and contacts the police. DCI Quantrill and DS Hilary Lloyd find themselves trying to investigate a murder case that they don't believe in. In the meantime Quantrill is having problems with his son and thinks he is falling in love with Hilary. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. 1st U.S. edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The skull is buried in the snow. Little Justin and Adrian think at first that it's a football -- but footballs don't have eyeless, noseless sockets and grinning teeth. Detective Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill is the first policeman on the scene. He finds the skeleton of what appears to be a young man dressed in jeans. He could have been a derelict who died of drugs, he could have fallen down an embankment from a nearby highway -- or it could be murder. But who is he? Nobody has been reported missing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 1988. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Lightly soiled at page edges else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. This part murder mystery, part legal drama feels very authentic due to author Bernard Raizner's background as an assistant prosecutor turned defense attorney. Based in the 1970s, an assistant district attorney spends the night with a woman, later she stands him up and subsequently rejects him. Later on, she ends up dead. Did he do it? . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1994. 1st ed. top edge of pages dampstained very lightly else near fine in fine dust jacket. Third book in the Paul Whelan series of mysteries set in Chicago. Chicago private eye Paul Whelan is looking for some much-needed cash, when a cagey lawyer hires him to find a missing person. Sam Burwell was last seen running a booth at Maxwell Street's open-air flea market, a place where tires, tools, trinkets, and the odd treasure are sold alongside food of every ethnic description. Whelan's search leads nowhere until Burwell is found murdered, and the Chicago police take over the case. But Burwell's childhood friend, an elderly black man named O. C. Brown, asks Whelan to look into the murder. Returning to his favorite haunts - Chicago's streets, with a story on every corner and a new restaurant on every block - Whelan slowly enters an underworld of predators and scavengers, where a killer can hide in plain sight. Played out against a… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1995. 1st edition, October 1995, so styated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Raleigh's Paul Whelan series brings to mind the late Ross McDonald's Lew Archer novels. McDonald had a subtle feel for his Southern California setting that is similar to the sensitivity Raleigh brings to Whelan's Chicago. In his fourth case, Whelan is hired to find a missing teenager by an elderly woman who let him live in her house after his parents died. Tony Blanchard stayed with Mrs. Pritchett for about six months and then took to the streets when he started hanging out with the wrong crowd. Now some of the petty thieves Tony took up with have been murdered, and she fears for his life. The case takes Whelan into the streets where he finds himself in the middle of an old southern blood feud that puts him at risk but doesn't seem to bring him closer to Tony. This… Read More

New York: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st edition, May 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "In his second appearance, Denver-based Latino lawyer Luis Montez, introduced in The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz , again plunges into the past, revealed here in extensive flashbacks. Felix "Gato" Guerrero belongs to Luis's beer-drinking, wild-running teen years. Although Luis's lifestyle has been tempered by age and his painful divorce, Felix still kicks back on occasion--with booze, eight-ball, gambling and fistfights. The death of his daughter, the subsequent suicide of his wife and a harrowing stint in Vietnam has left Felix with ghosts to exorcise along with his new enemies. Felix calls on Luis to save him and Elizabeth, his sultry new love who is also the wife of Trini Anglin, a Latino mobster with a jealous heart. Also anxious to get his hands on Felix is Edwin Talmage, his onetime father-in-law, a bitter,… Read More

Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Ramos' sixth Luis Montez novel has the Denver defense attorney in southern Colorado defending the son of a rancher charged with arson and murder in the middle of water wars. . First Edition. Hardcover. New/As New. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1993. 1st edition, July 1993, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. "Twenty years after four Chicano campus activists were attacked by a masked gang along a lonely road outside town and their leader, Rocky Ruiz, was shot down, the survivors begin to feel the heat. Tough- talking Tino Pacheco is killed; community center leader Orlie Martinez is beaten; and Judge Hector Garcia goes into hiding. Luis Montez, another friend who left early on the fatal night, now finds his own life on the rocks. His ex-wife is touching him for money he doesn't have; his crummy clients are beginning to turn up their noses at him; and when one of them, enormous Donna Armstrong, enlivens her eviction proceedings by attacking her landlord, the Denver disciplinary committee gets on Luis's… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 2nd edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Set in the small, inbred Manhattan ballet community, this absorbing mystery is filled with esoterica that only occasionally slow the pace. On the morning after a party in her studio loft, dance teacher Maggie Tremayne wakes up to find the body of Nina Langlander, her best friend and rival, on the studio floor. Nina has been skewered to death, and Maggie, who is the prime suspect--the murder weapon and the premises are hers, and her longstanding quarrel with Nina is well-known--realizes that the murderous act was aimed at her also. Although Det. Tagliaferro seems to have an open mind about her possible guilt, Maggie must find the link in Nina's and her shared past in order to identify the killer. Not always sympathetic or likable, Maggie is a memorable character whose integrity remains intact despite personal battles and… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 2000. 1st ed. Lower corner creased, light wear else a near fine copy of this Advance reading copy. Oversize Paperback. The glittering high-stakes world of super-wealthy horse breeders in America's Deep South forms the backdrop to the story of Ben Hemmings, a much-lauded stable builder who is wrongfully convicted of a heinous crime and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 1st Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the RANDISI on the title page. Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, James Ellroy, Loren D. Estlemen, Bill Pronzini et al... 15 never-before-published stories. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1984. 1st edition, so stated. Top of page edges slightly spotted else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by Randisi at title page and also SIGNED by 4 other authors: Max Allan Collins, Lawrence Block, Micael Collins and John Lutz at their short stories. Signatures only. 17 Original stories by Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, Michael Collins, Loren D. Estleman, Stephen Greenleaf, Edward D. Hoch, Richard Hoyt, Staurt Kaminsky, Rob Kautner, Michael Z. Lewin, John Lutz, Marcia Muller, William E. Nolan, Sara Paretsky, Bill Pronzini, L.J. Washburn. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2003. 1st edition, 1st printing, January 2003, Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Robin Lobianco participates in a ménage à trois with a married couple, expecting nothing more than one evening of wild sex. But when they profess their love for her and ask her to move in with them, she rejects them. Soon the couple begins stalking her.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1988. 1st edition, August 1988, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. A Fine, unread copy in slipcase w/o dust jacket as issued. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies (this being # 191) SIGNED by Randisi as the editor and a contributor and SIGNED by each of the contributors, George C. Chesbro, Max Allan Collins, Michael Collins, Wayne D. Dundee, Loren D. Estleman, Sue Grafton, Rob Kantner, John Lutz, Arthur Lyons, Josh Pachter, Richard S. Prather, Bill Pronzini, James M. Reasoner and L. J. Washburn, on Limitation page. This third anthology from the Private Eye Writers of America (after The Eyes Have It and Mean Streets ), has a baker's dozen original stories from some very big names. . Signed by All Contributors. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton, 1996. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Fifteen stories with Linda Barnes, Jeremiah Healy, Loren Estlemen, John Lutz, Robert Randisi etc...Benjamin Schutz story won the EDGAR AWARD and the SHAMUS AWARD for Best Short Story.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.