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

NY,NY: Simon, 1970. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped ($4.95 price is intact). REVIEW COPY, slip laid in. 3rd Christie Opera title, NYC scene.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

Scottsdale: AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED and DATED April 2001, by the author on the title page.The 2nd book by New Mexico native Ulmer and features B&B owner Christina Garcia y Grant. "Author/lawyer/sleuth Christina Garcia y Grant tackles her second murder case, surrounded by familiar faces from Midnight at the Camposanto. Dr. Evelyn Bottoms, a charming newcomer to Taos (and self-proclaimed "recoverer" of local Spanish religious art) becomes a suspect when one of the employees at his gallery/museum is found murdered and another goes missing possibly with some sacred art. Christy defends Bottoms, whose attentions arouse jealousy in her tenant, Mac, who helps out at Christy's bed-and-breakfast hacienda. Exuberant descriptions of the changing indigenous culture, local characters, and New Mexico surroundings pervade an exciting plot." --… Read More

Scottsdale: AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. 1st edition. A fine copy of the bound galleys, spiral bound. Review Copy with slip laid in. The 2nd book by New Mexico native Ulmer and features B&B owner Christina Garcia y Grant. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

N.Y.: Shaye Areheart Books, 2006. 1st ed. Light wear else near fine in dust jacket. An INTERNATION THRILLER WRITERS' AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. Ridley Jones' life changed when she took a cab instead of taking the subway. Her so-called perfect life was shattered when she turned up in the wrong place at just the right moment to begin a series of happenings that progressed after the delivery of a mysterious package on her doorstep. This package lets her know that her whole life is an illusion and that she must question everything she has assumed about herself.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1953. 1st American Edition. Pages browned as usual, slight spine slant else fine in a nice very good-near fine dustwrapper with a couple of short tears, not price-clipped, $2.50 price intact, light rubbing and a few small creases.. Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, to find that five babies have been abducted and a murder committed. The half-aborigine sleuth calls in policewoman Alice McGorr to help him, and one of the most important clues they find is a cave drawing depicting an aboriginal legend. Bony, as unorthodox and cunning as ever, reenacts the legend in order to solve the mystery. Scarce. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Del Mar: CA: The Mystery Library/ University of Cakifornia, 1976. 2nd printing, first edition thus, number line begins with 2, (originally issued by Doubleday in 1951). Page edges beginning to spot else a fine copy. The first volume published by The Mystery Library. It is unclear if dust jacket was issued with this edition, I believe jackets were issued for later printings. Includes a wonderful 11 page introduction/biography by John Ball, editor-in-chief of the Library. Also, an appended bibliography of Upfield's works along with a brief commentary on each one by Betty Donaldson and illustrtions by Dick Connor. Finally, the publishers have included an enlightening map of Australia which indicates the location of each of the Upfield mysteries. A Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte title. . 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Connor, Dick. Book.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1956. First Edition, so stated. Very clean and tight in dust jacket with 1" piece out at foot of spine, small piece out at head of spine, a couple of creases at front, spine sunned, price clipped.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1960. First Edition, so stated. Published in England under the title "Bony and the Kelly Gang". Light wear at edges, rear end paper torn in half, else very good in unclipped dust jacket $2.95 price intact. Head and foot of jacket have small chips out and someone at sometime put pieces of scitch tape along head and foot to keep them from chipping any more. Previous owners name on fep. Napoleon Bonaparte, a half-aboriginal police detective, disguises himself as a horse thief in order to investigate the murder of a government officer. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

London, United Kingdom: William Heinemann Ltd, 1977. reprinted 1977, (Originally published in 1955). Fine in near fine dust jacket, clipped but with price sticker intact £ 4.50, light wear. Inspector Napolian Bonaparte. the 19th in Arthur Upfield's Bony series. The story starts with the discovery by a long-distance truck driver of the body of Constable Stenhouse in his jeep on the road to Agar's Lagoon. Stenhouse, a competent policeman but not a well-liked man, has been shot, and his native tracker is missing. At first, it looks like, the tracker, Jackie Musgrove, has shot his Constable and cleared out with his swag and rifle. But the local blacks are making smoke signals and gathering purposefully. Bony happens to be in the town of Agar's Lagoon due to engine trouble in his flight home from Broome, and as the case gets more interesting, he relishes being asked to help with the investigation. . Later Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: UK: William Heinemann Ltd, 1963. First Edition. Publishers green boards with gold lettering at spine, very minor wear. Front endpaper has 4 small tape remains of what looks as if it once held a photo else a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket, price clipped. William Lush is a drunk and wife-beater, and having savagely assaulted his wife he drives from his sheep station to the nearby town for a bender. On his return he runs out of petrol on the main road, and walks to his farmhouse to get more. But he has beaten Jill's mother one to many times and Jill is waiting with a rifle for him to come back home. The doors and windows are locked and barred and when he discovers he can't get into the house, he takes an axe to the offending front door. Jill fires a warning shot into the ceiling and then fires at the door when Lush spews abuse and the axe hits the door again. The night goes quiet and Jill expects to find Lush injured or dead outside the door come morning. But there is no sign of him the… Read More

N.Y.: Viking, 1986. 1st ed. top of page edges lightly dusty, else near fine in dj. Amos McGuffin/Bahamas. GOLF. "San Francisco private eye Amos McGuffin takes a case at the ritzy Palm Isle Golf Club in the Bahamas. The club champion and newly elected president has died of what looked like but may not have been a heart attack, and a prominent member feels threatened by another member with Mob connections. McGuffin is hired, incognito, to find out if the threat is real. He uncovers adultery, drug-running, black nationalism, financial shenanigans, a few murders and horrors! cheating at golf, before he nails the culprit..." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Viking, 1984. 1st ed., fine in dust jacket.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 1989. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE An Amos McGuffin mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY, NY: Warner Books Inc, 2005. 1ST. ED. AS NEW .AS NEW. with all the numbers. A DEBUT NOVEL featuring a jury consultant, CALLA GENTRY. Wonderful Collector's Copy. A SHAMUS WINNER. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.