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

N.Y.: Knopf, 1990. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Vachss ( Flood ) is not for everyone, but fans of his hard-hitting series about Burke, the tough ex-con who mercilessly tracks criminals and degenerates down to society's seamiest depths, will find this fifth installment as riveting as his previous thrillers. The Burke novels read almost as one continuing story, with enough references to previous events and characters to leave the new reader, if not baffled, at least feeling on the outside looking in. Even more discomfiting is the fact that Vachss comes close to rendering the term "hard-boiled" obsolete. Many scenes are uncomfortably graphic and intense in themselves; their cumulative effect is extraordinarily powerful. This time, Burke leaves behind the familiar New York underworld and his band of street "brothers" when a former cellmate's call for help takes him to a small Indiana town where the… Read More

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Donald I Fine, 1985. 1st ed. page edges lightly soiled, top of pages foxing, previous owner's blind stamp at ffep, else very good in dust jacket lightly, price clipped, soiled at rear. An ANTHONY and SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Knopf, 1987. 1st ed. SIGNED COPY. Fine in dj. 2nd Burke title. / NYC.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1995. 1st Vintage Crime Black Lizard Edition , July 1995 with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges showing some mild age toning else a fine copy. Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City’s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the ‘hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death. 340 pages. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers.… Read More

N.Y.: Knopf, 1990. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY "Vachss ( Flood ) is not for everyone, but fans of his hard-hitting series about Burke, the tough ex-con who mercilessly tracks criminals and degenerates down to society's seamiest depths, will find this fifth installment as riveting as his previous thrillers. The Burke novels read almost as one continuing story, with enough references to previous events and characters to leave the new reader, if not baffled, at least feeling on the outside looking in. Even more discomfiting is the fact that Vachss comes close to rendering the term "hard-boiled" obsolete. Many scenes are uncomfortably graphic and intense in themselves; their cumulative effect is extraordinarily powerful. This time, Burke leaves behind the familiar New York underworld and his band of street "brothers" when a former cellmate's call for help takes him to a small Indiana… Read More

N.Y.: Knopf, 1987. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. In his first novel, Flood, attorney-turned-novelist Vachss introduced Burke, the ex-con investigator who's not averse to working either side of the law. The book captured the brutal atmosphere of New York's underbelly. This modern-day Robin Hood returns to that seamy world, complete with a merry band that includes a mute Mongolian strongman, a weird genius who lives in a junkyard, a transvestite prostitute and an intimidating dog named Pansy. Hired by a strangely alluring Mafia princess calling herself Strega ("witch" in loose translation ), Burke must find a certain photograph of a child forced into a sex act. Plunged into the world of kiddie porn, he wreaks havoc on the perverts, pimps and pedophiles he despises, the true "bad guys" in his view of things..."--PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Knopf, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dj. 4th Burke title. "In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke—the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children—is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss's signature narrative overdrive—and his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime—Hard Candy is vintage Burke.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Knopf, 1988. 1st ed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Burke, the private-eye outlaw with a big place in his heart for kids, is back. When the yuppie-hating horse-playing ex-con takes on the Times Square world of porn and murder, he finds himself facing a deadly karateka (karate expert) named Mortay and falling for a masochistic woman who's learning to deal with her past as an abused child. Burke's quest leads him through the seamy underworld that Vachss has nearly patented in Strega and Flood.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Donald I Fine, 1985. 1st ed. Very light shelfwear else near fine in dust jacket. . An ANTHONY and SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. First in the burke series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Pub., 2001. 1st prtg. Digest size, decorated wraps, . Illustrated. The magazine has changed it look. The new format is trade paperback with color card stock covers. This large, double issue is over 200 pages and with 33 original stories all published here for the first time.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Cover. As New. Illus. by Rick Hudson. Trade Paperback.

N.Y.: Warner Books Inc, 1995. 1st edition, November 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The book is a hardcover in laminated pictorial boards, complete with original wrap-around printed banner. The banner is about half the size of a normal dust-jacket. Essay on "Child Sex Tourism" by David Hechler appended at rear. Andrew Vachss continues his one-man war against child molesters through the persona of Batman. "Vachss has curled toes and raised eyebrows for years with his New York City avenger Burke. Don't think for a minute that just because he's penned a novel based on a comic-book hero that he's abandoned his passionate stand against child abuse. Weary of fighting exotic criminals, Batman has reached a crossroads. As wealthy philanthropist Bruce Wayne, traveling with a beautiful young social worker and child advocate, he begins to realize a change must occur in his life. But what?… Read More

N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. 1st ed., Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author on the title page. From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators. He is called "Ghost" because he is so nondescript as to be invisible and because he slays with such reflexive ease that he might be one of the dead. Once he traveled with a woman who was called "Shella" -- because those who had treated her as a horrendously ill-used child had tried to make her come out of her shell. Now Shella has vanished in a wilderness of strip clubs and peep shows, and Ghost is looking for her, guided by a killer's instinct and the recognition that can only exist between two people who have been damaged past the point of no return. The result… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1989. 1st ed. Very light wear else a fine, tight copy of this PAPERBACK ORIGINAL with advertising card still intact. Both an EDGAR AWARD & SHAMUS AWARD Nominee. An artist's model has committed suicide, or so it appears. A neurotic artist had painted pictures using Taylor Adams as the model; now he's dead. Is she involved? enter a surreal underworld where art is obsession and death an easy vice... San Francisco. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Avon, 1991. 1st ed. Near fine, book store stamp at title page. Paperback Original. An EDGAR Award Nominee.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine.

Dresden, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Avon Books, 1991. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine copy of this Paperback Original.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dodd Mead, 1980. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket with one very small tear at foot of spine, else bright copy. Author's first book, and the debut of the Harry Stoner series. An old man enlists the help of Harry Stoner when the sixteen-year-old girl who was living with him disappears, and the perplexing case turns into a nightmare of sexual depravity and terrifying violence. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1987. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Delacorte, 1989. 1st edition, March 1989, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best Private Eye Novel. A Harry Stoner title. "Fully realized characters, complex plots and excellent writing are the qualities that attract readers to Valin's series about Harry Stoner, private eye. In his eighth appearance, Stoner describes his assignment to find missing Ira Lessing, a businessman from Cincinnati, Ohio, beloved for his generous help to troubled teens. The detective is with Lessing's childlike wife Janey, and his partner, Len Trumaine, when they learn that Lessing's body has been discovered, brutally beaten. A punk teenager, Terry Carnova, not only confesses but boasts of killing Lessing, but Stoner isn't convinced. Terry's pathetic lover Kitty insists the murderer is "Tommy T," a male hustler who caters to masochists. With this information, the detective… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte 1991, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dj. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. A Harry Stoner title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Nominee.

NY,NY.: Dodd, 1981. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in very lightly worn dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The third Harry Stoner title. Professor Lovingwell has lost some secret government papers and doesn't know how to find them. He knows where to find them, all right. He believes his daughter has taken them, so instead of going to the F.B.I. he hires Harry Stoner and advises him, " Get the documents back within a week or two, but don't let my daughter know she's being investigated." This message leads Harry into trouble, murder, and a mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.