Search Results: Titles starting with I from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 2016. 1st US edition, complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Investigative team of Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein. Police Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to leave on her long-delayed honeymoon when she receives a phone call from police headquarters: An elderly woman has been shot and killed while walking her dog. Neither her grieving daughter nor any of her acquaintances have an explanation for the horrifying murder. Ingeborg Rohlehder was well-liked and a generous, loving woman. A short while later, another murder is committed and the modus operandi is eerily similar — a woman is executed by a precisely aimed bullet to the head that smashes through her kitchen window while she is baking cookies . . . and in both cases the same weapon fired the shot from a distance only a trained sniper could manage. Two more murders follow in short order. None of the victims had enemies and no one knows why… Read More

NY,NY.: Little Brown & Co, 1986. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A Richard Jury of Scotland Yard mystery'A girl is found garrotted in a street just off Berkeley Square near a pub called 'I am the Only Running Footman'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: Macmillan, 1996. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. In protective mylar dust jacket cover. Fine in dust jacket. Set in 13 B.C. Rome. Author's first novel and first in the ancient Roman mystery series featuring Claudia Seferius. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971. 1st edition, 1st printing so stated. Full bound with purple cloth covered boards, very minor wear at edges else fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, $5.95 price intact, lightly chipped at extremeties, couple of small nicks. Jay Fisher is a TV announcer who is sent by the Network to cover the secret invasion of a small Caribbean Island, and ends up face to face with a Latin American dictator.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Henry Holt & Co, 1992. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED at title page by author. Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a serious mistake), is trying to divest David Barney of the profits of that murder. But time is running out, and David Barney still swears he's innocent. Patterned along the lines of a legal case, "I" Is For Innocent is seamlessly divided into thirds: one-third of the novel is devoted to the… Read More

NY,NY: Henry Holt, 1992. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a serious mistake), is trying to divest David Barney of the profits of that murder. But time is running out, and David Barney still swears he's innocent. Patterned along the lines of a legal case, "I" Is For Innocent is seamlessly divided into thirds: one-third of the novel is devoted to the prosecution, one-third to the defense, and… Read More

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1991. First Edition, April 1991 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Paper is showing signs of age toning else fine. Highly regarded title in the Jenny Cain series. An AGATHA AWARD WINNER and a MACAVITY AWARD WINNER for Best Novel and an EDGAR and ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Mystery. "The layered plot of the latest in the excellent Jenny Cain series ( Say No to Murder ) finds the Port Frederick, Mass., sleuth probing the cause of her recently deceased mother's insanity. Cain discovers that her mother's mental collapse many years before coincided with the bankruptcy of the family business. The closing of Cain Clams created considerable unemployment locally and countless enemies for the Cains--one such foe may now be trying to prevent the amateur detective from delving further into her family's past and the town's secrets. As she tracks down public mysteries, Cain unearths… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1996. First edition, April 1996, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The unusual title, a lyric penned by aspiring country song writer Shelby Kay Tate, immediately grabs the reader's attention. The saucy and ambitious Tate combats the machinations of a gullible, possessive ex-husband; a loquacious con artist; and a smitten policeman-all of whom involve her in acts of violence. Wild and crazy characters, a humorous approach, and a heightened sense of drama result in unforgettable entertainment. Anyone choosing the latest from the author of She Walks in Beauty (Pocket, 1991) certainly cannot go wrong." -- Library Journal . 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Farrar & Rhinehart, 1940. 1st ed. Front panel of jacket pasted to rear inside cover, front and rear flaps pasted to front inside cover; both eps sliced out, probably an ex-library but with no markings as such. WINNER OF THE FIRST MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Mystery Novel Contest.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dj one small tear at rear top corner. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret A Neves. A Very young woman--a very old man--a horrific murder--and an across-the-century search from Brasilia to Paris for the astonishing truth about Guilhermina Maia Macedo. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1988. 1st edition, so stated. . About fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 675 pages. Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly—when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists he outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who once saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood, where frightened whispers speak of violence yet to come and where Kendrick's life—and the fate of the free world—may ultimately rest in the powerful hands of a mysterious and deadly figure known only as the Mahdi. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2000. 1st edition, November 2000, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. NOMINATED FOR 5 AWARDS: Anthony, Barry, Creasy Dagger, Gold Dagger, and an Edgar Award. "Loaded guns, ladies of the night, broken neon, broken dreams. Here is a world that is immediately recognizable--through a shot glass at three A.M. This is life with rough edges, in a novel that gives you the straight goods--point blank-- one cold, snowbound Christmas Eve in Kansas. One single night, defined in shadings of black and white, when everything changes. . . . For most, the city is closing up. For a few outsiders, this night, Christmas Eve 1979, is just beginning. Charlie Arglist is a lawyer saying goodbye to Wichita by revisiting the landscape of his used up life: the cold stare of his angry ex-wife, the empty strip clubs and bars where loneliness turns a profit, the frozen glare of ex-lovers and… Read More

London: Picador, 2000. London: Picador, 2000. First Edition UK, Fine in a Fine dustjacket, with publisher's wraparound band intact. Author's first book. Nominated for an ANTHONY AWARD, a BARRY AWARD, A CREASY DAGGER AWARD, a GOLD DAGGER AWARD, and an EDGAR AWARD.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Walker, 1997. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Adams continues the investigations that take Wilcox through the Dakotas and Minnesota during the years of the Great Depression.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Walker and Company, 1997. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Adams continues the investigations that take Wilcox through the Dakotas and Minnesota during the years of the Great Depression. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/As New. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1993. 1st ed., Paperback Original, reading crease, slight spine slant.. The Third Peter Bartholomew title set at Christmas on Nastoba, a fictional island based on Cape Cod. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Henry Holt, 2001. 1st edition (due out January, 2001). Fine copy. Laid in is a copy of letter to the publisher from Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Press praising the book. On Missoula's coldest day of the year, the police pull Clay Bennett's corpse from the weeds. For the cops, his death is an open-and-shut case, the result of a drunken brawl gone out of control. For repo woman Meg Gardner, who'd been looking to snag Bennett's Jeep, his death is an opportunity: without him around to make life difficult, the job should be a breeze. But rumors about a mysterious missing military plane --and about her own father's other family --leave Meg feeling decidedly uneasy about the cops' casual assumptions. Only one year out of prison, romantically involved, and working the first legitimate job she's ever had, Meg has a lot to lose. So when Bennett's Jeep is stolen from outside her house, instinct and experience demand she walk away. Driven by haunting suspicions… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin 1992, 1992. 1st Am. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY. A CREASY AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 1st edition, December 1990, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. An Inspector Ghote novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. New crimes and old bones turn up when anthropologist Gideon Oliver accompanies his wife to a forest rangers' conference in Glacier Bay, Alaska.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.