Search Results: Titles starting with L from Storbeck's

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 338 pages. Stone Barrington Novels, No. 6. In this action-packed thriller, Stone Barrington, an ex-cop turned lawyer, becomes caught between a woman abandoned on the altar and another suspected of murder. .

Pleasantiville, NY: Impress Group. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2010. Hardcover. 435 pages. The Best Mysteries of All Time .

New York: Henry Holt and Co.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Blue boards with black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.5 Inches. 304 pages. The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries. Kinsey's skills are about to be sorely tested. She is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who quite literally take her for the ride of her life."L" Is for Lawless: Call it Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call it the return of Kinsey as bad girl-- quick-witted and quicksilvery, smart-mouthed and smart-alecky-- poking her nose into everyone's dirty laundry as she joins up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in an Our Gang comedy that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with a major headache… Read More

Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Dark tan boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full number line 5 4 3 2 1. . 175 pages. The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River presents the definitive English translation of Nicolas de La Salle's diary account of Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's 1682 discovery expedition of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This previously unknown manuscript copy was discovered recently in the collection of rare books in the Texas State Archives. It provides the most complete and authoritative account available of this historic North American adventure and territorial claim. By careful cross-document analysis, Foster projects an extended expedition chronology that adds about two weeks to the journey, corrects the date that La Salle's claim was announced, and revises erroneous… Read More

New York: Kensington Books. New. 2012. Trade Paperback. Deckle-edged pages. 264 pages. A Hattie Davish Mystery, No. 1. On the eve of the heated presidential election of 1892, Miss Hattie Davish arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a scenic resort town where those without the scent of whiskey on their breath have the plight of temperance on their tongues. Summoned for her services as a private secretary, Hattie is looking forward to exploring the hills, indulging her penchant for botany--and getting to know the town's handsome doctor. But it's hard to get her job done with her employer nowhere to be found. . . An army of unassuming women wielding hatchets have descended on the quiet Ozark village, destroying every saloon in their path--and leaving more than a few enemies in their wake. So when their beloved leader, Mother Trevelyan, is murdered, it's easy to point fingers. Now that she's working for a dead woman, Hattie turns to her trusty typewriter to get to the truth.… Read More

Fort Collins, CO: First Light Publishing. Near Fine. 1997. Stapled wraps. 40 pages .

New York: Broadway. Near Fine. 2011. Trade Paperback. 32 pages of b/w photos. Bibliography, index.. 310 pages. The real-life inspiration and setting for the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey , Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war. Much like her Masterpiece Classic counterpart, Lady Cora Crawley, Lady Almina was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who married his daughter off at a young age, her dowry serving as the crucial link in the effort to preserve the Earl of Carnarvon's ancestral home. Throwing open the doors of Highclere Castle to tend to the wounded of World War I, Lady Almina distinguished herself… Read More

New York: Harper. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Stated First Edition with full number line.. 1.6 x 9.1 x 6.4 Inches. 368 pages. The Rosato and Associates Series, No. 12 .

New York: Walker & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. First US Edition. Hardcover. Black boards with title and author in gilt on spine; Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2; Genealogical tables and maps; color illustrations. 365 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Very Good. 1986. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Spine crease; edgewear to spine; crease at bottom of back cover . Debut novel. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 322 pages. Parker's first novel is a supreme work of inescapable suspense set in the steamy atmosphere of Laguna Beach--a sun-drenched haven for the super-rich. Here, trouble and murder have swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing death through the palms .

Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press. Fine. 1989. First Edition. Paperback. 96 pages .

New York: Pocket Star Books. Fine. 2006. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 512 pages. A Nora Gavin Novel, Book 2. When workers at a vast peat extraction site in the bleak and tortured landscape of the Irish midlands uncover a long-buried, badly damaged corpse, they call in pathologist Nora Gavin. The body has apparently been strangled, slashed and drowned - the ritual 'triple death' of Ireland's blood-soaked pagan past. But moments after Nora arrives a much more recent victim is discovered. Like the ancient body, this new corpse seems to have suffered the triple death...Nora and her lover, archaeologist Cormac Maguire, must team up professionally once more. Soon they are enmeshed in a web of tangled desires and terrible secrets. The danger mounts, fuelled by rumours of ancient gold, illicit liaisons and long-delayed revenge. Though they do not realise it, Nora and Cormac have come far too close to the truth… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 152 pp. 1975. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0684158639 .

Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Near Fine. 1972. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and address label on front and back paste-down endpapers. Oversize. 74 pages. Altogether about 4,000 prospective brides and grooms are listed here with dates and, sometimes, names of parents. For the convenience of the researcher the marriages are recorded in one alphabetical sequence by the surname of the groom. Additional important genealogical information, such as the statement of widowhood and the place of residence, is supplied if the data appeared in the original marriage bond. .

New York: Ballantine Books. Fine. 1994.. Trade Paperback. Inscribed, dated and SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 413 pages. Signed by Author .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Fine. 2009. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Paperback Original. No spine crease.Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 312 pages. A Merlin Investigation, Book 2. Throughout Camelot, he is whispered to be a magician, a sorcerer, a wizard. But Merlin is merely a scholar, a practitioner of medicine, and King Arthur’s trusted advisor. Though he possesses no otherworldly abilities, his keen intellect grants him certain powers of deduction. Arthur, king of all the Britains, has not been fortunate in his marriage. His queen, Guenevere, has long kept her own court in the forbidding castle known as the Spider’s House, living there openly with the knight Lancelot. Still, even Merlin, who has little use for the pair, would never have predicted that they would plot to present themselves to the Byzantium Empire as the rightful rulers of England! They plan to announce this at Guen’s birthday celebration, to which Arthur is invited. Forewarned, King… Read More

Southern Historical Press. New. 2006. Trade Paperback. Vol. 1. 304 pages .

Southern Historical Press. New. 1999. Trade Paperback. 349 pages. This Middle Tennessee County was formed in 1837 out of parts of Cannon, Jackson, Warren, and Wilson counties. This book contains abstracts of the deeds starting at the creation of the county and continuing all the way through 1869. .

Greenville, S.C.: Southern Historical Press. New. 1992. Hardcover. Vol. 3. 251 pages .

Greenville: Southern Historical Press. New. 2000. Hardcover. 1 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches .