Search Results: Titles starting with V from Storbeck's

New York: Fawcett Gold Medal. Fine. 1996. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 0.7 x 6.7 x 4.1 Inches. 272 pages. A Christine Bennett Mystery, No.8. THE BIG CHILL What really happened that tragic Valentine's night on Lake Erie? No one knows. Three old buddies--reckless Matty, successful Clark, clever Val--decided to cap Val's birthday celebration with a stroll across the frozen lake. They never returned. Matty's scarf was found snagged on broken ice. After the thaw, only the bodies of Clark and Matty are recovered--the latter with a bullet in it. Val remains missing, now a murder suspect. His desperate wife pleads with ex-nun investigator Christine Bennett to find him and prove his innocence. A tall order, especially when Chris starts hunting for clues in the lives of these respectable suburbanites and their wives. And when she closes in on a truth that chills her to the bone, she suddenly finds herself skating… Read More

San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Fine. 2001. First Edition. Paperback. 96 pages. Treats: Just Great Recipes. Nothing says "I love you" like gifts made from the heart, and anyone struck with Cupid's arrow will find plenty of inspiration in <I>Valentine Treats.</I> So say it like you mean it with nostalgic Antique Valentines and a Sweetheart Candy Box. If that's not enough to sway the fickle, then let them hear the sweet Pitter Patter of your Pancakes, and dive into your Chocolate Cookie Truffles. Even the littlest cherubs will join in the fun with simple nosegays, no-fuss Peanut Butter with Love Sandwiches, and Pixie Postcards. Cupid's arrow will hit the bull's eye this holiday with the enchanting ideas in <I>Valentine Treats.</I> .

New York: Mysterious Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 185 pages. A Peter Shandy Mystery, No. 7. The weather vanes of the famous craftsman Praxiteles Lumpkin are one of the great cultural treasures of rural Massachusetts. Helen Shandy, librarian at Balaclava Agricultural College, is roaming the countryside, camera in hand, capturing images of these lovely copper sculptures, trying to give them the attention they deserve. But each time she takes a picture, the featured vane vanishes. Could there be a gang of breezy-minded burglars on her tail? The night after Helen photographs the vane atop the famous Lumpkin soap works, the building burns to the ground. With the help of her husband, Peter, she tries to track the thieves-turned-arsonists. But when the things take a dangerous turn, Helen doesn’t need a weather vane to see that a deadly wind is blowing. .

Toronto: Worldwide Library. Fine. 2000. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease.. 0.75 x 6.5 x 4.25 Inches. 256 pages. A Joan Spencer Mystery, No. 3. Joan Spencer's future son-and-law is competing in the prestigious International Violin Competition when he becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of a top contender and her priceless Stradivarius. As tensions mount in the competition, Joan sets out to uncover the truth and trap a virtuoso killer. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. c2006.. First Edition. Hardcover. The Sports Beat, No. 2. The two hopeful sports reporters have kept in touch after their wild time at the Final Four, and when Susan Carol manages to score a press pass to cover the first week of the US Open Tennis Tournament in New York, Stevie works out a way to be there as well. The behind-the-scenes action in the world of professional tennis is overwhelming and occasionally bewildering, but it turns downright inconceivable when a young Russian phenom, Natalia Makarova, disappears right before her second-round match. Somewhere between the locker rooms and the Louis Armstrong Court, one of the most-watched players of the tournament simply vanishes. The media coverage is staggering. Everyone is looking for Natalia--including Stevie and Susan Carol. Was she kidnapped? Did she run? Is she even still alive? The rumors are growing wilder by the hour. But they don't even come close to the shocking truth... .

Bothell, WA: That Patchwork Place. Good. 1998. Paperback. Underlining and highlighting on many pages . 87 pages .

New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Minotaur. As New in As New dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Dark green boards and spine with title and author imprinted in gold on spine. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 246 pages. A Sheriff Milt Kovak Mystery, No. 8. Milt Kovak and his wife Jean have chosen Las Vegas for a second honeymoon. Milt looks forward not so much to gambling as to have a break from the duties of a small-town sheriff and for a rare pleasure of a feast on usually forbidden food. Alas, a call from Milts cousin Maida puts another face on the trip. Arriving in Las Vegas with her husband Burl to visit their pregnant daughter, Maida was horrified to find her lying beaten on the floor, her drunken husband standing over her. Burl punched his son-in-law in the nose and is in jail, the daughter is in the hospital, and Cousin Maida is distraught. Milt, youre a police officer; please get Burl out of jail! Milt… Read More

New York: Thomas Dunne Books / Minotaur. As New in As New dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Dark green boards and spine with title and author imprinted in gold on spine. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 246 pages. A Sheriff Milt Kovak Mystery, No. 8. Sheriff Milt Kovak, having joined his psychiatrist wife on a trip to a conference in Las Vegas, expects a welcome vacation, inspecting the casinos. He has left a capable second-in-command to watch over his small town in Oklahoma, but almost as soon as they arrive, Milt gets an S.O.S. call from his cousin Maida. Her pregnant daughter has been beaten by her husband, and Maida's husband, Burl, has thoroughly trounced his son-in-law. The young man is the son of a very powerful businessman in Vegas, and the police want to lock Burl up. Milt manages to talk his fellow cops into giving him custody of Burl until the trial and takes the still-steaming man to their hotel room;… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks. Fine. 1999. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease.. 0.68 x 6.81 x 4.17 Inches. 240 pages. A Torie O'Shea Mystery, No. 2. Torie O'Shea investigates the tangled roots of an ancient family tree.Torie O'Shea-- genealogist and amateur sleuth-- is having a killer of a day. The town gossip spreads the word that her sweet wheelchair-bound mother is having an affair-- with the sheriff! Then quiet Marie Dijon is found dead at the foot of her basement stairs. Did she fall? Was she pushed? All Torie knows is that Marie had a family tree with royal roots completely foreign to a folksy Middle America town like New Kassel, Missouri. As foreign as, say....murder.But nosiness in New Kassel is as native as the upcoming Oktoberfest. To Torie, the open door to Marie's house is more tempting than chocolate. Finding a hidden key and old documents in French make further investigating irresistible. But while juggling her growing suspicions, a hectic job at… Read More

New York: Bantam. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line. . 1.42 x 9.37 x 6.14 Inches. 416 pages. Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. <I>If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.</I>It seems like a sick joke, and Bill's friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found… Read More

New York: PublicAffairs. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 384 pages. His son tells the life story of Melvin Purvis, once an iconic G-man and public hero, who was destroyed not by the famous villains of the 1930s but by the jealousy of his boss, J. Edgar Hoover By the end of 1934 Melvin Purvis was, besides President Roosevelt, the most famous man in America. Just thirty-one years old, he presided over the neophyte FBI's remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression-John Dillinger; Pretty Boy Floyd; Baby Face Nelson. America finally had its hero in the War on Crime, and the face of all the conquering G-Men belonged to Melvin Purvis. Yet these triumphs sowed the seeds of his eventual ruin. With each new capture, each new headline touting Purvis as the scourge of gangsters, one man's implacable resentment grew. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, was immensely jealous of the agent who had been his friend and protege, and vowed that… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Black boards with gold lettering on a black spine. Full number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 473 pages. Cotton Malone, No. 3. In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting place–unknown to this day–remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. And Cotton Malone–former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer–will be drawn into an intense geopolitical chess game. After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze was neither an accident nor an isolated incident. As part of campaign of arson intended to mask a far more… Read More

Georgetown, TX: self-published. As New. 2014. Trade Paperback. 313 pages. A Vengeance Squard Mystery, No. 2. Two years after the death of his fiancée, Chris McCowan begins to feel normal again. As normal as the situation allows. Sarah had told him to find a new love and be happy, but he never dreamed he would. That was before he fell in love with Angela. Did she feel the same about him? Perhaps he would soon find out. She had invited him to visit her at her home in Bath, England during his time off between semesters. He had his plane ticket before his fall teaching obligations were finished. Tex Thompson had worked part time at the library while attending college full time ever since he'd married Jane. Adding the Vengeance Squad's criminal investigative work on top of that left little time for her or the children. This time, Tex's wife had put her foot down. No more Vengeance Squad activities until he'd stayed home long enough for his children to get to know him… Read More

New York: Warner Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Bibliog., index.. 1 x 9.32 x 6.32 Inches. 288 pages. The most creative minds of high technology like to get together and talk shop from the lessons they've learned and the accomplishments that they're most proud of to what keeps them awake at night. The Venture Cafe shares their invaluable insights and provides the personal anecdotes, war stories, insider information, and advice vital to success in todays fast-paced business environment. .

Surrey, ENG: Severn House. As New in As New dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 196 pages. A Burren Mystery, No. 11. A festive celebration turns into a fight for survival when Mara and her clan come under attack.Christmas 1519 and Mara and her scholars are spending the festive period in her husband's principal court, the castle of Bunratty in Thomond. However, in the midst of celebrations, the Brehon of Thomond is found dead, slumped across a table with a knife protruding from below his shoulder blade, while all around him Turlough's relations and friends dance and feast. Mara's difficult task in probing the motives of the multiple suspects is interrupted by a dramatic attack on the castle. Turlough s cannon has been sabotaged and now a trebuchet batters the castle with huge rocks and the lives of all are at risk. Has this treachery and betrayal anything to do the mysterious death of the Brehon, but most importantly how will Mara's husband answer the call for surrender.? . Read More

New York: Fawcett Columbine. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a laid in page. 1.25 x 9.75 x 6.75 Inches. 327 pages. Signed by Author. Jill McGown's subtle and compelling mysteries depict men and women whose dance to the music of passion sometimes leads to murder. In Verdict Unsafe, McGown once again evokes the gritty East Midlands inhabited by Detective Inspector Judy Hill and her supervisor and lover, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd. But this time, Judy's career, her relationship with Lloyd, and even her life are imperiled by the whims of an arrogant young predator.<br><br>Four young women. Four horrific rapes. Committed by a man who calls himself the "Stealth Bomber." Colin Arthur Drummond--a privileged young man from Malworth--now stands accused of these crimes. And watching his trial from the public gallery, Detective Inspector Judy Hill cannot forget his chilling description of a fifth unreported rape. Or… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004.. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprinted in red metallic with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 335 pages. A Shane Scully Mystery, No. 4. A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house. Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, LAPD, as an uninvolved and unbiased… Read More

New York: St Martins Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Stated First Ediion: September 1990 with full number line.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 275 pages. A Lovejoy Mystery, No. . After being hired as an antiques consultant for a movie about a robbery at London's British Museum, Lovejoy is forced by local gangster Big John Sheehan into robbing Ben Clayton's Russian Exhibition. .

Southern Historical Pr. New. 379 pp. (1927) 2006. Hardcover. 0893082295 . In preparing this book the author expended great care in following the original book in every eccentricity of spelling and abbreviation and in all mistakes. The Vestry Book itself contains the names of approximately 8,000 individuals either as Vestry members or as those who had been appointed to procession land property owners; apprentice young people to others in the parish for training in crafts or livelihoods; binding out young slaves for training; clothing and feeding and general care and welfare of the poor in their midst. .

Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1969. Second Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and address label on front paste-down endpaper. 328 pages .