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

N.Y.: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1984. 1st edition, 1st printing, so stated. About fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket, unclipped, $12.95 price intact.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 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.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1952. 1st ed. Covers are faded, paper is very brittle and browning, tape marks at endpapers (but has no library markings) Previous owners plate on iside cover. Dust jacket has chip out at foot of spine and is lightly worn, else very good. Jacket is unclipped, $2.50 price is still intact. Her series detective was Penberthy Island selectman Elisha Macomber. Here he applies his native ingenuity to three murders in a ballet group on Penberthy Island.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Book.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2005. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. a NERO WOLFE AWARD WINNER and an EDGAR and a MACAVITY AWARD FINALIST for Best Novel. "Retired internist Gerritsen serves up another prescription for bad dreams in her latest thriller to feature Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (Body Double). The catalogue of terrors this time out includes sexual slavery, hostage-taking and torture; there are also government bad guys, post--9/11 red herrings and a heart-tugging cadre of young Eastern European women known only by their first names. Fierce Olena, thought dead, wakes up in Maura's morgue, recovers in the hospital, and--with the help of a mysterious colleague--takes a group of hostages, including Jane, who's about to give birth. Jane's husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, tries to reason with the hostage-takers, and… Read More

Ontario: Canada: Harvest Books, 2006. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Publishers sheet laid in. Javier Falcon, a detective inspector in Spain, is featured in the second book in the series, also published as "The Silent and the Damned". Set In Spain. A GUMSHOE AWARD WINNER. Javier Falcón has been through therapy and is in the process of breaking free of the psychological damage sustained during his last major investigation. Called to the scene of a suspicious suicide in a wealthy neighborhood on the outskirts of Seville, he begins to investigate a case with no solid evidence when suddenly, in quick succession, two more suicides occur-one of them a fellow police officer in the sex crimes unit. Left to discover what made life so unbearable for these victims, Falcón's task is to find the connection among the suicides. Or were they, in fact, murdered? . First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Trade Paperback.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1993. 1st edition, March 1993, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Near Fine in near fine dust jacket, ear at head and foot, light chipping, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Private eye Joe DiGregorio ( False Faces , St. Martin's, 1991) meets with a wealthy man who wants help in faking his own death so that he can "disappear" with his lover: thus the title. Joe refuses but subsequently learns of the man's murder. George Samson, founder of a budget-store chain, had many enemies, among them his heartless wife, his estranged niece, and the company's ambitious CEO. Joe unearths evidence of embezzlement and a secret lover but struggles for every bit of information." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Kent Town:Australia: Wakefield Press 1992, 1993. Trade pbk, Wakefield Crime Classic #8. Afterword by series eds. Michael Tolley & Peter Moss. Australia locale. Cruel, egotistical Noel, a thistledown, a cheap balloon whisking willy-nilly away from the piercing, deflating needle of her fine judgment. Geraldine needs to keep her cool through the highs and the lows, but it's maddening when Noel keeps missing the point. The trek up north was grueling, yet every plant and bird she saw, every sweaty, purposeless mile she crossed, convinced her that they were made for each other. Back home in Sydney, when there's still a gap between them, he has to be made to see.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Cover. Fine. Trade Paperback.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Soho Press Inc, 2000. 1st ed., fine in dj. Diamond hunts for a missing professor on the trail of Mary Shelly's diary. A skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Then a skull is excavated. The bones came from different corpses, and one is modern. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must solve a series of crimes including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, 19th-century art, literature...and human nature.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: William Morrow & Co, 1986. 1st. ed. Near fine in dust jacket. One by one the porno queens and kings of Hollywood begin to die, a faceless killer whose calling card is a valentine drawn in cocaine. "The sizzling pornographic films of Candy Lane are a box-office bounty and a route for the Mafia to launder illegal money for themselves and their drug-dealing Cuban partners. Shortly after the voluptuous young star of Lickerice is found shot in the head, with a valentine drawn in high-quality cocaine near her body, her costars begin to get killed in the same manner. Police Lt. Jack Raines and special agent Silvio Martinez wonder if this is the work of a serial killer, or if the murders are linked to the Cuban cocaine ring they are tracking. Also in the dark is Don Angelo Maffatore, whose decision to strike out at his Cuban partners sets off a bloodbath that the law enforcers heartily applaud. As the body count rises, a frustrated Lt. Raines, who has lost credibility by keeping company with a… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1993. 1st edition, April 1993, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Beautiful prose and a hopelessly convoluted plot distinguish this prequel to Kuhlken's well-received The Loud Adios of 1991. It's winter of wartime 1942 and San Diego nightclub owner and sleuth Tom Hickey is trailing his missing headliner, the enchanting chanteuse Cynthia Moon. After taking her diary and a drawing of three tattooed figures from her rented room, he locates her embittered father dying in a nursing home and then heads into the Sierra Nevada mountains. There, in a period piece of Twin Peaks -style lunacy, he finds a cult, including Cynthia's acquisitive mother, Venus, living in the Otherworld with the Master, the Bitch, Laurel, and assorted other flawed acolytes, all intending to harm the missing girl, who is on a mission of her own. Hickey's personal odyssey is a subplot that works much… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1993. 1st edition, April 1993 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in an acid-free archival acetate cover. Dust jacket illustraton by John Dawson. SIGNED COPY and dated (6-4-93) by the author at title page. "Set a few months before the events in Kuhlken's previous novel, The Loud Adios, this book finds Tom Hickey still a civilian, still, if somewhat precariously, married, and part owner of a nightclub in wartime San Diego. The war is World War II, and Hickey is making money, due to the phenomenal appeal of the club's very young female singer, Cynthia Moon. Hickey's partner, Paul Castillo, has his mysterious sources for such rare wartime luxuries as creamery butter and Maine lobster, but it is Cynthia who draws the crowds. Except now Cynthia Moon has disappeared. Business drops precipitously and sometime private detective Hickey sets off on a search for her. She is elusive, but Hickey encounters her bizarre… Read More

N.Y.: St.Martin's, 1980. 1st US ed. Near fine in dust jacket, price un-clipped [$8.95 price still intact]. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Hutchinson, 1991. 1st ed, a fine copy in dust jacket. Paper showing signs of age toning as usual. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Davis at title page. Italy AD 70. The 3rd Falco title.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2006. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. LIMITED to 300 NUMBERED copies (This being #117) sewn in cloth. Accompanying each copy of the Limited edition is a separately printed pamphlet, THE JUSTICE BOY by H.R.F. Keating. Members of London's famed Detection Club have joined together to honor Keating. Each story is new and written in honor of H.R.F. Keating. Stories by Lionel Davidson, Len Deighton, Reginald Hill, Colin Dexter, P. D. James, Liza Cody, Catherine Aird, Peter Lovesey, James Melville, Andrew Taylor, Tim Heald, Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, June Thomson, Michael Z. Lewin, Jonathan Gash, Michael Hartland, and H.R.F. Keating. The foreword is written by Dick Francis.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Heyer, Carol. Book.

TORONTO, CANADA: McCELLAND & STEWART, 1998. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. The sixth Joan Kilbourn title. Lady judge is murdered...Was she crazy when she made her will ?? Canadian locale. ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2006. 1st paperback printing. A fine, unread copy of the Trade Paperback still in shrunkwrap. Members of London's famed Detection Club have joined together to honor Keating. Each story is new and written in honor of H.R.F. Keating. Stories by Lionel Davidson, Len Deighton, Reginald Hill, Colin Dexter, P. D. James, Liza Cody, Catherine Aird, Peter Lovesey, James Melville, Andrew Taylor, Tim Heald, Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, June Thomson, Michael Z. Lewin, Jonathan Gash, Michael Hartland, and H.R.F. Keating. The foreword is written by Dick Francis.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Trade Paperback.

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1997. 1st ed. Some age toning to page edges else fine in fine dust jacket. 453 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1997. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "You can see the dollar signs light up in the eyes of Victor Carl, Lashner's money-hungry Philadelphia lawyer (first seen in Hostile Witness), when he learns that his new client, Caroline Shaw, is one of the filthy rich Reddmans. Caroline wants Victor to use his mob connections to get to the bottom of her sister Jacqueline's death. The police think it was suicide, but Caroline is convinced that it was murder and had a lot to do with all the money her brother Eddie owes a loan shark. There are bigger skeletons than gambling debts, however, in the family closets of Veritas, the Reddmans' exquisitely misnamed mansion. Victor soon discovers that the history of the Shaws and the Reddmans provides ample proof of the old saying that at the source of every fortune is a crime. He also gets trapped within the storm clouds of a brewing… Read More

N.Y.: Viking Penguin, 1990. 1st edtion with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Former Library of Congress Copyright stamp of April 23, 1990. Author's First Book. Hired by a software company to discover who planted the computer virus that is eating up their system, Boston's bookish detective Dred Balcazar's quirky case deepens when his own computer is stolen and his lovely date vanishes. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Crawford, Robert. Book.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1988. 1st edition, September 1988, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. When Inspector Roger Bastide investigates a corpse dumped in the driveway of the Soviet consulate in Marseilles, he finds himself caught in a complex web of espionage plots and stalked by the KGB. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.