Search Results: CIVIL WAR from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Viking, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 2nd in this Civil War series. Narcissa Powers, a white widowed nurse, and Judah Daniel, a free black healer, as well as many secondary characters introduced in McMillan's debut Civil War mystery, Dead March, return for a second outing. In Richmond, Va., in October 1861, with the war at a temporary lull, Col. John Berton returns from the front to find his parents and wife slain and his house slaves in a stupor. The fear of slave rebellions is intense; if Berton's slaves committed the murders, it is important not only that they be punished, but that word of the slaughter be kept quiet. For not only might the news inspire further uprisings, but it could sap the will of the soldiers who have left loved ones behind.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Viking Penguin, 2001. 1st edition, 2001 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. In 1862, as smallpox sweeps through Richmond, devastating the local inhabitants, Narcissa Powers, a young widow-turned-nurse, Judah Daniel, a freed slave and herbalist, and British journalist Brit Wallace begin to suspect that the plague may not be accidental and set out to stop a killer intentionally infecting people with tainted money.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2002. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of the Bound Galley. Historical mystery featuring Clara Barton working as a relief worker in South Carolina's Gullah communities on Hilton Head Island. "In this atmospheric thriller set in 1863 amid the Gullah communities off the South Carolina coast, the author of the delightful Fremont Jones mysteries (The Strange Files of Fremont Jones; Fire and Fog; etc.) has real-life Union nurse Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, playing detective as well as ministering to the sick and wounded. Day has a wonderful ability to evoke the past, here the world of Hilton Head Island with its eerie swamps and Gullah people with their distinctive folk medicine and customs. As the fight for Charleston heats up, Clara is working with the local poor until she again receives the call to go to the battlefield. As ever, she is beset by male, military and doctoral prejudice. In addition, her brother, David, a Union officer, is on… Read More

N.Y.: Viking, 1998. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY. This copy is Signed by the author on a specially inserted page before the half-title. Author's 1st book. In Richmond, Va., in 1861, the coming conflict over secession seems inevitable. Narcissa Powers, whose son died soon after his birth and whose husband succumbed to consumption not long after that, is called from her nearby home to Richmond, where her brother, Charles, is a medical student. She arrives just in time to attend his deathbed and hear some fevered words about "resurrection." A half-burned letter stuck in her Bible provides clues that Charley's death may not have been an accident. Her suspicions gradually fall on his medical teachers and on the practice of "resurrecting" recently buried corpses for medical students to use as cadavers. The sense of social isolation and legal inferiority enforced on women and blacks is forcefully captured as Narcissa circumspectly probes for the truth. Charley's death also… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1999. 1st edition, so stated, October 1999 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's first book. First of the Abel Jones series set during the time of the American Civil War. WINNER of the HERODOTUS AWARD as the Best 1st US Historical Novel. " A colorful, scrupulous and unassuming sleuth named Abel Jones is the protagonist of this solid historical thriller set during the opening months of the Civil War. When a crusading abolitionist is found murdered in 1861 in a Union encampment near Washington, Jones, a convalescing casualty of First Manassas, presently assigned to desk duty, is tapped by the Union's newest general, George B. McClellan, to discover the killer and bring him to justice. Although Jones is the most modest of men--a teetotaling Welsh immigrant, a Methodist and stout moralist--he's a veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the century, as a former… Read More

Scribners, 1997. The second entry in the fine Capt. Thomas Maynard series. A Civil War commander who was killed during the war and buried in 1864 is seen walking the streets of a dusty gold-mining town in Montana Territory in 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett Award for Best Literary Mystery. The 4th Major Abel Jones, Civil War era mystery, this time set in London and Glasgow.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY,NY: William Morrow & Co, 2005. 1st. Ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "The intrepid Maj. Abel Jones, special agent to the Federal Army, takes on New Orleans in this satisfying sixth installment to Parry's humorous, well-written and meticulously researched series of Civil War mysteries. Dispatched to investigate the murder of a Northern heiress-cum-crusading abolitionist, our reluctant hero finds that despite the bitter cold of the winter of 1863, "New Orleans burns torrid." On his incredible first day in the Crescent City, Jones gives chase to a voodoo woman and survives kidnapping, being buried alive, a midnight gunfight, a venomous snake and paralysis by a poison charm. This is just business as usual for the puritanical Welshman, who fearlessly forges ahead with the assistance of Barnaby B. Barnaby, the rotund former haberdasher from earlier Abel Jones novels..." -- PW. First… Read More

N.Y.: Hyperion, 2008. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. Debut novel by Fuller (screenwriter for 25 years). The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything-- punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even death -- to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life. Three Publicity sheets laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1996. 1st ed. Uncorrected proof, fine in decorated wraps. A Murder of a top Civil War commander in the Dakota Territory, 1876. The murder of a famous general stuns the U.S. Army in this first-rate puzzler set at a remote Dakota post in 1876. When General Alfred Englund is stabbed to death in his office and an enlisted man is found murdered nearby, the army sends Major Thomas Maynard to investigate. Although an irascible scout fled the fort shortly after meeting with the general on the night of the killings, Englund's fellow officers are the prime suspects. All respected him, but complained about his certainty-buttressed by a fabled incident wherein lightning supposedly struck his sword-that he acted for God. Despite his self-righteousness, the general had had an affair with a colonel's young wife, and another officer nursed an apparent grudge from the Civil War. Maynard, carrying serious emotional baggage of his own, must sort out alibis that resemble suggest a frontier army… Read More

NY.NY: William Morrow & Co, 2000. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Abel Jones, a federal agent during the American Civil War, is featured in the second title in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.