Search Results: First Mystery from Murder By The Book

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. . Murder and mayhem accompanied by great humour involving hitmen, an embezzler, an alcoholic and a multitude of rich characters. Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Miami Herald , and the author of many bestsellers. BIG TROUBLE is the author's first novel. EDGAR Award Nominee. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton, 1982. 1st ed. Near fine in dj. Author's first Doc Adams novel and an EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: A.L. Burt, 1924. Re-issue, 1st thus. Author's first book. Light wear along edges, spine lightly darkened. Small ink stamp from circulating library at inside covers.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Century, 2003. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Jacket still has "As Good As Michael Connely or Your Money Back" sticker. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best first novel. The stronghold of white-collar crime in the rarefied world of high finance -- this is the setting for Peter Spiegelman's edgy, suspenseful, sharply-honed debut novel. John March, who walked away from his family's venerable merchant bank for the life of a rural deputy sheriff -- a life that would explode in personal tragedy and professional disaster. Three years later, he's back in Manhattan, working as a PI and running from his grief and the expectations of his wealthy family. March takes the case of Rick Pierro, a self-made man who has everything–and who's in danger of losing it all. An anonymous, poisonous threat has implicated him in a vast money-laundering scheme already under… Read More

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1952. 1st ed. edgewear, slight spine slant, pages browning, else very good in dust jacket, not price clipped ($2.50 price still intact), a few closed tears, spine lightly sunned. Author's first book.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

Athens, OH, U.S.A.: Ohio University Press, 1999. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in bright red cloth, in fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Chiquita Babb. Promotional post card laid in. Author's first mystery, set in the Ohio Amish community. Tony Hillerman recommendation. Hardcover, there are only 1000 hardcover copies in the first printing (there is a simultaneous softcover issue). "In the Old Order Amish communities of Ohio's Holmes County, it is rare for one of the self-styled "plain" people to seek aid from an outsider, one of "the English." But Bishop Eli Miller needs help and goes for it to a local academic, Michael Brandon. Years before, Miller had exiled his son Jonah for his wild ways. Now Jonah has snatched his own son, Jeremiah, who has been living with the bishop. In a note to his father, Jonah sends assurances that the boy will be returned by harvest time. Concern about Jeremiah's exposure to the outside… Read More

Athens: Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999. Book club edition. Set among the Old Order Amish of Holmes County, Ohio -- home to the largest Amish & Mennonite settlements in the world.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1990. 1st edition, November 1990, so stated. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Boston setting. SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. Author's first mystery. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1990. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. Boston setting. Author's first mystery. "Tom Bethany, security consultant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, narrates this commendable first mystery about a wealthy professor hoping to become the next Secretary of State. Hired to research the man's background for any hint of scandal, Bethany can find nothing wrong until he looks into the unsolved murder of the professor's wayward daughter. The more involved he becomes with the case, the more he realizes that the police fumbled their investigation. Bethany, a Vietnam veteran who distrusts government, is a sturdy and methodical..."--LJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Nominee.

London, United Kingdom: Orion, 2000. 2nd ed. Near fine in dust jacket. The highly acclaimed first novel (the first of a series) set in the Middle Ages. Sir Richard Straccan is a bone-peddlar, meaning he deals in retrieving and finding stolen relics and new artefacts. It is 1209 and Richard is pressed into investigating the appearance of a rare icon. Danger presents itself on every front as his daughter is subsequently kidnapped, and Straccan must save her and solve the mystery. H. P. Lovecraft's Mad Arab, Abdul al Hazred and some of the nastier creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos appear herein.. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Viking Penguin, 1988. 1st ed. very light soiling at page edges else about fine in dj. Author's 1st book. Paul Marston is a free-lance corporate investigator--the guy they call when the books look funny or the deals smell fishy. (Enron; World Com). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first book introducing Tuscon reporter Nate Bowman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Signet, 1999. 1st edition, May 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy. Author's First Book. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Winner - Malice Domestic Grant; First Mystery. Jacob Burns has finally sold a screenplay. But he can't write another one - he's got writer's block and spends his days in a Saratoga Springs, NY, coffeehouse. Then one morning one of more eccentric customers hands Jacob a key and drops dead at his feet. But to find a killer, Jacob must first prove that a murder has occured. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1987. 1st edition, October 1987, with complete number line beginning with 1. Reading crease, very light wear else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original mystery featuring Jerry Zalman, L.A. lawyer. Author's first mystery. Nominated for an EDGAR AWARD for Best Paperback Original.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The debut culinary mystery featuring Chas Wheatley written by the Washington Post food and restaurant critic. AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE. Washington's finest French chef, Laurence Levain, is dead, and all of D.C. thinks the culprit was too much foie gras. All, that is, except for Chas Wheatley, the city's most famous restaurant critic. Still carrying a torch for Levain after having had a passionate romance with him years before, she's convinced that his death was more than a simple case of too much cholesterol -- it was a case of murder. Enlisting the aid of detective/gourmand Homer Jones, she launches an investigation into this fiendish crime and soon finds herself in more trouble than she bargained for.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan, 2001. First Edition. The true first edition in a small print run, 1,000 copies. SIGNED COPY. This is a gem of black humor and intrigue about a paperback crime novelist less politely known as "slasher trash" who takes over the English department of La Siberia Tech, a marginal school at best on the Rio Grande River. He teaches a new course centering on The Wild Bunch of Modern Literature -- a course he concots to feature crime novelists who are personal friends of his--which causes consternation among the older faculty and then a seemingly inexplicable murder.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Small Press.

N.Y.: Crown, 1990. 1st American edition, so stated., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. In 2002 Wright / Cooper was Nominated for Library Dagger by CWA for an author whose body of work has given most pleasure. "Only one person knows that civil servant Wilhelmina "Willow" King, the rather dowdy, 38, and very clever lady who works part-time for the Department of Old Age Pension, leads quite a separate life as a coolly elegant and successful romance novelist. Investigation into the beating death of Willow's dashing boss on London's Clapham Common threatens to expose Willow's duplicity, so she decides to unmask the killer herself. Cooper handles Willow's dual roles most admirably; the conceit allows a nice dichotomy between two ways of life, two sets of characters, and two periods of time. Finely constructed and well orchestrated, and set off with careful, refined prose." -- Library… Read More

NY: Crime Club Doubleday, 1973. 1st ed. remainder spray at bottom of pages, near fine in dj, a few small closed tears, lightly soiled. Her 1st Mystery with bookstore owner Conan Flagg. SIGNED by Wren and Meg the cat. Oregon setting.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2001. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. WINNER of the 2000 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS/PWA AWARD for Best First Private Eye Novel. Introduces San Francisco P.I. Jake Diamond. SIGNED by Abramo at title page. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. 1st edition, February 1993. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The first Kit Deleeuw Suburban Detective Mystery and author's first mystery. 360 pages. "Suburbia has rarely looked so perilous as in this ultimately exhilarating mystery, with its utterly believable, uniquely modern hero. After being forced out of a Wall Street firm in the wake of a major scandal, Kit Deleeuw becomes a part-time househusband and the only private investigator in Rochambeau, N.J., an affluent small town near New York City. When a teenage couple is found dead one winter's night, the local police conclude that the boy murdered the girl, then committed suicide. The evidence fails to convince the teens' friends, however, and they hire Kit to find the real killer. An elderly woman is wounded by a man wearing a stovepipe hat and cape; clues link the attack not only to the teens' deaths but to a killing… Read More