Search Results: Maryland from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Walker & Company, 1991. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "An easygoing style laced with humor makes for an entertaining and suspenseful series debut. When one of his business cards is found among Judson Fitch's effects, Ocean City, Md., motel owner and part-time attorney Dallas Henry is hired by New York stock analyst Teresa Jane Fitch to find out why her brother jumped from a condo balcony. Having given up the law for the lure of the surf, Dallas isn't excited about accepting actual work, but agrees to look into the young man's death. In pursuit of information--and not immune to having fun at the same time--Dallas goes to Ocean City's notorious collegiate party house and talks to students about Jud, who had been arrested for drug possession. When he finds a dead man in the spare bedroom of Jud's condo and the trail of clues leads to yet another fatality linked to Jud, Dallas… Read More

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1944. 1st paperback printing, November 1944. [states it "has been manufactured in conformity with warime restrictions.".] Dell Mapback #61 [no cover price]. Vintage Paperback. An early Dell title. Cover illustration by Gerald Gregg. Back cover map of "Ivy Hill--Estate of duncan Trent / Scene of Murders," on Chesapeake Bay, near Annapolis, Md. Spine edgs rubbed, reading crease, corner crease else about fine. A self-made millionaire, whose true story was not fit to print...His beautiful "friend"...His wife, and her friend, a very suspect psychiatrist...And a man from the haunted past, with his father's blood on his hands, and every reason in the world to kill and kill again...All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. . First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Gregg,… Read More

NY: William Morrow & Co, 2003. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. An ANTHONY and BARRY AWAD WINNER for Best Novel and a HAMMETT AWARD NOMINEE. On a July afternoon two little girls, banished from a birthday party, take a wrong turn onto an unfamiliar Baltimore street - and encounter an abandoned stroller with a baby inside it. Dutiful Alice Manning and unpredictable Ronnie Fuller only want to be helpful, to be good. People like children who are good, Alice thinks. But whatever the girls' real intentions, things go horribly awry and three families are destroyed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co, 2002. 1st ed. Slight spine slant else near fine in fine dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD Nominee for Best Private Eye Novel. The seventh outing in the best selling and acclaimed mystery series featuring Tess Monaghan, Private Eye. Tess is hired to review old police files and while doing so discovers the linked deaths of four women and one man.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Award Nominee.

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Following her introduction in Murder on Martha's Vineyard, photojournalist Margaret Barlow, whose hobby is hang-gliding, is summoned to her granddaughter Nancy's private girls' school, her own alma mater, in this cozy mystery. A freshman scholarship student at Brides Hall has died mysteriously, apparently having hanged herself on a chapel bell rope. Most of the student body believes it was suicide, but Maryland homicide Lt. Michael Dominic suspects murder, and asks Margaret to find out what the students and the administrators, many of whom are Margaret's old schoolmates, aren't telling the police. Parents' weekend, with an operetta and annual boat race, hampers the police investigation but aids Margaret's investigative efforts. Only the graphic description of an additional, particularly gruesome murder… Read More

NY, NY: Morrow, 2006. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE.Tess Monaghan, a private investigator in Baltimore, Maryland, is featured in the ninth and latest book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1947. First pbk printing, February 1947. Dell Mapback #151. Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by Gerald Gregg. Rear map by Ruth Belew of an exploded view of the 3 floors of the "Cranford House at Willow Springs / Where Poltergeist Leaves a Trail". Slight peeling of laminate, small piece rubbed out at spine edge, a couple later pages seem to be slightly misbound thus sticking out slightly, else a very good copy. From the Dell paperback edition: "What This Mystery Is About ---- * a nasty and nasal voice on the telephone, which gives a strange and cruel warning * A vicious caricature of a naked woman with a face which is a portrait * A loud knock on the front door -- and nothing more * A game of telepathy with a strange purpose and even stranger results * A very rude message written on a mirror in lipstick * Six liquer chocolates each containing a lethal dose of poison * A knitting bag that moves without being touched * A hallway festooned with a giant spiderweb… Read More