Search Results: MEDICAL from Murder By The Book

NY: Putnam Pub Group, 2002. 1st US. Fine in dust jacket. A GOLD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE. "Acid Row" is the name that the residents of a crime-ridden, decaying housing project have given to their home. Gangs control the streets and the place is a clear danger zone. Into this battleground comes a young doctor named Sophie Morrison to visit a patient. She does not know that she is entering the home of a known pedophile. Reports are circulating that a child has disappeared and the vigilantes are out in force. Sophie is trapped at the center of this terrifying siege, with a man who can and will harm her.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Quartet London , 1983. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. 3rd Nurse Carmichael title. England/Medical. "Agnes Carmichael, the nurse with a pronounced homicidal approach to problem solving, is back in her third adventure. She is now Nursing Officer in charge of Out Patients, Casualty, the Children's Ward, and Operating Theatres - a job she finds pleasing and a promotion that gratifies her desire for power. And, for the first time in her life, Agnes Carmichael is in love. As with many lonely women, it's hit her hard - how hard, she does not realize. When she first comes across Professor Harold Maitland in the clinic she barely notices his wife, Emily. Later she meets Emily at a party and finds her to be a selfish - although undeniably sophisticated and beautiful - woman. Driving by the Maitlands' house on her way home, she sees an intruder entering the house and manages to scare him off. The Professor is grateful, and Carmichael begins insinuating herself into… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Slight spine slant else near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. The mother, Tamela Banks, hardly more than a child herself, has disappeared. Did she kill her infant, or is an innocent teenager also about to become a victim? A small plane crashes in a North Carolina cornfield on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition. Was it pilot error? Something more sinister? And what is the mysterious black substance covering the bodies? Most puzzling of all are the bones discovered at a remote… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 3rd Edwina Crusoe, R.N., medical mystery, New Haven, CT. Wealthy, attractive nurse Edwina, newly married to detective Martin McIntyre of New Haven's Homicide division, is now a PI specializing in medical cases. She's asked for help by flaky Mona Weissman, whose doctor father shot himself to death in his locked car, engine running. Mona doesn't believe it's suicide; neither does Weissman's secretary, Marcia Larsen, with whom he'd had a long-running, extramarital affair. Meanwhile, the police are preoccupied with the escape of psychotic killer Craig Fellowes from his hospital bed shackles in Chelsea Memorial Hospital, where other bizarre things are happening--the killing of Marcia Larsen in her late boss's ransacked office and the disappearance of a genius researcher who needs the bodyguard provided by his millionaire father.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dutton, 1998. 1st ed.. Light spine slant else about fine in dust jacket. Psychologist Alan Gregory befriends a suicidal fifteen-year-old girl and her ill little sister, and when a high-level associate of the HMO that denied the child treatment with an experimental drug is murdered, he realizes that his patient is somehow involved.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 1993. 1st edition, thus. Originally published in 1968 as by Jeffrey Hudson. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. Was it murder? Was it horribly botched surgery -- accidental malpractice? Was someone in the great Boston medical center violating the Hippocratic oath? No one knows exactly why the beautiful young daughter of an important medical family bled to death on the operating table. But the doctor she helplessly trusted -- a brilliant, compassionate physician -- is accused of murdering her. And as passions and protests volcanically erupt, only one other doctor is willing to push his way through the mysterious maze of hidden medical data and shocking secrets to learn the truth about a surgical procedure that may have killed her.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Bantam, 1993. 1st edition, February 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in djust jacket, not price clipped, in mylar cover. The 7th Alex Delaware title. "Kellerman's psychologist/sleuth Alex Delaware nimbly executes tricky steps of his own when called in to consult on the mysterious ailments afflicting a baby being seen at his training hospital in Los Angeles. In his seventh appearance (after Private Eyes ), Delaware is in top form, carefully pursuing the possibility that 21-month-old Cassie Jones may be the victim of Munchausen's Disease by Proxy, a complex syndrome in which a parent, usually the mother, secretly causes the symptoms that endanger the child. That Cassie is the only grandchild of the hospital's new CEO, a corporate hotshot who has demoralized the staff with cutbacks and a new administration of "paramilitary types," adds political twists to the case's knotty psychological aspects. After a doctor involved in computer research is… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2001. 1st edition, November 2001, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The author's third mystery featuring Dr. Andrew Fenimore.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Cliff Street Books, 2001. 1st. ed. FINE/FINE. Set in the backwoos region of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st ed. with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The first Edwina Crusoe, R.N., medical mystery at the venerable Chelsea Memorial Hospitalin New Haven, CT. The heated custody battle between two couples over the true parentage of 10-year-old Hallie Dietz takes an unexpected turn when, minutes after the remarkable results of a tissue match are in, the lab technician and a teenage volunteer are shot and the records disappear. So Chelsea Memorial Hospital in New Haven, Conn., pressures Edwina , to take on the unenviable tasks of preventing scandal and of providing medical background for the police force. But when the child in contention is spirited away from the hospital before retesting can be done, the intrepid Mrs. Crusoe, with little regard for either legalities or her own safety, sets out to find the skeletons in the families' respective closets--and comes close to losing her life in… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1993. 1st ed., Limited edition special advance reader's copy. Fine pictorial wraps. Author's 2nd book again featuring Philadelphia reporter George Gray this time tracking a murderer in doctor's whites.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1999. 1st edition, March 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. top of page edges lightly age toned else about fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Authors first novel , a medical and legal thriller. A California surgeon is framed for a brutal hit-and-run murder. The author has been a medical examiner and lives in Northern California.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

TORONTO, Cnada: MIRA Books/Harlequin Enterprises, 2004. 1st Ed. ARC. FINE.ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE. Book appears unread. Dr. Morgan Snow is one of New York city's top sex therapists. Has her " halo " become tarnished.? "The mutilated body of a prostitute in a nun's habit, her pubic hair shaved into a cross, appears on page one of this suspense thriller, making it plain that Rose's latest (after Sheet Music) is not for the squeamish. The novel is the first in a new series featuring the Butterfield Institute, a Manhattan sex therapy clinic employing psychiatrist Dr. Morgan Snow. One of Morgan's patients, the clever and selective call girl Cleo Thane, has written a memoir full of thinly disguised portraits of her clients, powerful men with odd fantasies and fetishes. She leaves this potentially explosive manuscript with Dr. Snow and then misses several appointments, causing Morgan to suspect foul play. Yet NYPD Det. Noah Jordain and his team, diligently pursuing leads in… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: MIRA Books/Harlequin Enterprises, 2005. 1st Edition. PBO. Reading creases. An ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE. Dr. Morgan Snow is one of New York city's top sex therapists. Has her " halo " become tarnished.? "The mutilated body of a prostitute in a nun's habit, her pubic hair shaved into a cross, appears on page one of this suspense thriller, making it plain that Rose's latest (after Sheet Music) is not for the squeamish. The novel is the first in a new series featuring the Butterfield Institute, a Manhattan sex therapy clinic employing psychiatrist Dr. Morgan Snow. One of Morgan's patients, the clever and selective call girl Cleo Thane, has written a memoir full of thinly disguised portraits of her clients, powerful men with odd fantasies and fetishes. She leaves this potentially explosive manuscript with Dr. Snow and then misses several appointments, causing Morgan to suspect foul play. Yet NYPD Det. Noah Jordain and his team, diligently pursuing… Read More

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: Creative Arts Book Company, 2000. 1st ed. About fine copy of this Paperback Original. Author's first book. Dr. Robert Jules and Dr. Simon Pierce are pioneers in the newly developing field of lobotomy, so when Harry Morgan comes to them suffering from severe depression, they see a chance to hone their skills while helping a patient recover. Pierce, a power-hungry egomaniac, convinces Harry that he must have the procedure to survive. After the operation is performed, Pierce is still not happy. He proceeds to take his inexperience one step further by attempting the crudest of operations To many doctors it had all the attractive lures needed to get them hooked: It was invaluable as a time-saver. There was no need for an assistant. There was no mess, and many more people could get this treatment, as it only took about ten minutes to perform. Best of all, you didn't need an operating room. It could be done anywhere. It was called the transorbital lobotomy, cruedly known as… Read More

NY, NY. & Toronto, Canada: Random House of Canada, Limited, 2006. 1st. Ed. AS NEW/ AS NEW. A scary account of a small Pacific Northest town that isolated itself from the plague that is sweeping the country around the time of the second world war. When a soldier comes to close to the town limits he is shot by a member of the town security. A MUST READ.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 2000. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. Dr. Henry Bales runs into a corporattion that is literraly seaking the fountain of youth. When a young Olympic hopeful dies a horrible and early death, he is called in to investigate.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dutton, 1999. 1st ed Rubbed along edges, corners bumped spine slant else very good in near fine dust jacket. Clinical Psychologist Alan Gregory is the target of a mass murderer whose victims worked at a psyciatric unit 17 years ago. Thriller set in Boulder County, Colorado. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Kensington Pub Co, 1995. ist edition, June 1995. Book has very slight spine slant, else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. An Adam McCleet mystery.This time he's dealing in the high stakes art world and the medical authorities.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Viking, 1991. 1st ed. Light spine slant, previous owner's name on flyleaf, else about fine in dust jacket. This is the debut novel in a long running series featuring Dr. Alan Gregory, a clinical psychologist. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.