Search Results: South Carolina from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Bantam, 1991. 1st ed SIGNition, August 1991, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. An ANTHONY, AGATHA & MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEE. Bookstore owner Annie Laurance is hosting a weeklong Agatha Christie convention in honor of the one hundreth anniversary of her birth. When Neil Bledsoe, the most despised book critic in America, arrives she knows there will be trouble. An advocate of hard-boiled detection and gory true crime he is purported to be writing a scurrilous biography of Christie..... Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Taylors: SC, USA: Chick Springs Publishing, 2000. 1st edition. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback Original. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page."third in the Susan Chase series, a baby is missing from the scene of a car crash, and most assume that her body washed downriver. But toughie heroine Susan can't believe that her infant goddaughter is dead, and if she can find the strange young babysitter, she might prove that she's not just in denial." -- Publishers Weekly. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1993. 1st edition September 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, a couple of light scratches at front, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. An AGATHA AWARD WINNER for Best Novel and a MACAVITY AWARD FINALST. Set on an island off the South Carolina coast. "In this action-packed series launch, the author of the Death on Demand mysteries introduces Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, a widowed former reporter whose investigative instincts have not been blunted by retirement. Forty years after their love affair ended, media magnate Chase Prescott calls "Henrie O" for help in figuring out who tried to kill him with poisoned candy. He invites her and all those he suspects of wanting him dead to his private island off the coast of South Carolina, hoping that Henrie will be able to ferret out the identity of his would-be killer. While a brewing hurricane threatens the island, Henrie faces a full roster of suspects: Chase's… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 2002. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publishers sheet laid in. Beaufort, South Carolina, is home to the Smallwoods, a family that appears close-knit but is in fact deeply at odds. The youngest sibling, Georgie, is consumed with anger at her father, Fielding, an unforgiving ex-marine, whose involvement in a notorious scandal many years earlier cast a shadow over his career and the Smallwood name. A fierce patriarch, Fielding neglects Georgie's mother; belittles her brother, Ashby; and denies her sister, Claire, the financial support she needs after a trying divorce. When her mother dies suddenly and of mysterious causes, Georgie immediately suspects that her father was somehow involved. As she works to convince Ashby and Claire of her suspicions, however, their father is murdered, and Claire is implicated in his death. Georgie… Read More

Taylors: SC, USA: Chick Springs Publishing, 2000. 1st edition. One small stain at front end paper and inside cover else a fine, as new copy. SIGNED by the author at title page. A free man after twenty-two years and 22 days in prison, Raymond Lister has set out on a mission of revenge against the woman who put him behind bars for rape. Jean Fox, nationally syndicated radio pyschologist, is preparing for her only daughter's wedding Jean has everything under control -- except her most terrible secret.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Signet Books / New American Library, 1948. First pbk printing, September 1948, so stated. Signet Books #684. Cover illustration by Jonas. Shallow loss at lower corner else near fine. Features Sheriff John Ewell Macready; South Carolina. Locked room mystery, Adey # 1038. The elder brother of the family winds up dead in locked room, and there's a strong indication that outsider Charles Cole did the deed. Sheriff John Mcready doesn't think so though. The doors and windows have been wiped clean of finger prints, as has the knife thrust into the victim's chest. Despite a looming election, Mcready risks his badge by allowing Cole to follow him around on the murder investigation in a manner as unbelievable and yet as convincing as something that John Dickson Carr may well have dreamed up.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Jonas, Robert. Vintage Paperback.

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1993. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, small wrinkle at rear panel, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "John Marshall Tanner is closing the gap on 50 a little too rapidly--a fact made all the clearer by an upcoming college reunion. The reunion turns out to be the usual mix of memories, regrets, laughs, and love rekindled, but more germane is the case Tanner picks up while worrying about how his life stacks up to those of his peers. Former roommate Seth Hartman, long a civil-rights champion, is now an attorney in Charleston. Recently he's been receiving threatening letters from the Alliance for Southern Pride. Troubling Hartman most is his estranged son's involvement with the Alliance. Tanner agrees to help. Posing as a possible investor in the Alliance, he infiltrates the inner circle. On one level, this is standard, hard-boiled mystery fare, but Greenleaf's feeling for our… Read More

NY, NY: Bantam, 2006. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The third in the Fear Trilogy: A Bishop/Special Unit Mystery featuring Riley Crane.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Aurora: CO: Write Way Publishing, 2001. 1st ed. Advance reading copy, spiral bound, one nick. South Carolina setting. third in series.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

Johnson City: TN: Silver Dagger, 2000. A Sydney Teague title. Silver Dagger is a consortium of Southern Mystery writers who have come together to publish a collection of quality mystery novels in hardcover (limited to1,000 copies only) and simultaneously in trade paperback.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback.

Johnson City: TN: Silver Dagger, 2000. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine unread copy in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Sydney Teague title. South carolina locale. Silver Dagger is a consortium of Southern Mystery writers who have come together to publish a collection of quality mystery novels in hardcover (limited to1,000 copies only) and simultaneously in trade paperback.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Limited Edition.