Search Results: THEATRE from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by Hall at title page. Stanley Hastings gets a phone call from an old college aquaintance who is currently the producer of a summer stock theater in rural Connecticut. It seems an actor has died of a heart attack, and an actor is immediately needed.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: International Polygonics, LTD, 1991. 1st printing, October 1991, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Broadway producer Peter Duluth's actress wife Iris is out of town for a while visiting her ailing mother. Peter is induced to go to a party held by their overweening upstairs neighbors, belle dame actress Lottie Marin and her subjugated husband Brian. There he meets Nanny Ordway, a young wannabe writer who seems like a fish out of water. Because he's lonely and she's broke and hungry, he takes her out for a burger. They see each other a few more times, always strictly platonically, and finally he lends her the key to the Duluth apartment so she can write there during the day, while he's out, rather than try to do so in the dumpy Greenwich Village apartment she shares with another girl. It never dawns on him that others might regard his friendship with Nanny rather differently until, on Iris's return, they go back to the apartment from the airport to find… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Collins Crime Club, 1960. 1st edition. Publishers black binding is bright and unmarked, silver lettering at spine is bright and crisp with no flecking in a pristine dust jacket, no fading, unclipped, price 12s. 6d. net intact, very lightly soiled at rear, in protective mylar cover. Beautiful copy. This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the Otto Penzler collection. Catolouge of Crime #1544. Ins. Alleyn/Theatre. Iit is the twenty-first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and concerns the murder of a West End stage actress during her 50th birthday party, and continues Marsh's fascination with the theatre and with acting.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY.: Morrow, 1964. 1st US edition, 1964, so stated. Lightly wear along edges else near fine in price clipped dust jacket with wear at spine edges, small chips at head, rear panel soiled, one tear. Previous owner' name in ink on front page and a small bookstore sticker in corner. A plane crash kills the lead actor of the Leander Theatre’s production of The Marriage of Figaro, in the middle of their rehearsals. The crew, based on the outskirts of London, is shaken. Luckily -- or not -- owner Jimmy Clash has found a replacement in world-class baritone Marc Chatrier, a notorious womanizer, liar, and all-around cad. Chatrier’s presence immediately causes tensions to rise dramatically among a close-knit opera "family," especially when he starts paying too much attention to Jimmy’s star-struck teenage daughter. Then, without warning, the despised singer drops dead in the middle of a performance. That’s the cue for audience member Detective Inspector Musgrave to… Read More

NY: Walker, 1984. 1st edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The 4th Professor Neil Kelly title. Kelly is in London for the publication of his book on John Donne. While in England the witty and scholarly Kelly must contend with a long-lost sixteenth-century play, a cast of eccentric London theatre and publishing people--and murder.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. Review Copy.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Doubleday, 1985. First edition. Fine in wrap-around dust jacket. An ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD NOMINNEE for Best Novel. Insp. Andrew Coggin; Toronto; Theatre. Mystery ensues when Bruno Montefiore, singing the role of Cavaradossi, is murdered during the final firing squad scene of a performance of Tosca, just before his wife's, Madame Csizamadia-Horvath, final aria. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1986. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket. Actress Tessa Crichton, researching the life of Sheridan Seymour, a celebrated Edwardian playwright whose daughter is writing a scandalous biography, investigates a murder after an unidentified body is discovered in a house rented in the Seymour name. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Bantam Press, 1988. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. 1st in Nicholas Bracewell and Elizabethian theatre series. "1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, is a time of more terror and triumph, not just for queen and court but for the whole of England. The turmoil is reflected in its theatres and under the galleries of inns like London’s “The Queen’s Head” where Lord Westfield’s Men perform. The scene there grows even more tumultuous when one of the actors is murdered by a mysterious stranger during a brawl. Nicholas Bracewell, the company’s bookholder (a role far wider than mere producer) faces two immediate repercussions. The first is to secure a replacement acceptable to its temperamental star ? and chief shareholder ? Lawrence Firethorn. The second is to keep his promise to the dying Will Fowler and catch his killer. Soon further robberies, accidents, and misfortunes strike Lord Westfield’s Men even as their stage successes swell. Bracewell begins to… Read More