Search Results: Titles starting with C from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Random House, 1984. 1st ed. Light wear at edges else near fine in dust jacket, moderately soiled at rear panel, ink number at rear. C.B. Greenfield arrives on a subtropical island to help his partner Maggie Rome unravel the tangled clues of a murder she has discovered while birdwatching on the well-described setting of Sanibel Island the wildlife refuge. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Houston, Texas, U.S.A.: Arte Publico Pr, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's second mystery featuring the return of Chicana detective Gloria Damasco. "...Upon learning that Sonny Mares, an old friend and fellow activist in the United Farmworkers Strike and grape boycott of 1973, has committed suicide, Damasco is immediately suspicious-especially when she and a fellow investigator (also a former activist) go to Sonny's apartment and discover a videotape of a pesticide tank being blown up-and a bunch of grapes. Gloria, who struggles with the mixed blessing of being able to foresee the future, is also plagued by dreams of a young woman in trouble. As two other friends from the grape-boycott days disappear and a young woman who was raped and suffered pesticide poisoning resurfaces after many years, it becomes clear that a time of reckoning with the past is at hand. Corpi writes convincingly about Gloria's attempts to interpret her visions and does a fine job depicting decent… 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.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. " In a quick-paced sequel to The Maya Stone Murders , New Orleans PI and Vietnam vet Micah Dunn is waiting for a client named Julia Morvant at the airport when her plane explodes; traces of a bomb are found in the wreckage. Dunn, feeling guilty that he couldn't aid Morvant in life, forms a Laura -like obsession with her in death. Her roommate says that Morvant was a high-priced call girl and reports that the last thing Morvant said to her was that she would "make Marc Antony look like a piker." Armed with this useless clue, Dunn is trying to piece Morvant's life together when a Vietnam buddy, now working for a shadowy Pentagon outfit, recruits him to help track down a killer-for-hire named Rivas, believed responsible for the bombing as well as a murder attempt on a congressman and his wife.… Read More

N.Y.: Lippincott, 1980. 1st edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover..introducing a new detective-for-hire, Clayton Yankee Taggart, a Texan who makes home-made soup, likes WW I songs, and learns by following his nose. His search for the killer of a photographer, and ex-army buddy who saved his life, leads him from Texas to New York, London and across the globe and into a world where things aren't as they seem, where people can suddenly disappear or die and then reappear. --Publisher. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Los Gatos: CA: Deadline Press , 1995. First edition, April 1995, so stated. Fine, unread copy in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 500 numbered copies ( this being #214). SIGNED by both Gorman & F. Paul Wilson who wrote introduction. Afterword by Marcia Muller. Dust Wrapper illustration by Carlos Batts. 21 stories; including 5 previously unpublished stories. Signed. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. New/Fine. Illus. by Batts, Carlos. Limited Edition.

N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine, 1995. First edition, October 1995, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Victoria's London was the queen of the universe, a dazzling metropolis from whose magnificent mansions and discreetly luxurious clubs flowed the strategies that built the greatest empire ever known. Meanwhile the city's poor suffered and died in hopeless obscurity. Inspector William Monk knows his city's best and its worst--or so he believes until the day when charming Genevieve Stonefield comes to plead with him to find her missing husband. In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now he is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him. And so Monk puts himself into the missing man's shoes, searching in… Read More

London, United Kingdom: William Heinemann Ltd, 1977. reprinted 1977, (Originally published in 1955). Fine in near fine dust jacket, clipped but with price sticker intact £ 4.50, light wear. Inspector Napolian Bonaparte. the 19th in Arthur Upfield's Bony series. The story starts with the discovery by a long-distance truck driver of the body of Constable Stenhouse in his jeep on the road to Agar's Lagoon. Stenhouse, a competent policeman but not a well-liked man, has been shot, and his native tracker is missing. At first, it looks like, the tracker, Jackie Musgrove, has shot his Constable and cleared out with his swag and rifle. But the local blacks are making smoke signals and gathering purposefully. Bony happens to be in the town of Agar's Lagoon due to engine trouble in his flight home from Broome, and as the case gets more interesting, he relishes being asked to help with the investigation. . Later Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 2004. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Highly acclaimed book as it is an EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel and is also A GUMSHOE AWARD NOMINEE, A HAMMETT AWARD NOMINEE, and A MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEE,. California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, strange new ideas in the air about war, music, sex, and drugs, and new influences, ranging from Richard Nixon to Timothy Leary.For the Becker brothers, however, the past is always present - and it comes crashing back full force when the body of the lovely and mysterious Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned orange-packing plant. 370 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY, NY: Villard, 1985. 1st ed. [ A Villard imprint of Random House Co. Number line thus ends in "2" for the first printing.] Page edges spotted, else near ine in dust jacket. Moses Wine. When detective Moses Wine becomes head of security for the Tulip Computer Corporation started by a young computer nerd known as the Wiz--all goes well until one of Tulip's young geniuses is murdered. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. 1st pbk printing, August 1950. Dell Mapback #428. Vintage Paperback. Reading crease, spine edges rubbed else a tight square copy , edges of text block have not lost most of its dye. Cover illustration by Robert Stanley. Rear map of Southern Florida with 3 insets Arthur Devlin wakes up so hungover that for a moment, he thinks the ship is sinking. As he gets his bearings, he realizes the only storm is inside his own head--and he isn’t on a ship at all. The last thing he remembers is being handed another drink at his going-away party. That was twelve days ago. Devlin has awoken in a sleazy hotel room, dressed in a stranger’s ratty clothes, with a bump on his forehead and a dead man at his feet. The phone rings: A woman who calls him Joey asks if he went through with the murder. Devlin has no choice but to say yes. To find out if he’s really a killer, Devlin hires Mike Shayne. Shayne has twenty-four hours to fill in the gaps of his… Read More

N.Y.: St Martin , 1988. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. California politics and Hollywood's glamour set collide. "Son of a dashing old movie star, Jon Storm is an ex-cop from L.A. who has been living in self-imposed exile on the west coast of Mexico since a bum rap forced him to resign from the force. Upon learning that his longtime best friend and former partner has died in the line of duty while protecting a candidate for the Senate during an assassination attempt, Storm returns to California to investigate. The candidate, another childhood friend, is a '60s radical married to a character who seems modeled after both Linda Ronstadt and Jane Fonda. Storm's undercover search brings to light a series of murders and uncovers a Soviet plot to place an agent in the White House. Hansl (Sunstroke), depicts an assortment of Southern California habitats, from wealthy movie enclaves to biker… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1946. 1st edition, so stated. Bright red covers heavily spotted, in dust jacket, not price clipped, $2.00 price intact, piece out at foot of spine, chipped aong edges and soiled at rear, good+. Reporter Garry Dean fires himself and investigates a murder. The second of many mysteries to feature Dean. Dean was an old hand at solving murders, but he had never run into a case like this. It took off in a bank, wound up in a blazing car wreck, and involved more suspects than his gun held bullets! There was that man-crazy, cinnamon-haired Helen, for instance. And the brunette Rhoda Yeager, who bit right through his lips when he pressed them on hers.... 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Ace Books, Inc, 1993. 1st edition, October 1993, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light spotting to page edges else fine in a great wraparound dustjacket painting by James Warhola, very lightly sunned at spine. INSCRIBED COPY, SIGNED by Robinson at title page with brief inscription. Opening night at Mary's Place draws a packed house, including Lucky Duck, who has a talent for defying the laws of probability, a member of Ireland's fairy folk, and a mysterious stranger carrying around a deadly secret. And Mike Callahan, the Mick of Time, just might make a surprise appearance, just when you least expect him.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Warhola, James. Book.

Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Philadelphia: PA: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1939. First edition. Light wear along edges, head and foot of spine lightly bent else a near fine copy of this very scarce Fleming Stone title. Stone, who has always been interested in puzzles, tricks, and the technique of master magicians, is acting for the clever prestidigitator Tassoni -- and Freda Race, the woman he loves. Tassoni and Freda are definately on the spot because of the murders -- first of Freda's husband, then of Tassoni's wife.... First Edition. Cloth. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Book.

London: Headline, 1995. 1st ed., slight spine slant, with light soiling at page edges else near fine in dj. Art dealer Tim Lacy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Doubleday, 1990. 1st Am. Fine in dust jacket. Author's 1st novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. First of a new series of books on Great Murder Trials of the Twentieth Century, one of Britian's most famous lawyers reconstructs the controversial trial of Robert Wood in 1907 and the strange events leading up to it. Murder was a capital offence punishable by hanging and until this remarkable trial no one accused of murder had ever given evidence in his own defence.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1991. 1st edition, November 1991 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Introducing female PI Odyssey Gallagher-- San Francisco "Semi-tough California (yes, another one) p.i. Odyssey Gallagher listens to the rich Mrs. Holmcroft's sad tale--her hubby's mistress, Rachel Collins, an employee of the Lemming Cocktail Lounge, has been harassing her with calls and a parcel containing a dead cat--and agrees to track down Rachel and ask her to desist. Rachel, however, is missing; Mr. Holmcroft has his own p.i. on the case; and the bodies, including Mr. Holmcroft's, soon start piling up. Meanwhile, Holmcroft's real love, his mousy secretary, is distraught; Odyssey's stodgy boyfriend Martin moves out when her old lover, opportunist Charlie Gore, makes new moves on her; and Odyssey's boss, Mr. Frampton, wants her to drop the case. Furthermore, Mrs. Holmcroft and her… Read More