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

Niwot: CO: University of Colorado Press, 1995. 1st edition. Fine in dust jacket. Author's First Book. SIGNED COPY. When the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his tepee at the Ethete powwow, the evidence points to the chairman's nephew, Anthony Castle. But Father John O'Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, and Vicky Holden, the Arapaho lawyer, do not believe the young man capable of murder. Together they set out to find the real murderer and clear Anthony's name. The trail that Father John and Vicky follow winds across the high plains of the Wind River Reservation into Arapaho homes and community centers and into the fraud-infested world of Indian oil and land deals. Eventually it leads to the past--the Old Time--when the Arapahos were forced from their homes on the Great Plains and sent to the reservation. There in the Old Time, Father John and Vicky discover a crime so heinous that someone was willing to commit murder more than a hundred years later to keep it… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1997. !ST ED., with complete number line beginning with 1. fine in dj rubbed along edges SIGNED by the author at title page. Jamie Ramsgill has returned to Philadelphia to take a job with his friend, internationally acclaimed architect David Laycutt. Only David is missing along with a substantial portion of his firm's assests. At the same time, he is helping his brother's wife, who is the curator of a museum who is trying to authenticate a recently discovered Thomas Eakins painting. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1967. 1st ed. Pbk Orig. couple of minor creases at rear else near fine. Pete McGrath title.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Paperback Original.

NYC: New American Library, 1989. 1st edition, October 1989, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Picador, 2001. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED, signature only, by the author on the title page. The authors debut mystery novel, WINNER OF THE CWA'S JOHN CREASY MEMORIAL AWARD for the best first crime novel of 2001. A haunting novel set in Japan which reveals a murder on its first page and takes its readers into the mind of the chief suspect, Lucy Fly - a young vulnerable English girl living and working in Tokyo as a translator. As Lucy is interrogated by the police she reveals her past to the reader. and it is a past which is dangerously ambiguous and compromising . . .Why did Lucy leave England for the foreign anonymity of Japan ten years before, and what exactly had prompted her to sever all links with her family back home? She was the last person to see the murdered girl alive, so why was she not more forthcoming about the circumstances of their last meeting?… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. 1st edition, February 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. "Readers nostalgic for the shabby PI with the manly integrity of Bogart will cheer the debut of Atwood and his '90s noir hero, whose turf includes the stained sidewalks, perilous tenements and pierced, tattooed denizens of New York's Lower East Side. Payton Sherwood is a marginally employed gumshoe with a yen for justice and a healthy dash of self-deprecating charm. While making a food run late one night in his East Village neighborhood, he saves a young street girl from three toughs, only to have her steal his watch and split after the thugs leave him in a puddle of his own blood. A quick search turns up the girl's beeper and her name: Gloria. Payton vows to track her down, retrieve his watch?and find out why Gloria was being… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Publishing Group, 1999. 1st edition, February 1999, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. "Readers nostalgic for the shabby PI with the manly integrity of Bogart will cheer the debut of Atwood and his '90s noir hero, whose turf includes the stained sidewalks, perilous tenements and pierced, tattooed denizens of New York's Lower East Side. Payton Sherwood is a marginally employed gumshoe with a yen for justice and a healthy dash of self-deprecating charm. While making a food run late one night in his East Village neighborhood, he saves a young street girl from three toughs, only to have her steal his watch and split after the thugs leave him in a puddle of his own blood. A quick search turns up the girl's beeper and her name: Gloria. Payton vows to track her down, retrieve his watch?and find out why Gloria was being hunted by the goons. The beeper… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1996. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Fifteen year-old Nicky Snape is found hanging from the shower in a local authority home where he is awaiting trial for his involvement in a brutally violent burglary. Charlie Resnick, Nicky's arresting officer, knows the poor, working-class Snape family well, and suspects foul play, but the enquiry is farmed out to an unimaginative officer who is counting the days to retirement. When the investigation results in a vicious murder on the banks of the River Trent, Resnick's worries about the case appear to be well founded. The deaths coincide with a series of brutal male rapes in the city and Resnick finds himself in charge of investigations that lead to some startling and sinister revelations.They also bring him into contact with Hannah Campbell, one of Nicky's teachers, and in the midst of… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's 1st novel; Publishers sheet laid in (see photos). "Financial writer Boland hits pay dirt with this sparkling first novel featuring greed, vengeance and murder on Wall Street. In short order, Ben McCarthy, new partner in the respected portfolio-management firm of Canning & McCarthy, confronts a rash of problems: the burglary of the firm's office (although nothing seems to have been stolen); the disappearance of wise, cautious senior partner Jack Canning; and the discovery that Jack seems to have invested heavily and uncharacteristically in a near-bankrupt company whose stock suddenly shoots up at rumors of a takeover bid. The likelihood of SEC insider-trading charges almost ruins the firm; a broker friend of Canning's is murdered; the West Village townhouse Ben shares with his artist wife is vandalized.… Read More

NY, NY: Walker, 1987. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. Author's 1st book. Edinburgh, Scotland.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam, Incorporated, 2000. 1st ed. page edges very minor soiling else near fine in dust jacket. Lucas Davenport title. "Easy Prey is the 11th mystery to feature Lucas Davenport, who began his career back in Rules of Prey as a maverick homicide detective reminiscent of "Dirty Harry" Callahan. He did things his way and was often at odds with his superiors in the Minneapolis Police Department. Since those early days, Davenport has mellowed a little, and his background as a computer game-designing, Porsche-driving womanizer has been somewhat reduced. Possibly age has become a factor, or it may be the fact that Davenport has been deputy chief since the sixth book in the series, Night Prey. The character may have changed, but the writing has remained consistently taut: the bad guys creepy, the mysteries suspenseful. In this newest episode, Davenport is called to a house after an A-list party has taken place there. Alie'e Maison, a top model, has been found… Read More

N.Y.: Putnam Pub Group, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in very lightly rubbed dust jacket. A new novel of psychological suspense and terror by the Edgar Award-winning author of "The Dark Room". When a homeless man is discovered dead in the garage of a wealthy woman in one of the richest neighborhoods in the world, journalist Michael Deacon's curiosity about the case leads him on a chilling journey into the past. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Viking, 1970. 1st ed. bottom pf page edges lightly soiled, light wear to edges else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, $5.95 price intact, in protective mylar cover. A professional assassin wants to retire and fears his latest assignment is designed to end up killing him. Meanwhile his wife has left him. Two plot lines converge after several digressions and false starts, blind alleys and plenty of sex and violence.. Filmed as The Disappearance with Donald Sutherland and Christopher Plummer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1995. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover, NOT price-clipped. The second book featuring former NYPD Brian McKenna. Once a promising detective in the NYPD, Brian McKenna is enjoying early retirement in Ft. Myers, Florida. He lives there under an assumed name; the conclusion of his career-ending previous case has made that necessary. With his newly pregnant wife, Angelita, McKenna relaxes into married life, plays golf, contemplates sunsets ... and feels a little bored. All that changes when the son of New York City Police Commissioner Ray Brunette is killed in a shootout. Aching for Brunette, his closest friend, McKenna and Angelita fly back for the funeral, only to find themselves trapped in the middle of a deadly confrontation. A highly trained, ruthless cadre of soldiers now occupies the access points to the city. Under the command of Felipe and Elena, two of the world's… Read More

N.Y.: Hyperion, 1995. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Montana setting. Author's first book. 1st ed. A well-received first novel of the "new Montana," written by the daughter of novelist and poet Jim Harrison. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. 1st printing, September 1951. Dell Mapback #535. Vintage Paperback. Back cover map of Manhattan, with 2 insets. Reading crease, a few creases along front else very good copy. "A few drinks with a blonde, and then smashing violence and a blacked-out memory." 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. Illus. by Kalin, Victor. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1987. 1st U.S. edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, a couple of small nicks, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Murder at a tranquil teacher training college in England. Author's 1st book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., 1992. 1st printing with complete number line beginning with 1. Paper beginning to age tone else about fine copy paperback. When his best friend is killed, Isaac Sidel looks for revenge in the BronxThough incorruptible—at least by New York Police Department standards—Detective Isaac Sidel knows that sometimes it's useful to look a little dirty. To gain access to the Bronx-based Guzmann crime syndicate, rumored to be building a human trafficking operation in Spanish Harlem, Sidel had himself kicked off the force on a corruption charge. With the help of Manfred Coen, a young cop whom Sidel once mentored, he posed as a desperate, dirty cop in hopes of infiltrating the Guzmann family. The gamble got Coen killed, and left Sidel with nothing but guilt, bruises, and a tapeworm. Now the detective craves revenge. To break down the syndicate, he targets Patrick Silver, the Guinness-addicted handler of forty-four-year-old man-child Jerónimo Guzmann. When a crush on… Read More

London: UK: David & Charles, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Includes selected Bibliography. Eight pages of Photographs. The Edwardian age was a period of considerable change, a fascinating transition between 19th and 20th century, and many of its murders reflect the age and, for example, its scientific advances. This fascinating study of exceptional British, French and American killers and their victims, adds a new dimension to what are generally remembered as the "pleasant" years before World War I. Dr. Crippen, Brides in the Bath.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Mission Viejo: CA: A.S.A.P., 1994. 1st ed. One of 250 copies, (this being #151) each SIGNED by Block, illustrator Phil Parks, and Edward D. Hoch who wrote the intro. Collections for the first time all 8 stories of this fascinating, amoral lawyer who only collects on criminal, usually murder cases when he succeeds by very intriguing methods. As new in acrylic, transparent slipcase with superb back and front cover illustrations.. Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Illus. by Phil Parks. Limited/ Numbered Edition.