Search Results: Academic from Murder By The Book

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1991. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Cambridge University setting.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY,NY.: HarperCollins, 1980. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. A look at what happens when the firlds of politics, Academia, and espionage come together. A globe trotting event.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1987. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Spine creases else a very good copy of this Paperback Original. Professor Henry Bishop, of John Jacob Astor College, plunges into the hunt for the murder of the editor of the school newspaper-- with a baffling link to a coed's disappearance fifteen years earlier. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. 1st American edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. gift inscription at inside cover, else near fine in dust jacket, price clipped. Academia. Spt. Otani - JAPAN. Japanese police superintendent Tetsuo Otani is alerted by his sister-in-law, professor Michiko Yanagida, to the strange atmosphere at the first session of the International Summer School on the Traditional Arts and Crafts of Japan, which she is attending at Anraku-in. While Otani and his wife, Hanae, meet with Michiko, gangster Keizo Hosoda celebrates his release from prison with friends. Then Minoru Kido, the Japanese head of the summer school, succumbs to the third attempt on his life and Hosoda turns up missing. Otani and his troops investigate.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1987. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Cambridge don, John Fenchurch in his second comedic mystery, is awash in more puzzles than just the disappearance of priceless treasures from the college library.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Harper Collins, 2002. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. "Following a well-received debut (2000's Brown-Eyed Girl), the new adventure featuring "Mustang" Sally Adler (for the car, not the horse) and the living jewel called Wyoming is another delectable tale of strong women of the West. Swift gives readers a lot to like: wicked satire of pompous academics, smart but not smart-alecky writing, the achingly beautiful landscape of the eastern Rockies, great sex between grownups old enough to know what they're doing and why and most of all, the dead-on portrayal of a Western town, in this case Laramie, Wyo. (pop. 27,000). A history professor at the University of New Mexico, Swift clearly knows how Westerners act and think.." -- PW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2004. 1st ed. A fine unread copy in dust jacket. Professor Sally Good title. Texas locale.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY,NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. In the third book in Virginia Swift's acclaimed mystery series, Sally Alder, is back with her colorful cohorts to investigate a bizarre murder. Okay, it's embarrassing for a woman of her professional stature and self-image still to have a crush on singer Thomas "Stone" Jackson, a guy whose nickname derives from his legendary propensity for addictive substances. But when Jackson appears one day and asks college professor and sometime sleuth Sally Alder for a little help, she can't say no. Jackson is worried about his ex-wife, folksinger Nina Cruz. It turns out his concern is justified when Nina is found shot to death in the snow-covered forest behind her house. While the sheriff's office believes Nina's death is most likely a hunting accident, Sally is unconvinced. It's up to her to get to the truth, as she uncovers a plot fueled by a twisted mixture of altruism and greed.. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read More

NY: Walker Publishing Co., 1984. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 3rd Prof. Neil Kelly title. REVIEW COPY. Kelly, deflected from sabbatical research by the murder of a friend's infant son, finds he may unwittingly have what the killers are after. The story is soon deep in ominous international dealings and a journey through memory to Kelly's boyhood in prerevolutinary China.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1996. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. SIGNED by Cook on title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan, 2001. First Edition. The true first edition in a small print run, 1,000 copies. SIGNED COPY. This is a gem of black humor and intrigue about a paperback crime novelist less politely known as "slasher trash" who takes over the English department of La Siberia Tech, a marginal school at best on the Rio Grande River. He teaches a new course centering on The Wild Bunch of Modern Literature -- a course he concots to feature crime novelists who are personal friends of his--which causes consternation among the older faculty and then a seemingly inexplicable murder.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Small Press.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2001. 1st edition, January 2001, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Karen Pelletier, assistant professor of English at prestigious Enfield College in Massachusetts, has opened a can of 44-year-old worms by telling New York Times writer Marty Katz that, in her opinion, Oblivion Falls was the greatest literary work of the past century. Like Grace Metalious's 1956 cause célèbre, Peyton Place, Oblivion Falls blew the steamy lid off a respectable New England college town, made ground-breaking strides up the bestseller lists, and made a brilliant if briefly lit star of its author, the now reclusive Mildred Deakin. And now, thanks to Pelletier's intentionally provocative throwaway answer to a snooty writer's question, Oblivion Falls is back in the limelight: an Oprah's Book Club selection, at the top of the Times bestseller list, and one of 's top… Read More

NY: Carroll & Graf, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first mystery. English university setting.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Viking, 1996. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Langton is a WINNER OF THE GRAND MASTER AWARD from the Mystery Writers of America. Illustrations by Langton. "Unbridled egos. Ruthless ambition. Uncontrollable lust. Rage. Brutality. Murder. An evening with the NYPD? No, it's just the usual scholars assembling for the beginning of their academic year at England's stately Oxford University. Visiting Harvard professor Homer Kelly (here in his 12th appearance after The Shortest Day) is to lecture on American literature but instead finds himself embroiled in several perplexing mysteries at once: Has someone discovered the long lost zoological specimens from the original Darwin expedition? Who is trying to murder Helen Farfrae, dedicated assistant to distinguished Darwinian scholar Professor Dubchick? Was Helen's abusive husband's fall from museum scaffolding murder or accident?… Read More

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2005. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Mrs. Bradley is summoned when a faculty-student production of "The Mikado" at a progressive English school turns deadly in this 1934 classic. When Miss Ferris drowned in a wash basin duriqg a perfonnance of The Mikado at the Hillmaston Coeducational Day School, the police ruled it a suicide. The school's headmaster wasn't so sure. He called in that grand dame of detection, the psychoanalyst-sleuth Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley. The innocuous Miss Ferris wasn't popular among her fellow teachers, several of whom feared she would expose their guilty secrets. But these transgressions, for the most part, appeared too inconsequential to end in murder. "Death at the Opera" (Death in the Wet in the U.S.) is an early mystery by Gladys Mitchell, lumped with Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers by contemporary critics as one of England's "big three" women mystery… Read More

Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2010. 1st printing. Paperback. An unread, new copy. Since his retirement from King's University, life has been rather quiet for Professor Daly . . . .In fact, a peaceful retirement, even when that retirement has been punctuated by helping the police to solve the odd crime, may be slightly over-rated: at least in Daly's opinion. So when he is invited back to King's University to deliver a series of prestigious lectures, his heart leaps. But on arrival he discovers that he has not been called back to the university on account of his literary knowledge....On the contrary, he has been called upon purely because the retired professor has experience of solving crime. And somebody has been sending the president of King's threatening letters. Somebody within the university, it seems, wants him dead. Perhaps aware of his own arrogant, materialistic, and bullying nature and the effects it may produce, President Bradley seems genuinely worried for his… Read More

N.Y.: Scribner, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Review Copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: Scribner, 1994. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at title page. The author's second novel featuring Joe Silva in the Mellingham series. Oleksiw follows up Murder in Mellingham with another mystery set in the small Massachusetts town. Hank Vinnio, a work-study student at the Massasoit College of Art, is murdered; his body, with his throat cut, is found beneath a toppled shelf of art supplies. Medical evidence determines that the victim's throat was cut after he was knocked unconscious, leading police chief Joe Silva to believe the murder was one of opportunity, not plan. While investigating the school's staff, faculty and student body, Silva uncovers assorted tangled secrets that connect both the wife of the chairman of the painting department and the dour school secretary to the victim. Deftly portraying her eccentric, yet believable, characters from… Read More

N.Y.: Scribner 1994, 1994. 1st ed. Fine, printed wraps. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Murder in a small New England university town. "Oleksiw follows up Murder in Mellingham with another mystery set in the small Massachusetts town. Hank Vinnio, a work-study student at the Massasoit College of Art, is murdered; his body, with his throat cut, is found beneath a toppled shelf of art supplies. Medical evidence determines that the victim's throat was cut after he was knocked unconscious, leading police chief Joe Silva to believe the murder was one of opportunity, not plan. While investigating the school's staff, faculty and student body, Silva uncovers assorted tangled secrets that connect both the wife of the chairman of the painting department and the dour school secretary to the victim. Deftly portraying her eccentric, yet believable, characters from among the school's faculty and staff, Oleksiw re-creates an authentic small-town atmosphere..." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition.… Read More

NY,NY: Random House Inc, 2003. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nicholas Rey, the first Afro-American police officer in Boston, must track down killers among the literary society. Literary historical mysteries, book number one in the series. DEBUT NOVEL.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.