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

London: Saint Martin's Press, 1979. 1st ed. Bright yellow boards show some soiling along edges else near fine in dj, small stain at inside flap, not clipped but no price on jacket. The 1st Spt. Otani. Author's first book In 1979 James Melville introduced a significant new figure in to British crime fiction the Japanese detective Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Hyogo Prefectural Police. Otani, a very human but also very Japanese policeman, has to supervise an investigation which begins with a murder (a relatively rare crime in Japan) in a small Zen temple community where all the suspects are foreigners, but expands into the murky waters of drug trafficking and organised crime. Praised for its 'entrancing, splendidly intricate description of Japanese society (straight, criminal and official)' . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2003. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback (orig. pub. in 1953). The 4th title in the Lily Wu Quartet set in Honolulu. Lily and Janice must decipher the words of a dying Chinbese refugee: "tea...tiger...dragon." How is his death connected to an Hawaiian tea importer and the beautiful--and perhaps dangerous-- "Waikiki Widow?" This 1953 mystery is not only a vivid portrait of post World War II Hawaii but an entertaining and insightful look into the international tea industry.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

NY,NY.: CCD, 1970. 1st ed. Front hinge beginning, else very good in fine dust jacket, not price clipped ($4.50 price intact). REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. England.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Review Copy.

NY & Oxford: Morrow, 1992. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A MATT SCUDDER MYSTERY. The basis for the 2014 movie starring Liam Neeson. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. "Despite their dark titles (the words Slaughterhouse and Boneyard figured in the previous two), Block's splendid, award-winning Matt Scudder novels are by no means unrelievedly bleak. His latest-as well as offering the customary skillful plotting, adroit pacing and sure sense of New York character-features a wry humor all its own, along with a particularly ingratiating and convincing pair of computer hackers. The premise is grim, certainly: a pair of men who prey murderously on women progress to kidnapping the womenfolk of drug dealers and demanding huge ransoms. Former alcoholic PI Scudder-now going to more AA meetings than ever-reluctantly agrees to help one dealer, a Lebanese, after his wife… Read More

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1992. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A MATT SCUDDER MYSTERY. The basis for the 2014 movie starring Liam Neeson. "Despite their dark titles (the words Slaughterhouse and Boneyard figured in the previous two), Block's splendid, award-winning Matt Scudder novels are by no means unrelievedly bleak. His latest-as well as offering the customary skillful plotting, adroit pacing and sure sense of New York character-features a wry humor all its own, along with a particularly ingratiating and convincing pair of computer hackers. The premise is grim, certainly: a pair of men who prey murderously on women progress to kidnapping the womenfolk of drug dealers and demanding huge ransoms. Former alcoholic PI Scudder-now going to more AA meetings than ever-reluctantly agrees to help one dealer, a Lebanese, after his wife is killed by the kidnappers. Slowly and… Read More

Morrow, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj. A MATT SCUDDER MYSTERY. MATT IS TRACKING DOWN KIDNAPPERS IN BROOKLYN.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2000. In 1948 an archaeological team in Turkey is slaughtered after making an earth-shattering discovery. 1st ed. Fine in dustt jacket. INSCRIBED and dated 4/22/00. "To ---. One more first edition to add to your collection. Thanks for not waiting until it costs $1.99! See you again next year for KEEPERS OF THE GATE. All my best, Jon Land". More than fifty years later, another group of archaeologists, this one made up of Americans, is murdered in the Judean desert. Chief Inspector Danielle Barnea of Israel's National Police is called in to investigate, accompanied by Palestinian detective Ben Kamal, whose nephew was among the victims. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. In 1948 an archaeological team in Turkey is slaughtered after making an earth-shattering discovery. More than fifty years later, another group of archaeologists, this one made up of Americans, is murdered in the Judean desert. Chief Inspector Danielle Barnea of Israel's National Police is called in to investigate, accompanied by Palestinian detective Ben Kamal, whose nephew was among the victims. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1991. 1st edition, March 1991, so stated 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. J. D. Hawkins, amateur sleuth and writer of police procedurals, returns from Paint It Black to help his wife, Megan, a book editor, fend off a threatened lawsuit against her employer. One of Megan's authors, Fiona Darling, is accused of plagiarizing a manuscript penned by a famous writer of hardboiled detective fiction, Howard Holton, recently killed in a fishing accident off Nantucket. Because his body hasn't been found, Howard has not been declared legally dead, an eventuality frustrating the financial ambitions of his wealthy widow, a hotelier on the order of Ivana Trump. Believing her husband may have faked his death, the widow hopes to smoke him out with the lawsuit and the suggestion of an affair between him and Fiona. To help Megan keep her… Read More

St. Martin's, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dj. 4th in the series of crime writer J.D. Hawkins, set on Nantucket. Review copy. J. D. Hawkins, amateur sleuth and writer of police procedurals, returns from Paint It Black to help his wife, Megan, a book editor, fend off a threatened lawsuit against her employer. One of Megan's authors, Fiona Darling, is accused of plagiarizing a manuscript penned by a famous writer of hardboiled detective fiction, Howard Holton, recently killed in a fishing accident off Nantucket. Because his body hasn't been found, Howard has not been declared legally dead, an eventuality frustrating the financial ambitions of his wealthy widow, a hotelier on the order of Ivana Trump. Believing her husband may have faked his death, the widow hopes to smoke him out with the lawsuit and the suggestion of an affair between him and Fiona. To help Megan keep her job and her reputation, the wheelchair-bound Hawkins maneuvers gracefully through his native Boston and the congested… Read More

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket in slipcase as issued and still in shrinkwrap. LIMITED EDITION. One of 400 copies, this being #234. [small sticker on shrinkwrap with the number] SIGNED and numbered by Phillips. Another Noir classic set in Wichita, Kansas ten years after the events in his debut novel, "The Ice Harvest", featuring some of the same characters.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

London: UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977. First edition bound in blue cloth with gold spine lettering, very slight spine slant in bright dust jacket lightly rubbed at extremeties, not price clipped [ £4.50 price still intact], in mylar protector. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Penzler Publishers, 2021. 1st printing (Originally pub. 1938). Part of the American Mystery Classics series. A fine unread copy, 397 pages. Introduction by Otto Penzler. Marcia Lloyd and her brother Arthur have spent every summer of their lives exploring the grand halls and seaside grounds of their family’s idyllic vacation home, a gorgeous old mansion called Sunset House built by their grandfather. But when Arthur’s ex-wife Juliette arrives at Sunset to demand alimony from him, things take a dark turn and Juliette disappears-her body found a week later. What sordid secrets lie within the creaky old manor? Marcia and the local sheriff Russell Shand must work against the clock to find the murderer in this seemingly utopian upper-class hamlet. From "the American Agatha Christie" Mary Roberts Rinehart comes a Golden Age murder mystery inspired by her own hauntingly beautiful coastal northeastern home in Bar Harbor; The Wall is both a love letter to quiet waterfront towns as… Read More

Boston: Little Brown, 1994. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Akashic Books, 2007. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this Trade Paperback Original. Seventeen original stories by: Stephen Rhodes, Twist Phelan, Tim Broderick, Jim Fusilli, David Noonan, Richard Aleas, Lawrence Light, James Hime, Peter Blauner, Mark Haskell Smith, Peter Spiegelman, Megan Abbott, Jason Starr, John Burdett, Henry Blodget, Lauren Sanders, and Reed Farrel Coleman. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2007. 1st ed., with corresponding number line. Fine in dust jacket. A SPOTTED OWL AWARD NOMINEE. The fifth in the Sueno and Bascom series The only female MP assigned to a base in the DMZ is missing. Has she become ill, been abducted, or gone AWOL? The investigative team of George Sueno and Ernie Bascom is dispatched from 8th Army headquarters in Seoul to help the 2nd Infantry Division locate her. Speculation is that attractive Jill Matthewson has been raped and killed, and Division suggests a lust-crazed Korean is the culprit.But there are other possibilities, as Sueno and Bascom soon discover. The murder of another soldier has been concealed. They are confronted, as well, by rampant black marketeering and corruption, crooked officers, rioting Korean civilians, and the wandering ghost of a schoolgirl run down by a speeding army truck.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Award Nominee.

New York, NY,: Avon Books, 1996. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Jane Jeffrey Culinary Mystery and first one in hardcover. "The intuition, wisdom and penchant for prying of Churchill's series heroine Jane Jeffry (The Silence of the Hams) make her an invaluable ally to police detective and significant other Mel VanDyne in this swift and agreeably perplexing tale. Regina Palmer, director of the Snellen Museum (dedicated to the study of rural history and founded by pea king Auguste Snellen) near Chicago, has been shot with an antique derringer during the Civil War reenactment that is a highlight of the small town's annual pea festival. Jane, who was one of the reenactors and who has her hands full as a single mother of three teenagers, utilizes her volunteer hours at the Snellen Museum to relentlessly pry beneath the surface of small-town respectability in hopes of finding Regina's killer.… Read More

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1935. 1st edition, so stated. The book has been married to a Grosset and Dunlap dust jacket. Publishers black cloth with green lettering at spine and the familiar "gun-man" logo at front cover. Appears as if someone attempted to clean the cloth thus streaking it both at front an rear covers. Book is tight with a slight lean. Dust jacket shows some wear at edges , a couple of chips out, lightly soiled. Van Wyck Mason seems to be at the top of his game, here. Not only does he employ an intriguing espionage story, but he also works in a couple of complex murder mysteries whose solutions keep things on edge until almost the very end. Mason published this mystery about stolen US military secrets, foreign agents, and American traitors situated even in the US Senate. [A fact that as late s 1935 the US had absolutely NO LAW punishing peace-time espionage]. North's assignment is to help assure the passage of a counter-espionage bill through… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Locked Room mystery. It is a state of the art in locked-room homicide, for the room is not only locked, but it is inside an electronically monitored Federal prison-- and the victim's last moments are recorded on videotape.. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Book.

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 1989. OWNER;S PLATE (NO NAME) ON FIRST PAGE. THE TRUE STORY OF ROBERT CHAMBERS ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS GIRLFRIEND.. First Edition. Hard Cover. NF/NF.