Resultados de búsqueda: Small Town / Country Village from Murder By The Book

NYC: Mason / Charter, 1976. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. Set in small Texas community. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 2000. 1st U.S. edition, June 2000, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Set in the farmlands of England. "This assured, densely textured novel, set in rural England, hardly seems a debut effort. The Beardon family farm, Redstone, gets by quite handily under the guiding hand of Guy Beardon, a passionate man known for his intellect and an acidic tongue that keeps neighbors at a distance. Sam Carter, a former student of his, is now his chief aide. Guy's wife, Miranda, and son, Roddy, provide minor assistance, while daughter Lilah is the apple of his eye and a major helper. Guy's awful death in a slurry pit at the beginning of the tale appears to be an accident, but further violence suggests it was not. His demise begins an unraveling of life at Redstone that threatens to overwhelm its inhabitants. Tope takes what appears to be a… Leer más

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.… Leer más

NY, NY: St Martins Press, 1993. 1ST. ED. FINE/VERY GOOD DJ has numerous nicks and bumps. Giroux, E.X. (Pseudonym of Doris Shannon). First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Scotland.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pantheon, 1993. 1st US ed. one corner bumbed else fine in dj with one corner tear, light wear. A murder at a country house hotel with the usual cast of characters. Follow the clues to unmask the true identity of the murderer, and you'll see things are not what they seem. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Scribners 1988, 1988. 1st American edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, one light crease, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page.. Ins. Thanet title. "This mild and methodical mystery unfolds in a picturesque English village where gentlemanly detective-inspector Luke Thanet is hard-pressed to discover who pushed beautiful but unpleasant Nerine Tarrant over the second-story balcony of her manor "High Gables" to her death below. There is no lack of suspects, and Thanet, with stolid, respectable Sgt. Lineham at his side, is kept busy interviewing them. Did Nerine's husband Roland, although seemingly shattered by her death, finally seek revenge for her many infidelities? Could her senile mother-in-law, terrified at Nerine's threats to send her to a nursing home, have given her the fatal shove? What about Celia Speed, whose husband and son were both having affairs… Leer más

N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf Inc, 1992. First edition, so stated. . Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Something completely different from the author of the popular, ever-so-British Inspector Jury mysteries. The primary character under scrutiny is Maud Chadwick, a divorcee in her late 40s who works as a diner waitress in sleepy La Porte, a town somewhere considerably ``up north'' from N.Y.C. Maud, dreamy and depressed, spends her free time obsessing about son Chad, 20, whose increasing adult-ness and separate-ness devastate her. She whiles away her summer evenings sitting at the end of her backyard pier--fantasizing about the rich summerfolk who party across the lake, puzzling over Wallace Stevens's poetry, and chatting (edgily yet amiably) with La Porte's sheriff, Sam DeGheyn, himself lonely in his lousy marriage to unfaithful Florence. Sam, meanwhile, has his own obsession: the savage murders of four local ``loose women'' over the past… Leer más

N.Y.: Carroll & Graf, 2000. 1st US edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Alison lives in a Cotswold village where nothing ever happens; that's too bad because she is the chief reporter for a local newspaper. Then a double murder is committed just down the road, offering Alison a scoop the likes of which she never dreamt she'd see. Mr. and Mrs. Copwer have been stabbed to death, and their teenage daughter, Genna, is missing. The story is told in alternating chapters through the eyes of various women in the story--Genna, Mrs. Cowper, Alison, and Alison's twisted mother. Although Doughty utilizes many of the conventions of the English village cozy, Doughty is up to something quite different here. Readers may think the story is about the emotionally sick relationship between the dead parents and their disturbed daughter. But all the while, like the mildew that insidiously rots Alison's house, beads of information are being dispensed… Leer más

N.Y.: Walker, 1986. 1st ed., top of page edges lightly soiled else fine in dust jacket. TEXAS.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First edition so stated, April 2003 with complete number line beginning with 1. Light soiling at top edge of pages else fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The 2nd mystery featuring Reverend Clare Fergusson set in a small town in upstate NY. A BARRY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "Spencer-Fleming's second cozy-cum-thriller to feature the Reverend Clare Fergusson, an ex-army helicopter pilot turned Anglican priest, is every bit as riveting as her first, In the Bleak Midwinter (2002). A series of gay bashings, the discovery of PCBs in a local elementary school playground and a brutal murder heat up the Adirondacks town of Millers Kill, N.Y., hotter than the July weather. Clare, rector of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, and the very much married police chief Russ Van Alstyne, who have spent the last six months avoiding each other in hopes of dispelling their mutual attraction, find themselves working… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1986. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/FINE. Book has very slight foxing to side pages, else FINE. A story about a small town sheriff in Florida. Koenig has the Everglades as a character, as he nails the feeling of the area. The author seemingly dropped of the face of the earth. Books are scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1989. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Corruption, betrayal, the Mafia and ties that go back to childhood provide the underpinnings of this gloomy but well-written entry from veteran Coburn ( Off Duty ; The Babysitter ). Louise Baker, child of the slums, has worked her way to the top of a Mafia loan operation, meanwhile having married the mentally unstable scion of an old New England family and established herself in a small, affluent town near her birthplace, Lawrence, Mass. She still keeps in touch with, and helps, friends from her youth, and she calls on one of them, lawyer Barney Cole, to find employment for a young man whom she had briefly taken as a lover but now wants to get rid of. He is Henry Witlo (the Goldilocks of the title), a psychotic Vietnam War veteran who now proceeds to terrorize a recently widowed client of Cole's..." -- Publishers Weekly. First… Leer más

N.Y.: Viking, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj, New England seaside setting. "The Barlows move to the quiet New England seaside town of Grace Point to escape the emotional scars of husband Jake's escapade with a teenager in New Haven, but their newly calm life is disrupted when Zoe and daughter Emily discover four infant skeletons neatly wrapped in hat boxes and stored in their attic. Then the Barlows' infant son Adam is kidnapped. Is there a connection? What happened 50 years ago, when Rosalie Santos's father lived in their house? As the murder/kidnap investigation intensifies, suspicions focus on the Grace Point Portuguese fishing community of 1940..." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 1998. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Picking up from an unfinished manuscript of his late father, Graham Landrum, Robert Landrum follows the further adventures of the ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the quiet little town of Borderville, Tennessee. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1990. 1st. Fine in dj. 3rd title in the series which features the city of Shawnee W.V. & detective Edward Harter. A mystery of the Alleghenies. A flash flood has unearthed bones--who do they belong to and how did they get there.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2001. 1st prt., a fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Once again, sheila Pim paints a vivid and affectionate portrait of life in a small Irish town in this 1952 novel as death strikes beekeeper Jason Pendergast. Jason Prendergast built his fortune taking minerals from the earth near the Irish town of Drumclash, but bees became the real passion of his life once the mines gave up the last of their riches. When he dies after dining on honey from one of his own hives, village beekeepers suspect local bees are feasting on poisonous plants and infecting hives with deadly nectar. But the Civic Guard prefers to look for a human hand and suspicion falls on Phoebe Prendergast, a niece who gave up a promising career on the stage to look after the old man. The dead man's solicitor can't believe in Phoebe's guilt and conceals from the police the fact that the old man was about to add a codicil to his will disinheriting her should she return to the stage --… Leer más

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. 1st ed., September 1990. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. "The prosperous, inbred community of Raven's Wing, Conn., is the setting for McShea's engaging and spirited first novel. Mildred Bennett, 58, returns to her childhood home in Raven's Wing to recover her bearings after her pompous husband leaves her for a younger woman. But the body of a middle-aged woman is soon found nearby, and vile-tempered retired police chief Forrest Haggarty, 73, is convinced that the death is the latest in a string of serial murders dating back to the 1940s. While local authorities deride Forrest, he, Mildred and two other longtime Raven's Wing residents discover evidence that points to one of five pillars of the community as the killer. The four not-quite-past-their-prime sleuths attack the mystery head on, and with a distinct lack of subtlety, swoop… Leer más

N.Y.: Scribners 1991, 1991. 1st US ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Introduces Ins. Nick Trevellyan.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Contemporary thriller set in a small Texas town to which Ruth Dunwitty returns, ostensibly to visit her grandmother but becomes enmeshed in the search for a missing teenage girl. Menace turns to to fear when layers of secrets and mistrust are peeled back to reveal a darkness deeper and more terrifying than anything Ruth could have imagined.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.