Results for: Signed copies


Matches 1-20 of 62
1 2 3 4 Next Last
Signed by author on title page.  The fifteenth book in the Carl Wilcox series.  A local minister asks Carl Wilcox to find the man responsible for the rape and murder of his teen-age niece.  While investigating the crime, suspicion falls on the husband of the school librarian.  A side benefit of his task is a romance with the librarian herself.  No Badge, No Gun was nominated for the 1999 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel.  Another Carl Wilcox novel, The Man Who Was Taller than God, won the 1993 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel.  203 pp.  8 1/2: X 5 3/4".  Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski.
No Badge, No Gun: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
Adams, Harold
New York: Walker & Company, 1998.
Price: $20.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by author on title page.  New York police detective Neil Hockaday's drinking is out of control, and he is forced to temporarily take time off.  While he's on leave, his wife's boss is murdered and a serial killer is targeting gay men.  Hockaday can't stay away, so investigates on his own.  322 pp.  8 3/4" X 6".  Jacket design by Tom McKeveny
Devil's Heaven
Adcock, Thomas
New York: Pocket Books, 1995.
Price: $15.00
more info
add to cart
Newspaper reporter Viv Powers is assigned to cover the conflict between Native American environmentalists and a company transporting nuclear waste.  Then someone trashes her sister's house.  Why are the IRS and FBI interested?  What's going on in Cherokee County, Oklahoma?  Inscribed by the author on title page: "To Marshall. Thanks for the support. Letha Albright."  303 pp.  7 1/4" X 5 1/4".
Bad Luck Woman
Albright, Letha
New York: Memento Mori Mysteries, 2005.
Price: $25.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by author on title page.  Athens, America, takes on the issue of "public tragedy and private grief."  How does a town, and the people in it, respond to the deaths of a teenage girl and a drug-dealer, and accusations of police negligence?  300 pp.  91/4" X 6 1/4".  Jacket concept by Larry Baker.
Athens, America
Baker, Larry
Eatonton, GA: First Coast Books, 2005.
Price: $15.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by the author on title page.  Sixth book in the Louis Searing and Margaret McMillan series.  While crossing Lake Michigan on the ferry S.S. Badger, Michigan State University professor Peg Lott admits to fellow passenger that she is part of a group of ecoterrorists that has been burning down wealthy peoples' houses.  When a woman is found murdered in Peg's stateroom on the ferry, Lou Searing investigates.  233 pp.  8 1/2" X 5/12".
A Final Crossing: Murder on the S.S. Badger. A Louis Searing and Margaret McMillan Mystery
Baldwin, Richard L.
Haslett, MI: Buttonwood Press, 2004.
Price: $10.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by the author on title page.  National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is now at Mesa Verde National Park, battling grief for her husband and a penchant for alcohol in her personal life.  Her job has its problems, too.  A fellow ranger dies after the death of a child.  Suicide or murder?  Then the husband of another park employee dies in a car wreck that may not be an accident.  Anna and FBI agent Fred Stanton work together to find out what's really going on.  309 pp.  8 3/4" X 6".  Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner.
Ill Wind
Barr, Nevada
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
Price: $40.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by author on title page.  Transportation expert Owen Allison returns to West Virginia to assist his Aunt Lizzie, accused of shooting a trucker.  She's confessed, but Owen isn't so sure.  He also has to contend with hazardous waste dumping that threatens the family farm.  304 pp.  8 1/2" X 6".  Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein.
Dismal Mountain
Billheimer, John
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001.
Price: $10.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by author on title page.  An explosion at the Library of Congress was a cover for the theft of the Library's Gutenberg Bible by a German Nationalist group.  Former Foreign Service officer Richard Michaelson was injured in the blast.  His background comes in handy when there's another bombing and Michaelson investigates.  279 pp.  8 1/2" X 6".  Jacket illustration by Jim Sullivan.
Corruptly Procured
Bowen, Michael
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Price: $15.00
more info
add to cart
Signed and dated by author on title page, May 8, 1993.  Thomas and Sandy Curry head off to Africa for a photo safari and get involved in a the investigation of an American who was staying in their hotel.  196 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 3/4".Jacket art by Jim Sullivan.
Act of Faith
Bowen, Michael
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Price: $15.00
more info
add to cart
First book in a new series.  Inscribed by the author on the title page, "Judy, Best Wishes!  Enjoy! Kathy Buchen."  Widowed lawyer Rhiannon Nolan has just moved to New Belgium, Wisconsin, with her three sons.  She's struggling to set up her new practice while contending with the nosiness inherent in a small town.  When a local man dies at her best friend's house, Rhi investigates. The author is from Appleton, Wisconsin.  206 pp.  9" X 6".
Death in Chintz
Buchen, Kathy
Baltimore, MD: Publish America, 2004.
Price: $10.00
more info
add to cart
Death in Blue Velvet: The Second Book in the Rhiannon Nolan Series
Buchen, Kathy
Bloomington, IN: Audio Renaissance, 2005.
Price: $10.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by author on title page.  Ellie Haskell's grandmother has something to tell her--except her grandmother died years ago.  However, her three best friends, nicknamed "The Bridesmaids," claim to have heard from her, from beyond the grave.  Ellie heads off to Cambridgeshire to learn what the bridesmaids, and her grandmother, have to say.  242 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 1/2".  Cover design by Yan Nascimbene.
Bridesmaids Revisted
Cannell, Dorothy
New York: Viking Press, 200.
Price: $10.00
more info
add to cart
Second book in the Marty Hopkins series.  Marty's a single mom and Chicago cop, investigating the disappearance of a 14-year old boy.  It turns to murder though, when the boy's body is found.  Who's guilty?  Is it a group of strangers, or someone closer to home? Signed by the author on title page.  324 pp.  8 3/4" X 5 7/8".  Jacket illustration and design by Marc Burkhardt.
Bloodstream
Carlson, P. M.
New York: Pocket Books, 1995.
Price: $20.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by the author on the title page.  Cassie Black is out of prison after serving time for manslaughter in the death of Max, her partner-in-burglary.  She heads back to Vegas for one last score.  The situation deteriorates rapidly, however.  Her intended victim turns out to be part of the Chicago mafia, and the casino's hitman, Jack Karch, is on her trail.  Cassie will have to use every one of her resources to get out alive.  393 pp.  9 1/2" X 6 1/2".  Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye.
Void Moon
Connelly, Michael
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2000.
Price: $25.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by Michael Connelly on title page.  In the 12th installment of the series, while investigating a man found with body parts in his car, Harry Bosch discovers a link to a decades-old crime.  In 1993, a woman disappeared, and her body was never found.  Is the man with the body parts the person who killed her?  321 pp.  8 1/2" X 6".  Jacket design by Allison J. Warner.
Echo Park
Connelly, Michael
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
Price: $10.00
more info
add to cart
Signed by the author on title page.  The staff and former residents of now-closed The Hawthorne House School for the Treatment of Autistic Children gather for a reunion.  The shocking death of the school's founder, Dr. Jay Schermerhorn, brings Chicago detectives Emily Folkstone and Ollie Park to investigate.  They discover hidden characteristics behind Dr. Schermerhorn's professional facade.  350 pp.  9 1/2" X 6 3/8".
Death of a Thousand Cuts
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2004.
Price: $25.00
more info
add to cart
Introducing Cat Marsala.  Signed by the author on the title page. D'Amato has won both the Anthony Award and the Agatha Awards.  In Hardball, Chicago freelancer Cat Marsala is attending a symposium at the University of Chicago when a bomb explodes.  Cat survives, but the woman sitting next to her, Louise Sugarman, an elderly woman activist, doesn't.  Cat sets out to determine if Louise was the target of the bomb, and if so, why.  8 1/2" X 5 3/4".  Jacket illustration by Michael Garland.
Hardball
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Scribners, 1990.
Price: $35.00
more info
add to cart
Set in Iowa during the Civil War, young bride Alice Bullock is left to run the family farm with only her mother-in-law to help.  Then Alice is accused of a local murder.  Inscribed by author on front flyleaf: "To Joan, All the Best. Sandra Dallas, Breckinridge, Colo. Sept. 28, 2002."  246 pp.  8 1/4" X 5 1/2".
Alice's Tulips
Dallas, Sandra
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000.
Price: $10.00
more info
add to cart
The Gambit is perpetrated by four scientists who have been collectively publishing their research under a single pseudonym.  Their aim is to show that scientific research can be collegial rather than competitive.  All goes well until one of the four discovers a breakthrough polymerase reaction.  The discovery brings about conflict within the group and points to current attitudes and practices of scientific research.  Inscribed on front flyleaf by author:  "For Jorge Osorio. Congratulations!"  233 pp.  9 1/2" X 5 3/4".  Jacket illustration by René Magritte.
The Bourbaki Gambit
Djerassi, Carl
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Price: $20.00
more info
add to cart
Signed and dated on title page by author.  Author's first novel.  A serial murderer is targeting friends and colleagues of attorney Matt Carter.  the victims' hearts are removed, replaced by cryptic messages.  Then Matt himself is attacked.  Is the killer one of his clients?  405 pp.  9" X 5 7/8".
Heartless
Doyle, Steve
San Jose, CA: Writers Club Press, 2000.
Price: $10.00
more info
add to cart
Topic Notification


Site by Bibliopolis