Search Results: FLORIDA from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. It' seems to be one of the few unsigned copies, LOL! "The victim of an explosion at Dinkin's Bay Marina on Sanibel Island, commercial fisherman Jimmy Darroux mumbles, "Take care of Hannah" before he dies. Aging hippie Tomlinson, to whom Jimmy's words were addressed, enlists the aid of his best pal, Doc Ford, a former government agent turned seaside biologist. Burdened by a disconcerting tendency to see both sides of an issue, Doc recognizes that Jimmy's death is somehow tied to the friction between commercial and sport fishermen. He agrees to help find the mysterious Hannah, but his real motive is to derail a confrontation that could see many of his friends hurt. And hurt they are when the violence escalates. White's fourth Doc Ford novel gathers momentum slowly--its pace is not unlike the hypnotic… Read More

N.Y.: Arbor House, 1982. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Top of page edges lightly dusty, page edges lightly soiled else fine in dust jacket. The $13.50 price is intact on the jacket. A gripping, lightning-paced tale of an ex-soldier-turned Florida motel owner whose dangerous affair with the mistress of a Dominican general in exile—a former death squad leader—threatens to have lethal consequences…especially when drugs, double-cross, and murderous mob thugs are added into the mix.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2001. 1st edition, March 2001, so stated, fine in dust jacket. New and unread. Author's first novel. Once again, Dennis McMillan has discovered a fine author who makes us think about those often overlooked in our society. Much hailed in the tradtion of Willeford and Jim Thompson. Joe Servello designed and illustrated dust jacket. "Miller's first novel is a Florida panhandle picaresque following the adventures of a regular piece of work named Chester Stubbs, an ex-navy heavyweight boxing champ. Chester narrates his close encounters with trouble and various bottles of George Dickle whiskey with self-deprecating wit and a lot of shaky grammar. A year after he is abandoned by his wife, Marleen coming home one night, she finds him on the garage roof having sex with a check-out girl from the local grocery store Chester is slovenly, drunk and ornery. His best friend, a black ex-boxer named Crow, finds him a job as a warehouseman, but Chester… Read More

N.Y.: Crown, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Set in Miami and Key West it is a contemporary film noir of a novel -- a nerve shattering excursion into the corrosive underworld of drugs, conspirarcy, and lust -- as B-movie actor is sent on a little errand to deliver a package by his PR agent and ends up in the middle of a drug smuggling operation. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Harper, 1995. 1st ed., fine in dj. Key West setting. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1982. 1st ed.,with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Not price-clipped. A boat explodes off the Florida, killing three people under mysterious circumstances. Its owner, Travis McGee's best friend Meyer, loses his last living relative. It all seems an unfortunate tragedy. Until Travis McGee starts to dig into the details. Suddenly, he and Meyer are on the track of a killer.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St Martins Press, 1997. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The mayhem in professional hockey is usually confined to on-ice brawling. When it becomes murder, private investigator Anna Peters gets involved. Alf Rene of the Orlando Showmen is dead, and teammate Jurgen Parkes is the prime suspect. Peters, no hockey junkie, soon learns that the careers of the accused killer and the victim were oddly intertwined, despite Parkes being a star and Rene only a journeyman. After Rene's widow disappears, Anna is finally able to make sense of a byzantine trail that leads her from shady investments to personal jealousy and professional envy. There are also hints that this may be Peters' last case. She sells her interest in the agency and seems headed for retirement. Let's hope not. The ninth Peters mystery is one of the dependable series' best, and Peters remains among the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Hyperion, 1992. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. A Britt Montero, crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper, title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1988. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The latest larky thriller in Barth's series opens with grand prospects for Margaret Binton and her elderly pals, retirees known for their crime-fighting exploits in Manhattan. Winning a fully equipped recreational vehicle, Margaret takes off for Miami with widow Berdie Mangione and widowers Sid Rossman and Joe Durso, all anticipating a balmy winter vacation. But the friends feel a chill crueler than the winds up North, when they decide to use the RV to drive nursing home residents on outings. Their suspicions are alerted when the manager of Forstman's Rest Home turns down their offer, then they learn how frightened Forstman's "guests" are. Soon after one of them, Mr. Schecter, dares to speak up and sneak a message to Margaret, his obit appears in the press. At that, Sid agrees to pose as a patient and spy… Read More

N.Y: Pocket Books, 1994. 1st ed. page edges very lightly soiled else about fine in dj. REVIEW COPY. A bit of Florida noir in this story about Eddy Priest, a non-practicing lawyer aiming for the simple life as a sailboat salesman on Florida's west coast. Beautiful Corey Darrow tells him of a plot to discredit her in her water management job in Okee City, north of Miami, and of her fears that she is being followed . When she's found in her car, drowned in a drainage canal with a Magnum in her hand, Eddie is guilt-stricken. Corey's equally beautiful sister, Sawnie, asks his help in probing Corey's death. Eddie is smitten all over again, and soon he and Sawnie are deep in a struggle with a ruthless sugar planter and his homicidal henchmen, two of the nastiest villains of recent fiction.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.

N.Y.: Scribner, 1991. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Set in Florida's glittering Treasure Coast and the 2nd PI Doll title. "At one point in Putre's (A Small and Incidental Murder ) second extraordinary private eye procedural, a character says to the sleuth, "I hope . . . you're fighting this one on the side of the angels, Mr. Doll." But to Doll, it appears that the oddly assorted group of people linked to a murder represent nothing but a sleazy level of hell. Doll is lured to the Florida coast to help out his former lover, Diane Raney, being held for a grisly murder. Although Doll himself has been linked to a past murder and insists on keeping his own identity under wraps, Diana trusts him implicitly, even 10 years after their affair has ended. Diana's belief in Doll and Doll's steadfast faith in her, even though she gives him absolutely no aid in his dogged… Read More

New York and Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975. 1st hardcover edition, so stated. (Originally published as a paperback original in May 1964). Blue cloth shows some light fading along extremeties, page edges show some minor staining else a near fine copy in unprice clipped [$6.95 price intact at lower edge of front flap] dust jacket. The jacket has minimal wear along the extremities, a couple of small nicks at spine head, but does not display any of the typical spine fading associated with most copies. The First Travis McGee Title. An unusually difficult title. Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He’s also a knight-errant who’s wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: He’ll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half. McGee isn’t particularly strapped for cash, but how can anyone say no to Cathy, a… Read More

N.Y.: Forge, 2005. First Edition, June 2005, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up and up. Now Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience...and another that may break his heart. The first involves an elderly woman who swears she's witnessed a murder in her old age home despite the fact that everyone she tells her story to: her family, the hospital staff, and finally the cops all tell her that it just couldn't have happened. The other has Lew trying to find out the identity of a hit and run driver who killed a 14 year old boy. This task dredges up old memories and a lot of pain, for Lew fled Chicago years ago, after a drunk driver killed his beloved wife. As… Read More

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: Black Lizard, 1987. 1st prtg. Fine, unread copy in wraps, page showing some age-toning. A new 15 page introduction by Whittington. Cover by Kirwan. Buz Johnson belonged to the high-living, hard-drinking generation of World War Two flyboys who inspired the saying "Show me a hero and I ll show you a bum". A dozen years after the war he was drinking his way to oblivion at a jerkwater Florida airport, teaching playboys and rich widows how to fly. He was deep in debt, his girl had walked out on him, and he was living from paycheck to paycheck, looking forward only to the next drink. Then Sid Coates came up with the bank caper, and he needed Buz to fly the getaway plane. Buz had a chance to re-claim his pride and make a bundle besides. All he had to do was get up his nerve and be willing to kill if it came to that. He figured he was as ready for it as he d ever be.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Kirwan, Jim. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1987. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light wear, else near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover, lightly rubbed with a few small nicks. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Tim Waverly, the hero of Tom Kakonis' acclaimed MICHIGAN ROLL returns and is literally gambling for his life. Set in South Florida. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Lippincott, 1978. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Lighrt spine slant else near fine in lightly used dust jacket. Flap has cover price $8.95 in bottom corner. Travis McGee. Asking for help is something a proud man like Van Harder would never do. So when he shows up at the Busted Flush, Travis McGee knows that he must be the man’s last resort. What Harder wants salvaged is his reputation. After a long career as a seaman, he was piloting a boat the night his employer fell overboard. Harder is certain he’s been set up, but to help him, McGee must prove that a dead man is actually alive. The fateful ride started with Harder at the helm of Hubbard Lawless’s luxury cruiser. It ends with him coming to, fuzzy and disoriented, and Hub lost to the water. Now everyone is saying that Harder got drunk, passed out, and is negligent in his boss’s death. The thing is, Van’s not a drinker . . . at least, not anymore. Who would want to frame the good… Read More

N.Y.: Lynx, 1989. 1st edition, March 1989, with complete number line beginning with 1. A near fine, unread copy; paperback original; INSCRIBED and dated 5/2/89 at title page. Murder movie filming turns into a real-life drama for late-night talk show host Veronica Slate. Tampa locale; . Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1995. First edition, so stated, November 1995 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, two tiny closed tears, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Tampa Bay-area private investigator Tony Lowell is an underemployed Vietnam vet and inveterate sailor. He assists police detective Lena Bedrosian (Hour of the Manatee, St. Martin's, 1994) in solving the murder of a young African American employee of the state's environmental protection agency. Tony's quest for information takes him to the inland hamlets of Orange Blossoms and Manatee. While there, he questions the close-mouthed employees of a phosphate plant about a suspicious sinkhole and dodges the abusive boyfriend of a beautiful witness. Ayres exhibits mastery of the Florida setting, a firm handle on characterizations, and a good sense of dramatic timing." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1990. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publishers sheet asking for copies of any review laid in. Reiss's new novel introduces Raleigh Fixx, author of popular true-crime books, who deserts Manhattan for a gentler island. With his lover, Diane, Raleigh plans a book about preserving a bird sanctuary off Key Rey, Fla. But Raleigh meets Abel Quade, who aims to turn the sanctuary into a swank resort, and his fierce opponent Jay Salinger. When Salinger is killed, these contacts drag the former New Yorker into violence. Arrested for the murder, Raleigh is released but carefully watched by Detective Julius Sezar (a characteristic pun) and immersed in events set in motion by the wily Quade. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.