Lutz john 1939 (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 208 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering t spine in original pictorial jacket. Signed. First edition. ( SWF Seeks Same ) stumbles with this mystery set in the graceful world of ballroom dancing. St. Louis realtor Mary Arlington, whose mother is alcoholic and whose lover is physically abusive, lives for her mambo, cha-cha and tango lessons with Mel Holt at the Romance Studio. After kicking her lover out of her life and checking her mother into a detox center, Mary agrees to dance with Mel in the Ohio Star Ball, a major competition. Meanwhile in Seattle and New Orleans, women dancers resembling Mary are murdered. Rene Verlane, the husband of the New Orleans victim, insists the crime is related to his wife's dancing. Mary follows the case on TV and one night calls Verlane to offer her help in finding the killer. Together this long-distance team hunts down the killer who is stalking female dancers. With its lackluster characters and slack, far-fetched plot, the story generates little suspense and fails to capture the grace, style or passion of its white-glove setting. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 208 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering t spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. (SWF Seeks Same) stumbles with this mystery set in the graceful world of ballroom dancing. St. Louis realtor Mary Arlington, whose mother is alcoholic and whose lover is physically abusive, lives for her mambo, cha-cha and tango lessons with Mel Holt at the Romance Studio. After kicking her lover out of her life and checking her mother into a detox center, Mary agrees to dance with Mel in the Ohio Star Ball, a major competition. Meanwhile in Seattle and New Orleans, women dancers resembling Mary are murdered. Rene Verlane, the husband of the New Orleans victim, insists the crime is related to his wife's dancing. Mary follows the case on TV and one night calls Verlane to offer her help in finding the killer. Together this long-distance team hunts down the killer who is stalking female dancers. With its lackluster characters and slack, far-fetched plot, the story generates little suspense and fails to capture the grace, style or passion of its white-glove setting. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 241 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In John Lutz's seventh mystery of this acclaimed series, disabled Florida P.I. Fred Carver is hired by the redoubtable Hattie Evans to investigate the death of her seventy-year-old husband, Jerome. Although the doctors say he had a heart attack, an anonymous note claiming Jerome was murdered stirs Hattie's doubts about the cause of her husband's death. The Evanses lived in Solartown, one of the new breed of retirement communities catering to all the needs of its residents: golf course, health center, grocery store, recreation facility - everything but a morgue. An ideal kind of place; that is, until Carver begins to suspect that the good people of Solartown may be dying just a bit too soon. Is the community really as benign as it appears on the surface, or does it harbor a very methodical killer? Another death brings Carver and Hattie tragically closer to the secrets hidden within the seemingly serene, pastel-colored walls of Solartown's homes. But a torturous encounter with a sadistic and homicidal addict and a shattering series of events tell Carver that a conspiracy of good intentions and corporate greed may be to blame - and may also be the end of him. Condition: Remainder mark at head end pages. Jacket front fold over flap creased else a near fine copy in like jacket. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 211 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"0 bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. PI Alo Nudger, at the St. Louis airport to pick up a pal, offers his business card to a distraught woman just before an incoming plane blows apart. The next morning she arrives at his office with a wild story about a bomb in an attache case and a fortune in stolen diamonds, and Nudger gets involved because he needs the fee to fend off his greedy, vindictive ex-wife and her sleazy lawyer. Then his new client is tortured and murdered, and when the hard-nosed killers threaten Nudger's lover and let Nudger know that they are watching his every move, Nudger's friend and former partner, police detective Jack Hammersmith, offers information and protection. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 262 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black paste boards with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When shy, country girl-woman Norva Beane hires Alo Nudger to investigate a possible securities fraud, he thinks it will be a routine case. He doesn't realize it will involve a wandering daughter, drug dealers, a dangerous, tattooed muscleman, a dysfunctional family, and a poignant past that refuses to release its grip on anyone involved. Nudger, his lady love Claudia Bettencourt, and his friends Lieutenant Jack Hammersmith and Danny Evers are all touched by a tragedy by that continues to unfold in surprising directions no matter how hard Nudger tries to stop it. The suspense becomes riveting as trouble builds and answers lead to more questions and more danger. Condition: Jacket spine ends rubbed else a near fine copy in like jacket.…

Condizione: NEAR FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Mystery featuring the hapless private investigator Alo Nudger, set in St Louis, Missouri. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (foxing to fore-edge of textblock).

Condizione: FINE. First printing. Second mystery featuring New York cops E. L. Oxman and Art Tobin - in this one, they are investigating the murder of a security guard on a television soap opera studio, and the only witness is claiming that a vampire did it! SIGNED on the title page. 248 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.…

Condizione: NEAR FINE. First printing. Author's fifth book, a "novel of Presidential scandal and retribution." SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

Condizione: NEAR FINE. First printing. Mystery featuring the hapless private investigator Alo Nudger, set in St Louis, Missouri. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Condizione: FINE. First printing. Author's fifth book, a "novel of Presidential scandal and retribution." SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Condizione: FINE. First printing. Eighth mystery featuring the hapless private investigator Alo Nudger, set in St Louis, Missouri. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Condizione: FINE. First printing. An early (the sixth) novel by this award winning writer, including the PWA Life Achievement Award. When psychiatrist Dana Larsen is found murdered, his friend, Senator Jerry Andrews, is determined to track down the sociopathic killer. Barry Malzberg called this "one of the most ingenious puzzles and solutions in the history of the suspense genre . . . the single most disturbing book I have read in many years." SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to both the pages and edges of the textblock and the flaps of the dj).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Lutz' novel presents a NYPD detective retired in disgrace brought back into service when a serial killer moves through the city signing each of his victims with a "J" indicating they served on a jury that freed an obviously guilty criminal. This copy is an fine mass market paperback ARC simply signed and dated by Lutz on the title page 6 months before the book was released.The cover is a bright wrap and the book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping. Signed by Author(s).…