Nancy Pickard 1945 Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 240 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. Jenny Cain, last seen in Dead Crazy , finds herself far from home when the Port Frederick, Mass., Civic Foundation is named heir to a cattle ranch in Kansas by wealthy rancher Cat Benet. As director of the foundation, Jenny is summoned to the dying Benet's bedside in a Kansas City hospital, where he is murdered before they can meet. The only conditions that the foundation must observe to inherit are to never allow any of Benet's kin to set foot on the ranch and to provide lifetime jobs for two employees, cowboys Quentin (Slight) Harlan and Carl Everett. The rest of Benet's vast fortune is left to his three living ex-wives, four adult children he has seldom seen, his sister and her son. Suspicious of the whole setup, especially since she and the foundation had never heard of Benet before, Jenny investigates the murder and, after visits to the ranch, to Texas and to Benet's wives and offspring, uncovers long-held family secrets. Pickard writes fluidly on family ties, both good and bad, while her appealing detective displays warmth, intelligence and a social conscience as she perseveres in her search for the truth. Condition: Signed on the title page. Remainder mark to heal end pages else near fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 307 pages . Royal octavo (9 1/2" 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with purple gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. A Jenny Cain Mystery.On a hot summer day, a teenaged boy with rumpled clothes and a motorcycle knocked at Jenny Cain's door and changed her life forever. Claiming to be the biological son of her husband, Geof Bushfield, David Mayer wasn't looking for an emotional reunion. According to the Port Frederick police, David's parents died in a murder / suicide. All David wanted was for Geof to investigate since he was absolutely sure his father hadn't killed his invalid mother and then himself. David felt that Geof owed it to him to prove his father's innocence. The foreboding Jenny felt when she first met David was beginning to turn into downright terror. Condition: Signed on title. Small bump to front heal edge else near fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 234 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with green gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition, Pickard's sixth Jenny Cain mystery and first Pocket Books hardcover, Bum Steer, was widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike. Now, in I.O.U., Jenny explores her own family's unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother's death--was it murder? Condition: Signed on title. Remainder mark to heal end pages, pages beginning to age tone else near fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 276 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with pink lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed. First edition. Award-winning author Nancy Pickard has been receiving high acclaim for her mystery series starring sleuth Jenny Cain. This time Cain finds herself following the trail of a possible paranoid schizophrenic slasher--only to uncover clues that put her squarely in the sights of a cold-blooded murderer! Condition: Signed on the title page. Front head corners bumped. Jacket fold-over flap heal corner creased else near fine in like jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 264 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher' quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. Few killers of our time, whether real or imagined, are in the same league as Raymond Raintree. And as he stands in a Florida courtroom waiting to be convicted for the murder of Natalie Mae McCullen, Marie Lightfoot is taking it all in. Renowned for her true-crime bestsellers, Marie knows the case will make her best book yet -- because Raintree's crime, vile beyond imagining, is also impossible to turn away from. Creator of the award-winning Jenny Cain series, Pickard premieres a superb new heroine in a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Condition: Author's signature to title. Heal corners bumped else near fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 312 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter yellow cloth with blue gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author to tile. First edition. Agreeing to help when a grieving widow enlightens her about a dangerous intersections where multiple tragedies have occurred, Jenny Cain is drawn into a long-running controversy that threatens to destroy everything dear to her. Condition: Fine in like jacket. Signed by Author(s).