Booked to Die: A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway

Dunning, John

ISBN 10: 0684193833 / ISBN 13: 9780684193830

Published by Scribner, New York, 1992

About this Item

Signed on title page. First edition, 4th printing. Near fine condition of book and dust jacket. Price 23.00 on the front flap of dust jacket. Blue boards with a cloth covered spine. The bookscout was dead and Denver cop Cliff Janeway, also knows the value of books, knows who did it. The first Janeway book.

Seller Inventory # 000315

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Booked to Die: A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway
• Publisher: Scribner, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684193833
• ISBN 13: 9780684193830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: John Dawson, dust jacket
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 4th Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

First in the Cliff Janeway series from national bestselling author John Dunning.

Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local book scout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect’s spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding the law, and Janeway’s wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge.

Turning to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a small bookshop—all the while searching for evidence to put Newton away. But when prized volumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now, Janeway’s life is about to start a precarious new chapter as he attempts to find out who’s dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains.

About the Author

John Dunning (1942–2023) revealed book collecting’s most shocking secrets in his bestselling series of crime novels featuring Cliff Janeway: Booked to Die, which won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award; The Bookman’s Wake, a New York Times Notable Book; and the New York Times bestsellers The Bookman’s Promise, The Sign of the Book, and The Bookwoman’s Last Fling. He also wrote the Edgar Award–nominated Deadline, The Holland Suggestions, and Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime. An expert on rare and collectible books, he owned the Old Algonquin Bookstore in Denver for many years.