William Murray, Author . Crown Journeys $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-609-60614-8
"Rome is so many things, but most of all, perhaps, a city of ghosts, of memories, of visions, of time remembered and faithfully honored," writes Murray (Janet, My Mother and Me) in this highly evocative, largely personal guide to the Italian
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William Murray, Author Crimeline $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28426-3
Shifty Lou Anderson, cardplayer, magician and racetrack habitue, is back in Murray's latest ingenious caper. When a track errand-runner disappears with a bundle of cash, Shifty and his sidekick Jay Fox follow his trail to Tijuana. ``Fast, funny and...
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William Murray, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (212p) ISBN 978-0-385-47035-3
Shifty Lou Anderson, professional magician and obsessed horseplayer, always has a trick or two up his sleeve where, in this, his seventh adventure, he also wears his heart. But by the time the story ends, Shifty will have once again proved his ``inab
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William Murray, Author M. Evans and Company $21 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87131-797-1
Shifty Lou Anderson is proud of his nickname: he's a member of I.B.M., the International Brotherhood of Magicians. His latest adventure (after Now You See Her, Now You Don't, 1994) takes him to a magic conference in Italy where, during a whirlwind...
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William Murray, Author Bantam Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05216-9
For part-time magician Shifty Lou Anderson, the job he is offered by world-famous tenor Fulvio Gasparini seems simple enough. Shifty, a skilled gambler, will be required to do nothing more than control the hefty opera star's gambling losses and...
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William Murray, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (248p) ISBN 978-0-385-42117-1
Most notable in the sixth story to feature horseplayer Shifty Lou Anderson are Murray's ( The Getaway Blues ) penchant for describing lovemaking in horse-racing terms and the oft-repeated use of the phrase ``my man'' by a black homicide detective,...
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William Murray, Author Bantam Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07029-3
Murray ( When the Fat Man Sings ; The King of the Nightcap ) is an American Dick Francis, with delicious extra gifts. Narrator Lou ``Shifty'' Anderson, a competent, not very successful magician trying to augment his earnings at the Santa Anita...
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William Murray, Author Bantam Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05392-0
Shifty Lou Anderson, cardplayer, magician and racetrack habitue, is back in Murray's ( Tip on a Dead Crab ) latest ingenious caper. When a track errand-runner disappears with a bundle of cash, Shifty and his sidekick Jay Fox follow his trail to...
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William Murray, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-76774-7
New Yorker writer Murray, who also writes racetrack mysteries ( Tip on a Dead Crab ), here looks at offbeat aspects of the sport: competitions at county fairs, where the horses are generally of a fairly low caliber; the races at Agua Caliente in...
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William Murray, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (244p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2971-0
The good news is that Shifty Lou Anderson, the professional magician with nearly a second career in horseracing, is back (after We're Off to See the Killer). Upon seeing tall, redheaded Megan Starbuck at Hollywood Park, the immediately smitten Lou...
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William Murray, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-48353-7
A primer of sorts for anyone who has wondered whether visiting the track and betting on the horses can be profitable in every sense of the word, this guidebook by an expert is an informative and lively introduction. Murray (The Wrong Horse) begins...
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William Murray, Author, Ken Rose, Author, Ken Ross, With William Morrow & Company $20 (205p) ISBN 978-0-688-14563-7
Murray, an ordained minister in Texas and an outspoken advocate of prayer in U.S. public schools, now regrets his historic role as 14-year-old plaintiff in the case against the Baltimore school system that led to the Supreme Court's 1963 decision...
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William Murray, Author, Jan Morris, Introduction by Touchstone Books $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-671-77999-3
The New Yorker 's Rome correspondent writes of his mother's native land, his affection tempered by awareness of its foibles. (June)
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William Murray, Author, Jan Morris, Introduction by Prentice Hall $21.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-13-508227-0
Eschewing the romanticism of many guidebooks, Murray, the New Yorker 's Rome correspondent, views his mother's native land with affection tempered by awareness of Italia's foibles. He argues that despite a rise in pollution, traffic congestion,...
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William Murray, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-80966-3
When Janet Flanner, the New Yorker's Paris correspondent from 1925 to 1975, met Natalia Danesi Murray, who was to become her lover of 38 years, Flanner's wit was so radiant that even Natalia's son, who was 14 in 1940, ""lingered for nearly an hour...
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William Murray, Author . Crown $24.95 (273p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5360-5
Murray, who eventually became a staff writer for the New Yorker
and the author of some 30 books, including several racetrack-themed mysteries, initially had planned a career in opera (he died earlier this year at age 78). Writing this study of a...
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