New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A secluded Tuscan villa, a mysterious death, a missing manuscript, a whisp of a ghost and a smart young American woman tumbling helplessly into an unexpected affair." 259 pp. ISBN: 0-375-405429.

New York: Putnam, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in the world of publishing. An attorney has written a blockbuster novel - under a pseudonym - and winds up hiring a killer with an urge to write a bestseller himself to be face of the phantom author she created. SIGNED on the title page. 438 pp. ISBN: 0-399142614.

New York: Dutton, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth book, third novel featuring Paul Christopher, set in 1960 at the very height of the Cold War. As a former CIA officer, McCarry knows the world of international espionage: Richard Condon comments that he "testifies to the pain, horror and sometimes madness it inflicts on those who perform it." SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-525-199349.

New York: TSR, 1988. Murder at the science fiction con - winner of the Edgar for best paperback original. ISBN: 0-880384557.

New York: Twelve, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - a bibliomystery. Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle team up to solve a real-life mystery, but the journal in which Doyle records the adventure goes missing. In 2010 a Sherlock Holmes scholar announces that he has found the missing journal but shortly afterwards is found dead. SIGNED and Dated by the author 10/16/10 almost two months before the release of the hard cover edition. 350 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best.SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.

Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.

Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.

Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best.SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.

NY & Ontario: PaperJacks Ltd, (1988). A Locked Room Murder Mystery - an ironic end to a mystery writer's life. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-770108229.

New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring master chef, Auguste Didier, set in Edwardian England and the first in the series to published in the US. A bibliomystery with murder occuring at a dinner at Broadstairs, the seaside haunt of Charles Dickens . A Victorian whodunit. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312-143761.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Black Mask Boys mystery told in the voice of Dashiell Hammett, the first in a series. SIGNED on the title page. Author's afterword. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-312-140118.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller featuring Inspector John Underwood and his team as they work to solve the mystery of why swimming champion Lucy Harrington was murdered and her face mutilated with a snippet of a poem by John Donne left beside her body. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 1-841194263.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featuriong Regency Romance writer Juliet Bodine and a missing manuscript from a notorious courtesan in Regency England. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-312-281854.

New York: St Martin's, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first Dickens' mystery,set in April and May of 1851. Charles Dickens and author Wilkie Collins meet Inspector William Field of the newly formed Metropolitan Protectives. A gentleman's brutal murder brings the three men together in an extraordinary investigation that introduces Dickens to the beautiful young actress Ellen Ternan, who would become the love of his life but who is now accused of murder. A novel which, like Dickens' own books, reveals the hypocrisy of repressed Victorian society. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312050739.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery involving Wilkie Collins , Charles Dickens and Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll), recounted in a journal "discovered and edited" by the author. "On a dank and dreary November evening, Inspector William Field summons Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens to a crime scene in London's notorious Chinese opium district.When the two arrive in the seedy neighborhood, they learn that a man has been murdered-and the victim is none other than an Oxford history don." The fourth Dickens' mystery. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-26576X.

New York: Random House, (2004). The author's first novel, both a wonderful historical mystery and a paean to Dante. In Boston in 1865 a series of murders occur, inspired by scenes in Dante's inferno, and it is up to a group of Dante scholars - led by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - to solve the mystery. Historical note. Includes a Reader's Guide. 380 pp. ISBN: 0-8129-71043.

New York: Random House, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book, both literary history - regarding the death of Edgar Allan Poe - and an absorbing mystery. Historical note. 367 pp. ISBN: 1400061032.

New York: Random House, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in 1870, both literary history - regarding Charles Dicken's final unfinished novel - and an absorbing mystery. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1400066568.

New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Putnam), 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Pears' massive, complex and highly praised mystery set at 17th century Oxford. ISBN: 1-57322-0825.

New York: Vintage Books, (1998.). Literate thriller set in Spain, Portugal and France, and involving the worlds of the rare book dealer and the occult. Translated by Sonia Soto. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-679-777547.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Art, chess and mystery combine in this engrossing bibliomystery.Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1489262.

New York: Congdon & Weed, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featuring librarian Jacqueline Kirby - trying to escape the tedium of winter in Nebraska, Kirby heads to New York City to attend a professional writers' conference - unfortunately the only conference being held is for the 'Historical Romance Writers of the World." Fast-moving, and funny. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-809221373.

New York: Walker, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this British author to be published in the US. An interesting bibliomystery involving the books in an old library donated to a college. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-802754813.

New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "Nameless Detective" mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-18199.

New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "Nameless Detective" mystery. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-18199.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 27th "Nameless Detective" mystery, set in the underworld of San Francisco. . 213 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-09421.

New York: St Martin's, (1999). A satire of academic pretensions - academia at its worst when murder occurs at a convention on Edith Wharton at a thinly disguised Michigan State University. A title in the Stonewall Inn Mysteries series. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-312-198639.

Pleasantville, New York: ImPress / Reader's Digest, (2008.) dj. Hardcover - A stand-alone mystery novel about a woman mystery writer and her three children, who are very unusual amateur sleuths. A title in the Best Mysteries of All Time series. Originally published in 1944; basis for the film of the same name. In striking contrast to the humor in her novels, Rice's real life was difficult and often unhappy. 291 pp plus 3 pp about the author.

Santa Barbara: Perserverance Press - John Daniel, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Lora Roberts first book (published in 1988 as Lora Roberts Smith) featured Bridget Montrose. Now Bridget is back - and she has been invited to attend a writers' retreat on the California coast near Santa Cruz. A fun read - as are most of her books. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 1-880284-545.