New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery introducing Regency Romance writer Juliet Bodine, who has agreed to help turn Dickens' Great Expectation into ballet form - and NYPD detective Murray Landis. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312280335.

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: 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: 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, (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: 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: 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: 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.

New York: St Martin's, (1985) dj. Hardcover - Author's first mystery introducing journalist, playwright and amateur sleuth Gus Maltravers, who is determined to discover who stole a rare 16th Bible from the Vercaster Cathedral. Winner of the John Creasey award for best first novel. Full page cover praise from P. D. James who compliments this novel for its sense of place and "the intriguing contrast between ordered normality and the corruptive terror of murder." 184 pp. ISBN: 0-312-472676.

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.

Santa Barbara: Perserverance Press - John Daniel, (2002.). 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. ISBN: 1-880284-545.

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.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in The Order of the Sanguines series. "In his first-ever collaboration, bestselling author James Rollins combines his skill for cutting-edge science and historical mystery with award-winning novelist Rebecca Cantrell's talent for haunting suspense and sensual atmosphere in a gothic tale about an ancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as.'The Blood Gospel'." SIGNED by Rollins on the title page. 479 pp. ISBN: 9780061991042.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to 'Escapade.' Mystery set in Paris in 1923 and featuring two young Pinkerton 'ops' who, in the course of their murder investigation, briefly encounter writers Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186290.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sequel to 'Escapade.' Mystery set in Paris in 1923 and featuring two young Pinkerton 'ops' who, in the course of their murder investigation, briefly encounter writers Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186290.

London: Harper Collins, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - Midway through his triumphant tour of the American West, the young Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been savagely murdering prostitutes. SIGNED on the title page. 374pp. ISBN: 0-00-2323761.

New York: St Martin's, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - Midway through his triumphant tour of the American West, the young Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been savagely murdering prostitutes. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Jan 1992. 374pp. ISBN: 0-312-059973.

London: Harper Collins, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - Midway through his triumphant tour of the American West, the young Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been savagely murdering prostitutes. SIGNED on the title page. 374pp. ISBN: 0-00-2323761.

Norman, OK: St Martin's, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - Midway through his triumphant tour of the American West, the young Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been savagely murdering prostitutes. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-312059973.

New York: Walker, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Atlanta professor turned private investigator Bennett Cole, who is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of a noir novelist in a small town in the Florida panhandle. Review copy with publicity material laid in. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31821.

New York: Atria Books, (2004). First edition - The author's first novel, one which moves between 1593 when London's most popular playwright - Christopher Marlow - was stabbed to death, and present day New York and London where investigator Kate Morgan is called in to solve the mystery of a recently discovered 16th century manuscript. Author's note. 335 pp.

Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing Co., 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A later mystery featuring an antiquarian bookseller by this author who was himself a bookseller. "Jack Quinn, a dealer in rare books, is asked by an American customer to discover what happened to the papers of Gerald Despain, a fanatical anti-Semite and British traitor who joined the Nazis in 1939." #5 of 50 numbered copies printed on French Speckletone paper, designed by Ellis H. Neal Jr and SIGNED by the author (out of a total edition of 650 copies). 146 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-961969334.

New York: Delacorte, (1995). First edition - Second mystery featuring professor and amateur sleuth Beth Austin, who has left Midwestern's icy February campus for a luxurious vacation at the Royal Aloha hotel in Hawaii, to prepare a seminar on George Eliot's Middlemarch, but finds herself once again caught up in murder. A dress designer falls to her death in the hotel lobby. A body is found on the hotel's jogging trail. 243 pp.