New York: Berkley, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The second mystery featuring PI Jack Liffey, a former aerospace engineer, a decent guy who drives a beat-up old car and who has a talent for finding lost children, set in the gritty underside of Los Angeles - a world of corrupt developers and local politics. SIGNED on the title page.. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-425-167321.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2003.). First edition - The author's first book, a collectionof stories set in California and the West - spare stories of 'subdued desperation.'

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (the first was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.) - the story of a Mormon girl growing up in Monterey, California in the 1950's. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166730.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (the first was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.) - the story of a Mormon girl growing up in Monterey, California in the 1950's. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166730.

New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, the stories of four Japanese women, each from a different generation, who live together in a large house in San Francisco. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-476787.

San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1879. Hardcover first edition - The first, and apparently only, book by this author, written when she was just 20; she was a regular contributor to The Argonaut for many years (as was her husband, author and later Congressman, Arthur Waterman Townsend, 1855-1942). Set in San Francisco and on New York. 295 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, 195. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel beginning in Los Angeles, and moving to earthquake country of Santa Cruz. 327 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176148.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, set in Southern California, a thriller about a disgraced journalist who stumbles upon an unimaginable conspiracy - but will anyone believe him? SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0446531863.

Booksurge, (2007). First edition - The second book in the The Vampire Within trilogy, set in Triton City, California, "where there aren't any homeless to be seen for miles...any homeless who are alive anyway. Now the city that prided itself on beauty, strength, and power is at the epicenter of a genetics game between two doctors battling to play God, and a group of college students has discovered they are the game's unwilling pawns." SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. Promotional postcard for the next book in the series laid in. ISBN: 1419667794.

New York: Harper Collins, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "They came, they saw, they conquered, we survived." A sobering epic novel of an alien invasion that pushes earth back into the dark ages, told from the viewpoint of a California family. 428 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1050350.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1974.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Moses Wine mystery, and the first to be published in hardcover. Cover praise from Ross Macdonald who states that Simon is 'the most brilliant new writer of detective fiction who has emerged in some years.' Set in Southern California - in this novel, Wine takes on an assignment as a challenge from 'guerilla journalist Gunter Thomas.' SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-87932-0826.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1974.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Moses Wine mystery, and the first to be published in hardcover. Cover praise from Ross Macdonald who states that Simon is 'the most brilliant new writer of detective fiction who has emerged in some years.' Set in Southern California - in this novel, Wine takes on an assignment as a challenge from 'guerilla journalist Gunter Thomas.' SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-87932-0826.

New York: Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Moses Wine novel - a funny but dark thriller set in the movie world. Twenty-five years after Wine first appeared in 'The Big Fix' he is still a Berkeley radical at heart, but chastened by the events that have led to the 'War on Terrorism.' 241 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-58028.

New York: St Martin's, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery, featuring Jake Samson, ex-Chicago cop, occassional (unlicensed) private eye, set on the remote coast of Northern California - SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-312-006853.

New York: Delacorte, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Sister Mary Helen mystery, San Francisco setting. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-385-302266.

New York: Delacorte, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Sister Mary Helen mystery - she and two friends have returned to San Francisco from an OWL (Older Women's League) convention in New York City, when her friend Emma goes missing. A presentation copy, warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated Christmas, 1988, in the month of publication. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-385-302266.

Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in the Pacific Homicide series. Set in Los Angeles, this features LA Homicide Detective Davie Richards who is called to an airport parking garage to investigate the shooting of a retired U.S. Army Ranger. SIGNED on the title page. 281 pp. ISBN: 978-0738752358.

New York: New American Library - NAL, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring management consultant and amateur sleuth Tucker Sinclair, set in Los Angeles's Gold Coast. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 9870-451221445.

New York: Mysterious Press, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing management consultant and amateur sleuth Tucker Sinclair, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 9870-451221445.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery by this highly praised young writer - this is the story of Cassidy Sanderson, scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the only female scout in the major leagues. SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450983.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. SIGNED first edition - The second mystery by this highly praised young writer - this is the story of Cassidy Sanderson, scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the only female scout in the major leagues. SIGNED on the title page. 319 pp.

New York: Walker, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her uncommon second book, the second Rebecca Schwartz mystery, set in San Francisco. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-55895.

Boston: Little Brown, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a suspenseful story of the hunt for a woman in the underside of Los Angeles. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-316-803928.

New York: Scribner, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a crime novel featuring Meg Gillis, who, with another former cop, owns a security business on the fringes of Beverly Hills. SIGNED on the title page and dated 4/20/99. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-684-850427.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Adult fiction by this Pulitzer prize winning poet, best known for his non-fiction, poetry and works for children and young adults. Sequel to "Nickel and Dime" which The NY Times in its review called "a powerful novel, unpretentious and brutally honest." In this, down and out Oakland poet Silver Mendez is invited to Madrid to participate in a conference on Chicano literature. SIGNED on the title page. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-826323197.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After being hit on the head by a typewriter, veteran Chicano poet Silver Mendez finds himself with amnesia - and on the faculty of a Baptist college in the Simi Valley. An academic satire about politics and political correctness. SIGNED on the title page. 200 pp.. ISBN: 0-8263-29314.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a hard-boiled novel set in San Francisco and introducing Dante Mancuso who is leading a double life. He " works for The Company, a nebulous security organization operating just this side of the law. Dante wants out, but it's a hard life to leave behind-rich with its own seductions, its own dark attractions." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-312324677.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a noir novel set in San Francisco featuring private investigator Dante Mancuso who has been hired to find the missing daughter of an old North Beach Italian family. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312324707.

Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in the old Italian neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco - one which flashes back and forth between their childhood days in the 1950s and events thirty years later. Although this begins with the murder of Nick's brother, Joe, and his determination to get revenge, it is more about the secrets of the past than it is about the sins of the present. Finalist for the Edgar Award and the Hammett Prize. SIGNED on the title page. Blue endpapers. 168 pp. ISBN: 1-579620043.