New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in Paraguay in 1869, in a land devastated by years of war. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp plus an historical note. ISBN: 978-1250004536.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in Paraguay in 1869, in a land devastated by years of war. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp plus an historical note. ISBN: 978-1250004536.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1973). First edition - On a tranquil tree-lined street in Paris, a woman exits a taxi. She has come from Bonn, Germany, on a mission of desperation and revenge. And in a house on the Rue de Varenne, a wife and mother is about to relive the past she thought shed left far behind. In 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, circumstances forced Jean de Bernard and his wife to put up a German officer at their isolated chateau in St. Blaize. A novel which looks at the complexities of loyalty and accomodation during war time, ending in post-war Germany where an SS officer is being tried for wartime atrocities. 332 pp.

New York: Obsidian - New American Library - NAL, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring the unconventional American adventuress and photojournalist, Jade Del Cameron, set in Africa in the early 1920's. Author's notes. 370 pp. ISBN: 9780451225863.

New York: New American Library - NAL, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring the unconventional American adventuress and photojournalist, Jade Del Cameron, set in Africa in the early 1920's. SIGNED on the title page with an elephant drawing by author .340 pp Map frontispiece. Author's notes. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-451-220264.

New York: Putnam, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A true crime novel by the author of highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson. Set in 1921 San Francisco, this is a noir classic based on one of the most notorious trials of the time - that of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle for the death of an actress named Virginia Rapp. Arbuckle's legal team hire a Pinkerton agent to investigate and that agent - Dashiell Hammett - narrates this novel. SIGNED on the title page and dated Apr 2, 09, in the year of publication. 354 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0399155369.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A whimsical alternative history in the form of a murder mystery, set in Germany in 1830 where Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart is getting on in years, but is still quite spry. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-03156.

New York: Village East Books, (1998). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Hong Kong in 1857, focusing on Andrew Adams - a "rogue with a social conscience. He's an American seaman, smuggler, and gambler who has settled down to running a buzzing bar called the Bee Hive Tavern in the Chinese section of Hong Kong - a long way in every respect from 'the Peak,' where the wealthy and powerful Europeans who control the island's destiny live." 538 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-966189914.

New York: Bantam, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her keen powers of observation to helping avert a threat to England during the Napoleonic wars. Editor's afterword. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. Dust jacket art by Kimiko Y. Craft. ISBN: 0-553-802224.

New York: Bantam, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her keen powers of observation to helping avert a threat to England during the Napoleonic wars. Editor's afterword. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. Dust jacket art by Kimiko Y. Craft. ISBN: 0-553-802224.

New York: Bantam, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical mystery set in 1861, the year in which Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. SIGNED on the title page. Afterword. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-0553805246.

New York: Bantam, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - The fourth in this delightful series with Jane Austen off to the Canterbury races with the rich and the fashionable. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's foreword. 290 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A murder mystery, set in London in 1820 where a down-at-the-heels Austrian musician - Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart - is about to get a second chance on the death of King George III. The second novel by Robert Barnard under this pseudonym. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-312-11771X.

New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Another in Baxt's very enjoyable series of 'celebrity mysteries' - this one opens in 1925 with Hitchcock and his wife discussing the script for his new film which he is shooting in Munich. SIGNED on the title page. 277 pp. Dust jacket art by Honi Werner. ISBN: 0-312-017162.

New York: Harper Collins, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical suspense novel set in 1860s London during the Christmas season. Tiny Tim is grown now, and he has just buried his father. "He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent 'Uncle' Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets. Timothy's life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on the upper arm." SIGNED on the title page. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-060534214.

New York: Morrow, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised historical novel, set in Paris in 1818 during the Restoration - one which "breathes life into the world's first police detective, Vidocq . . .. the founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, who used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of France's most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mystery--the fate of the young dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI." 352 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-1173509.

New York: Harper Collins, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical suspense novel set in 1860s London during the Christmas season. Tiny Tim is grown now, and he has just buried his father. "He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent 'Uncle' Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets. Timothy's life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on the upper arm." SIGNED on the title page. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-060534214.

New York: Walker, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth mystery, set in San Francisco in 1916, shortly before the US entered the war - a society reporter is determined to get her by-line on the front page, and reporting on a kidnapping should surely do that! INSCRIBED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-09796.

New York: Walker, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in the 1920s and featuring Standford student Iris Cooper and reporter Jack Clancy. Iris and her aunt Hermoine are on a trip to Honolulu accompanying her schoolmate who is the heir to a great fortune in the islands, but the threat of long hidden family secrets coming to light results in murder. INSCRIBED on the title page 191 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57154.

New York: Walker, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery written by Beck as K. K. Beck, featuring Iris Cooper and reporter Jack Clancy. Set in 1928, Iris is visiting a wealthy classmate with a penchant for collecting, at his family's California mansion. INSCRIBED on the title page and uncommon thus (Walker was known both for taking a chance on new authors and for its small print runs, so many books they published are rather hard to find, and especially so signed or inscribed) . 166 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-56557.

New York: Walker, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth mystery, set in San Francisco in 1916, shortly before the US entered the war - a society reporter is determined to get her by-line on the front page, and reporting on a kidnapping should surely do that! SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-09796.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A carefully researched novel of life in 1640's Puritan New England, inspired by accounts of an unsolved murder of a young woman near what is now Exeter, New Hampshire. A story involving witchcraft, religion, evil - and also passion, excitement and strength. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-56-4.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A carefully researched novel of life in 1640's Puritan New England, inspired by accounts of an unsolved murder of a young woman near what is now Exeter, New Hampshire. A story involving witchcraft, religion, evil - and also passion, excitement and strength. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-56-4.

New York: Dell - Island Books, 2000. Author's very highly praised first novel, a combination of murder mystery, love story and great historical fiction, set in Buffalo in 1901, when the power of Niagara Falls has electrified the city and made it a model for other urban areas. ISBN: 0-440-23512x.

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical thriller set in the Gilded Age - "In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn't have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross's son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent's Gents, Cross must pay it back himself. All he has to do is use his inside knowledge of high society mansions and museums to craft a robbery even the smartest detectives won't solve." 412 pp. Includes a conversation with the author. ISBN: 978-1492617891.

New York: SOHO Press, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh novel in the highly praised Billy Boyle series, featuring a young Irish-American cop from Boston (or, as the NY Times review put it "a brash kid from Southie"), who had just made detective when the US joined World War II, and he is selected by Eisenhower to be his personal investigator. He faces his toughest investigation yet: infiltrating enemy lines in France as the Allies invade Normandy. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-1616956424.

New York: SOHO Press, (2006). SIGNED - The first in the Billy Boyle series, featuring a young Irish-American cop from Boston, who has just made detective when the US joins World War II, and he is selected by Eisenhower to be his personal investigator. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp plus a sneak preview of 'The Second Wave.'. ISBN: 9781616953553.

New York: SOHO Press, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 14th novel in the highly praised Billy Boyle series, featuring a young Irish-American cop from Boston (or, as the NY Times review put it "a brash kid from Southie"), who had just made detective when the US joined World War II, and he is selected by Eisenhower to be his personal investigator. Set in the chaotic days before the liberation of Paris. Author's note. 341 pp. ISBN: 978-1616959630.