New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. INSCRIBED on the title page "For -- Who knows what I am talking about. Enjoy." 387 pp. ISBN: 9780061725371.

New York: Viking, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in the Cameroons in Africa during World War I. ISBN: 0-670-280666.

New York: Putnam, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the late 1940s, in postwar Los Angeles, and introducing former B Western movie idol and now ex-convict John Ray Horn, who is making ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (the first American author to win this award). 308 pp. ISBN: 0-399150471.

London: Orion, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first edition of the author's first novel, set in the late 1940s, in postwar Los Angeles, and introducing former B Western movie idol and now ex-convict John Ray Horn, who is making ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (the first American author to win this award). 282 pp. ISBN: 0-752852892.

Seattle: Camel Press, (2016). Third novel in the award winning series, featuring New York police reporter Coleridge Taylor. Set in 1976, during the US bicentennial, when NY Harbor is full of tall ships from around the world. 245 pp. ISBN: 978-1603812115.

Seattle: Camel Press, (2015). Second novel in the award winning series, featuring New York police reporter Coleridge Taylor. Set in 1975 against the backdrop of New York City's financial crisis. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-1603812092.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, one which combines intrigue and history. Set in Paris in 1892, a city embroiled in a political scandal involving the French Panama Canal Company; the protagonist is the American historian and author Henry Adams, grandson and great-grandson of President Adams. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's letter bound in at the front of the book. 375 pp. .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which combines intrigue and history. Set in Paris in 1892, a city embroiled in a political scandal involving the French Panama Canal Company; the protagonist is the American historian and author Henry Adams, grandson and great-grandson of President Adams. SIGNED on the title page. 375 pp. . ISBN: 0-374229430.

New York: Viking, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel preceded by several non-fiction books on the history of New York going back to the New Amsterdam days of Dutch settlers - the setting for this historical mystery. "Its 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond." Maps. Author's historical note. 418 pp. ISBN: 978-0670023646.

New York: Viking, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second historical mystery, set in New York city in 1875 at the dawn of the dawn of the Gilded Age. A wealthy Manhattan couple on a trip to the West find a young "feral" girl and bring her back to New York to be educated and introduced to society. A series of suitors find her irresistible - and they begin to turn up murdered. Author's note, 402 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, commended for its historical accuracy - a variation of the classic "locked room" mystery featuring Benjamin Franklin and set in London in 1757. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0224411.