London: Century, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Gripping mystery set in China which begins with the discovery of an American archaeologist's body in the Yangzi river. Focusing on Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her American attorney husband David Stark, this is a picture of China at a time of change and uncertainty. SIGNED on the title page. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-712670262.

Hoboken, NJ: Polis Books / Agora, 2019. First edition - Includes brief excerpts from new books by thirteen authors, plus a page of information about each author, and an illustration of the cover of each book. IGNED by TWO authors at their contributions - Gary Phillips and Alex Segura. Also included contributions from Steph Post, J. D. Rhoades, , Erica Wright and more. 75 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A novel of international intrigue" involving lost Nazi treasure, by this Chilean writer who was exiled for his political activities, and living in Germany at the time this was written. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Ruta. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-151001936.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2015. First edition - The author's second novel, one which combines history, art and mystery. "When AlizŽe Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration , vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who while working at ChristieÕs auction house uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now-famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt?" Author's note.Publisher's letter laid in. 337 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised author's second novel, a dark and funny look at our preoccupation with romantic love and about the "entanglements of marriage - about the longings and terrors, the erotic lives, the lonelinesses and collusion of couples" - and about murder. Cover praise from Lorrie Moore and Joyce Carol Oates (who called it "a wicked, devastatingly funny comedy of manners") among others. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-316782475.

New York: Summit Books, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on a crime that shook the Victorian world of Charles Dickens - a daring robbery of 400,000 Pounds Sterling from the Bank of England . The ingenious plot was the work of four young Americans - the Bidwell brothers, George 'Mac' MacDonald and Edwin Noyes. Includes appearances by the Baron Rothschild and the famous American detective, Pinkerton. 414 pp. ISBN: 0-671400711.

Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1937). Hardcover first edition - Orphaned as a young child, Marcia has spent most of her life in boarding schools in France and Germany, but her new guardian has decided it is time for her to come back home. At first Marcia is reluctant to spend the summer at the family home - High Hedges - in a small New Jersey town, but the combination of making new friends, combined with mysterious doings, including ghostly noises, at the house soon convince her that it is not boring after all. 251 pp.

London: Headline (Hodder), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (third book), a thriller set in Moscow: "A Secret Russian File; A Dangerous Legacy, The Chase Begins." SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 346 pp. ISBN: 978-0755356355.

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: Dodd, Mead, (1975.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery for older children, set in Nebraska, Illustrated with black and white drawings by Salem Tamer. 124pp. ISBN: 0-396070698.

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.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1972.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The title refers to a long-forgotten manuscript which sends four college students on a quest for immortality, even though they know that this quest will leave two of them dead. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the Nebula. 222 pp. Dust jacket by Robert Aulicino. ISBN: 0-684-125900.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Darwin is an expert in accident reconstruction, and manages to stay uninvolved in his cases, until a "series of seemingly random high-speed car accidents are suddenly leading him down a very dangerous road. The accidents seem staged, but the participants have all died. . In the quietly introspective and fiercely intelligent Darwin Minor, he presents an unforgettable character and a story to match." . 368 pp. ISBN: 0-380973693.

London: Gollancz, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this author who himself an antiquarian bookseller which opens with London book dealer Nicholas Howard delivering an expensive piece of erotica to a new client. Sims was a member of the famous detection club. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-575020490.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel. In rural Ohio, three men (two of them brothers) stumble upon the wreckage of a plane containing millions of dollars in cash. It seems so easy to hide and keep the cash, but this simple plan gradually becomes a nightmare. Basis of the film starring Billy Bob Thornton. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419853.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1982) dj. Hardcover - The fourth young adult mystery featuring Robin Green, who befriends a frightened girl from a commune and finds herself in the middle of two mysteries. Illustrated by Robert Handville. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-396080766.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Science fiction thriller set in Boston a century from now - Boston is like no other place on earth, an enormous cube containing millions of human and cybernetic beings. It has seceded from the United States after a long and bloody war, but is slowly sinking into the ground. . 286 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85448X.

New York: Viking, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, both mysterious and literate: as David, a writer, attempts to discover what was behind the death of his wife of two years, his former editor, his own life begins to resemble one of his rather dark novels. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-670839035.

New York: Kensington, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Harper's Weekly contributor and dime novelist Marshall Webb, set in 1892 during NewYork's Gilded Age. Webb finds himself drawn into the tragic side of the immigrant experience - the Island of Tears in the title is Ellis Island. 280 pp. ISBN: 1575667673.

New York: Kensington, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Harper's Weekly contributor and dime novelist Marshall Webb, set in 1892 during NewYork's Gilded Age. Webb finds himself drawn into the tragic side of the immigrant experience - the Island of Tears in the title is Ellis Island. 280 pp. ISBN: 1575667673.

New York: Doubleday, (2000). First edition - A "wickedly amusing and subversive novel in years, a savagely witty tale of murder and escape based on the notorious real-life case of Lord Lucan.' If you are a fan of Spark, as I am, you will love this. 182 pp.

Minneapolis: Trigance Press (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A satirical look at our criminal justice system - "Wait until you see how California attorney Ashley Blackwood handles his cases. Follow the trials of Henri Laval, the murderous hockey star, Ramona Krafft, who videotaped the mutilation of her husband's private parts, and 'Machine-Gun' Marty Vickers, the postal employee who left a trail of dead and dying on the streets of San Francisco." SIGNED and dated on the half title page. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-966627164.

New York: Walker, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first in a series of paranormal suspense novels for young adults, set in the real town of Lily Dale in upstate New York (not far from where the author grew up), a spiritualist community founded in 1879. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 0-8027-96540.

New York: Walker, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first in a series of paranormal suspense novels for young adults, set in the real town of Lily Dale in upstate New York (not far from where the author grew up), a spiritualist community founded in 1879. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 0-8027-96540.

New York: Crooked Lane Books, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in a series of cozy mysteries, with a bit of the paranormal, set in the real town of Lily Dale in upstate New York (not far from where the author grew up), a spiritualist community founded in 1879. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-1629537726.

Cleveland and New York: International Fiction Library, (1929,) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of a forced marriage, moral cowardice, blackmail, murder, escape from a penal colony, serving in World War I and more. Notable for the striking dust jacket with an orange front panel and a face of a prisoner behind bars superimposed on a the white silhouette of a soldier. 286 pp.

New York: Morrow, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edgar Allan Poe emerges in 1889, forty years after his 'staged death' to solve the mystery of Mayerling. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-688-032788.