New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in Southern California by this award-winning author. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-671736434.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the prize winning series featuring ex-cop now Denver private investigator Jacob Lomax. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-01862.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in the prize winning series featuring ex-cop now Denver private investigator Jacob Lomax. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-684-191385.

New York: Walker, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by these two authors (Garrett is the pseudonym of a practicing psychiatrist) What happens when the therapist is sicker than the patients? Mystery set in a psychiatric ward in New York General Hospital involving two patients and an unscrupulous doctor who will stop at nothing to protect himself. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-802757472.

New York: Delacorte, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comic who-dunnit by tv's renaissance man - his first mystery story.

New York: Dell, (c. 1952.). An Albert Campion mystery, basis of the movie of the same name. #777, cover price 25c.

New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel in this interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, deep sea diver and former marine oilfield construction worker and single mother, who has returned to Northern Michigan upon the death of her father, taking over running the combination dive shop and bar-restaurant, and sometimes doing some recovery diving for the Sheriff's department. SIGNED on the title page. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-312139322.

New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel in this interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, diver and former marine oilfield construction worker and single mother, who has returned to Northern Michigan upon the death of her father, taking over running the combination dive shop and bar-restaurant. In this book, she is trying to forge better relations with her 11 year old son, at the same time as she finds out about the grandfather she never knew and more about her mother. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-312168071.

New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel in this interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Detroit cop Lupe Garcia. Kirkus Reviews called this a "carnage caper - heavy on sex, ammo, showdowns, and car chases." SIGNED and dated opposite the title page. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-312088515.

New York: St Martin's, (1996). First edition - Second novel in the interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, deep sea diver and marine oilfield construction worker and single mother, who has returned to Northern Michigan upon the death of her father, taking over running the combination dive shop and bar-restaurant, and sometimes doing some recovery diving for the Sheriff's department. SIGNED on the title page. 217 pp.

Norfolk, Virginia: Crippen and Landru, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects seven stories - including the award winning "Franken Kat" and "Roadkill" - in which veterinarian David Westbrook tends to the ailing animals of his rural Michigan town, and comes up against the dark side of their human owners. One of 200 copies, individually numbered and SIGNED by the author. Includes a separately printed pamphlet, with his short story "Saint Margaret's Kitten." Checklist of Allyn's novels and short stories. 194 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 1-885941315.

New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (although he had already won several awards for his short stories) introducing Hispanic homicide detective Lupe Garcia. Set in Detroit's music world, one Allyn knows well as a co-leader for a Midwest rock group. SIGNED on the title page. Laid in is a brief typed, signed letter to collector Larry Owens. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-312033028.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, deep sea diver and marine oilfield construction worker and single mother, who returns to Northern Michigan upon the death of her father, leaving behind her diving work in the Gulf of Mexico. After she takes over running the combination dive shop and bar-restaurant, she begins to discover that maybe her father's death was not an accident after all. SIGNED on the title page. An interesting new series by this Edgar award winning author. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-312118295.

New York: Simon & Schuster / Touchstone Books, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first novel, combines cutting-edge science with suspense and adventure. Author's note. 359 pp. ISBN: 1416572872.

New York: Putnam, (2004). First edition - A modern spy thriller, involving the CIA and an Al Queda prisoner. "In a remote safe house in the American Northeast, a terrorist is questioned, a psychiatrist is tested, and an assassin is dispatched..." 262 pp.

Wethersfield, CT: Mainly Murder Press, (2013). SIGNED - Mystery set on an island off the coast of Southern California featuring feisty British gossip columnist Tosca Trevant and a retired Secret Service agent. SIGNED on the title page. 207 pp. ISBN: 9780988781696.

London: Heinemann, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - On a world cruise, an American businessman and his wife become involved in a tale of intrigue which takes them to Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore and Indonesia in the company of drug smugglers, gun runners, and terrorists . One gun runner was a dreamer, wanting to setting up a series of genuine English buses in the remote section of Malaysia where he lived. 250 pp.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1951) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ambler's seventh novel - but his first since World War II (his previous novel, "Journey into Fear," was published in 1940. When a playwright is asked to write an article about Deltchev's trial in the Balkans, he is expecting the usual travesty common to Communist regimes. Instead he discovers the secret and powerful Brotherhood and realizes he has to find out the truth, even if it will never come out in the trial. 256 pp. In the first issue dust jacket illustrated by Leslie Wood.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ambler's seventh novel - but his first since World War II (his previous novel, "Journey into Fear," was published in 1940. When a playwright is asked to write an article about Deltchev's trial in the Balkans, he is expecting the usual travesty common to Communist regimes. Instead he discovers the secret and powerful Brotherhood and realizes he has to find out the truth, even if it will never come out in the trial. 247 pp. Dust jacket by Bill English.

London: William Heinemann, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - The ninth novel by this author whom Graham Greene called "our greatest thriller writer" - and who is credited with creating the modern thriller, and in introducing a new realism to the espionage novel. As is many of his best books, the main character in this novel is an ordinary person who finds himself in an extraordinary - and dangerous - situation. In this case, a British consulting engineer had spent three years working on a dam in a newly independent small island nation which had been part of the Dutch East Indies. Now ready to return to England, instead he is unwillingly involved in a military coup. 233 pp. Wrap-around cover art by Judith Bledsoe.

New York: Picador, (2008). A psychological thriller, originally published in 1995, this is the ARC for the Picador reissue in 2008. "In the middle of an important meeting, businessman Rick Hamilton has a terrible premonition: His wife is about to die. Racing to save her, he finds her lifeless body in the road, her car crushed by a truck. The light dwindles from his eyes . . . and then she is alive again, begging for help, and Rick Hamilton no longer is himself, but another man with another life, and a different history. Based on the 'many worlds' theory of quantum physics, which posits the existence of parallel universes, this is a suspenseful, mind-bending mystery that addresses our deepest questions about reality, death, identity, and the mind." 292 pp

New York: Ives Washburn, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Jane and Dagobert Brown mystery - they lightheartedly head off to Spain for some much needed rest - only to discover themselves once again embroiled in murder when they attend a bullfight in Barcelona and the matador is killed. 191 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (1988). First edition - Stand-alone suspense novel by this Texas writer. A young woman, adopted by a rich Texas family, travels to London in search of her real parents, but finds herself becoming obsessed by this search and enmeshed in a web of lies. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-345345908.

New York: Harmony, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel from Amis - a "gritty, credible, totally captivating mystery about an American female homicide detective." 181 pp. ISBN: 0-609-601288.

New York: Harmony, (1998.). First edition - A very different novel from Amis - a "gritty, credible, totally captivating mystery about an American female homicide detective." 181 pp.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A very different novel from Amis - a "gritty, credible, totally captivating mystery about an American female homicide detective." SIGNED on the title page. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-224050184.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, and the first in the series featuring Mikael Josef Petros. Petros was awaiting death by hanging in a Central European death cell - and then he was offered a way out. He could buy his freedom by assassinating the President of the neighbouring state. To ensure his good faith. he was injected with a fatal drug that would kill him inside four months, unless he could prove that he had completed his mission and returned for the antidote. An Inner Sanctum mystery. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-671207741.