Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's second novel set in South Caroline, "a wickedly funny academic satire, grafted onto a manic plot featuring murder, madness, incest, a ghost and spirit possession. Ambitious, reclusive history professor Paul Danvers, desperate to achieve tenure, starts an affair with his student, Ginny Fennel, in order to gain access to the private papers of her notorious family, lighthouse keepers since the American Revolution, whose ancestors include slave dealers, black marketers and adventurers." A book which takes "publish or perish" literally. 284 pp. ISBN: 1-565120698.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's 2nd novel (fifth book), a satire on academia, the liberal arts and those who teach writing, published as Bradbury himself was finishing a year teaching in the United States. In this fictional version, a provincial British writer, barely eking out a livelihood, is offered the appointment of Creative Literary Fellow at Benedict Arnold University in the American heartland. 390 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third literary murder mystery featuring Professor Kate Fansler, and her fiance Reed Amhearst of the District Attorney's office. This one finds her in thrall to the poetry of W. H. Auden. 177 pp.

New York: Macmillan, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel and the first book under this pseudonym, a literate mystery introducing Professor Kate Fansler, who finds herself under suspicion when a young female student is found murdered. A Cock Robin Mystery. 187 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.

New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book published in the US by this novelist - "a sharply observed, hilarious, and bittersweet send-up of academic pretentiousness and literary obsession. . . Academics and Wuthering Heights fans are descending on the Bronte family homestead for an Emily Bronte conference. Among their ranks are a single, over-sixty, self-professed expert on the Brontes; an overworked wife, mother, and university lecturer; a widower sustained by nocturnal visits from Emily's ghost; and a young waitress suddenly drawn into the curious orbit of academia." Each finds the weekend life-changing, but not in the ways they expected. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312168446.

New York: Picador, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Three witty novellas about academic life - lots of fun to read. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-312-15628-6.

New York: Picador, 1997. dj. Hardcover - Three witty novellas about academic life - lots of fun to read. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-312-15628-6.

New York: Picador, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Three witty novellas about academic life - lots of fun to read. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-312-15628-6.

New York: Picador, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a "pitch-perfect blend of satire and horror, a Faustian tale of the terrors of academe." 388 pp. ISBN: 0-312203322.

Boston: Little Brown, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh novel by this Southern author: "A high-spirited romp through the lower depths of academe, as repressed theatrical scion/drama prof Theodore Ryan-- taking inspiration from his sozzled friend Joshua `'Ford'' Rexford, the distinguished playwright whose biography Theo is writing--seizes the day and finds a daring, joyous, illegal way to get his own play on the boards. Theo's play, Foolscap, a historical fantasy about Sir Walter Raleigh's attempt to write a play about himself just before his execution, has been ignored by the few people who've seen it as dated and unplayable," (Kirkus) 392 pp. ISBN: 0-316-545279.

Boston: Little Brown, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel by this Southern author: "A high-spirited romp through the lower depths of academe, as repressed theatrical scion/drama prof Theodore Ryan-- taking inspiration from his sozzled friend Joshua `'Ford'' Rexford, the distinguished playwright whose biography Theo is writing--seizes the day and finds a daring, joyous, illegal way to get his own play on the boards. Theo's play, Foolscap, a historical fantasy about Sir Walter Raleigh's attempt to write a play about himself just before his execution, has been ignored by the few people who've seen it as dated and unplayable," (Kirkus) SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 0-316-545279.

Seattle: 47North, (2012). SIGNED - The author's second novel, one which combines time-travel, a murder investigation and academia. SIGNED on the half title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 9781611099096.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2008). First edition - The author's second novel, both a clever academic novel and a literary detective story. 308 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1999). A satire of academic pretensions - academia at its worst when murder occurs at a convention on Edith Wharton at a thinly disguised Michigan State University. A title in the Stonewall Inn Mysteries series. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-312-198639.

London: Frederick Muller Limited, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The demise of the provost of Lancaster sets off a chain of disgraceful doings. A novel set in the world of Academe which is one of scurrilous intrigue, plagued by incompetence, senility, fanaticism, atrophy and casual lust - though nevertheless 'a decent kind of place'." 197 pp. ISBN: 0-091738393.