New York: Hyperion, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket flap: 'Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, Hitchcock Sewell, is once again cruising for trouble. A childhood friend has been charge with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitch, in his heart, knows she didn't do it. Problem is, the friend has gone into hiding--and she's taken his ever-vivacious ex-wife, Julia, with her.' Winner of the Lefty Award for best humorous mystery. ISBN: 0-786867116.

New York: Hyperion, (2002.). First edition - 'Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, Hitchcock Sewell, is once again cruising for trouble. A childhood friend has been charge with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitch, in his heart, knows she didn't do it. Problem is, the friend has gone into hiding--and she's taken his ever-vivacious ex-wife, Julia, with her.' Winner of the Lefty Award for best humorous mystery.

New York: Hyperion, (2002.). First edition - 'Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, Hitchcock Sewell, is once again cruising for trouble. A childhood friend has been charge with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitch, in his heart, knows she didn't do it. Problem is, the friend has gone into hiding--and she's taken his ever-vivacious ex-wife, Julia, with her.'

New York: Hyperion, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket flap: 'Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, Hitchcock Sewell, is once again cruising for trouble. A childhood friend has been charge with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitch, in his heart, knows she didn't do it.' SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Lefty Award for best humorous mystery. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-786867116.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring 'Baltimore's sexiest undertaker,' Hitchcock Sewell. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-786865717.

New York: Hyperion, (2003.). First edition - Fourth mystery featuring 'Baltimore's sexiest undertaker,' Hitchcock Sewell. 324 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Novel set in a Jewish immigrant community in Baltimore in the 1940s. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-679-408681.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A humorous novel about a Jewish cantor and his divided congregation, set in 1944 Baltimore. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-679-408681.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone thriller which spans the decades between the disappearance of two sisters from a shopping mall 30 years ago and the appearance of a disoriented woman who claims to be one of the sisters. Set in Baltimore. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 978006-1128851.

Bryn Mawr, PA: Dorrance & Company, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of poems - some lighthearted, others more sentimental - which begins with an "Ode to the Baltimore Orioles." SIGNED on the front endpaper with the inscription "In memory of happy days of youth in Baltimore." and dated in 1983. 123 pp. ISBN: 0-8059-28545.

Bryn Mawr, PA: Dorrance & Company, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poems which trace the life of this Maryland woman from her young womanhood in Baltimore to the death of her husband and an unexpected fling late in life. SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication, 56 pp,. ISBN: 0-8059-29320.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First edition - Novel about a mismatched couple, and its consequences spanning three generations. With an announced first printing of 300,000 copies, this advance issue will be much less common than the hardcover. Letter from the editor bound in at the front.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Perhaps it is women who relate most to the wonderful opening sentence of this novel:'Once upon a time there was a woman who discovered she turned into the wrong person.' but I think the dilemmas faced by her characters are much more universal. A wise, sometimes funny book, set in her hometown of Baltimore, basis for the recent movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-376-412530.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. First edition - A novel by this author whom John Updike called "wickedly good" - the story of a schoolteacher, forced to retire at 61, coming to terms with the rest of his life. With an announced first printing of 300,000 copies, this advance issue is much less common than the trade edition. 276 pp.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about a mismatched couple, and its consequences spanning three generations. 306 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her twentieth novel, the story of generations of the Whitshank family, set (as are most of her books) in Baltimore. Shortlisted for the Man-Booker award (only the 2nd US author to be on that list) 358 pp. ISBN: 978-1101874271.