Santa Barbara: Perserverance Press - John Daniel, (2002.). First edition - Lora Roberts first book (published in 1988 as Lora Roberts Smith) featured Bridget Montrose. Now Bridget is back - and she has been invited to attend a writers' retreat on the California coast near Santa Cruz. A fun read - as are most of her books. ISBN: 1-880284-545.

Santa Barbara: Perserverance Press - John Daniel, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Lora Roberts first book (published in 1988 as Lora Roberts Smith) featured Bridget Montrose. Now Bridget is back - and she has been invited to attend a writers' retreat on the California coast near Santa Cruz. A fun read - as are most of her books. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 1-880284-545.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set at Oxford, this is the fourth in this series of mysteries featuring the Reverend Charles Dodgson (better known as the writer Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books) and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle, a would-be writer. SIGNED on the title page. Historical notes. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-312266383.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set at Oxford, this is the third in this series of mysteries featuring the Reverend Charles Dodgson (better known as the writer Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books) and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle, a would-be writer. SIGNED on the title page. Historical notes. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-312209037.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set at Oxford, this is the second in this series of mysteries featuring the Reverend Charles Dodgson (better known as the writer Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books) and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle, a would-be writer. SIGNED on the title page. Historical notes. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-312205708.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in The Order of the Sanguines series. "In his first-ever collaboration, bestselling author James Rollins combines his skill for cutting-edge science and historical mystery with award-winning novelist Rebecca Cantrell's talent for haunting suspense and sensual atmosphere in a gothic tale about an ancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as.'The Blood Gospel'." SIGNED by Rollins on the title page. 479 pp. ISBN: 9780061991042.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to 'Escapade.' Mystery set in Paris in 1923 and featuring two young Pinkerton 'ops' who, in the course of their murder investigation, briefly encounter writers Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186290.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sequel to 'Escapade.' Mystery set in Paris in 1923 and featuring two young Pinkerton 'ops' who, in the course of their murder investigation, briefly encounter writers Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186290.

London: Harper Collins, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - Midway through his triumphant tour of the American West, the young Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been savagely murdering prostitutes. SIGNED on the title page. 374pp. ISBN: 0-00-2323761.

New York: St Martin's, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - Midway through his triumphant tour of the American West, the young Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been savagely murdering prostitutes. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Jan 1992. 374pp. ISBN: 0-312-059973.

London: Harper Collins, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - Midway through his triumphant tour of the American West, the young Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been savagely murdering prostitutes. SIGNED on the title page. 374pp. ISBN: 0-00-2323761.

Norman, OK: St Martin's, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - Midway through his triumphant tour of the American West, the young Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been savagely murdering prostitutes. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-312059973.

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: 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.

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: 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: 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.

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.

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.

New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one centered around a real historical mystery involving Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy, and a series of murders in the modern day that may be related to the evidence being uncovered by a writer's research. An intelligent thriller, very highly praised. Illustrations, author's notes. 304 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0385521062.

New York: Harper Collins, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Interesting and rather off-beat mystery introducing Sally Adler - who was known in her wilder days as a hell-raising singer known as Mustang Sally. Now a history professor (although still singing sometimes) she returns to Laramie, Wyoming when she is offered a chair endowed by a woman poet who recently died. Among the terms of the endowment is that she is to live in the Dunwoodie House and write a biography of Meg Dunwoodie. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-06-019555X.

New York: Hyperion, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel by this award-winning author set at Cambridge University in 1786 - a former bookseller and the author of a book entitled 'The Anatomy of Ghosts," John Holdsworth, is sent there to discover why a young man who has descended into madness believes that he is being haunted. 410 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 9781401302870.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's seventh mystery novel, featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch, who is investigating the murder of a writer disguised as a hit-and-run accident. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-094635501.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourteenth mystery novel, featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch, and set at a summer course in creative writing. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-094682607.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in 1920 in the small village of Wolfpit, where Rutledge, on a night drive to exorcise his demons, happens on the scene of a murder just minutes before - that of a respected bookseller in the town. A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. SIGNED on the title page by Charles Todd. ("Charles Todd" was the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0062386212.

New York: Signet, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - A bibliomystery set in New Mexico featuring librarian and rare books expert Claire Reynier. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-7394-32346.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Judge Dee (630-700 AD), set during the Tang dynasty, illustrated with 8 drawings by Van Gulik. Illustrated endpapers. Postscript. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-684125609.