New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - a "fast-paced, scathingly funny black comedy" set in Sierra Leone in Africa where a Peace Corps volunteer has gone missing. Both his father and his best friend search for him and in doing so they encounter witches and witch-finders, bush devils, bad medicine, and even a bundle of rags that might have caused supernatural disturbances. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-374-289514.

Dallas, TX: Baskerville Publishers, Inc. (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A black comedy set in "The Big Thicket of East Texas, a place that time forgot but which master writer Gerald Duff remembers well." Cover praise from Madison Smartt Bell (who called this a "crackpot Southern comedy with a darker edge of satire beneath its wit."), Lee Smith, and Roy Blount. The author was born and raised in Beaumont ,Texas. 185 pp. Striking red, white and black dustjacket by Helen Williams. ISBN: 1-880909154.

Boston: Faber & Faber, (1984). The author's offbeat first novel. Set in Oxford and opening with the discovery of a woman's nude body on the pavement below her flat, this thriller is described as also "a stylistically experimental black comedy that challenges the assumptions of a traditional novel." 214 pp. ISBN: 0-57112571.

London: Cassell, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and last of three highly praised black comedies written by Hall in the 1960s - although he went on to have a very long and successful career as a writer for television and even as an author of children's books, in a 1917 interview he commented that he was most proud of his novels. This novel, about the irony of fate, is comedy at its blackest, written with chilling humor, leading up to a startling and violent conclusion. 132 pp.

New York: Ecco Press, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth book and second novel, a very black comedy: a couple in the midst of an acrimonious divorce secretly rejoice at the thought that he was killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and she was on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania - only to discover that she had missed her flight, he had been late for work, The stock market crash, the anthrax scare, the invasion of Iraq all become part of the marital battlefield. Nominated for the National Book Award. 237 pp,. ISBN: 0-06-0501405.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award winning writer originally published in 1987 under the title "Whore Banquets." The story of a young Englishman stuck in Tokyo, his passport lost, working illegally is part thriller and part black comedy. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-297828991.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - Scottish author's first novel - dustjacket praise from Thomas Pynchon. who called it "A demented deadpan-comic wonder." Shortlisted for both the Booker and Orange awards. 214 pp. ISBN: 1-55970-4373.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994.) dj. Hardcover - A combination of satire, black comedy and science fiction. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1909199.

New York: Harper Collins, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel published as a trade paperback original in the US. The Guardian called it "Highly skilful, original black comedy in 841 chapters presenting fractions of lives in tiny sections that connect in a confusing and enthralling manner that is intriguing and compulsive." 311 pp.