New York: Harper & Row, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about a potential that could easily happen by this science fiction writer and physician. It starts innocently when a young girl in the mountains of Washington State touches a dying squirrel and in the wake of her death, over the next six months, a rare pneumonic strain of bubonic plague explodes across the country, with death and devastation following. The Center for Disease Control is paralyzed by bureaucracy, the drug industry is focused on profits, and only a quartet of unorthodox specialists offer hope to defeat this. 362 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-060380349.

New York: HarperCollins, (1999.). Mystery involving Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn (now retired and taking on a job as a private investigator) and Jim Chee. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1097853.

New York: Duffield, 1906. Hardcover first edition - Stereotypical ballads depicting Chinese American life in San Francisco's Chinatown - but these also deal with some very real events - the bubonic plague which hit San Francisco in 1900 (and which first affected Chinatown) and the earthquake of 1906. Illustrated with eight glossy plates from drawings by E.C. Peixotto. 81 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, 1998. dj. Hardcover - A Navaho mystery with Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn. ISBN: 0-06-0175818.