New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2023) dj. Hardcover first edition - The thirteenth novel by this award winning writer and one of his best, "a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing more than fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood. . . On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself." Cover praise from Percival Everett (who commented 'the levels of mystery here astounds"), Colum McCann and others. 373 pp. ISBN: 978-0062938824.

New York: Signet Books / New American Library (1959). First edition - The fifth in the series featuring "torrid blonde private eye" Mavis Seidlitz. Signet 1694. Cover art by Barye Phillips. 128 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which introduces us to Evers Wheeling, "a preternaturally young North Carolina judge who's headed to the dogs with his eyes wide open. . But just before he makes it there, into his life comes a blonde in trouble with an outrageous (and ever-mutating) tale of a brother who needs help avoiding a jail sentence." James Crumley called this "a wonderfully unique read, charming and funny and touching and twisted, as fresh and tart as a perfect martini." 348 pp. ISBN: 0-375407251.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (1997). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "Transit cop Jack Swann travels the New York subways day after day, catching the occasional fare-beater or mugger. One day, as he is tangling with a thief, a shot is fired and a boy lies dead.. . [this] single violent incident has changed his life and his outlook." Daly is a journalist in New York City, so he knows it well. 415 pp. ISBN: 0-316217093.

New York: The Century Company, 1920. Hardcover - Southern author's first novel, the story of a priest in a small and poor South Carolina town, who takes in the notorious safe-cracker Slippy McGee after he barely survives the loss of his leg from a train accident. Basis for two films, in 1923 and again in 1948. 405 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ventura's 7th book, a gritty novel featuring a Las Vegas private detective, the son of a showgirl and a small time hood from the Bugsy Siegel era. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-37381.

New York: Viking, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which describes the effect of violence on five people - but also a novel in which the setting, the city of Providence, Rhode Island, plays a large part. Providence is a city "big enough to have neighborhoods, small enough so that everyone knows overone. . . steeped in history and corruption, [a] rough and pretty old Yankee port. . . the biggest organized crime operation in New England jostles with and sometimes runs the action at City Hall." 217 pp. ISBN: 0-670804614.

New York: Delacorte, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Berger's take on the hard-boiled crime thriller as practised by the masters of noir. 247 pp, Dust jacket and title page art by John Sposato. ISBN: 0-440-095468.