New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the late 1970s, in the affluent suburbs of Detroit, this novel of a serial killer known as 'Babysitter' is a "scathing indictment of corrupt politics, unexamined racism, and the enabling of sexual predation in America." 432 pp. ISBN: 978-0593535172.

Ann Arbor, MI: Bywater Books, 2018. SIGNED first edition - The second in the series of books featuring Black and lesbian Detroit private investigator Charlie Mack - "Born and raised in the city that America forgot, Charlene 'Charlie' Mack has built a highly respected private investigations firm through hard work, smart choices, and relentless ambition - and a crack team of investigators who are highly skilled and trustworthy bolsters her successes. Then Charlie and her team are asked to take on a seemingly impossible task - to identify and thwart an attack on the upcoming Detroit Auto Show." SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 978-1612941158.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set in Detroit between 1938-1943 against the background of the Nazi advance across Europe. The story of a labor organizer whose life is first threatened, and then he is murdered. Inspired by the life of Isaac Litwak, his father, a union leader. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to "Ann and Abe... friends of my Dad and Ma." An uncommon signature. Cover praise from Herbert Gold and others. 312 pp.

San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, (1990). Novel set in Detroit in the 1950s and 1960s, where many Black men and women have come north to work the line at the Ford Motor plant. This focuses on the many and varied relationships between these Black women, their struggles and how the support each other. 179 pp plus a 2 pp glossary. ISBN: 1-879960028.

New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (although he had already won several awards for his short stories) introducing Hispanic homicide detective Lupe Garcia. Set in Detroit's music world, one Allyn knows well as a co-leader for a Midwest rock group. SIGNED on the title page. Laid in is a brief typed, signed letter to collector Larry Owens. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-312033028.

New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel in this interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Detroit cop Lupe Garcia. Kirkus Reviews called this a "carnage caper - heavy on sex, ammo, showdowns, and car chases." SIGNED and dated opposite the title page. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-312088515.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. SIGNED and dated on a preliminary page. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-395394287.

New York: Bantam, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing down-at-the-heels Detroit private eye Ralph Poteet. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-553-053639.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. SIGNED first edition - The fifth suspense novel featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker. SIGNED on the half title page. Winner of the Shamus Award. 220 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker. SIGNED on the title page and dated on the year of publication. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-892966637.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in his Detroit series, set in Motown in the early 1970s when it has earned the reputation of the Murder Capitol of America - a city where a police crackdown squad (STRESS) had been formed, but the result was more dead young Black men, and a Black community outraged and aggrieved. Although set 50 years ago, the problems this deals with are still occuring today. In his afterword Estleman notes that one of Coleman Young's - the city's first Black mayor - first acts was to disband STRESS and the following year the murder rate declined for the first time in 13 years. SIGNED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 0-892965533.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Ten short stories set in Detroit and featuring detective Amos Walker. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-395410711.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. SIGNED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-410754.

New York: Bantam, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final book in his Detroit trilogy. Set in 1990, in a city on the brink of disaster where big auto has been replaced by big crime. Doc Miller, a former major leaguer who has just gotten out of prison and driving as an unlicensed cabbie to get by. SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-553089269.

New York: Bantam, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing down-at-the-heels Detroit private eye Ralph Poteet. SIGNED and dated in 1997 on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-553-053639.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-395394287.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel featuring private investigator Amos Walker, set in Detroit, Michigan. SIGNED on the title page. 193 pp. ISBN: 0-395-537673.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twelfth mystery featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-892966335.

New York: Bantam, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in his Detroit Trilogy, set in 1966. "Hired by a big car company to spy on a consumer advocate group calling for stricter safety standards, Detroit ex-cop Rick Amery becomes involved in a vicious street war between the mob and a tight-knit African-American community." SIGNED and dated on the title page. Author's historical postscript. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-553074210.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in the series featuring Peter Macklin, a "fixer" working for a Detroit Mafia family, who finds himself working with the FBI to secure the release of hundreds of hostages aboard a tour boat on Lake Erie. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-892960655.

Norman, OK: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twenty-third mystery featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker by this award-winning writer, and the final book in the Charlotte Sing trilogy. SIGNED on the title page. 283 pp. ISBN: 978-765331212.

New York: Bantam, (19900 dj. Hardcover - Novel by this award-winning writer, set in Detroit during into the violent era of prohibition, when rum runners ruled and machine-gun toting hoods turned Detroit into a modern-day Dodge City. The first novel in The Detroit Trilogy. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-553070428.

New York: Archipelago, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning poet's first novel - an insightful look at the American working-class and the strength and strain of family bonds. "Set in Cleveland and Detroit, the novel chronicles two generations of the Tollman family, opening at the start of the Great Depression and moving forward through five decades to the Vietnam War." 330 pp. ISBN: 0-972869204.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Detroit private investigator, Amos Walker. SIGNED on the title page. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-395294479.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a high-tech near future, and featuring Magnolia, who had grown up in the burnt-out remains of a Detroit slum. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85286x.

New York: New Directions, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon short novel by Oates, one set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the 1960s and 1970s, and which draws us into the secret life of a nurse's aide, overworked, underpaid and quietly overzealous. 135 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-11711.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Amos Walker mystery, set in Detroit and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-395-410738.

Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, Inc., (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Father Koesler mystery, set in Detroit, Michigan. 304 p. ISBN: 0-8362-61119.

New York: Warner, 1994. First edition - A memoir of growing up in the housing projects of west Dallas, among the drug dealers and the abandoned apartments, with a mother who was addicted to heroin.