New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1992.). SIGNED - The first novel in the saga of Recluce, SIGNED on the title page. 501 pp. Wraparound cover art by Darrell K. Sweet. ISBN: 0-812-505182.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Epic fantasy novel. SIGNED on the title page. 510 pp. Full color map endpapers. Wraparound dustjacket art by Darrell K. Sweet (jacket design by Carol Russo, edited by David Hartwell). ISBN: 0-312-87877x.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Epic fantasy novel. SIGNED on the title page. 510 pp. Full color map endpapers. Wraparound dustjacket art by Darrell K. Sweet (jacket design by Carol Russo, edited by David Hartwell). ISBN: 0-312-87877x.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in the saga of Recluce, According to Modesitt, the first printing was only 4000 copies, and many of those went to libraries, so this is quite uncommon in this condition. SIGNED on the title page. 440 pp. Wraparound dustjacket art by Darrell K. Sweet. ISBN: 0-312-851162.

New York: Walker, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing jazz pianist Evan Horne. SIGNED on the title page. 193 pp. Dust jacket art by Rick Farley. ISBN: 0-8027-32488.

New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - A Pacific Northwest mystery - set mostly on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and introducing Venus Diamond, a Fish and Wildlife Agent. INSCRIBED and SIGNED (twice) on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-312147139.

New York: David MacKay, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by Muller and the first in the Sharon McCone series. Very personally and warmly INSCRIBED by Muller on the front endpaper and dated in 1983. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-679-507825.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2013). SIGNED - The first novel in a new series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco, and introducing former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. Authors' note. 269 pp. ISBN: 978-0765331779.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series set in Vermont, featuring former MP Mercy Carr - who has returned from Afghanistan, where she was shot and her fiance was killed, with Martinez's bomb-sniffing dog, Elvis - and Game Warden Troy Warner. 342 pp. ISBN: 978-1250153036.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery set in New York City and introducing septuagenarian Reuben Frost, a semiretired former leader of a prominent law firm, his elegnt wife Cynthia, a former ballerina, New York Police Department homicide detective Luis Bautista. Writer Stefan Kanfer has called the Frosts Òthe most enjoyable pair of married sleuths since Mr. and Mrs. North.Ó 268 pp. ISBN: 0-67160628x.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing African-American private investigator Smokey Dalton - set in Memphis in 1968 where tense racial relations are beginning to build towards danger, as the strike of the sanitation workers enters its third week. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-312262647.

Highland City, FL: Rainbow Books, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first humorous mystery novel set in Los Angeles and introducing Tracy Eaton - "mystery writer, detective wannabe and the offspring of eccentric Hollywood stars - a heroine as impulsive, energetic and imaginative as the city that shaped her." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Recipe card for Bailey's Irish Cream tiramisu laid in. 294 pp. ISBN: 1-568250436.

Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Katie Stillwell, who is focused on practicing for her Sommelier Certification until a body is found at a winery party. Set in California's Napa Valley. SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-0738748504.

Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Katie Stillwell, who is focused on practicing for her Sommelier Certification until a body is found at a winery party. Set in California's Napa Valley. SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-0738748504.

New York: Crooked Lane Books, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first published novel featuring journalist Caitlin Bergman who is invited back to the university she left early to receive an honorary degree. "She finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back." SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-1683319757.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a mystery introducing Raymond Donne an ex-cop who, after a knee injury ended his police career, is now teaching in the same Williamsburg, Brooklyn neighborhood he once policed. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for a Barry Award. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-1250008985.

New York: Delacorte, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery novel, featuring defense attorney Nina Reilly, written by these two sisters under this pseudonym. Set in South Lake Tahoe. Advance praise from Jeffrey Deaver, Jeremiah Healy and others. The beginning of an excellent series. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-385-314108.

New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St Martin's Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in an award-winning new adventure-horror series by a former US Army Intelligence officer. "Halfway through SEAL training, Jack Walker is still green but showing incredible promise when he's whisked away to join four SEALs - and their dog - for a special ops mission. Walker soon finds himself in a whirlwind of otherworldly creatures and events as he finds out the true nature of this 'special ops' team. Battling demons, possessed humans, mass-murdering cults, and evil in its most dark and primeval form, SEAL Team 666 has their work cut out for them. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-1250007353.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing 'Blue', a social psychologist as unusual as her nickname, living in a half built motel in the California desert. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-89296-6718.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing 'Blue', a social psychologist as unusual as her nickname, living in a half built motel in the California desert. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-6718.

New York: Ballantine, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel introducing blind sculptor Mo Bowdrez and his Anglo-Hopi girlfriend Connie Barnes. Set in New Mexico. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345379284.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover first edition - The first book in an eight book series, set at Yale University, and consisting of interrelated stories focusing on sports - especially baseball, but also track and field, and football, as well as an account of a most unusual regatta. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and 5 internal glossy plates by Worth Brehm, Tissue guard for frontispiece. The author was a noted journalist, who had attended Yale and who was on the football and rowing teams. 356 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads for other stories of college life.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery introducing Regency Romance writer Juliet Bodine, who has agreed to help turn Dickens' Great Expectation into ballet form - and NYPD detective Murray Landis. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312280335.

New York: St Martin's, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first Dickens' mystery,set in April and May of 1851. Charles Dickens and author Wilkie Collins meet Inspector William Field of the newly formed Metropolitan Protectives. A gentleman's brutal murder brings the three men together in an extraordinary investigation that introduces Dickens to the beautiful young actress Ellen Ternan, who would become the love of his life but who is now accused of murder. A novel which, like Dickens' own books, reveals the hypocrisy of repressed Victorian society. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312050739.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2008. SIGNED first edition - " A Mystery of Colonial America" - the first book in a new series by this author best known for his series set in Tibet - but like that series, this also involves the need to understand different cultures and spirits. "Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, protagonist Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners. [He] is thrust into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War and finds himself exploring a frontier world shrouded in danger and defying death in a wilderness populated by European settlers, Indian shamans, and mysterious scalping parties." SIGNED on the title page. 456 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first Mamur Zapt mystery, set in 1908, as the "indirect" British rule in Cairo is beginning to wind down. The Mamur Zapt is Cadwallader Owen, the head of the Political Branch of the police. The author grew up in what was then the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Author's note. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-385415206.