New York: Ace Books, (1997 to 1999). First edition - Set of three novel in the News from the Edge series, featuring Savvy McKinnon, a reporter for the Global Query, a notorious tabloid newspaper, who will follow up on any tip, no matter how wild in her search for the truth -- a blend of science fiction and mystery with a good dose of humor included. 198 pp. each. ISBN: 0-441-004598.

New York: Harper Collins, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Interesting and rather off-beat mystery introducing Sally Adler - who was known in her wilder days as a hell-raising singer known as Mustang Sally. Now a history professor (although still singing sometimes) she returns to Laramie, Wyoming when she is offered a chair endowed by a woman poet who recently died. Among the terms of the endowment is that she is to live in the Dunwoodie House and write a biography of Meg Dunwoodie. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-06-019555X.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel featuring MI5 agent Jane Nicols - described as 'more daring than James Bond, sexier than Emma Peel...'. ISBN: 0-89296-6580.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1997.). First edition - Author's first novel featuring MI5 agent Jane Nicols - described as 'more daring than James Bond, sexier than Emma Peel...' 292 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first novel introducing Boston attorney Brady Coyne, who has a reputation for discretion and so he is asked to investigate a death caused by a fall from a cliff top - a possible suicide or was it murder? Winner of the Scribner Crime Novel Award. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-684180561.

Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series set in Maine, and introducing Stoney Calhoun, an unlikely hero - a man without a past. After a lightning strike obliterated his memory, he ended up as a fishing guide in Maine. "He's reeducating himself, he's in love, and life is good - until his friend and fellow fishing guide is murdered and Stoney suspects that he himself was the target." SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the 2005 Ben Franklin Award. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-1592284351.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery introducing William Dougall, an "engaging and unprincipled graduate student" and his girlfriend Amanda as they hunt for a cache of diamonds. Awarded the CWA New Blood Dagger. nominated for the Edgar for best first novel, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-396081495.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery novel set in Dublin and New York, and introducing homicide detective Maggie D'arcy who tackles the case that changed her life. 23 years ago, her family received a call from the Dublin police - her cousin Erin has been missing for several days. Maggie herself spent weeks in Ireland, working beside the police but no trace of Erin was ever found. Now Maggie is a detective and a divorced mother of a teenager, but when the Garda call to say that Erin's scarf has been found and another young woman has gone missing, Maggie returns to Ireland determined to finally solve the case. 407 pp. ISBN: 978-1250256430.

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first supernatural romantic mystery, featuring Lizbet Lange, who encounters Charlie, the ghost of a murdered undercover cop, when his skeleton is unearthed as she is having a pool put in the back yard of the mansion she inherited from her ex-husband. SIGNED on the title page with the words "To one of Charlie's fans" (not personalized). 223 pp. ISBN: 1-885173474.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel introducing FBI agent, Ella Clah, who has returned to the reservation when her father is ritually murdered, and her brother, a tribal medicine man is the prime suspect. This series explores the conflicts between the traditional and modernist ways of life among the Navajo. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Walk in beauty." 380 pp. ISBN: 0-312-856520.

Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Jenna Murphy, a young art curator. Cover praise from Sheldon Siegel and Nina Schuyler who says this "beautifully weaves together lush language, the intricacies of the Asian art world, and page-turning tension." The author is herself an Asian art historian and consultant, who worked as a museum curator. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0804011853.

New York: George Sully & Company, (1914). Hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series to show boys what can be done on a farm. Hiram is a country farm boy who longs for the city, but fails when he gets there. He returns to the country and then begins to show what can be done on a small farm that has been badly run down. Glossy frontispiece by Boehm. 308 pp.

Sarasota, FL: Oceanview Publishing, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Set in 1978 San Francisco, this is the first mystery featuring ex-con private investigator Colleen Hayes, who is struggling to put her life back together. She accepts a case from a wealthy, retired industrialist who is desperate to solve the brutal murder of his daughter, a murder that took place in Golden Gate Park eleven years earlier, during the Summer of Love. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 390 pp. ISBN: 978-1608093410.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1994). dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller introducing San Diego detective Tommy Donahoo, head of the elite Squad 5. The story of "a madman who plans to shoot down a commercial airliner in the glide path into San Diego's international airport, Lindbergh Field, already the center of controversy because it is situated over a residential neighborhood" 262 pp. ISBN: 0-78670117X.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the World at War - the first book in this series set in a world where magic works. 540 pp. Map endpapers. Dust jacket art by Bob Eggleton. ISBN: 0-312868952.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in the series of mystery novels featuring Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam police. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-395-207053.

New York: Berkley, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first 'mommy-track' mystery introducing Juliet Applebaum, a public defender turned stay-at-home mom who is bored with playdates and decides to investigate when the school's principal is killed in a hit and run accident. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-425-174697.

New York: Doubleday, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First in a new series featuring Texas based crime reporter Molly Cates. Winner of the 1994 Edgar award for best mystery. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-385-46858X.

New York: Doubleday, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First in a new series featuring Texas based crime reporter Molly Cates. Winner of the 1994 Edgar award for best mystery. SIGNED on the title page. In addition, Walker's address label is on the front endpaper, and a handwritten envelope from Walker with a business card inside is laid in. The business card includes a brief SIGNED note. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478585.

New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Murder at the network news. Author's first mystery, introducing Abby Abagnarro, the news show director, and his ex-wife Ike, the show's producer. Nominated for an Agatha award for best first novel. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-312110898.

Great Britain and US: Severn House Publishers, LTD / Creme De La Creme (2011). SIGNED - The first novel in the Aidy Westlake series. As a former race-car driver himself, Wood knows the world of auto racing well. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 978-1780295077.

Toronto: Collins Crime Club, (1983). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first Canadian edition (with no price on the dust jacket) of the first mystery featuring Inspector Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police. Wright was born in England, but lived in Canada for many years before becoming a writer. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, Winner of the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for Best First Mystery Novel, Winner of the City of Toronto Book Award. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-002226340.

Goshen CT: Chicory Blue Press, (1992). First edition - Zeidenstein's first chapbook of her own poetry, and the first title in the Crimson Edge Chapbook series. Zeidenstein founded Chicory Blue Press to create a place where women past sixty can find their voices and be published. Includes 15 poems and an afterword. 35 pp. ISBN: 0-961911131.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2010). First edition - The first novel in a series based on the seven deadly sins. When the battered body of Irini Asimakopoulo is found at the foot of a high cliff it is written off as a suicide or accident, until a mysterious investigator Hermes Diaktoros ("the fat man") arrives from Athens on the island of Thiminos to look into her death. 322 pp.