New York: Berkley, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The first novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Jacques Futrelle, the author behind "the Thinking Machine," the popular fictional investigator who solves mysteries using formidable logic (Futrelle did not survive the sinking of the Titanic) . SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-425174093.

New York: Berkley, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The first novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Jacques Futrelle, the author behind "the Thinking Machine," the popular fictional investigator who solves mysteries using formidable logic (Futrelle did not survive the sinking of the Titanic) . SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-425174093.

New York: Walker, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing wise-cracking, ex-cop, Vietnam veteran Mallory - not just the first in this series, but the first book by Collins to be issued in hardcover (Collins is also known for writing the Dick Tracy comic series for many years). SIGNED on the title page. Set in a small town in Iowa . 160 pp. ISBN: 0-802754759.

New York: Walker, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing wise-cracking, ex-cop, Vietnam veteran Mallory - not just the first in this series, but the first book by Collins to be issued in hardcover (Collins is also known for writing the Dick Tracy comic series for many years). INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "Hope you enjoy meeting Mallory, Mary! All the best" and dated April 27, '83, in the year of publication. Set in a small town in Iowa . 160 pp. ISBN: 0-802754759.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, originally published in the UK in 1998 and introducing Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Fenwick, who is just returning to work after a period of compassionate leave following the devastating attempted suicide of his wife - "Twenty years ago, a young woman fell tragically to her death. The only people with her were four schoolfriends. One - or maybe all of them - is responsible. Now there's someone intent on letting them have their just deserts.: Recommended. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-1250028068.

Longboat Key, FL: Oceanview Publishing, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first thriller and first novel featuring private investigator Rick Cahill. "[He] was never convicted of his wife's murder, but he was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself." Gar Anthony Haywood called this "a smart new spin on the classic P.I. novel." Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp. ISBN: 978-1608090761.

Garden City, NY: The Crime Club by Doubleday, 1980. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first suspense novel introducing Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys of the RCMP and set in New Brunwick - when an elderly woman known for her carefulness in canning vegetables is found dead from botulism - and the doctor who called it an accident is found dead in his office with a fractured skull, it is more than a co-incidence. SIGNED on the title page. Hard to find in the hardcover first edition and especially so signed. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-385158386.

Garden City, NY: The Crime Club by Doubleday, 1983. SIGNED hardcover - As she is recovering from a freak accident which left her face scarred and her leg injured, New York model Holly Howe is looking for peace and quiet in a tiny New Brunswick village - but finds just the opposite when she agrees to take on a job as an assistant caretaker in a Victorian mansion overlooking the Bay of Fundy. INSCRIBED on the title page. (code N21 in gutter on page 181) 182 pp. ISBN: 0-385187009.

Garden City, NY: The Crime Club by Doubleday, 1983. SIGNED hardcover first edition - As she is recovering from a freak accident which left her face scarred and her leg injured, New York model Holly Howe is looking for peace and quiet in a tiny New Brunswick village - but finds just the opposite when she agrees to take on a job as an assistant caretaker in a Victorian mansion overlooking the Bay of Fundy. INSCRIBED on the title page. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-385187009.

New York: Scribner, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of international intrigue introducing photojournalist Sophie Medina. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 978-1451659283.

New York: Scribner, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of international intrigue introducing photojournalist Sophie Medina. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 978-1451659283.

New York: Scholastic, (2001). First edition - A book which combines fantasy, history and Arthurian legend. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Cover praise from Philip Pullman. List of characters and word list. 340 pp.

Lutz, FL: Down and Out Books, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The author's first thriller set in Thailand introducing former US Army Ranger Matt Chance. A leading American research scientist, investigating a mysterious viral outbreak in China, is found dead in unusual circumstances in the Northern jungles of Thailand. Matt is recruited by the U.S. Center for Disease Control, fronting for the CIA, to look into the death, and discovers the deaths are linked into a conspiracy dating back to World War II. SIGNED on the half title page. Crowley is a Vietnam vet who made his home in Bangkok many years ago and who worked for an NGO in one of the city's slums. Glossary, sources, 201 pp. ISBN: 978-1937495732.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel written by the Irvines under this pseudonym, introducing archeologist Nicolette Scott, who combines an interest in early planes with a more routine Anasazi dig with her father in the badlands of New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-312144377.

New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition - The first book in a wonderful series of historical mysteries, set in 1905 turn-of-century San Francisco. Introduces us to Fremont Jones, who has come West to embark on a career as an independent "type-writer" but who winds up involved in sleuthing, something a properly brought up young Bostonian should never do. Winner of the Macavity award for best first novel. 229 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery and the first in a new series featuring Torrey Tunet, who was involved in a theft at age 14, but is now working as a high-powered translator. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-31220552X.

New York: Atheneum, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in a series of mysteries featuring Saratoga police sergeant Charlie Bradshaw - set in this famous New York race track town. In addition to writing these rather offbeat mysteries, Dobyns is a novelist and award-winning poet. 239 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-689-107072.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical mystery which takes place in 14th century Oxford, with its roots going back 200 years to a legend of a "sinister cult in the wilds of Oxfordshire." The first book in a series using characters from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-31211740X.

New York: Lippincott, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A light hearted and witty whodunit introducing the mystery-solving team of Lucy Ramsdale and Inspector McDougal. Among the volunteers of the Second Run Thrift Shop one of the very topics of gossip is the transformation of Marion Colter from an ugly duckling to a restless - thanks to plastic surgery - that is, until Marion is poisoned at a large cocktail party. Although Dolson described herself as a "self-made spinster: in 1965, at 56, she met mystery writer Richard Lockridge and they were soon married - and it was after her marriage that she started writing mysteries. This book is dedicated to "Dick, my accomplice in crime . . ." 225 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (1990). dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery introducing security consultant Tom Bethany, Vietnam vet, ex-wrestler, former political activist and pilot for the CIA's Air America. Praise on back cover from Carl Hiaasen and Ross Thomas. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-671-707523.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Ms Temple Barr, a 29 year old public relations freelancer in Las Vegas and the 18 lb jet black tomcat called Midnight Louie, who gets to tell his side of the story. This opens with a murder at the ABA. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "The first Louie! Very best fishes! with Louie's paw print drawn under the signature. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-312852177.

Duluth: Spinsters Ink, (1993). Novel introducing Tyler Jones, feminist, lesbian, writer and amateur sleuth. When she finds the body of a man in the park while walking her dog - and it turns out to be a seemingly respectable doctor, but a person she knew as abusive and sadistic to her family, suspicion falls on her. With the police apparently stymied, she gets involved in the investigation. Set in San Francisco. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-9332160920.

New York: Norton, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second crime novel, a South Florida noir introducing Wylie Coyote Melville, therapist and forensic consultant, who is summoned to a horrific crime scene on Christmas Eve. Five members of the Halliday family have been brutally killed and the police claim that the deaths were a murder-suicide carried out by a broken and desperate Chafin Halliday, but Wylies not so sure. As Wylie begins his own investigation with the help of his friend Bay Lettique, a poker player and sleight-of-hand artist, he discovers a web of corruption from the police to the mob - and his own life is in danger. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0393070538.

New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery - a "novel of murder and mayhem in New Orleans" - introducing spunky Cajun hairdresser Claire Claiborne. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312092805.