New York: Henry Holt, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Owen Maxwell was rescued eight years ago from a foster home by his uncle Magnus "Max". Maxwell,a former promising Shakespearean actor, who had since put his acting talents to work as a gentleman thief who robs only the rich and those he politically opposes. Owen travels the country with Max and dreams of a life after crime, while his uncle only dreams of more elaborate holdups. And then things take a deadly turn.... A rather appealing and offbeat crime novel by this award-winning writer. 289 pp. ISBN: 9780805080629.

Boston: Little Brown, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An "out of series" book by the author of the Harry Bosch mysteries - a novel which turns conventional notions of good and evil inside out. Set in Las Vegas, and featuring a strong and unconventional heroine, Cassie Black. SIGNED on title page. 391 pp. ISBN: 0-316-154067.

London: Orion, 2000. SIGNED - An "out of series" book by the author of the Harry Bosch mysteries - a novel which turns conventional notions of good and evil inside out. Set in Las Vegas, and featuring a strong and unconventional heroine, Cassie Black. SIGNED on the title page. 391 pp. ISBN: 0-75282-5747.

Boston: Little Brown, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An "out of series" book by the author of the Harry Bosch mysteries - a novel which turns conventional notions of good and evil inside out. Set in Las Vegas, and featuring a strong and unconventional heroine, Cassie Black. INSCRIBED on title page. "For .... Nice to meet you. Thanks for riding along." 391 pp. ISBN: 0-316-154067.

Boston: Little Brown, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An "out of series" book by the author of the Harry Bosch mysteries - a novel which turns conventional notions of good and evil inside out. Set in Las Vegas, and featuring a strong and unconventional heroine, Cassie Black. SIGNED on title page. 391 pp. ISBN: 0-316-154067.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twenty-first title in the Midnight Louie mystery series, featuring a tough-talking,twenty-pound,tomcat PI. Public relations hotshot Temple Barr is promoting a charity fundraiser - Dancing with the Celebs - in Las Vegas, but death is also stalking the dance floor. SIGNED on the title page by both Douglas and Midnight Louie. 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0765318626.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twentieth title in the Midnight Louie mystery series, featuring a tough-talking,twenty-pound,tomcat PI. "Temple Barr's romance novelist aunt Kit has wound up in a romantic plot of her own. She's snagged one of the most eligible bachelors on the Strip, one of the elder Fontana brothers, a silver-tongued reputed ex-mobster with a heart of gold. Things go disastrously wrong when the entire party is hijacked and taken to a remote ranch out in the Nevada desert, a place where the women are wild and the sex is legal." SIGNED on the title page by both Douglas and Midnight Louie. 396 pp. ISBN: 978-0765318619.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring the feline detective, Midnight Louie, a black tomcat who fancies himself as another Philip Marlowe. Set in Las Vegas. SIGNED on the title page by the author and by Louie. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-312-852185.

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.

Leawood, KS: Brash Books, (2014). SIGNED - A humorous thriller by this award winning writer - a story of "sports, sex, and outrageous schemes" set in Las Vegas. SIGNED on the title page. Originally published in 2004 under the pseudonym of Ray Shannon. 235 pp. ISBN: 978-1941298466.

New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Thriller involving the brutal killing of young women and the team of detectives and a forensic pathologist formed to track down the murderer. Set in Las Vegas.SIGNED on the title page. 424 pp. ISBN: 0-688-143695.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2014). SIGNED first edition - It has become a cliche to say that once you start a book, you can't put it down, but it is really true of this first novel - set in the "other" Las Vegas of suburban homes, and people living ordinary middle class lives, this both dismantles the American dream and is a testament to human resillence. SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp.

New York: Viking, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery introducing sleight-of-hand magician, horse racing lover, and sometime sleuth, 'Shifty' Lou Anderson. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-670-716200.

New York: Kensington, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First mystery featuring Martha Chainey, a 'beautiful six-foot former showgirl' who is working as a courier transporting large sums of under the table money for Las Vegas casino owners. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 1-57566-6162.

New York: Kensington, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - First mystery featuring Martha Chainey, a 'beautiful six-foot former showgirl' who is working as a courier transporting large sums of under the table money for Las Vegas casino owners. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp.

New York: Kensington, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First mystery featuring Martha Chainey, a 'beautiful six-foot former showgirl' who is working as a courier transporting large sums of under the table money for Las Vegas casino owners. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 1-57566-6162.

New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the early days of the Civil Rights movement, ranging from 1950s Harlem to mob-dominated Las Vegas and glittering Hollywood in the 60s: stand-up comedian Jackie Mann tells of his life as a black man trying to make it in segregated America. Best known for his hard-boiled noir novels, this is a very different, but still satisfying, work from Ridley. 433 pp. ISBN: 0-446-528366.

New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the early days of the Civil Rights movement, ranging from 1950s Harlem to mob-dominated Las Vegas and glittering Hollywood in the 60s: stand-up comedian Jackie Mann tells of his life as a black man trying to make it in segregated America. Best known for his hard-boiled noir novels, this is a very different, but still satisfying, work from Ridley. 433 pp. ISBN: 0-446-528366.

New York: Putnam, (2004). SIGNED first edition - A humorous thriller by this award winning writer - a story of "sports, sex, and outrageous schemes" set in Las Vegas. SIGNED on the title page as Ray Shannon aka Gar Anthony Haywood and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A humorous thriller by this award winning writer - a story of "sports, sex, and outrageous schemes" set in Las Vegas. SIGNED on the title page as Ray Shannon aka Gar Anthony Haywood and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-39915146x.