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 - SIGNED on title page by the author. 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. 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. SIGNED on title page. ISBN: 0-316-154067.

London: Orion, (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: 0-7528-21385.

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.

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.

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.

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, (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, (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.

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. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery introducing sleight-of-hand magician, horse racing lover, and sometime sleuth, 'Shifty' Lou Anderson. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-670-716200.

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.). 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: 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.