New York: Basic Books / Perseus Group, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account by an award winning journalist of trial of eight Black Panthers, including Bobby Seale, their National Chairman, accused of killing a suspected spy among them, set against the backdrop of an era when the Nixon administration and the FBI encouraged discord among dissident groups through informants. This focuses on "the story of Warren Kimbro, the man who was sentenced to life for Rackley's killing. A community leader whose Panther associations were 'a short-lived aberration,' Kimbro served less than four years before being released, and graduated from Harvard shortly afterward, dedicating himself to assisting people leaving prison." (Reed) Illustrated with photographs. Includes a timeline, notes, bibliography, index. xiv, 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0465069026.

New York: Vintage Books, (2000). A book on how the law perpetuates myths of race, gender, and class by a former head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Berry examines "a century's worth of appellate cases, ranging from a nineteenth-century Alabama case in which a white woman was denied her divorce petition because an affair between a white man (her husband) and a black woman (his lover) was 'of no consequence,' to such recent, high-profile cases as the William Kennedy Smith and O.J. Simpson trials." Notes, index. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-375707468.

New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1862. Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized picture of life in New York in the mid-19th century with his society parties, political scandals and personal struggles. This uses a collection of stories to explore issues of inefficiency and injustice in the legal system and the fictitious names "John Doe" and "Richard Roe" as a framing device. 312 pp.

New York: Macmillan, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon account by an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, who became a top defense attorney. Includes a detailed discussion of many of his cases, but he comments that "justice is an illusion... the outcome of a criminal case depends as much on your money, your attorney or your luck as it does on your guilt or innocence." xiii, 249 pp. ISBN: 0-025855905.

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nevada Studies in History and Political Science No. 28. The first study of the establishment and development of San Francisco's courts, police, and jails from the American conquest in 1846 through 1852, by a retired San Francisco police officer. Mullen concludes that "the legends of raging violent crime in early San Francisco are overblown. " Illustrated with reproductions of early engravings and photographs. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. xix, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-87417-1466.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Victorian mystery featuring William Monk, now a private enquiry agent and nurse Hester Latterly - a story involving the brutal murder in a London hospital of a young woman who had been one of Florence Nightingale's nurses in the Crimean War. SIGNED on title page by the author. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-449-90637x.

New York: Warner, (2002). First edition - The true stories of a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice judge and her account of years on the bench, behind the courtroom trials, and how her rulings have placed a permanent stamp on the legal system. 338 pp.