New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. First edition - "One of Britain's premiere royal biographers pens the first in a series of a fiendishly clever historical murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective." A young artist's model has been murdered and Wilde enlists his friends, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherrard to help him investigate. Published in the UK in 2007 under the title "Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders." 343 pp.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dustjacket: 'A literary thriller from Brazil's best-selling novelist....A grieving film director in Rio--the nameless narrator--is visited by a Carnival dancer who leaves him with a box full of precious gems. A few days later, the dancer is dead, a man in a raincoat lurks outside the director's door, and a mysterious German producer surfaces with an irresistible offer: to make a film based on a story by the director's favorite author, the great Russian writer Isaac Babel.' Translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-5837.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (1999). Hardcover first edition - Young South African born author's first novel, a highly praised literary thriller which begins ""My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesterday afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success . . It was I who killed her." Winner of Italy's Grinzane Cavour Prize for Best First Novel. Mason used the royalties of "The Drowning People", Mason established the Kay Mason Foundation which gives "talented, under-privileged scholars access to quality education, psycho-social support and life opportunities that build tomorrows leaders of families and communities, South Africa and the world." 340 pp. ISBN: 0-446525243.