New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Eliot Ness and the Cleveland Mob Wars" Historical novel, which combines fact - the exploits of the real life lawman, Eliot Ness - with fiction. It is 1938 and the Mafia is moving in on the Black mobsters who rule the Bucket of Blood, the slum made famous by Chester Himes. SIGNED by author on title page. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-312088566.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1962, and Nate Heller who was hired by Marilyn Monroe to record all calls on her phone, finds himself in the midst of a dangerous investigation when she is found dead of an apparent drug overdose. SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0765321794.

New York: Harper & Row, (1969). A well documented and comprehensive study. Includes a two page spread with the New York Police Departmen chart of crime families. Notes, glossary, index. xiii, 367 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 7th mystery and novel of psychological suspense featuring Roman Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen (the first in the series - Ratking - won the CWA Gold Dagger Award.) Set in Sicily against the backdrop of the ancient city of Catania. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-375-409157.

New York: Morrow, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a look at the gritty underside of life on the streets of Philadelphia, a world of the Mafia, of cops who oppose them, and of racial unrest. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-688-164293.

London: Cassell and Co., (1957). Hardcover first edition - First hardcover edition of this noir crime novel originally published in the US as a paperback original. The second book featuring Detective Sergeant Jimmy Long who is in charge of transporting Leo Maxwell, an ex-boxer, to Phoenix where he will be tried for manslaughter. "A Crime Connoiseur Book." 182 pp.

Las Vegas: Amazon Encore, (2011). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the years surrounding World War II, in the gritty Italian-American waterfront community in New York City known as Narrows Gate. Author David Liss commented that "Fusilli's take of the men who run the mob and those who can't escape its pull - including a familiar and iconic crooner - is, at its heart, a uniquely American tale of ambition and failure, of people who underplay their hands and those who overstep their bounds. . . A dazzling novel by a great writer at the height of his powers". SIGNED on the title page. 546 pp. ISBN: 1-612181376.

London: Orion, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, set in the Bronx during the construction boom of the late 1980s - the lucrative construction rackets are in the hands of the Irish mob, sparking the envy of the Mafia, the attention of the feds, and all-out war. Two brothers are caught in the cross fire. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-752805088.

New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition - The first novel by this award-winning journalist, a story of "crime, vengeance, and redemption, set on New York City's meanest streets. Frank Battaglia is a swaggering soldier of the Mafia, greedy for the power generations of thugs have taken as their right and compelled by an inner demon to rip away the shame that surrounds him like a shroud. As a young fighter, Frank fell apart in the ring at Madison Square Garden, a humiliation witnessed by the most powerful gangster in the city. In Frank's eyes, only one person can salvage his reputation: his son Nicky." 321 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning journalist, a story of "crime, vengeance, and redemption, set on New York City's meanest streets,. . Frank Battaglia is a swaggering soldier of the Mafia, greedy for the power generations of thugs have taken as their right and compelled by an inner demon to rip away the shame that surrounds him like a shroud." and he plans to use his 16 year old son to do this. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-385474946.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a darkly comic and twisted crime novel, which begins when a small time criminal on Long Island, New York gets involved in a credit card scam with his best buddy - a scam that will make them rich for life, except that Johnie when out fishing one day catches Vinnie's head on his hook... SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 978-0312360214.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a darkly comic and twisted crime novel, which begins when a small time criminal on Long Island, New York gets involved in a credit card scam with his best buddy - a scam that will make them rich for life, except that Johnie when out fishing one day catches Vinnie's head on his hook... INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in Oct 2006 (before publication) . 388 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a darkly comic and twisted crime novel, which begins when a small time criminal on Long Island, New York gets involved in a credit card scam with his best buddy - a scam that will make them rich for life, except that Johnie when out fishing one day catches Vinnie's head on his hook... SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp.

London: Heinemann, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of the tenth book in her highly praised, and prize-winning, series of mysteries featuring Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice police. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-3336573751.

London: Pan / Macmillan, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of the sixth book in her highly praised, and prize-winning, series of mysteries featuring Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice police. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-3336573751.

New York: Dutton, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Tucson, Arizona in the late 1940s, this is the third thriller featuring part-time Bureau of Indian Affairs lawyer and public defender Joshua Rabb, a one-armed World War II veteran, a widower with a 15 year old daughter, originally from Brooklyn NY. This involves murder, double-dealing, and heroin smuggling. beginning with the story of Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and their feud with the Mafia. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-525938524.

Columbia, SC: Summerhouse, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which "seamlessly moves from the recording studios of Nashville to the underworlds of New York and Philadelphia." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp. ISBN: 1887714472.

New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller - set in motion when a man witnesses a woman plunging 30 stories to her death from the top of a half-completed skyscraper. 345 pp. ISBN: 0-525-937730.

New York: Doubleday, (1994). First edition - Thriller depicting "the final battle between America's last generation of Sicilian Mafiosi and the world's most ruthless Asian druglords." 435 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel in an epic new crime trilogy, set in New England in the 1980s and focusing on Danny Ryan, and themes of family, love, honour, loyalty and betrayal amongst the Irish and Italian mobsters who have until now co-existed peacefully in Providence, Rhode Island. A contemporary retelling of the Iliad. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0062851192.

New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, (2007). Frank Machianno is a late middle-aged ex-surf bum who now runs a bait shop on the San Diego waterfront - and a retired hit man known back in the day as Frankie Machine. Winner of the Japanese Maltese Falcon Society Thriller Award Best Hard Boiled Novel and nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Mystery Thriller. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0307277664.