New York: Triangle Books, (1940,c 1930) dj. Hardcover - First thus. Novel of a prostitute, Lily Love, who rose from the sordidness of dollar days to the owner of the most luxorious sporting house south of the Mason-Dixon line. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Jeanette Seelhoff. 288 pp. Dust jacket art by Jeanette Seelhoff.

New York: Random House, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating account of the killers responsible for the apparently senseless murder of the four members of the Clutter family in rural Kansas. This book essentially created a new form - the non-fiction novel - and is Capote's most important and enduring work. Harper Lee, his lifelong friend and the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' collaborated with Capote on his research for this book. Winner of the Edgar award, basis for several movies. 343 pp.

New York: Viking, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida author's third novel the story of an ordinary family with two teenagers themselves, who become embroiled in the lives of a runaway girl and her violent boyfriend. A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the title page by the author -"For ---who does such good things for books in the world" and dated in July 1998. Also laid in is a card "compliments of the author" with a hand-written note and a comment that this is an early copy - publication date was July 2, 1998. Uncommon signed. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-670-86398X.

New York: Viking, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A pastoral hamlet in upstate New York is the "backdrop for a senseless crime: two brothers, surprised while robbing the summer home of a well-to-do professor from Connecticut, kill the man's gifted son, and proceed to avoid detection - and their own culpability - -by becoming involved in a depressing series of squabbles with family and townfolk. The portrait of Van, a Vietnam vet, is chilling evidence of the excesses a closed society will abide from one of its own." (Publishers Weekly). Cover praise from Cynthia Ozick who calls this a book that "rocks and shocks in the manner of Flannery O'Connor." 244 pp. ISBN: 0-670825808.

New York: British Book Centre, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An intimate record of night life in London, and a selection of crime stories from the case book of Ex-Superintendent Robert Fabian." An interesting book, although when he talks about the horrors of young girls become addicted to marijuana after smoking one cigarette, he loses a bit of credibility... Illustrated with photographs. 237 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / North Point, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent by the author, his wife and young son, at a remote farm in Iceland - without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences - "Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Icland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky".Map frontispiece, note on Icelandic. .289 pp. ISBN: 0-374525528.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / North Point, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent by the author, his wife and young son, at a remote farm in Iceland - without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences - "Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Icland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky". SIGNED on the half title page. Map frontispiece, note on Icelandic. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-374525528.

Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2022). SIGNED first edition - A novel by this award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist, who grew up in a small border community in the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert, "a genre-blurring psychological thriller with an unstable Latina & indigenous mama protagonist that weaves together threads of folk Magick and the horror of everyday life in the margins." Author Ana Castillo called this "a delectable spellbinder. . . a conjuring of equal parts murder mystery, brujera, sex and romance, hauntings and terror, femme empowerment, all with a dash of Northern New Mexican cooking. " SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "When beautiful heiress Nancy Dillard Lyon was rushed to the hospital, . . . and died there in agony, the wheels were set in motion for an investigation, arrest, sensational trial, and conviction that would give a candid close-up of the lifestyles of the Texas rich." INSCRIBED on the half title page, Photographs. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-525-937102.

New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "When beautiful heiress Nancy Dillard Lyon was rushed to the hospital, . . . and died there in agony, the wheels were set in motion for an investigation, arrest, sensational trial, and conviction that would give a candid close-up of the lifestyles of the Texas rich." Photographs. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-525-937102.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "story of a memorial fox hunt, a wife's revenge, a husband's murder, a family's decay as seen through the eyes of a young fashion photographer." Dust jacket praise from Paul West, Donald Barthelme and others. 194 pp. ISBN: 1555840493.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "story of a memorial fox hunt, a wife's revenge, a husband's murder, a family's decay as seen through the eyes of a young fashion photographer." Dust jacket praise from Paul West, Donald Barthelme and others. 194 pp. ISBN: 1-555840493.

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - A new investigation of the siege of Sidney Street where Russian anarchists/gunmen were hiding after a botched robbery that left three policemen dead, and the murder of a Russian on Clapham Common at the same time - one which links these crimes. Based on documentary and eyewitness material, and on police files not available to previous historians. Illustrated with photographs. 246 pp. plus colophon and one pp publisher ads.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Classic study of women murderers in the US - but also a social history of women in America from colonial times to the present, told thru the often tragic or desperate stories of women on the very edge of society - women driven to kill. Among the women are Belle Gunness, Lizzie Borden, Ruth Snyder, Alice Crimmins and dozens of unknown women. 408 pgs including index, notes on sources. ISBN: 0-03-0407117.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The highly praised first novel by this young Australian author, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this brings to vivid life the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. A genuinely gripping and poetic novel, highly recommended. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780316243919.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The highly praised first novel by this young Australian author, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this brings to vivid life the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. A genuinely gripping and poetic novel, highly recommended. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780316243919.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The highly praised first novel by this young Australian author, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this brings to vivid life the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. SIGNED on the title page. A genuinely gripping and poetic novel, highly recommended. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780316243919.

New York: Dutton, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's first novel, one which depicts a quiet Alabama suburban neighborhood disrupted by tragedy and murder. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-52594379X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Senior Vice President John Putnam Thatcher of the Sloan Guaranty Trust - the 22nd collaboration between these two authors, one an economist and the other a lawyer. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-671-441302.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning author which begins in 1947 when Olga Arbyelina, a beautiful Russian princess who had fled to France from the Bolsheviks, is accused of the murder of a Russian emigre. From there it moves back to earlier in the century as it recreates Olga's past. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. 247 pp. ISBN: 1-559704942.

Seattle: 47North, (2012). SIGNED - The author's second novel, one which combines time-travel, a murder investigation and academia. SIGNED on the half title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 9781611099096.

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.

New York: Citadel Press, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel woven around a true story of murder, witchcraft and a hanging in England in 1797, a story with attracted poet Samuel Coleridge's attention (and whose musings form the basis of this novel.). ISBN: 0-8065-1159-1.

New York Carroll & Graf, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Texas, this is the story of two people wanting more from their lives, two people with great ambitions who are now ready to face the world. But at what cost? Cover praise from such varied writers as Stephen King, Kinky Friedman and Bill Pronzini. Ed Gorman called it one of the best crime novels he read in years. ISBN: 0-7867-04071.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - " When land developers uncover human bones at the site of an old drive-in, Callie Anne Benton realizes that she alone knows the identity of the victim who mysteriously disappeared thirty-six years ago.. . . [she] recalls the tumultuous summer of 1956. Nearly thirteen, she is stuck at home with her parents during a long hot summer in rural Indiana. Her father, an angry, bitter man, runs the drive-in . . . Her mother is an agoraphobic who hasn't left the house in five years. When a drifter named Charlie Memphis comes to work at the drive-in, everyone's life changes." 282 pp. ISBN: 0-688153895.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed account of the story behind a brutal murder by this former Seattle police officer. "On 27th June 27, 1996, 30-year-old Anne Marie Fahey, the scheduling secretary for the Governor of Delaware, had dinner with a man she had been having a secret affair with for more than two years. Tommy Capano, forty-seven, was perhaps the most politically powerful man in Wilmington." He was soft-spoken and charming, a seemingly devoted father, but after 9:15 that evening, Anne Marie was never seen again. Photographs. 479 pp. ISBN: 0-684810484.

Boston: Little Brown, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - the story of a family's struggle after the disappearance and murder of their fourteen year old daughter, as told by that daughter. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-316-666343.