New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015). SIGNED first edition - A prequel to Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery series - this is set in the months leading up to the Great War, when Ian was not only new to the police but he is also recently engaged. A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. ("Charles Todd" is the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 358 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in 1920 in the small village of Wolfpit, where Rutledge, on a night drive to exorcise his demons, happens on the scene of a murder just minutes before - that of a respected bookseller in the town. A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. SIGNED on the title page by Charles Todd. ("Charles Todd" was the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0062386212.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in 1921 in Avebury, a village set inside a prehistoric stone circle. A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. ("Charles Todd" is actually the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 327 pp. ISBN: 978-0062905536.

New York: Morrow - Harper Collins, (2018.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set after the Armistice has ended the fighting, this is the 10th mystery featuring World War I nurse, Bess Crawford. Back in England, she has been assigned to a clinic for the severely disabled, many of them Welsh soldiers who will no longer be able to rutun to their old jobs in the mines. SIGNED on the title page by Charles Todd ("Charles Todd" was the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 303 pp. . ISBN: 978-0062386274.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in 1921 in an England still recovering from the Great War - "An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible - but Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horse race meet honoring the late King Edward VII. His disappearance began a manhunt that consumed Britain for a decade." A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. SIGNED on the title page by Charles Todd ("Charles Todd" was the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 342 pp. ISBN: 978-0062678744.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2011.) dj. First edition - An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in 1920 in an England still recovering from the Great War. SIGNED on the title page by Charles Todd. A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. 343 pp. ISBN: 978-0061726194.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in 1920 in an England still recovering from the Great War. SIGNED on the title page by Charles Todd ("Charles Todd" was the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. 330 pp. ISBN: 9780061233562.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in 1920 in the isolated Fen country where there is a seemingly unconnected series of murders. A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. ("Charles Todd" was the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 344 pp. ISBN: 978-0062015662.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in 1920 in the isolated Fen country where there is a seemingly unconnected series of murders. A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. ("Charles Todd" was the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 344 pp. ISBN: 978-0062015662.

London: Macmillan, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in this series of mysteries set in ancient Rome featuring Claudia Seferius . She has "temporarily borrowed" 3000 sesterces from Sabbio Tullus, and flees town for the spa resort of Atlantis, only to discover that the bodies are piling up there - and not from the plague. SIGNED on the title page. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-333765982.

Surrey and New York: Severn House, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in this series of mysteries set in ancient Rome featuring Claudia Seferius and investigator Marcus Cornelius Orbilio. Her teenaged stepdaughter has been abducted and a mysterious Egyptian cult is growing in popularity with the Romans. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-727858181.

London: Macmillan, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel in this series of mysteries set in ancient Rome featuring the young widow Claudia Seferius and investigator Marcus Cornelius Orbilio. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-333652975.

Sarasota, FL: Oceanview Publishing, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Set in 1978 San Francisco, this is the first mystery featuring ex-con private investigator Colleen Hayes, who is struggling to put her life back together. She accepts a case from a wealthy, retired industrialist who is desperate to solve the brutal murder of his daughter, a murder that took place in Golden Gate Park eleven years earlier, during the Summer of Love. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 390 pp. ISBN: 978-1608093410.

New York: St Martin's, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring Elizabethan clothier Matthew Stock and his shrewd wife Joan.

New York: St Martin's, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring Elizabethan clothier Matthew Stock and his shrewd wife Joan. ISBN: 0-312-017995.

London: Quartet, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Elizabethan clothier and County Constable Matthew Stock and his shrewd wife Joan. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-7043-26248.

[Washington, D.C.]: Gateway Mystery, 1998. Victorian era mystery set in 1891, in an England still reeling from the horror of the Jack the Ripper murders. The first offering in this series of 16 titles, and the inaugural book in Gateway's new line of mysteries. 224 pp.

[Washington, D.C.]: Gateway Mystery, 1998. Victorian era mystery set in 1891, in an England still reeling from the horror of the Jack the Ripper murders. The first offering in this series of 16 titles, and the inaugural book in Gateway's new line of mysteries. 224 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sherlock Holmes is lured out of retirement in 1914 to aid Dr. Petrie in the search for his lifelong friend, Nayland Smith, who has mysteriously disappeared. Striking black and white illustrations by Peter Elwell. xi, 339 pp. ISBN: 0-060151714.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Judge Dee (630-700 AD), set during the Tang dynasty, illustrated with 8 drawings by Van Gulik. Illustrated endpapers. Postscript. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-684125609.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Judge Dee book which includes three mysteries suggested by original Chinese plots and set in China during the Tang Dynasty. Judge Dee was a real magistrate who lived from 630 to 700 A.D. and whose accomplishments became the basis for legendary feats of detection, as told by storytellers in the following centuries. Illustrated with twelve drawings by van Gulik in Chinese style. Includes a historical postscript by the author, a Dutch diplomat, linguist and authority on Chinese history and culture. x, 211 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket by Olivia Kahn

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1967 c.1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Judge Dee mystery set in China during the Tang Dynasty (Judge Dee was a real magistrate who lived from 630 to 700 A.D. and whose accomplishments became the basis for legendary feats of detection, as told by storytellers in the following centuries.) Illustrated with twelve drawings by van Gulik in Chinese style. Includes a historical postscript by the author, a Dutch diplomat, linguist and authority on Chinese history and culture. 208 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-684-106205.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1976.). A Judge Dee mystery, originally published in 1961, set in China during the Tang Dynasty (Judge Dee was a real magistrate who lived from 630 to 700 A.D. and whose accomplishments became the basis for legendary feats of detection, as told by storytellers in the following centuries) Illustrated with drawings by van Gulik in Chinese style. Includes an introduction by Donald F. Lach and a historical postscript by the author, a Dutch diplomat, linguist and authority on Chinese history and culture. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-226-848639.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Judge Dee mystery set in China during the Tang Dynasty (Judge Dee was a real person who lived from 630 to 700 A.D.) Illustrated with eight drawings by van Gulik in Chinese style. Includes a historical postscript by the author. 144 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-684-106205.

New York: St Martin's, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - The author's first mystery: Holmes and Watson are called in to solve the real-life assassination in 1911 of American journalist David Graham Phillips. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-312-082916.

New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, named one of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries & Thrillers of Spring 2016. Set in Washington, DC in 1953, when the Cold War is heating up, McCarthyism is raging - and the CIA has a double agent in its midst. Joseph Kanon described this as "Cold War spy fiction in the grand tradition - neatly plotted betrayals in that shadow world where no one can be trusted and agents are haunted by their own moral compromises." Based on the life of James Speyer Kronthal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp. ISBN: .

New York: Viking, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third of his novels featuring Los Angeles rare bookseller Jeffrey Dean, who has accepted a ghostwriting assignment for the prime minister of Singapore - but finds himself embroiled in an investigation into the illegal importation of jade to the US. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "Now that you've been my friend for the bad times, stick around please for the good times," Robert Crais wrote a moving obiturary for his friend Wayne in which he commented that he wrote this book, his last one, while he was almost completely disabled and in constant pain. The good times never did come - but he never gave up. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-670833692.

New York: SOHO Press, (2012). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in 1980 on the French Caribbean island of Guadelupe, still technically a part of France then and subject to French laws. Introduces Anne Marie Lavead, a French-Algerian juge d'instruction, recently relocated to the island, who is assigned a murder case where an elderly ex-con has been set up as a political scapegoat. Highly recommended. Translated from the French by the author, who has lived in the French West Indies since 1980. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2015 at Portland, Oregon. 316 pp plus an excerpt from the next book in the series. ISBN: 978-1616953638.

New York: SOHO Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1980 on the French Caribbean island of Guadelupe, still technically a part of France then and subject to French laws. Introduces Anne Marie Lavead, a French-Algerian juge d'instruction, recently relocated to the island, who is assigned a murder case where an elderly ex-con has been set up as a political scapegoat. Highly recommended. Translated from the French by the author, who has lived in the French West Indies since 1980. 316 pp. ISBN: 978-1616951566.

New York: Henry Holt - Picador, (2006.). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. The third book in this award winning series, set in early 1930's England still suffering from the effects of the Great War. Maisie, who has journeyed from a 13 year housemaid to a student at Cambridge and a nurse in the war, is now working as a private investigator. The first book in this series was an Edgar Award and Agatha Award finalist for Best Novel, winner of the Alex Award of the American Library Association, New York Times Notable Book of the Year and more, and the most recent title in the series was awarded the 2006 Macavity Award. 359 pp plus an author interview and discussion questions. ISBN: 0-312-426216.