New York: Bantam, 1998. First edition - African American mystery featuring Simone Covington - in this story, she goes back to South Carolina to help her mama after an operation.

New York: Bantam, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American mystery featuring Simone Covington - in this story, she goes back to South Carolina to help her mama after an operation. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-553-107038.

New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Paul Brenner is called out of early retirement to investigate the death of a young Army lieutenant in Vietnam 30 years, a death which now appears to be a murder. 706 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-516570.

New York: Warner, (2002.). First edition - EXCERPT only: "A sneak reading preview of the first nine chapters." Paul Brenner is called out of early retirement to investigate the death of a young Army lieutenant in Vietnam 30 years, a death which now appears to be a murder. 140 pp.

New York: Warner, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Returning to his hometown of Spencerville in the American heartland, Landry finds that he must use all the skills learned during his years in intelligence to rescue his high school sweetheart from her sadistic husband. 481 pp. ISBN: 0-446-515051.

New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel surrounding the murder of a sheriff in Florida by this National Book Award winning writer. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-679-421750.

New York: The Century Co., 1901. Hardcover - A story surrounding the mystery of the true identity of a brother and sister, twins, orphaned as infants in Europe, and brought up by their uncle, by the writer best as the author of 'Hans Brinker' who was for many years the editor of the St. Nicholas Frontispiece, full page and smaller en texte Illustrations by Frank Merrill, A. Temple and others. 335 pp.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This author who is best known for his historical mysteries, looks at the mystery surrounding the life and death of Tutankhamun . . perhaps the bloody intrigue in the Egyptian court may have led to his early death. Illustrated with full color photographs. Annotated bibliography,map, list of historical characters, index. xii, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-10756.

Stillwater, MN: Rivers Bend Press, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in Stockton, California by this noted chronicler of life in the Central Valley. "One dark night, when movies were black and white, old Pete Morrell was brutally murdered in the back room of the Hollywood Cafe by two men looking for hidden treasure. The treasure was not found. The killers were not caught. , , , A half century later the past finally catches up with the present." SIGNED on the first page. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-9729445-83.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Ms Temple Barr, a 29 year old public relations freelancer in Las Vegas and the 18 lb jet black tomcat called Midnight Louie, who gets to tell his side of the story. This opens with a murder at the ABA. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "The first Louie! Very best fishes! with Louie's paw print drawn under the signature. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-312852177.

New York: Harper Collins, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of stories rooted in her eight years as a uniformed police office, and told in the voices of five female police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as they learn to deal with the violence that surrounds them. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-060561629.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel for older children by this award winning writer. "A newcomer to Wingate, New Hampshire, Amy Abbott lands a summer job at the exclusive Spruce Tree Lodge, forms the Graveyard Gang with new friends Sandy, Wilma, and Cathy, and solves a mystery" 180 pp. ISBN: 0-68419449X.

Boston: Little Brown, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first winner of England's Orange Prize for fiction for the best novel by a woman and the first book of this author to be published in the United States. The story of two sisters, bound together since childhood by the sudden devasting death of their baby brother. An attractively produced small volume. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-316-197416.

New York: Fawcett - Gold Medal Books, (c. 1961.). One of a series of spy thrillers featuring CIA agent Sam Durrell, published as paperback originals.. Great 'good girl' cover art. Gold Medal Book #D1612, cover price 50 c.

New York: Fawcett - Gold Medal Books, (c. 1958.). One of a series of spy thrillers featuring CIA agent Sam Durrell, published as paperback originals.. Great 'good girl' cover art. Gold Medal Book #K1481, cover price 40 c.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973.) dj. Hardcover - Seventeen year old Danny Stuart is accused of murdering Jake Tabor over the well-being of a coon-hound named Molly who had run away to have her pups - a novel for all ages which combines suspense, tenderness and adventure. 212 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Robert Alcorn. ISBN: 0-03-0074460.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973.) dj. Hardcover - Seventeen year old Danny Stuart is accused of murdering Jake Tabor over the well-being of a coon-hound named Molly who had run away to have her pups - a novel for all ages which combines suspense, tenderness and adventure. 212 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Robert Alcorn. ISBN: 0-03-0074460.

New York: Penzler Books, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "The most infuriating man in American letters is back . . . More than 50 previously uncollected essays, over 160,000 words of smoldering opinion." SIGNED and dated on the title page by Ellison. Index. xxvii, 418 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2399.

New York: Penzler Books, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "The most infuriating man in American letters is back . . . More than 50 previously uncollected essays, over 160,000 words of smoldering opinion." SIGNED by Robert Crais at his foreword. Index. xxvii, 418 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2399.

New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 11 short pieces on crime, murder and corruption originally published in GQ magazine. Includes "Out of the Past"; "My Mother's Killer"; "The Tooth Crime"; "The Seduction of OJ"; "Bad Boy of Tinseltown"; "Body Dump" and two novellas, "Hollywood Shakedown" and "Tijuana, Mon Amour." INSCRIBED on the title page. Cover design by Chipp Kidd. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70471X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Beginning with his mother's murder when he was just ten years old, this is a "raw, brutally candid memoir . . . Ellroy unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman." SIGNED on the title page. 204 pp. ISBN: 978-0307593504.

New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 11 short pieces on crime, murder and corruption originally published in GQ magazine. Includes "Out of the Past"; "My Mother's Killer"; "The Tooth Crime"; "The Seduction of OJ"; "Bad Boy of Tinseltown"; "Body Dump" and two novellas, "Hollywood Shakedown" and "Tijuana, Mon Amour." SIGNED on the title page. Cover design by Chipp Kidd. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70471X.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Two men - one black, who killed a man in New Orleans to protect a woman and the other white who killed a Chinaman in San Francisco because he likes killing - go on the lam in the 1880's West. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-0189X.

New York: Pocket Books, (1960). First edition - "Missing: Oil maps worth more then $100,000,000" so Victor Grant is called in. Pocket Books #6013.Cover price 35c. 149 pp.

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: Penguin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - A highly praised debut novel, one which moves between the twelfth-century where a Sicilian cat burglar snatches a sack of artifacts from the king's geographer's library, and these alchemical tools and objects are soon scattered all over the world. Nine hundred years later that a young reporter investigating the suspicious death of a local professor stumbles upon evidence that someone is collecting them again. Alan Furst called this 'magnetic and sharply written, with excellent history, a strong narrative, and a mind of its own.' 374 pp. ISBN: 1594200386.

New York: Penguin, 2005. Hardcover first edition - A highly praised debut novel, one which moves between the twelfth-century where a Sicilian cat burglar snatches a sack of artifacts from the king's geographer's library, and these alchemical tools and objects are soon scattered all over the world. Nine hundred years later that a young reporter investigating the suspicious death of a local professor stumbles upon evidence that someone is collecting them again. Alan Furst called this 'magnetic and sharply written, with excellent history, a strong narrative, and a mind of its own.' 374 pp.

Dixon, CA: Martin Pearl Publishing, (2010). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - featuring a "modern-day red-headed Amelia Earhart.. . After being discharged from the Air Force for refusing to wear a veil off-base in Saudi Arabia, fighter pilot Mary Jane contracts to repossess a luxury Boeing 747 from a powerful Saudi prince. She partners with co-pilot Jesus Martinez and together they risk capture and execution as they travel from Paris and San Francisco into the bizarre world of Arab opulence and corruption in quest of their illusive prize." SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 9780981482248.

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.