New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - A literary thriller, the story of an unnamed detective, hired by a beautiful, alcoholic woman, to find clues related to the disappearance of her husband but instead he gradually begins to identify himself with the man he was supposed to find. A novel which uses elements of the noir genre to explore urbanization and alienation. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. 299 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - Hard-boiled novel featuring federal narcotics agent Reed Smith, published posthumously (although the dust jacket does not give a hint of that), incorporating Adams' pulp novellettes (including one with the same title) and completed by Bellem. Adams was a friend of Raymond Chandler, and wrote in the same noir tradition. 241 pp. Dust jacket art by Bill English.

New York: Kensington, (2019). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third crime thriller, featuring "unlicensed P.I. Duck Darley has proven himself stronger than the temptations that loom in the shadows of New York City. But the familiar pull of self-destruction lingers like garbage in July when Layla Soto, a sharp-tongued Park Avenue teenager with a family as screwed up as his own, presents a twisted missing-persons case he cant refuse." SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 978-1496709745.

New York: Delacorte, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Berger's take on the hard-boiled crime thriller as practised by the masters of noir. 247 pp, Dust jacket and title page art by John Sposato. ISBN: 0-440-095468.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Hardcover first edition - A classic noir novel - the story of a jewelry heist in a midwestern city that goes wrong - from its planning to execution to the aftermath ending in death or capture. Basis for 1950 classic film noir directed by John Huston and starring Sterling Hayden, and notable for an early appearance by Marilyn Monroe. 271 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.

Lutz, FL: Down & Out Books, (2019) dj. SIGNED - The seventh mystery in this noir series featuring jazz bass-playing private investigator August Riordan, who has returned to San Francisco to avenge the death of a friend and former partner, but finds himself caught up in a string of murders involving a previously unknown manuscript purportedly by the beat writer Jack Kerouac. INSCRIBED on the title page. 265 pp. plus ads. ISBN: 978-1932557534.

Boston: Little Brown, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Another suspenseful and tautly written Harry Bosch novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-316-154601.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A noir epic, set in Los Angeles in 1953 where six innocent people are gunned down at an all-night diner, a horrific murder that haunts the three policemen who arrive to investigate. Basis for the Oscar nominated film of the same name, featuring Kim Basinger, who won the Academy award for Best Supporting actress. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "blood heat!" 496 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2933.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third in the highly praised series featuring Nina Zero -"A street-smart, razor-sharp combination of crime fiction and Southern California social commentary." INSCRIBED on the title page "For ----- for great listeners, and parents of another fine writer" 271 pp. ISBN: 0-743250133.

New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Science fiction noir - a hard-boiled thriller set in the near future on ".the Montezuma Strip. A Mexamerican megalopolis sprawling from Baja to the Gulf. the home of one tough cop who specialises in solving the most devious, diabolical crimes that future felons can devise. " Glossary of Spang. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780446527743.

New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Science fiction noir - a hard-boiled thriller set in the near future on ".the Montezuma Strip. A Mexamerican megalopolis sprawling from Baja to the Gulf. the home of one tough cop who specialises in solving the most devious, diabolical crimes that future felons can devise. " Glossary of Spang. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780446527743.

New York: Congdon & Weed, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Definitive biography of this master of modern hard boiled detective fiction, author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and other classics. SIGNED on the title page by Nolan. Illustrated with photographs. Includes notes, bibliography of sources, a basic checklist of Dashiell Hammett books and an index. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-312-922817.

New York: Congdon & Weed, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Definitive biography of this master of modern hard boiled detective fiction, author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and other classics. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Nolan. Illustrated with photographs. Includes notes, bibliography of sources, a basic checklist of Dashiell Hammett books and an index. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-312-922817.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - California author's second novel, one day - the last day - in the life of a crooked DEA agent in Tijuana, Mexico, who has been making side money as a coyote, smuggling people across the border with the assistance of a crooked judicale. SIGNED on the half title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-939767309.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - California author's second novel, one day - the last day - in the life of a crooked DEA agent in Tijuana, Mexico, who has been making side money as a coyote, smuggling people across the border with the assistance of a crooked judicale. SIGNED by three contributors, and uncommon thus - on the half title page by Harrington and dated in the year of publication. Also SIGNED on the copyright page by both McMillan the publisher and Scott Musgrove, the illustrator. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-939767309.

New York: Crown, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel - cover praise from such diverse writers as Thom Jones, Mary Gaitskill and David Foster Wallace who called it the "best piece of postmodern noir since Ellroy's The Big Nowhere." 355 pp. ISBN: 0-517-584921.

New York: Crown, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, a corporate thriller "in which the dangers of sexual obsession are matched only by the perils of corporate power." SIGNED on the title page. 385 pp. ISBN: 0-517-584913.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1940) dj. Hardcover first edition - The scarce first novel by this author and screenwriter, best known for "The Chair for Martin Rome," which was the basis for Robert Siodmak's 1948 film noir classic "Cry of the City" with Victor Mature and Richard Conte. This is set entirely within the walls of a prison. 216 pp.

Eureka, CA: Stark House Press, (2007). First edition - A short novel and five diverse stories from the writer whom Ian Rankin dubbed the "Godfather of British noir." None of these stories have appeared in the US prior to the publication of this book. Includes an introduction by James. 266 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1933586175.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A provocative thriller set in the American West. . . Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres the American crime novel but with a grisly humor and outrageousness" 196 pp. ISBN: 9780374222901.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a hard-boiled thriller set in the underworld of New York City. SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-716x.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2018). SIGNED first edition - A stand-alone novel of pyschological suspense, inspired by the novels of James M. Cain - set in a small town in Delaware, this tells the story of "a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals - and cold-blooded murder." SIGNED on the title page. 282 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A biography of America's greatest noir writer" based on an in-depth analysis of his writings. Illustrated with photographs. Includes appendices with list his novels, other published writings and give a brief synopsis of his unpublished/unfinished work. Index. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-892963921.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. SIGNED first edition - African American writer and film director's second novel, a noir farce featuring a wannabe scriptwriter on the skids in Hollywood. INSCRIBED on the title page. 296 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American writer and film director's second novel, a noir farce featuring a wannabe scriptwriter on the skids in Hollywood. SIGNED on the title page. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-375-401423.

New York: St Martin's, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A rather violent noir novel by this award winning writer and screenwriter described as "A riveting Hitchcockian thriller. . . Elias McCabe is having one hell of a night: He gets kidnapped at gunpoint by a professional hit man and is forced to shoot blackmail photos of a prominent politician. Things go wrong with the shootÉ very wrong. When the night is over, Elias is scared to death É and ten thousand dollars richer.
If he keeps his mouth shut. " SIGNED on the title page. End credits. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-0312571375.