New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2018). First edition - The author's first novel, the first book in a series set among the daughters of the wealthy and eccentric Mitford family and introducing a young woman, Louise Cannon, escaping a violent and abusive uncle, who becomes a nursemaid to the family. Set in the years right after the first World War, in an England still dealing with the wounded from the war, this is based on the unsolved murder of nurse known for her tireless service during both the Boer and the Great Wars. 415 pp plus an historical note.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of America's first best-selling suspense novelist and playwright, from her years as a student nurse, as a World War I correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, her life as the wife as a doctor to a socialite with an oppulent lifestyle that even her income had trouble supporting. She went to Washington to champion the rights of the Blackfeet Indians, and she was one of the first to write candidly about her experiences with breast cancer. Photographs, bibliography. xii, 335 pp. ISBN: 0-892964448.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Victorian mystery featuring William Monk, now a private enquiry agent and nurse Hester Latterly - a story involving the brutal murder in a London hospital of a young woman who had been one of Florence Nightingale's nurses in the Crimean War. SIGNED on title page by the author. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-449-90637x.