New York: Mysterious Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A DKA File novel - like Ed McBain, Gores uses an entire team of sleuths - the investigators of the Daniel Kearny Associates - in his gritty realistic novels. One review described the 'private-eye procedural as Gores' specialty, maybe his invention.' SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-892962984.

Woodbury, MN: Mystery Ink, (2012). First edition - Set in San Francisco, this mystery introduces crime-beat journalist Dixie Flynn - she thinks fast, and talks even faster. 324 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in.. ISBN: 9780738734156.

Woodbury, MN: Mystery Ink, (2013). First edition - Set in San Francisco, this is the second mystery featuring crime-beat journalist Dixie Flynn. ISBN: 9780738734996.

New York: Morrow, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A John Marshall Tanner mystery - and one of his best. Winner of Japan's Falcon Prize for best hard-boiled mystery novel. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-688-076696.

New York: Otto Penzler Books / Simon and Schuster, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in San Francisco, featuring attorney turned private investigator, John Marshall Tanner. 273 pp. ISBN: 1883402875.

New York: Scribner's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring private investigator John Marshall Tanner, set in San Francisco, and involving claims of sexual abuse, buried memories and a police officer who appears to be acting as a vigilante. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-684-832496.

New York: Scribner's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring private investigator John Marshall Tanner, set in San Francisco, and involving claims of sexual abuse, buried memories and a police officer who appears to be acting as a vigilante. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-684-832496.

New York: Scribner's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring private investigator John Marshall Tanner, set in San Francisco, and involving claims of sexual abuse, buried memories and a police officer who appears to be acting as a vigilante. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-684-832496.

New York: Scribner, (2000 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco private investigator John Marshall Tanner novel - a bestselling novelist is receiving death threats. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-684-815834.

New York: Scribner's, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring private investigator John Marshall Tanner, set in San Francisco, and involving claims of sexual abuse, buried memories and a police officer who appears to be acting as a vigilante. SIGNED on the title page. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-684-832496.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hall's second mystery featuring figure Ambrose Bierce- William Randolph Hearst's star journalist and San Francisco's most celebrated writer - investigating the disappearance of a visiting Hawaiian Princess. Cover praise from Michael Chabon, among others, who states this "invites the reader into a puzzling, seductive and above all, pleasurable fictional realm... Hall has one of the finest prose styles around: tough, agile, but tinged with a sepia hint of gentlemanly elegance.. perfectly suited to bringing to life the San Francisco of the 1890's, at once gilded and rough-hewn, brawling and refined." 276 pp. ISBN: 0-670-030074.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Hall's second mystery featuring figure Ambrose Bierce- William Randolph Hearst's star journalist and San Francisco's most celebrated writer - investigating the disappearance of a visiting Hawaiian Princess. Cover praise from Michael Chabon, among others, who states this "invites the reader into a puzzling, seductive and above all, pleasurable fictional realm... Hall has one of the finest prose styles around: tough, agile, but tinged with a sepia hint of gentlemanly elegance.. perfectly suited to bringing to life the San Francisco of the 1890's, at once gilded and rough-hewn, brawling and refined." 276 pp. ISBN: 0-670-030074.

Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, (2012). SIGNED first edition - The second Peyton Brooks' mystery. "When two hookers are found with the mutilated body of a notorious gangbanger, Peyton and her partner, Marco, are pulled into a world of violence, sex, and drugs that might engulf all of San Francisco in a turf war." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 313 pp. ISBN: 978-1478347880.

New York: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book under this pseudonym. Set in San Francisco, during the course of a single day, this is the story of "a quirky, socially awkward man goes on a quest to find his wife a last-minute Christmas gift and encounters several distractions including bumping into his ex-girlfriend who may have been the one who got away." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's postscript. 280 pp. ISBN: 978-1501126802.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book featuring Cree Black, a "parapsychologist with a haunted past" and a ghost-hunter -in this one she has returned from New Orleans to San Francisco, where a skeleton was unearthed in the foundation of a Victorian home on Telegraph Hill. 422 pp. ISBN: 1582343411.

New York: Scribner, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A love story that begins with the end of a marriage." The author's first novel, set in San Francisco. 354 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 9781476710327.

New York: Morrow, (2000.). First edition - The author's first novel, a frenetic and often disturbing comin-of-age story, told from the perspective of a deaf-mute, 14 year old boy, fleeing his abusive father, who takes to the road with Johnnyboy, the only person he trusts. On the bus they hook up with two speed-freaks and Ula, who is mourning the death of her fiance. This novel explores their the friendship, united by loss and the allure of intimacy, and the sexual and drug underworld of San Francisco. 335 pp.

New York: Penguin, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, set in San Francisco and the high tech world of Silicon Valley, where an attempt is being made to create a computer not just with artificial intelligence, but actually sentient. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-1594205057.

New York: Penguin, 2012. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, set in San Francisco and the high tech world of Silicon Valley, where an attempt is being made to create a computer not just with artificial intelligence, but actually sentient., INSCRIBED on the title page. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-1594205057.

Ulysses Press. (2016). First edition - "San Francisco, 1979 an epidemic begins" Written by a doctor who was just beginning his internship days after the CDC reported a mysterious, fatal form on immundeficiency, and who went on to become a leading Bay Area AIDS physician, this novel "follows the lives of three people from vastly different walks of life, who find themselves thrown together by a shared urgency to find out what is killing so many men in the prime of their lives." 346 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A young single mother, in the days of her "health and happiness" is admitted to a San Francisco hospital with a minor problem that is treated incorrectly, leaving her on the verge of death. An interesting look at the rivalries within a large hospital, and at how many ways things can go wrong. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-394587170.

New York: Avon, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - A coming of age story set in 1983 in San Francisco, the story of a young Chinese girl whose whole life seemed to revolve around the family's restaurant, Eggroll Wonderland. SIGNED on the title page. Issued as a paperback original. 278 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Nick Polo mystery, San Francisco setting. SIGNED by author on title page. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-312-114788.

New York: Bantam, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Kate Martinelli mystery, set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-553-107135.

New York: Bantam, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Kate Martinelli mystery, set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-553-107135.

New York: Bantam, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Kate Martinelli mystery, set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-553-107135.

New York: Bantam, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Kate Martinelli mystery, set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-553-107135.

New York: Bantam, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Kate Martinelli mystery, set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-553-107135.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her 4th book and first novel, set in San Francisco during the 1960s. SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-394-568311.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book, set in San Francisco, where a beautiful young woman who frequented the Camera Obsura is found murdered. SIGNED on the title page. 139 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-06553.