London: Allen Lane, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unravelling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this first issue printing still has the original name of Kathe) but it was produced for the Canadian market with the price - $12.95 - in Canadian dollars. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-713913452.

London: Allen Lane, (1980.). SIGNED first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unraveling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this proof copy is, of course, the first state with the original name.) INSCRIBED by Adams on the first page "To - yours sincerely." 397 pp.

Salt Lake City: Northwest Publishing, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ten years after Champagne's supposed death in a boating accident, he is arrested for printing counterfeit currency. He didn't fake his death, he claims - he just didn't deny it, seizing it as an opportunity to become in death one thing he had never been - an adventurer. A very funny true crime story. INSCRIBED on the title page. 182 pp. ISBN: 1-569018154.

New York: New American Library - NAL, 2016. First edition - The author's first novel, part pyschological suspense and part examination of what a marriage is, one which explores the question of "how much do the wives of men who commit terrible crimes actually know.?" Told in alternate voices, from the perspective of the widow, the police detective and the reporter. 324 pp.

New York: Random House, (1979). Hardcover first edition - The second of his novels set in post-World War II China, where Becker lived for four years - "In January 1949, Jack Burnham (thirty five, ex-major, ex-guerilla, ex-Christian and born-again rebel, who has quarreled with, among others, God and MacArthur) is asked by the U.S. government to fly into Peking and track down a Japanese war criminal." A suspenseful novel, set in a Peking on the verge of falling to the Chinese Communists, a love story and also an exploration of the good and evil in man. 294 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Peter Cox. ISBN: 0-394499271.

New York: Crown, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Describes and rates over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories and suspense thrillers arranged by type (English mystery, police procedural) and by author, alphabetically. 311 pgs. Hardcover. ISBN: 0-517-556022.

New York: Crown, (1986) dj. Hardcover - Describes and rates over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories and suspense thrillers arranged by type (English mystery, police procedural) and by author, alphabetically. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-517-556022.

New York: Crown, (1986) dj. Hardcover - Describes and rates over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories and suspense thrillers arranged by type (English mystery, police procedural) and by author, alphabetically. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-517-556022.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - It's summer 1976 in Oxford, England and Ruth Gilmartin discovers that someon is trying to kill her very English mother Sally - who is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre and one-time spy for the British during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 1596912367.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - It's summer 1976 in Oxford, England and Ruth Gilmartin discovers that someon is trying to kill her very English mother Sally - who is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre and one-time spy for the British during World War II. 324 pp. ISBN: 1596912367.

Pleasantville, New York: Impress Mystery, (2009). Hardcover - Two classic suspense stores set in Scotland and originally published in 1915 and 1916. Basis for the Hitchcock fim. A title in the Best Mysteries of All Time series. 405 pp.

New York: William H. Morrow, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - a young woman reporter is in the Bahamas on a vacation with her family. Even from the beginning, the peacefulness of the island is offset by the tensions within her family, but the situation becomes much worse when Leslie loses money she doesn't have at the casino and finds herself being blackmailed by the manager. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-688037526.

New York: St Martin's, 2001. SIGNED first edition - Suspense novel woven around a conspiracy of corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department. Boldly SIGNED on the title page.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel which spams the years from depression-era, gangster-controlled Irish Chicago, to the early years of the FBI, wartime Washington, the defeat of Hitler, i and finally to Vietnam. 495 pp. ISBN: 0-395511364.

New York: Dutton, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of 4 people set in 1915-1916 against the twin upheavals of the Irish Revolution and World War I. ISBN: 0-525-244506.

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, (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: 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: 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.

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, 2012. SIGNED first edition - The first book published by these authors under this psuedonym - "Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as its whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethovens manuscripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is warned, and it is steeped in blood." INSCRIBED on the title page and SIGNED by both authors as Magnus Flyte with their initials underneath. 448 pp.

New York: Crown, 1996. The author's first novel, a story of suspense and mystery set in Sarajevo.

New York: Pantheon, 1993. First edition - Suspense novel featuring Crown Prosecutor Helen West. Fyfield is an attorney in the Crown Prosecutor's office, so she writes of a world she knows very well. Publisher's letter laid in.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, set in 1939 in a world on the edge of war, a story of love and intrigue set in uneasily neutral Turkey. The 'singular occupation' of the title is the importance of Catherine's getting financial aid into the hands of de Gaulle's resistance. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-297-793071.

New York: Scribner's, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, set in 1939 in a world on the edge of war, a story of love and intrigue set in uneasily neutral Turkey. The 'singular occupation' of the title is the importance of Catherine's getting financial aid into the hands of de Gaulle's resistance. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-684-190729.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993). SIGNED first edition - First novel - a zany, fast-paced thriller set in Minneapolis - "ex-cop Jim Crow finds himself in over his head in a scheme replete with poker-playing hustlers, cocaine, and two con artists selling shares of a rare comic book collection." SIGNED on the title page. Highly praised; selected as a NY Times Notable book. The author's name is shown as "Peter" on the front cover, instead of Pete. 285 pp.

New York: William H. Morrow, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an "unconventional love story that spans two decades, a novel of psychological suspense that probes the dark side of romance and memory. Mixed with tales of Hollywood glamour and paparazzi flashbulbs, [this is the] story of one woman's quest to put the ghosts of her past to rest through a search where nothing is as it seems, not even her own recollections." 295 pp. ISBN: 978-0060745288.

New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young, tough but vulnerable female guard at a maximum-security prison. "Under constant threat yet given absolute authority, the guards routinely cross the divide between law enforcement and criminality. Corrections Officer Kali Williams takes pains to avoid the complicated traps of inmates and guards alike. Then a young inmate named Joshua comes to her for help." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 293 pp. ISBN: 978-0312592479.