New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "thriller about baseball, sex slavery and trade agreements." Boldly INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens and dated in the year of publication. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-312855532.

New York: SOHO Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Japan just after their defeat in World War II. "Written by one of Japan's most popular mystery novelists, [this] was first published in Tokyo in 1948 and won the Mystery Writers Club Award. It remains to this day among the most read of Japanese detective mysteries." Translated from the Japanese and adapted by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 324 pp. ISBN: 1-569471088.