9780312601898 | Minotaur Books, July 19, 2011, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Charged with recovering a sacred relic for his La Paz diocese, Morty Martinez hunts down a gold ring that rests on the finger of New York City billionaire Robert Tyson Grant.

9781410432667 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2010), cover price $30.99 | About this edition: Tom Davin’s business is a bit unusual—he finds stolen art and sells it back to its owners for a good penny—until he uncovers a devious plot and finds himself on the run from a vicious Russian assassin Tom Davin is a Brooklyn insurance investigator in a jam.

9780312601881 | Minotaur Books, June 8, 2010, cover price $24.99

9781429924221 | Minotaur Books, June 8, 2010, cover price $11.99

9780312388614 | Minotaur Books, March 3, 2009, cover price $24.95

9781429919258 | Minotaur Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $11.99

9781597227551 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, May 16, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Garth Carson has gone legit.

9780440243144 | Dell Pub Co, May 29, 2007, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Garth Carson's profitable new career as an appraiser of taxidermy collections is threatened when a number of prominent big-game hunters turn up dead, seemingly slaughtered by their own taxidermy.

9780738844565 | Xlibris Corp, April 1, 2001, cover price $30.99

9781597224345 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 18, 2007), cover price $24.95

9780440243137 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, September 1, 2006), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Determined to escape the witness protection program, ex-mobster-turned-snitch Sid 'Sleep' Bifulco has set up a new life in a rural hideaway to pursue his new avocation, trout fishing, but he soon discovers that he cannot escape the attentions of the zanylocal yokels, a Mafia killer on his trail, or an incriminating videotape.

9781591091578 | Createspace, January 1, 2002, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Wiseguy Sid “Sleep” Bifulco doesn’t need no stinkin’ witness protection program.

9780738844572 | Xlibris Corp, April 1, 2001, cover price $20.99

9780440243120 | Dell Pub Co, July 25, 2006, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Hired by an insurance company to find a recently stolen painting called Trampoline Nude, 1972, hustler Nicholas Palihnic follows a trail that leads to a hoard of treasure buried beneath Manhattan, a murdered art thief, and Beatrice Belarus, a ruthless Manhattan art dealer.

9781597220903 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, November 2, 2005), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Garth Carson buys, sells, and rents exotic taxidermy from his funky New York City storefront.

9780440241881 | Dell Pub Co, May 31, 2005, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: When a recently acquired stuffed white crow is stolen, along with $50,000 worth of their best stock, taxidermist Garth Carson and his girlfriend, Angie, reluctantly turn sleuth to uncover the truth about a case involving a zany, illegal international treasure hunt, crazed carnies, bumbling feds, and a killer who will do anything to stop them.

9781597220361 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, September 9, 2005), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: New York City taxidermy collector Garth Carson was seconds away from snagging the greatest find of his career - the original Pipsqueak the Nutty Nut, stuffed-squirrel puppet star of his favorite 1950s kiddie TV show.

9780440241874 | Dell Pub Co, June 1, 2004, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: New York City taxidermy collectory Garth Carson and his girlfriend, Angie, launch a rollicking, suspenseful quest to find Pipsqueak the Nutty Nut, a stuffed-squirrel puppet of a popular 1950s children's TV show, making their way through a bizarre world of jive cult members, club-goers, and murder to find the stolen squirrel.

9780595227273 | Writers Club Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tuning forks, thugs in plaid cummerbunds, digital TV, a dead biker, a stuffed loon and an old cartoon show?