Readers who were thrilled by Lauren Belfer's 1999 novel, City of Light, a historical mystery/thriller set in Buffalo, New York in 1901, can continue their exploration of how other authors have fictionalized our beloved city. The titles listed below are set in Buffalo, have pivotal scenes in Buffalo, or feature Buffalonians as central characters. The Buffalo connection is admittedly slight in several of the works.

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Author Title Place of Publication: Publisher, date	Relevant links, if any	Plot summary, notes
Adams, Ronald W. Lake Effect America House Book Publishers, ©2003	Author's Website	"A Christmastime carjacking plunges two small children into the icy waters of Lake Erie." Takes place in Hamburg.
Albarella, Joan Called to Kill Tucson, AZ: Rising Tide Press, ©2000	Review	From the back cover: "A Viet-Nam vet confronts her feelings for the Vietnamese woman and Amerasian child she was involved with twenty-five years earlier. Though filled with mixed emotions, the Reverend Nikki Barnes agrees to help her old friend and travels the short distance to Canada. She soon becomes immersed in the dark world of drugs, prostitution and murder, and is drawn into a tangled web of deceit and romance. When feelings for her old friend Trang emerge, is Nikki's relationship with Dr. Ginni Clayton threatened?"
Alger, Horatio, Jr. The Young Salesman Philadelphia, PA: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1896	Publisher's Website	Buffalo Fiction would be incomplete without a Horatio Alger story!  Scott Walton, an orphan,gets a job as a traveling salesman. When he is sent to Buffalo on business he is able to buy a bankrupt wholesale firm's goods for his company at a discount. For this, the company gives him a commission and a promotion. Available in reprint.
Anderson, Douglas First and Ten New York: Crown, ©1993	Author's Website	OP. A mystery set during a labor strike among the Buffalo Bills. Someone is picking off striking ballplayers one by one.
Baines, Gay & Mary Ann Eichelberger Storms: Stories and Poems Buffalo, NY: July Literary Press, ©1999	Publisher's Website	Not seen by this webmaster
Baker, Elliott Penny Wars New York: Putnam, [1968]	Author Biography	Author is a Buffalo native. A coming of age novel set in 1939, with some scenes in Buffalo.
Baker, Elliott Unrequited Loves New York: Putnam, ©1974		An autobiographical novel set during World War II, not seen by this webmaster. Many thanks to John I. O'Day for bringing this one to my attention.
Baldwin, Faith White Collar Girl New York: Farrar & Rinehart, ©1933	Author Biography	OP. A librarian colleague writes, "It's set in a fictitious WNY river town, and the wealthy, powerful family in town moved to 'the country' after the patriarch retired from business in Buffalo. IMO it's one of Baldwin's best, with a heroine who makes a career for herself in real estate."
Barth, John One Upon a Time Boston, MA: Little, Brown, ©1994	Author Biography	Includes some scenes in Buffalo. Author taught at the University of Buffalo from 1965-1973.  Reviewed in the Buffalo News, May 29, 1994.
Bartlett, Lorraine Murder on the Mind Five Star Publishing, ©2005	Author's Website	Former insurance investigator Jeff Resnick is mugged and discovers the resulting brain injury has left him able to sense people's secrets. When his estranged half-brother, Richard, takes Jeff to the family home to recover, Jeff senses clues to the recent murder of a local banker and feels compelled to pursue it--using both his psychic and investigative skills. Against the gritty setting of wintry Buffalo, NY, and a tormented family history of his own, unraveling the truth threatens Jeff's--and Richard's--life.
Baxter, Charles The Soul Thief New York: Random House, ©2008	Publisher's Website	"After his father’s death, Nathaniel Mason leaves behind his grieving mother, mute sister and sorrow-filled Midwestern home. He hopes to escape their grief and the shadowy figures that watch him from a distance to find solace and a higher education at graduate school in Buffalo, New York. It is the early 1970s, and the United States is mired in the unpopular conflict in Vietnam. It is a time of “ecstatic bitterness and joyfully articulated rage, along with fear, which is unarticulated."   --Bookreporter.com
Beardsley, Charles E. The Victims of Tyranny: A Tale Buffalo, NY: D. June, 1847	Critical Essay	Set on the Niagara Frontier during the War of 1812
Beck, Harold Thomas Cornplanter Chronicles: A Tale of the Legendary Chieftain Custer City, PA: Mountain Laurel Pub. Co., ©2002	Publisher's Website	A fictionalized account of the great Seneca leader. He was born near Avon, NY and lived briefly in Tonawanda.
Beckhorn, Sarah Williams Sarey by Lantern Light Down East Books, ©2003	Publisher's Website	"Sarey has a different way of seeing, but her teacher at the crowded city school in Buffalo doesn't recognize this. She knows Sarey is bright and artistically talented, but blames Sarey's refusal to read on laziness. In fact, Sarey is dyslexic--a condition that in the 1970s was not so well recognized and understood as it is today."
Belfer, Lauren City of Light New York: Dial Press, ©1999	Author Profile	Buffalo's literary event of 1999. If you can read only one book on this list, make it City of Light.
Bellow, Saul Adventures of Augie March New York: Viking Press, ©1953	Critique	Augie flees from Chicago to Buffalo after an illegal immigration scheme fails.
Bellow, Saul "What Kind of Day Did You Have?" [novella], in: Him With His Foot in His Mouth New York: Harper & Row, © 1984	Review	"Reaching for the telephone in a Buffalo hotel, Victor calls his lover Katrina in Chicago, and invites - commands - her to fly in zero weather from Chicago to Buffalo solely in order to keep him company on his flight from Buffalo to Chicago..."
Benedict, Lois Trimble Canalboat Mystery New York: Atheneum, 1963	Newspaper Article	A young adult novel set in the Tonawandas in 1910.
"Black Knife" [McCarroll, James] Ridgeway: An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada Buffalo, NY: McCarroll & Co., ©1868	Full Text	OP. This 1868 novel is no longer the oldest I know of with a Buffalo connection. James Holstun writes: "Lively but sometimes silly romance, written just after the invasion, by a committed Fenian partisan from Canada. True romance between Nicholas Barry and Kate McCarthy, abducted maidens, black-hearted British scoundrels, and long, passionate, and intelligent analyses of British colonialism."
Blair, Cynthia Going Solo Fawcett Juniper, ©1991		OP. A young adult novel in which three young musicians, one of them a teenage flutist from Buffalo, find friendship at a prestigious music camp.
Blumenthal, John Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour New York: St. Martin's Griffin, ©2004	Review	The narrator, a nerdy neurotic, finds love while he works on an epic biography of Buffalo's Millard Fillmore
Bodell, Bill Immortal Spirit Monroe, NY: Library Research Associates, ©1984		Fictionalized account of growing up on the Niagara Frontier after the Depression.
Bowen, Rhys Death of Riley New York: St. Martin's Minotaur ©2002	Review	Molly Murphy, a young Irish immigrant and aspiring detective in early 20th century New York City, pursues the case of her reluctant , murdered mentor, Private Investigator Paddy Riley. Eventually, the trail leads to the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo.
Boyle, T. Coraghessan Budding Prospects: A Pastoral New York: Viking, ©1984	Review	Boyle went to school at UB and lived in an apartment over a bar on Hertel Avenue. Fellow librarian Bill tells me that the grandmother character in this novel is a Buffalonian.
Brady, Charles Viking Summer Milwaukee, WI: Bruce Pub Co., ©1956		Includes chapter "Christmas in Buffalo."  Brady was a professor at Canisius College.
Brautigan, Richard An Unfortunate Woman New York: St. Martins Press, ©2000	Review	The depressed narrator in this semi-autobiographical novel recounts six months of wandering around the country, including a stop in Buffalo. Not seen by this webmaster.
Breen, Martin Lizzie & Other Stories Buffalo, NY: Martin Breen, ©2004	Author's Website	Short stories based on the author's youth in South Buffalo
Brown, James G. A Promise to the Past: A Genealogical Mystery Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com, © 2000	Commercial Website	Robert E. Wurtz writes, "I have just finished reading a genealogical novel... ... James Baker, wife and 2 small children had just arrived in Buffalo on March 14, 1835. As the western terminus of the Erie canal '...it also became a very rough town with a very pervasive criminal element that was all too real.' (p. 134) 'From a canal boat one day to a lake vessel the next did not leave time to search for the best lodgings. They searched the waterfront and selected the first clean looking place they came upon. It was not what it appeared to be from the outside and the door on their room could not be locked. Thrice in the night someone attempted to break in but were intimidated by claims of pistols and a cut arm on the third attempt.'"
Bryant, Will Escape from Sonora New York: Random House, [1973]	Biographical Website	The only novel here to prominently feature a made-in-Buffalo product: a 1907 Thomas Flyer, which is driven by a gang on the run from a murder in Arizona in 1916
Burley, Charlotte Cosmopolitan Girls New York: Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, ©2004	Publisher's Website	Two New York City girls, one originally fom Buffalo, lend each other moral and spiritual support as they deal with unworthy lovers.
Burrow, R. The Tree Outside the Window Denlingers Publishers LTD, ©1999	Author's Website	Au autobiographical novel about the author's battle with mental illness. Although Buffalo is not mentioned by name, the hospital is inspired by Buffalo's Psychiatric Center. Author lives in Buffalo.
Burton, Gabrielle Heartbreak Hotel New York: Scribner, ©1986	Excerpt	A feminist fantasy set in the Museum of the Revolution in Buffalo
Caldwell, Taylor There Was a Time New York: Scribner, ©1947	Synopsis	OP. Caldwell was Buffalo's most famous novelist during the 20th century. Set in "Bison," which is based on Buffalo.
Caldwell, Taylor Wide House New York: Scribner, ©1945	Synopsis	OP. A gothic romance set in "Grandville," which is based on Buffalo.
Caputi, Anthony Loving Evie New York: Harper & Row, ©1974		OP. A Buffalo college professor has a love affair, which produces a baby and a marriage and a life that he doesn't really understand.
Caputi, Anthony Storms and Son New York: Atheneum, ©1985		OP. A Buffalo attorney searches for his son's murderer in Greenwich Village.
Chabon, Michael "Smoke" [short story] in: A Model World and Other Stories New York: Avon, ©2000	Review	An aging Pittsburgh ballplayer attends a teammate's funeral before being demoted to the Triple AAA league in Buffalo. Many thanks to fellow librarian Bill for finding this one.
Carroll, Cindy Innocence and Indiscretion Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006	Publisher's Website	Cullen Breslin hit his adolescent years harder than most teenagers did. Cullen’s parents died a few months after his father relocated the family to Buffalo. Trouble was attracted to him no matter how much he wanted to avoid it. Then, one indiscretion would steal his innocence and lead him towards disaster.
Chamberlain, Stephen R. Crispus Attucks, I Steal a Cab, and Other Stories Buffalo, NY: University Press of Buffalo, ©1975		OP. Short stories based on the author's experience driving a cab for Madison Taxi Co. in Buffalo
Charles, Merritt Fools Rush In--Where Angels... Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse ©2006	Publisher's Website	Four Buffalo men patronize a prostitue and find themselves trapped in a web of extortion. Author's real name is Everett C. Merritt.
Clark, Margaret Goff Danger at Niagara New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968		"Set in the Niagara Frontier during the War of 1812. The novel opens in the winter of 1813, and the inhabitants of Lewiston soon learn of the burning of Newark by the retreating American army, and know that British reprisal is forthcoming, as indeed the characters must survive the British taking of Fort Niagara and burning of settlements up and down the American side of the Niagara River that December of 1813."  --Todd Mitchell
Clement, Peter Death Rounds New York: Fawcett, ©1999	Review	Medical suspense. Not seen by this webmaster
Clement, Peter The Inquisitor New York: Ballantine Books, © 2004	Jacket Art	Medical suspense. Not seen by this webmaster
Clement, Peter Lethal Practice [n.p.] Ivy Books, ©1998	Synopsys and blurbs	Medical suspense. Not seen by this webmaster
Clement, Peter Mortal Remains New York: Random House, ©2003	Synopsys and blurbs	Medical suspense. Not seen by this webmaster
Clement, Peter The Procedure New York: Ballantine Books, © 2001	Review	Medical suspense. Not seen by this webmaster
Coleman, Daniel The Anarchist Oakland, CA: Willowbrook Press, © 2001	Publisher's Website	Based on the life of Leon Czolgosz, who assassinated President William McKinley in Buffalo in 1901.
Coleman, William P. Aran and Jimmy [short story]	Author's Website	"Aran, an explorer from the politically-correct Federation of Planets, arrives in Buffalo NY on a snowy night at the end of 1957 and meets Jimmy,an enthusiastic and chatty newspaper boy." A hypertext fiction supposedly available from in Acrobat PDF, but I could not find the link at the author's website.
Cosby, Andrew Damn Nation Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, ©2005	Publisher's Website	Writer Andrew Cosby has imagined a United States shut off from the world by concrete barricades and barbed wire - not because of what might get in, but what might get out. A vampire plague has spread from sea to shining sea and when a small holdout of scientists trapped outside of Buffalo, N.Y. discover a cure, it's up to a Special Ops team from the President's current offices in London to go in and get it. Yet not everyone in the world wants to see America back in the saddle again ... First in a series of three graphic novels.
Crisp, George L. Manley, the Master of Millions Buffalo, NY: Business Collegian, ©1927		OP. Possibly the first-ever novel completely set in Buffalo, this rags-to-riches story centers on a young man's business career
Davis, Clyde Brion The Great American Novel New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. [©1938]	Excerpt and Synopsis	OP. As this novel opens, Homer Zigler is a 23-year old cub reporter at a Buffalo newspaper who sets off the write the Great American Novel but somehow never does.
Davis, Clyde Brion The Rebellion of Leo McGuire New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. [1944]	Author Biography	OP. This is the story of an 'honest burglar" who was born and raised on Buffalo's East Side.
Davis, Clyde Brion Thudbury, an American Comedy Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, [1952]	Author Biography	OP. Thomas O'Donnell calls this an ironic novel set in Western New York.
Dean, Amber Ticket to Buffalo Garden City, NY: Crime Club/Doubleday, ©1951	Amber Dean papers at U. of Rochester	OP. Probably a murder mystery. Not seen by this webmaster
DeBerry, Virginia & Donna Grant Far From the Tree New York: St. Martin's Press, ©2000	Review	Set in part or all in Buffalo. Not seen by this webmaster
De La Cruz, Melissa The Au Pairs New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, ©2004	Review	Three teenage girls spend a summer in the Hamptons caring for the kids of a fabulously wealthy family. One of them, Eliza, was forced to move to Buffalo after her father's financial misdealings.
Deming, Richard Gallows in My Garden New York: Dell, ©1952	ThrillingDetective website	OP. Features sleuth Manville Moon.
Deming, Richard Juvenile Delinquent London: T.V. Boardman, ©1958	ThrillingDetective website	OP. Features sleuth Manville Moon.
Deming, Richard Tweak the Devil's Nose New York: Rinehart, ©1953	ThrillingDetective website	OP. Features sleuth Manville Moon. Also published under the title Hand-Picked to Die.
Deming, Richard Whistle Past the Graveyard New York: Rinehart, ©1954	ThrillingDetective website	OP. Features sleuth Manville Moon. Also published under the title Give the Girl a Gun.
Dilks, Susan Crossett Her Reason for Being: A Novel Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, ©2008	Publisher's Website	"...we speak now of the future, the same future which will see the rise to national prominence of the Larkin manufacturing Company and its bringing Frank Lloyd Wright to Buffalo to design not only its headquarters but the homes of many of the company's officials."
DiPirro, Philip K. Knights in White Satin Frederick, MD: PublishAmerica, ©2002	Publisher's Website	Opens with a 60-year old kidnapping of a young wife and mother in Buffalo, with extortion, murder, and theft from the mob along the way. Not seen by this webmaster.
Dobson, Frank E. The Race is Not Given [n.p.] SterlingHouse, ©1999	Publisher's Website	Narrator returns to his parents' home in Hamlin Park with a cancer diagnosis and a failed marriage
Donne, John Too Hot to Handle New York: Vantage Press, ©1991		OP. Not seen by this webmaster
Dooley, Roger B. Days Beyond Recall Milwaukee, WI: Bruce Pub. Co., ©1949	Author Obituary	OP. Set in Buffalo's First Ward and includes a saloon based on the Swannie House
Dooley, Roger B. Gone Tomorrow Milwaukee, WI: Bruce Pub. Co., [1961]	Author Biography	OP. Not seen by this webmaster
Dooley, Roger B. House of Shanahan Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., ©1952		OP. Not seen by this webmaster
Dooley, Roger B. Less Than the Angels Milwaukee, WI: Bruce Pub. Co., ©1946	Full Text	OP. The fictional Lakeport is based on Buffalo. George Richmond writes, "I remember reading Less than the Angels shortly after it was published. One of my more naive friends claimed he could identify just about all the characters with people we knew. I thought the plot was simple-minded, and the notion that not one but two Health Commissioners would be tapped to run for Mayor was ludicrous. Dooley's idea of setting a scene in summer in an well-off Catholic home was to have the lady of the house pick up a copy of the Sacred Heart Messenger to fan herself. Maybe he got better in his later novels. I never read them. I guess if you want to use the above as a 55-years-late review from memory, you may."
Drago, Ross Buffalo Boy Oakland, CA: Backbone Books, n.d.	Chapter One	"Buffalo is America's Moscow." Not seen by this webmaster
Drzewiecki, Iris The Ghost and Me, Joey Buffalo, NY: Western NY Heritage Press, ©2002	Publisher's Website	Joey meets the ghost of Lancaster, Warren Hull, in the attic of the 1810 Hull House.
Eastburn, Joseph Kiss Them Goodbye New York: W. Morrow, ©1993		Detective Nick Fowler, recently transferred from Buffalo, investigates a series of murders in a boys' school in "Ravenstown," NY.
Edmonds, Walter D. Wedding Journey Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., ©1947	Author Profile	OP. Mentions Buffalo, the Erie Canal, and other places in Upstate NY
Eichelberger, Mary Ann A Cloud Slipped Across the Moon Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, ©2002	Publisher's Website	Has lots of scenes set in Buffalo
Ellis, Peter Berresford The Rising of the Moon: A Novel of the Fenian Invasion of Canada New York: St. Martins Press, ©1987	Author Biography	OP. The Fenians were predecessors to the Irish Republican Army, and in 1866, assembled in Buffalo for a failed invasion of Canada. Not seen by this webmaster
England, Ceorge Allan (1877-1936) Darkness and Dawn Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, [1974, 1914]	Full Text	Chapter 19 describes passing by a post-apocalyptic Buffalo and onto the Niagara River, which has been reduced to a trickle
Farrell, Mike Running with Buffalo Morrisville, NC: Lulu.com, ©2007	Publisher's Website	"In the tradition of literature's most memorable idealists comes Joseph Cahan, Buffalo, New York's biggest dreamer and 2001 college graduate. Follow Cahan on his amusing and arduous search for refreshing certainty in the times of Generation What's Next."
Fazzolari, Clifford J. In Real Life Pittsburgh, PA: SterlingHouse, ©2002	Author's Website	Partially set in Buffalo, with local landmarks and businesses
Feder, Harriet K. Death on Sacred Ground Lerner Publications Co., ©2001	Author's Website	Vivi, a high school student from Buffalo, accompanies her rabbi father to a Seneca reservation where a Jewish girl was supposedly felled by an unknown archer. For grades 6-9.
Feinberg, Leslie Stone Butch Blues Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, ©1993	Mailing List	"Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity..." (from the jacket copy). This semi-autobiographical coming out novel is set in repressive, blue-collar Buffalo in the 1950s and 1960s. Author was born and raised in Buffalo.
Fitch, James Monroe The Ring Buster: A Story of the Erie Canal New York: Fleming H. Revell Co. [1940]		OP. Political corruption in Buffalo during Grover Cleveland's years as mayor
Fitzgerald, F. Scott Basil and Josephine Stories Simon & Schuster, ©1996	Publisher's Website	Includes short stories based on Fitzgerald's childhood in Buffalo
Fitzgerald, Joan Twin Towers [further bibliographic details not found yet]		Mentioned in the Buffalo News, Sept, 30, 2007, as being a young adult thriller set in H.H. Richardson's Buffalo Psychiatric Center complex.
Fix, Miranda Garden of Roses and Tears Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, ©2003	Publisher's Website	Twenty years old, talented and beautiful, Kerensa Fiori had life all figured out. In two years, she would be graduating from the University of Miami to open her own dance studio. Now, everything has changed. First, she receives word that her father unexpectedly dies from a heart attack in Buffalo, N.Y. Then she is informed that only a couple of days prior to his death, he had changed the contents of his will. Kerensa is summoned to Buffalo, in the dead of winter, to be under the guardianship of her father’s colleague, Dr. Brian O’Brian, until she turns twenty-one. Independent and defiant, Kerensa arrives in Buffalo under protest.
Flynn, Joseph Hot Type Richmond, VA: Diesel eBooks, ©2005	Publisher's Website	Has several scenes set in Buffalo
Ford, Joan E. Grandma Stories [Buffalo, NY?]: The Author? ©1991		Short stories. Not seen by this webmaster
Ford, Paul Leicester The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him New York: International Book, 1899, ©1894	Full Text	Said to be a thinly disguised fictionalization of Grover Cleveland's illegitimate son with Maria Halpin and Cleveland's later marriage to Frances Folsom, the daughter of Oscar Folsom, the man who may have been the real father.
Frank, Jeffrey The Columnist New York: Simon & Schuster, ©2001	Excerpt	The ruthless Washington journalist is this novel is born and raised in Buffalo, getting his start, according to Jeff Simon, at a newspaper modeled on the Buffalo Courier-Express. According to my friend Peter, the Buffalo portion of the story is limited to the first chapter.
Fried, Emmanuel "Manny" Big Ben Hood Buffalo, NY: Textile Bridge Press, Labor Arts Books, ©1987	Author Profile	Ben Hood works at the fictitious Niagara Division of Mackenzie Machine Tool, in a city called Niagara. Possibly a blend of Buffalo and Niagara Falls. The LA Times (date unknown) wrote: "No American playwright writes so knowledgeably & sensitively of labor's rank-&-file as Emanuel Fried." He lived the bohemian life, was a blue-collar worker. A professional actor, then a union organizer, he earned a doctorate & became a professor of English & wrote plays. Chairs the Labor Arts Committee of Greater Buffalo AFL-CIO & Professor Emeritus at Buffalo State College.
Fried, Emmanuel "Manny" The Un-American: Autobiographical Nonfiction Novel Buffalo, NY: Springhouse Editions, ©1992	Author Profile	Fried fictionalizes his persecution by the HUAC Committee in the 1950s
Furie, Ruthe If Looks Could Kill New York: Avon Books, ©1995	Publisher's Website Excerpt	The first novel in a projected mystery series featuring Fran Kirk, a battered woman who lives in Cheektowaga.
Furie, Ruthe A Deadly Pate LTD Books, ©2004		The third in the Fran Kirk PI series which is set in Buffalo and Western New York.
Furie, Ruthe A Natural Death LTD Books, ©2003		P.I. Fran Kirk is called to a natural foods farm in Wyoming County to determine whether the accidental death of a farmhand is really an accident.
Gangi, Rayna Mary Jemison: White Woman of the Seneca Clear Light Publications, ©1996	Commercial Website	A fictionalized account of the famous English captive who chose to accept the Seneca people as her own. Jemison lived for several years on the Buffalo Creek reservation and was buried there before being reinterred at Letchworth State Park.
Gardner, John Sunlight Dialogues New York: Knopf, ©1972	Dust Jacket Copy	Set in Batavia and Buffalo.
Geller, Ruth Pictures from the Past Buffalo, NY: Imp Press, ©1980		OP. Short stories with occasional mentions of Buffalo locales
Geller, Ruth Seed of a Woman Buffalo, NY: Imp Press,©1979		OP. Local author, local publisher. An early coming-out novel possibly set in Buffalo.
Godsave, Bayard Allentown: A Novella Moorhead, MN: Dacotah Territory Press, ©2002		"Bayard Godsave’s first published novella, Allentown, may be set in Buffalo, NY, but the the story is a familiar one across the nation for members of the X and Y generations. It’s a taut, tense, and incredibly grim ride that is foreboding from the forward, yet gripping to the last word. Populated with dead-end druggies and their dealers whose only goal is to make it until their next score, Godsave paints a bleak, but compelling look into a downward spiral that sucks in five different, but damned characters. He doesn’t attempt to justify their lives or choices, but only to act as a sort of colorful tour guide for the descent."  --High Plains Reader, June 13, 2002
Graham, Norman Spencer Everything Green Went Away Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, ©2000	Publisher's Website	"They are classmates in Buffalo, upstate New York, and their parents are an assorted collection of deviants---alcoholics, pill-pushers, promiscuous, cynical and having no interest whatsoever in their children’s welfare. The kids decide to find a life of their own and here we have echoes of LORD OF THE FLIES as they struggle to exit in an adult world of greed and indifference."
Grey, Zane (1872-1939) The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories New York: Walter J. Black [1948]	Full Text	Rube's team faces off against the Buffalo Bisons for the pennant
Gurney, A.R. Snow Ball New York: Arbor House, ©1984	Author Bio	The Snow Ball was an annual event sponsored by Children's Hospital where all local debutantes would be presented. A large ball usually held in the Mary Seaton room of Kleinhans.
Hailstock, Shirley Whispers of Love New York: Windsor Pub. Co., ©1994	Excerpt	Romance novel, set partly in Buffalo. Not seen by this webmaster.
Harriman, Karl Edwin The Homebuilders Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, [1969]	Full Text	Originally published in 1903. Includes a character, Anton, who is appalled that his daughter has gone to Buffalo with a bookkeeper who has anglicized his Polish name and abandoned his people. Described as classic ethnic/immigrant fiction.
Hart, Julia C.B. Tonnewonte, or, the Adopted Son of America Watertown, NY: J.Q. Adams, ©1825	Full Text	A French child is adopted and raised in Tonawanda and falls in love with a village girl. His father reclaims him, takes him home to life in the French nobility, but he escapes and returns to his true love. Appears to be the first novel ever set in the Buffalo area.
Harte, Amanda North Star New York: Leisure Books, ©2000	Review	A historical romance set in Buffalo in 1853.
Hay, John The Bread-Winners; A Social Study New York: Harper & Brothers, ©1884	Full Text	OP. James Holstun writes: "Anti-union novel by Lincoln’s former private secretary, set in a city based on Buffalo and Cleveland."
Henry, Elizabeth Angela Cloudy Weather: A Romance of the Fenian Days Buffalo, NY: Union & Times Press, ©1921		OP. Not seen by this webmaster
Holden, Raymond Chance Has a Whip New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ©1935	Review	OP. An executive in a steel plant in Buffalo has an extramarital affair with the boss's daughter. In spite of the destruction this causes, he spends most of the novel feeling misunderstood and explaining how pure their love is.
Holland, Norman N. Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, ©1995	Publisher's Website	A grad student is poisoned in the English Department at the University of Buffalo. Holland is a former UB professor.
Holmes, Mary Z. For Bread [History's Children Series] Austin, TX: Raintree Stech-Vaughan, ©1992		OP. A children's book for middle grades, the story of a young Polish immigrant trying to help support his struggling family in late 19th century Buffalo. Historically accurate illustrations and text.
Hopkins, Pauline Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest [serialized novel] Colored American Magazine, v.5, nos.1-6, May- October 1902	Publisher's Website	Follows Africans-American characters as they escape from slavery and settle among Seneca Indians outside of Buffalo. Hopkins may be the first African-American author to set a novel in Buffalo.
Horgan, Paul Everything to Live For New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1968]	Author Profile	OP. Not seen by this webmaster
Horgan, Paul Things As They Are New York: Farrar, Straus, [1964]	Author Profile	OP. A coming-of-age novel set in the 1900's in "Dorchester," supposedly a blend of Buffalo and Rochester
Houck, Doug W. Visionary: A Tale of Old Chautauqua, the Great Lakes, and Beyond Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, ©2004	Publisher's Website	"Political intrigue, commercial exploitation, emergiing technology, flourishing eroticism, and pursuit of power" in Western New York in the early 19th century. Has several scenes in Buffalo.
Howell, John W. Naked in Church Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, ©2003	Publisher's Website	A deep, penetrating psychological soap opera delving into relgious extremism, emerging gay identity, angst-ridden romance and the pressures all of these bring to bear on one small town and one family of Cuban immigrants. Set in fictional Little Pond, NY, with several scenes in Buffalo.
Howells, William Dean Their Wedding Journey Boston, MA: J.R. Osgood, 1872	Full Text	Two newlyweds travel to Niagara Falls, Montreal, and Quebec. See end of Chapter XI for the memorable line, "I believe in Buffalo!"
Hubbard, Elbert with Alice Moore The Man: A Story of Today New York: J.S. Ogilve, ©1891		Written under the pseudonym Aspasia Hobbs, the novel is set in Buffalo. It was Hubbard's first book, and Moore, soon to be his wife, was a large contributor. Apparently, Hubbard was so dissatisfied with it that he burned all his copies.
Hubbard, Susan "Conversations With Men" [short story], in: Blue Money Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Pres, ©1999	Author's Website	According to the review in Publishers Weekly, a union organizer returns to Buffalo to mend her relationship with her ailing father
Hubbell, Harriet Weed Cannons over Niagara Philadelphia, PA: Westminster, ©1954		OP. A young adult novel about the War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier. Includes scenes set in the village of Buffalo.
Irving, John Until I Find You New York: Random House, ©2005	Publisher's Website	Actor Jack Burns ends up in Toronto, where he meets a financial planner from Buffalo named Willard Saperston. And guess what: there really is a Willard Saperston in Buffalo who is a financial planner.
Jackson, Bruce The Programmer Garden City, NY: Doubleday, ©1979	Author's Website	Possibly the first-ever computer crime novel, with scenes at the Ellicott Square Building, the W. Ferry lift bridge, and the Erie Canal.
Jenkins, Yvonne E. Taming Pillip Edgewater, FL: Denlingers, ©2003	Publisher's Website	Priince Phillip has come to Buffalo to find a wife. Corinne Verland is assigned to show him the sights and to help him find a bride. Can she tame and mold the arrogant prince into a proper husband? What happens when he decides she is to be his bride?
Johnson, Peter I'm a Man [n.p.] Raincrow Publishing, ©1998	Publisher's Website	Features offbeat characters from Johnson's hometown, Buffalo. Winner of the 1997 RCP Fiction Chapbook Contest
Johnson, Peter [Various short stories] Web Del Sol, various dates	Author's Website with Full Text	Most of Johnson's stories are set in Buffalo
Jones, Ruth Fosdick Escape to Freedom New York: Random House [1958]		OP. Buffalo boy helps with Underground Railroad. For 6th to 8th graders.
Joyce, Michael "At Home With a New Thing" [short story] in: Moral Tales and Meditations Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, ©2002	Publisher's Website	The narrator recalls the arrival on television on McKinley Parkway in the 1950s
Joyce, Michael The War Outside Ireland Jackson, MI: Tinkers Dam Press, ©1982	Author Biography	The saga of a South Buffalo Irish-American family. Winner of the Great Lakes New Writers Award and Small Press Book Club selection.
Keenan, Henry F. The Aliens: A Novel New York : D. Appleton, 1886	Full Text	Set in Buffalo and Rochester in the early 19th century, focusing on the plight of Irish immigrants
Keller, Loren Four and Twenty Bluebeards Buffalo, NY: The Author, ©1999	Review	According to Gerry Rising, who reviewed this novel in Artvoice, this story is about a retired Buffalo schoolteacher and actor who becomes obsessed with the story of Bluebeard.
Kessel, John "Buffalo" [short story], published in: Fires of the Past: Thirteen Contemporary Fantasies About Hometowns New York: St. Martin Press, ©1991	Synopsis	OP. Not seen by this webmaster.
Knight, Michael Muhammed Taqwacores Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, ©2007	Publisher's Website	Set in a Muslim punk-house in Buffalo, New York, this novel explores the twin identities of punk and Islam in their many varieties and degrees of orthodoxy.
Kolker, Alex Ace Scores a Ticket [short story] [n.p.]: The Author, ©1998	Full Text	Ace arrives at a Grateful Dead show in Buffalo without any cash but he doesn't let that get in the way of his good time.
Kubiak, Dave Honesty's Hostage Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com, ©2002	Publisher's Website	Dani is an amnesic woman threatened by the truth of relearning a past she doesn't want to remember. Has several scenes in Buffalo.
Laiken, Diedre S. Killing Time in Buffalo Boston, MA: Little, Brown, ©1990		"Renee and Fran--college students in the late 1960s--are eager to partake of the Bohemian pleasures and spirit of freedom all around them, until a strange intruder begins tormenting Renee."  A murder mystery with two UB students, set in an apartment on Days Park in 1967
Larsen, Doran Marginalia Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, ©1997	Publisher's Website	An abused child grows up in Buffalo
Lathen, Emma Banking on Death New York: Pocket Books, ©1975	Review	OP. A detective novel with a blizzard scene in Buffalo. Originally published in 1961.
Lavid, Linda A. Rented Rooms Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, ©2003	Excerpt	The author writes, "I have published a collection of my previously published short fiction, titled Rented Rooms. Many stories are set within Buffalo or Western New York, i.e. one cheating spouse works for a company suspiciously similar to Rich Products; an affair between a lawyer and his secretary takes place at the Ellicott Square Building in the 1960s: a husband and his psychically inclined wife live on a lake modeled after Lily Dale."
Lehman, Eric Gabriel Quaspeck Mercury House, ©1993	Bookseller's Page	A novel about a Polish-American family in the 1970s. The daughter is a college student in Buffalo. Not seen by this webmaster
Lewis, Sinclair "Go East, Young Man" [short story] published in Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, ©1935	Full Text	The narrator goes to Paris to study painting under Monsieur Schoelkopf (can the use of that old Buffalo name possibly be coincidental?) and meets up with a boorish businessman from Buffalo
Lockwood, Brad Wink Writer's Showcase, ©2003	Publisher's Website	"Chip and Gabe, post dot.com era wizards, come to our great city to overcome their trade and be overcome, digested into the city that neutralizes dreams into reality." Reviewed by Kristianne Meal in Artvoice, April 17, 2003, p. 20.
Loggia, Wendy Hard to Resist New York: Bantam Books, ©1998	Publisher's Website	A teen romance set in Buffalo. Not seen by this webmaster
Maloney, Andrew End of a Dynasty Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Trafford, ©2004	Publisher's Website	Talking Leaves Bookstore says, "Can you imagine major-league baseball in Buffalo? Mr. Maloney does in his first novel. End of a Dynasty is the story of the Buffalo Pioneers, a small-market baseball team that defies all odds by capturing the World Series three straight seasons before succumbing to myriad problems: a dying owner, a crumbling stadium and a superstar the club can no longer afford. As the team is ripped apart by free-agency, drug controversies and personal rivalry, tensions in the front-office and egos in the clubhouse spill over onto the field, depriving the Pioneers of the chemistry that brought them glory."
Manka, David You're Lost! [N.p.] Always Open Press, ©2007	Publisher's Website	"This is a novel about Your Host." And so the adventure begins. A beacon in the wintry nights of Buffalo NY, the cursive 'your host' sign seems to be proclaiming "You're Lost!" with misspellings and bad grammar. But what once was lost is now found. Tom, a corporate success but an aspiring writer, he tries to engineer the comeback career of Lemon Dunning. Tom’s former classmate and former romantic rival went to New York on the strength of a published short story, but returned after his fifteen minutes of fame. Lemon became the reclusive night manager of the dowdy Your Host restaurant in the once-elegant Elmwood neighborhood of Buffalo.
Mann, William J. Biograph Girl New York: Kensington Books, ©2000	Publisher's Website	A 'what if" novel about silent screen star Florence Lawrence, who did live in Buffalo in her youth. Speculates what her memoir might read like had she lived to be 106 in a Buffalo nursing home rather than passing away in 1939. Not seen by this webmaster
Marohn, John Tiorunda Stories Buffalo, NY: Beaufleuve Press, ©2008	Author's Blog	The author says it touches on the Catholic Church, the Buffalo Drive-In, Cheektowaga Street Dance, and the Cleveland Hill cultures that dominated the Tiorunda projects (now called Cedar Grove Heights) in the 1950s.
Marshall, Tom Voices on the Brink: A Border Tale Toronto, ON: Macmillan, ©1988		OP. A mystery novel set in Niagara Falls with an unsolved murder in Buffalo
Martin, Phil Long Journey Home Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, ©2003	Publisher's Page	An autobiographical novel set in Irish South Buffalo during World War II
Meadowcroft, Enid LaMonte Along the Erie Towpath New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., ©1940		An Erie Canal novel for young adults with a orphaned protagonist who has climactic family reunion in Buffalo and witnesses the canal opening ceremonies in 1825.
Meholick, Diane Buffalo Stories Parker, CO: Outskirts Press. ©2006	Publisher's Website	In the city of Buffalo, NY, lives a diverse and eclectic population of people. You will meet some of these people in "Buffalo Stories."
Melville, Herman Moby Dick, chapter 54: "The Town-Ho's Story" [reprinted by many publishers], 1851	Full Text	Peter Hassett writes, "...chapter 54 of Moby Dick contains a wonderful 'tale within a tale' of a Buffalonian named Steelkilt. While almost everyone knows the essential story of Moby Dick, surprisingly few know of this dream-like, tangential digression. I bet Melville included it just because it was such a good yarn."
Miano, Sarah Encyclopaedia of Snow Macmillan, ©2004	Publisher's Website	Author is a Buffalo native. Mike says it has a "heavy Buffalo emphasis." Not seen by this webmaster.
Millis, Chris Small Apartments Vancouver, BC: Anvil Press, 2001	Publisher's Website	"'Small Apartments' is the winner of the 23rd International 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest sponsored by Anvil Press of Vancouver. It's an offbeat, darkly comic tale of profound underachievement set in Buffalo's working-class west side. Franklin and his neighbors search for happiness and meaning amidst murder, mental illness, drugs, sex, voyeurism and arson -- with a dash of pop psychology, and an occasional therapeutic blast from an alp horn. What they discover is that, more than anything, they just want to be left alone."  --Universal Press Syndicate
Minich, Richard A. Fireships & Brimstone East Aurora, NY: All Exox Publications, ©2008	Review	Muskie fisherman Joe Gaspe uncovers a plot to blow up the Peace Bridge, here disguised as the Friendship Bridge.
Moffett, Cleveland The Conquest of America; A Romance of Disaster and Victory: U.S.A, 1921 A.D.... New York: George H. Doran Co, ©1916	Full Text	OP. "The purpose of this story is to give an idea of what might happen to America, being defenceless as at present, if she should be attacked, say at the close of the European war." Author used fiction to predict a German invasion after World War I. Chapter XXIII,"Confessions of an American Spy and Bravery of Buffalo Schoolboys," pictures an attack on Grand Island thwarted by strategically placed high school athletes.
Moore, Bob The Weathermen Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, ©2001	Publisher's Website	Features a professor who was radicalized as a '60s college student by the anti-war uprisings at UB. Not seen by this webmaster.
Morgan, John Thomas Bobo's Reunion Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, ©2000	Publisher's Website	"Bob (Bobo) Larsen drives up alone to his fifteenth-year high school reunion in Wyoming, New York, a fictional town midway between Rochester and Buffalo. His wife, Barbara, is to attend a baby shower in Brooklyn where they live, and declines to come along. While at the reunion Bobo becomes romantically and sexually involved with a former classmate, Diane Hunter, now Diane Mack, the wife of Bobo’s high school nemesis Joey Mack. Bobo gives Diane his phone numbers before returning home to Brooklyn. Diane has told him that she sometimes visits the city on shopping excursions, which leave from Bath, New York where her sister lives. When Diane calls Bobo on a visit to the city, their attachment deepens. Unfortunately, both Joey Mack and Barbara are becoming suspicious. Bobo’s Reuion is a comic look at the cheating syndrome and the grass is always greener mentality. Like The Blue Angel it is also the story of a man obsessed."
Moses, Michele But... What if it Doesn't Rain? Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, date unknown	Publisher's Website	"Michele Moses is a commercial interior designer who lives in Buffalo, New York, but sometimes wishes she lived in Paris, France. When she was young her parents bought her a stuffed frog which she adored until it wasn’t cool to play with stuffed animals anymore. Many years later to her surprise, this frog she loved turned up stashed in a trunk by her mother with other bric-à-brac from her childhood that she was so glad to find saved. Fifty-two frogs later Michele has determined the only thing she can count on to remain constant in her life are her frogs. Through her love of frogs, cooking and Paris, a new frog entered her life. His name is Chef Grenouille [gren-où] and of course is French for frog. Although Chef Grenouille flies between Paris and Buffalo regularly, he has become very attached to Michele and her significant other Kevin and is spending much more time in Buffalo."
Murphy, Jim Desperate Journey New York: Scholastic, ©2006	Author's Website	"Tells of pre-teen Maggie, whose father loses all their money in a fight with an Erie Canal bully, placing the family in danger of losing their boat. The only way out is to work harder - but when her elders are arrested it's up to Maggie and her mother and brother to race against time to get the job done. The book brings to life the Erie Canal and what it was like to be a canawler.  Buffalo is one end point of the family's canal haul."  --Todd Mitchell
Nixon, James Leroy Maid of Ontario: A Story of Buffalo, Toronto, and the Fenian Raid of 1866 Welland, Ontario: Yedis Pub. Co., ©1905		OP. Not seen by this webmaster
Nowak, Brian J. Shadow Hunters Rockville, MD: James A Rock & Co., ©2008	Publisher's Website	A young reporter comes home to Alden to solve the murder of his brother
Noyes, Alfred "The Man From Buffalo" [short story] in: Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company [©1918]	Author Biography	A Buffalo millionaire uses his yacht to bait a German warship during World War I
Oates, Joyce Carol Broke Heart Blues New York: Dutton ©1999	Review	Set in "Willowsville," based on Williamsville, where author briefly lived as a teenager.
Oates, Joyce Carol You Must Remember This New York: Dutton, ©1987	Review	The Port Oriskany in this novel is based on Buffalo
Oates, Joyce Carol What I Lived For New York: Dutton, © 1994	Review	The Union City in this novel is based on Buffalo
O'Nan, Stewart Wish You Were Here Berkeley, CA: Grove Press, © 2003	Review	A family gathers for the last time at its summer cottage on Chautauqua Lake. Has scenes in Buffalo.
Panara, Patricia Reilly Buffalo Winged [n.p.]: Beef on Weck Press, ©2003	Review Author's Website	A romance novel
Pappano, Marilyn Heaven on Earth New York: Dell Pub., ©2002	Excerpt	P.I. Melina Dimitris searches for missing children in Bethlehem, NY, which is apparently based on Buffalo
Parker, Bici Spin Murders Publish America, ©2004	Publisher's Website	"A clever murderer stalks the streets and suburbs of Buffalo, New York. Can Kimberly Evans find him before he finds her-or her young daughter? Kimberly enlists the aid of Homicide Detective Frank 'Cooper' Jaruszewski. Using her heretofore quenched psychic abilities, Kimberly, together with Cooper, set off to seek the Terror of Buffalo."
Peck, Ralph H. Murder on a Quiet Street Infinity Books, ©1989		A mystery set in thinly-disguised Orchard Park
Perrin, Kayla We'll Never Tell New York: St. Martin's Press, ©2008	Author's Website	A sorority hazing leads to murder in this suspence novel set at the University at Buffalo.  Featured in the Buffalo News, May 3, 2008
Perry, Thomas Blood Money New York: Random House, ©1999	Review	Not seen by this webmaster
Perry, Thomas Dance for the Dead New York: Random House, ©1996	Review	Not seen by this webmaster
Perry, Thomas The Face-Changers New York: Random House, ©1998	Review	Not seen by this webmaster
Perry, Thomas Shadow Woman New York Random House, ©1997	Review	Not seen by this webmaster
Perry, Thomas Vanishing Act New York: Ivy Books, ©1996	Review	Not seen by this webmaster
Petry, Ann "The New Mirror" [short story] in: Miss Muriel and Other Stories Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, ©1971	Author Website	The narrator is 12-year old girl in the only Black family in a small town. When her father, the town pharmacist, disappears for the day, she worries that he has gone to Buffalo.
Pfeil, Fred "A Buffalo, New York Story" [short story] published in: What They Tell You To Forget Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, ©1996	Publisher's Website	A young boy is terrified of everything from city streets to the atomic bomb. Winner of Pushcart's fourteenth annual Editors' Book Award
Porter, Connie All-Bright Court Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin, ©1991	Review	Set in a public housing project in Lackawanna. An email acquaintance who taught a class on Buffalo literature considers this, not City of Light, the quintessential Buffalo novel.
Porter, Connie Imani All Mine Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin, ©1999	Review	Not seen by this webmaster
Pry, Paul, Jr. Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Pan-American Exposition Publisher unknown		Frank Severance describes this novel in his essay, "The Niagara Region in Fiction" (1911), but it is possible that he confused it with "Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair," published in Chicago in 1893 about the World's Columbian Exposition.
Puzo, Mario The Godfather Signet Books, ©1995 (reissue)	Godfather trivia page	Guess you can't write the Great American Mafia Novel and omit Buffalo. A bit character in The Godfather opens (what else?) a pizzeria in Buffalo. On the west side, maybe?
Quarrington, Paul The Spirit Cabinet Atlantic Monthly Press, ©2000	Author's Website	Two magicians acquire the Davenport Spirit Cabinet, which belonged to brothers Ira and William Davenport of Buffalo who held seances during the 19th century. The Davenports are actual historical figures who employed a cabinet in their performances.
Quick, Herbert, 1861-1925 Vandemark's Folly Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co., ©1922	Full Text	A young adult novel about a teenager who runs away to work on the Erie Canal, experiencing everything between Albany and Buffalo, and eventually continuing west to the prairie.
Reed, Ishmael Flight to Canada New York: Random House, ©1976	Critique	I seem to recall reading that this is an Underground Railroad story with scenes in Buffalo
Reisman, Nancy "Buffalo Series" [four short stories], published in: House Fires Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, ©1999	Publisher's Website	Winner of the 1999 Iowa Short Fiction Award.
Reisman, Nancy First Desire New York: Pantheon, ©2004	Publisher's Website	From Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2004: "A Buffalo family personifies quiet desperation in this first novel by Iowa Short Fiction award winner Reisman." The Cohen family lives on Lancaster Avenue in the 1930s and 40s.
Reisman, Nancy "Illumination" [short story] published in: Best American Short Stories 2001 New York: Houghton Mifflin, ©2001	Publisher's Website and Excerpt	From the review in the Buffalo News, December 9, 2001: "Set in 1930s Buffalo, among the houses of Lancaster Avenue and the churches of Delaware Avenue, the haunting story of a young Jewish woman's secret, unrequited love for a Catholic co-worker."
Richardson, Chuck Memos from Apartment 5 Otsego, MI: PageFree Publishing, ©2004	Review	Local author; novel has several scenes in Buffalo
Rohmer, Richard Balls! General Pub. Co., 1980		A natural gas shortage during a harsh Buffalo winter kills 20,000 people and lots of international energy intrigue ensues.  Author lived in Buffalo as a child.
Rose, Jackie Marrying Up Don Mills, Ontario: Red Dress Ink, ©2005	Publisher's Website	Disillusioned with the single life in Buffalo, Holly decides that the solution to her problems is to find herself a rich man.
Ross, Gary Earl Blackbird Rising [not yet published]	Author's Website	Two African-American inventors in Buffalo at the time of the Pan American Exposition
Rucker, Rudy "New Experiment With Time" [short story], published in: Gnarl! New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, ©2000	Author's Website	Possibly science fiction
Rybacki, Stella Thrills, Chills and Sorrow New York: Exposition Press, 1954		Heroine works in a restaurant on Jefferson Avenue in the 1920s and 1930s. Author briefly lived in Buffalo as a child.  Featured in the Buffalo News, Feb. 3, 1955.
Seale, Anne Packing Mrs. Phipps: A Jo Jacuzzo Mystery Los Angeles, CA: Alyson Publications, ©2004	Publisher's Website	"Jo Jacuzzo is a bit down on her luck when she accepts a job offer that will take her from Buffalo, N.Y., to Tampa, Fla., to pack the belongings of the aged Mrs. Phipps and drive her back to Buffalo. She makes it as far as Georgia before a blown engine and a giant motor home divert her far from her original plans and carry her deep into danger."
Secret, Stevi The Great Canadian Stripper Shortage Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, ©2002	Publisher's Website	Mentions Buffalo locales throughout. Third in the series of sex-crime mysteries featuring skin trade worker Darrien. Author, who works in the business, grew tired of seeing exotic dancers portrayed only as victims and killers.
Semel, Nava Isra Island Tel Aviv, Israel: Yedioth Ahronoth, 2005	Synopsis	This has to be the first novel with a Buffalo connection published in  foreign language.  Semel imagines a future in which Grand Island did indeed become the Jewish homeland as envisioned by Mordecai Noah (1785-1851) in 1825.
Simmons, Dan Hard as Nails St. Martin's/Minotaur, ©2003	Author's Website	P.I. Joe Kurtz has more adventures on the streets on Buffalo
Simmons, Dan Hardcase St. Martin's/Minotaur, ©2001	Review	P.I. Joe Kurtz is hired by a Buffalo mafia don to find a missing accountant.
Simmons, Dan Hard Freeze St. Martin's/Minotaur, ©2002	Publisher's Website	Sequel to "Hardcase" featuring P.I. Joe Kurtz.
Smith, Alicia Marie Buffalo Daze Roanoke, VA: Hollins University M.A. Thesis, 2005	WorldCat Record	Not seen by this webmaster. An unpublished manuscript.
Smith, Susan Of Drag Kings and the Wheel of Fate Tacoma, WA: Justice House, ©2002	Publisher's Website Author's Website	Smith was featured in the April 11, 2002 issue of Artvoice. She says, "It’s a magical realism novel set in Buffalo, dealing with drag kings and drag queens and pagans and magic and reincarnation and a lot of sex and love. I wrote the book I wanted to read when I was 18. It was a great deal of fun. And I love this city, so I wanted it in the book."
Smith, W.L.G. Life at the South Buffalo, NY: Geo. H. Derby and Co., 1852	Full Text	Pro-slavery fiction.  "In Chapter 2 of this long, talky novel Smith introduces readers to his "Uncle Tom." After an incident with another slave raises "the devil" in Tom, he is tempted to run away by a northern schoolteacher who is depicted as envious of the happiness he sees on Mr. Erskine's Virginia plantation. Tom suffers miserably in the north (including in Buffalo, where the novel was published and Smith himself may have lived), and inadvertantly winds up in Canada -- until he is rescued from his freedom and happily carried "back to old Virginia" and his slave cabin."
Soper, Barbara Carnival of Rainbows: A Novel of the Pan-American Exposition Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, ©2001	Publisher's Website	By a retired librarian
Spencer, Dan Loop the Loop Morrisville, NC: Lulu.com, ©2005	Publisher's Website	Herkimer Dawes dreams of flying, not of inheriting his father's successful toiletries business. Aeroplanes are all the rage in 1912, and San Francisco's Lincoln Beachey is the most heralded flier alive. Herkimer wants the man's crown. Thus a rivalry is born that takes Herk from Buffalo to San Diego and many points in between on his quest to become the world's greatest stunt pilot – even if he dies trying.
Starr, Patti Final Justice Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, ©2002	Publisher's Website	Has scenes set in Buffalo
Staub, Wendy Corsi Kiss Her Goodbye Pinnacle Mass Market, ©2004	Author's Website	Someone in Woodbridge, NY (based on Orchard Park) is preying on blond-haired, brown-eyed teenage girls.
Staufenberger, Lori From Blood to Fire Frederick, MD: PublishAmerica, ©2006		Rose throws off her conservative Christian upbringing and finds a new fascination with the supernatural.  After her lover commits suicide, Rose flees to Buffalo...
Stephenson, Neal Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, ©1988	Review	Set in Boston with some scenes in Buffalo & Niagara Falls
Stratemeyer, Edward, 1862-1930 Marching on Niagara: or, The Soldier Boys of the Old Frontier Boston, MA: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1902	Full Text	A War of 1812 novel for young adults.
Stucchio, Chris Totally Buffalo Morris Publishing, ©2002		Wealthy kid feels misunderstood in economically depressed Buffalo. Seen at Talking Leaves Bookstore.
Swados, Harvey Standing Fast Garden City, NY: Doubleday, ©1970	Author Biography	OP. A fictionalized memoir about life in the Communist Party in Buffalo from the 1930s to the 1960s
Todd, Brody Reversing Motion Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, ©2005	Publisher's Website	Meet Chris Valmonte. As a youngster growing up in Buffalo, he witnessed the death of his step-dad and a serious injury to a young girl in a car accident. Chris collapses at the sight, and can''t recall anything about his life for the next five years.
Travis, Jerry Dust of Autumn Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, ©2006	Publisher's Website	"Dust of Autumn, set in western New York, mostly in a high school in the Buffalo area, involves a young woman and her fixation with her English teacher."
Twain, Mark