Marcia Muller Books In Order

Sharon McCone Books In Publication Order

  1. Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977)
  2. Ask the Cards a Question (1982)
  3. The Cheshire Cat’s Eye (1983)
  4. Games to Keep the Dark Away (1984)
  5. Leave a Message for Willie (1984)
  6. There’s Nothing to Be Afraid Of (1985)
  7. Eye of the Storm (1988)
  8. The Shape of Dread (1989)
  9. There’s Something in a Sunday (1990)
  10. Trophies and Dead Things (1990)
  11. Where Echoes Live (1991)
  12. Pennies On a Dead Woman’s Eyes (1992)
  13. Wolf in the Shadows (1993)
  14. Till the Butchers Cut Him Down (1994)
  15. A Wild and Lonely Place (1995)
  16. The Broken Promise Land (1996)
  17. Both Ends of the Night (1997)
  18. While Other People Sleep (1998)
  19. A Walk Through the Fire (1999)
  20. Listen to the Silence (2000)
  21. Dead Midnight (2002)
  22. The Dangerous Hour (2004)
  23. Vanishing Point (2006)
  24. The Ever-Running Man (2007)
  25. Burn Out (2008)
  26. Locked In (2009)
  27. Coming Back (2010)
  28. City of Whispers (2011)
  29. Looking for Yesterday (2012)
  30. Skeleton in the Closet (2012)
  31. The Night Searchers (2014)
  32. Merrill-Go-Round (2014)
  33. Tell Me Who I Am (2016)
  34. Someone Always Knows (2016)
  35. The Color of Fear (2017)
  36. The Breakers (2018)
  37. Ice and Stone (2021)

Sharon McCone Collections In Publication Order

  1. The McCone Files (1995)
  2. McCone and Friends (1999)

Elena Oliverez Books In Publication Order

  1. The Tree of Death (1983)
  2. The Legend of the Slain Soldiers (1985)

Joanna Stark Books In Publication Order

  1. The Cavalier in White (1986)
  2. There Hangs the Knife (1988)
  3. Dark Star (1989)

John Quincannon Books In Publication Order

  1. Quincannon (By:Bill Pronzini) (1985)
  2. Beyond the Grave (With: Bill Pronzini) (1986)
  3. Quincannon’s Game (By:Bill Pronzini) (2005)

Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. The Bughouse Affair (2013)
  2. The Spook Lights Affair (2013)
  3. The Body Snatchers Affair (2015)
  4. The Plague of Thieves Affair (2016)
  5. The Dangerous Ladies Affair (2017)
  6. The Bags of Tricks Affair (By:Bill Pronzini) (2018)
  7. The Flimflam Affair (By:Bill Pronzini) (2019)
  8. The Stolen Gold Affair (By:Bill Pronzini) (2020)
  9. The Paradise Affair (By:Bill Pronzini) (2021)

Cape Perdido Books In Publication Order

  1. Point Deception (2001)
  2. Cyanide Wells (2003)
  3. Cape Perdido (2005)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Lighthouse (With: Bill Pronzini) (1986)
  2. Crucifixion River (With: Bill Pronzini) (2007)
  3. Kindling Point (2014)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Deceptions (1991)
  2. Duo (1998)
  3. Time of the Wolves (2003)
  4. Somewhere in the City (2007)

Bill Pronzini Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Graveyard Plots (By:Bill Pronzini) (1985)
  2. Small Felonies (By:Bill Pronzini) (1988)
  3. The Best Western Stories of Bill Pronzini (By:Bill Pronzini) (1990)
  4. Stacked Deck (By:Bill Pronzini) (1991)
  5. Sleuths (By:Bill Pronzini) (1999)
  6. Problems Solved (By:Bill Pronzini) (2003)
  7. Burgade’s Crossing (By:Bill Pronzini) (2003)
  8. On Account of Darkness and Other Stories (By:Bill Pronzini,Barry N. Malzberg) (2004)
  9. Coyote and Quarter-Moon (By:Bill Pronzini) (2006)
  10. Crucifixion River (With: Bill Pronzini) (2007)
  11. Dago Red (By:Bill Pronzini) (2008)

Nameless Detective Books In Publication Order

  1. The Snatch (1971)
  2. The Vanished (1973)
  3. Undercurrent (1973)
  4. Blowback (1977)
  5. Twospot (1978)
  6. Labyrinth (1980)
  7. Hoodwink (1981)
  8. Scattershot (1982)
  9. Dragonfire (1982)
  10. Bindlestiff (1983)
  11. Quicksilver (1984)
  12. Nightshades (1984)
  13. Double (With: Bill Pronzini) (1984)
  14. Bones (1985)
  15. Deadfall (1986)
  16. Shackles (1989)
  17. Jackpot (1990)
  18. Breakdown (1991)
  19. Quarry (1991)
  20. Epitaphs (1992)
  21. Demons (1993)
  22. Hardcase (1995)
  23. Sentinels (1996)
  24. Illusions (1997)
  25. Boobytrap (1998)
  26. Crazybone (2000)
  27. Bleeders (2001)
  28. Spook (2002)
  29. Nightcrawlers (2005)
  30. Mourners (2006)
  31. Savages (2007)
  32. Fever (2008)
  33. Schemers (2009)
  34. Betrayers (2010)
  35. Camouflage (2011)
  36. Hellbox (2012)
  37. Strangers (2014)
  38. Vixen (2015)
  39. Zigzag (2016)
  40. Endgame (2017)

World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books In Publication Order

  1. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000)
  2. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
  3. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002)
  4. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 (2003)
  5. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 (2004)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Web She Weaves (1983)
  2. Child’s Ploy (1984)
  3. Witches’ Brew (1984)
  4. Chapter and Hearse (1985)
  5. Dark Lessons (1985)
  6. She Won the West (1985)
  7. Deadly Arts (1985)
  8. Wickedest Show on Earth (1985)
  9. Lady on the Case (1988)
  10. Kill or Cure (1989)
  11. Sisters in Crime 2 (1990)
  12. A Woman’s Eye (1991)
  13. The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories (1992)
  14. Criminal Intent (1993)
  15. Women on the Case (1996)
  16. Guilty as Charged (1996)
  17. A Century of Mystery (1997)
  18. Detective Duos (1997)
  19. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000)
  20. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002)
  21. Deadly Anniversaries (2020)

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Marcia Muller Books Overview

Edwin of the Iron Shoes

When an elderly antiques dealer is murdered, Muller’s popular P.I. Sharon McCone follows a killer’s trail to a museum where San Francisco’s most elegant socialites gather. ‘Muller and McCone are still the class of the field.’ San Diego Union Tibune. MASS MARKET PAPER

Ask the Cards a Question

There’s trouble in Sharon McCone’s quiet San Francisco apartment building. Madame Anya, with her cards, her tame crow, and her candles, had predicted evil for Molly Antonio. Linnea Carraway, drinking heavily and careening crazily in the wake of a divorce, had argued with her. Now the sweet, elderly lady lies in her apartment. Linnea, last to see Molly alive, is the prime suspect and if Sharon means to clear her best friend, she has to find the murderer fast. Suddenly death is in the cards, threatening Sharon’s oldest friendship, her professional credibility and her life.

The Cheshire Cat’s Eye

Investigating her friend’s murder, private eye Sharon McCone follows a trail into San Francisco’s glamorous architectural community in search of a very valuable clue a Tiffany lamp adorned with the grinning face of a Cheshire Cat. Reissue.

Games to Keep the Dark Away

Suspicious deaths at an exclusive hospice, a missing social worker, a town full of secretive, hostile residents, and a body on the beach lead Sharon McCone down a deadly trail of secret lives and into mortal danger. Reissue.

Leave a Message for Willie

Amid the shifting world of San Francisco flea markets, shady vendors sell junk, precious antiques, and stolen goods side by side. Somewhere in the mix, a priceless collection of sacred Torah scrolls is gathering dust and attracting a group of fanatical killers.

There’s Nothing to Be Afraid Of

Believing that someone from the shadowy underworld San Francisco’s Tenderloin district is trying to drive out the Vietnamese families living at the Globe Apartments, Sharon McCone finds suspects in a poet, a preacher, and a po*rnographer. Reissue. PW.

Eye of the Storm

On a pleasure trip to the Sacramento Delta, Sharon McCone encounters ghostly intervention, mysterious vandalism and murder on the site of a decrepit Victorian mansion. Another thrilling mystery featuring San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone.

The Shape of Dread

Bobby Foster, car hop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber since he’s already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos. The final appeal sends a 1 P.I. into the fractured world of Tracy’s privileged family and the mind of a young comedienne who was not the good little girl they perceived.

There’s Something in a Sunday

Private eye Sharon McCone takes on a routine surveillance as a favor to a long time client of her employer, the All Souls Law Co operative. Soon, however, the routine case turns into a murder investigation and leads to San Francisco’s upper class social activists. HC: Mysterious Press.

Trophies and Dead Things

When a client of hers is murdered, detective Sharon McCone discovers that the dead man had disinherited his children and left his estate to four strangers, all with ties to a distant crime. Reissue. NYT.

Where Echoes Live

Sharon McCone has been asked by a former colleague to look into the plans of a large corporation to reopen a gold mine near the Nevada border that could seriously endanger the ecosystem of the area. Following a trail of bizarre happenings, disappearances, and a dead body, McCone’s trail leads to her to a Hong Kong industrialist…
and a killer bent on large scale destruction.

Pennies On a Dead Woman’s Eyes

Desperate to clear her mother’s name from a brutal society murder committed in 1956, Judy Benedict calls upon Sharon McCone of the All Souls Legal Cooperative, a lawyer with little compassion for the accused. NYT.

Wolf in the Shadows

Pushing aside the demands of her stressful career to search for her vanished lover, San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone follows a series of clues along the Mexican border and comes face to face with personal issues and a cunning killer. PW. K. NYT.

Till the Butchers Cut Him Down

T.J. Gordon has made millions as a corporate troubleshooter who creates profits and enemies while reviving failed businesses. From the moment he whisks P.I. Sharon McCone off in his helicopter, complaining of threats and sabotage, her life is changed. The trail of his past leads McCone from a Nevada tourist trap to a Pennsylvania steel town.

A Wild and Lonely Place

The bestselling author of Till the Butchers Cut Him Down presents her latest mystery starring Saron McCone. Investigating a terrorist bombing at the Consulate of an Arab Emirate, Sharon is thinking only of the million dollar reward until she meets the consul general’s daughter. When the girl disappears, Sharon risks everything to save her.

The Broken Promise Land

Ricky Savage is Sharon McCone’s brother in law, and the hottest country singer in the business. He’s on top professionally, but hitting rock bottom in his personal life. His longtime marriage to Sharon’s sister Charlene is breaking up, forcing him to question if it was all worth it: the struggle, hard times, and hopes of stardom that finally came true. Even worse, Ricky has been getting anonymous letters threatening not only himself, but also his children. It’s a tough case for McCone because her own family is at risk. She can bring in the security firm in which her lover Hy Ripinsky holds an interest to protect Ricky as he begins a promotional tour for his forthcoming album. But unless Ricky lets her into his past and the secrets hidden there, she doesn’t have a chance at uncovering the roots of the sick obsession behind the threats. Despite McCone’s precautions, she soon discovers the stalker is very close at hand, upping the ante of terror with clear warnings that he or she can strike anytime and plans to. Ricky isn’t helping either as his marriage crumbles and he turns to another lover, who will complicate his emotional state and McCone’s investigation. Now dirty tricks are putting Ricky’s career, as well as his life, in jeopardy…
and his next Grammy winning song about shattered hearts and broken promises may be his last.

Both Ends of the Night

A full fledged pilot for several years, Sharon McCone is due for the biannual flight review required by the FAA. Her former flight instructor, Matty Wildress, invites her to fly up to the small Sonoma County town of Los Alegres for the evaluation. The test isn’t due for several months, however, and McCone suspects Matty has more than safe flying on her mind. She’s right. Matty’s live in lover, John Seabrook, has been gone for a week, abandoning his small son Zach. In a desperate letter John entrusts the boy to her care, urging them to go into hiding immediately. But Matty is a professional and determined to perform in the last aerobatic air show of the year. Despite the extra security, something goes horribly wrong and Matty’s plane crashes before a stunned crowd of spectators. McCone knows it’s no accident and vows to find John for Zach’s sake. Suddenly, an ordinary missing person case becomes a personal vendetta. Together with her lover, Hy Ripinsky, McCone bypas*ses the authorities to hunt down the man responsible for Matty’s death. Her search will take her across the country as she uncovers the startling details of John Seabrook’s past killings, flight, and assumed identities. From San Francisco to Florida to Arkansas to northern Minnesota, she’ll unravel an insidious web of corruption between a major corporation and high government, where power and profit are supreme…
and murder is a tool of the trade. And somewhere in the midst of it all, she’ll confront a killer with a heart as cold and dark as the northern night.

While Other People Sleep

It starts when Sharon McCone’s acquaintance tells her that someone was pretending to be McCone at a party. The mysterious woman is handing out McCone’s business cards, advising clients, and picking up men for intimate encounters. The woman’s physical resemblance is uncanny. Her knowledge of McCone’s life is chilling. To make matters worse, McCone’s office manager, Ted Smalley, has been acting oddly. As she reluctantly decides to investigate Ted’s behavior, McCone’s double breaks into her house, interferes with her family, and leads McCone in a terrifying game of cat and mouse through the bizarre nightlife of San Francisco. McCone begins to uncover Ted’s desperate problem, but the imposter escalates her dirty tricks. The determined PI must pull out all the stops to defeat the criminal hitting too close to home.

A Walk Through the Fire

P.I. Sharon McCone is sick and tired of San Francisco’s persistent rainy weather, so she jumps at the chance to investigate the sabotage of a movie being filmed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The documentary is based on the writings of Elson Wellbright, a descendant of a missionary family and scholar of Hawaiian culture and history. Wellbright’s son is bankrolling the project and has angered many members of the family, who aren’t anxious for the film to be completed. Soon the sabotage escalates into violence and the matriarch of the Wellbright family falls to her death during a shoot on a clifftop. McCone’s investigation takes her into a world of family secrets, drug dealing, political insurgency, and murder.

Listen to the Silence

When Sharon McCone receives the distressing news of her fathers death, she immediately goes to San Diego to help her brother scatter their fathers ashes and settle his affairs. But while going through his legal papers, Sharon uncovers a 1959 petition for the adoption of a Baby Girl Smithan infant who, from the day of adoption, has been known as Sharon Elizabeth McCone. Now, determined to find her biological parents, Sharon finds herself deep in Idahos Flathead Reservation. Met with resentment, she discovers a few locals who will stop at nothing to make sure certain secrets are kept hidden. Marcia Muller is the recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Her previous eight novels for Mysterious Press were Main Selections of The Mystery Guild. Her books have received critical praise and have been translated into eight languages. This novel is slick and fast with a well plotted mystery. In short, vintage Muller. The Globe and Mail on A Walk Through The Fire The novel hits an increasingly, intriguing, stride that keeps its surprises and uncertainties going to the end. The Toronto Sun on A Walk Through The Fire

Dead Midnight

After her critically acclaim ed departure, Point Decept ion, Marcia Muller returns with a new Sharon McCone mystery set in the cut throat computer world of San Francisco. Sharon McCone has decided to throw herself into work so she can get past her brothers suicide, but the wrongful death suit she is working on hits too close to home. Its a civil case in which the family of a young zine em ployee claims his suicide was the result of his companys treatment of him. In his final journal entry, Roger Nagasawa describes his fatal plunge from the San Francisco Bridge as being swept away from sadness. With the help of her friend, J.D. Smith, McCone investigates the InSite offices and soon learns of its publishers less than professional activities. She also learns that Roger had been afraid for his life since he was a witness to computer espionage. Faced with the death of her friend, Smith, and the sudden disappearance of Rogers associate, McCone must keep one step ahead of the game and solve this mysteryor else become the next victim.

The Dangerous Hour

Complacency can make a person careless, and Sharon McCone, who makes crime her business, should know that better than most. One minute she’s riding high with her detective agency expanding, her bank account growing, and her only problem a marriage proposal from her lover, Hy Ripinsky, that s kicking up her longtime fears of commitment. The next minute, in the time it takes for a single phone call to bring bad news, she stands to lose everything.

McCone is stunned to learn that a favorite employee, streetwise and savvy Julia Rafael, has been charged with credit card fraud. She thinks there must be a mistake until she finds the goods charged to the stolen credit card in the firm s mailroom. As she starts to dig into the facts of the case, McCone realizes that someone is out to ruin her business, blacken her reputation, and harm those close to her…

Reaching back into her past to look for answers, she must come to grips with the violent twists and turns of her career, the choices she s faced, and the enemies she s made. How does the formerly trustworthy Julia fit into the big picture? And how does this new crisis tie into the recent murder of a popular Mission District fund raiser? But when someone breaks into her car, invades her home, and upsets every aspect of her life, McCone knows one thing for sure: Now it s her turn to prove how tough she really is, and how far she ll go to get justice…
and some payback of her own.

Vanishing Point

For a Nevada wedding, the nuptials between Sharon McCone and sexy fellow investigator Hy Ripinsky are downright tasteful: no Elvis impersonators, no plastic flowers, no embarrassing last minute bailout by a bride well known for her phobia to commitment. This time, McCone has displayed the smarts she uses in her successful detective firm and chosen a guy who respects her as a professional and shares her passions. But living together in her beloved little house on Church Street may be another matter entirely, especially when Hy suggests they need a bigger place. The looming crisis of who will compromise first is delayed when Hy heads out of town on business and McCone dives into one of her most baffling cases yet the disappearance of Laurel Greenwood, who vanished twenty two years before without a trace. Laurel’s grown up daughter is desperately seeking closure and wants McCone to find out the fate of the young mother and artist who never returned from a day of landscape painting in a Central California coastal town. The case is cold, and the evidence McCone begins uncovering is chilling. Secrets kept for two decades now emerge to create a portrait of a woman who s perfect on the surface and anything but a paragon beneath it. And when someone takes potshots at McCone to scare her into dropping her inquiries, the detective s resolve hardens. She intends to uncover the truth the whole truth even when it awakens her suspicions that the bonds of marriage can easily become chains, and that escaping them may lead to desperate acts or murderous ones.

The Ever-Running Man

Sharon McCone is hired by her husband’s security firm to track down ‘the ever running man,’ a shadowy figure who has been leaving explosive devices at their various offices. She doesn’t have to search for long. When McCone narrowly escapes an explosion at the security firm’s San Francisco offices, she catches a glimpse of his retreating figure. The ever running man is dangerously close and anyone connected to the firm seems to be within his deadly range. To complicate matters, McCone is forced to question her intensely private husband, Hy, about his involvement in some of the firm’s dark secrets. The history of corruption may jeopardize their marriage, but uncovering the secrets of the firm may be the only way she can save her husband’s life, and her own.

Burn Out

Traumatized by a recent life or death investigation, Sharon McCone flees to her ranch in California‘s high desert country to contemplate her future. Deep depression shadows her days and nights, and a chance encounter with a troubled, highly secretive Native American woman begins to haunt her dreams. Even though she is determined not to investigate anything during her stay and perhaps not ever again McCone is drawn into the plight of the young woman and her dysfunctional family. A murder and traces of violence at a deserted resort lead her across the desert and into Nevada, and finally to a remote and isolated ranch, where danger lies closer that she expects and where her future and life itself may hang in the balance.

Locked In

Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by Locked In syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. Since the late night attack occurred at her agency’s offices, the natural conclusion was that it was connected to one of the firm’s cases. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body’s prison and discover her attacker’s identity, all the members of her agency fan out to find the reason why she was assaulted. Meanwhile, Sharon becomes a Locked In detective, evaluating the clues from her staff’s separate investigations and discovering unsettling truths that could put her life in jeopardy again. As the case draws to a surprising and even shocking conclusion, Sharon’s husband, Hy, must decide whether or not to surrender to his own violent past and exact fatal vengeance when the person responsible is identified.

Coming Back

In Locked In, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone was shot in the head and suffered from locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but with an alert, conscious mind. Now, as Sharon struggles to regain control over her body, she wants everything to go back to normal, but realizes that it may not be possible to return to her old life. Meanwhile, Sharon’s relationships are suffering. Her husband is impatient with her refusal to accept help and some of her colleagues doubt her abilities after the accident. But when Sharon’s friend from physical therapy goes missing, she must call upon those closest to her to find out the truth behind the disappearance. The investigation soon points to issues of national security and proves to be the most dangerous and critical case yet for Sharon and her colleagues.

The McCone Files

The McCone Files gathers all of Sharon McCone’s short cases covering her entire career as staff investigator at All Souls Legal Cooperative in San Francisco. Marcia Muller comments in the introduction, ‘Over the seventeen years since her first case, very little about McCone except her voice has remained the same, and the stories in this collection trace her development.’ Each tale, including two written especially for this volume, is a miniature masterpiece of plotting, realistic characters and vivid settings. From the death of a clown in Diablo Valley to the disappearance of a young socialite on the Golden Gate Bridge, from the murder of a teenage gang leader in San Francisco to the drowning of an aged Japanese herb gatherer, and from streets filled with juvenile runaways to the quietness of a mausoleum, Sharon investigates not only who committed the crimes but also what they say about or world toward the end of the twentieth century. The McCone Files is a distinguished book by a distinguished author.

McCone and Friends

Creator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone since 1977. In the process McCone has gained a host of associates and formed her own detective agency. Some seven years ago, Marcia Muller decided to show readers different views of her sleuth by relating cases through the eyes of McCone’s colleagues.

McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as a novella and a short story narrated by the agency’s investigator Rae Kelleher, a story from the viewpoint of its office manager Ted Smalley, an investigation conducted by McCone’s nephew Mick Savage, and one by her long term lover Hy Ripinsky. The settings range from small planes to a sweatshop which puts Asian women into virtual slavery, and the mysteries surround a 1950’s jukebox in a rundown hotel, a sculpture welded together by a long missing and now very dead artist. In perhaps the most moving story of all, a teenage girl has vanished leaving as a clue only a collage on her wall.

The McCone Files shows why Marcia Muller is one of the greatest mystery writers of our generation.

The Legend of the Slain Soldiers

Tending her museum of Mexican arts during the Santa Barbara Fiesta, Elena Oliverez is shocked when her friend, a historian, is murdered, and she wonders how the killing may be linked to his research on a 1930s legend. PW.

Quincannon (By:Bill Pronzini)

A troubled Secret Service agent is needed to bring down a major counterfeiting ring a job that will force him to come face to face with his tragic past.

Beyond the Grave (With: Bill Pronzini)

The bestselling author of The McCone Files teams up with the creator of the ‘Nameless Detective’ for a collaborative mystery that bridges the San Franciscos of 1894 and 1986. Muller and Pronzini masterfully parallel the investigations of turn of the century detective Quincannon and Chicana amateur sleuth Elena Oliverez.

Point Deception

A bestselling journalist, Guy Newberry is known for his articles on the plight of troubled communities. Shortly after his arrival in the small seaside community of Signal Port, California, a town that has never recovered from the unsolved murder of two young families 13 years ago, another nightmare begins. An unidentified womans body washes up at nearby Point Deception immediately stirring up old feelings of fear and suspicion. Relentless in pursuing his story, and haunted by a tragedy in his own past, Newberry does not let up, instilling fear in the towns sheriff, Rhoda Swift, who fears his prying will destroy her town. But as more women die and public panic sets in, Newberry and Swift form an uneasy alliance and unite in a confrontation with a killer whose motives are not as random as they seem. Marcia Mullers most recent novels are Listen to the Silence Mysterious Press, 7/00 and A Walk Through the Fire Mysterious Press, 5/99. Both were Main Selections of The Mystery Guild. The authors previous eight novels for Mysterious Press were also Main Selections of The Mystery Guild. Her books have been translated into eight languages.

Cyanide Wells

A hard, four hour drive north of San Francisco leads to sparsely populated Soledad County, a combination of spectacular seashore, inland forests, and small towns steeped in gold mining history. One of those towns is Cyanide Wells, now an artsy community, whose name comes from the miners use of cyanide to refine ore and the time the area’s water supply was tragically poisoned. To Matthew Lindstrom, that sinister legacy is ironically appropriate for the place he finally expects to find his ex wife, Gwen. Fourteen years earlier, her baffling disappearance branded him a murderer and destroyed his reputation and career as a photographer. Suddenly, after all this time, an anonymous phone caller tells him that Gwen is alive and well aware of what she has done. Matt comes to Cyanide Wells looking for answers…
and revenge. Here, where the surrounding thick forest conceals twisted paths and old sins, Matt works to uncover the details of Gwen s new life. But before he can confront her, his ex vanishes once more. With his future again threatened by suspicion, Matt must join forces with Carly McGuire a local woman with secrets of her own and begin a hunt through Soledad s untamed landscape and an interior geography of betrayal and darkness. There perhaps lies the truth about past crimes and Gwen s fate…
as well as Matt s own.

Cape Perdido

Amid ancient redwoods and sun dappled reeds, the Perdido River runs clear and cold from the mountains of Soledad County to the blue Pacific. A wildlife refuge and a pristine recreational area, the river brings tourists to the old lumber town of Cape Perdido
and flows through the memories and hearts of the rugged people who have settled there since the Gold Rush days. Now that is about to change. An out of state corporation wants to pump the river nearly dry and float the water to southern California’s thirsty cities in huge rubber rafts. With lobbyists, lawyers, and dirty tricks, the company intends to get what it wants any way it can. Against this corporate Goliath, a community protest group and four unusual individuals are drawing a line in the sand. Flying in from New York City, ecologist Jessie Domingo hopes to grab headlines for her cause. Environmentalist Joseph Openshaw has come back to the home, and the secrets, he left behind decades ago. His former lover, local restaurateur Steph Pace, fears both the emotions and the ghosts arriving to haunt her. And old man Timothy McNear, owner of the defunct mill that once employed most of the town, silently broods about the sins he has hidden for too long. But no one envisions what will happen when the crack of a sniper s bullet sets off a chain of desperate acts. As the peace of this small town is shattered, murder stains Cape Perdido, and one by one, those who stand tall for a cause may be swept away by the current of a town s ugly truths and a killer s revenge.

Crucifixion River (With: Bill Pronzini)

In the Spur Award winning title story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the banks of Crucifixion River to take shelter from an impending storm.

Time of the Wolves

Marcia Muller is one of the finest authors of detective fiction, however, she also writes Western stories. When the title story first appeared, it not only won a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, but went on to inspire a motion picture. This is an extraordinary collection of Western stories by a truly outstanding author, stories that can and will be read and reread with sustaining enjoyment.

Somewhere in the City

‘Her stories crackle like few others on the mystery landscape.’ San Francisco Chronicle

‘One of the treasures of the genre.’ Chicago Tribune

A new collection of Marcia Muller’s best short fiction from the past twenty years, including hardboiled private eye, horror, western, and psychological suspense stories.

Marcia Muller, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, is the author of more than twenty novels. She has been awarded the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award; her books have been nominated for Best Crime Novel at the Edgars, and she has won the Anthony Boucher Award. She lives in California.

Problems Solved (By:Bill Pronzini)

TWO LEGENDS!!!!!

Today, Bill Pronzini is famed for his private eye stories about the ‘Nameless Detective’ and for his Shamus award winning short stories, and Barry N. Malzberg is one of America’s premier science fiction writers, but back in their salad days they collaborated on a number of stories, which have now become legendary. Many fans have heard of them, but very few have had the privilege of reading them until now. Problems Solved collects all their crime and mystery collaborations, mostly written during the 1970’s and early 1980’s, and a few recent collaborations including two new stories written especially for this volume. The stories range from suspense ‘Night Rider’ to irony ‘What Kind of person Are You?’ to twists in the tale ‘Problems Solved’ to science fictional detection, including three stories about an unnamed Luna Immigration Inspector. Others emphasize sports ‘What s a Chicago Cub?’ asks an entrepreneur of the future, and one, ‘Another Burnt Out Case,’ is ! in Bill Pronzini s words, ‘a weird comic Hitchcockian crime fantasy with a carnival setting, whose last two lines elicit gleeful chortles from both of us to this day.’

The cover design, illustrating both ‘Another Burnt Out Case’ and ‘Night Rider,’ is by Juha Lindroos, a Finnish artist working in the United States.

On Account of Darkness and Other Stories (By:Bill Pronzini,Barry N. Malzberg)

Bill Pronzini is one of the most highly acclaimed mystery authors writing today. Barry N. Malzberg exploded onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with incendiary novels and short stories that took the craft of speculative fiction to a completely different level. When these two master authors come together to collaborate on fiction, the result is literary dynamite. On Account of Darkness and Other Stories brings together for the first time every science fiction story that Bill and Barry wrote together during their long careers, featuring a brand new introduction. These short, sharp stories, each a paradigm of the craft of science fiction, are prime examples of two authors working at the height of their collaborative powers, resulting in a collection of truly speculative fiction. Barry N. Malzberg is the author of some forty science fiction novels and collections. Bill Pronzini has been a full time professional writer since 1969. 20021201

Dago Red (By:Bill Pronzini)

Bill Pronzini invades the Ramble House Sanctuary of Loons with a collection of 22 excursions into the darkest heart of noir. From the perils of familial love in ‘Dago Red’ to the deadly TV sports of ‘Olaf and the Merchandisers’ Pronzini runs you through a wringer of chills and thrills, with a couple of Nameless Detective stories to keep you grounded. But don’t expect the suspense to let up, because there are dangers lurking in the twenty stories that lie in between, each more menacing than the last. A Ramble House book

The Vanished

His name was Roy Sands, and he had everything to look forward to. He was getting out of the service and coming home to marry his beautiful Fiancee. He had his debts paid, money in the bank, and a happy new life ahead of him. Then he disappeared.

Undercurrent

Newlywed Judith Paige hires Nameless to find out if her husband is having an affair. Nameless follows Walter Paige to a motel room in Cypress Bay, where Paige is murdered. Nameless must found out who murdered Paige, and investigates. As he investigates, the list of suspects grows.

Double (With: Bill Pronzini)

Attending a private eye convention in her hometown, Sharon McCone catches up with old friends, until one is suddenly killed in a suspicious fall and recruits Wolf, the Nameless Detective, for her investigation. PW.

Bones

An old grave opens a new case of murder. Recent murders are difficult but not unsolvable. This time Nameless is called upon to solve a murder that happened four decades ago. Called to do the impossible, he takes the case merely because the victim was a pulp writer. Nameless of course is a pulp fan. We follow Nameless in his quest of trying to quell the questions of a neurotic son determined to find out how his writer father really died. Was it a suicide or murder? ‘Pronzini makes people and events so real that you’re living those explosive days of terror.’ Robert Ludlum’Once in a crocodile’s age you come across a writer whose work you instinctively like…
I’ve found one Bill Pronzini. Buy him, read him, and relax.’ Los Angeles Times’A skilled writer working at the top of his ability.’ Denver Post’Pronzini delivers breathtaking suspense’ San Francisco Examiner’His novels are packed with adventure, fresh characterization, and minute by minute suspense.’ Chicago Tribune’Pronzini is the master of the shivery, spine tingling it could happen suspense story.’ Publisher’s Weekly’Pronzini is a pro.’ The New York Times

Shackles

In Bill Pronzini’s harrowing novel of entrapment, suffering, transmogrification and revenge a detective is abducted by a masked man who will tell him only that the object is revenge; Nameless awakens to find himself chained to a table in a remote cabin, provided thirteen weeks food and water within arms reach and with only his resources and courage to rely upon as he seeks to escape from this death sentence.

Epitaphs

Hired to track down old pal Pietro Lombardi’s granddaughter, Nameless enters the seedy underworld of late night burials and graverobbing. By the author of Breakdown, Jackpot, and Shackles.

Demons

The Nameless Detective returns to find himself searching for the seductive and potentially lethal enchantress who hires him to tail her cheating husband and then disappears herself.

Hardcase

Hired by rich model Melanie Ann Aldrich to discover the identity of her biological parents, Nameless uncovers an ugly truth in the young woman’s home town that makes him the target of a frenzied killer. AB. PW.

Sentinels

A worried mother job takes Nameless to a California backwater, where college student Allison McDowell has disappeared with her mysterious new boyfriend on a drive from Oregon to San Francisco. And behind a simple missing persons case lies a sinister and deadly conspiracy. ‘Nameless’ is a good man to walk you through the noir landscape. Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review ‘Nameless’ has become an American treasure…
. A stunning and unique achievement in crime fiction. Booklist One of the best in the mystery suspense field is Bill Pronzini. Washington Post

Illusions

Following his success in Sentinels, ‘Nameless’, who has been praised as the ‘thinking person’s detective’, is back! Caught between two difficult investigations one personal and one professional. ‘Nameless’ has become increasingly obsessed with his investigation into the suicide of his estranged friend and former partner, Eberhardt, when he is hired by a Santa Fe businessman to find his ex wife. The job soon takes on frightening dimensions when the client turns up dead. Then disturbing facts about the couple’s past begin to emerge. Both cases lead ‘Nameless’ down a twisted path strewn with the Illusions people adopt for themselves and perceive in others. Ultimately ‘Nameless’ is torn between the two cases and must make a painful choice. Illusions is a superb psychological mystery that delves deeply into human imagination.

Boobytrap

The ‘Nameless Detective’ welcomes the chance for a quiet holiday at Deep Mountain Lake but also there is recently paroled explosives expert Donald Latimer. No coincidence for Latimer has devised a plan for revenge against the men who sent him to prison.

Crazybone

Posh and affluent, a mecca for the horsy set, the California community of Greenwood hides its dirty laundry behind the stuccoed facades of Spanish style houses and locks its secrets inside wrought iron gates. ‘Nameless’ knows that as well as any, but he uncovers more deceit, adultery, fraud, and betrayal not to mention larceny and murder than he might have expected in this tautly concocted novel of crime and detection. Yet, even before ‘Nameless’ visits the handsomely appointed offices of the blond, tanned insurance agent Rich Twining and the estate of the recently widowed Sheila Hunter, his private investigator’s suspicions are raised. For why would anyone, however rich and beautiful and bereaved, refuse to claim fifty thousand dollars due in life insurance? The question is simple enough, but the answer lies several murders, many miles, ten years, a devious name game, and one baffling clue Crazybone away. As always, ‘Nameless’ proves himself ‘the thinking man’s detective’ Chicago Sun Times, and his creator, Bill Pronzini, keeps the suspenseful pages turning up to this uncanny novel’s moment of revelation.

Bleeders

A simple case gets murderously complicated when ‘Nameless,’ Bill Pronzini’s seasoned private eye, exposes a nasty scam that involves junior account executive Jay Cohalan, his unhappy wife, and a mistress with a serious drug problem. It’s the kind of case ‘Nameless’ likes, because Bleeders the blackmailers, extortionists, small time grifters, and other opportunists who prey on the weak and gullible top his list of worthless human parasites. So there’s nothing he enjoys more than putting another one or two of them out of commission and returning the $75,000 in blackmail cash to its rightful owner. ‘Nameless,’ though, cannot so easily close his Cohalan file not when he finds his client face down in the middle of a four poster bed with a bloody, powder scorched hole behind the right ear. And only by a hair’s breadth does ‘Nameless’ himself escape a similar cold blooded fate. His mind and gut wrenched by his brush with death, ‘Nameless’ embarks on a relentless hunt for his unknown assailant in San Francisco’s shadowy underworld. There he encounters Bleeders of every ilk before he finds his quarry and confronts his own demons in a climax as powerful as it is shocking and unexpected.

Spook

A Shamus Award winning Author

With a new case, a new partner, and a new P.I., Nameless is back. Shaken after a hair’s breadth escape from death, Nameless has made some changes, he has taken on a young assistant and hired a reticent ex cop with a hammerhead jaw and a troubled past. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Deaths among the homeless don’t usually provoke background probes. But when a transient known as Spook because ‘he had ghosts living inside his head’ is shot outside the offices of a San Francisco film industry supplier, employees there want to know why. ‘He didn’t have a mean bone in his body,’ one staffer assures Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective in Spook. So was this just the random slaying of a street crazy, or had someone from Spook‘s unknown past maybe Dot or Luke, the apparitions he was always jabbering to finally come gunning for him?

In Nameless’ 28th novel length outing, but his first since the pivotal Bleeders in which he almost hung up his gumshoes for good, Pronzini’s classically wrought sleuth is preparing for semiretirement, turning over responsibilities to his young PI partner, Tamara Corbin. He’s also breaking in a new investigator, reserved ex cop and widower Jake Runyon, to whom he hands off the identity search little knowing how quickly that case will turn ugly, linking the ‘gentle, friendly’ Spook to the murder of another homeless man and a long ago triple homicide in the California Sierras. Meanwhile, Nameless finishes up a high profile dig into questionable practices among city employees. This secondary plot lacks the intrigue of Runyon’s task; however, both investigations generate action, including a hostage situation and a not so merry chase during a Christmas benefit. More than two decades after this series’ initial installment, The Snatch, Nameless’s assignments have become less conventional, and he’s been mellowed by age, marriage, and too much death. Yet, even at age 61, he’s more vital than many newer, less deservedly cynical competitors. J. Kingston Pierce

Nightcrawlers

Bill Pronzini’s ‘Nameless’ detective has become one of the longest lived, and consistently highly praised, private investigators in the annals of American crime fiction and the award winning author proves, once again, that his skills are unmatched. Things were quiet in the San Francisco based agency Nameless founded and hispartners, Jake and Vanessa were itching to get back to work. A deadbeat father needed to be found, and Vanessa needed to do some field work, so she took the file and headed out to keep an eye on the last known address. Jake got to work on something much more personal…
and dangerous. The Castro had become the stomping ground, literally, of two violent gay bashers and the most recent victim was Jake’s son’s lover. Father and son are estranged, but maybe helping now would help them reconcile. That was Jake’s thought when he started. For Nameless it was all a matter of letting everyone know that if they needed his help, he was there. Jake was handling his situation but for Vanessa, things got out of hand. Her perp never showed up, but when she saw a man carrying a young girl into the house across the street, she knew something was wrong…
. and about to get worse, because she was going to investigate what was going on. When she doesn’t show up a few days later, Nameless feels a sinking in his gut: a few years ago he’d been kidnapped, shackled, and left to die in a cabin in the woods and something about Vanessa’s disappearance echoed too loudly. When he discovers the house she’d investigated on her own and sees the words TAKING US TO A HOUSE IN THE WOODS scrawled on a closet wall, the echo became thunderous. Now it was a race against time, and the clock had begun ticking before ‘Nameless’ and Jake heard the starter’s gun.

Mourners

Nameless doesn t like funerals, so his new case is less than pleasant. James Troxell’s wife knew he was up to something and that the agency had taken the case. So far, though, the only thing strange very strange was the fact that Troxell was spending all his time going to funerals and sending flowers to survivors. It didn t seem that he knew the deceased any more than Nameless did. There was one similarity: the victims were all women and they had all died violently. As the days passed and the investigation stalled, it seemed the only thing moving were the emotions of the three detectives: Tamara, Jake, and Nameless. While they couldn t be certain, it seemed clear that each of them was beginning to mourn too. The author of more than sixty novels, Bill Pronzini created Nameless in a short story in 1969; the first novel was published in 1971, making his exploits the longest running private eye series currently being published. There s a reason for that longevity: Nameless is, as the Chicago Sun Times said, the classic private eye hero pared down to the bone.

Savages

The police said it was an accident, the dead woman’s sister said it was murder…
and that she knew who did it. Nameless isn’t certain, but the more he learns about Nancy Mathias’s life, the more inclined he is to accept the likelihood of murder especially as the players still alive become more and more distasteful. Combine that with the situation Jake Runyon, one of the agency’s partners, is facing as he searches for a young man who is either a murderer or a victim, and life at their San Francisco detective agency has everyone on edge.

Fever

Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he d do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She d run away before propelled by a gambling Fever that grew ever higher and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency’s chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce.

A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging to go home. No one is surprised when, soon after her homecoming, she disappears again.

But gambling addiction has a way of twisting things, and the blood on Mitchell and Janice Krochek s kitchen floor was a card off the bottom of the deck.

Janice is missing again, Mitchell is the prime suspect, and as Nameless searches for the truth behind her disappearance, he uncovers a vicious racket that preys on gambling Fever victims

Schemers

A new Nameless Detective story from the 2008 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master…

A locked room mystery that goes from stolen books to stolen lives and the hunt for a phantom stalker with a penchant for pouring acid to make his point give Nameless and his partner Jake more than enough work to earn their fees-as long as neither turns his back at the wrong moment.

Nameless wasn’t supposed to come into the office on Mondays; he wasn’t supposed to answer the phone. On this Monday, he did both. The call was from Barney Rivera-once a friend, now despised-at Great Western Insurance. Against his better judgment, Nameless agreed to meet with him. The investigation was relatively simple: a multimillionaire rare books collector had reported the theft of eight volumes, worth a half million dollars. From a locked library. To which he has the only key. The books were all crime fiction and suspense–a locked room mystery about mysteries.

This ordinary Monday brought a second oddball case. The Henderson brothers were being stalked. Someone had dug up the ashes of their late father and poured acid over them, then destroyed the headstone the same way, and left a sign warning that this was just the beginning. Searching for peace of mind and the distraction of work, Jake Runyon is more than happy to bring an end to the brothers’ terror.

Betrayers

We’re told that there are seven deadly sins; not on the list is the deadliest of them all: Betrayal. For each of the detectives at the agency, a betrayal-personal, against a child, against the elderly-becomes not only the driving force behind an investigation, but the source of the kind of resolve that cannot be derailed by threats of any kind.

Tamara’s case began as something personal but explodes as her investigation of her former lover Lucas Zeller leads to a scam bilking charities in the name of helping the homeless and indigent. For Nameless, with a case he doesn’t want but can’t turn down, trying to find out who is gaslighting an old woman only exposes the ugly side of family. When he goes home, tired and annoyed, he discovers that his adopted daughter, Emily, has a secret of her own. Runyon has a different difficulty: his case of a bailjumper with some bad family ties is easy enough as these things go, but he’s being confronted by a demon that is going to try to force him into a betrayal….

Three people who care, three people devoted to helping others trying to help themselves, three people finding themselves in a world of hurt because of the Betrayers.

Camouflage

Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex wife and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it’s all done. But she refuses the papers, sends a message to Virden to never contact her again, and slams the door. His colleague, Tamara, tells Nameless that Virden threatens to sue, stops payment on his checks, and claims that the woman they located isn t his wife. Then he disappears and his fianc e hires Nameless to find out why. Clearly, someone is trying to make Nameless the monkey in the middle. The investigation that Nameless’s partner, Jake Runyon, has to undertake is personal and urgent. His girlfriend Bryn s son, a pawn in a bitter divorce settlement, is being beaten and every indication is that his father is responsible. Is he bitter enough to take out his frustrations on a young boy, to fracture his arm? Then events turn on Jake: a dead woman, a bloodied Bryn, and a scared and silent child force him to look in other, darker, more deadly directions.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

A Woman’s Eye

Crime is common ground for the twenty one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski’s Chicago in a case of music and murder…
to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone’s beloved VW skids into a shooting…
to the gang held turf of Sharon says mum’s the word. And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through A Woman’s Eye. From the opening tale of a girl down and out in London and what she steals from a corpse…
to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death…
this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts.

The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories

The stories by the mystery genre’s best writers, such as Tony Hillerman, Lawrence Block, P. D James, Ruth Rendell and Ray Bradbury, are compiled into an anthology of twenty five of the year’s most suspenseful stories.

Women on the Case

These are stories of P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags or their bras, of crime victims, homeless women, and housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. This collection brings several brilliant international authors to American readers for the first time, including Amel Benaboura, Irina Muravyova, and Helga Anderle. Mystery fans will also enjoy new works by familiar voices Sara Paretsky, Elizabeth George, Amanda Cross, Ruth Rendell, Antonia Fraser, Frances Fyfield, and many more contemporary masters.

Guilty as Charged

This anthology contains 15 crime and mystery stories by American writers such as Jay Brandon, Lia Matera, Susan Dunlap, John Lutz, Sarah Shankman, Maynard F. Thomson, Marcia Muller, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Carolyn Wheat, Stan Washburn, Valerie Frankel, Jeremia F. Healey III and Bill Pronzine.

Detective Duos

In this marvelous anthology, a real life detective duo Marica Muller and Bill Pronzini, mystery novelists who are also husband and wife have brought together 25 of the best paired puzzle solvers in short stories of remarkable range and scope. From Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Mr. and Mrs. North, these stories span more than a century of crime fiction.

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