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authors A-G • authors H-O • authors P-Z [just below]
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Stuart Palmer [1905-68]
+ Hildegarde Withers & Inspector Piper series
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Sara Paretsky
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V.I. Warshawski series: series books • Wikipedia
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"V.I. Warshawski: Detective In High Heels" [Hollywood Pictures July 1991]
On the rebound, V.I. picks up a man at a bar and agrees to babysit his foul-mouthed daughter while he attends to some (shady) business; when the man is killed, the daughter hires V.I. to solve the murder. Directed by Jeff Kanew; starring Kathleen Turner {as V.I.}, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning, Angela Goethals, Nancy Paul, Frederick Coffin, Charles McCaughan, Stephen Meadows, Wayne Knight, Lynnie Godfrey, Anne Pitoniak & Herb Muller Buena Vista widescreen color DVD [6/2002] for $9.99 Disney color VHS [6/2002] out of prodn/many used full credits at IMDb |
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Robert B. Parker [1932-2010] Page
Spenser series •
Jesse Stone series •
Sunny Randall series •
Westerns •
other books
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the other Robert B. Parker [1905-55]
Robert Bogardus Parker published several pulp mystery novels before his death at age 49
 | "Passport To Peril" [1951] by Robert B. Parker John Stodder is heading for Istanbul on the Orient Express to find his missing brother. He is using a fake passport, and when a terrified beauty hides on the train, John discovers that her murdered boss had the same name as on his passport. They flee the train together but are soon captured by an evil Nazi gangster seeking a mysterious list. Hard Case Crime mass pb [6/2009] for $6.99 Rinehart & Co. hardcover [1951] out of print/used |
T. Jefferson Parker
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James Patterson
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Alex Cross series: series books • videos/DVDs • Wikipedia
"Kiss The Girls" [1997] /tt0119468/
"Along Came A Spider" [2001] /tt0164334/
"When The Wind Blows" [2012] /tt0892436/
Women's Murder Club series
"Women's Murder Club" [13 episodes, 2007-2008] /tt0955353/
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Ridley Pearson
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George Pelecanos
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Gary Phillips: all books • official website
P.I. Ivan Monk series:
series books
Martha Chainey series:
series books
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David M. Pierce + SFV P.I. Vic Daniel series
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"Down In The Valley" [1989]
"Hear The Wind Blow, Dear" [1990]
"Roses Love Sunshine" [1990]
"Angels In Heaven" [1991]
"Write Me A Letter" [1992]
"As She Rides By" [1996]
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author & editor Bill Pronzini
{husband of Marcia Muller (above)}
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Ellery Queen
{actually the team of Manfred B. Lee [1905-71] & Frederic Dannay [1905-82]
browse books • MBL's credits at IMDb + FD's credits at IMDb
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 | "A Study In Terror: Ellery Queen vs. Jack the Ripper" [1966] novelization by Ellery Queen Amateur detective Ellery Queen receives a handwritten manuscript dated 1888 that purports to be a lost tale by Dr. Watson of Sherlock Holmes's solution to the identity of Jack the Ripper. Lancer original movie tie-in mass pb [1966] out of print/scarce "A Study In Terror" feature film [Columbia Oct 1965] Without the Ellery Queen elements: Sherlock Holmes receives a leather case containing the surgical instruments of a nobleman, absent the large scalpel, recently held in pawn. Directed by James Hill; original script by Derek & Donald Ford; starring John Neville {as Holmes}, Donald Houston {as Watson}, Frank Finlay {as Lestrade}, Robert Morley {as Mycroft}, Barbara Leake {as Mrs. Hudson}, John Fraser, Anthony Quayle, Barbara Windsor, Adrienne Corr, Judi Dench, Barry Jones, Peter Carsten, Christiane Maybach & John Cairney Region 1 DVD not available; Sony color VHS [1/2000] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
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"Fifty Years of The Best From Ellery Queen Magazine" [1991] Edited by Eleanor Sullivan Carroll & Graf hardcover [1/91] out of print/used |
Kathy Reichs
+ forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan series
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Helen Reilly + N.Y.P.D. Insp. McKee series
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Craig Rice {real name Georgiana Craig} [1908-57]
+ 'screwball' comedy mysteries
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 | "Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery" [2001] by Jeffrey Marks Delphi Books 9¼x6¼ pb [4/2001] for $21.95 author's website |
 | "Murder, Mystery and Malone" [12 stories; 2002] by Craig Rice, edited by Jeffrey A. Marks Crippen & Landru Publrs 9x6 pb [5/2002] for $19.00 Crippen & Landru Publrs 9x¼ hardcover [5/2002] out of print/used |
John R. Riggs + newsman Garth Ryland series
all books
Riggs papers at DePauw University
John R. Riggs bio page
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Mary Roberts Rinehart [1876-1958]
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"The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart" [2009?]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [undated] 21 novels for 99 cents
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Les Roberts: browse books • official website • Wikipedia
Milan Jacovich series:
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Hollywood P.I. Saxon series:
series books
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Lawrence Sanders [1920-98]
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Lisa Scottoline
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 | "Killer Smile" [2004] by Lisa Scottoline An all-female Philadelphia law firm takes the pro bono case of an Italian-American family seeking reparations for the internment of a relative during the hysteria of World War II; the official reports say that the man died by suicide, but facts soon suggest that he was killed at the hands of another Italian-American family. HarperTorch mass pb [6/2005] for $7.99 HarperCollins 9x6 hardcover [6/] out of print/hundreds used |
John Shannon + P.I. Jack Liffey series: all books • official website
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Malcolm Shuman + anthropologist Alan Graham series
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Julie Smith
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Skip Langdon series: series books
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Stephen Smoke: all books • author's official website
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Donald J. Sobol + Encyclopedia Brown kids mysteries
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Thomas Sparrow + Keith Waverly series: all books
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Mickey Spillane [1918-2006]
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Mike Hammer series: fansite
unofficial Spillane/Hammer website
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Aaron Stander of Michigan
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Kelli Stanley of San Francisco, CA
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"City of Dragons" [2010] 
Set in San Francisco's Chinatown circa 1940; after witnessing the murder by gunshot of a minor numbers runner during a Chinatown festival, Miranda Corbie finds racism and sexism at every turn. Minotaur Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2010] for $16.49 |
Daniel Stashower: all books • author's website
Harry Houdini series: series books
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Rex Stout [1886-1975] Page
Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin Mystery Series •
Radio, Movies & TV
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Margaret Sutton [1903-2001]: all books
Judy Bolton series: CK's fansite • Wikipedia
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P.J. Tracy {actually P.J. & Traci Lambrecht}
+ Grace McBride in Minneapolis, MN
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Jonathan Valin + Harry Stoner of Cincinnati
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S.S. Van Dine {real name Willard Wright}[1887-1939]
+ Philo Vance mystery series
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"Alias S.S. Van Dine: The Man Who Created Philo Vance"
[1992 biography] by John Loughery
Scribner 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/92] out of print/many used
 | "The Kennel Murder Case: A Philo Vance Mystery" [1933] by S.S. Van Dine The cops believe that the man found dead in a locked room was a suicide, but the coroner determines that the man was bludgeoned, stabbed and shot. Then evidence points to the victim's brother, who is found stabbed to death in a closet. Scribner mass pb [8/84] out of print/used Gregg Press hardcover [1980] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Kennel Murder Case" [Warner Bros./Vitaphone Oct 1933] Directed by Michael Curtiz; adapted from the book by S.S. Van Dine; starring William Powell {as Philo Vance}, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Frank Conroy, Etienne Girardot, James Lee, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl, Helen Vinson & Jack La Rue Alpha Video b&w DVD [7/2002] for $7.98 Alpha Video b&w VHS [7/2002] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Dragon Murder Case" [1933]
first serialized in Pictorial Review with illustrations June-Nov 1933
book published Oct 1933; Warner Bros. movie starring Warren William
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Wendelin Van Draanen
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Sammy Keyes teen mysteries: series books
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David J. Walker
+ P.I. Mal Foley series + Wild Onion series
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Persia Walker: all books • author's website
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Jess Walter
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Joseph Wambaugh
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Betty Webb
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P.I. Lena Jones of Scottsdale, Arizona
The Gunn Zoo Mysteries in California
 | "Desert Run: A Lena Jones Mystery" [2008] by Betty Webb While Scottsdale, Arizona private eye Lena Jones is working security for a document-ary film about a World War II P.O.W. camp and the escape of several inmates on Christmas Day 1944, someone murders the 91-year-old technical advisor, a former German U-boat commander and one of the escapees. Poisoned Pen Press 8¼x5¼ pb [2/2008] for $11.66 |
Donald E. Westlake
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writing as Richard Stark: series books
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Randy Wayne White
+ Doc Ford of South Florida series
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Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grille restaurant
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Charles Willeford [1919-88] + Hoke Moseley series
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publisher Oivas/Pointblank's Willeford page
publisher Dennis McMillan's Willeford pages {under construction?}
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John Morgan Wilson + Benjamin Justice series
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Stuart Woods
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Mystery & Thriller Authors A-Z books at Amazon.com
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British & American 'Top 100 Crime Novels' lists at Wikipedia
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"Women of Mystery: Three Writers Who Forever Changed Detective Fiction" [docu-film 1996] Directed by Pamela Briggs Interviewees are Sara Paretsky, Marcia Muller & Sue Grafton distributor webpage (videos available there) full credits from IMDb |
Re: Legal Eagles
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Erle Stanley Gardner [1889-1970] Page
Perry Mason series •
writing as A.A. Fair •
other fiction
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John Grisham
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M.S.U. John Grisham Room
John Grisham Online unofficial fansite
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Ronald Levitsky + attorney Nate Rosen series
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Steve Martini
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Paul Madriani series: series books
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Lia Matera
+ Willa Jansson series + Laura DiPalma series
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Richard North Patterson
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David Rosenfelt + public defender Andy Carpenter series
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Scott Turow + tales of Kindle County
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Southwest/Western USA and
Native American Mysteries
Southwest Book Views [est. 2002]
Read Southwest
Southwest Book Awards [est. 1971] of the Border Regional Library Assn.
Southwest Writers
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"Shaman or Sherlock?: The Native American Detective" [2001] by Andrew & Gina Macdonald Greenwood Press 9&fracx6 hardcover [11/2001] for $118.95 |
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"The Mysterious West" [20 original stories 1994] Edited by Tony Hillerman & Martin H. Greenberg Harper mass pb [11/95] for $7.99 HarperCollins hardcover [12/94] out of stock/used 20 new mystery tales set in Western landscapes by Robert Campbell, Bill Crider, Susan Dunlap, Linda Grant, J.A. Jance, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Karen Kijewski, M.D. Lake, Lia Matera, Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini, Dana Stabenow, and others |
Rudolfo Anaya + Sonny Baca of New Mexico Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
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Peter Bowen + Gabriel Du Pré of Montana: all books
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C.J. Box of Wyoming + game warden Joe Pickett mysteries
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Steve Brewer of California
+ P.I. Bubba Mabry of Albuquerque, NM
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Harlen Campbell of Santa Fe, NM
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 | "Monkey On A Chain: A Novel of Suspense" [1993] Vietnam vet Rainbow Porter learns that a former buddy & partner in black market dealings was recently killed by a trip mine, and that the man's adopted daughter, a Eurasian beauty, fears that she will be killed next. Poisoned Pen Press 8½x5½ pb [2/99] for $11.66 Doubleday 9¼x6 hardcover [8/93] out of print/many used |
 | "Jennifer's Weave" [2009]
New Mexican Rainbow Porter discovers a body in his neighbor's house and the neighbor is missing; the body is identified as a man who died many years before, and the cops suspect Rainbow in the murder. ABQ Press 8½x5½ pb [10/2009] for $11.96 |
Pamela Christie of Santa Fe, NM
+ mysteries of Colonial New Mexico, circa 1780
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"The King's Lizard: A Tale of Murder & Deception In Old Santa Fe, 1782" [2004]
Someone murders a military commander right on the Santa Fe Plaza, and Governor Anda asks a member of his spy network, the half-breed Nando, to find the killer. Nando's investigations lead to slavers, corrupt priests, and ultimately to a traitor against the crown. Lone Butte Press 8½x5½ pb [8/2004] for $11.66 |
 | "Dead Lizard's Dance: A Tale of Love, Murder & Witchery In Old Santa Fe" [2009]
A series of gruesome deaths continues despite the efforts of Governor Anda's police, so he again asks Nando for help in stopping further crimes. Lone Butte Press 8½x5½ pb [9/2009] for $14.95 |
Margaret Coel + Wind River Arapaho series
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James D. Doss of New Mexico
+ Ute Indian cop Charlie Moon series
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Micah S. Hackler + Sheriff Lansing series: all books
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Jean Hager + Cherokee cops mysteries
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Steven F. Havill of Raton, NM
+ Posadas County, New Mexico mysteries
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Tony Hillerman [1925-2008] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
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 | "Dreaming Back" [1993] by M.E. Hirsch
When a schoolteacher in a small New Mexico town is raped and murdered, the local media describe her as a flaky flower child, and the local cops expend no investigative effort, so her sister comes out from Boston to find out what happened and becomes enmeshed in black helicopter missions, Hopi traditions, C.I.A. secrets, and the unsolved murder of their mother thirty years before. Worldwide Library mass pb [2/96] out of print/many, many used St. Martin's Press hardcover [10/93] out of print/many used |
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Steve Hockensmith + Holmes On The Range series
Cowboy 'Big Red' Amlingmeyer has been reading Sherlock Holmes tales to his brother 'Old Red' around the
campfire and the two detective-wannabes eagerly dive into unsolved killings using the methods of their British hero;
light-heartedly combines the features of Sherlock Holmes and dime westerns, with much humor - Western style.
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"Holmes On The Range" [2006]
Working for the winter at the mysterious Bar-VR ranch, the Amlingmeyer brothers find a fellow cowhand shot in the head and another dead by trampling – but nobody can remember a recent stampede. Minotaur Books 8x5½ pb [2/2007] for $11.16 St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $18.36 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [3/2006] for $26.59 |
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"On The Wrong Track: A Holmes On The Range Mystery" [2007]
Tired of the cowboy life, the Amlingmeyer brothers take a job as guards for the Pacific Express, and soon are contending with a gang of outlaws, a seductive sufragette, a shady Chinaman, a drunken railroad detective, the King of The Hoboes – and the severed head of the baggage man. Minotaur Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2008] for $11.01 St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $23.95 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [3/2007] for $26.59 |
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"The Black Dove: A Holmes On The Range Mystery" [2008]
Adrift in 1893 San Francisco, the Amlingmeyer brothers learn of the murder of a railroad man and follow the trail into mysterious and dangerous Chinatown. Minotaur Books 8¼x5½ pb [5/2009] for $11.21 St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2008] for $18.68 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [2/2008] for $25.54 |
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"The Crack In The Lens: A Holmes On The Range Mystery" [2009]
Pockets full of money, the Amlingmeyer brothers hardly know what to do with themselves; Old Red talks his brother into returning to Texas to investigate a five-year-old murder – that of Old Red's sweetie, the hooker Gertrude. St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6 hardcover [7/2009] for $16.49 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [7/2009] for $26.59 |
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Craig Johnson of Wyoming + Sheriff Walt Longmire mysteries
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Brian Andrew Laird
+ Tucson, AZ journalist Nate Bowman series
books/out of print
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Lise McClendon of Wyoming
+ Jackson Hole art gallery owner Alix Thorssen mysteries
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D.R. {nee Doris} Meredith of Amarillo, Texas: browse books
Sheriff Charles Matthews of Texas mystery series
Texas lawyer John Lloyd Branson mystery series
paleopathologist Megan Clark mystery series
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Dr. J. Michael Orenduff of Valdosta, Georgia
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"The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras" [2009]
While thinking about an offer of $25,000 from a shady character to steal a pot from a local museum, pot hunter & trader Hubert Schuze decides to see how difficult the job might be. He decides that the museum is impregnable and returns home, where a federal agent is waiting to accuse him of stealing the 1000-year-old pot. Theft charges escalate to murder ... Oak Tree Press 9x6 pb [1/2009] for $12.71 |
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"The Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy" [2009]
While planning the rescue-by-burglary of pottery stolen from San Roque Pueblo, Hubie stumbles into a room with a dead body; people outside hear a gunshot and see Hubie exit with blood on his hands, so of course he is suspected of the murder. Dark Oak Mysteries 9x6 pb [11/2009] for $14.95 |
"The Pot Thief Who Studied D.H. Lawrence" [in the works]
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Jake Page
+ blind sculptor Mo Bowdre of Santa Fe, NM
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Richard Parrish + Joshua Rabb of Tucson, AZ
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Lisa Polisar of New Mexico: all books • author's website
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Walter Satterthwait + P.I. Joshua Croft of Santa Fe, NM
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Connie Shelton
+ New Mexico P.I. Ms. Charlie Parker series
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Susan Slater + Pueblo Indian Ben Pecos series
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Virginia Swift {aka Scharff}
+ 'Mustang Sally' Adler of Laramie, Wyoming
browse books •
U.N.M. homepage
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Pari Noskin Taichert + Sasha Solomon of New Mexico
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author's website
Sasha Solomon mystery series official website
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Aimée & David Thurlo of Corrales, NM
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Navajo cop Ella Clah series: series books
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Judith Van Gieson of New Mexico
+ Neil Hamel series + Claire Reynier series
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Robert Westbrook of Taos, NM: all books • author's website
Howard Moon Deer series: author's series page
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