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Bill Pronzini
Twenty-six stories personally selected by Bill Pronzini from over a half century's writing career, including a selection of standalone mysteries, plus stories featuring Carpenter & Quincannon and The Nameless Detective.
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In response to a string of gold thefts in a Mother Lode mine, former Secret Service agent John Quincannon goes undercover as a newly hired miner to identify and capture…
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BEDROCK FEAR Grady Haas is a woman possessed, driven by panic, numbed by shock. What happened to her? And is this a case for the Nameless Detective or a psychiatrist…
Originally published by St. Martin's Press in 1985.
In his 24th and most intriguing appearance, the Nameless Detective finds himself involved in two intricate and emotional investigations. The first is intensely personal: the unexpected death of his estranged…
Fifteen short stories of the West with a variety of characters from the familiar figures of lawmen and gunfighters to some seldom featured characters such as a traveling apothecary, a…
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Three outlaws arrive in the country town of Big Tree, Calif., on a blazing hot day of a long dry summer, in this well-crafted western by veteran Pronzini (The Last…
Twenty-two tales of terror and suspense.
He’s just gotten some bad news, and its impact has made him immobile and fearful. He’s always known that the racking cough was not just something that was going to…
Originally published by St. Martin’s Press in 1981.
Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective -the San Francisco-based, Italian-American, slightly overweight, thoroughly charming favorite of mystery aficionados, whose name is never revealed-returns with one of his cleverest, most intense cases.
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In a story of ordinary people trapped in extraordinary and deadly circumstances, two friends are faced with the possibility that someone they know well–for reasons they cannot fathom–is plotting to…
The residents of a resort village in the Sierra Nevadas are trapped by a blizzard with three professional killers.
A new thriller in the tradition of Pronzini’s Snowbound, a shivery, spine- tingling it-could-happen suspense story… a real rouser. -Publishers Weekly
The rich and powerful Jackman family had always had…
Henry W Halloran was better-known as Horse-Shy Halloran, though few dared to call him that to his person. As he rides towards SanFrancisco, he dreams of rich widows, soft beds…
Originally published: New York: Walker and Co., 1985.
Pronzini is a pro. -The New York Times A freelance charter pilot on uneasy terms with the police but greatly respected by the underworld, Dan Connell turns down a bundle…
Copyright 1975 by Bill Pronzini –Title page verso.
Steve Giroux, visiting New Orleans to forget his recently-ended marriage is caught in a bizarre web of accusation and imaginary crimes, from which only the help of a remarkable woman…
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
Copyright 1976 by Bill Pronzini –Title page verso.
Originally published in 1978 by Bobbs-Merrill.
The bitterest of woes is to remember old happy days. At least that’s what old man Pietro Lombardi thinks. He’s got la miseria and can’t even play a peaceful round…
Shamus Award-wining Pronzini delivers a riveting new mystery featuring his acclaimed Nameless Detective . Newly married and just back from his honeymoon, Nameless thinks his new case will be easy…
For the Nameless Detective, investigations involving matters of the heart are to be avoided. But when an old poker buddy asks him to help frazzled and distraught Kay Runyon, whose…
Led by circumstances to accept the kind of case he dislikes-a worried mother job - Nameless reluctantly agrees to investigate the strange disappearance of college student Allison McDowell and her…
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…
Originally published in New York by Carroll & Graf in 2000.
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…
With a new case, a new partner, and a new P.I., Nameless is back-and Bill Pronzini’s much-praised Bleeders did not bring to a close the series that Booklist calls a…
John Frederick Quincannon, a former United States Secret Service agent, and Sabina Carpenter, one of the first female Pinkerton operatives, joined forces to form the firm of CARPENTER AND QUINCANNON…
Published in 2018 by arrangement with Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC/Tor/Forge –Title page verso.
Give-a-Damn Jones arrives in a small Montana town rife with tensions related to a convict’s efforts to prove his innocence, a cattleman’s demand for respect, a snooping editor, and a…
Published in 2021 by arrangement with Tor/Forge. –Title page verso.
For the first time in paperback, 14 of Pronzini’s greatest short stories are bound together in one volume. Spanning his entire career, these tales run feature characters who run the…
Featuring eight classic westerns, this exciting collection includes Burgade’s Crossing, in which a U.S. Secret Service agent-turned- private detective and his gorgeous partner are confronted by counterfeiters, gamblers, and assassins…
A weekend fling turns into a week-long manhunt as the Nameless Detective’s last solo case involves him in a cat and mouse chase through San Francisco’s Japantown that ends in…
The police said it was an accident, the dead woman’s sister said it was murder–and that she knows who did it. Nameless isn’t certain, but the more he learns about…
Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that’s just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it. Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he…
The Flimflam Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini’s detective series. Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services is a fixture in…
Four novellas that involve Nameless in cases of murder, missing persons, occultism, and fate.
A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series.
The Nameless Detective series has become the longest-running series of its kind. These works faithfully embod[y] the spirit of classic private-eye fiction … [they are] classy, noir storytelling ( Cleveland…
