Bill Pronzini

Deadly Anniversaries celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America with a collection of stories from some of the top names in crime fiction. An anniversary can honor many things: a birth, a wedding and sometimes even a death. In Deadly Anniversaries, editors Marcia Muller and...

When a meteorite lands on his property, Jordy Verrill envisions an easy payday. Unfortunately for Jordy, this is no ordinary rock....

Spadework was published on the 25th anniversary of The Snatch, the first Nameless Detective novel....

Jordan Wise was an ordinary, unexciting accountant with a San Francisco engineering firm, insecure about his future - until he met Annalise Bonner....

In a remote spot, Hannigan is burying a body he claims is his dog. A man suddenly emerges from the fog, asking if he can call for help, since he had to quickly escape a nearby house from a jealous husband. The district is tense, since the news warns of an escaped lunatic killer....

Nameless is called in by his friend, police lieutenant Eberhardt, when a dead woman's purse contains Nameless's business card....

He's just gotten some bad news, and its impact has made him immobile and fearful....

"Checkmate." That was the last word uttered to Charlie Chan and Prefect of Police Claude DeBevre by a dying reporter....

In his first chronicled adventure, the Nameless Detective hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doesn't trust the police....

His name was Roy Sands, and he had everything to look forward to....

More Oddments features 14 more detective stories featuring characters such as Fergus O'Hara and the "Nameless" Detective....

David Virden's case is simple enough: Namless must find his ex-wife and deliver some papers to her....

The Stolen Gold Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini’s detective series. In response to a string of gold thefts in a Mother Lode mine, Quincannon goes undercover as a newly hired miner to identify and capture the men...

For the Nameless Detective, investigations involving matters of the heart are to be avoided at all costs....

These are the places where fear lives, where the chill in the air has nothing to do with the temperature, and where Death can be someone you've already met....

The Nameless Detective is hired by a young wife to find out whether her husband has been having an affair. He trails the husband to a motel of cabins in a small village....

The Nameless Detective decides to do an old man a favor and find his missing granddaughter, Gianna. But no one said it would be easy....

Former pulp writer and current hack Russell Dancer invites Nameless to the first annual Western Pulp Convention in San Francisco....

When Tamara goes missing, Nameless feels a sinking in his gut: A few years ago he had been kidnapped and left to die in a cabin in the woods....

Today, Bill Pronzini is famed for his private-eye 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. Problems Solved collects all their crime and mystery collaborations....