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...

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

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

The most renowned American authors in Western fiction are brought together in one bang 'em-up, shoot-it-out collection...

This is a collection of 50 short stories by veteran mystery and crime writer Bill Pronzini, best known as the creator of The Nameless Detective series....

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....

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

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

As Eberhardt answers the door, the detective hears two sharp echoing reports - gunshots; they could only be gunshots....

In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby....

Intrigue, crime, and murder create suspense in this edge-of-your-seat collection of cat mystery stories whose plots are all centered on a beloved feline, written by some of the finest, best-selling mystery writers of all time....

Twenty-three of Shamus Award-winning author Bill Pronzini's stories, all of which display his versatility, his clean, crisp narrative style, and his keen awareness of detail....

A series of seemingly random murders along a 50-mile stretch of the rugged northern California coast is committed by an unknown dubbed the Coastline Killer....

The Nameless Detective is called upon to find out how rare books and maps are being stolen from an antiquarian bookshop with a faultless alarm system....

When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden....

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

The big, sort-of-sloppy, brew-loving P.I. opens up his files on some of his most fascinating cases....

In The Bughouse Affair former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated investigations....

Old Man Hass is concerned by the near-catatonic behavior of his daughter, Grady....

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