Bill Pronzini

Can the true identity of the Sherlock Holmes imposter be revealed at last? Listen to find out....

Mitchell Krochek's wife, Janice, had run away before - propelled by a gambling fever - and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when finally found, she demanded a divorce. A few days later, she begs to go home. Soon after her homecoming, she disappears again....

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 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....

Drug lords, missing millionaires, corrupt cops… just another day for Carpenter and Quincannon Detective Services....

A debutante's missing body, murder most foul, and weird spectrallights in the fog make for a thrilling gas light-era tale of mystery and detection....

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

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....

Ravaged by time and abandoned by the people who once flocked there in search of golden nuggets, Ragged-Ass Gulch is a ghost town....

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

The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years...and these two will test his agency's resources....

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

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

Men who participated in a never-solved robbery of an armored truck are being picked off one-by-one 11 years after the crime....

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 hasn't had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years. That is, until mid-October, 1914....

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....

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....

Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services is a fixture in San Francisco at the dawn of a new century. While the future is unclear, Sabina and John know one thing for certain: they will protect their clients from flimflammers, thieves, and murderers....

A double dose of Western action from one of the genre's acknowledged masters. Includes "The Rodeo Killer" and "Mission Creek"....

Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. Give-a-Damn Jones, a free-spirited itinerant typographer, hates his nickname almost as much as the rumors spread about him. He's a kind soul who keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time....