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This page lists novels, short story collections, and non-fiction books by Marcia Muller and books about Marcia Muller and her work.

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By Marcia Muller
- novels and story collections
- non-fiction

Edited by Marcia Muller
- anthologies

About Marcia Muller
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Edwin of the Iron Shoes

Marcia Muller

1977

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Elderly dealer Joan Albritton has been found dead, stabbed with an antique dagger. Her neighbors are shocked. Recurring vandalism has them frightened. Ferreting out the facts will take Sharon from the chaotic jumble of the junk dealer's establishment to a museum where San Francisco's most elegant socialites gather. But it is not until she is alone in Joan's dark shop with Clothilde, the headless dressmaker's dummy; Bruno, the stuffed German shepherd; and Edwin, the little boy mannequin in the ornate iron shoes that she will have the chance to discover the murderous secret someone will kill -- and kill again -- to keep."

Ask the Cards A Question

Marcia Muller

1982

A Sharon McCone novel.

"There's trouble in Sharon McCone's quiet San Francisco apartment building. Madame Anya, with her cards, her tame crow, and her candles, had predicted evil for Molly Antonio. Linnea Carraway, drinking heavily and careening crazily in the wake of a divorce, had argued with her. Now the sweet, elderly lady lies in her apartment. Linnea, last to see Molly alive, is the prime suspect and if Sharon means to clear her best friend, she has to find the murderer fast. Suddenly death is in the cards, threatening Sharon's oldest friendship, her professional credibility-and her life."

The Cheshire Cat's Eye

Marcia Muller

1983

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Investigating her friend's murder, private eye Sharon McCone follows a trail into San Francisco's glamorous architectural community in search of a very valuable clue--a Tiffany lamp adorned with the grinning face of a Cheshire Cat."

The Tree of Death

Marcia Muller

1983

A Elena Oliverez novel.

"Hot-tempered curator Elena Oliverez threatens to kill her boss, Frank DePalma, when he orders her to put a particularly hideous piece of sculpture--donated by a wealthy patron of the new Museum of Mexican Arts--on display for the museum opening. So when someone kills Frank with the sculpture, Elena must conduct her own investigation to clear her name--or die trying."

Games to Keep the Dark Away

Marcia Muller

1984

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Picture Salmon Bay: an isolated, run-down northern California village, home to an idle fleet of fishing boats, a deserted amusement park, and a handful of secretive, even hostile residents. When private investigator Sharon McCone arrives in search of one of the town's wayward daughters, the train leads to the thriving resort of Port San Marco. McCone believes that the missing woman, a former social worker named Jane Anthony, was involved in the suspicious deaths of three terminally ill patients at an exclusive hospice."

Leave A Message for Willie

Marcia Muller

1984

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Amid the shifting world of San Francisco flea markets, shady vendors sell junk, precious antiques, and stolen goods side by side. Somewhere in the mix, a priceless collection of sacred Torah scrolls is gathering dust - and attracting a group of fanatical killers. When private investigator Sharon McCone helps one flea market kingpin fend off a stalker, she's drawn into the netherworld of deal-making and thievery, a dangerous milieu seldom seen by outsiders. For her client Willie Whelan, the sidewalk sales are a game: trick the customer, outsell the competition, and stay one step ahead of the cops. But Willie's enemies have something more sinister in mind - a conspiracy so heinous it threatens the religious artifacts, Willie's freedom, and McCone's life."

Double

Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller

1984

A Nameless Detective and Sharon McCone novel.

"The "Nameless Detective" and Sharon McCone join forces at a San Diego private detective convention in a posh seaside hotel to investigate a case involving multiple murder, a crime ring dealing in smuggled fugitives, and bizarre, kinky lifestyles. For Sharon it's a chance to catch up with old friends - all except for the one who fell four stories from one of the hotel spires. Now, Sharon is determined to find out why her friend died."

There's Nothing to Be Afraid of

Marcia Muller

1985

A Sharon McCone novel.

"The Globe Apartments, six stories of decaying brick and concrete, rises above San Francisco's volatile Tenderloin district. The seedy former hotel, once a haven for the city's down and out, now houses Vietnamese families striving to improve their lives. But private eye Sharon McCone believes that someone from the Tenderloin's shadowy underworld is determined to drive the newcomers out. .... When the All Souls Legal Cooperative is called upon to stop the patterns of intimidation, resentment explodes into murder. As McCone takes up the refugees' cause, she is drawn into the depths of the city's most hated industry - and into the secrets of San Francisco's buried past."

The Legend of the Slain Soldiers

Marcia Muller

1985

A Elena Oliverez novel.

"Ciro Sisneros seems the most harmless of men—a Chicano historian immersed in writing a book about the Great Depression and the Mexican-American agricultural workers of that era. Then why, when he dies of a fall at pool-side in Leisure Village Mobile Home Park, a senior citizens' community near Santa Barbara, does Gabriela Oliverez insist that he has been murdered? True, Ciro had been warned by an anonymous caller to stop work on his book—something he had no intention of doing. Gabriela wants her daughter, Elena, to put aside the urgent demands of her job as curator of the Museum of Mexican Art and find out why the book was a threat."

The Cavalier in White

Marcia Muller

1986

A Joanna Stark novel.

"Joanna Stark thought she had finally left her troubled past behind: After the death of her husband, she quit the San Francisco art security firm where she was a partner and retreated to the small California wine country town of Sonoma. But unexpectedly, in one rainy week before Thanksgiving, her carefully constructed world collapses. A Frans Hals painting, The Cavalier in White, is stolen from the M.H. de Young Museum, and the strange circumstances surrounding its disappearance prompt her former business partner to ask her to return to the city and investigate the theft. Joanna knows she must go back—as much for her own protection as for the sake of the museum. Her investigation takes her from the hushed corridors of the de Young to a seedy waterfront tavern; from a Seacliff mansion to a vandalized shack on the shores of the Bay; to galleries, museum openings—and the scene of a murder. By the time she confronts the killer, the careful order of her life is nearly destroyed and she finds that the past is not only inescapable, but also more complex and frightening than she had previously imagined."

Beyond the Grave

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1986

A John Quincannon and Elena Oliverez novel.

"A collaborative mystery that bridges the San Franciscos of 1894 and 1986. Muller and Pronzini masterfully parallel the investigations of turn-of-the-century detective Quincannon and Chicana amateur sleuth Elena Oliverez."

The Lighthouse

Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller

1986

"Anticipating a peaceful and relaxing year in which to write and illustrate a book, college professor Jan Ryerson and his artist wife Alix move to the isolated Cape Despair Lighthouse on a desolate stretch of Oregon coast. But their well-laid plans are twisted awry shortly after their arrival. Jan experiences several terrifying blackouts, but conceals them from his wife, fearing that she will leave him if she knows that he will soon be blind. The villagers, suspicious of the couple from the start, become increasingly hostile and resentful. And when the murdered body of a young woman is discovered, they are quick to blame the stranger in town."

Eye of the Storm

Marcia Muller

1988

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Appleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta. Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards. Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast inn. Summoned by her eccentric younger sister, San Francisco's #1 P.I. Sharon McCone arrives in the teeth of a gale, taking a busman's holiday to investigate mysterious acts of vandalism that are running the project to ruin. But when simple sabotage escalates to savage murder, she finds herself trapped on the island with a desperate killer -- and flung into a raging storm of treachery, violence, and sudden death."

There Hangs the Knife

Marcia Muller

1988

A Joanna Stark novel.

"Joanna Stark can’t seem to forgive and forget: what happened twenty years ago still plagues her. She knows the only way it can be resolved is if she gets her revenge. So she devises an intricately-plotted plan to entrap and expose Anthony Parducci, an art thief who also happens to be her worst enemy and a man who once, a long time ago, she truly cared about. Knowing that two paintings from Pieter Bruegel’s Proverb Series have already been stolen, and most certainly by Parducci, she has a friend order and then show a "copy" of a Bruegel in his London gallery in order to lure Parducci in. When the painting is stolen, Joanna is thrilled that her plan has been set in motion. But she soon realizes that someone double-crossed her and took the Bruegel before Parducci could get to it. Now both Parducci and Joanna are out to get the painting."

There's Something in A Sunday

Marcia Muller

1989

A Sharon McCone novel.

"It's a cold Sunday in San Francisco. Sharon McCone's alone on a routine surveillance job, following a man named Frank Wilkinson through the city's lush horticultural hot spots to the sere foothills of the Diablos. But when she returns to find her kindly old client in a pool of blood nothing she's learned explains it. The search for answers takes her from Wilkinson's sullen brood on Burning Oak Ranch, to the eccentric havoc of a household in the Haight, to Golden Gate Park and the desperate digs of the homeless. Unraveling the threads that link a homeless man, a pair of prominent activists, a wayward rancher, and a mysterious missing beauty, Sharon is plunged into the depths of domenstic mayhem...entering a realm where dreams shatter and marriage leads to bloody murder."

The Shape of Dread

Marcia Muller

1989

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Private eye Sharon McCone dusts off a baffling case that made headlines two years earlier. Young comic Tracy Kostakos disappeared just as she was beginning to attract large audiences. McCone turns up oddities in the case and reveals the darker side of comedy--as well as upsets the California legal justice system."

Dark Star

Marcia Muller

1989

A Joanna Stark novel.

"Things seem to be going smoothly for Joanna Stark; she is beginning to get over the fear that has haunted her since her near-fatal encounter (in There Hangs the Knife) with Antony Parducci, former lover, art forger, thief. But arriving home after lunch at her son's winery-to-be in their town of Sonoma, Joanna finds her house broken into and a painting—one of no value but of great significance to Joanna—has been stolen. The painting has been taken, and other subtle clues left, she knows, on purpose in order to frighten her. She is convinced that Parducci, whom she had left for dead in England, has been there, has come to kill her. Joanna is alone with her fear. Her stepson, E.J., convinced the man is certainly dead, will urge her to put him out of her mind; it's unhealthy, he's told her, to dwell on past fears. Moved to confide in a woman friend, Joanna is drawn into another mystery—the provenance and ownership of two very valuable paintings that no one had known about. Oddly, mysteries and anomalies begin to match, one with the other; and, like a giant spider, Parducci seems to be at the center of it all."

Trophies and Dead Things

Marcia Muller

1990

A Sharon McCone novel.

"When a former sixties radical is murdered during a string of random sniper attacks, the All Souls Legal Cooperative must settle his surprisingly large estate. Then private investigator Sharon McCone comes across a new will, made just days before he died, that disinherits his two children in favor of four unknown and unconnected parties. McCone sifts through Perry Hilderly's belongings, but finds little to explain this puzzling change - until she uncovers a .357 with the serial number burned off."

Where Echoes Live

Marcia Muller

1991

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Sharon McCone has been asked by a former colleague to look into the plans of a large corporation to reopen a gold mine near the Nevada border that could seriously endanger the ecosystem of the area. Following a trail of bizarre happenings, disappearances, and a dead body, McCone's trail leads to her to a Hong Kong industrialist . . . and a killer bent on large-scale destruction."

Deceptions: A Short Story Collection

Marcia Muller

1991

"A collection of short stories ranging from the straight-forward detective to the off-beat mystery. Includes Sharon McCone and Elena Oliverez stories as well as an original introduction by the author. Marcia Muller."

Pennies on A Dead Woman's Eyes

Marcia Muller

1992

A Sharon McCone novel.

"It looked like a lost cause. Convicted of a brutal society murder in 1956, Lis Benedict had served a long sentence and just been released from jail. Then in a last desperate attempt to clean the Benedict name, her daughter Judy convinced All Souls Legal Cooperative to take her mother's case before the Historical Tribunal. Sharon McCone loves a challenge but has little affection for the cold and unlikeable Lis. Then, suddenly, the woman in question is dead, a vicious threat is scrawled in read paint across the front of Sharon's house, and San Francisco's #1 P.I. is following a fresh trail of death that leads back to a wild debutante, a prestigious think tank, and the power politics of the '50s...all in search of a killer who has engineered a fatal cover-up and built a brilliant career on murder."

Wolf in the Shadows

Marcia Muller

1993

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Successful in her investigative work for All Souls Legal Cooperative, happy with her newly renovated house, and feeling somewhat more secure in her relationship with the mysterious environmental activist, Hy Ripinsky, Sharon is shocked to find herself suddenly faced with a wrenching ultimatum. No longer a small, informal co-op, All Souls has grown. New legal partners, exasperated with Sharon's free-wheeling ways, want to kick her upstairs with a raise, perks, and a "career opportunity" that will chain her to a desk forever. Offered a take-it-or-leave-it deal, Sharon is in turmoil. And to make matters worse, Hy has disappeared."

Till the Butchers Cut Him Down

Marcia Muller

1994

A Sharon McCone novel.

"In the biggest professional move of her life, Sharon is cutting her umbilical cord of All Soul's Legal Cooperative and opening her own shop. But even before the phone lines are installed, McCone Investigations gets its first case - one that lifts Sharon off a roof in a helicopter and deposits her on a posh hideaway on the north California coast. Her new client is T.J. Gordon, a "turnaround man" - that rare breed of corporate troubleshooter who creates profits and enemies while reviving failing companies. Gordon owns more than the helicopter that whisks Sharon away... much more. And he's not really new. A friend from her radical student days in Berkeley, T.J. was a campus nomad with a lifestyle shadier than most. Now T.J. Gordon - grown ever more quirky, eccentric, and reclusive - is convinced someone is trying to kill him. He wants Sharon's help. Then he does another kind of turnaround: he vanishes."

A Wild and Lonely Place

Marcia Muller

1995

A Sharon McCone novel.

"It's worth a $1 Million reward to Sharon McCone if she catches the man called the Diplo-bomber, who has set off bombs at consulates all over the U.S. Now he's in San Francisco - and that's McCone's turf. When he misses his latest target, the embassy of a small Arab emirate, McCone's on the spot--and soon discovers some disturbing things about this strange, forbidding embassy. One is the American woman kept a virtual prisoner there by her Arab mother-in-law. The other is a mischievous, lonely nine-year-old girl who's in grave danger not only from the terrorist but also from her estranged playboy father. Went the child disappears, McCone follows her trail to a desolate Caribbean island. Here McCone's rescue mission takes her dangerously close to death and the hidden motive behind the Diplo-bomber's explosions. Now, with a child's life hanging in the balance, what McCone plans to do may either be called cold-blooded murder...or justice."

The McCone Files

Marcia Muller

1995

Sharon McCone short stories.

"Sharon is a humane and sympathetic sleuth who makes a difference to her clients and to the world around her. The McCone Files contains the 13 previously uncollected short stories about McCone, including the Shamus Award winning 'Final Resting Place', as well as two written specially for this volume."

• Place That Time Forgot
• Somewhere In The City
• Final Resting Place
• Silent Night
• Benny's Space
• Lost Coast
• File Closed
• Last Open File
• Merrill-Go-Round
• Wild Mustard
• Broken Men
• Deceptions
• Cache And Carry
• Deadly Fantasies
• All The Lonely People

The Broken Promise Land

Marcia Muller

1996

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Someone is bent on getting revenge on Ricky Savage, Sharon McCone's brother-in-law and a two-time Grammy Award-winning country singer. The danger escalates as Sharon realizes that more than one person has been playing underhanded games--and that the music industry is truly a broken promise land."

Both Ends of the Night

Marcia Muller

1997

A Sharon McCone novel.

"A full-fledged pilot for several years, Sharon McCone is due for the biannual flight review required by the FAA. Her former flight instructor, Matty Wildress, invites her to fly up to the small Sonoma County town of Los Alegres for the evaluation. The test isn't due for several months, however, and McCone suspects Matty has more than safe flying on her mind. She's right. Matty's live-in lover John Seabrook, has been gone for a week, abandoning his small son, Zach. In a desperate letter John entrusts the boy to Matty's care, urging them to go into hiding immediately. But Matty is a professional and determined to perform in the last aerobatic air show of the year. Despite the extra security, something goes horribly wrong. Suddenly, an ordinary missing person case becomes a personal vendetta. Together with her lover, Hy Ripinsky, McCone bypasses the authorities to hunt down the man responsible for Matty's death. Her search will take her across the country as she uncovers the startling details of John Seabrook's past."

While Other People Sleep

Marcia Muller

1998

A Sharon McCone novel.

"It starts when Sharon McCone's acquaintance tells her that someone was pretending to be the private eye at a party. Sharon investigates further and discovers that the imposter has no qualms about mixing business with sex. Even more alarming, the faux McCone is cancelling Sharon's credit cards, invading her home, and making frightening calls to family members. But when Sharon is almost arrested for a crime committed by the imposter, the determined P.I. pulls out all the stops in her search for a criminal hitting far too close to home."

Duo

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1998

"The world's first two-author, husband-and-wife short story collection. Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini are two of the world's most popular and respected mystery authors. Their new collection demonstrates why this team has so many fans. Here you'll find Muller's famous Sharon McCone searching for the dark truth in "Somewhere in the City." Pronzini's long-heralded private eye Nameless is tracking down a clever killer in "Home is the Place Where." McCone and Nameless team up in the wry "Cache and Carry." Fourteen great stories in all."

A Walk Through the Fire

Marcia Muller

1999

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Accidents are plaguing a documentary film crew on breathtakingly beautiful Kauai. Can San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone ferret out possible sabotage behind the scenes? The job sounds like a breeze - McCone envisions romantic, tropical nights with her lover, Hy Ripinsky. Instead, she finds a troubled paradise with rising tensions between native and non-native Hawaiians, a film going south fast, and a macabre ritual death. Then a mysterious local pilot rattles her commitment to Hy, and soon McCone is in danger herself ... caught in the place Hawaiians call 'ahi wela maka'u', the place between fire love and fire terror, the place where even a seasoned private eye can get burned."

Listen to the Silence

Marcia Muller

2000

A Sharon McCone novel.

"For PI Sharon McCone, when one door opens, another shuts. In the midst of celebrating a joyous wedding, she gets word that her father has died. The news leads her to the rituals of death: the scattering of ashes, the sharing of grief, the sorting of a loved one's belongings. But the last of these acts leads to a shocking discovery that will flip her life upside down. Soon, McCone is drawn into a conspiracy that includes the attempted murder of an activist lawyer and threats on her own life. No one is talking, and to discover the truth, Sharon McCone must learn to listen to the silence - before a killer's bullet silences her."

McCone and Friends

Marcia Muller

2000

Sharon McCone short stories.

"Now McCone’s colleagues get a chance to offer their viewpoints on some cases. McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as two stories narrated by the agency's investigator Rae Kelleher; a story from the viewpoint of its office manager Ted Smalley; an investigation conducted by McCone's nephew Mick Savage; and one by her long-term lover Hy Ripinsky."

• If You Can't Take The Heat
• The Holes In The System
• One Final Arrangement
• Up At The Riverside
• Knives At Midnight
• The Wall
• Recycle
• Solo

Season Of Sharing

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

2001

A Sharon McCone and Nameless detective story.

A limited edition 19 page chapbook.

Point Deception

Marcia Muller

2001

"The body of an woman washes up near Point Deception, California--a day after she was spotted near her broken-down car on the highway. Deputy Sheriff Rhoda Swift worries the woman's brutal rape and murder will resurrect fears from the unsolved massacre of two families 13 years before. When Rhoda investigates with journalist Guy Newberry, a shocking truth will test how far she is willing to go for justice."

Dead Midnight

Marcia Muller

2002

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Stretching flat across the water, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is a popular spot...for jumpers. Roger Nagasawa, a brilliant employee at a popular Internet magazine, is its latest "suicide" and veteran P. I. Sharon McCone's new case. But instead of getting closure for his family, McCone uncovers more questions than answers: Roger's stark apartment...his aloof parents, who had wanted an investigation and now refuse to talk...a cutthroat workplace...a cache of secrets in a shady waterfront deal. It's a puzzle within a puzzle with a deadly game at its heart. For the elusive, twisted trail is about to circle back into Sharon McCone's own life-and bring the danger home."

Cyanide Wells

Marcia Muller

2003

"Fourteen years after his wife's disappearance branded him a murderer and ruined his life. Matthew Lindstrom receives an anonymous phone call revealing that Gwen is alive...and well aware of the wreckage she left behind. Seeking answers and revenge, he comes to the isolated town of Cyanide Wells. Here, where the surrounding thick forest conceals twisted paths and old sins, Matt begins to learn the details of Gwen's new life. But before he can confront her, his ex vanishes once more. Now Matt must join forces with Carly McGuire, a local woman with secrets of her own, and begin a desperate hunt for the truth about past crimes and Gwen's fate. For hovering over him are suspicions that can destroy him once again."

Time of the Wolves: Western Stories

Marcia Muller

2003

"Time of the Wolves is an extraordinary collection of Western stories by a truly outstanding author."

The Dangerous Hour

Marcia Muller

2004

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Sharon McCone and the staff of McCone Investigations are enjoying the firm's healthy state and future prospects. But things take a turn for the worse when one of McCone's operatives, Julia Rafael, is arrested for stealing a credit card from a client and making purchases with it. Sharon took a chance on hiring Julia, a former juvenile delinquent who seems to have turned her life around. Julia swears she is innocent and Sharon thinks there must be some mistake-until she learns about the many expensive mail order packages the police found in Julia's apartment. Sharon must get to the bottom of the mystery before the firm's reputation is ruined."

Cape Perdido

Marcia Muller

2005

"At the northernmost point of Soledad County. California, lies Cape Perdido - once a thriving lumber town, now a getaway for tourists and outdoor recreationists. But when the water harvesting plans of a North Carolina company threaten the residents' livelihoods, four people get caught up in the fight to save the town in very different ways: Jessie Domingo, a community liaison specialist from a New York ecological consultancy; Joseph Openshaw, a respected environmentalist, whose return to the Cape after 20 years forces him to face ghosts from his past; Steph Pace, a restauranteur and Openshaw's former love, who must confront the same ghosts and Timothy McNear, a former lumber mill owner who harbors secrets of his own. The arrival of the 'waterbaggers' will drive otherwise peaceful people to desperate acts and a dramatic series of events that will awaken the residents of Cape Perdidoto unsavoury truths about their town - and each other."

Vanishing Point

Marcia Muller

2006

A Sharon McCone novel.

"In the wake of her Nevada nuptuals to fellow detective Hy Ripinsky, McCone dives into one of her most baffling cases yet- the disappearance of Laurel Greenwood, who vanished twenty-two years before without a trace. Laurel's grown-up daughter is desperately seeking closure and wants McCone to find out the fate of the young mother and artisty who never returned from a day of landscape painting in a central California coastal town. The case is cold, and the evidence McCone begins uncovering is chilling. Secrets kept for two decades now emerge to create a portrait of a woman who's perfect on the surface and anything but a paragon beneath it. She intends to uncover the truth- the whole truth- even when it awakens her suspicions that the bonds of marriage can easily become chains, and that escaping them may lead to desperate acts... or murderous ones."

The Ever-Running Man

Marcia Muller

2007

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Sharon McCone is hired by her husband's security firm to track down 'the ever-running man', a shadowy figure who has been leaving explosive devices at their various offices. She doesn't have to search for long. When McCone narrowly escapes an explosion in her apartment building, she catches a glimpse of his retreating figure. The ever-running man is dangerously close - and anyone connected to the firm seems to be within his deadly range. To complicate matters, McCone is forced to question her reluctant husband Hy about his involvement in some of the firm's dark secrets. The history of corruption may jeopardise their marriage, but uncovering the secrets of the firm may be the only way she can save her husband's life, and her own."

Crucifixion River: Western Stories

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

2007

Somewhere in the City: Selected Stories

Marcia Muller

2007

"A new collection of Marcia Muller's best short fiction from the past twenty years, including hardboiled private-eye, horror, western, and psychological suspense stories."

Burn Out

Marcia Muller

2008

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Traumatized by a recent life-or-death investigation, Sharon McCone flees to her ranch in California's high desert country to contemplate her future. Deep depression shadows her days and nights, and a chance encounter with a troubled, highly secretive Native American woman begins to haunt her dreams. Even though she is determined not to investigate anything during her stay--and perhaps not ever again--McCone is drawn into the plight of the young woman and her dysfunctional family. A murder and traces of violence at a deserted resort lead her across the desert and into Nevada, and finally to a remote and isolated ranch, where danger lies closer that she expects and where her future and life itself may hang in the balance."

Locked In

Marcia Muller

2009

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. Since the late-night attack occurred at her agency's offices, the natural conclusion was that it was connected to one of the firm's cases. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body's prison and discover her attacker's identity, all the members of her agency fan out to find the reason why she was assaulted. Meanwhile, Sharon becomes a locked-in detective, sorting through the clues her colleagues discover. As the case draws to a surprising and even shocking conclusion, Sharon's husband, Hy, must decide whether or not to surrender to his own violent past and exact fatal vengeance when the person responsible is identified."

Coming Back

Marcia Muller

2010

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Sharon struggles to regain control over her body. Impatient with her progress, Sharon wants everything to go back to normal, although she suspects that it won't be possible to return to her old life. Meanwhile, Sharon's relationships are suffering. Her husband Hy Ripinsky is impatient with her refusal to accept help and some of her colleagues doubt her abilities after the accident. But when Sharon's friend from physical therapy goes missing, she must call upon those closest to her to find out the truth behind the disappearance. The investigation soon points to issues of national security and finally forces Sharon to confront her greatest fears."

City of Whispers

Marcia Muller

2011

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Private eye Sharon McCone receives an e-mail asking for help from her emotionally disturbed half brother Darcy Blackhawk. She replies . . . but gets no response. As Sharon digs deeper, she discovers that Darcy sent his message from an Internet café in San Francisco, a city he's never been to before. Sensing that her brother is in terrible danger, Sharon begins a search for him throughout the city. The investigation leads her to the body of a woman at the Palace of Fine Arts, where a witness had told her that Darcy was headed. Then, as she digs deeper, Sharon uncovers a connection to the unsolved murder of a young heiress to a multimillion-dollar banking fortune. Now Sharon must race to solve both murders and ensure her brother's safety, despite the imminent danger that lurks within her own family."

Skeleton in the Closet

Marcia Muller

2012

A Sharon McCone short story published electronically only.

"Sharon McCone is excited--and relieved--to move her detective agency into the perfect new office space. Unfortunately, real estate woes aren't the only headache that the new building brings into Sharon's life. Possible nineteenth century ghosts and a shady "intra-reality organization" ensure that Sharon's new office will bring as much excitement as any of her clients."

Looking For Yesterday

Marcia Muller

2012

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Three years ago, Caro Warrick was acquitted for the murder of her best friend Amelia Bettencourt, but the lingering doubts of everyone around Caro are affecting her life. Sharon McCone is confident that she can succeed where other detectives have failed (though at times it's hard to shake her own misgivings about what happened), but when Caro is brutally beaten right at Sharon's doorstep, the investigation takes on a whole new course. How many more people remain at risk until Amelia's murderer is finally caught?"

The Bughouse Affair

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

2013

A Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon novel.

"In 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated investigations. Sabina's case involves the hunt for a ruthless lady "dip" who uses fiendish means to relieve her victims of their valuables at Chutes Amusement Park and other crowded places. Quincannon, meanwhile, is after a slippery housebreaker who targets the homes of wealthy residents, following a trail that leads him from the infamous Barbary Coast to an oyster pirate's lair to a Tenderloin parlor house known as the Fiddle Dee Dee. The two cases eventually connect in surprising fashion, but not before two murders and assorted other felonies complicate matters even further. And not before the two sleuths are hindered, assisted, and exasperated by the bughouse Sherlock Holmes."

The Spook Lights Affair

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

2013

A Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon novel.

"In 1895 San Francisco young debutantes don't commit suicide at festive parties, particularly not under the eye of Sabina Carpenter. But Virginia St. Ives evidently did, leaping from a foggy parapet in a shimmer of ghostly light. The seemingly impossible disappearance of her body creates an even more serious problem for the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services. Sabina hadn't wanted to take the assignment, but her partner John Quincannon insisted it would serve as entree to the city's ultra rich and powerful. That means money, and Quincannon loves the almighty dollar. Which is why he is hunting the bandit who robbed the Wells, Fargo office of $35,000. Working their separate cases Quincannon follows a danger-laden trail to unmask the murderous perpetrators of the Wells, Fargo robbery. Sabina works her wiles on friends and relatives of the vanished debutante until the pieces of her puzzle start falling into place. But it's an oddly disguised gent appearing out of nowhere who provides the final clue to both cases - the shrewd 'crackbrain' who believes himself to be Sherlock Holmes."

The Night Searchers

Marcia Muller

2014

A Sharon McCone novel.

"When new clients Jay and Camilla Givens come to Sharon McCone with Camilla's stories of devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, the detective is sceptical, to say the least. However, when she discovers that Jay is involved with the treasure hunting group The Night Searchers, she starts looking into what exactly he and the other participants are up to after dark. As she digs deeper into the Searchers, Sharon joins their ranks in order to find out more."

The Body Snatchers Affair

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

2015

A Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon novel.

"Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's opium dens. For John Quincannon, this is a first: searching a Chinatown opium den for his client's husband, missing in the middle of a brewing tong war set to ignite over the stolen corpse of Bing Ah Kee. Meanwhile, his partner, Sabina Carpenter, unsure of the dark secrets her suitor might be concealing, searches for the corpse of a millionaire, stolen from a sealed family crypt and currently being held for ransom. With the threat of a tong war hanging over the city (a war perhaps being spurred on by corrupt officials), Carpenter and Quincannon have no time to lose in solving their cases. Is there a connection between the two body snatchers? Or is simple greed the answer to this one? And why is the enigmatic Englishman who calls himself Sherlock Holmes watching so carefully from the shadows?"

Merrill-Go-Round

Marcia Muller

2016

A Sharon McCone short story published electronically only.

"McCone’s first recorded short case—a private-eye story that is also a 'woman’s story,' in the best sense of that term."

Tell Me Who I Am

Marcia Muller

2016

A Sharon McCone short story published electronically only.

Someone Always Knows

Marcia Muller

2016

A Sharon McCone novel.

"Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw - a shady troublemaker who they had presumed dead - reappears, and it's unclear what he wants from his prosperous former associate. Meanwhile, Sharon has a new client with a desire to rid a derelict house he's just bought in the city's notorious Western Addition neighborhood from intruders, drug users, and thugs. However, the abandoned house holds its share of secrets, and soon Sharon is contending with more than a simple eyesore as she searches for the individual who is obsessed with destroying her life."

The Plague of Thieves Affair

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

2016

A Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon novel.

"Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon are no stranger to mysteries. In the five years since they opened Carpenter and Quinncannon, Professional Detective Services, they have solved dozens, but one has eluded even them: Sherlock Holmes or, rather, the madman claiming his identity, who keeps showing up with a frustrating - though admittedly useful-knack for solving difficult cases. Roland W. Fairchild, recently arrived from Chicago, claims the man is his first cousin, Charles P. Fairchild III. Now, with his father dead, Charles stands to inherit an estate of over $3 million, if Sabina can find him and if he can be proved sane. Sabina is uncertain of Roland's motives but agrees to take the case. John, meanwhile, has been hired by the owner of the Golden State brewery to investigate the "accidental" death of the head brewmaster, who drowned in a vat of his own beer. When a second murder occurs and the murderer escapes from under his nose, John sets out to find the trail of the criminals-and to ensure he keeps his reputation for catching them. But while John is certain he can catch his quarry, Sabina is less certain whether she even wants to catch hers. Holmes has been frustrating but useful and even kind. She is quite certain he is mad but quite uncertain what will happen when he is confronted with the truth. Does every mystery need to be solved?"

The Color of Fear

Marcia Muller

2017

A Sharon McCone novel.

"When a knock on the door in the middle of the night wakes Sharon, she's wholly unprepared for the horrifying news: her father has been the victim of a vicious, racially-motivated attack. A nationally recognized Shoshone artist, Elwood had been visiting Sharon for the holidays, browsing for gifts in San Francisco's exclusive Marina district when he was set upon by a mob of angry young men. Now he lies in a coma, hovering between life and death. With little progress on the investigation from the overworked, short-handed police, Sharon resolves to track down Elwood's attackers herself. But when Sharon begins receiving hate-filled, racist threats from a shadowy group, it becomes clear that her pursuit of justice may be putting her own life in jeopardy."

The Dangerous Ladies Affair

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

2017

A Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon novel.

"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, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention. The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Wrixton, a wealthy banker, has met his extortionist's first demand, but the order to pay another $5,000 is too much to face. The banker's real problem is something he doesn't want to reveal. That was fine with the detective, and when he was informed that some private letters were involved and Wrixton absolutely needed them back, there was nothing more Quincannon needed in the way of background. As with so many of San Francisco's elite, the bedroom doors never seemed to stay shut. That was the easy part; far more difficult was the matter of the dead courier, murdered most foully in a locked room within a locked room, creating a trail that will take John Quincannon through most of San Francisco's less savory places and end with a riverboat trip that is anything but a relaxing cruise."

The Breakers

Marcia Muller

2018

A Sharon McCone novel.

"On a foggy summer morning, private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her? Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in and rehabbing in southwest San Francisco. Once it was a nightclub and bar, she learns, and a favorite destination for the city's elite during Prohibition. But there's something sinister about the space, and Sharon quickly discovers why. Lurking behind a divider screen is a ghastly art gallery: portraits and caricatures of mass murderers, long ago and recent. Jack the Ripper. The Zodiac and Zebra killers of the 1970s. Charles Manson and his girls. Scott Peterson, who killed his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumped her body into the Bay on Christmas Eve. What, an alarmed Sharon wonders, was Chelle doing in this chamber of horrors? And where is she now?"

1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction

Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller

1986

"Provides plot summaries to more than one thousand classic mystery, detective, and espionage novels and short story favorites, as well as informative commentary on each author."

The Web She Weaves: An Anthology Of Mystery And Suspense Stories By Women

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1983

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini)
• The Lodger (Marie Belloc Lowndes)
• The Duchess At Prayer (Edith Wharton)
• The Man In The Inverness Cape (Baroness Orczy)
• The Woman In The Store (Katherine Mansfield)
• Murder In The Fishing Cat (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• The Lipstick (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
• Postiche (Mignon G. Eberhart)
• Suspicion (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• Harlequin's Lane (Agatha Christie)
• His Heart Could Break (Craig Rice)
• Chinoiserie (Helen Mccloy)
• Good-Bye, Miss Lizzie Borden (Lillian De La Torre)
• Mcgowney's Miracle (Margaret Millar)
• St. Patrick's Day In The Morning (Charlotte Armstrong)
• The Possibility Of Evil (Shirley Jackson)
• The Snail-Watcher (Patricia Highsmith)
• The Locked Room (Celia Fremlin)
• The Fall Of A Coin (Ruth Rendell)
• Double Jeopardy (Susan Dunlap)
• My Neighbor, Ay (Joyce Harrington)
• Norman And The Killer (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Cattails (Marcia Muller)
• Great-Aunt Allie's Flypapers (P.D. James)

She Won the West: An Anthology of Western and Frontier Stories by Women

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1984

The contents are:

• The Conquest Of Dona Jacoba (Gertrude Atherton)
• On The Divide (Willa Cather)
• A Yellow Man And A White (Eleanor Gates)
• The Walking Woman (Mary Austin)
• The Lamb Of The Flying U (B.M. Bower)
• The Girl In The Humbert (Mari Sandoz)
• First Notch (Elsa Barker)
• The Brushoff (Peggy Simson Curry)
• The Warhorse Of Spotted Tail (Amelia Bean)
• The Promise Of Fruit (Ann Ahlswede)
• A Season For Heroes (Carla Kelly)
• Sweet Cactus Wine (Marcia Muller)
• The Debt (Jeanne Williams)
• The Hanging Tree (Dorothy M. Johnson)

Witches Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Macmillan

1984

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini)
• The Haunted Chamber (Ann Radcliffe)
• The Last Man (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
• The Yellow Wall Paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
• The Striding Place (Gertrude Atherton)
• Afterward (Edith Wharton)
• Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched (May Sinclair)
• The Lamp (Agatha Christie)
• The Gray Men (Rebecca West)
• The Cyprian Cat (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• A Haunted House (Virginia Woolf)
• The Idol Of The Flies (Jane Rice)
• Judgement Day (Flannery O'Connor)
• The Birds (Daphne Du Maurier)
• Night Court (Mary Elizabeth Counselman)
• The Lovely House (Shirley Jackson)
• Kindling point (Marcia Muller)
• The bingo master (Joyce Carol Oates)

Child's Ploy: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Macmillan

1984

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini)
• The Rocking-Horse Winner (D.H. Lawrence)
• How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped (Katherine Mansfield)
• The Beautiful White Horse (William Saroyan)
• Paul's Case (Willa Cather)
• Little Boy Lost (Q. Patrick)
• Too Early Spring (Stephen Vincent Benet)
• The Threatening Three (William Campbell Gault)
• The End Of The Party (Graham Greene)
• The Landscape Of Dreams (John Lutz)
• Fire Escape (Cornell Woolrich)
• Ludmila (Jean L. Backus)
• Day For A Picnic (Edward D. Hoch)
• Carnival Day (Nedra Tyre)
• Good Man, Bad Man (Jerome Weidman)
• Looie Follows Me (John D. MacDonald)
• Here Lies Another Blackmailer (Bill Pronzini)
• Morning Song (Betty Ren Wright)
• The Hedge Between (Charlotte Armstrong)
• Uncle Max (Pat McMahon)

Dark Lessons: Crime and Detection on Campus

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Macmillan

1985

The contents are:

• William Wilson (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Murder At Pentecost (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• Murder At Mother's Knee (Cornell Woolrich)
• The Lethal Logic (Norbert Davis)
• To Break The Wall (Evan Hunter)
• When Greek Meets Greek (Graham Greene)
• Charles (Shirley Jackson)
• The Ten O'clock Scholar (Harry Kemelman)
• The Problem Of The Little Red Schoolhouse (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Disappearance Of Maggie (Talmage Powell)
• A Matter Of Scholarship (Anthony Boucher)
• Final Exam (Bill Pronzini And Barry N. Malzberg)
• Broken Pattern (George C. Chesbro)
• Dead Week (L.P. Carpenter)
• Van Der Valk And The High School Riot (Nicholas Freeling)
• Robert (Stanley Ellin)
• The Turncoat Journal Of Marc (Milton Stearns and Barry N. Malzberg)

Kill or Cure: Suspense Stories About the World of Medicine

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Macmillan

1985

The contents are:

• The Resident Patient (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Superfluous Finger (Jacques Futrelle)
• The Cyprian Bees (Anthony Wynne)
• Easter Devil (Mignon Eberhart)
• But The Patient Died (Lawrence G. Blochman)
• The Problem Of The Covered Bridge (Edward D. Hoch)
• Hurting Much? (Cornell Woolrich)
• The Memorial Hour (Wade Miller)
• Guilty Witness (Morris Hershman)
• The Doctor Takes A Case (George Harmon Coxe)
• Miracle Of The Fifteen Murderers (Ben Hecht)
• Doctor's Orders (John F. Suter)
• The Splinter (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
• Sound Alibi (Jack Ritchie)
• Paint Doctor (Joe L. Hensley)
• The Other Side Of The Curtain (Helen McCloy)

The Deadly Arts: A Collection of Artful Suspense

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1985

The contents are:

• The Stolen Rubens (Jacques Futrelle)
• Specter Of The Rose (Ben Hecht)
• The Spy Who Went To The Opera (Edward D. Hoch)
• Credit To Shakespeare (Julian Symons)
• When A Felon Needs A Friend (Morris Hershman)
• The Melting Man (R.L. Stevens)
• Mr. Steinway (Robert Bloch)
• Who's Got The Lady? (Jack Ritchie)
• As Drink The Dead (John Dickson Carr)
• Good Night, Good Knight (Fredric Brown)
• The Twelfth Statue (Stanley Ellin)
• Horn Man (Clark Howard)
• Out Of The Inkwell (Ron Goulart)
• A Hard Way To Die (R.R. Irvine)
• The Lady And The Dragon (Peter Godfrey)
• You Can't Trust A Man (Helen Nielsen)
• The Man Who Wanted To Be In The Movies (John Jakes)
• The Adventure Of The Hanging Acrobat (Ellery Queen)
• The Leopard Man's Story (Jack London)
• Death At The Burlesque (Cornell Woolrich)
• The Waxwork (A.M. Burrage)
• The Dancing Detective (William Irish)
• Vanishing Act (Bill Pronzini and Michael Kurland)

Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories About the World of Books

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1985

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller And Bill Pronzini)
• The Missing Shakespeare Manuscript (Lillian De La Torre)
• The Man Who Collected Poe (Robert Bloch)
• The Penny-A-Worder (Cornell Woolrich)
• Clerical Error (James Gould Cozzens)
• Murder Walks In Marble Halls (Lawrence G. Blochman)
• Relections On Murder (Nedra Tyre)
• The Adventure Of The Spurious Tamberlane (August Derleth)
• One Thousand Dollars A Word (Lawrence Block)
• QL696.C9 (Anthony Boucher)
• Murder At The Bouchercon (Edward D. Hoch)
• Seven Types Of Ambiguity (Shirley Jackson)
• The Dragon's Head (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• The Great American Novel (R.L. Stevens)
• Mystery At The Library Of Congress (Ellery Queen)
• A Craving For Originality (Bill Pronzini)
• Chapter And Verse (Ngaio Marsh)

The Wickedest Show on Earth: A Carnival of Circus Suspense

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1985

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller And Bill Pronzini)
• Hop-Frog (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! (Paul Gallico)
• If The Dead Could Talk (Cornell Woolrich)
• Motive For Murder (Talmage Powell)
• The House Of Darkness (Ellery Queen)
• Beidenbauer's Flea (Stanley Ellin)
• Carnival Day (Nedra Tyre)
• The Four Blind Men (Fredric Brown)
• The Double Whammy (Robert Bloch)
• Another Burnt-Out Case (Bill Pronzini And Barry N. Malzberg)
• The Theft Of The Circus Poster (Edward D. Hoch)
• Carousel (August Derleth)
• Too Long At The Fair (R.L. Stevens)
• The Fallen Angel (Evan Hunter)
• The Shill (Stephen Marlowe)
• Spook House (Clark Howard)
• I, Said The Fly (Robert Edmond Alter)

Lady on the Case: 21 Stories and 1 Complete Novel Starring the World's Great Female Sleuths

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1988

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini)
• The Murder At Troyte's Hill (C.L. Pirkis)
• The Man In The Inverness Cape (Baroness Orczy)
• Death In The Sun (G.D.H. And Margaret Cole)
• The Second Bullet (Anna Katharine Green)
• The Stripper (Anthony Boucher)
• The Claret Stick (Mignon Eberhart)
• The Four Suspects (Agatha Christie)
• The Broken Men (Marcia Muller)
• The Invisible Intruder (Edward D. Hoch)
• A Date In Helsinki (Patricia Mcgerr)
• The Dancing Detective (Cornell Woolrich)
• Lucky Penny (Linda Barnes)
• The Fuzzy Things (D.B. Olsen)
• Coyote And Quarter-Moon (Bill Pronzini And Jeffrey Wallmann)
• At The Old Swimming Hole (Sara Paretsky)
• Mom Sheds A Tear (James Yaffe)
• Daisy Bell (Gladys Mitchell)
• Solo Job (Paul Gallico)
• Not Before My Morning Coffee (Susan Dunlap)
• Mrs. Norris Observes (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• The Parker Shotgun (Sue Grafton)
• Murder On Wheels (Stuart Palmer)

A Century Of Mystery 1980-1989: The Greatest Stories Of The Decade

Editor: Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini

1996

The contents are:

• Introduction (By Edward D. Hoch)
• The Good Samaritan (Isaac Asimov)
• A Man With A Fortune (Peter Lovesey)
• There Are No Snakes In Ireland (Frederick Forsyth)
• A Great Sight (Janwillem Van De Wetering)
• Greektown (Loren D. Estleman)
• Father's Day (Ruth Rendell)
• The Worst Crime Known To Man (Reginald Hill)
• A Case Of Chivas Regal (George V. Higgins)
• Lucky Penny (Linda Barnes)
• As Good As A Rest (Lawrence Block)
• Chee's Witch (Tony Hillerman)
• Hit-And-Run (Susan Dunlap)
• King's X (Brian Garfield)
• Skin Deep (Sara Paretsky)
• Stacked Deck (Bill Pronzini)
• More Final Than Divorce (Robert Barnard)
• The Dakar Run (Clark Howard)
• The Reason Why (Edward Gorman)
• Blood Types (Julie Smith)
• Deadly Fantasies (Marcia Muller)

Detective Duos: The Best Adventures of Twenty-Five Crime-Solving Twosomes

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1997

The contents are:

• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Adventure Of The Empty House (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Death At The Excelsior (P.G. Wodehouse)
• The Puzzle Lock (R. Austin Freeman)
• The Love Detectives (Agatha Christie)
• The Sealed House (Hulbert Footner)
• The Footsteps That Ran (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• Pattern For Murder (Frances And Richard Lockridge)
• Fourth Of July Picnic (Rex Stout)
• Two Over Par (Kelley Roos)
• One Morning They'll Hang Him (Margert Allingham)
• Puzzle For Poppy (Patrick Quentin)
• Once Upon A Train (Stuart Palmer And Craig Rice)
• The Phantom Cry-Baby (Lawrence G. Blochman)
• Phut Phat Concentrates (Lilian Jackson Braun)
• Before She Kills (Fredric Brown)
• And Start With A Blonde (Jack Webb)
• The Road To Damascus (Michael Gilbert)
• Dalziel's Ghost (Reginald Hill)
• Interpol : The Case Of The Modern Medusa (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Holes In The System (Marcia Muller)
• The Desert Limited (Brill Pronzini)
• Stop, Thief! (Barbara D'Amato)
• The Adventure Of The Perpetual Husbands (Ellen Dearmore)
• The End Of The Earth (Julie Smith)

Marcia Muller And The Female Private Eye: Essays On The Novels That Defined A Subgenre

Editors: Alexander N. Howe and Christine A. Jackson

2008

"In 1977, Marcia Muller invaded the all-male domain of detective literature and within in a decade was established as the mother of the contemporary female hardboiled private eye. She is now the author of four detective series, including the critically acclaimed ""Sharon McCone"" series, which totals twenty-five titles to date.The objective of this collection is to provide critical assessment of Marcia Muller's writing and to reevaluate current critical views on women's detective fiction in general."

• Introduction: Re-Reading Marcia Muller: Gender, Genre, And The Trauma Of Interpretation (Alexander N. Howe)
• Changing The World, One Detective At A Time: The Feminist Ethos Of Marcia Muller And Sharon McCone (Winter S. Elliott)
• Crime, Punishment, And Some Change In The McCone Series (Chin-Jau Chyan)
• Imagining The Margins: Muller's Explorations Of Race (Maureen T. Reddy)
• Gender And Genre Stretching In The Non-McCone Novels (Pamela E. Bedore)
• Taking Edwin To Lunch: Developing The Female Hard-Boiled Detective In The Early McCone Novels (Patricia P. Buckler)
• Sharon McCone: From PI To Anti-Terrorist (Priscilla L. Walton)
• Searching For The Past: Nostalgia In The McCone Novels (Kelly C. Connelly)
• The Journey Of Sharon McCone, Private Investigator (Patricia L. Maida)
• Anxious Authorship: The Detective Fiction Of Marcia Muller And Gertrude Stein (Jessica V. Datema)
• The Lost Child: Haunting Motif In The McCone Novels (Harriette C. Buchanan)
• Muller Earth: Mythic Topography In The Soledad County Trilogy (Christine A. Jackson)
• The Deafening Silence Of The McCone Series (Alexander N. Howe)
• Conclusion: Marcia Muller In The American Tradition: Still Breaching Our Insecurities (Christine A. Jackson)

In Conversation With Marcia Muller

Gay Tolti Kinman

2013

Published electronically.

Based on an interview between the author and Marcia Muller on March 14, 2005.