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This page lists novels that feature the lawyer and sometime sleuth Rebecca Schwartz.

Death Turns A Trick

Julie Smith

1982

A Rebecca Schwartz novel.

"Rebecca Schwartz, nice Jewish lawyer with a few too many fantasies, is happily playing the piano in a whorehouse when she suddenly finds herself assigned to make sure a near-naked state senator escapes a police raid. That dirty job done, a lovely evening turns even more delightful when she’s picked up by the cops and spends the next two hours at the Hall of Justice. Could this day get any worse? Of course! Guess who arrives home to find a dead hooker on her living room floor? Handsome Parker Phillips, Rebecca’s new beau and the most attractive man she’s met in ages, is arrested for the murder. (Worse, she suspects he might actually have done it.) On the plus side, another very attractive man is following the case - reporter Rob Burns of the San Francisco Chronicle, a possible ally. And there are other possibilities."

The Sourdough Wars

Julie Smith

1984

A Rebecca Schwartz novel.

"The Heir to the Martinelli family's renowned sourdough starter is murdered before they were to auction it off, Rebecca Schwartz is determined to discover if he died for a handful of dough. The more she sifts through the tangled relationships of the city's bread-making dynasties, though, the closer she gets to the recipe for murder."

Tourist Trap

Julie Smith

1986

A Rebecca Schwartz novel.

"Rebecca Schwartz heads to an Easter morning sunrise service and gets the shock of her life when she sees a real body nailed to the cross. Rebecca learns the man was a tourist. And he's only the first to die. A man identifying himself as the Trapper is out to destroy San Francisco's tourist trade by killing visitors. But when the cops arrest an innocent man as the Trapper, Rebecca takes on an impossible defense and goes undercover to find a killer."

Sisters In Crime

Editor: Marilyn Wallace

1989

An anthology of short stories. Includes the Julie Smith story Blood Types which features Rebecca Schwartz.

The contents are:

• Role Model (Teri White)
• Crime Scene (Carolyn Wheat)
• The Sentence (Marilyn Wallace)
• Blood Types (Julie Smith)
• A Terrible Thing (Sshelley Singer)
• He Loved Her So Much (Sandra Scoppettone)
• Hog Heaven (Gillian Roberts)
• Afraid All The Time (Nancy Pickard)
• The Locked Tomb Mystery (Elizabeth Peters)
• The Case Of The Pietro Andromache (Sara Paretsky)
• All The Lonely People (Marcia Muller)
• The Runaway (Barbara Michaels)
• Counsel For The Defense (Lia Matera)
• Blue Curacao (Susan Kelly)
• Bonding (Faye Kellerman)
• Falling Off The Roof (Sue Grafton)
• Stormy Weather (Mickey Friedman)
• No Safety (Susan Dunlap)
• Natural Causes (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• Caesar And Sleep (Mary Shaura Craig)
• Come To Grandma (Dorothy Cannell)
• Lucky Penny (Linda Barnes)

Sisters In Crime 2

Editor: Marilyn Wallace

1990

An anthology of 21 short stories. Includes the Julie Smith story Cul-De-Sac which features Rebecca Schwartz.

The contents are:

• Foreword (Marilyn Wallace)
• Death Scene, or, The Moor of Venice (P.M. Carlson)
• Voices in the Coalbin (Mary Higgins Clark)
• The Celestial Buffet (Susan Dunlap)
• The Snake Plant (Jean Fiedler)
• Lucky Numbers (Mickey Friedman)
• The Evidence Exposed (Elizabeth George)
• A Poison That Leaves No Trace (Sue Grafton)
• Andrew, My Son (Joyce Harrington)
• Upstaging Murder (Carolyn G. Hart)
• Missing Person (Jeanne Hart)
• Too Much to Bear (Joan Hess)
• An Act of Loving Kindness (Deidre Laiken)
• The Works (T.J. MacGregor)
• Out of Whole Cloth (Margaret B. Maron)
• Destroying Angel (Lia Matera)
• The Luncheon (Sharyn McCrumb)
• The Place That Time Forgot (Marcia Muller)
• Storm Warnings (Nancy Pickard)
• Cul-de-sac (Julie Smith)
• Kindness (Deborah Valentine)
• Cousin Cora (Carolyn Wheat)

Dead in the Water

Julie Smith

1991

A Rebecca Schwartz novel.

"Attorney and exotic fish fancier Rebecca Schwartz would love to relax in picturesque Monterey, California, with her friend Marty. But when Marty's boss, the woman who's been sleeping with her husband, is found dead in a giant tank and the aquarium where Marty works, she looks sunk. Rebecca takes on her friend's case, and has some serious clue-harpooning to do. As she swims closer to the line, her friend looks more and more guilty, and Rebecca begins to wish she had just gone fishing."

Other People's Skeletons

Julie Smith

1993

A Rebecca Schwartz novel.

"When Rebecca Schwartz learns that her best friend and legal partner Chris Nicholson is accused of murder and won't give an alibi, Rebecca gets curious. To her amazement, Rebecca finds that her partner has a secret life--and so did the victim, dashing critic Jason McKendrick. For that matter, so does everyone else in the case, causing Rebecca to wonder what planet she's stumbled onto. One thing she knows with certainty: She has to shake some skeletons from the closets - and fast - or Chris is going to prison."

Mean Rooms: A Short Story Collection

Julie Smith

2000

A short story collection that includes stories that feature Rebecca Schwartz and Skip Langdon.

"From the high art of revenge in Fresh Paint to the depths of the Antarctic in The End of the Earth, this collection proves that Julie Smith is indeed one of those writers who never writes the same story twice."

• Silk Strands
• Grief Counselor
• Where The Boys Are
• Fresh Paint
• Blood Types
• Always Othello
• Too Mean To Die
• Montezuma's Other Revenge
• Project Mushroom
• Cul-De-Sac
• Crime Wave In Pinhole
• Strangers On A Plane
• The End Of The Earth

Blood Types

Julie Smith

2014

A electronic publication of a Rebecca Schwartz short story. The story was originally published in the Sisters In Crime anthology in 1989.

"If you’re a lawyer, and someone you haven’t heard from in years calls to ask how to execute a holographic will, what are you to think if he dies the next day? This is a dark, dark story…actually very unlike San Francisco attorney Rebecca Schwartz’s usual outings. Rebecca’s usually given to displaying her wit and using her wits, but she mostly does the latter here."

Cul-De-Sac

Julie Smith

2014

A electronic publication of a Rebecca Schwartz short story. The story was originally published in the Sisters In Crime II anthology in 1990.

"When Julie Smith’s much-loved lawyer sleuth, Rebecca Schwartz, helps a friend move, she’s pretty surprised to find the new roommate digging a grave. This mystery short story’s a bit darker than most of Rebecca’s adventures, although the irrepressible San Francisco lawyer manages to keep her famous sense of humor."