Order of Carola Dunn Books
Carola Dunn is an English-American author of historical romance and cozy mystery novels. She earned her B.A. in Russian and French from Manchester University and then emigrated to the United States. She writes the Daisy Dalrymple cozy mystery series. Carola lives in Eugene, Oregon. (more…)
Order of Cormac McCarthy Books
Cormac McCarthy is an American author and playwright of gothic, western and post-apocalyptic fiction. He is the author of the Border Trilogy. His novels No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, The Road and Child of God have all been adapted to film. McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Road and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. (more…)
Order of James A. Michener Books
James A. Michener (1907-1997) was an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction. He is well-known for the amount of research that went into his work in addition to the length of his novels (900 pages was a short novel for him). Michener was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Tales of the South Pacific, which was published in 1948. His novels have been adapted into several different films as well as multiple TV series and mini-series. Michener died in 1997 of kidney failure at the age of 90. (more…)
Order of D.I. Peter Shaw Books
D.I. Peter Shaw is the main protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by British author Jim Kelly. Detective Inspector Peter Shaw is joined by Detective Sergeant George Valentine in the county of Norfolk, England. The series is sometimes referred to as simply the D.I. Peter Shaw series and other times using both of the detectives names. (more…)
Order of Philip Dryden Books
Philip Dryden is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by British novelist Jim Kelly. The Philip Dryden character is a journalist who is based out of Ely, Cambridgeshire. (more…)
Order of Jim Kelly Books
Jim Kelly is an English novelist of crime fiction novels. He writes the Philip Dryden and D.I. Peter Shaw & D.S. George Valentine series. He has won the CWA Dagger in the Library award and the New Angle Prize for Literature. In addition to being a novelist, Kelly is also a journalist and education correspondent for the Financial Times. He lives in Cambridgeshire, UK with his wife, biographer Midge Gilles, and their daughter. (more…)
Order of Donald Lam & Bertha Cool Books
Donald Lam and Bertha Cool are the protagonists in a series of detective fiction by American author A.A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner). Unlike most detectives of his time, Donald Lam is 5’6″, 130 lbs., often ends up in fights and usually comes out on the losing end of them. Lam starts out as an employee of Bertha Cool, a widow in her sixties who began her detective firm once her husband passed away. (more…)
Order of Doug Selby Books
Doug Selby is the protagonist in a series of detective fiction by American author Erle Stanley Gardner. Selby starts out as D.A. in the rural fictional town of Madison City, California. He is only worried about justice, rather than his winning percentage as a prosecuting attorney. (more…)
Order of Perry Mason Books
Perry Mason is the protagonist in a series of detective fiction novels and stories by American novelist Erle Stanley Gardner. Mason works as a defense lawyer, but usually ends up working as a detective in the process in order to clear his client’s name. The series was adapted to the TV series of the same name from 1957 until 1966, which starred Raymond Burr. Burr also appeared in 26 television movies from 1985 until 1993. The character also appeared in several films, radioplays, comics and a second TV series. (more…)
Order of Erle Stanley Gardner Books
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was an American author of detective fiction. He was best known for creating the Perry Mason character and also wrote Cool and Lam series as A.A. Fair as well as the Doug Selby series. Before getting into writing, Erle was working as a lawyer, so he began writing stories for pulp magazines in his spare time. Eventually, he gave up practicing law in order to move to writing in full-time. Gardner was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and also won an Edgar Award. (more…)