Bill Pronzini

Bill Pronzini's novel, Snowbound, received the Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière as the best crime novel published in France in 1988. A Wasteland of Strangers was nominated for best crime novel of 1997 by both the Mystery Writers of America and the International Crime Writers Association; in addition to six Edgar Award nominations, Pronzini has received three Shamus Awards, two for best novel, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in northern California with his wife, the crime novelist Marcia Muller.
The Stolen Gold Affair
Carpenter and Quincannon
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
The Stolen Gold Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's detective series.
In...
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The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Bill Pronzini’s riveting western mystery, The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave, takes on the modern world with old-fashioned violence--and his Peaceful Valley is anything but…...
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The Flimflam Affair
Carpenter and Quincannon
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
The Flimflam Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's detective series.
Carpenter and Quincannon,...
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Give-a-Damn Jones
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini debuts a thrilling western with expert storytelling and a mysterious hero who will appeal to Pronzini's Nameless fans.
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The Bags of Tricks Affair
Carpenter and Quincannon
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
The Bags of Tricks Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's detective series.
A conman always...
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Endgame
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years… and this is one for the books.
Or rather, two cases that will test his agency's resources. Love is in the air...more to the...
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The Dangerous Ladies Affair
Carpenter and Quincannon
Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative.
When a pleasant afternoon’s bicycling...
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Zigzag
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective!
Zigzag is an original novella,...
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The Plague of Thieves Affair
Carpenter and Quincannon
Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Will the true identity of the Sherlock Holmes imposter be revealed at last? Find out in Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini's The Plague of Thieves Affair
Sabina...
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The Body Snatchers Affair
Carpenter and Quincannon
Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
The Body Snatchers Affair: The latest in the Carpenter and Quincannon historical mystery series set in 1890's San Francisco from Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.
Two missing...
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Vixen
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter. Kenneth has fled San Francisco in...
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The Spook Lights Affair
Carpenter and Quincannon
Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
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...
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Strangers
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
The latest in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's acclaimed Nameless Detective Series -- Strangers.
Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your...
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Nemesis
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Young, newly rich Verity Daniels claims to be receiving threatening demands for money from a mysterious caller. When Jake Runyon agrees to investigate, it seems a relatively simple matter to expose...
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The Bughouse Affair
Carpenter and Quincannon
Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
In The Bughouse Affair, this first of a new series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner,...
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Hellbox
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Bill, the "Nameless Detective," and his wife Kerry were in the Sierra foothills, just outside of Six Pines, falling in love with a cabin. It was all perfect, until Kerry went missing.
They'd...
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Camouflage
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife—and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it's all done. But she refuses the papers, sends...
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Betrayers
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
We're told that there are seven deadly sins; not on the list is the deadliest of them all: Betrayal. For each of the detectives at the agency, a betrayal—personal, against a child, against the...
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Fever
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before—propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher—and Mitch had always...
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Schemers
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
A new Nameless Detective story from the 2008 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master...
A locked room mystery that goes from stolen books to stolen lives and the hunt for a phantom stalker...
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Savages
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
The police said it was an accident, the dead woman's sister said it was murder... and that she knew who did it. Nameless isn't certain, but the more he learns about Nancy Mathias's life, the more...
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Mourners
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
"Nameless" had seen enough death in his years; spending his time watching someone drive to several funerals a day, funerals for people he didn't know, was more than he could take. And he had a non-professional...
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Nightcrawlers
Nameless Detective Novels
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Bill Pronzini's "Nameless" detective has become one of the longest-lived, and consistently highly praised, private investigators in the annals of American crime fiction and the award-winning author...
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The Paradise Affair
Carpenter and Quincannon
Bill Pronzini
Tor/Forge
Forge Books
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini’s next historical mystery The Paradise Affair, perfect for fans of Peaky Blinders and The Alienist.
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