Roger L. Simon Books In Order

Moses Wine Books In Publication Order

  1. The Big Fix (1973)
  2. Wild Turkey (1976)
  3. Peking Duck (1979)
  4. California Roll (1985)
  5. The Straight Man (1986)
  6. Raising the Dead (1988)
  7. The Lost Coast (2000)
  8. Director’s Cut (2003)

Roger L. Simon Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Mama Tass Manifesto (1970)
  2. Dead Meet (1988)
  3. The Goat (2019)

Roger L. Simon Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Blacklisting Myself (2009)
  2. Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine (2011)
  3. I Know Best (2016)

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The Big Fix

Introduction by Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrayed Moses Wine in the acclaimed screen adaptation of ‘The Big Fix.’ With a new afterword by Roger L. Simon. Who Killed the Sixties Or Was it a Suicide? Moses Wine thought he had put his interest in politics far behind him when he became a Los Angeles based private detective. Sure, he’d once been an activist, but that had been during the Sixties. A lifetime ago?or so it seemed, before Lila Shea showed up on his doorstep. Lila was a woman who could have been the love of his life?had they remained together after their last night of passion in 1967. Nevertheless, she’s back, and her political views are as strong as they were when Moses last saw her. Before he knows it, Moses finds himself at the campaign headquarters of Senator Miles Hawthorne. . The job Hawthorne offers seems simple: Locate Howard Eppis, chairman of the Free Amerika Party, and convince him to end the smear campaign he’s been waging against the senator during his bid for presidency. But then Lila turns up dead, and suddenly politics are the last thing on Moses’ mind?…

Peking Duck

A guided tour of the People’s Republic, Aunt Sonya had said: U.S. China Friendship Study Tour Number Five, arranged by the China Friendship Society, an organization in which she was involved. Why not get away from it all? Moses Wine figured. At least it would get him away from personal injury cases, murder investigations, and the insistent feeling that boredom and alienation were about to become his constant companions in his middle age. But China has a way of springing surprises, and soon California’s hippest ex radical detective is chasing down the priceless Han Dynasty Peking Duck, falling for a gorgeous dragon lady in a Mao suit and fighting for his life across a vast, mysterious land he barely knows…

California Roll

A MOSES WINE MYSTERY Despite a string of successful cases, despite the fact that his work has, on occasion, garnered national attention, when the opportunity suddenly presents itself for private eye Moses Wine to become head of security at the Tulip Computer Corporation, he jumps at the chance. But then one of Tulip’s young geniuses is killed, and Moses quickly finds himself trailing a murderer from Northern California to Los Angeles, then across an ocean to the mean streets of Tokyo. Along the way, he discovers that there’s far more to the ins and outs of life in Silicon Valley than corporate in fighting and bureaucratic bungling especially when it involves international computer theft, the Japanese mafia, and the GRU.

The Straight Man

A MOSES WINE MYSTERY It’s not a good time to be Moses Wine. After the events of California Roll, his life seems to have taken a turn for the worse he’s lost his high paying security job at the Tulip Computer Corporation, his kids don’t pay any attention to him, his love life’s a mess, and his career as a top gumshoe is on the downslide. He’s bored and depressed. So what else would a neurotic private eye do but see a shrink? Unfortunately, his psychiatrist’s idea of helping is to get him involved in a case. A comic The Straight Man in the country’s most popular comedy team has jumped off a building to his death. But was it suicide? His wife thinks not, and the trail of clues soon leads Moses from the swank beaches of Los Angeles to the mean streets of the South Bronx, bringing him into contact with some of the toughest, sexiest, weirdest characters he’s ever encountered. Well, if anything is guaranteed to end Moses’ depression, it’s this case. There’s only one problem: it might also end his life…
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The Lost Coast

Times have certainly changed for Moses Wine since his first case. He’s now a respected private investigator, with a lucrative business and a beautiful girlfriend. But his ’60s radical days come back to haunt him when his son is accused of murder. Wine sets out to find the real killer.

Director’s Cut

From Roger L. Simon, author of The Big Fix, comes his best Moses Wine novel yet a hilarious, dark thriller set in the movie world. Director’s Cut A quarter of a century after he first appeared in the now classic The Big Fix, Moses Wine remains a private investigator par excellence. Still a Berkeley radical at heart, Moses is now thoroughly chastened by the events that have led to the war on terrorism so much so that he’s started to find himself agreeing with John Ashcroft, which for Moses is like saying that the Grateful Dead were overrated. Then the call comes a film crew in Prague keeps finding hate messages on the set and in their hotel rooms, and it’s Moses’s job to find out who’s trying to shut the movie down. In a twist of fate that might only happen to a man like Wine, the director of the film gets knocked off a bridge by a runaway truck, and Moses agrees to take over Moses Wine is an auteur! But there are obstacles: The costars, the sexy Donna Gold and the brooding Goran, can’t decide whether to kill each other or have an affair; Moses’s wife has a surprise for him; Moses keeps finding himself in places he really shouldn’t be; the CIA seems interested in the film, and that’s a first; and a guy who resembles the Michelin Man keeps turning up with threats of violent destruction. Clearly something more is at stake than an art house film, and things turn deadly serious when the threat of terrorism appears at the screening of the film Moses has to race to save not only the movie, but the whole of the Sundance festival, too. Roger L. Simon has been delighting fans of smart thrillers for a quarter century. This time it’s the movie world’s turn to get the Roger L. Simon treatment, and Director’s Cut shows him at the height of his powers skewering our mores and making us laugh out loud.

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