Walter Satterthwait Books In Order

Escapade Books In Publication Order

  1. Escapade (1995)
  2. Masquerade (1998)
  3. Cavalcade (2005)

Joshua Croft Books In Publication Order

  1. Wall of Glass (1988)
  2. At Ease with the Dead (1990)
  3. A Flower in the Desert (1992)
  4. The Hanged Man (1993)
  5. The Death Card (1995)
  6. Accustomed to the Dark (1996)

Miss Lizzie Books In Publication Order

  1. Miss Lizzie (1989)
  2. New York Nocturne (2011)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Cocaine Blues (1980)
  2. The Aegean Affair (1982)
  3. Wilde West (1991)
  4. Perfection (2003)
  5. Dead Horse (2007)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Sleight of Hand (1993)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Gold of Mayani (1995)
  2. The Mankiller of Poojegai and Other Stories (2007)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Sunken Sailor (2004)
  2. Down and Out the Magazine, Vol 2, Issue 2 (2020)

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Walter Satterthwait Books Overview

Escapade

Hired to guard Harry Houdini from a rival magician’s death threats, Phil Beaumont finds his hands full at a stately country home where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is among the guests and the host is found murdered. K.

Cavalcade

Pinkerton agents Jane Turner and Philip Beaumont have just finished another difficult assignment abroad; now the office is sending them to Germany. Their job: to find the assassin who almost succeeded in killing Adolf Hitler when he was in Berlin. Their first surprise is a pleasant one the Na*zi big shot assigned to be their guide, Ernst Putzi Hanfstaengl, is a huge, jovial man who amazes his guests immediately; his English is almost without any accent! Hanfstaengl has learned American ways during his student days at Harvard. He is a talented pianist and as friendly as a puppy. Jane and Phil have no reason to think his fellow Na*zis are not just as personable. This isn’t going to be so bad. Everything starts to go downhill after that, however, although a handsome Na*zi almost turns Jane’s head with his attentions. Their job becomes a questionable one as the agents see more and more of the new party’s dreadful face. A woman who gives them some information is found murdered. There are other deaths, all clearly connected to the Na*zi Party. By the time Jane and Phil meet Hitler, they are not only horrified and puzzled about why the Pinkerton agency accepted the job, they are very aware that they are in danger themselves. Walter Satterthwait has uncannily taken his readers to the Germany of 1923, introducing them to characters from the actual front pages of the period’s newspapers Hanfstaengl, Rudolf Hess, and many others. As in the previous two books of this series, the crimes that Turner and Beaumont encounter are committed against a genuinely historical background. It all adds up to a suspenseful story of two likable people at risk in the treacherous atmosphere of Germany’s postwar nightmare.

Wall of Glass

Joshua Croft wasn’t looking for trouble. It just managed to find him. While Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft wasn’t exactly comfortable fencing a stolen diamond necklace, he did have a living to make. But when the small time cowboy who’d offered him the deal was murdered, Croft knew he was into something hotter than hot ice. In the posh section of Santa Fe, raw earth is as chic as sushi, and the trail of dirt Croft follows leads to even dirtier secrets, kinky sex, drugs, and double dealings and a second murder that strikes just a little too close for comfort.

At Ease with the Dead

When Daniel Begay hires Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft, it’s an unusual missing persons case. The silver haired, distinguished, and more than slightly mysterious Indian wants Joshua to return the lost remains of a Navajo leader, dead nearly a hundred years, to their proper burial site. Soon Croft is hurtling his trusty Subaru across the Southwest, from Santa Fe to El Paso to remote parts of the Navajo Reservation, unearthing long buried hostilities and reviving the mystery of an unsolved, unforgotten murder. ‘His use of deft characterization, quick pace and plotting, and effective Santa Fe color makes Satterthwait a find.’ Publishers Weekly ‘In the tradition of Rockford, Sam Spade, and Mike Hammer…
Joshua Croft…
is flip, cynical, sarcastic and funny.’ Albuquerque Journal

A Flower in the Desert

When television star Roy Alonzo is accused by his ex wife of sexually abusing their young daughter, Roy hires Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft to find mother and daughter, clear his name, and save his career. The trail leads from Beverly Hills to a commune in northern New Mexico, with mysteries proliferating as the journey goes on.

The Hanged Man

At a meeting of thirteen of Santa Fe’s leading New Age healers, Quentin Bouvier, a magician and possibly a reincarnated Egyptian pharaoh, has been hanged from the rafters. He outbid Leonard Quarry for astrologer Eliza Remington’s antique tarot card and now he’s dead and the tarot card is missing. The police quickly arrest Giacamo Bernardi, a tarot reader, and charge him with the murder and theft. Bernardi’s court appointed attorney hires private investigator Joshua Croft to prove Bernardi’s innocence. Suspects from the meeting and the community abound, including astrologers and psychics, a young hermit immersed in ‘Spiritual Alchemy,’ an aging movie star who acts as a medium for an entity from Alpha Centauri, a Native American shaman who gets accountants in touch with their warrior within, and a mysterious Asian woman whose equally mysterious brother displays a near lethal familiarity with martial arts.

Accustomed to the Dark

Santa Fe private detectives Joshua Croft and Rita Mondragon have recently become much more than friends and business partners. When Rita is shot and wounded, perhaps mortally, by the same vicious psychopath who tried to kill her once before, Joshua sets out to find the man. His pursuit takes him from the mountains of New Mexico to a posh Denver suburb, from the bleak plains of Kansas to the sweltering depths of the Florida Everglades. Along the way, he meets a sleazy former prison inmate, an eighty year old computer expert, a brutal drug dealer, a somber homicide cop, and a hardened mercenary with a very peculiar hobby. As Joshua races across the length of the United States toward a final confrontation with a savage killer, he also travels back through his own past, to the beginning of his relationship with the woman who now lies near death. Often lyrical, frequently funny, always intelligent, Accustomed to the Dark is an unforgettable addition to what Robin Winks of The Boston Globe has described as one of the best new series in years.

Miss Lizzie

When her neighbor is brutally hacked to death, the infamous Lizzie Borden becomes the prime suspect. In her search for the real killer, she uncovers not only the secrets that lie beneath the sleepy surface of a small seaside town, but finally the truth of what happened thirty years before, when her own parents were viciously murdered.

Wilde West

From Publishers Weekly In this perfect blend of mystery, satire and travelogue, Satterthwait At Ease with the Dead follows Oscar Wilde in his 1882 lecture tour through the American West. Wilde greatly amuses his audiences and Elizabeth McCourt Doe in particular, initiating a torrid and to the reader, surprising affair with her. Meanwhile U.S. marshal Bob Grigsby connects a series of murders and eviscerations of prostitutes to the cities where Wilde has delivered his disquisitions and accuses the writer of the crimes. Wilde steers the hard drinking marshal to the other members of his tour, including an alcoholic reporter, a slick talking business manager, a sophisticated countess, a frail valet, a retired Prussian officer and even gunslinger John ‘Doc’ Holliday, who has been following the tour. Wilde and Elizabeth narowly escape being killed by cowboys to whom Wilde’s wit is no laughing matter, but the identity of the serial killer is not revealed until the harrowing resolution. One more surprise waits in the wings, and its delivery is just as smooth as those that the playwright himself once put to paper.

Dead Horse

1st edition Signed by author Very Fine book and jacket; as new. Jacket cover is June 1928 Black Mask. Novelization of the death of Emily Vanderbilt Whitfield in 1935. Her husband, Raoul Whitfield was the master pulp mystery writer in the 20’s and 30’s. This 1st edition is of 1,000 copies printed plus 156 Limited copies at $250. Multiple copies available.

The Mankiller of Poojegai and Other Stories

A VARIETY OF MURDERS Walter Satterthwait is one of the finest and most versatile of mystery writers. This collection includes stories about the Neanderthal sleuth, Berthold the Mead Master narrated by his faithful companion Doder, Watt’s son; Lord Byron and his days at Missolonghi; and Sergeant Andrew Mbutu in modern Africa; contemporary investigators Grober and Joshua Croft. Also included are the first mystery story set in a chat room; and a gentle satire on Golden Age with an unexpected sleuth. The Mankiller of Poojegai and Other Stories includes a new introduction and prefaces to each story by the author and a complete checklist of Walter Satterthwait’s novels and stories. Walter Satterthwait s novels have been nominated for the Shamus and Agatha Awards, and he has received the Prix du Roman d’Aventures in France The cover design is by Gail Cross.

The Sunken Sailor

During a weekend house party in a proper English village, a body is discovered at the bottom of a pond tied to a submerged statue of Neptune. And the weekend has only just begun. So has this ingenious mystery a literary game of round robin in which fourteen master crime writers have each contributed a chapter of their own. What they deliver is a wildly entertaining whodunit with as many dizzying twists, turnabouts, double crosses, and divergent styles as there are solutions and suspects. Featuring the bestselling and multiple award winning talents of: Simon Brett Jan Burke Dorothy Cannell Maragaret Coel Deborah Crombie Eileen Dreyer Carolyn Hart Edward Marston Francine Mathews Sharan Newman Alexandra Ripley Walter Satterthwait Sarah Smith Carolyn Whe

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