Aaron, Chester

Whispers. Zumaya Publications, 2004; Zumaya Enigma, 2009.

| setting: East Bay | tpo |

Summary: A series of brutal rapes strikes a tiny Jesuit-run college, and award-winning college journalist Eve Gallagher is shocked to discover the administration is determined to keep the matter buried in silence. As she fights to bring the crimes into the open and the perpetrator to justice, Eve is driven to solve another riddle that was buried in silence years before: the truth about what happened to her sweet, disabled sister Tessa, a secret that has haunted her for most of her life. Set on the campus of the fictional Saint Catherine’s College in an unnamed East Bay city. Rape victims are treated at Highland Hospital in Oakland.

Murder by metaphor. Zumaya Enigma, 2009.

| setting: San Francisco | tpo |

 

Abbott, Jeff.

Downfall. Grand Central Publishing, 2013.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Sam Capra | find it |

 

Abbott, Keith.

Rhino Ritz: an American mystery. Blue Wind Press, 1979.

| setting: San Francisco; Paris | find it |

 

Abramo, J.L.

Catching Water in a Net. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2001.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Jake Diamond | find it |

Summary: Los Angeles private eye Jimmy Pigeon is murdered, and his former protégée in the shamus business, Jake Diamond, is determined to find out why. Diamond—now operating in San Francisco—soon discovers that Pigeon was in a business dispute with his partner, Harry Harding, about whether to sell their Internet bounty-hunting business, Ex-Con.com. When Harding is also murdered, Diamond becomes a suspect. Forced to solicit help from two mob bosses and his ex-wife’s family, dodge the thugs of another gangster, and keep the police at bay, Diamond goes on the lam, running between San Francisco and Los Angeles as he searches for the real murderer. This novel was the winner of the 2000 Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin’s Press Award for Best First Private Eye Novel.

Clutching at Straws. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2003.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Jake Diamond | find it |

Summary: Lefty Wright breaks into Judge Chancellor’s empty house easy as pie. He has no clue about why he is being paid such a handsome sum for doing it, but the job description didn’t mention the corpse of a prominent criminal court judge lying halfway under the bed. Charged with murder, Lefty contacts San Francisco private investigator Jake Diamond. Jake takes the case, but it soon leads down a series of side paths that sprawl out from Lefty’s prison cell like the tentacles of an octopus.

Counting to Infinity. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2004.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Jake Diamond | find it |

Summary: San Francisco private investigator Jake Diamond is forcibly persuaded to meet Max Lansdale for a job he can’t refuse. Max wants Jake to find Harry Chandler who was reported dead in a shoot-out. Max says that a private investigator reported to him that he ran into Harry. The reason Jake is chosen for the job is that his mentor and associate Jimmy Pigeon reported that Harrison died. Max believes that the mantle has passed to Jake. Max wants to find Chandler because he killed Max’s brother Randolph. When Jake returns to San Francisco his trusty associate Darlene tells him that Max is connected to the mob. Jake buys time to figure out how to handle the situation because Max has threatened Darlene and his ex-wife and lover if he doesn’t get results. When he finally meets with Chandler, an unknown person kills Harry. Soon after a bomb goes off in Jake’s apartment, killing Sally and injuring Jake. When he recovers, Jake and his friends put into motion a plan to bring Max down.

Circling the Runway. Down & Out Books, 2015.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Jake Diamond | tpo | find it |

Summary: Private Investigator Jacob Diamond and San Francisco Detective Sergeant Roxton Johnson are famous for not getting along. Cats and dogs. Oil and water. Liston and Ali. Jake and Rocky. When an assistant district attorney is murdered in his high-rise apartment building, and Johnson suspects his lieutenant may have something to do with it, he can think of no one else to turn to for help-no one he can trust-except Jake Diamond. If the mismatched duo can avoid stepping on each other's toes long enough-they may be able to stop circling the runway and land on the villain's doorstep. Lieutenant Laura Lopez, Detective Ray Boyle, Joey Clams, Vinnie Strings and Darlene Roman are all back in the first new Jake Diamond escapade since Counting to Infinity.

 

Abramson, Mark

Beach reading. Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, 2008.

| setting: San Francisco (Castro) | series character: Tim Snow (Beach reading series 1) | tpo | find it |

Cold serial murder. Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, 2009.

| setting: San Francisco (Castro) | series character: Tim Snow (Beach reading series 2) | tpo | find it |

Russian River rat. Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, 2009.

| setting: San Francisco (Castro), Russian River Region | series character: Tim Snow (Beach reading series 3) | tpo | find it |

Snowman. Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, 2010.

| setting: San Francisco (Castro) | series character: Tim Snow (Beach reading series 4) | tpo | find it |

Wedding season. Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, 2011.

| setting: San Francisco (Castro) | series character: Tim Snow (Beach reading series 5) | tpo | find it |

California dreamers. Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, 2012.

| setting: San Francisco (Castro) | series character: Tim Snow (Beach reading series 6) | tpo | find it |

Love rules. Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, 2013.

| setting: San Francisco (Castro) | series character: Tim Snow (Beach reading series 7) | tpo | find it |

 

Acker, Rick

The lost treasure of Fernando Montoya. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Publications, 2003.

| setting: San Francisco | series characters: Arthur and Kristin Davis (The Davis Detective Mysteries 2) | juvenile | find it |

 

Adams, Alina.

Murder on ice. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2002.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Bex Levy (A figure skating mystery 1) | pbo | find it |

 

Adams, Chandra.

Shades of retribution. Vallejo, Calif.: Adrolite Press, 2004.

| setting: Oakland | tpo | find it |

 

Adams, Cleve F.

Up jumped the devil. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Rex McBride | Baird & Greenwood 13; Hubin; Herron | find it |

 

Addonizio, Kim.

My dreams out in the street. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

| setting: San Francisco | find it |

 

Adler, Elizabeth.

The secret of the Villa Mimosa. New York: Delacorte Press, 1995.

 

Adler, M. A.

In the shadow of lies. Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, 2014.

| setting: Richmond (1940s) | series character: Oliver Wright | tpo | find it |

 

Aiken, Albert W.

The Frisco detective, or, The Golden Gate find: a story of five millions of dollars. New York: Banner Weekly, nos. 163-175, 1885-1886. [dime novel] |

 

Aiken, Ednah.

If today be sweet. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923.

Love and I. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928.

| setting: San Francisco | find it |

 

Alexander, Brandon.

Kiss of darkness. New York: Pocket Pulse, 2000. [pbo; based on the television series Charmed, created by Constance M. Burge]

 

Alexander, Jan.

The jade figurines. New York: Curtis Books, 1973. [pbo]

 

Alexander, Karl.

Time after time. New York: Delacorte Press, 1979.

| setting: San Francisco, London | science fiction (time travel) | Hubin | find it |

 

Allan, Joan.

Who’s on first? New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 1979. [pbo]

 

Allende, Isabel.

Ripper. New York: Harper, 2014.

| setting: San Francisco | find it |

 

Allison, Jennifer.

Gilda Joyce, pyschic investigator. New York: Sleuth/Dutton, 2005. [juvenile]

 

Alverson, Charles.

Goodey’s last stand. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975.

| setting: San Francisco (North Beach, Chinatown) | series character: Joe Goodey | Hubin; Herron; 1001 Midnights p. 17-18 | find it |

Not sleeping, just dead. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977.

| setting: San Francisco, Monterey County | series character: Joe Goodey | Herron | find it |

 

Amo, Thomas.

An apple for Zoë. Book I, The forsaken. [United States]: Gothic Twist Publishing, 2011.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Thomas James | paranormal | tpo | find it |

 

Anderson, Clay.

The black rose murder and other cases. Hercules, Calif.: Black Galaxy Publications, 2006. [tpo] |

 

Anderson, Jack Albin.

The society ball murders. New York: Walker and Company, 1990.

 

Anderson, Poul.

Perish by the sword. New York: Macmillan, 1959.

Murder in black letter. New York: Macmillan, 1960.

Murder bound. New York: Macmillan, 1962.

 

Anderson-Minshall, Diane, and Jacob Anderson-Minshall.

Blind curves. New York: Bold Strokes Books, 2007. [tpo]

Blind leap. New York: Bold Strokes Books, 2007. [tpo]

Blind faith. New York: Bold Strokes Books, 2008. [tpo]

 

Andreopoulos, Spyros. (|see Dong, Eugene)

 

Andrews, Brian T.

Knife under fire. San Francisco: Caduceus Press/Custom & Ltd. Editions, 1993.

 

Anonymous.

Belfry murders of San Francisco, or, The strangest crime of a century. New York: Munro, July 20, 1895. [dime novel]

 

Anonymous (“A Californian”).

The mysteries and miseries of San Francisco. New-York: Garrett & Co., Publishers, 1853.

 

Anonymous (Rev. P. Shelden Drury, editor).

The startling and thrilling narrative of the dark and terrible deeds of Henry Madison, and his associate and accomplice, Miss Ella Stevens, who was executed by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco, on the 20th September last. Cincinnati: Barclay & Co., 1857. [dime novel]

 

Anonymous.

3,000 miles by freight, or, The mystery of a piano box. New York: Street & Smith, [n.d.] [dime novel]

 

Antoncich, Betty.

The mystery of the Chinatown pearls. New York: D. McKay, 1965.

 

Archer, Frank. (pseud. Richard O’Connor)

The Malabang Pearl. Garden City, N.Y.: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Joe Delaney | Baird & Greenwood 1931; Hubin |

The widow watchers. Garden City, N.Y.: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965.

The turquoise spike. New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1967. [pbo]

 

Archer, Miles. (pseud. Richard Posner)

Too many spies spoil a case. Clocktower Books, 2000.

| setting: San Francisco (1970s) | series character: Doug McCool | tpo |

The emerald triangle. NovelBooks, Inc., 2003.

| setting: San Francisco (1974) | series character: Doug McCool | tpo |

 

Aresbys, The. (joint pseud. Helen R. Bamberger and Raymond S. Bamberger)

Who killed Coralie? New York: Ives Washburn, 1927.

| setting: San Francisco (Chinatown) | series character: Parrish Darby | Hubin | find it |

 

Armstrong, Campbell.

Concert of ghosts. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992; New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

| setting: San Francisco, upstate New York | find it |

 

Ashe, Gordon. (pseud. John Creasey)

A rabble of rebels. London: Popular Dogs Publishing Co., 1971; New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.

| setting: San Francisco Bay Area (“Mid-Cal University”) | series character: Patrick Dawlish | find it |

 

Atherton, Gertrude.

The avalanche: a mystery story. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, 1919.

| setting: San Francisco | Baird & Greenwood 99; Hubin; Herron | find it |

The foghorn: stories. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.

| setting: San Francisco | short stories | Baird & Greenwood 106 | find it |

 

Atkins, Ace.

Devil’s garden. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009.

 

Atkins, Darrin.

The money you took from me. Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, 2002. [tpo]

Away from Lisa Larkin. Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, 2002. [tpo]

The bad side of San Francisco. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse.com, 2003. [tpo]

The famous liar. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, Inc., 2003. [tpo]

 

Atkins, Peter.

Morningstar. New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1992.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Donovan Moon | horror | Hubin | pbo | find it |

 

Avallone, Michael.

Charlie Chan and the curse of the Dragon Queen. Los Angeles: Pinnacle Books, 1981.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Charlie Chan | movie novelization | pbo | find it |

 

Averbeck, Jim.

A Hitch at the Fairmont. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014.

| setting: San Francisco (Fairmont Hotel; 1956) | juvenile | find it |