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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. Lethe Press, 2008.

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

Cold Serial Murder. Lethe Press, 2009.

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

Russian River Rat. Lethe Press, 2009.

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

Snowman. Lethe Press, 2010.

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

Wedding Season. Lethe Press, 2011.

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

Summary: When San Francisco’s cattiest television personality Rosa Rivera sponsors a gay wedding contest, Tim Snow’s boyfriend begins pressuring him to get hitched. Life for his friends in the Castro becomes comic and chaotic as the lavish ceremony is promised to be held at the restaurant where Tim works. Meanwhile, his beloved Aunt Ruth has been harboring a homeless woman. Is she protecting her nephew from some family secret? As the city’s golden boys walk about shirtless in dapper collar n’ cuffs with the annual Gay Pride Parade, the drama and the laughs intensify. Will Rosa’s meltdown bring the parade to a standstill? Who is being sent to a ritzy detox center?

California Dreamers. Lethe Press, 2012.

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

Summary: Tim Snow is recruited along with other HIV patients for an experiment with Neutriva, an AIDS drug with the peculiar side effects of enhancing dreams and expanding latent psychic abilities. The team enters a trance-like state ostensibly in order to predict and prevent suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge. But is something sinister going on with these trials? Warnings come from all directions, including from an elderly fortune teller named Malvina who has been plying her trade from a storefront in the Mission District for decades. And who is the mysterious young man who saves the life of Tim’s employer?

Love Rules. 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. Kregel Publications, 2003.

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

Summary: While on vacation in San Francisco, sibling sleuths Arthur and Kirstin Davis are hired by Michael Franklin, a friend of their Uncle Connie, to investigate a lost treasure, putting at risk Franklin’s family business and, perhaps, Kirstin’s life.

 

Adams, Alina.

Murder on Ice. Berkley Prime Crime, 2002.

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

Summary: Since starting her research job at Network 24/7, Bex Levy has had to learn everything there was to know about figure skating. That way when TV commentators Francis and Diana Howarth are commenting on a live show they have all the needed material at their fingertips. At the World Figure Skating Championship in San Francisco, everyone expects cute Erin Simpson to take the gold. When the final results are tabulated, the Russian girl Xenia Trubin wins the top prize. The fans, the TV commentators and Erin’s mother all say that Erin was cheated out of the gold. The four Russian judges voted for Xenia and the four western judges voted for Erin. The tie-breaker vote was cast by Italian Judge Silvana Potenza who later was found murdered in the refrigerator room of the ice skating rink. The director of 24/7 tells Bex that if she wants a job next year she has to figure out who the killer is, which leaves her skating on thin ice.

 

Adams, Chandra.

Shades of Retribution. Adrolite Press, 2004.

| setting: Oakland | tpo | find it |

 

Adams, Cleve F.

Up Jumped the Devil. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943.

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

Los Angeles private eye Rex McBride is in San Francisco on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace. Shortly after checking in to his Market Street hotel, McBride returns to his room to find a dead man in residence. The cops think he knows more about the killing than he is letting on and McBride tangles with ex-cons, mob thugs, gamblers, high society dames, government agents, and Nazi spies before uncovering the killer (and recovering the necklace). Along the way, he reveals a distinct love-hate relationship with the city of San Francisco: “McBride got to his feet … ‘Listen, you bastard! I had the misfortune to be born in Los Angeles, but I’m getting tired of paying for it every time I land in this lousy town of yours. Even your cab drivers take it as a personal affront if I inadvertently say Frisco instead of San Francisco. You are so smug you still think this is the only city on the Pacific Coast, and you’re too dumb to look in the census books and find out different … And, since you ask me, I will tell you the God’s truth about your conventions, your bridges and your town. I don’t like them.’ (p. 17)”; “McBride looked out at the slowly darkening sky. Lights were beginning to come on all around the bay; over in Oakland and Alameda across the Bay Bridge; over in Sausalito across the Golden Gate. Out in the middle, Alcatraz Island was a sour note, as gloomy and forbidding as ever. The rest of it was pretty beautiful, and McBride was a little regretful of some of the unpleasant things he had said about San Francisco. (p. 93)”

 

Addonizio, Kim.

My Dreams Out in the Street. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

| setting: San Francisco | find it |

 

Adler, Elizabeth.

The Secret of the Villa Mimosa. Delacorte Press, 1995.

 

Adler, M. A.

In the Shadow of Lies. 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. Banner Weekly, nos. 163-175, 1885-1886. [dime novel] |

 

Aiken, Ednah.

If Today Be Sweet. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923.

Love and I. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928.

| setting: San Francisco | find it |

 

Alexander, Brandon.

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

 

Alexander, Jan.

The Jade Figurines. Curtis Books, 1973. [pbo]

 

Alexander, Karl.

Time After Time. Delacorte Press, 1979.

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

 

Allan, Joan.

Who’s on First? Kensington Publishing Corp., 1979. [pbo]

 

Allende, Isabel.

Ripper. Harper, 2014.

| setting: San Francisco | find it |

 

Allison, Jennifer.

Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator. Sleuth/Dutton, 2005. [juvenile]

 

Alverson, Charles.

Goodey’s Last Stand. 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. 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. Gothic Twist Publishing, 2011.

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

 

Anderson, Clay.

The Black Rose Murder and Other Cases. Black Galaxy Publications, 2006. [tpo] |

 

Anderson, Jack Albin.

The Society Ball Murders. Walker and Company, 1990.

 

Anderson, Poul.

Perish by the Sword. Macmillan, 1959.

Murder in Black Letter. Macmillan, 1960.

Murder Bound. Macmillan, 1962.

 

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

Blind Curves. Bold Strokes Books, 2007. [tpo]

Blind Leap. Bold Strokes Books, 2007. [tpo]

Blind Faith. Bold Strokes Books, 2008. [tpo]

 

Andreopoulos, Spyros. (see Dong, Eugene)

 

Andrews, Brian T.

Knife Under Fire. Caduceus Press/Custom & Ltd. Editions, 1993.

 

Anonymous.

Belfry Murders of San Francisco, or, The Strangest Crime of a Century. Munro, July 20, 1895. [dime novel]

 

Anonymous (“A Californian”).

The Mysteries and Miseries of San Francisco. 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. Barclay & Co., 1857. [dime novel]

 

Anonymous.

3,000 Miles by Freight, or, The Mystery of a Piano Box. Street & Smith, [n.d.] [dime novel]

 

Antoncich, Betty.

The Mystery of the Chinatown Pearls. D. McKay, 1965.

 

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

The Malabang Pearl. Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964.

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

The Widow Watchers. 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? Ives Washburn, 1927.

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

 

Armstrong, Campbell.

Concert of Ghosts. Hodder & Stoughton, 1992; HarperCollins, 1993.

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

 

Ashe, Gordon. (pseud. John Creasey)

A Rabble of Rebels. Popular Dogs Publishing Co., 1971; 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. Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, 1919.

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

The Foghorn: Stories. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.

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

 

Atkins, Ace.

Devil’s Garden. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009.

 

Atkins, Darrin.

The Money You Took From Me. Writers Club Press, 2002. [tpo]

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

The Bad Side of San Francisco. iUniverse.com, 2003. [tpo]

The Famous Liar. iUniverse, Inc., 2003. [tpo]

 

Atkins, Peter.

Morningstar. 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. Pinnacle Books, 1981.

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

 

Averbeck, Jim.

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

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

 

 

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