Dan J. Marlowe Books in Order

At the Hotel Duarte, Johnny Killain deals with guests whose respectable appearances hide dangerous secrets. When a salesman turns up dead in the hotel icebox, Killain must navigate the criminal world behind the city’s bright lights.

Johnny Killain keeps the Hotel Duarte’s criminals under control until he discovers a strangled woman in room 609. The victim is his former wife, whom he still loves, making the search for her killer intensely personal.

A boxer who deliberately loses a fight is paid with a bullet, and his death hits close to Johnny Killain. The victim is his girlfriend’s brother, sending Killain after the fight mob to uncover the murderer.

A small statue containing valuable gold and gems draws a crowd of people prepared to kill for it. Johnny Killain becomes entangled in their competing schemes as threats, seduction, and murder surround the coveted treasure.

Police officer Marty Donovan loves his partner’s wife, and an unauthorized stakeout ends with his partner dead. Marty tries to protect the woman and his badge while pursuing a killer and sustaining an increasingly dangerous deception.

When visiting mobsters bring murder to the Hotel Duarte and try to frame him, Johnny Killain follows the trouble to Jefferson. There he confronts a town controlled by racketeers determined to stop his search for their boss.

After a bloody Phoenix bank robbery, a wounded thief must cross the country to recover his share of the money. His survival depends on choosing whom to trust while the consequences of the heist close in.

A husband discovers that his wife Louisa has concealed a succession of shady schemes throughout their marriage. Her latest ambition threatens his life, as she pursues a plan to become a wealthy widow.

Four parolees plan a robbery in a gambling town whose police leave little room for mistakes. As tensions divide the gang, one man faces pressure from a casino worker to abandon crime and the partners who expect his loyalty.

Road contractor Jim Wilson pursues revenge and power in a corrupt South Carolina town. His involvement with his wife’s ambitious best friend brings him up against a manipulator whose ruthlessness rivals his own.

Weston is recruited by the CIA to investigate gold disappearing from American reserves. His search follows smuggled bars into the Caribbean, where he must discover who is moving the gold and where it goes after St. Croix.

A secretive woman operates as a triple agent, selling her services to whichever espionage network pays best. Armed with a dagger and a hidden radio connection to the Kremlin, she makes shifting loyalties a dangerous profession.

A bank robber whose burned face has been surgically reconstructed returns to crime with two unlikely partners. A gambling addict and a filmmaker join him in a new robbery, testing whether his altered identity can protect him.

Earl Drake joins a team of strangers planning to recover two million dollars hidden in Cuba. Getting the cash back to the United States promises a dangerous interruption to the quiet life Hazel wants them to share.

A government agent who knows Earl Drake’s criminal past recruits him for an intelligence operation. Drake infiltrates a Turkish terrorist organization, pursuing both a dangerous assignment and the money its members have stolen from him.

Earl Drake breaks into a Bahamian bank vault to steal Mafia records, then finds himself pursued by criminals, police, and hired killers. Helping his captured accomplice requires another break-in, this time into a prison.

Hazel accompanies Chen Yi to a will reading that draws Earl Drake into an international mystery. When Chinese and American diplomats are murdered, the inheritance trip becomes entangled with a much more dangerous affair.

Special agent Erikson uses Earl Drake’s criminal past to draw him into dangerous assignments beyond ordinary undercover work. This time, the mission also requires Hazel, forcing Drake to weigh obedience against the risks to the woman he loves.

Violent visitors interrupt Earl Drake’s life with Hazel and deliver a message about Karl Erikson’s imprisonment in Spain. With his friend in danger and his own cover threatened, Drake must face another hazardous assignment.

Hazel disappears after a summons from her business manager takes her back to Florida. Earl Drake follows her trail, only to discover a murdered man and a mystery rooted in places he hoped to leave behind.

Earl Drake rescues a young woman from a gang of drunken ranch hands while traveling with Hazel in Mexico. Discovering she is a brutal police captain's wife turns his intervention into a dangerous mistake that lands him in prison.

Earl Drake is driving Hazel’s niece Melissa to the airport when armed men attack them with acid. He regains consciousness to discover that Melissa has been abducted, turning an ordinary trip into a desperate search.

A prospective buyer for Hazel’s ranch conceals a threat from Earl Drake’s past. A wealthy man whose money Drake stole is pursuing revenge, and Hazel becomes a target in a conflict that endangers innocent lives.

As an unsolved series of stranglings frustrates the police, Arthur Winn sees a chance to escape his marriage. He begins imagining how to murder his wife and disguise her death as another attack by the unknown killer.

Veteran pitcher Lefty Halliday reaches the declining years of a distinguished baseball career. Facing the combined effects of age and injury, he attempts one final comeback that will test how much he still has to give.

Former FBI agent Lew Devlin accepts a special assignment that sends him fleeing through Mexico with a suitcase of money. His companion is a woman whose interventions can rescue him from trouble or draw him further into it.

A young baseball player pursues a place in the major leagues with help from a scout working in the minors.

A college running back finds an opportunity to use the unusual ability that sets him apart on the football field.

A high school basketball player must adjust to being a substitute, confronting the gap between the role he wants and the place he holds on his team.

Joe Namath publicly guarantees that his heavily unfavored Jets will defeat the Colts. This account follows the bold promise and the underdog challenge behind a football game that placed his confidence under intense scrutiny.

Wrongly imprisoned for murder, Pete Karma escapes with a plan to punish the people who framed him. His first target is a crooked lawyer, but pursuing revenge pulls him into a violent gangland struggle.