Frank Tuttle Books in Order

This comic fantasy collection follows Wistril, a wizard who wants good food, good beer, and peace at Castle Kauph. Instead, he faces mercenaries, lake monsters, hunters, and an unexpected bride with an army behind her.

A collected volume of plays and screenplays credited to Frank Tuttle. The book gathers dramatic work in a single edition for readers interested in scripts, stage writing, and film-oriented storytelling.

A wealthy widow claims her dead husband visits every night, and Markhat takes the well-paid case despite his doubts. His search through the Merlet house reveals murder, ghosts, and a past that will not stay buried.

Finder Markhat wants nothing more than a beer at Eddie's, until a troll's missing head puts his own neck at risk. To survive, he must outrun vengeful warriors, backstreet magic, and the threat of another troll war.

A missing seamstress draws Markhat into a battle with a halfdead blood cult and the Corpsemaster, Rannit's feared sorcerer. A powerful artifact may save him, but it also threatens to drag him into darkness.

Mallara, the Crown's first female Sorcerer, patrols the Five Valleys with Burn, her bodiless assistant. Four stories send them against a trapped specter, a vengeful haunting, a troll's old vow, and overly helpful goblins.

Markhat is hired by a guilty ghost to uncover the truth behind a corpse stalking a wealthy widow's grounds. The case leads through Rannit's shadowy corners, where murder and the dead have unfinished business.

After the Civil War, a Federal sorceress orders the riverboat Yocona toward Vicksburg by a route no captain willingly takes on a moonless night. The haunted Yazoo Narrows hold an ancient evil, and the crew knows it.

Markhat investigates strangers mapping an artists' colony by moonlight, expecting an ordinary land dispute. A night of murder and a banshee's cry reveal something ancient beneath the estate, leaving everyone inside under siege.

Six fantasy tales bring together sorcerers, merfolk, haunted houses, trolls, elves, and bicycle repair. The collection moves from postwar secrets to sea voyages and strange magical emergencies, with humor alongside danger.

Newly appointed royal mage Meralda Ovis is ordered to move an ancient tower's shadow. Instead, she uncovers a centuries-old curse and must protect Tirlin with her wits, her magic, and Mug, her outspoken plant companion.

Darla asks Markhat to find a groom missing just before his wedding, but the wealthy family insists nothing is wrong. As Rannit prepares for war, the case pulls Markhat between old loyalties, new commitments, and rising danger.

When the private airship Sammi is trapped in a monstrous storm, Mage Meralda and Mug attempt a dangerous high-altitude rescue. Their improvised flying machine must reach the stranded crew before time and weather run out.

Markhat expects a simple security job aboard a lavish vampire-crewed riverboat casino. Instead, assassins, old enemies, and political schemes turn the maiden voyage into a fight to keep the Brown River Queen from running red.

Frank Tuttle offers practical advice for new writers, from building a story to avoiding head-hopping and infodumps. It is a straightforward guide that treats writing as hard work, but work worth enjoying.

Meralda and Mug join the airship Intrepid on an unprecedented voyage across the Great Sea. Storms and sea-serpents are only the beginning, as hidden forces work to stop the expedition from reaching the Hang homeland.

Rannit's powerful figures receive drawings that accurately predict their murders, and no warning saves them. When Markhat receives his own death notice, he must outthink a supernatural killer that can see beyond time.

A sinister traveling carnival arrives outside Rannit, and a rancher hires Markhat to find his missing daughter. Beneath the bright tents and cheap sideshows, Markhat finds death, monsters, and a dangerous carnival master.

Markhat and Darla board a steam train bound across haunted prairie toward the frontier town of Railsend. When murder strikes before sunrise, Markhat must uncover a rogue sorcerer hiding among passengers with secrets.

Mage Meralda must decipher the song of a mysterious structure hanging far above the Great Sea. With Mug and Donchen beside her, she faces ancient machines, hungry creatures, and a long-buried family problem.

A Markhat Files companion story centered on the formidable Mama Hog. It offers a closer look at one of Rannit's sharpest magic users and the haunted, dangerous city she calls home.

Markhat, a hard-boiled finder in the magical city of Rannit, tackles three early cases involving a ghost, a troll's missing head, and a corpse haunting a widow's estate. Nothing is quite as dead, or as simple, as it first appears.