Joe Gores Books in Order

After his wife is brutally attacked by a gang of young men, a college professor abandons his ordinary life to pursue them. His search for justice becomes a bleak and dangerous journey into revenge.

When DKA investigator Bart Heslip is left in a coma after a staged car crash, Larry Ballard has seventy-two hours to find the culprit. The clues lie among Bart's difficult repossession cases around San Francisco.

A repossessed Cadillac is unexpectedly redeemed with cash hidden in a comic book. When a DKA agent is beaten, Dan Kearny's team uncovers a mob payoff, blackmail, and murders tied to the car.

Joe Gores gathers thirteen South Sea tales by writers including Jack London, Herman Melville, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The anthology looks toward an older Hawaii of sailors, missionaries, merchants, and uneasy meetings between cultures.

San Francisco private eye Neal Fargo is hired to find an industrialist's missing daughter as a drug deal collapses around him. Stolen heroin and cash send criminals, cops, and Fargo into a violent twenty-four-hour chase.

In 1928 San Francisco, former Pinkerton detective and struggling writer Dashiell Hammett investigates the murder of an old colleague. The trail takes him through bootlegging, vice, crooked politics, and a city built on secrets.

California threatens to revoke Dan Kearny's private-investigator license over an old, irregular case. With the firm in danger, DKA agents race across the country to find witnesses before people with deadly motives reach them first.

An ex-con leaves prison determined to live quietly, but the diamonds from his old robbery were never found. An insurance investigator, former partners, and a killer all close in as the past refuses to stay buried.

Professional hunter Hollis Fletcher survives an attempt on his life in the frozen Minnesota woods. His search for the shooter leads to a presidential campaign, an old friend, and a threat close to his own family.

A dying king's wish for a pink Cadillac sparks a wild struggle for succession and a massive car scam. Dan Kearny Associates must recover dozens of Cadillacs while every side tries to outsmart the others.

Eight crime stories showcase Joe Gores's range, from the first DKA File to the Edgar-winning “Goodbye, Pops.” The collection moves through murder, scams, suspense, and dark surprises in compact, hard-edged form.

Computer investigator Eddie Dain survives an attack that kills his wife and son. After a long recovery, he hunts the people behind it, following thin clues through criminal networks toward a dangerous final reckoning.

After film executive Molly Dalton is killed, her husband Will becomes a possible target and a possible suspect. Detective Dante Stagnoro follows a trail of organized-crime murders while a killer called Raptor stalks the city.

At month's end, DKA agents race to close a scattershot batch of repossession cases across San Francisco. A labor dispute, a badly injured cyclist, and two deaths slowly reveal that the jobs are connected.

Pierce “Dunc” Duncan heads west after college, taking odd jobs and finding trouble from Georgia to California. Part road story and part crime novel, it follows his rough path toward work with a San Francisco detective agency.

Fourteen stories from 1958 to 1991 show Gores working across crime, suspense, dark fantasy, and parody. The collection includes killers, amateur detectives, strange crimes, and the Edgar-winning “Goodbye, Pops.”

This collection gathers twelve shorter DKA cases from 1967 to 1989. San Francisco investigators chase missing vehicles and elusive debtors through jobs that range from a fire engine recovery to a baffling murder puzzle.

Dan Kearny Associates is busy recovering classic cars when it is hired to find a missing Gypsy woman accused of murder. The search becomes a sprawling game of stolen treasures, false identities, and rival con artists.

Collecting twenty one previously uncollected or long unavailable pieces, this volume reveals Hammett trying out comic sketches, early detective tales, autobiographical fragments, and a rare Thin Man photo story, filling in rough edges of his career.

Former CIA sniper Brendan Thorne has hidden from violence at a Kenyan safari camp. Dragged back to America, he must stop a legendary sniper targeting the new president while learning that almost nobody involved can be trusted.

In 1921, Sam Spade opens his own San Francisco detective agency and hires Effie Perrine. Over the next seven years, cases involving gold, smuggling, and murder lead him to Miles Archer and a long-running enemy.