Michael Kurland Books in Order

A feudal planet learns that an invasion is coming in ten years and must accelerate its development to survive. Written with Chester Anderson, this science fiction adventure follows the effort to transform its society through industrial and technological change.

Peter Carthage leads specialists from Weapons Analysis and Research, Incorporated into Bonterre’s jungles. Their technical expertise is needed to prevent guerrillas and an unidentified third force from overthrowing the government in a Cold War operation full of uncertainty.

An oil-rich Arab nation faces invasion as British protection ends, and Peter Carthage’s small team is sent to stop Soviet-equipped tanks. Their mission intersects with a British woman’s search for her kidnapped brother, combining espionage with unconventional military tactics.

International assassins gather in Alba, drawing Peter Carthage into an undercover mission to uncover their plans. His investigation leads toward a violent order of monks and a monastery concealing a criminal conspiracy whose ambitions extend beyond ordinary assassination.

Wrongly sentenced to a prison planet, Daniel Godfrey instead arrives on a strange world after a transport malfunction. Flying pirate ships, carnivorous talking birds, and a moving city complicate survival, while an unknown enemy appears determined to kill him.

Nancy and Robert leave their New England farmhouse after learning they have inherited an English nobleman’s fortune. Life at Benjamin House quickly becomes unsettling when Robert nearly dies in an apparent accident and an ancient riddle suggests hidden treasure.

After a plague destroys most of humanity, survivors turn against scientific enclaves. Traveling medicine-show operator Mordecai Lehrer secretly carries instructions for producing a vaccine against a worse outbreak, risking murder by the very people his mission could save.

The original United States Constitution is replaced by an equally authentic document bearing Aaron Burr’s signature. Investigators follow impossible coins into alternate American histories, seeking an explanation for a theft that links familiar founders to worlds that might have existed.

Corporal Allan fights in a supposedly holy crusade watched by spectators in flying boats. An accident exposes him to a succession of different wartime eras, sending him through conflicting realities as he pursues a cause beyond the battle he first understood.

Adam Worthington escapes a repressive home planet when he is admitted to the University of Sol on Mars. His journey becomes an education of its own, involving aliens, a hijacking, a trial, and attempted murder before classes even begin.

A dangerous enemy plotting to overthrow Britain’s monarchy places Professor Moriarty’s life at risk. Survival forces the supposed criminal mastermind into collaboration with Sherlock Holmes, offering a different view of their rivalry amid a threat to the nation.

Naval intelligence officer Robert Burrows investigates a drugged teenager whose cryptic words suggest espionage against a secretive naval society. With occult specialist Addison Friendly, he uncovers withheld information and international interests that could push humanity toward another world war.

Written with S. W. Barton, this alternate-history thriller imagines an America where the Watergate conspirators avoid exposure. An increasingly paranoid president uses unchecked power and ruthless political tactics, setting opponents against an administration spiraling beyond normal constitutional restraint.

A killer targets members of England’s aristocracy, leaving Scotland Yard and Sherlock Holmes unable to halt the murders. Authorities turn to Professor Moriarty, whose connections and unconventional methods offer another route to identifying the attacker and stopping the bloodshed.

Two neighboring planets develop life under very different conditions, one watery and the other hot and dry. As their civilizations grow intelligent enough to reach beyond their worlds, eventual contact brings their separate histories into a shared and uncertain future.

In the year 2119, courier Peter Lyon accepts an assignment involving a mysterious blue box. Dead bodies and an empty container soon draw him into overlapping conspiracies, turning an ordinary transfer into an investigation of the troubled future around him.

Lord Darcy investigates the deaths of wizards apparently killed without magic in an alternate Angevin Empire. Preparations for a royal ceremony complicate his inquiry, while international tensions raise the possibility that the murders conceal a plot against the king.

This nonfiction handbook examines real intelligence gathering beneath the glamour of fictional espionage. Kurland introduces spycraft as a practical profession, offering background on how agents obtain information and giving readers a framework for understanding the secret world behind popular thrillers.

In an alternate New England where magic is a science, an Azteque prince is found ritually murdered atop an abandoned pyramid. Lord Darcy and forensic magician Sean investigate before the crime destroys peace between the settlers and the Azteque Empire.

Eleven-year-old Button has been taught to conceal her secret name, Rachel. After strangers searching for her murder her father, she flees from Vermont toward New York, seeking a relative and help understanding why her hidden identity has become deadly.

This true-crime reference profiles hundreds of criminals, con artists, and law-enforcement figures using court records, autobiographical accounts, and official documents. Photographs and topical entries expand its coverage of investigations, criminal behavior, and the institutions involved in responding to crime.

Kurland follows a murder investigation from the crime scene into the laboratory, explaining how small traces become evidence. The guide covers fingerprints, DNA, ballistics, blood samples, and other forensic techniques through their roles in solving a representative case.

A fictional double murder provides the framework for explaining how a criminal case moves through the courts. Kurland combines the narrative with real trial examples to examine arrest, grand juries, jury selection, courtroom tactics, witness questioning, verdicts, and sentencing.

An anonymous delivery of compromising photographs pulls newspaper columnist Alexander Brass and assistant Morgan DeWitt into danger in 1930s New York. A murder drives their search through blackmail schemes, political figures, and Nazi interests as they pursue the story behind the images.

This introductory guide surveys the search for extraterrestrial intelligence alongside claims involving UFOs and alien abductions. It considers radio signals, the possibility of life elsewhere, and the ways popular culture shapes expectations about encounters with beings beyond Earth.

Missing women and a murdered chorus girl draw columnist Alexander Brass and Morgan DeWitt into Broadway’s 1930s theater world. A panhandler’s numerous identities, stolen box-office money, and elusive con artists complicate their effort to connect the disappearances with the killing.

Written with Richard A. Lupoff, this guide explains memory systems and introduces methods intended to strengthen recall. Mnemonics, associations, checklists, and practical hints form part of its approach to helping readers organize information and remember it more readily.

Kurland surveys unresolved puzzles ranging from disappearing people and vehicles to disputed historical events and unexplained phenomena. Topics include the Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, D. B. Cooper, assassination questions, and the authorship debate surrounding Shakespeare, presenting mysteries from several fields.

Assassinations and false accusations across Europe pull Professor Moriarty into a conspiracy threatening its royal governments. With friends in danger and an aristocratic amateur spy framed for murder, he follows the intrigue toward Vienna, occasionally aided by Sherlock Holmes.

A gold shipment aboard the Empress of India vanishes, and suspicion falls on Professor Moriarty while Sherlock Holmes is missing. Seeking to clear his name, Moriarty investigates passengers, rival schemes, and hidden motives surrounding the voyage from India to England.

This history traces the development of forensic science and its effect on criminal investigation. Kurland examines identification methods, fingerprints, ballistics, blood evidence, and disputed techniques, showing how scientific approaches changed the pursuit of offenders and the exoneration of innocent people.

Apprentice Delbit Quint joins Dr. Faineworth in an alternate New York to investigate an amnesiac woman who can travel between universes unaided. Her disappearance sends them across different Earths, where rival searchers and hostile travelers complicate their pursuit.

Kurland draws on his writing experience to explain the craft of constructing mystery stories. Across eleven chapters and interludes, he discusses plotting and the genre’s distinctive demands, offering practical advice for writers alongside reflections of interest to mystery readers.

A series of brutal crimes threatens to implicate Queen Victoria’s grandson and destabilize the monarchy. Released from prison to investigate, Professor Moriarty follows witnesses and hidden political ambitions, with Sherlock Holmes providing assistance against a plot to discredit the royal family.

Eight science-fiction stories explore the consequences of teleportation, engineered soldiers, and the tension between inherited nature and choice. Changes in technology and reality expose questions about human behavior, ethical limits, and whether advances meant to protect people can become destructive.

A homeless witness sees a murder committed by men posing as FBI agents in 1938 New York. Covert counter-intelligence agent Jacob Welker recruits him and a British couple to investigate a Nazi terrorist plot before its target and timing become clear.

Two men in 1960s San Francisco meet a mysterious young woman searching for her missing unicorn. Helping her takes them into an adventure involving parallel realities, with fictional versions of the trilogy’s authors among the characters navigating its unusual worlds.

In 1939, Jacob Welker and British aristocrats Geoffrey and Patricia Saboy seek German physicists whose work could enable a devastating weapon. Their rescue operation combines covert contacts and a magician’s cover as they try to extract scientists before the Gestapo intervenes.

Business founder Michael Kurland recounts rebuilding his life and launching a company after selling his possessions and moving across the country. He connects that entrepreneurial experience with thirteen lessons about leadership, empathy, organizational culture, social impact, and balancing purpose with profit.