Robert Terrall Books in Order

In wartime New York, industrial diamonds become the focus of a struggle against Nazi sabotage. Their crucial role in manufacturing weapons draws investigators into an espionage plot spanning factories and the hidden channels through which strategic materials are traded.

During the liberation of Paris, the proprietor of a brothel that served Nazi clients is murdered. An American military-government officer investigates with help from a WAC sergeant, tracing the secrets surrounding a woman known as Madam Céleste.

Scientists working under Army direction at a Southern laboratory struggle with the moral and emotional pressure of developing biological weapons. A murder brings a government investigator into a fearful community where suspicion spreads among those connected to the project.

After American troops capture an Austrian concentration camp, the nearby town of Weissau confronts the aftermath of Nazism. Interwoven lives reveal conflicts within the occupying Army and among residents struggling with responsibility for the camp and its crimes.

Dorothy Lee’s rise from a troubled Alabama town unfolds alongside her interrogation by federal agents in Los Angeles. Encounters with bank robbers, performers, and powerful men trace an ambitious woman’s pursuit of money and status through a criminal world.

Union raider James Andrews leads a group into Confederate Georgia to steal a locomotive and sabotage a vital railway. Conductor William Fuller pursues them in this account based on the Disney film and documents from the Civil War.

Private investigator Ben Gates arrives to deliver money to a woman blackmailing his client, only to be met by gunfire. Her apparent suicide launches an investigation involving financial deception, underworld figures, and conflicting stories about what happened.

Magazine writer Harry Horne finds an unfamiliar woman in his apartment shortly after leaving jail for protecting a source. When she attacks him and another assailant follows, he investigates a tangled case involving gangsters, juvenile delinquents, and dangerous acquaintances.

Ben Gates’s assignment guarding wedding presents goes wrong when someone drugs his coffee and a robbery leaves two people dead. To protect his reputation and his life, the private detective must identify the secret concealed by three women.

Private investigator Ben Gates’s client receives an anonymous threat against his teenage daughter unless he complies with a mobster’s demands. Gates confronts a case in which intimidation puts a vulnerable child at risk and makes delay especially dangerous.

After witnessing a police detective kill a civilian, Professor MacBain challenges the corruption surrounding the city’s law enforcement. The police retaliate by implicating him in the killing, forcing an ordinary man to resist a system determined to silence him.

An accountant builds a profitable operation around Grand Cayman’s tax shelters, then rejects the Mafia’s attempt to become a silent partner. Threatened by the consequences, he turns to bank robbery in a struggle shaped by greed and personal betrayal.

A vast flock of starlings defeats the Pentagon’s increasingly extreme efforts to dislodge it. Meanwhile, a Colombian officer sent to an American counter-coup school creates further chaos in a farce targeting military power, bureaucracy, and political pretensions.

After losing his detective’s license, Ben Gates becomes entangled with an actress and the editor of a scandal magazine. Competing offers to investigate damaging allegations draw him into a world of blackmail, celebrity secrets, and murder.