Steve Hockensmith Books in Order

Cowboy brothers Otto and Gustav Amlingmeyer use Sherlock Holmes-style deduction to hunt a killer in the Old West. It is a funny, rough-edged Western mystery where stampedes, rustlers, and bad tempers keep getting in the way.

Working guard duty for the Southern Pacific Railroad, the brothers ride into a robbery, a headless corpse, and a train full of suspects. Old Red sees a mystery everywhere, and this time he is right.

These twelve crime stories run on lies, from little cover-ups to desperate deceptions. Cops, crooks, private eyes, and ordinary people all try to stay ahead of trouble, usually by telling one more story than they should.

Big Red and Old Red head to San Francisco and stumble into Chinatown intrigue, Barbary Coast violence, and a tong war. With Diana along, they will need every bit of nerve and deduction they have.

Old Red gets a chance to track the killer who ruined his past. But in a town determined to bury old secrets, the brothers face a deeply personal case with enemies waiting on every side.

Four years before the original mash-up, the Bennet sisters face their first zombie outbreak and begin learning the Deadly Arts. Elizabeth must grow up fast while England's rules of courtship collide with blood, panic, and swordplay.

This Christmas crime collection follows thieves, killers, and con artists through the holiday season. The stories are darkly funny, but the danger is real, whether the problem is a murderous Santa or a hot toy heist gone sideways.

A detective contest draws the Amlingmeyer brothers to Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. When the contest organizer turns up dead, Old Red is sure it is murder, and the investigation may change the brothers' future.

Seven short stories rewind to Big Red and Old Red's early years, showing how Old Red caught the Sherlock Holmes bug and how the brothers' first rough attempts at deducifying led straight to murder, poison, and trouble.

Elizabeth Bennet Darcy should be settling into married life, not hunting a cure for her husband's zombie bite. This sequel mixes Regency manners, undead danger, and a desperate race to save Darcy before it is too late.

In the middle of a zombie apocalypse, Washington still cannot stop campaigning. Reporter Jan Woods investigates rumors that the sitting president is undead, and her search turns into a funny, nasty tour of politics at the end of the world.

After their scientist parents vanish, twins Nick and Tesla move in with eccentric Uncle Newt and stumble into a neighborhood mystery. Their only hope is to build clever gadgets fast enough to stay ahead of the bad guys.

When a rare comic book is stolen from a friend's father, Nick and Tesla investigate with homemade robots and plenty of nerve. Unfortunately, the thief knows robotics too, and soon the machines are coming after them.

A spy seems to be snooping around Uncle Newt and his inventions, and Nick and Tesla need answers. Their third case turns the quiet town of Half Moon Bay into a playground for code wheels, alarms, and surveillance gadgets.

Nick and Tesla head to a science museum where animatronic geniuses keep malfunctioning in dangerous ways. Solving the mystery means upgrading their gadget glove and racing to stop whoever is sabotaging the exhibit.

Alanis McLachlan inherits her con-artist mother's New Age shop in Berdache, Arizona, and stays to learn who killed her. Pretending to read tarot gets her closer to the truth, and maybe closer to something real too.

Trying to make amends for her mother's old scams, Alanis helps a client escape an abusive marriage and ends up tied to murder. Clearing her name means untangling small-town secrets before suspicion closes in for good.

Nick and Tesla land on the set of a superhero movie when someone starts sabotaging the production. To expose the culprit, they mix mystery solving with homemade movie-magic gadgets and a lot of quick improvisation.

Dinosaurs suddenly appear around town, and the kids trace the problem back to the Smithsonian's Natural History museum. Their fix sends them to 1876, where greedy schemers are trying to turn prehistoric life into a business.

Alanis McLachlan's past catches up with her when an old figure from her grifting days returns, a romance wobbles, and a client is murdered after a grim reading. She will need both nerve and tarot to survive.

Nick and Tesla finally get close to the truth about their missing parents. To stop a criminal from turning solar research into a weapon, the twins need homemade gadgets, fast thinking, and help from Uncle Newt.

A Smithsonian field trip goes very wrong when four school friends find air travel history rewritten by the Barris Airships. To set things right, they must travel through time and restore the Wright brothers to their rightful place.

When America seems to have turned into a monarchy overnight, the Secret Smithsonian team knows history has been tampered with again. Their mission leads them into presidential lore, time travel, and a plot to crown George Washington king.

Big Red and Old Red finally open their detective agency, only to land in the middle of a range war. When murder follows, the cowboy brothers must solve the case while dodging ambushes and proving their new business can survive.

Two novellas and a bonus story send the Amlingmeyer brothers into Arizona cattle-country secrets and a snowbound Colorado sanitarium stalked by death. The mix of hidden motives, isolation, and brotherly banter makes for a sharp return.

Guarding a Wyoming dinosaur dig sounds simple until a human body appears at the site. Big Red and Old Red must protect their clients, sort through jealousies and secrets, and catch a killer before the badlands claim another victim.

This five-story collection follows Big Red and Old Red as they try to build their detective agency in the West. Newspaper feuds, kidnappings, Christmas trouble, and conspiracies keep turning simple jobs into dangerous cases.

When a tycoon tries to crush a remote Arizona mine, Double-A operatives Ira Hoop, Oswin Diehl, and Eskaminzim are hired to fight back. The job turns into a brutal frontier war full of ambushes, shifting loyalties, and flying lead.

What starts as a hunt for bank robbers becomes something much bigger when the Double-A team uncovers a post-Civil War conspiracy. Diehl, Hoop, and Eskaminzim are badly outnumbered, and the chase could reshape the country's future.

A warehouse death pulls Big Red and Old Red into the polished surface and darker back alleys of Galveston. Healers, blackmail, pseudoscience, and family ambition crowd the case as the brothers hunt a killer with a dangerous cure.