E.V. Cunningham

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1960
  • Latest Book:
    January 1986
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Full Series List in Order

Harvey Krim

1 - Lydia (1964)
2 - Cynthia (1968)

A Masao Masuto Mystery

1 - The Case of the Angry Actress (1967)
2 - The Case of the One-Penny Orange (1977)
3 - The Case of the Russian Diplomat (1978)
4 - The Case of the Poisoned Eclairs (1979)
5 - The Case of the Sliding Pool (1981)
6 - The Case of the Kidnapped Angel (Sep-1982)
7 - The Case of the Murdered MacKenzie (Jul-1984)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Sylvia

    Originally written under the pseudonym of E. V. Cunningham during the era of blacklisting, this tale of a woman whose past repeatedly eludes a down-on-his-luck private investigator is accompanied by Fast's account of his experiences during the blackl...

  • Phyllis

    Two scientistsone American and one Russianform a pact for nuclear disarmament that threatens to bring civilization to its knees The physicists met during a nuclear conference in London. Wanting to hurry America and the Soviet Union into nuclear no...

  • Alice

    A freak subway accident traps a New York architect in a deadly conspiracy that will threaten what he loves most John T. Camber is waiting on an uptown subway platform the moment his life changes forever. It happens quickly, when a haggard elderly ...

  • Lydia

    Harvey Krim - 1

    A hard-boiled insurance investigator upends New York in search of a perfect diamond necklace Death follows the Sarbine necklace. Its eleven diamonds are flawless, and all cut from the same stoneone of the largest ever unearthed from the mines of S...

  • Shirley

    Targeted by a mysterious conspiracy, a clever young woman fights back If Shirley is surprised that someone wants to kill her, she does not let the gunmen know. As far as she knows, Shirley is no different from any other employee at the Bushwick Br...

  • Penelope

    Dissatisfied with life on the Upper East Side, a socialite finds a new favorite pastime: robbing banks When James R. Hastings, president of the City Federal Bank, began construction of a new branch on Madison Avenue, he vowed to make it burglar pr...

  • Helen

    A lawyer scrambles to save a judge-killing hooker from the gallows No women have been hanged in San Verdo since 1921, but after four decades it looks like that's about to change. Helen Pilasky is far from a sympathetic defendant. She's a known pr...

  • Margie

    When a starry-eyed model walks off with a powerful woman's mink coat and diamond bracelet, New York City's police race to find herbefore gangsters get her first Margie Beck has always been a magnet for calamity. When she accidentally walks off wit...

  • The Case of the Angry Actress

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Masao Masuto Mystery - 1

    Film producer Al Greenberg has been murdered-the first in a series of violent deaths perpetrated by a killer calling herself "Samantha." Eleven years earlier, a young, starry-eyed actress with the same name had been raped by half a dozen men on a Hol...



  • Sally

    A small-town girl flees from the assassin she hired to kill her When the doctor in her small hometown tells Sally Dillman that she has six months to live, the quiet young schoolteacher sells her house and moves to New York City. She comes not to s...

  • Cynthia

    Harvey Krim - 2

    An insurance investigator chases a vanished heiress and a huge payday One of the richest girls on Park Avenue is missing. Cynthia Brandon left her father's apartment on Monday, and three days later has not been seen anywhere on the respectable si...

  • The Assassin Who Gave Up His Gun

    A target's wife makes a cold-hearted assassin question his work The hitman adjusts his rifle sight in an apartment across the street from his mark. For thirty minutes he peers through his scope, watching the man he is about to kill. He waits patie...

  • Millie

    A PR man investigates the tortured life of a mysterious acquaintanceand winds up knee-deep in the wrong kind of trouble For a public relations guru like Al Brody, witnessing death is not part of the job description. But that is just what the call ...

  • The Case of the One-Penny Orange

    • / Law Enforcement
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    A Masao Masuto Mystery - 2

    Masao Masuto, a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force, investigates a ransacked house from which nothing is missing and the murder of a noted stamp dealer, and searches for an 1847 postage stamp from Mauritius. MASAO MASUTO BREEDS ROSE...

  • The Case of the Russian Diplomat

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Masao Masuto Mystery - 3

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    A murder investigation at a high-priced hotel reveals a deadly plot reaching the highest seats of power

    They call the pool at the Beverly Glen Hotel ""the naked hooker."" To the frustration of the Beverly Hills police department, the women...

  • The Case of the Poisoned Eclairs

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Masao Masuto Mystery - 4

    A dog's murder leads detective Masuto to a most unusual poisoning case In Beverly Hills, murder has suddenly gone out of style. For five weeks, the head of the city's tiny homicide squad, Zen detective Masao Masuto, has worked only robbery investi...

  • The Case of the Sliding Pool

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Masao Masuto Mystery - 5

    A rare California deluge unearths a hidden body - and a decades-old crime

    Rain has spoiled Masao Masuto''s vacation. For six days the storm has trapped the Zen Buddhist detective and his family inside their Los Angeles cottage. By the morni...

  • The Case of the Kidnapped Angel

    A Masao Masuto Mystery - 6

    Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways, artery-clogging fast food... and brutal murders. In The Case of the Sliding Pool, the collapse of a swimmin...

  • The Case of the Murdered MacKenzie

    A Masao Masuto Mystery - 7

    Detective Masuto reopens an investigation into a murderous film star—with deadly consequences…

    On the day that Eve Mackenzie murders her husband, Masao Masuto is on a plane to Japan. For years he and his wife, both American-born...



  • The Wabash Factor

    A rash of political deaths alerts a New York cop to an international assassination plot At a crime scene, Harry Golding has no fear. But put him in front of a few dozen undergraduates, and he begins to sweat. He agrees to give the lecture on crimi...

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E.V. Cunningham has published 20 books.

E.V. Cunningham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wabash Factor, was published in January 1986.

The first book by E.V. Cunningham, Sylvia, was published in January 1960.

Yes. E.V. Cunningham has 2 series.
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