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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1988
  • Latest Book:
    June 2020
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Full Series List in Order

A Buster Hightower Mystery

1 - Disappeared (Sep-2010)
2 - Zillionaire (Sep-2011)
3 - Interlock (Apr-2012)
4 - Loot (Oct-2013)

Elemantal

1 - A Book of Facts (May-2015)
2 - Bad Elements (Aug-2016)

Harry

1 - Harry Saves the World (Feb-2018)
2 - Harry Saves the World Again (Jun-2020)

Kiet Bamsan

1 - Pigeon Blood (Mar-1988)
2 - Unfunny Money (May-1989)
3 - Kiet and the Golden Peacock (Nov-1989)
4 - Kiet and the Opium War (Sep-1990)
5 - Deadly Drought (Sep-1991)
6 - Kiet Goes West (Jun-1992)

A Luis Balam Mystery of the Yucatan

1 - Blood Sacrifice (Jun-1993)
2 - Dead Dinosaurs (Oct-1994)

A Ted Snowe Fable

1 - A Field Guide to Armageddon (Apr-2019)
2 - A Field Guide to Dead Birdwatchers (Feb-2020)

Book List in Order: 26 titles






  • Bamsan Kiet, chief of police in the capital city of Luong, a mythical Asian country that exists placidly among its violent Indochinese neighbors, is troubled by a flourishing opium trade, gangster-style rubouts, and friction from his soon-to-be inlaw...



  • With a dangerously late spring monsoon, Superintendent Bamsan Kiet fears the worst--failed crops, mob rule in the streets, and a bloody insurrection--but instead encounters disaster in the form of Prince Pakse's illegitimate playboy son and a beautif...



  • Superintendent Bamsan Kiet, of the Indochinese kingdom of Luong, and his adjutant, Captain Binh, travel to the Pacific Northwest. By the author of Deadly Drought, Kiet and the Opium War, and Kiet and the Golden Peacock. ...



  • The serial killer stabbing young women to death in Cancun hotels with an ancient Maya sacrificial flint knife is aptly nicknamed Gilbert, after the hurricane that also devastated the tourist industry in Mexico's tropical paradise.Luis Balam - a rare ...




  • Standup comic Buster Hightower and his love, Carla Chance, live next to a hit man. Or maybe not. Their good friend and neighbor, former minor league basketball player Ted Snowe, doesn't actually kill his assigned targets. He immobilizes them and give...






  • Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....



  • ISTORIA BOOKS PRESENTS:LUNCH READS: TWO SHORT MYSTERY STORIES FOR ONLY 99 CENTSVOLUME 2In this second edition of short stories offered by Istoria Books (eBooks You Want to Read at Prices You Want to Pay "), readers can gobble up a guilty pleasure o...



  • Zillionaire is a quirky, fast-paced yarn that races from Washington State to Belize to Tikal, the great Maya ruin in Guatemala. A mystery drenched in dry wit and high-concept humor, Zillionaire will keep readers smiling as they try to figure out the ...



  • Butch Hightower, long-lost older brother of stand-up comic Buster, has many talents. Video poker was never one of them. A few years back, Butch took a position with a security patrol . . . the plan being that he would settle his debt to some no-ne...



  • In 1965 Saigon, Joe, a young draftee, becomes obsessed with a Vietnam girl named Mai, his own "Dragon Lady" from the Terry and the Pirates cartoon strips that his mother still sends him. As he pursues a relationship with her, Saigon churns with intri...



  • Why has a crime in 1954 Seattle remained unsolved? Because stand-up comic Buster Hightower wasn't involved, that's why... Buster's love, Carla Chance, owner of the Last Chance Insurance Agency, has written an auto policy for Tyler Polk (Tip) Taylo...



  • As the greenest private eye at the Aalborg Detective Agency, Bick Bates gets assigned a “nuisance file,” a case nobody else wants to touch. Herbie Barnwell was a skid-row bum who was still in a coma, the result of a mysterious mugging. A new hire...



  • This book started as a dream that visited Gary Alexander in the middle of the night, and wound up as a strange “novel” told A to Z. Not your typical storytelling approach, but one that will tickle your intellect and give you an assortment of fact...



  • Like father, like son. Whoever coined that one had never heard of Joe and Stanley Buckley. Joe is a ne'er-do-well fugitive who tends bar in Belize. All he knows of the son he hasn't seen in years is that "he likes computers," the understatement of th...



  • Gary Alexander does it again, another experimental novel that will tickle your intellect while it plucks at your emotions. Using the periodical table as its framework, this story unfolds element by element. “You’ll have a hard time pigeonholing t...






  • Buddy and Martha Whitacre, a blue-collar couple, celebrate early retirement with a trip to Spain. They return home to discover that they’ve been wiped out by the investment fund that made retirement and travel possible. Damn Near Broke is the tale ...



  • As the greenest private eye at the Aalborg Detective Agency, Bick Bates gets assigned a “nuisance file,” a case nobody else wants to touch. Herbie Barnwell was a skid-row bum who was still in a coma, the result of a mysterious mugging. A new hire...



  • Horatio Alger (Harry) Antonelli, 1938 college grad and football star, goes to Europe for the summer before settling down to teach high-school history and coach the football team, and eventually marry " white picket fence, kids, pets, et cetera. ...



  • Here are 17 entertaining tales from Gary Alexander with themes you might think were ripped from the pages of the Weekly International Tattler: • Roswell Woman Is An Alien Love Child • Killer Theme Parks From Hell • Satan Adapts To Times, Offers...



  • We know what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Well, perhaps not the whole story.   The JFK assassination was heartbreaking for most, but to a few, a financial disaster. It didn’t go as they had planned. Lee Harvey Oswald and their own h...



  • TED SNOWE is a hit man… who isn’t. Ted takes “hard-unearned” money from wise guys to rub out their enemies, but instead of providing the requested service, Ted offers his "assignments" two choices: be found dead...



  • It's 1940 and, despite having thwarted a Nazi plot in Lisbon to release deadly uranium over London, Harry Antonelli has succeeded in wearing out his welcome in Portugal. He has that knack. So, Harry hops a freighter to Havana, but he soon finds himse...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gary Alexander has published 26 books.

Gary Alexander does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Harry Saves the World Again, was published in June 2020.

The first book by Gary Alexander, Pigeon Blood, was published in March 1988.

Yes. Gary Alexander has 6 series.