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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2000
  • Latest Book:
    April 2017
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Full Series List in Order

A Humboldt Prior Mystery

1 - Slaying the Red Slayer (Apr-2001)
2 - Derfflinger (Dec-2001)
3 - R.I.P. 37E (Oct-2000)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • Humboldt Prior, computer manufacturing executive, returns to his Midwestern hometown and finds himself dangerously enmeshed in a decades-old turmoil of murder, arson, and political malfeasance involving members of one of the City's most prominent fam...



  • An elegant, intricate mystery, which is seldom what it seems to be. During the 1960's, the young Humboldt S. Prior, nominally a computer specialist, but actually an involuntary agent of a little-known US intelligence service, is projected into Latin ...



  • The second Humboldt Prior mystery, in which sunken warships, super computers, archaic weapons, and stolen treasure encompass Prior, now a corporate executive, in a web of ancient treachery, in which help may not be help, friends may not be friends, a...



  • The Elephant Mask is the fourth Humboldt Prior Mystery. Now an aging executive of a troubled computer company, Prior is given responsibility for a promising new project that applies computer science to Latin American archeology. From the ruins of the...



  • The fifth Humboldt Prior mystery is a story of economic greed, murder, intellectual racism, and more murder. A casualty of a traumatic, Silicon Valley corporate takeover, Humboldt Prior, now 60 years old, relocates to his midwestern hometown, where h...



  • The Hoisted Petard is an "explosive" story of murder, corruption, sex, and a local political campaign. In his sixties, Humboldt Prior, now a university lecturer in information technology, is enmeshed in a decades-long series of crimes which he solves...



  • With Woodhouse Avenue Follies, again following the traditions of several English writers, Bob Garland begins a new series of novels, again set in City-by-the-River, a fictitious Upper Midwest city, and centered on a strange, hitherto unheard-of stree...



  • In the hitherto missing Sixth Mystery, Humboldt Prior, now well-established as a third-career university lecturer at the College of Information Technology, finds himself “on loan” to the prestigious Harger Business School, serving on a task force...



  • In the first sequel to Bob Garland?s Woodhouse Avenue Follies, we again find Humboldt Prior still residing diffidently in his old row-house on Woodhouse Avenue; still be-deviled by the schemes of his fellow executives at the moldering Prior & Cousins...






  • In Nonsense on Woodhouse Avenue, we again join our intrepid friends, the diffident, sexagenarian bookkeeper Humboldt Prior and the stylish, hard-charging TV news anchorwoman Penelope Rote, as they battle to thwart a series of nonsensical political ca...



  • In Buffoonery on Woodhouse Avenue, the elderly (and sometimes slightly mysterious) bookkeeper Humboldt Prior again joins forces with the stylish, hard-charging TV news anchorwoman Penelope Rote to thwart a buffoonish political fund raising plot invol...



  • High Winter Murders finds the aging Humboldt Prior still a university computer science lecturer, many months after his previous “extra-duty” mystery-detective successes, and three decades past his days as a secret intelligence agent. Now faced by...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bob Garland has published 12 books.

Bob Garland does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, High Winter Murders, was published in April 2017.

The first book by Bob Garland, R.I.P. 37E, was published in October 2000.

Yes. Bob Garland has 1 series.