Edward D. Hoch

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  • Bibliography:
    70 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Carl Crader Mysteries

1 - The Transvection Machine (Nov-2013)
2 - The Fellowship of the Hand (Nov-2013)

Book List in Order: 70 titles

  • The Leopold Locked Room

    in Murderous Schemes

    When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...

  • Dear Dead Days

  • The Frankenstein Factory

    • / General Fiction
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    On a remote jungle island, a scientist toys with cryogenics and brain transplants Horseshoe Island lies just a few miles off the coast of Baja California, Mexicoimpossibly far from the laws of the United States. Here, a doctor named Hobbes has bu...

  • Baffling Detective Cases

  • Mysteries for Crime Busters

  • Thefts of Nick Velvet

    Thirteen stories of outrageous heists starring one smooth thief from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Shattered Raven.  The dictator of the island of Jabali wants a baseball team, and he doesn’t care how he gets it. He has assem...

  • Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1979: 33rd Annual Collection

  • Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1980: 34th Annual Collection

  • The Cat and Fiddle Murders

    in More Mystery Cats

    Cats and crime make an irresistible combination in this second volume of Mystery Cats. Bestselling author Lilian Jackson Braun uses her favorite breed, the Siamese, to chill us with a tale of a sinister violin-playing villain who gets his comeuppance...



  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1982

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1983

  • Years Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1984

  • Quests of Simon Ark

    When ancient evil emerges, it can only be stopped by a two-thousand-year-old sleuthTen years ago, Douglas Zadig emerged from the mist on an English moor, his clothes tattered, his speech slurred, and his mind completely blank. Since then, he has rein...

  • Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1981: 35th Annual Collection

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1985

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1986

  • The Magic Bullet

  • Captain Leopold Goes to the Dogs I

    in Murder on the Aisle

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1987



  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1988

  • Murder Most Sacred

    An anthology of sleuths who also happen to be priests and nuns includes the mystery-solving skills of Catholics young and old, devout and fallen, and both those eager and those compelled to solve crimes....

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1989

  • The Detective's Wife

    in Master's Choice: Volume II

    An outstanding array of crime fiction by some of today's leading authors is accompanied by short stories from the acclaimed writers who inspired them and features works by Ian Rankin, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgins Clark, Evan Hunter, Edgar Allan Po...

  • Chessboard's Last Gambit

    in Dick Tracy: The Secret Files

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1990

  • The People of the Peacock

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1991

  • Saratoga Cat

    in Cat Crimes 2
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    From the pens of today's most prolific, popular, and feline-fancying mystery writers comes CAT CRIMES 2, a chilling collection of original stories that will leave cat- and mystery-lovers purring for more. Inside you'll encounter the Bogart drawl of P...

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1992



  • The Puzzle Garden

    in Garden of Deadly Delights

    A DAZZLING BOUQUET OF MYSTERY AND MURDER Here, amid the lush, heady beauty of a garden setting, everything's coming up roses...or turning up corpses. Focusing on crime that flourishes amid the flora, this blooming collection of 19 tales provides m...

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1993

    An annual anthology of outstanding mystery and suspense short fiction encompasses works by Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Lovesey, Benjamin M. Schutz, Max Allan Collins, and other notable masters of the genre....

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1994

    A nineteenth edition edited by a writer for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine includes works by Bill Prozini, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, and other distinguished mystery writers....

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1995

    Collecting the most noted short mystery and suspense stories from popular magazines, a twentieth anniversary edition highlights the works of such authors as Robert Barnard, Marcia Muller, Wendy Hornsby, and Bill Prozini....

  • Second Chance

    in Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • The Ripper of Storyville, and Other Ben Snow Tales

    GUNSLINGING AND HISTORICAL DETECTION

    Probably the most honored of all current mystery short story writers, Edward D. Hoch combines ingenious plotting with a strong sense of time and place. The Ripper of Storyville is the first book collection of o...

  • The Ripper of Storyville

  • The Haggard Society

    in The Night Awakens

    The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers -- brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes...

  • Twelve American Detective Stories

    Murder, kidnapping, and theft are the principal crimes committed in these twelve American detective stories. The victim may be an innocent baby or a double-crossing mobster, the setting a department store or death cell at the state prison. However, t...

  • The Movable City

    in Crime Through Time II

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...



  • Diagnosis Impossible

    This collection is set in New England during the 1920's and the 1930's, and features country doctor Sam Hawthorne who specializes in locked room and other impossible crimes. Among the 12 stories is the classic tale of a horse and buggy that enter a c...

  • The Velvet Touch

    Nick Velvet is the choosey crook, who steals only the seeminglyvalueless -- for a hefty fee of course. In The Velvet Touch, Nick steals a bald man's comb, a faded flag, an overdue library book, an ordinary playing card, a menu -- and 9 other items ...

  • The Theft of the Sandwich Board

    in Death Dines at 8:30

    CLAUDIA BISHOP AND NICK DICHARIO request the honor of your presence at a different kind of dinner party ... Festivities begin promptly at 8:3o. Sixteen short stories -- accompanied by dangerously delicious recipes -- will be served. Be the...

  • The Night People and Other Stories

    Twenty tales of deceit, murder, and madness from the king of short mysteriesThey find the third body facedown in the wet grass, its head nearly split in half by the axe. The psychopath has claimed three in twenty-four hours—a sickening toll tha...

  • The Old Spies Club and Other Intrigues of Rand

    'THE KING OF THE CLASSICAL WHODUNIT'

    Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine used these words to describe the extraordinary accomplishments of Edward D. Hoch. Whether he is writing about sleuths or crooks or spies, Hoch always includes a strong puzzle ele...

  • The Iron Angel

    The Iron Angel and Other Tales of the Gypsy Sleuth, by MWA Grand Master Edward D. Hoch, collects 15 stories featuring Gypsy Michael Vlado. Published between 1985 and 2000, they reflect the dramatic political and social changes in Eastern Europe du...

  • Money on the Red

    in Show Business Is Murder

    Lights...Camera...Murder! Behind the velvet ropes and closed curtains, buried in the back lots, you'll find the darker side of the spotlight. It's where stars are created overnight, and burn out just cis quickly. Where deals are made to be broken,...

  • More Things Impossible

    Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the twentieth century, was constantly faced by murders in locked rooms, impossible disappearances, and other so-called miracle crimes. More Things Impossible contains fifteen of Dr....

  • Friday Night Luck

    in The Blue Religion

    WHAT IS IT LIKE TO CORNER A MURDERER? TO UNMASK A HIDDEN KILLER? In The Blue Religion, bestselling author Michael Connelly brings together nineteen original stories from some of today's greatest crime writers to reveal the thrills and dangers of b...

  • The Theft Of The Rusty Bookmark

    in Christmas At The Mysterious Bookshop

    Each year, for the past seventeen years, Otto Penzler, owner of the legendary Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, has commissioned an original story by a leading mystery writer. The requirements were that it be a mystery/ crime/suspense story, that...



  • Mammoth Books presents Vittoria, the Circus Belle

    Holmes is visited by a young girl from the circus industry. She fears for her life and is deeply troubled that two attempts on her life have already been made. Vittoria believes it is Edith Everage, an acrobat who desires to be the circus belle who i...

  • City of Brass

    Three stories starring Simon Ark -- one of history’s most unusual detectives In a college in upstate New York, a professor is carrying out devilish experiments. At Grand Central Station, a student named Cathy Clark corners a friend of her sister...

  • The Judges of Hades

    Five classic tales of murderous evil -- and the immortal who was chosen to fight for what is right In a small town near Washington, DC, seventy-three villagers make the spontaneous decision to leap from a cliff to their deaths. They leave no expla...

  • Leopold's Way

    When the homicide boys are baffled, only Captain Leopold can unravel the mystery On his way to the circus, a young boy named Tommy pauses for fifteen minutes in a grassy vacant lot. It begins to rain, and by the time the storm has passed, Tommy is...

  • The Night My Friend

    An incredible assortment of stories from one of history’s masters of short fiction On the morning of the merger, fog shrouds the offices of Jupiter Steel. On the twenty-first floor, the board of directors gathers to follow the commands of Billy ...

  • The Shattered Raven

    At a gathering of the nation’s foremost mystery authors, death takes the stage Dozens die each year for the sake of the annual Mystery Writers of America banquet. Heiresses are poisoned, captains of industry are stabbed, and private detectives a...

  • The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch

    A dozen marvelous tales of deduction, featuring history’s most famous detective In a heavily mortgaged country house, an heiress’s sinister guardian attempts to trap her in a bedroom with a rare Indian swamp adder -- a murder averted only by t...

  • The Spy and the Thief

    A double-barreled collection -- two of Edward D. Hoch’s most ingenious creations In the headquarters of Britain’s Foreign Office, a secretary spies a television actor making a copy of a top-secret key. In an island republic, an intelligence op...

  • The Spy Who Read Latin

    In the thick of the Cold War, a British spy will do anything to keep the peace Father Howard steps off the plane in Albania, relieved to be out of China at last, but knowing that until he reaches Paris, he is not safe from the Communists. As he ma...

  • The Fellowship of the Hand

    The Carl Crader Mysteries - 2

    Two computer cops race to protect a presidential election against tampering Radiation leaks in Chicago. Assassination attempts on Venus. Bombings in Washington, DC. Any crime that involves a computer falls under the jurisdiction of New York’s Co...

  • The Transvection Machine

    The Carl Crader Mysteries - 1

    When a government official dies on the operating table, the president calls in the computer cops On Venus, a radical exile escapes from a maximum-security prison, pledging to return to Washington and assassinate the president. Transport between Ea...

  • Nothing Is Impossible

    Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the twentieth century, was constantly faced by murders in locked rooms and impossible disappearances. Nothing Is Impossible contains fifteen of Dr. Sam s most extraordinary cases so...

  • The Future Is Ours

    • Edward D. Hoch was and is the undisputed master of the mystery short story. His total output of published short fiction hovers just under 1,000 stories. Hoch (pronounced "Hoke") is best remembered for his fair-play and impossible crime short...

  • The Future Is Ours: The Collected Science Fiction of Edward D. Hoch

    Edward D. Hoch was and is the undisputed master of the mystery short story. His total output of published short fiction hovers just under 1,000 stories (estimates are in the neighborhood of 960 stories). Hoch (pronounced "Hoke") is best remembered fo...

  • All But Impossible

    Northmont, Connecticut, seemed to be haunted by ghosts, ghouls, and impossibilities, until Dr. Sam Hawthorne explained the seemingly impossible. All But Impossible contains fifteen of Dr. Sam's most extraordinary cases solved between 1936 and 1940, i...

  • Challenge the Impossible

    We ve saved the best for last! Follow Dr. Sam Hawthorne through the war years, a time that he called the beginning of two of the most eventful years of my life. The final collection of Dr. Sam Hawthorne stories covers 1940-1944 and includes 15 storie...

  • Hoch's Ladies

    Hoch created many series characters, Among them were Dr. Sam Hawthorne, Jeffery Rand, Nick Velvet, Simon Ark, and Alexander Swift. Several series feature women sleuths. Hoch's ladies were often faced with seemingly impossible crimes - throat cutting ...

  • Funeral in the Fog

    A man who claims to be the Devil is trying to kill him after he witnessed a woman killed by an invisible hand. Lightning bolts that strike from a clear sky, at locations across the globe, to kill a series of former astronauts. A group of friends who ...

  • Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries

    Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries contains not one, but two of Edward D. Hoch's beloved characters. First are the thirteen stories of Alexander Swift, who works for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Swift deals with ...

  • The Killer Everyone Knew and Other Captain Leopold Stories

    In our nearly thirty years of publishing the best of Ed Hoch's short stories, we've neglected Captain Leopold, the head of the Violent Crimes Squad. Along with Lt. Fletcher and Sgt Trent, the stories are as police procedurals; however, Ed Hoch's plot...

  • Snow White and the Eleven Dwarfs and The Fog

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Edward D. Hoch has published 70 books.

Edward D. Hoch does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Killer Everyone Knew and Other Captain Leopold Stories, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Edward D. Hoch, The Leopold Locked Room, was published in January 1971.

Yes. Edward D. Hoch has 1 series.
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