Greg Fowlkes

• Jul-2020
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Constable Elena Ortiz was on her way home after a two-day patrol when she spotted a vehicle pulled over on the side of the road. When she stops to investigate, she discovers the body of a man lying in the dust, the faceplate of his surface suit open,...

• Jul-2020
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Pleasant Prairie is much like hundreds of other towns that lie between the Mississippi and the Rockies. There is a railroad running through it, and standing tall and proud next to the tracks there is a set of grain elevators. There is a bank, a churc...

• Jul-2020
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The Rathcael Codex has gone missing and private investigator James Tolliver has been hired to find it. The manuscript, written sometime in the eleventh century by a mad Irish monk, had disappeared for centuries until it had surfaced in an invitation ...

• Jul-2020
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In celestial mechanics, there is no exact solution to the class of problems of calculating the orbits of three bodies circling each other. Frank Sladek, a private investigator on Star City, a hollowed out asteroid orbiting a brown dwarf, has a differ...

• Aug-2018
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One of the classic paradoxes of time travel is the question of what happens if you go back in time and kill your own grandfather. But what about the case where you travel back and prevent your grandfather from being killed? This is the puzzle that pr...

• Aug-2018
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The police are convinced Charles Mauston’s death was a suicide. His wife has other ideas, though an insurance policy for two hundred and fifty grand might have have something to do with that, and she hires a private investigator named James Tollive...

• Jul-2017
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Frank Slade has a pretty good life going. He’s given up his former life as a private investigator to write detective novels. He has a beautiful wife and all the money he needs. But, like most of us, Frank has some existential questions -- except...

• May-2017
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Frank Sladek doesn’t have a problem with women. It’s women who have a problem with him. Somehow, every woman he becomes involved with ends up taking the next starliner from Star City, either that or they end up dead. The most notorious private...

• Feb-2017
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It began with a missing college student, but when her body is discovered months later in the cellar of an abandoned building it became much more, drawing in an unlikely trio of a private detective, a policeman and a professor of English as they try t...

• Apr-2016
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From the Murder on Mars Series:

The Mars Club was the sanctuary of the rich and powerful on Mars; a place seemingly more at home in 1920's London than the Mars of the late 21st century. Access to the little luxuries and privacy are its main at...

• May-2015
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Novellas Featuring The Fictional Detective The Fictional Detective has gotten out of the Private Investigator game. Instead, he's trying to write hard-boiled masterpieces such as Death Buys a Condo. But despite the fact that the door of his office n...

• Feb-2015
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The mean streets of Star City - a hollowed out asteroid circling a failed star in the middle of nowhere - breed a special sort of man. With grifters, hoodlums, and two-bit con-men from every planet In human space trying to make the big score, it tak...

• Jan-2015
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Trial by Magic Five New Tales from the Casebook of Egil Njalsson, Wizard at Law Egil Njalsson is just another practicing attorney. Except, that is, for the occasional unusual client. Such as the ghost who retained his services using e-mail. Or the wo...

• Feb-2014
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Hut Town is the remnants of the original Martian settlement; a collection of inflatable buildings abandoned by the Trust Authority and the mining corporations and now occupied by those catering to the baser needs of miners and construction workers in...

• Nov-2012
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Station Alpha; a remote Martian research facility isolated by a planet wide dust storm. When one of the scientists is found murdered, it falls to Inspector McKernan to determine which of the remaining twelve people at the station wielded the fatal we...

• Nov-2011
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What if the spirits of the dead could communicate via e-mail? And what if one of them wished to retain you to solve their murder? Egil Njalsson had had some unusual clients in his law practice, but when it appears that a recently deceased entrepren...

• Aug-2011
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On Mars the wind was rising. The grains of sand could be heard abrading the thin aluminum skin that was the only protection against the outside. On the far side of Olympus Mons a prospector lies dead in the sand. Inspector Erik McKernan, head of the ...

• Oct-2010
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Mystery writer Ezekial O. Handler has been killed in a suspicious car crash. Private detective Frank Slade has been hired by Handler's beautiful girlfriend to investigate. Handler, seemingly with a premonition of his death, has left a trail of clues....

• Aug-2010
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Egil Njalson was an aspiring lawyer. A lawyer with a difference. Not only had he passed the bar, but he had an undergraduate degree from the most prestigious school of magic in the country, the California Institute of Thaumaturgy. Needless to say his...

• Jan-2010
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Mystery writer Ezekial O. Handler has been killed in a suspicious car crash. Private detective Frank Slade has been hired by Handler's beautiful girlfriend to investigate. Handler, seemingly with a premonition of his death, has left a trail of clue...