Henry Kane

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1952
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • One Little Bullet

    The nightclub, the Long-Malamed, was packed. Peter Chambers was enjoying the show. A great Afro-Cuban drummer with and even greater dancer, Manaja, was on stage. Now, lightning from the spot hit the stage in garish waves as Manaja began her torso-fli...

  • Peter Gunn

    A tie-in to the famous TV series of the same name. The crimebuster with the grey flannel manners, who singlehandedly established the latest style in private investigators. He's tall, dark and debonair, a lad with an Ivy League air who's a k...

  • My Business Is Murder

    Olga was the sexy young wife of an old millionaire. She wore black painted toenails, a small black Luger, and very little else.Anabel was a talented stripper with an act that drove the customers wild. She wore nothing at all -- and got rich that way....

  • The Case of the Murdered Madam

  • Laughter in the Air

  • The Midnight Man

    Raven House Mysteries - 10

    Now the crime was worse…much worse It had started as a minor complaint against an illegal after-hours nightclub. Now it was cold-blooded murder. McGregor, retired police inspector, connoisseur of good food -- and beautiful women -- could n...

  • Hang By Your Neck

    Peter Chambers is a private richard who has a real affinity for trouble. He hasn't any notion at all who polished off the nasty blonde with the round hole between her eyes -- or the little man swinging by the neck from a bedroom window. Peter has str...

  • Skip A Beat

    One of the great men of the country, Adam Woodward, has just hired Peter Chambers to be his bodyguard. Woodward, a famous newspaper columnist, is about to expose someone as a Communist. But before can start to do his job, Woodward is gunned down in t...

  • Armchair in Hell

    When a lush brunette turns up unexpectedly dead in a stranger’s bed, and an antique dealer (who is “mostly legit”) settles down in an easy chair with a dagger in his back, and a big-time gambler drops all bets on the kitchen floor in a pool of ...



  • The Case of the Murdered Madame

    A petulant blonde bombshell with a deadly taste for danger … A ham actor who stars dramatically in his own murder … A sharpshooting hoodlum who takes his killing casually … And a lady Greek philosopher with “the longest, shapeliest legs in Ne...

  • Death of a Dastard

    Jason Touraine was irresistible to dissatisfied wives, lonely women, and roving females on the make. He had innocent eyes, an athlete’s body . . . and a tape recorder fashioned to look like a busy man’s attaché case. This he always placed under ...

  • Don't Call Me Madame

    The game of murder: it’s not a pretty game. The players are weird. They don’t fit in with normal people, sensible people - people who don’t get a kick out of shoving in the knife, ripping through the flesh, seeing the bright red spurt . . . Pet...

  • Martinis and Murder

    A leggy torch singer of bawdy ballads with an eye-opening dance routine to match . . .A lady jewelry designer with an exclusive - deadly - clientele . . .A sweet young bride with a drawerful of illicit letters that her husband never wrote . . .And mu...

  • Dead in a Bed

    Take a beautiful woman - no, take two or even three beautiful women, take some money, throw in a con man and a hustler or two, even a rich and respected publisher and a bank v.p. won’t hurt. Add people’s natural avariciousness, a couple of grueso...

  • Death of a Flack

    Lady on the Make:She was a gorgeous Greek with a classic chassis. When she smoldered her way into a hot tumble with Peter Chambers, the fast-living private eye didn’t know whether he was in heaven, or tangling with a torrid she-devil....

  • Death of a Hooker

    Beverly Crystal had a million-dollar idea and a circle of “friends” who would never force her to hunt around for enemies.The happy crew included:Danny the Dance: who waltzed his way through life like a man sliding down a banister made of razor-bl...

  • Death on the Double

    The only uninvited guest was -- murder!The host and the principal guests at the wildest, wickedest masquerade ball of the society season were:• A playboy millionaire with more women than is good for the health of one man.• A golden-limbed vixen w...

  • Kisses of Death

    KISSES OF DEATH The first night with her led to a file of blackmail photographs worth a fortune. KISSES OF DEATH The second night with her led to danger, violence, and sudden death. KISSES OF DEATH The third night with her led to the one mistake no p...

  • The Name is Chambers

    A night-club owner gunned down at his own bar -- an editor gutted with an antique switchblade -- a smuggler who took five shots in the back -- a millionaire whose “suicide” didn’t make sense …Each killing left the cops high and dry -- fine. B...



  • Never Give a Millionaire an Even Break

    It’s nice to be a millionaire.Money can buy you darn near anything. It can buy you things you’re only supposed to get for love. It can buy you the best-looking women -- in a city where good-looking women come high.It can buy a professional privat...

  • Darkest Hour

  • Homicide at Yuletide

    ''She turned her head, young, pale, with enormous black eyes. She looked at me, but she didn’t see me. I saw her: the round smooth face and the deep black eyes and the full curved glossy mouth, a red underlip protruding in a pout that flicked at yo...

  • Death Is the Last Lover

    ''Are you a ladykiller?'' the vision asked. She had skin like cream, hair like jet, and a body that could turn any male into an instant sex-maniac. With a wicked little smile, she moved closer to Peter Chambers. ''I devour ladykillers,'' she murmured...

  • Fistful of Death

    The proposition sounded like a pushover. All Peter Chambers had to do was find out where a teen-aged chorine had been for the past month and why. And for that information the girl's father, a prosperous banker, would pay Chambers a cool thousand doll...

  • Dead in Bed

    Take a beautiful woman - no, take two or even three beautiful women, take some money, throw in a con man and a hustler or two, even a rich and respected publisher and a bank v.p. won't hurt. Add people's natural avariciousness, a couple of gruesome m...

  • Frenzy of Evil

    FRENZY OF EVIL Jonathan Joseph Carson -- Jonathan Joe to his friends -- has reached the pinnacle of success. He is rich, well-traveled, a tremendously successful, oft-married lawyer, owner of a large estate, and now, newly married to a woman young en...

  • Manhunt, June 1953

    A replica of the June 1953 issue of MANHUNT digest magazine featuring FAR CRY by Henry Kane, HOT-ROCK RUMBLE by Richard S. Prather, THE LOYAL ONE by Richard Deming, THE DOUBLE FRAME by Harold Q. Masur, SMALL HOMICIDE by Evan Hunter, THE FACELESS MAN ...

  • Frozen Echoes

  • Whispers of the Obsidian Manor



  • A Kind of Rape

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Henry Kane has published 30 books.

Henry Kane does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Whispers of the Obsidian Manor, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Henry Kane, One Little Bullet, was published in April 1952.

No. Henry Kane does not write books in series.
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