Lloyd Biggle Jr.

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1963
  • Latest Book:
    January 2019
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Full Series List in Order

A Jan Darzek Novel

The Whirligig of Time (Jun-2001)

A Pletcher and Lambert Mystery

1 - Interface for Murder (Oct-1987)
2 - Hazard of Losers (Nov-1991)
3 - Where Dead Soldiers Walk (Jul-1994)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • All the Colors of Darkness

    When the Universal Transmitting Company finally perfected a matter transmitter capable of sending a person instantly from terminals scattered throughout the United States to any major city in foreign countries, it seemed like man's ultimate conqu...

  • The Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations

    This volume collects 9 classic science fiction stories by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Included are: "The Rule of the Door," "Petty Larceny," "On the Dotted Line," "Judgement Day," "Secret Weapon," "The Perfect Punish...

  • The World Menders

    Branoff IV is a planet famous for its aristocratic culture and mistreatment of its indigenous population. When Cedd Farrari and a team of Cultural Survey experts are sent to Branoff IV to help bring about a shift to democratic goverment, the world se...

  • This Darkening Universe

    Sweeping through the Small Magellanic Cloud, leaving a trail of ravished worlds and destroyed civilization, is the Udef -- the Unidentified Death Force. The best scientific minds of two galaxies can make nothing of it. The Udef is invisible. No scien...

  • Porter Jones His Late Assistant

  • The Quallsford Inheritance

    Edward Porter Jones completes his apprenticeship to Sherlock Holmes when Holmes involves himself and Porter in something that exposes them to the strange Emmeline Quallsford, a young lady with a crushing burden...

  • Interface for Murder

    A Pletcher and Lambert Mystery - 1

    When a high school computer genius is murdered after he claims to have written a program that will identify the slasher, who has attacked five local college students, Jay Pletcher is hired to find the killer...

  • The Glendower Conspiracy

  • Eye for Eye // The Tunesmith

    A teenager who has the ability to kill people without touching them tries to escape from those who want to use his power for their own purposes, and the last true musician on Earth uses his music to fight the enforced mediocrity of the Performers' Gu...



  • Hazard of Losers

    A Pletcher and Lambert Mystery - 2

  • Where Dead Soldiers Walk

    A Pletcher and Lambert Mystery - 3

    In Napoleon Corners, Georgia, an eccentric town where the Civil War is still being fought, detectives J. Pletcher and Raina Lambert investigate the disappearance of the grandson of a wealthy man who thinks he is a Confederate general...

  • Watchers of the Dark

    Sinister, invisible forces of a secret mental weapon known only as The Dark are threatening the entire Primores galaxy, several transmitting leaps away from Earth. By the time a bizarre Mr. Smith comes to detective Jan Darzek's New York office, whole...

  • The Fury Out of Time

    "The object arrived without warning, tearing a spiral path of devastation across the rural landscape. After the explotion, searchers sifted through the immense pile of debris ... to discover a fantastically instrumented capsule, and a strangely human...

  • The Light That Never Was

  • Monument

    Monument is a science fiction novel about destructive tourism -- a serious subject, but as usual with Biggle, handled in a lighter vein, and at times frankly humorous. A classic science fiction novel from the author of ALL THE COLORS OF DARKNESS....

  • Silence is Deadly

    Twenty agents of the Galactic Sythesis are missing on the Silent Planet of Kamm -- the victims, it seems, of the most powerful death ray the universe has ever known. But how could the primitive technology of the Kammians have produced such a weapon? ...

  • The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets

    The IPR Bureau (whose motto is "Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny") works to bring newly discovered planets up to the point where they have a planetary democratic government and then induct them into the galactic ...

  • A Galaxy of Strangers

  • The Whirligig of Time

    A Jan Darzek Novel

    Jan Darzek, former private detective from Earth and now First Councilor of the Galaxy, has encountered his most baffling case. The planet Nifron D has been inexplicably turned into a sun. A quarter of a galaxy away, a native on the planet Skarnaf has...



  • The Chronocide Mission

    His name was Vladislav Kuznetsov, and he had been a twenty-one-year-old student at Mount Harwell College in Mount Harwell, Ohio. On a Friday afternoon, March 24, 2001, he succumbed to a sudden attack of spring fever and cut his classes for a stroll i...

  • The Metallic Muse

    Lloyd Biggie is not only a writer, but also a musician. In THE METALLIC MUSE he has included seven science fiction stories, written over several years, all of which in some way relate to the arts. Thoroughly entertaining and provocative, many of the ...

  • The World That Death Made

    "First came pounding pain: blunt strokes of a relentless bludgeon that slowly ground Caland's brain cells to a pasty slime. When finally the brutal throbbing diminished, a searing rapier of blinding pain probed with fiery slashes, isolating, cauteriz...

  • Ordeal by Terror

    "The top drawer of the second cabinet felt empty as she began to pull it open, but she never saw its interior. The floor dropped from under her. As she fell, she clutched wildly at the handle of the cabinet’s drawer, but her grip had been too l...

  • Murder Applied for

    The patrol car swerved, came to a halt; Ron Webber opened his eyes and looked about dazedly: "Where are we?" "Municipal Hospital," the officer said. The ceremony was brief: the sheet was raised, and Webber glanced and nodded: "It&...

  • Byways to Evil

    "The year was 1900, the place was London, and the night, an unusually warm one for September, began and ended with horrors. I was caught up in them almost without warning as I turned into a narrow, poorly lit, cobbled lane and instinctively slowed my...

  • The Best of Biggle

    Before his death in 2002, Dr. Lloyd Biggle, Jr. compiled a list of his early science fiction stories that he considered his finest works. His children, Kenneth Lloyd Biggle and Donna Biggle, have meticulously transcribed them from their original maga...

  • Murder in the Maze

    In the first place, Grandfather Rastin never should have bought that house in Wiston. It happened several years ago, when he was only about seventy-eight, but even so he was old enough to know better. He admits that himself. In the second place, he ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lloyd Biggle Jr. has published 27 books.

Lloyd Biggle Jr. does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder in the Maze, was published in January 2019.

The first book by Lloyd Biggle Jr., All the Colors of Darkness, was published in December 1963.

Yes. Lloyd Biggle Jr. has 2 series.
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