M. Ruth Myers

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2012
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Maggie Sullivan Mystery

1 - No Game for a Dame (Jan-2012)
2 - Tough Cookie (Jan-2013)
3 - Don't Dare a Dame (Mar-2014)
3.5 - The Barefoot Stiff (Aug-2014)
4 - Shamus in a Skirt (Nov-2015)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • No Game for a Dame

    A Maggie Sullivan Mystery - 1

    Private eye Maggie Sullivan knows the streets of Depression-era Dayton, Ohio, as well as she knows an emery board. With a gin bottle in her desk, a .38 under her seat, and a great pair of legs she can hold her own against the toughest opponent. Then ...

  • Tough Cookie

    A Maggie Sullivan Mystery - 2

    When Depression-era private eye Maggie Sullivan is invited to dine with a millionaire, she doesn’t expect the first course to be a gun in her face. It draws her into a gold-plated web of theft, revenge, double crosses and murder.A big-time swindle ...

  • Don't Dare a Dame

    A Maggie Sullivan Mystery - 3

    Depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan risks losing her P.I. license -- and her life -- when two spinsters hire her to learn the fate of their father, who vanished twenty-six years earlier. She’s barely started when her main suspec...

  • The Barefoot Stiff

    A Maggie Sullivan Mystery - 3.5

    Depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan knows how to be tough when she needs to and polish her nails when she doesn’t. She’s drawn into a stranger’s murder in this SHORT STORY featuring characters from the Maggie Sullivan mystery n...

  • A Touch of Magic

    A dazzling sleight-of-hand artist is recruited by the State Department to pit her skills â€" and wits â€" against a master terrorist. He’s about to receive a piece of stolen film used to make US passports, film that could open the door to terroris...

  • The Whiskey Tide

    In the 1920s, three sheltered sisters from a proper New England family turn rum-runners to provide for their family. Left penniless by their father’s death and a relative’s treachery, they use the family’s pleasure schooner to smuggle whiskey ...

  • Shamus in a Skirt

    A Maggie Sullivan Mystery - 4

    When a man offers 1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan twice her usual fee to look into a "possible" jewelry theft from his hotel safe, she's skeptical - until a maid's body tumbles out of a trash can and a jeweler known for high quality fakes ...

  • A Concrete Garter Belt

    (This SHORT STORY features characters from the author's full-length Maggie Sullivan mystery novels.) The woman with work-roughened hands begs 1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan to find her kid sister, the sister she's raised since the gi...

  • Maximum Moxie

    Days before the Pearl Harbor attack plunges the U.S. into World War II, private eye Maggie Sullivan is hired to find a missing engineer in Dayton, Ohio. Has Gil Tremain been kidnaped, or has he turned traitor -- to his employer and maybe his countr...



  • Dames Fight Harder

    Murderer or independent woman? Murder at a construction site draws Ohio private investigator Maggie Sullivan into a case that makes cops mistrust her and friends doubt her. The suspect, Rachel Minsky, is Maggie’s closest friend â€" and all signs p...

  • The Great Leandro's Treasure

    Emily’s family thinks she just imagined a prowler snooping around the old house they’re moving into. That leaves it up to Emily and her new friend Russell to prove there really is someone sneaking around â€" and figure out what he’s hunting. Co...

  • Uncivil Defense

    At the end of Dayton’s first WWII blackout drill, a murder victim is found with private investigator Maggie Sullivan’s name and address in his pocket. Hours earlier he sat in her office asking for help â€" and using a different identity.With the...

  • Ration of Lies

    As WWII rages in the Pacific, relatives of a Japanese-American suspected of starting a fatal fire hire Ohio private investigator Maggie Sullivan to uncover the truth. Did he do it? Is he alive or dead? The police claim not to know what became of him,...

  • The Deadly Redheads

    With World War II rationing making new tires unavailable, 1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan needs a retread tire to keep her DeSoto rolling through city streets, not a confrontation with two killers. Unfortunately for  the scrappy Ohio ...

  • Victory Garter

    The brutal hit-skip death of a young woman is being written off as an accident until 1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan finds signs pointing to murder. Charlotte Littlefield, a girl with a past was about to marry into one of Dayton, Ohio's, m...

  • A Dame Worth Killing

     The distraught mother begging1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan for help is married to a crime boss who has plenty of reasons to want the detective dead. His past clashes with Maggie left both nursing simmering resentments. And Maggie k...

  • A Penny Earned

    1950s WYOMING. AN OHIO PRIVATE EYE. A FRIEND'S MURDER. Private investigator Heebs Kelly, a breezy young WWII veteran, arrives in Cheyenne expecting to go into business with an Army buddy, not find him brutally murdered at his desk. The police ar...

Award-Winning Books by M. Ruth Myers

Don't Dare a Dame
2014 Shamus Award -- Indie P.I. Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

M. Ruth Myers has published 17 books.

M. Ruth Myers does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Penny Earned, was published in April 2023.

The first book by M. Ruth Myers, No Game for a Dame, was published in January 2012.

Yes. M. Ruth Myers has 1 series.
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