Michael Zimmer

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1988
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Two-Bit Street Mystery

1 - The Rule of Unorthodox Men (Aug-2025)
2 - Six on a Needle (Sep-2025)

Books in Order: 24 titles

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  • Six on a Needle

    A Two-Bit Street Mystery - 2

     Two-Bit Street, 1946Where sin is cheap.And death is cheaper.  Private investigator Lafayette Dole isn't expecting company when a terrified, middle-aged accountant named Simon Tully—a family man with more information on the mob t...

  • The Rule of Unorthodox Men

    A Two-Bit Street Mystery - 1

    Private detective Layfette Lafe Doyle wasn't prepared for the cesspool of crime and corruption he was about to step into when he was hired to investigate the disappearance of a local prostitute. It's 1945, and 25st Street-aka Two-Bit Street-is the ce...

  • The Devil by His Horns

    Wrangler and Spur Award-winning author Michael Zimmer brings us another page-turning American historical fiction novel.Sergeant Andrew Cade and seven troopers are hard on the trail of the Hollister Gang, determined to free a trio of women Ben Hollist...

  • Fire Mountain and Other Survival Stories

  • Villa Lobos

  • Hard Ride Across Texas

    Wrangler and Spur Award-winning author Michael Zimmer brings us another page-turning American historical fiction novel. Nineteen-year-old Gage Pardell didn't intend to kill Henry Kalb when he rode into Shelburn, Texas, to confront the son of the c...

  • The Trading Post and Other Frontier Stories

    The Trading Post and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features fourteen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier thr...

  • Billy Pinto's War

    In 1904, sixteen-year-old Billy Pinto watches as the three men accused of murdering his Shoshone mother are set free, simply because the judge and prosecuting attorney don’t believe they can successfully try white men for the killing of an Indian. ...

  • The Rusted Sun

    Gil Ryan is nearly dead from starvation and hypothermia when he stumbles into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a blizzard. Owing his life to a kindly doctor and a widowed mother, Gil soon finds himself drawn into a bloody range war ...



  • Charlie Red

    Tom Slade is riding shotgun for the Colorado and Prescott Stagecoach Company, in charge of delivering $45,000 in cash to the mines in central Arizona, when the stage is robbed at an isolated way station. Most men would have gone on to Prescott for he...

  • Miami Gundown

    "I've got something I want to say right up front," says Boone McCallister, as he speaks into an Edison Dictaphone in 1937, "and that is that I did not feed David Klee to an alligator. That damned rumor has hounded me my whole life." Back in 1864,...

  • The Poacher's Daughter

    In 1885, young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory. Penniless and illiterate, ...

  • Leaving Yuma

    Adapting surviving transcripts from the American Legends Collection (ALC) created in 1936 as part of the Federal Writers Project of the WPA, Zimmer weaves the story of J.T. Latham, incarcerated in Yuma Territory Penitentiary, and Sheriff Del Buchman ...

  • Rio Tinto

    Wil Chama was interviewed in 1938 as a contributor to the American Legends Collection a part of the Federal Writers Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone he narrated the events of his life. His personal narrative included his involvement as a s...

  • Beneath a Hunter's Moon

    Big John McTavish has been hunting and trading among the métis buffalo hunters of the Red River Valley for more than thirty years. He's a trusted member of the half-breed nation, and a leader of the mixed-bloods' twice-yearly buffalo hunts. But when...

  • City of Rocks

                                       
    Booklist Top Ten Western for 2012
    Western Writers of America 2012 Spur Finalist Winner


    Excerpt from Federal Writers Project 1938 Joseph Roper Dictaphone Intervi...

  • The Long Hitch

    In 1874 Utah territory, young teamster Buck McCready becomes wagon boss for the Kavanaugh freight outfit after his mentor, Mason Campbell, is murdered. With the Kavanaugh outfit engaged in a wagon train race that will decide whether Kavanaugh or a co...

  • Wild Side of the River

    Ethan Wilder has been off in the mountains hunting for the last several months. He is the eldest son of Jacob Wilder, owner of the Bar Five Ranch. Jacob runs a few head of cattle to pay the bills and keep the family stocked in what can't be raised, h...

  • Johnny Montana

    In the Redhawk Mining District, he is known as Johnny Montana. It is the name given to him by those who followed him to the Northwest gold fields in the spring of 1863. Now, with a harsh Montana winter about to descend upon them, all Johnny and his p...



  • Where the Buffalo Roam

    Raised among the wild tribes, Clay Little Bull--an outcast among the whites, blacks, and Indians--is faced with harsh prejudice and lawlessness and joins forces with buffalo hunter Ty Calhoun to find a place where he belongs. Reprint....

  • Fandango

    In a saga of the Old West, a group of young mountain men contends with horse thieves, treachery, a merciless climate, and a renegade Indian warlord in their quest for the beaver pelts that could make them rich...

  • Cottonwood Station

    Holed up in a stone fortress in the middle of a dusty wilderness with a gang of cutthroats on the run from the law on the inside with them, a war party of Cheyenne bent on revenge haunting the barren hills surrounding them. Only one man who knows wha...

  • Dust and Glory

    When Jesse Ross was eighteen he was forced to learn firsthand that a person's life could be changed irrevocably by one deed -- and the endless chain of events this original act sets into motion. That was something Jesse's neighbor Gray Fletcher had e...

  • Sundown

    Hell had come a-callin' on the remote cattletown of Sand Creek, Nebraska Territory. Wide-spread rustling from the area's ranches were about to destroy the local cattle industry, and the recently opened Black Hills, with its gold camps like Custer Cit...

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Michael Zimmer has published 24 books.

Michael Zimmer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Six on a Needle, was published in September 2025.

The first book by Michael Zimmer, Sundown, was published in March 1988.

Yes. Michael Zimmer has 1 series.
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