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  • The American Magazine was a glossy, lavishly illustrated slick aimed primarily at middle class women readers, filled not only with dastardly murders, but beautiful women and handsome men living the high life, the sweet spice of romance adding to the ...



  • A "drastic domestic mystery story verging on nightmare" from the Edgar Award -- winning author of the Peter Duluth series (Tatler).   Struggling artist John Hamilton is a man living a lie. Since moving to the small New England town of S...



  • A chance meeting with an ex throws a man's current marriage into turmoil, from the author "in the very first line of detective-story writers" (Sphere).   On the surface, Bill Harding has landed on his feet. After failing as a writer and...



  • A "hard to solve and easy to read" mystery from the Edgar Award -- winning author of the Peter Duluth series (Kirkus Reviews).   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective nov...



  • From the Edgar Award -- winning author of the Peter Duluth Mysteries comes an electrifying thriller of one man's desperate search for his missing wife.   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned ...



  • The Edgar Award -- winning author of the Peter Duluth series delivers a taut mystery of a mild-mannered man out to prove himself innocent of murder.   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned out...



  • In this mystery from an Edgar Award -- winning author, sleuth Peter Duluth steps in when his rebellious nephew is charged with murder.   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detec...



  • This Edgar Award -- winning collection from the author behind the Peter Duluth novels delivers "a dozen shock treatments for varying degrees of murder" (Kirkus Reviews).   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle myste...



  • In this mystery from the Edgar Award -- winning author of the Peter Duluth series, Lieutenant Trant investigates the murder of a shady and seductive scoundrel.   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also...






  • The Edgar Award -- winning author of the Peter Duluth series delivers a fun, fast-paced murder mystery set in the heyday of Hollywood.   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detec...



  • She was a starry-eyed innocent, wistful and adoring, moving Peter Duluth, the sophisticated theatrical producer, to a surprising fatherly tenderness -- in the absence of his wife. Then -- in a bizarre and shocking manner -- she revealed the depths of...



  • In this mystery from an Edgar Award -- winning author, sleuth Peter Duluth is caught in "a succession of double takes and double-crosses" (Kirkus Reviews).   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also pen...



  • In this "fun" mystery from an Edgar Award -- winning author, amateur sleuth Peter Duluth learns that divorce can be murder (Kirkus Reviews).   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding...



  • From an Edgar Award -- winning author, sleuth Peter Duluth must drop the curtain on a killer in this "medley of off-stage theatrics with a teaser of a solution" (Kirkus Reviews).   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puz...



  • PETER DULUTH AWOKE TO THE SMELL OF ROSES, BUT MURDER WAS IN THE AIR. His mind swan through waves of amnesia, into the sunsplashed sickroom came three mysterious women. One said she was his mother. A sardonic brunette claimed to be his kid sister. ...



  • In this mystery from an Edgar Award -- winning author, sleuth Peter Duluth must overcome his own demons as he investigates a case south of the border (Kirkus Reviews).   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteri...



  • This first act of a mystery series by an Edgar Award winner, Broadway producer/amateur sleuth Peter Duluth delivers "your money's worth of theatrics" (Kirkus Reviews).   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteri...



  • In this mystery from an Edgar Award -- winning author, Peter Duluth deals with a case of mistaken identities and murder in World War II San Francisco.   Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned o...


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patrick Quentin has published 18 books.

Patrick Quentin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death Freight and Other Murderous Excursions, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Patrick Quentin, Puzzle for Puppets, was published in January 1944.

Yes. Patrick Quentin has 1 series.