Richard Deming

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2011
  • Latest Book:
    January 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Manville Moon, Detective

1 - The Juarez Knife (Feb-2018)
2 - The Man Who Chose the Devil (Feb-2018)
3 - A Shot in the Arm (Mar-2018)
5 - Big Shots Die Young (Mar-2018)
6 - Five O'Clock Shroud (Mar-2018)
7 - Pay Up or Die (Mar-2018)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Tweak the Devil's Nose

    It was just Manny Moon's luck - or misfortune - that he decided to dine at El Patio the evening the Lieutenant Governor was shot....

  • This Game of Murder

    A hard-hitting story of a woman trapped by violence and terror....

  • Anything But Saintly

    The violent death of a call girl leads to all-out war on the underworld. A mystery novel classic by Ricahrd Deming....

  • Body For Sale

    Tom Cavanaugh never quarreled about the means involved, just so long as the end was worth grabbing for. He was about to get fired when he blackmailed his boss into making him district sales manager. Helen Mathews was no lily-white, either. She was ri...

  • Death of a Pusher

    One surprise deserves another.“Think you’ll need any help, Sergeant?” Lieutenant Wynn asked Matt Rudd.“I don’t think so, sir,” Rudd said.“Kuzniki is a dangerous, but he doesn’t know I’m here.”“O.K.,” Wynn said. “I’m going ...

  • Edge of the Law

    Jud Sands lived on the edge of the law. When he blew into Ridgeford he had exactly twenty-four dollars in his pocket - it had cost a lot of money just to stay alive after he’d been fingered by Big Mark Fallon . . .But he had his gun.He had his wits...

  • Fall Girl

    Velda toyed with men. Sometimes she gave them what they wanted - sometimes not. But her games were somewhat limited by her marriage. For every time her husband found out about one of her flings, there were jealous rages. If he got mad enough, no allo...

  • Hit and Run

    He never should have gotten into it in the first place. But when you need money, sometimes you do things you wouldn't ordinarily think of doing. Nothing illegal, nothing like blackmail, something just a shade this side. At least that was the way Barn...

  • She'll Hate Me Tomorrow

    If someone had told Gamble Clancy Ross that a stenographer -- just out of secretarial school, at that -- could start a gang war, he would have grinned and suggested an immediate sojourn in a mental institution for the prognosticator.Even if that same...



  • Vice Cop

    Matt Rudd is a vice cop in St. Cecilia. He's seen it all -- drugs, prostitution, gangs. But the worst were the thrill parties -- especially the one that ended in murder!...

  • Juvenile Delinquent

    Manny Moon, the agile one-legged detective, is back on a case involving the son of his old friend Ed Brighton.Young Joe Brighton had been found by the police standing over the dead body of Bart Meyers, president of the Purple Pelicans - a juvenile ga...

  • No Pockets in a Shroud

    One-legged detective Manville "Manny" Moon returns for the fourth classic case! "Manville 'Manny' Moon is one of the great unknown series eyes that somehow slipped through the cracks. He's tough, honest and handy with the wisecracks, but he's a whol...

  • Dragnet: The Case of the Courteous Killer

    The first two bodies were found in Lovers' Lane. The man was dead. His girlfriend, still alive, described the stick-up artist as of medium build, wearing glasses, mild-mannered, and courteous. If was a description that fit half the male population of...

  • Pacific Standoff

    After the horror of Pearl Harbor, American forces in the Pacific had a long way to come back. With the nucleus of their battleship and carrier fleet destroyed, they had to rely on the much-scorned submarines of the Silent Service. Jack McCrary, like...

  • This Is My Night

    Casey Denver, soldier of fortune, is back from helping Castro win his revolution, and he knows a secret. A Group of Batista bandits are hiding out with four million dollars stolen from the Cuban treasury. Casey wants that four million, and three beau...

  • The Juarez Knife

    Manville Moon, Detective - 1

    When Lawrence Randall offers detective Manville "Manny" Moon a cool $1,500 for a couple days low-risk work, he should have known there would be a catch. And sure enough, there is -- enough that he should have charged double... Moon doesn't put up wit...

  • The Man Who Chose the Devil

    Manville Moon, Detective - 2

    One-legged detective Manville "Manny" Moon returns for the second classic case! "Manville 'Manny' Moon is one of the great unknown series eyes that somehow slipped through the cracks. He's tough, honest and handy with the wisecracks, but he's a whol...

  • Big Shots Die Young

    Manville Moon, Detective - 5

    One-legged detective Manville "Manny" Moon returns for the fifth classic case!

    "Manville 'Manny' Moon is one of the great unknown series eyes that somehow slipped through the cracks. He's tough, honest and handy with the wisecracks, but he's a whol...

  • Five O'Clock Shroud

    Manville Moon, Detective - 6

    One-legged detective Manville "Manny" Moon returns for the sixth classic case! "Manville 'Manny' Moon is one of the great unknown series eyes that somehow slipped through the cracks. He's tough, honest and handy with the wisecracks, but he's a whole...



  • Pay Up or Die

    Manville Moon, Detective - 7

    One-legged detective Manville Manny Moon returns for the seventh classic case! Manville 'Manny' Moon is one of the great unknown series eyes that somehow slipped through the cracks. He's tough, honest and handy with the wisecracks, but he's a whole ...

  • A Shot in the Arm

    Manville Moon, Detective - 3

    One-legged detective Manville "Manny" Moon returns for the third classic case! "Manville 'Manny' Moon is one of the great unknown series eyes that somehow slipped through the cracks. He's tough, honest and handy with the wisecracks, but he's a whole...

  • Un-Dressed to Kill

    When Clancy Ross hires a new woman to work in his night club, he gets more than he bargained for. She has a secret that just might get her dead...and Ross, too!...

  • The Case of the Crime King

    A new Joe Friday detective story, taken from the files of the Los Angeles police. In The Case of the Crime King, by Richard Deming, Lieutenant Joe Friday knew who the Crime King was and how he operated -- but not where he was. And the victims wouldn&...

  • A Medal for Don Carlos

    When General Don Carlos Garcia, a ruthless dictator, learns of a miraculous St. Christopher's medal which has saved its owner from disaster many times, he determines to have it -- at any cost....

  • The Gallows in My Garden

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    ''The gallows in my garden, people say,Is new and neat and adequately tall.I tie the noose on in a knowing wayAs one that knots his necktie for a ball;But just as all the neighbors . . . on the wail . . .Are drawing a long breath to shout 'Hurray!'Th...

  • Give the Girl a Gun

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    Manny Moon is back! (also published as Whistle Past the Graveyard)...

  • Kiss and Kill

    • / Historical Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    He had found her in a quiet bar -- a sulky-mouthed, awkward, green-eyed kid trying desperately to pick up a man. He taught her how to dress, to walk, to laugh, made her into the kind of woman who makes every man reach into his pocket for hundred-doll...

  • Vice-Cop

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    "Are you just going to stand there," Sharon asked the vice cop, "or do you want to join in the game?" It was in the line of duty, Matt kept telling himself as he played at love with the wild teenager. Just enough to gain her confidence - and an i...

  • Women

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Deming has published 29 books.

Richard Deming does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Medal for Don Carlos, was published in January 2019.

The first book by Richard Deming, Tweak the Devil's Nose, was published in December 2011.

Yes. Richard Deming has 1 series.
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