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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1982
  • Latest Book:
    November 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Jane Turner and Phil Beaumont

1 - Escapade (Jul-1995)
2 - Masquerade (Jul-1998)
3 - Cavalcade (Feb-2005)

Joshua Croft

1 - Wall of Glass (Feb-1988)
2 - At Ease With the Dead (Apr-1990)
3 - A Flower in the Desert (Aug-1992)
4 - The Hanged Man (Sep-1993)
5 - Accustomed to the Dark (Nov-1996)

Miss Lizzie

1 - Miss Lizzie (Aug-1989)
2 - New York Nocturne: The Return of Miss Lizzie (Jun-2016)

Book List in Order: 20 titles





  • JOSHUA CROFT WASN'T LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. IT JUST MANAGED TO FIND HIM. While Santa Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft wasn't exactly comfortable fencing a stolen diamond necklace ... he did have a living to make. But when the small-time cow...



  • When her neighbor is brutally hacked to death, the infamous Lizze Borden becomes the prime suspect. In her search for the real killer, she uncovers not only the secrets that lie beneath the sleepy surface of a small seaside town, but finally the trut...



  • Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft is hired to find the lost remains of a Navajo leader and return them to their proper burial site. The bones disappeared over sixty years ago under bizarre circumstance, which, in turn, led to a murder that r...



  • In this perfect blend of mystery, satire and travelogue, Satterthwait ( At Ease with the Dead ) follows Oscar Wilde in his 1882 lecture tour through the American West. Wilde greatly amuses his audiences and Elizabeth McCourt Doe in particular, initia...



  • BAD VIBES Santa Fe private investigator Josh Croft doesn't like his new case. .. or Roy Alonzo. The actor's messy divorce had made headlines when his ex-wife, Melissa, accused him of molesting their daughter. Now, mother and child have disappeared...



  • BAD KARMA At a dinner party for Santa Fe's leading New Age healers, Quentin Bouvier, a magician and possibly a reincarnated Egyptian pharoah, is murdered. The cops have a good case against Giacomo Bernardi, a Tarot card reader believed to have kille...



  • It's the summer of 1921. At a weekend party in an English country manor, the discovery of a dead body in a locked room pits the minds of a brilliant escape artist and a famous detective novelist against that of a fiendishly clever murderer. Will an A...







  • When Rita Mondragon is shot by the same psychopath who nearly killed her six years earlier, it's a nightmare revisited for both Rita and Joshua Croft, friend, business partner and lover. As Rita hovers near death, Joshua begins a harrowing cross-coun...



  • In an elegant Paris hotel room, the carpet was white, the bed, covers white, and the blood of dilettante Richard Forsythe and his German mistress a ghastly touch of red. Noting the lingering traces of lovemaking and the door bolted from within, the p...



  • A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...



  • An original short story featuring hero Joshua Croft by Walter Satterthwait accompanies two full-length novels--Barbara Burnett Smith's Mistletoe From Purple Sage and Ransom for a Holiday by Fred Hunter, in a collection of holiday myst...



  • Fourteen masters of the mystery and suspense genre--including Jan Burke, Carolyn Hart, Simon Brett, and Edward Marston--each contribute an individual chapter to a round robin mystery about a weekend house party in a small English village that is turn...



  • Pinkerton agents Jane Turner and Philip Beaumont have just finished another difficult assignment abroad; now the office is sending them to Germany. Their job: to find the assassin who almost succeeded in killing Adolf Hitler when he was in Berlin. ...



  • Walter Satterthwait gives his readers a feast of different flavors. His modern-day private-eye series was followed by his historical mysteries. In real life, Lizzie Borden may actually have killed her parents, but Satterthwait turns her into a high-s...



  • A VARIETY OF MURDERS Walter Satterthwait is one of the finest and most versatile of mystery writers. This collection includes stories about the Neanderthal sleuth, Berthold the Mead Master narrated by his faithful companion Doder, Watt's son; Lord By...



  • A VARIETY OF MURDERS Walter Satterthwait is one of the finest and most versatile of mystery writers. This collection includes stories about the Neanderthal sleuth, Berthold the Mead Master narrated by his faithful companion Doder, Watt's son; Lord By...



  • Lizzie Borden and Amanda Burton reunite to solve the case of a grisly murder among Jazz Age New York’s elite in this riveting mystery from bestselling author Walter Satterthwait. Sixteen-year-old Amanda is spending the summer with her suave and ...






  • In this issue, pioneering TV writer and producer April Kelly opens with a wicked story that may remind you to pay attention to what you eat. Brendan DuBois appears with the story of an assassination and its aftermath—from the killer's point of...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Walter Satterthwait has published 20 books.

Walter Satterthwait does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Down & Out, was published in November 2019.

The first book by Walter Satterthwait, The Aegean Affair, was published in May 1982.

Yes. Walter Satterthwait has 3 series.