Good Reads - Fiction

Mystery

Historical Mysteries in Series: Early 1930s – 1950s

All titles are shelved in the Mystery section of the library and are the first in each series in the Downers Grove Public Library's collection.

M/ADAMS
Adams, Harold - Fourth Widow - 1986, 195p.
When: 1930s
Where: Corden, SD
Who: Carl Wilcox, Private Eye

M/COBB
Cobb, James H. - West on 66 - 1999, 261p.
When: 1958
Where: Route 66, USA
Who: Kevin Pulaski, L.A. County Deputy Sheriff

M/COLLINS
Collins, Max Allan - Dark City - 1987, 233p.
When: 1930s
Where: Cleveland, Ohio
Who: Eliot Ness, Director of Public Safety, Cleveland, former Chief Agent, U. S. Treasury Department's Alcohol Tax Unit

M/COLLINS
Collins, Max Allan - Dying in the Post-War World - 1991, 251p.
When: 1940s
Where: Chicago
Who: Nathan Heller, Private Detective

M/EDDENDEN
Eddenden, A.E. - A Good Year for Murder - 1988, 178p.
When: 1940
Where: Fort York, Ontario. Canada
Who: Inspector Albert V. Tretheway and Constable Jake Small, Traffic Department

M/GORMAN
Gorman, Ed - The Day the Music Died - 1999, 210p.
When: 1958
Where: Black River Falls, Iowa
Who: Sam McCain, lawyer, investigator

M/GOULART
Goulart, Ron - Groucho Marx, Private Eye - 1999, 263p.
When: 1938
Where: Hollywood
Who: Groucho Marx, comedian, and Frank Denby, scriptwriter

M/HOPKINS
Hopkins, Roland - Snowball in Hell - 1999, 230p.
When: 1945
Where: Boston
Who: Jonathan Dark, private eye

M/JANES
Janes, J. Robert - Mirage - 1992, 272p.
When: 1942
Where: Paris
Who: Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Sûreté, and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo

M/KAMINSKY
Kaminsky, Stuart - High Midnight - 1981, 188p.
When: 1942
Where: Mostly in and near Los Angeles
Who: Toby Peters, private eye

M/KUHLKEN
Kuhlken, Ken - Loud Adios - 1991, 217p.
When: 1940s
Where: Tijuana
Who: Tom Hickey, military police border guard, private eye

M/KURLAND
Kurland, Michael - Too Soon Dead - 1997, 238p.
When: 1930s
Where: Manhattan
Who: Morgan DeWitt, assistant to columnist, Alexander Brass

M/MATTHEWS
Matthews, Greg - Far from Heaven - 1997, 302p.
When: 1940s
Where: Hollywood
Who: Keith Moody, screenwriter

M/MOSELEY
Mosley, Walter - Devil in a Blue Dress - 1990, 219p.
When: 1948
Where: Los Angeles
Who: Easy Rawlins, out of work WW2 veteran, hired by gangster to investigate

M/NOLAN
Nolan, William F. - Sharks Never Sleep - 1998, 242p.
When: 1940s
Where: California
Who: Erle Stanley Gardner, author

M/ROOSEVELT
Roosevelt, Elliott - Murder and the First Lady - 1987, 227p.
When: 1939
Where: Washington, D. C.
Who: Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States

M/SCHUNK
Schunk, Laurel - Black and Secret Midnight - 1998, 239p.
When: 1950s
Where: Georgia
Who: Beth Ann Crane, 12-year-old student

M/SKINNER
Skinner, Robert - Skin Deep, Blood Red - 1997, 247p.
When: 1936
Where: New Orleans
Who: Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner

M/STRUNK
Strunk, Frank C. - Jordon's Wager - 1991, 241p.
When: 1933
Where: Eastern Kentucky
Who: Berkley Jordon, Deputy Sheriff

Prepared by Carol Yarmolich, November 2001