Nameless Detective mysteries
2) The vanished
9) Dragonfire
16) Shackles
20) Epitaphs
25) Boobytrap
Few characters have the loyal readership of Bill Pronzini's "Nameless Detective." The fourteen stories in this collection span his entire thirty-five-year life on the printed page. They include "It's a Lousy World," where Nameless proves that a friend did not commit the crime he was accused of; "Dead Man's Slough" and "The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch," which take him out of San Francisco into the hinterlands; and "Souls Burning," where he tries
...35) Betrayers
36) Camouflage
37) Hellbox
38) Nemesis
39) Strangers
41) Endgame
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 41
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 40
42) Case file
It was fifteen years ago when the big, sort-of-sloppy, brew-loving P.I. appeared on the scene, dazzling readers with keen solutions to seemingly unsolvable crimes. And just as his disheveled demeanor gave no hint of the brilliant mind that lay behind it, his lack of a moniker said nothing about his rising popularity with mystery readers everywhere.