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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1987
  • Latest Book:
    July 2014
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Full Series List in Order

A Jack Kilgore Key West Mystery

1 - The Nickel Jolt (Feb-2013)
2 - Same Old Sun, Same Old Moon (Mar-2013)

A Mitch Roberts Mystery

1 - Hot Summer, Cold Murder (Apr-1987)
2 - Cold Cash (Nov-1987)
3 - Snake Eyes (Sep-1987)
4 - Bonepile (Jul-1988)
5 - Muscle and Blood (Feb-1989)
6 - Disheveled City (Feb-1990)
7 - A Penny for the Old Guy (Nov-1991)
8 - Rude Boys (Nov-1992)
9 - The World Beat (Dec-1993)
10 - Samedi's Knapsack (May-2001)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • DEAD HEAT A heat wave hit Wichita and private eye Mitch Roberts was steamed. He'd been planning on a cold beer and the ball game when the call came in. The guy on the phone sounded as inviting as a dame with a headache but Roberts headed his Ford ou...



  • Private detective Mitch Roberts attempts to discover who killed two of Jules Reynard's valuable colts and tried to poison Reynard, and as he uncovers evidence of illegal activities undertaken by Reynard, Roberts finds his own life endangered...



  • When a young unmarried mom finds her baby kidnapped, Roberts uncovers a dangerous illegal adoption ring run by one of Wichita’s notorious gang figures.Gaylord Dold is the author of fifteen works of fiction including the highly acclaimed private det...



  • One beautiful summer Mitch Roberts is visiting his grandmother in a small Kansas town. A young girl there wants Roberts to help free her brother who has been on death row for fourteen years. The girl insists her brother did not commit the crime. So, ...



  • A car bomb kills the woman Roberts has been hired to protect against threats. The trail of clues leads Roberts to Reno and a casino and brothel run by gangsters who have left a trail of murder that leads back to Wichita.Gaylord Dold is the author of ...



  • One cold winter a woman is found dead on her kitchen floor. Unfortunately, detective Mitch Roberts had once had a brief affair with the woman and becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation.Gaylord Dold is the author of fifteen works of ficti...



  • While in London attending a veterans convention, Roberts visits his war-time romance Amanda. When Amanda’s young son is drowned in the River Cam in Cambridge, Roberts goes to work. But, surprisingly, the mystery takes Roberts to Amsterdam where pol...



  • While living in London, Roberts does “off the books” work for a lawyer named Hillary Root. When Root’s half-brother is murdered in a London hospital bed, Roberts must travel to Kingston, Jamaica to find the murderer.Gaylord Dold is the author o...



  • Mr. Winks and readers everywhere can only be impressed and delighted with this new adventure of Dold's vulnerable and complex private eye, Mitch Roberts, a thoughtful and sensitive man who can be tough when tested. For while The World Beat is a novel...






  • In a Texas setting where oil rigs stand idle and shrimp fishing has dwindled, Vietnamese refugees and locals exist in uneasy proximity, and sheriff Tom Poole is awakened from his sleepwalking existence by the death of an old fisherman...



  • While working undercover, San Francisco police officer Grace Chu learns that her corrupt superior is willing to sell her out and must outwit the corrupt official to arrest the head drug lord in Chinatown...




  • When lawyer Jack Darwin, whose career and life have seriously hit the skids, finds himself accused of a brutal rape and murder, he feels lucky to accept the proffered help of fellow attorney David Avila, until Jack becomes suspicious of Avila's true ...



  • After a long stay abroad and a love affair that fell apart, Mitch Roberts is headed home. Back to his ranch, his horses, and maybe - or maybe not - to being a private eye again. But if Roberts is looking forward to an uneventful life, he has farther ...



  • almer, a Marine based in California, has been railroaded to jail by his crooked sergeant. He manages to escape and, leaving his pregnant girlfriend, reluctantly flees to Mexico. Now, seven years later, ex-Sergeant Wilde is a rich drug dealer, selling...



  • This page-turning thriller evocatively depicts a corrupt and desolate Berlin at that turning point in history when Hitler is on the cusp of taking power. It is the story of Detective Harry Wulff, a member of an elite police force, who is assigned to ...



  • Nuclear disaster, crime, climate change and crumbling borders have reduced the United States in 2092 to a disorganized dystopia. What was once Los Angeles is now a vague area known as the Basin Security Zone where economic activity is controlled by T...



  • Retired from Marine Intelligence, Stanford-educated Jack Kilgore moves to Key West for a quiet life of fishing and part-time security work. When an anti-death penalty lawyer named Lester Dodge asked Kilgore to help save a condemned murderer who is on...



  • Elaine Jorgenson is a wealthy Key West real estate developer whose second husband is gambler Kevin Terminadi. When Jorgenson wants to bring a gambling casino to a popular Key West beach front property, citizens unite against it. Jack Kilgore, an ex-M...






  • Retired from Marine Intelligence, Stanford-educated Jack Kilgore moves to Key West for a quiet life of fishing and part-time security work. When an anti-death penalty lawyer named Lester Dodge asked Kilgore to help save a condemned murderer who is...



  • Living alone with his state-ranger mother in Thermopolis, Wyoming, young Nick yearns to know what’s become of his father who abandoned the family for the oil fields of Alaska. Not far away on the Shoshone Reservation in the Wind River Mountains, a...



  • The body lay face up in a dark cul-de-sc, eight meters off the Hirrenstrasse. The area -- near Alexanderplatz police headquarters, was a communist neighborhood of brick tenements and wooden slums. Barlach would never have noticed the corpse had he ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gaylord Dold has published 22 books.

Gaylord Dold does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Storm 33, was published in July 2014.

The first book by Gaylord Dold, Hot Summer, Cold Murder, was published in April 1987.

Yes. Gaylord Dold has 2 series.