Dan J. Marlowe

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    May 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Johnny Killian

Doom Service (Mar-2007)
Doorway to Death (Mar-2007)
Killer with a Key (Mar-2007)
Shake a Crooked Town (Mar-2007)
The Fatal Frails (Mar-2007)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Flashpoint

    I had lived so long on the wrong side of the law I felt out of place as a special undercover agent for Uncle Sam. But I had no choice. One of the top brass in U.S. Intelligence had my number. So we made a deal - his silence for my services in trackin...

  • No Witnesses

    When a strangler begins killing people and the police are unable to solve the crimes, hen-pecked husband Arthur Winn dreams of killing his shrew of a wife and making her look like the strangler's next victim....

  • Devlin Affair

    Ex-FBI agent Lew Devlin, on a special assignment for the Bureau, finds himself on the run through the Mexican countryside with a suitcase full of money and a woman who keeps getting him in and out of trouble...

  • Never Live Twice

    How can a man’s own wife be mixed up in one tawdry scheme after another, right under her husband’s nose, and keep the secret?Ask me -- I’m the husband.It was four years too late when I discovered Louisa was a woman who made her own rules. For e...

  • The Vengeance Man

    In this hard-edged thriller, Jim Wilson is a rough-and-tumble road contractor in Moline, South Carolina, a corrupt place where only the most savage survive. Wilson makes no apologies for his ferocity. Raised by an uncle who regularly whipped him, use...

  • Strongarm

    Meet Pete Karma, the man who broke jail and wound up neck-deep in a gangland bloodbath. Pete had a lot of hate stored up inside. He hadn’t committed the murder he’d been sent up for, and it didn’t take him long to figure out who’d framed him ...

  • Winners and Losers

  • Cloak and Dagger

  • The Name of the Game Is Death

    "Two guys with guts and a go-to-hell-with-you-Jack regard for consequences have about three chances in ten of pulling off a big, well-planned smash-and-grab.  If one of them can shoot like me . . . the odds are a damn sight better."

    In the c...



  • A Game for Fools

    The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and ...

  • Foul Play

  • Doom Service

    Johnny Killian

    It happened in Hotel Duarte, a bullet length from the Great White Way, where life begins at eight-forty - and often ends by midnight with a couple of murders.For instance, the murder of a dumb welterweight who took his dive - and got paid off in lead...

  • Doorway to Death

    Johnny Killian

    On the streets of a big city people smile and the lights are bright. But there is an alley world of darkness, double-dealing and death; in this world you need muscles and brains to take a step -- and only the lucky ones live long.These two worlds mee...

  • The Fatal Frails

    Johnny Killian

    The statue was knee-high, but it carried a fortune in gold and gems, plus centuries of fame in the art world. Everyone wanted it, and for some no price was too high -- love, money, or murder … Then Killain barged in.The redhead made the first pitch...

  • Killer with a Key

    Johnny Killian

    The Kingdom of Killain -- that's the Duarte, a big-city hotel at the crossroads of the world. The grifters, tough lads, girls on the make -- all learn to stay away from Hotel Duarte because Johnny Killain's in charge there. That's his tur...

  • Shake a Crooked Town

    Johnny Killian

    Murder struck first in Hotel Duarte, where Johnny Killain ruled the roost.Here’s Killain, smooth as a ripsaw and gentle as a jackhammer, the happiest avalanche you’ll ever meet, who spends his quiet moments riding herd on the hoods and hopheads, ...

  • Backfire

    STAKEOUT FOR A KILLER They were tough, ambitious cops, Marty Donovan and Tony Alfieri, a good precinct team. They agreed on most things except dames. Tony chased anything in skirts and Marty hated the look on Lenore Alfieri's face every time her husb...

  • One Endless Hour

    One of the most unusual hard-boiled novels, this story traces the efforts of the brutally effective bank robber in Dan Marlowe’s The Name of the Game is Death to recover from devastating fire damage to his face and resume his career. One Endless Ho...

  • Four for the Money

    In the penitentiary back East, there were four of us slated for parole. And we had plenty more on our minds than just freedom.We had a plan.If it worked, it would be the first time a successful heist had ever been pulled in this gambling town -- a to...



  • Operation Breakthrough

    Drake had the assignment. He was sent to steal confidential files of the Mafia that had been stashed somewhere in a bank vault on an island in the Bahamas.Drake got the files.He also got himself trapped into a deadly private war -- with the Syndicate...

  • Operation Fireball

    Five strangers …Two million bucks …One lusty redhead …And no holds barred.Staying out of trouble might be relaxing for some guys. But too much peace and quite make me very nervous.Hazel -- the luscious lady who keeps me busy and happy during lo...

  • Operation Stranglehold

    Drake wasn’t expecting visitors …Which is why he was so wary when Hazel told him about the two strangers pulling into their drive.Drake watched as the two men got out of their car and walked toward them.They were Easterners; the cut of their busi...

  • Operation Whiplash

    It wasn’t at all like Hazel to go off without a word to Drake. But she did. He tried calling her at the motel, but they said she’d just checked out. No, no messages.Drake figured he’d better do a little checking on his own.Which is why he went ...

  • Operation Deathmaker

    I was driving Hazel’s niece, Melissa, to the airport when it happened. The car right behind me in the parking lot stopped and two men burst out. Crouched low, they came at me in a rush.The next thing I knew I was hit in the face with a stream of ac...

Award-Winning Books by Dan J. Marlowe

Flashpoint
1971 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dan J. Marlowe has published 24 books.

Dan J. Marlowe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Operation Deathmaker, was published in May 2012.

The first book by Dan J. Marlowe, Flashpoint, was published in January 1971.

Yes. Dan J. Marlowe has 1 series.
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