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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1986
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Benji Golden Mystery

1 - Runaway Man (Aug-2013)
2 - Phantom Angel (Feb-2015)

A Berger & Mitry Mystery

1 - The Cold Blue Blood (Oct-2001)
2 - The Hot Pink Farmhouse (Nov-2002)
3 - The Bright Silver Star (Nov-2003)
4 - The Burnt Orange Sunrise (Oct-2004)
5 - The Sweet Golden Parachute (Mar-2006)
6 - The Sour Cherry Surprise (Jul-2008)
7 - The Shimmering Blond Sister (Oct-2010)
8 - The Blood Red Indian Summer (Oct-2011)
9 - The Snow White Christmas Cookie (Oct-2012)
10 - The Coal Black Asphalt Tomb (Mar-2014)
11 - Lavender Lane Lothario (Feb-2016)

Danny Levine

1 - Kiddo (Dec-1986)
2 - Boss (Mar-1988)

A Stewart 'Hoagy' Hoag Mystery

1 - The Man Who Died Laughing (Sep-1988)
2 - The Man Who Lived by Night (Mar-1989)
3 - The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald (Oct-1990)
4 - The Woman Who Fell from Grace (Sep-1991)
5 - The Boy Who Never Grew Up (Sep-1992)
6 - The Man Who Cancelled Himself (Jan-1995)
7 - The Girl Who Ran Off With Daddy (Mar-1996)
8 - The Man Who Loved Women to Death (Apr-1997)
9 - The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes (Aug-2017)
10 - The Man Who Couldn't Miss (Aug-2018)
11 - The Man in the White Linen Suit (Aug-2019)
11.5 - The Girl Who Did Say No (Feb-2020)
12 - The Man Who Wasn't All There (Mar-2021)
13 - The Lady in the Silver Cloud (Mar-2022)
14 - The Girl Who Took What She Wanted (Feb-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

The Girl Who Did Say No (Feb-2020)

Book List in Order: 33 titles



  • “A witty and compassionate coming-of-age tale . . . a noble lesson in growing up.” -- The Hartford Courant The story of the adventures of Danny Levine, Mousey Stern, and Newt Biddle growing up together in Southern California back in 1962, Ki...



  • Kiddo is back and a decade older. At 23, he's not much wiser or thinner, but the family business needs him, and so does the woman of his dreams. It's time to grow up--whatever that means....



  • THIS PEN FOR HIRE. Once, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. But fame and fortune left him as swiftly and surely as Merilee. Now Hoagy ekes out a living as a ghostwriter of...



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    Celebrity ghostwriter Stewart ""Hoagy"" Hoag is off to London to dig up the secrets of reclusive bad-boy superstar Tristam ''T. S.'' Scarr, formerly of the legendary British rock group Us. T.S. is ready to reveal all, in a book destined to become...



  • THIS PEN FOR HIRE Once Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and the husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. But fame and fortune left him as swiftly and surely as Merilee. Now Hoagy ekes out a living as a ghostwrite...



  • THIS PEN FOR HIRE. Once, Stewart "Hoagy Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. But fame and fortune left him as swiftly and surely as Merilee. Now Hoagy ekes out a living as a ghostwriter of ...



  • THIS PEN FOR HIRE Once Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. But fame and fortune left him as swiftly and surely as Merilee. Now Hoagy ekes out a living as a ghostwriter of...



  • Hired by fallen television star Lyle Hudnut, whose career was shattered by scandal, writer Stewart Hoag reluctantly begins penning the actor's memoirs and learns a deadly truth about a network's secret practices. Reprint....



  • The dandified ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag appears in his seventh mystery when his mentor and friend, a septuagenarian, becomes involved in a sensational affair with his stepdaughter that leads to murder. Reprint....






  • A serial killer is showing Hoagy his novel in progress--and every chapter is murder....

    Once Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and the husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. Now, reunited with Merilee in pro...



  • A SALT-AND-PEPPER CRIME-SOLVING DUO... New York film critic Mitch Berger has become a reclusive curmudgeon in his city apartment since his young wife's death. A cottage on Connecticut's Big Sister Island, an old-money WASP community, offers him ho...



  • IN A LOONY TOWN WHERE ANYTHING GOES So much for the peace and quiet New York film critic Mitch Berger expected to find in his antique carriage house overlooking Long Island Sound. Nothing can shelter him from the goings-on in nearby Dorset. A violen...



  • A VIEW TO DIE FOR It's the peak of the tourist season on the beautiful Connecticut gold coast. But this is no ordinary July for the picture-perfect village of Dorset--or for transplanted New York film critic Mitch Berger and his alluring love, Res...



  • The legendary ninety-four-year-old Ada Geiger was one of the twentieth century's most illustrious, controversia,l and remarkable cultural figures--- the only person, living or dead, who had been a colleague of both Amelia Earhart and the Rolling Ston...



  • A storm is brewing in Dorset. Poochie Vickers, the local aristocrat, is becoming even more eccentric in her old age. She's taken up shoplifting and reckless driving but refuses to see a doctor. Her worrisome daughter, Claudia, is angling to take ...



  • Something has gone very wrong on bucolic Sour Cherry Lane. A straight-arrow high school student has started throwing wild sex parties. The distinguished history professor across the lane has gone missing. His estranged wife, a popular author of child...



  • The Edgar Award�"winning author of the Stewart Hoag mysteries delivers a “fast-paced, frantic, and head spinning” crime thriller (Booklist).   In the summer of 1972, the country was rocked by the Bagley Bunch murders -- a killing spree that...



  • Police officer Desiree Mitry is under a huge amount of pressure to catch the Dorset Flasher, who has been terrorizing the wealthy dowagers of the Dorset Historic District every weekend. She becomes convinced that her man is Augie Donatelli. After the...



  • This newest mystery featuring Mitch Berger and Connecticut State Trooper Des Mitry presents Des with her first genuine racially charged case in the historic New England village of Dorset, the gem of Connecticut's Gold Coast. Tyrone "Da Beast" Gran...






  • The newest adventure featuring the mismatched romantic crime-fighting duo of New York City film critic Mitch Berger and Connecticut State Resident Trooper Desiree Mitry presents Des with her first taste of Christmas in the historic New England villag...



  • Benji Golden works in his family’s struggling mom-and-pop business above a twenty-four-hour diner on Broadway and West 103rd Street. Golden Legal Services, a private detective agency, was started by Benji’s hero-cop father. The business is now ru...



  • The historic New England village of Dorset has actually elected a living, breathing woman as its First Selectman. And now she’s about to undertake the Historic District’s biggest public works project in a generation -- the widening and re-grading...



  • A wickedly funny private eye novel set in the dark underbelly of New York City, where the worlds of Broadway and organized crime meet When it comes to tracking down teen runaways, there is no private investigator in New York City better than stree...



  • Every year, the Gant family performs an annual ritual desecrating the tomb of Aurora Bing. The Gants have held a grudge against the legendary silent film star for almost eighty years, but for Sherm Gant and his son, things have become personal. Auror...



  • Fans of JANET EVANOVICH and CARL HIAASEN, get ready. If you haven't yet discovered wisecracking sleuth Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his faithful basset hound Lulu, you're in for a sharp, hilarious treat. Once upon a time, Hoagy had it all: a hugely su...



  • In the next novel in David Handler’s Edgar award-winning series, Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag and his beloved basset hound, Lulu, investigate a murder in a fabled Connecticut summer playhouse. Hollywood ghostwriter Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag has chron...



  • The next clever, witty, and touching installment in the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series finds the beloved ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful neurotic basset hound, Lulu, back in 1990’s New York City, investigating a bestselling aut...



  • Ex-bestselling author Stewart Hoag is after a tell-all Hollywood diary in this short mystery from the Edgar Award�"winning author.   Once upon a time, Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag was a celebrity author married to a famous actress. But after a seri...



  • The latest installment of David Handler's Edgar Award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, set in 1990s' New York, sees the ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful basset hound Lulu inadvertently make a dangerous enemy. After six glorious weeks of ha...






  • "This is confection in the guise of a mystery novel; it goes down easy as a milkshake." -- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book ReviewA 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud is a fantastically expensive car, especially in the pristine condition of the one ...



  • In this new installment of the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, the ghostwriting sleuth investigates a trail of murder amidst Hollywood’s rich and famous.Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag hasn’t written any fiction since his debut novel ro...



  • This new installment of the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series finds the beloved ghostwriter-sleuth finally on the precipice of reclaiming his previous literary fame when threats against his editor appear to put both his career and her l...



  • In this case from early in Stewart Hoag’s career, the newly successful writer revisits his hometown to investigate the murder of a beloved librarian.Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag always swore that he would never return to Oakmont, Connecticut, the small...


Award-Winning Books by David Handler

The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
1991 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Handler has published 33 books.

The next book by David Handler, The Man Who Swore He'd Never Go Home, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by David Handler, Kiddo, was published in December 1986.

Yes. David Handler has 4 series.