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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1973
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 49 titles



  • Unjustly branded a killer, Wes Tancred vowed never to touch a gun again. So he rode the trail alone, changed his name and hoped to lose himself in the new bustle the railroad brought to Sage City. Then Hong Kong Smith and his killers rode into town....




  • Age yellowing and typical reader wear. Spine has some light creasing and edge wear. Front cover has a large edge crease and a spine edge crease also. Back also has some creasing. Inside front cover page has a name. Small "x" mark on spine. Intac...






  • The vociferous West was asking for war, and these four hundred tough men knew just how the request could be granted! D0 YOU remember what you did in Independence, Jennison? Do you remember, Anthony? And you, Jim Lane-yes, Senator James Lane. You're n...



  • Donny Fletcher, a captain in the United States Army, was facing execution, and he was forced to become a fugitive while trying to prove his innocence. He joined up with Quantrell's gang of bloody bushwhackers, but when Quantrell's campaign into Lawre...











  • This is a paperback book by Frank Gruber, Complete and Unabridged, and is a former library copy. The First Linford Edition was published, Dec. 1989 and published in the USA in 1971. It is a mystery about Dectective Logan who was the prime suspect in ...






  • In the sinister mountains of communist Hungary lay the world's most fabulous treasure: the cache of Attila the Hun. U.S. Army officer Charles Tancred wanted it for himself - so did Hungarian secret police officer Stephen Druhar and beautiful Helena v...



  • From the author of FIGHTING MAN. John Slater dedicated his life to revenge - with a fortune in goldat the end of the trail. The gold meant nothing to Slater. He wanted the man who betrayed his father, the man whose greed led to the stark horror the A...



  • In their search for a five-ton cache of silver bullion, the two highly unorthodox snoopers, Beagle and Peel, follow a trail from Hollywood to a Nevada desert, and to a ghost mine called the Silver Jackass. The two slippery private eyes show their ine...




  • When Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg's jalopy runs out of petrol, a Samaritan by the name of Joe Cotter pushes them to a motel and demands twenty dollars. Early the next morning, they siphon petrol from Cotter's convertible and make a hasty exit. Howev...



  • A rich man is murdered at the dog show, and the Human Encyclopedia is the prime suspect Oliver Quade knows how to sell an encyclopedia. First, read it cover to cover three or four times, and make sure to remember everything in it. Next, dazzle an ...






  • A collection of stories starring one of the most unique sleuths ever to crack a case Oliver Quade knows the record for most eggs laid by a single hen. He knows which state has the longest coastline. He knows why cats purr, who signed the Magna Car...



  • Traveling encyclopedia salesman Oliver Quade may be the most unlikely detective to appear in the pages of the pulp magazines of the 1930s. Known for marveling crowds by reciting the memorized contents of The Compendium of Human Knowledge, Quade-know...



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    "One of the best." New York Times When Johnny Fletcher found a corpse in his trunk, he was sure he could solve the case. Then one murder turned into two, the beautiful blonde lied to him, and the real secret turned out to besomewhere in Iowa....



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    Finding his client's overcoat for six hundred dollars had looked easy, but Devlin was earning the dough the hard way. First, a stranger attacked him, then a man he hired was shot to death; later, a couple of cops tried to pin a murder rap on him. Now...



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    Johnny Fletcher, book salesman extraordinaire, was always ready to bet on a sure thing. Being named heir to a million-dollar estate was fine with him - but who had murdered the eccentric millionaire win the first place? And why?...






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    At fifteen he watched four men murder his father and mother. That day he knew what the rest of his life was going to be like. First he taught himself to draw faster than any man in the West. Then he set out, slowly, patiently, to track the killers. J...



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    As a lock and key expert, Tommy Dancer found himself caught up in someone else's plans to rob a safe-deposit box. Tommy was a young man with deft fingers and not too many morals, and this is the story of what happened to him when he listened to a man...



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    Beagle and Peel were two of the most unethical private eyes in allCalifornia. Blackmail was their special cup of tea - not nailing blackmailers, but practicing it themselves. When one of their shakedowns failed, they had murder on their hands. Betwee...



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    Yankees hated Jim Chapman's guts - and the feeling was mutual. So Jim hit the renegade trail. He and his hard-riding outlaw crew robbed trains and emptied banks all across the West. Everyone was on his track, but Jim Chapman was a legend that refuse...



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    Another first-class thriller from the author of BROTHERS OF SILENCE. He knew it was one of the oldest con games in the world - the Spanish Prisoner racket. An ex-FBI man can't resist a mystery, especially if he's lonely and miserable in Spain, haunt...



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    Tom Rosser was a lawman without a town and a gunfighter with a mission - to shoot down the bushwhackers who had killed his sweetheart. Great Plains was the last and most lawless boomtown, atown that needed a man like Rosser. Riley Condor was the bait...



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    Amateur detectives Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg are up to their necks in back bills, madly trying to parlay bank accounts, rubber checks and pawn tickets into cold, lovely, welcome cash. With their luck running true to form, they hit a loaded jackpo...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frank Gruber has published 49 books.

Frank Gruber does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder on the Midway, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Frank Gruber, Bitter Sage, was published in October 1973.

No. Frank Gruber does not write books in series.