Louis Trimble

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • The City Machine

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    Imagine a world without hunger. With clothing and shelter for everyone. A world that is never too warm or too cold. A world where there are no decisions to be made, because everything is decided upon for the inhabitants.A utopia? Or a prison? Because...

  • The Wandering Variables

    Dr. Tandy Venner is an irreplaceable asset to the Charter Worlds Union. Much too valuable to go off on an unexpected vacation by herself. So Jano Kegan, an operative of Charter Worlds, went along on a Euphor Tek team.But he and Dr. Venner got more th...

  • Siege at High Meadow

  • Man from Colorado

  • Gaptown Law

    The murder of his father had brought a cold violent anger to Matt that time had turned to ice but had not diminished. Eyes slanted sideways, the clerk said to Matt, ''Some say Jake Dill done it. Some say Cole Pitman.'' ''People talk too much,'' Matt ...

  • Bullets on Bunchgrass

    Carr Lindon was one of five ranchers whose lands surrounded the prize bunchgrass that made up the big Government graze in the center of the valley. Pat Tyler, Lindon’s closest fried and neighbor, was another. All made use of the lush bunchgrass and...

  • The Holdout in the Diablos

  • Blondes are Skin Deep

    It is the smell of death …The Oxnan hotel stank with the stale odor of cheap whiskey, cheap two-bit racketeers, cheap unwashed women. But behind the rotting front, behind the peeling-plastered walls, a big time syndicate did its filthy business. Th...

  • Cargo for the Styx

    Martin Zane thought he was all finished with his routine report on the freighter Temoc for Marine Mutual, but the lush blonde suddenly changed his mind. He just couldn’t say no to her delicious smile, her shapely figure, or her tiny but deadly gun ...



  • The Corpse Without a Country

    The first time insurance claims investigator Peter Durham’s friend Arne Rasmussen had a fire on one of his ships, Peter treated it as a routine accident. The second fire he called bad luck. But when the third fire broke out, Peter knew there was no...

  • Date for Murder

    A cool, slim, beautiful girl drove up to Mark Warren’s service station in the California desert and asked to have her gas tank filled so she might continue on her flight from some men who insisted on shooting at her. Intrigued, Mark, an ex-newspape...

  • The Duchess of Skid Row

    When Special Investigator Jeff McKeon was called hurriedly back to the Puget City DA’s office, it marked the end of a beautiful vacation and the abrupt beginning of an ugly frame. For while Jeff’s back had been turned, his political enemies had b...

  • Girl on a Slay Ride

    A baby-faced sadist sprung from the death-house . . .Two trigger-happy hoods . . .A voluptuous redhead trying to outrun the vengeance of the Mob . . .Here was a carload of killers, ready to fight each other and the world for a chance at the Big Money...

  • Give Up the Body

    The characters . . .Adeline O’Hara, ex-WAC and reporter for the Teneskium (Oregon) Pioneer, also country correspondent for the Portland Press, who tells the story. She is young, red-headed, and Irish. She meetsTitus Willow, the pudgy passionate pro...

  • Love Me and Die

    Three lovely ladies provided Joe Coyle with his ticket to perdition.The first was a redhead: Ellie Lucas, who had a mind like a steel trap and had an insurance business that would require dirty work to save it.The second was a blonde: Toby Jessup, pa...

  • Nothing to Lose But My Life

    Malcolm Lowry had waited five long years for his revenge; he’d built up a lot of hate in that time. But now he was ready to strike back at the men who’d slain his wife and stolen his money. It had taken that five years to get the goods on those t...

  • Stab in the Dark

    Paul Knox, secret agent for the U.S. Government, had been around. But never had he seen anything as vicious as this new twist in the blackmail racket. Wealthy and prominent people were being exposed to international scandal, the kind that could give ...

  • The Surfside Caper

    Larry Flynn was a special investigator for hotels. And though the swanky Surfside Lodge was not in his bailiwick, he was willing to answer the call for help from the pretty widow that ran it.He’d owed her husband a personal debt, and it looked like...

  • The Tide Can't Wait

    Barr courched down to get out of the sea spray. The rock bulking over his head was wet and slick in the darkness, cold. But it was a measure of protection against the wind and the spray that lashed up from the shallow bay....



  • Till Death Do Us Part

    “Lucky” Tom Blane’s luck as a private eye had run out when his crooked ex-partner, Enrico Pachuco, took off with his rep and his funds. So Rosanne Norton was like an angel from heaven when she offered to pay him to keep tabs on this same Pachuc...

  • You Can't Kill a Corpse

    Jim Clane, arriving in Dunlop to clean up the town, found it teeming with crime, vice and political corruption. Clane started by instigating a near-riot at a political meeting, thus at once getting in the bad graces of both the machine mayor and Wick...

  • Deadman Canyon

    They were laying for Clay Belden when he came out of the pass into the Wildhorse Valley. He didn’t see them. He didn’t know they’d be there. He didn’t think they would remember him.But they were waiting, with their rifles neatly trained from ...

  • The Desperate Deputy of Cougar Hill

    Cameron was his name. He looked like a lawman, he wore a tin badge, but the owl-hooters knew him as a bank robber who had turned traitor. And they set a trap to catch him with a band loaded with gold dust, a rangeland studded with blotched brands, an...

  • Anthropol

    It’s an urgent assignment for Vernay?get control of the totalitarian government of Ujvila. Hard enough, but Vernay’s also got to do it before Galactic-Military solves the problem its own way: by slamming in an invasion force and destroying half t...

  • The Bodelan Way

    A Bodelan, Margil looks like a large upright cat?although she doesn’t always act like one. She’s moody, brilliant, and filled with furry intensity. A human, Endo Leduc is her tutor, responsible for her acculturation?and he’s got his hands full....

  • The Noblest Experiment in the Galaxy

    Zeno Zenobius, head computer programmer for Intra-Galactic Investigations, Inc., was having a peaceful, uneventful life. Then he awoke to find himself a citizen of Wooten Dorset in England - a most unusual little town. Along with Victorian elegance, ...

  • Probability

    If you ever get to drinking beer in your favorite saloon and meet a scared little guy who wants to buy you the joint, supply you with fur coats and dolls and run you for Congress -- listen well! That is, if you really want the joint, the fur coats, t...

  • Murder Trouble

    Murder Trouble, first published in 1945, is an entertaining, fast-paced mystery centering on a young man named Tom Hallam. Hallam, leaving the big city upon doctor’s orders, arrives in the small town of Vinson where he has accepted a job on the tow...

  • Crossfire

    Rand Stewart returned to Silver River after receiving word his father had died an accidental death, leaving him the Diamond S. The four years he had served in the Army had brought him a captaincy, given him a tough resilient body, and taught him how ...



  • The Hostile Peaks

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    Someone had stolen a shipment of Army guns and ammunition, and that could mean real trouble for the isolated settlers in that mountainous territory. Clint Larabee had been sent to find the missing guns, but by the time he was sure he knew where they ...

  • Marshal of Sangaree

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  • Trouble at Gunsight

    • / General Fiction
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  • Trouble Valley

    • / General Fiction
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    Lex Cowley was the biggest, toughest rancher around. He and his gang of cutthroats controlled most of the valley and most of the town, but he wanted it all. Now his scheme was almost final, and there was no one to stop him. No one, that is, but Kirk ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Louis Trimble has published 33 books.

Louis Trimble does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Crossfire, was published in August 2024.

The first book by Louis Trimble, The City Machine, was published in January 1972.

No. Louis Trimble does not write books in series.
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