Richard Grayson

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1955
  • Latest Book:
    July 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Inspector Gautier

1 - The Murders at Impasse Louvain (1978)
2 - The Monterant Affair (Jul-1980)
3 - The Death of the Abbe Didier (1981)
4 - The Montmartre Murders (Apr-1982)
5 - Crime Without Passion (Jan-1984)
6 - Death En Voyage (May-1986)
7 - Death on the Cards (Oct-1988)
8 - Death Off Stage (Apr-1992)
9 - Death Au Gratin (Aug-1995)

John Bryant

1 - The Spiral Death (1955)
2 - Death in Melting (1957)
3 - Madman's Whisper (1958)
4 - Dead So Soon (1960)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • The Spiral Death

    John Bryant - 1

  • Death in Melting

    John Bryant - 2

    Inside the furnace was a seething pool of molten metal, bubbling with a heat great enough to destroy a man's body so completely it would be impossible to trace. And Gerald Norris had disappeared without a trace!In London, Julie Crocker was hunting fo...

  • Madman's Whisper

    John Bryant - 3

    When car trouble forces private detective John Bryant to spend the night in the small village of Foxall, he is immediately struck by the antagonism and secrecy of the locals. Why was there so much hostility and fear? And why were the streets deserted...

  • Dead So Soon

    John Bryant - 4

    The house in Chelsea was smart, in an unpretentious way. But when detective John Bryant rang the front door bell, he found neither intellect nor artistry; what lay before him was a world of curious contrasts - of extravagance and squalor, luxury and ...

  • The Murders at Impasse Louvain

    • / Historical Mystery
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    Inspector Gautier - 1

    A fashionable French painter is found strangled, a crime highly embarrassing for the Establishment as his wife, a lady of dubious morals, was in the news a year earlier when the President of France happened to die in her bed. And the last thing the a...

  • The Monterant Affair

    Inspector Gautier - 2

    The victim is Sophie Monterant: a young actress who is already challenging the divine Sarah Bernhardt for the finest roles. Inspector Gautier visits the theatre to see Sophie at the first night of Dame aux Camélias, but the first night is also to be...

  • The Death of the Abbe Didier

    • / Historical Mystery
    • Buy Buy
    Inspector Gautier - 3

  • The Montmartre Murders

    Inspector Gautier - 4

    A painter has vanished: normally an event of no importance, but Théo is the heir to a fortune, and so Inspector Gautier of the Sûreté is put on the case. Then a shady art dealer is murdered. A dealer who had acquired three paintings under dubious ...

  • Lincoln's Doctor's Dog and Other Stories



  • Eating at Arby's

    Meet Manny and his wife Zelda, residents of a South Florida condo where the salad bar is always crowded during the early bird special; Jose, owner of a clothing store on Calle Ocho whose cheerfulness is exceeded only by his hatred of Fidel Castro; Bo...

  • I Brake for Delmore Schwartz

    """Grayson is a born storyteller and standup talker...Highly recommended."""" --Library Journal"" ""Grayson's stories are full on insanity, nutty therapists, cancerous relatives, broken homes, fiction workshops, youthful theatricals at Catskill bunga...

  • Crime Without Passion

    Inspector Gautier - 5

    An aristocratic young woman, Denise de Richemont, has murdered an important journalist, Jaques Le Tellier. She is acquitted by a sympathetic jury when she confesses it to be a crime of passion - revenge for the journalist's indiscreet revelation of h...

  • Death En Voyage

    Inspector Gautier - 6

    'The English should confine their murders to their own country' is the view held by Parisians when Lady Dorothy Strathy, sister of the Earl of Tain, is discovered stabbed in her hotel room. This opinion is held by none more strongly than Courtrand, t...

  • Death on the Cards

    Inspector Gautier - 7

    When a homemade bomb explodes on a houseboat moored on the Seine, following two brutal stabbings in Pigalle, the Paris police receive a list of targets for assassination that includes the President of the Republic himself. Each murder will be announc...

  • Greatest Short Story That Absolutely Ever Was and Other Stories

    This rollicking collection of quirky, innovative stories features another group o Grayson's wacky characters. The head of the Roman Catholic Church relocates to Brooklyn in "The Pope in Park Slope." A boy whose gym teacher is having an affair with hi...

  • Death Off Stage

    Inspector Gautier - 8

    The Dashkova Ballet Company - a visiting Russian troupe led by Inspector Gautier's charming Soviet mistress, Princess Sophia - is about to become the toast of Paris when the famous Judge Prudhomme is found with a bullet in his heart in a squalid hote...

  • Death Au Gratin

    Inspector Gautier - 9

    When a young chambermaid is found dead, bitten by a cobra concealed in the bed of notorious libertine Armand de Périgord, Inspector Jean-Paul Gautier is certain that she was not the intended victim. The charismatic de Périgord is very wealthy and h...

  • Spy in Camera

    Disillusioned with life in the South of France, Hurford accepts an assignment for British Intelligence. He is told that, under the cover of a teaching post in Moscow, he will simply be expected to relay information back to Britain from a highly prize...

  • Taste of Death

    When journalist Ronnie Bart visits a Rome clinic, where one of his colleagues lies drugged, he becomes involved in a series of adventures in which fear and death are never far away.In a Copenhagen nightclub, Bart meets a young millionaire, Paul Arved...



  • Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories

    The bassist in a gay punk band reflects on his troubled relationship with the band's guitarist/singer. In the wake of the Matthew Shepard murder, a Wyoming ranch manager conceals his affair with another man. A young African American breaks up with hi...

  • I Survived Caracas Traffic: Stories from the Me Decades

    "An underground post-modernist who writes comic fiction crammed with details adopted from pop culture and the daily news. The long title story, a resonant meditation on the themes of relationships, AIDS, and mortality, proves him capable of less self...

  • Let Slip the Dogs of War

    Returning to Paris, Inspector Gautier is devastated to learn that his Dutch mistress Ingrid has been brutally murdered. Before he can begin to investigate, the British Ambassador informs Gautier that his daughter has been abducted in England. With th...

  • Who Will Kiss The Pig?

    For over three decades, Richard Grayson's idiosyncratic fictions have been appearing in literary magazines, anthologies and webzines, as well as in his book-length collections, including WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG, I BRAKE FOR DE...

  • Weepin' Willie

    Richard Grayson was born in Georgia and lived in New York State, working with a declining insurance company after his discharge from the United States Marine Corps. He has spent the last eight years as an author writing the story that must be told....

  • Return To Hayville

  • And to Think That He Kissed Him On Lorimer Street

    "The dynamic Brooklyn cityscape serves as the backdrop in this beguiling collection of short stories. Grayson's tenth volume of fiction introduces a multicultural multitude of characters, including a teen lesbian from Uzbekistan who works as ...

  • Highly Irregular Stories

    "An audacious and wickedly smart comedic writer brings his full weight to bear in a collection of his early work. Grayson, no stranger to experimentation, here assembles four of his most engaging chapbooks, which merge nicely as an eclectic antho...

  • With Hitler in New York

    An underground classic, Grayson’s debut short story collection introduced readers to the author’s quirky, funny postmodern fiction and such characters as Buddy’s grandfather, who wonders why no Jewish people ever win on “Bowling for Dollarsâ€...

  • Death of Abbe Didier

    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy

    Inspector Gautier of the Surete is on the spot at two dramaticallydifferent episodes - the murder of the vicar at the fashionable church of Sainte Clothilde, and the theft of the Duchesse de Paiva's diamond necklace at an extravagant fete. As he inve...



  • Death Stalk

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • Play the Roman Fool and Die

    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy

    Arriving home one night, Ronnie Bart, an English journalist, finds a woman in his apartment. She is wearing only his dressing gown and eating the remains of his breakfast. Her stay is brief, for she is soon arrested by the police, accused of murderin...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Grayson has published 31 books.

Richard Grayson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, With Hitler in New York, was published in July 2013.

The first book by Richard Grayson, The Spiral Death, was published in January 1955.

Yes. Richard Grayson has 2 series.
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