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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2015
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Elder Darrow Mystery

1 - Solo Act (Oct-2015)
2 - In Solo Time (Jul-2017)
3 - Burton's Solo (Oct-2018)
4 - Last Call at the Esposito (Sep-2019)

Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • An alcoholic walks into a bar . . . and buys it. In this amateur sleuth mystery, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from the trust fund his mother left him to buy the Esposito, a bucket-of-blood bar in Boston, hoping to turn it into a jazz night...



  • An alcoholic walks into a bar . . . and buys it. At the urging of his sometimes lover and sometimes drinking partner Jacquie Robillard, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from the trust fund his mother left him to buy the Esposito, a bucket-o...



  • When Dan Burton beats up Antoine Bousquet, the clothing designer suspect in the murder of two Chinese seamstresses, he jeopardizes his job as a homicide detective and his life. Bousquet is released without bail because of Burton’s mistake. When...



  • The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 36 original tales with a culinary bent! Included are: A Cup of Tea, by Parnell Hall Brown Recluse, by Marcia Adair A Slice of Heaven,, by La...



  • A collection of three ebooks in the Elder Darrow Mystery series -- In Solo Time, Solo Act, and Burton’s Solo -- featuring Boston’s favorite bar owner and sleuth. In Solo Time  Elder Darrow uses the last of his trust fund money to buy the Esp...



  • The Olympic Games are coming to Boston! Or are they? When a burial detail to the paupers' grave on Boston's Rinker Island comes up with one extra coffin, Dan Burton is called in to take the case. The murdered man is one Constantine Boustaloudis, a ne...



  • Rasmussen Carter is grooming Lily Miller, a young jazz singer, to be a star. She's singing at the Greenwood-the new incarnation of the Esposito-now owned and managed by Baron Loftus, the nephew of Sweetie Bogan, an aging jazz diva. The night Lily deb...



  • An intimate member of the Esposito family becomes the victim of murder by heroin overdose. Suspicion is cast on the gangster kingpin from Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow, Frank Vinson, but Mickey Barksdale, Boston's equivalent in the criminal world, might bea...



  • Ardmore Theberge returns to Portland, Maine, to start his own business making hand-drawn maps after he gets himself dishonorably discharged from the Army for assaulting a superior officer-who deserved it, by the way, but we'll get to that. He befrien...






  • When Elder Darrow's friend Dan Burton, a Boston Homicide cop, dies trying to stop the robbery of a liquor store, Elder is bereft. But what appears to have been a random tragedy may have, in fact, been a contract murder. Mickey Barksdale, Boston's chi...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard J. Cass has published 10 books.

Richard J. Cass does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Closing Time, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Richard J. Cass, Solo Act, was published in October 2015.

Yes. Richard J. Cass has 1 series.