Richard Wormser

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1970
  • Latest Book:
    November 2019
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Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • On the Prod

    Hank Lowery's girl was last seen riding out of town in the company of a brash young cavalry officer. Now she was a thousand miles away, deep in the heart of the Indian Nation. Most men would have let it go at that, but Hank Lowery was not most men. W...

  • The Invader

  • Wild Wild West

  • Growing Up in the Great Depression

    Describes what life was like for young people who grew up in the United States during the Great Depression, explaining how the era changed people's lives, describing the descent into poverty and profiling the young adults who were forced to leave sch...

  • All's Fair...

    “All’s Fair…”, first published in 1937, is a fast-paced novel set in a hard-bitten mining town ruled by those with money and their corrupt politicians. A young labor leader, Mac, comes to the town determined to solve the murder of a fellow or...

  • All's Fair

    “All’s Fair…”, first published in 1937, is a fast-paced novel set in a hard-bitten mining town ruled by those with money and their corrupt politicians. A young labor leader, Mac, comes to the town determined to solve the murder of a fellow or...

  • Horse Money

    "These are perfect reading for anyone who enjoys hard-boiled characters and race track settings. Sit back, relax and start reading -- and enjoying." -- Robert J. RandisiHORSE MONEY -- The Cases of Chief Van Eyck, Race Track Detective.Four hard-boiled...

  • Three-Cornered War

    Richard Edward Wormser (1908-1977) was a prolific American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend. He is estimated to have written 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, 1...

  • The Body Looks Familiar // The Late Mrs. Five

    THE BODY LOOKS FAMILIAR This was no crime of passion. The killer sat patiently on the girl’s satin-covered bed, drinking Scotch and soda, awaiting her return. He didn’t smoke -- some Sherlock might trace his brand. He had already taken care to pl...



  • Perfect Pigeon

    Easy come, easy go... That's the life of con men who stay one step ahead of the law, two steps ahead of each other. At twenty-three, Mark Daniels embezzled his way to a cool quarter million. Sure, he got caught; that was part of his plan. All he had ...

  • The Late Mrs. Five

    Soon after Paul Porter arrives in the small rural town of Lowndesburg, he is shocked to see his beautiful ex-wife Edith getting into an expensive limousine. He discovers she is now married to rich landowner John Hilliard the Fifth, to whose mansion h...

  • Drive East On 66

    Police Lieutenant Andy Bastian is hired to drive young teenager Ralph Bartlett from California to Kansas, traveling east on Route 66. Ralph's rich father has booked his brilliant but unstable son into a mental clinic for treatment, and wants the arra...

  • Shadowed

    Jealousy and suspicion leads to murder, when a private detective steers a husband to his wife's secret lover. But there's more to the wife's plan than meets the eye…...

  • A Nice Girl Like You

    Lt. Andy Bastian is back for his second scintillating case. This time, he heads a gritting and gruesome search for the man who violated a teenage beauty and left her just intact enough to someday tell the tale. But when his best friend becomes the nu...

  • Slattery's Range

    They were desperate men, ready to kill for a handful of dust...gold dust!...

  • The Hanging Heiress

    Marty Cockren, ex-newspaper man and rookie private detective, is offered the chance to earn big money acting as bodyguard to beautiful young widow Eve Chounet, who is due to inherit a huge fortune from her late husband - though as a caveat, only if s...

  • The Lonesome Quarter

    Her name was Vera Mae, and she had been around these dusty tank towns too long—working the two-bit rodeos and cozying up to suckers, like this fat tourist in the bar. Oh God, she thought, I can con him and ditch him by nine-thirty, but what the...

  • The Body Looks Familiar

    While Chief Assistant D.A. Dave Corday lurks in wait for Deputy Chief of Police Jim Latson and his girlfriend in her apartment, his cool plan for murder and revenge is the only thing on his mind. At gunpoint, Corday takes Latson's own weapon and dril...

Award-Winning Books by Richard Wormser

The Invader
1973 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Wormser has published 18 books.

Richard Wormser does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Body Looks Familiar, was published in November 2019.

The first book by Richard Wormser, On the Prod, was published in January 1970.

No. Richard Wormser does not write books in series.
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