Robert Campbell

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1981
  • Latest Book:
    August 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Jake Hatch

1 - Plugged Nickel (Mar-1988)
2 - Red Cent (Jan-1989)

A Jimmy Flannery Mystery

1 - The Junkyard Dog (Jul-1986)
2 - The 600 Pound Gorilla (Feb-1987)
3 - Hip-Deep in Alligators (Oct-1987)
4 - Thinning the Turkey Herd (Apr-1988)
5 - The Cat's Meow (Nov-1988)
6 - Nibbled to Death by Ducks (Dec-1989)
7 - The Gift Horse's Mouth (Nov-1990)
8 - In a Pig's Eye (Oct-1991)
9 - Sauce for the Goose (Aug-1995)
10 - The Lion's Share (May-1996)
11 - Pigeon Pie (Apr-1998)

Whistler

1 - In La-La Land We Trust (Nov-1986)
2 - Alice in La-La Land (Oct-1988)
3 - Sweet La-La Land (Mar-1990)
4 - The Wizard of La-La Land (Jan-1995)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Malloy's Subway

    EDGAR AWARD-WINNING AUTHORMillions of people crowd the New York City subways. Today one of them will die. And then another, and another. A killer is loose beneath the streets of Manhattan.Martin Malloy lives beneath the streets. An NYPD cop until he ...

  • The Junkyard Dog

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 1

    BLOOD-RED CHICAGO BLUES Chicago is Jimmy Flannery's kind of town. A tough Irishman with street smarts, he's part of a political machine that runs on favors and friendships. Flannery's particular piece of the patronage pie is the 27th Ward, and any...

  • In La-La Land We Trust

    Whistler - 1

    When a head without a body turns up in a lake near New Orleans, the locals write it off as another prank by the witch queens. But when a body without a head falls out of a station wagon in Los Angeles, folks sit up and take notice. Child porn, snu...

  • The 600 Pound Gorilla

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 2

    GOING APE FOR MURDER Chicago's temperature was dropping, but things were heating up tier Jimmy Flannery, precinct captain of the 27th ward. Baby, the city's most popular gorilla, was out in the cold because the zoo's boiler went kaput -- and so wo...

  • Honor

    Michael Karel, a police officer on the rise, stakes his honor on solving a murder case in Belgrade assigned to him by the Party, who, at the same time, is stopping him with lies, disinformation, and silence...

  • Hip-Deep in Alligators

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 3

    When the bosses of Chicago's Democratic Party Machine send precinct captain Jimmy Flannery underground to inspect the city's sewers, the idea is to teach him to keep his nose out of other people's business. But Flannery figures what goes on in his wa...

  • Plugged Nickel

    Jake Hatch - 1

    When someone pulls the emergency brake up on the California Zephyr, Jake Hatch is catapulted out of the train--onto a severed corpse. All mystery buffs will enjoy the adventures of Jake Hatch, a railroad detective with a widow at every whistle stop....

  • Thinning the Turkey Herd

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 4

    Sleuthing isn't part of the job description, but when it comes to Chicago politics, Irishman Jimmy Flannery, 27th Ward Democratic Precinct Captain and city, sewer inspector, knows where all the bodies are buried. So when an old alderman friend calls ...

  • Alice in La-La Land

    Whistler - 2

    In La-La Land, murder is an art - perfected in the neon night. She walked through the twilight glare, beautiful, redheaded, rich - and scared. She was prowling L.A.'s tenderloin search of Whistler, only to find him sitting in his favorite coffee shop...



  • The Cat's Meow

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 5

    It's having the graveyard at old St. Pat's Church sold and slated to become a gas station...and Father Mulrooney's recently deceased cat raising the old priest's hairs with blood-curdling howls from the grave...and signs of satan worship turning up o...

  • Red Cent

    Jake Hatch - 2

    The Burlington Northern was speeding through Iowa when passengers spotted six Indians riding alongside in pick-ups. Suddenly, they began firing pot-shots, a bullet pierced the dining car window - and millionaire Harold Chaney was dead. When railro...

  • Juice

    Alfonso "Puffy" Pachoulo is an L.A. juiceman, a guy who'll lend you a bone ($1000) or more. But he gets it back -soon- with interest. And Billy Ray, a would-be actor and compulsive gambler, is having trouble making his payments. So is Allen Nadeau, a...

  • Nibbled to Death by Ducks

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 6

    Jimmy Flannery is a tough, red-headed little Irishman--a Chicago sewer inspector, Democratic precinct captain, and part-time sleuth with a heart of gold. In NIBBLED TO DEATH BY DUCKS, he returns from vacation to discover that Chips Delvin, his sewer ...

  • Sweet La-La Land

    Whistler - 3

    Private eye Whistler is back at Gentry's Coffee Shop talking about dreams when he spots Faye, the love of his life, who ditched him years before for a seductive hillbilly weirdo named Inch Younger. Younger's out on parole now, after serving fifteen y...

  • The Gift Horse's Mouth

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 7

    In the seventh entry in Campbell's splendid series featuring Chicago sewer inspector Jimmy Flannery (the Edgar-winning The Junkyard Dog ), the part-time detective is moved by incipient parenthood to rea c h at last for the committeeman's job in the 2...

  • In a Pig's Eye

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 8

    Jimmy Flannery -- Chicago's most endearing sewer inspector -- has just been named Democratic committeeman for the Twenty-seventh Ward. What with the celebration, plus eating for two ever since his wife Mary told him she was pregnant, his diet's shot ...

  • Boneyards

    Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley is dead and a new candidate is angling for easy votes-by hanging a bad cop out to dry. Someone's picked the scapegoat, and it's rogue police officer Ray Sharkey. His penetrating Irish blue eyes have seen it all-and the r...

  • The Wizard of La-La Land

    Whistler - 4

    Kenny Gotch is a small-time doper and street hustler dying of AIDS in a Los Angeles hospice. Why would anyone bother to slit his throat when the disease would have finished him in a week or so? Vice cop Isaac Canaan hears that it may have been to pre...

  • Souvenir de Mme. H. Thuret

    in Canine Crimes II

    Thirteen timeless classics of mystery -- all featuring unforgettable dog heroes -- are together for the very first time in Canine Crimes II. Culled from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, these often...



  • Sauce for the Goose

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 9

    Jimmy Flannery is as Chicago as the Cubs. He's a streetwise city sewer inspector, the Twenty-seventh Ward Democratic committeeman, and an amateur detective. He's also happily married and a new dad. Mary, his wife, suggests he improve himself by takin...

  • The Lion's Share

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 10

    The rise of sewer inspector Flannery through Chicago's political ranks might be expected to stall with the death of his longtime mentor, Chips Devlin. The old man goes gently, in his bed, with a smile on his old Irish face and possibly after some pai...

  • Pigeon Pie

    A Jimmy Flannery Mystery - 11

    Chicago policeman Jimmy Flannery, the party leaders have let him know, in their own wonderfully arcane way, that he's being anointed as committeeman for the mayor's ward. Since that job will be a springboard to the city council, new friends and old e...

  • ALANGALANG

  • The Hunter And The Hunted

    The Hunter and the Hunted is more than simply a thriller. This novel is an exploration of the fears of the human race and the inner working of the mind. This book will test your cognitive ability and keep you on the edge of perception from start to f...

  • Do It For The Game

    Brian Dwyer was living the good life with a beautiful family, a big house in the suburbs and a nice corporate job. Then, one by one, he lost everything. When he returns to his hometown to bury his father, he visits the pool hall and discovers some lo...

  • Evil's Aviary

    Kendall Peterson, a mother, ex-wife, and company executive quickly discovers that her home has become a conduit for a new kind of wickedness, and that she is part participant and part historical witness to the greatest story of our time. An urban thr...

  • A Pilgrimage To My Motherland

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

Award-Winning Books by Robert Campbell

The Junkyard Dog
1987 Anthony Award -- Paperback Original
1987 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Campbell has published 27 books.

Robert Campbell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Evil's Aviary, was published in August 2014.

The first book by Robert Campbell, Malloy's Subway, was published in October 1981.

Yes. Robert Campbell has 3 series.
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