Ross Thomas

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1967
  • Latest Book:
    November 1996
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Full Series List in Order

Mac McCorkle

Cast a Yellow Shadow (Nov-1991)
The Backup Men (Oct-1992)

A Philip St. Ives Mystery

The Brass Go-Between (May-1987)
The Procane Chronicle (Jul-1993)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • The Cold War Swap

    Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First NovelAt the height of the Cold War, two Americans are runnng a bar in the West German capital, called Mac's place. One of the pair, Michael Padillo, isn't around a lot; he keeps disappearing on "business trip...

  • The Fools in Town Are on Our Side

    Lucifer Dye was born in Montana and raised in Shanghai's most distinguished bordello. Recently dismissed from Section Two, a secret American Intelligence Agency, he heads for San Francisco to be debriefed. Dye and Section Two are parting company beca...

  • Chinaman's Chance

    The scene: Southern California The beach at Malibu, the sleazier sides of Venice and the city of Pelican Bay. The motivation: power and money. The characters: a missing woman, a dead congressman, a multimillionaire, a Mafia boss and, his old colle...

  • The Eighth Dwarf

    In the wake of World War II, a spy and a dwarf conceive a lucrative plan to find a Nazi killer and deliver him to the Allies, playing one country against another in a dangerous game of intrigue. Reissue....

  • The Mordida Man

    Accepting a presidential assignment when an international terrorist is kidnapped and the terrorist's friends abduct the president's brother in answer, independent fixer Chubb Dunjee investigates a trail of ruthlessly dangerous players. Reprint....

  • Missionary Stew

    Missionary Stew follows political fundraiser Draper Haere on a quest to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in an unnamed Central american country. He seeks the information in order to get dirt on his boss's opponent in the 1984 US Presidenti...

  • Briarpatch

    A cop is car-bombed in Texas -- and her brother comes from Capitol Hill to investigate -- in this Edgar Award winner by “one of the best storytellers around” (The New York Times Book Review).A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on h...

  • The Brass Go-Between

    A Philip St. Ives Mystery

    To recover an African artifact, St. Ives will trade $250,000 - or his life.

    Philip St. Ives is the kind of man who can convince a vice cop and a paroled mobster to sit down to a hand of poker. Once he was a reporter with a daily column, a f...

  • Out on the Rim

    Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist--never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted ...



  • The Fourth Durango

    The first Durango is in Spain, the second in Mexico, the third is a ski town in Colorado. The fourth is a minuscule beach town in California where a trio of ex-hippies--the tough and sexy mayor, her even sexier sister, and the shrewd police chief--no...

  • Twilight at Mac's Place

    "Anyone reading a Ross Thomas thriller for the first time is in imminent danger of addiction: One taste is never enough." - Los Angeles TimesIn Twilight at Mac's Place, the quiet death of an aged spy triggers a desperate race to control his memoirs, ...

  • Cast a Yellow Shadow

    Mac McCorkle

    A classic mystery featuring Padillo and Mac, from the award-winning author of Ah, Treachery! McCorkle returns from Germany to Washington, D.C., with a beautiful wife, intending to live a quiet life as a saloon keeper in a classy neighborhood. But whe...

  • The Backup Men

    Mac McCorkle

    Mac McCorkle and Mike Padillo team up to help twin bodyguards in a thrilling crime caper from“America’s best storyteller” (The New York Times Book Review). The twins who walk into Mac McCorkle’s bar look identical, despite the...

  • The Seersucker Whipsaw

    Political manager Clinton Shartelle receives the challenge of a life-time when he travels to the small African nation of Albertia to run a political campaign against a candidate who is heavily backed by the CIA. Reprint....

  • Voodoo Ltd.

    She was quite drunk, not quite beautiful, and all Hollywood--an actress-director named Ione Gamble driving crazily toward her rich boyfriend's mansion in Malibu. It was just too bad for her that she stumbled upon a loaded Beretta before she came acro...

  • The Procane Chronicle

    A Philip St. Ives Mystery

    A bungled hand-off lands St. Ives in jail on suspicion of murder

    It’s three in the morning, and Philip St. Ives has come to the all-night Laundromat to meet a thief. His laundry bag isn’t carrying dirty clothing - it’s stu...

  • If You Can't Be Good

  • The Porkchoppers

    A union boss fights for his job—and his life. “What Elmore Leonard does for crime in the streets, Ross Thomas does for crime in the suites” (The Village Voice).  Born to a steelworker but harboring theatrical aspirations, Donal...

  • The Money Harvest

    A few hours before he was to have revealed a shocking secret, ninety-two-year-old Crawdad Gilmore, advisor to six presidents, is murdered, and Jake Pope must figure out who killed him and why. Reprint....



  • Yellow-Dog Contract

    A large sum of money brings former campaign manager and Washington insider Harvey Longmire out of retirement and on the trail of a missing union leader, a trail that leads through the seamy side of the Capital's political scene. Reprint....

  • Ah, Treachery!

    Ah, Treachery!, the last novel Thomas wrote before his death, tells the story of one Captain Edd "Twodees" Partain, drummed out of the Army and hounded by rumors of his involvement in a secret operation in El Salvador. Twodees gets hired on to help ...

  • Singapore Wink

    Edward Cauthorne, an ex-Hollywood stunt man and used car salesman whose career had been cut short by the Mafia with a mishap that killed his partner, is given the opportunity to receive $25,000 if he can find his partner alive, in a twisted tale of m...

Award-Winning Books by Ross Thomas

Briarpatch
1985 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
The Cold War Swap
1967 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ross Thomas has published 22 books.

Ross Thomas does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Singapore Wink, was published in November 1996.

The first book by Ross Thomas, The Cold War Swap, was published in January 1967.

Yes. Ross Thomas has 2 series.
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