Talmage Powell

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1989
  • Latest Book:
    January 2022
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Women of the West

Six-Gun Ladies: Romantic Tales of the Range (Nov-1996)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • Written for Hitchcock

  • Six-Gun Ladies: Romantic Tales of the Range

    Women of the West

    Everyone knows that Calamity Jane was a top-hand wrangler of wild mustangs and Annie Oakley could bull's-eye a target while the males in a contest were still lining up their sights. Which is another way of saying that women on the wild-west frontier ...

  • With a Madman Behind Me

    This one was for keeps.It started the night private eye Ed Rivers went to the rescue of a damsel in distress and almost ended up at the bottom of Tampa Bay.Ed knew who was lurking behind him. His name was Russ Leppert. Russ liked to kill people. Not ...

  • Corpus Delectable

    Give her five minutes more, I thought . . .More than an hour had passed since Jean Putnam’s voice had promised on the phone that she would be there. As I started back to my office I gave a final look down the corridor, and suddenly she was there, f...

  • The Girl's Number Doesn't Answer

    Three people were dead, their heads bashed in, their bodies hacked with a samurai sword. All three victims were Japanese. The murder weapon was traced to Nick Martin, a veteran of Iwo Jima. Nick had spent fifteen pain-ridden years in and out of Army ...

  • The Killer Is Mine

    The dirtiest killer of the year was the man private investigator Ed Rivers had to save from the chair.Wally Tulman, Florida socialite, had been convicted of molesting and murdering a young girl.Tulman’s lovely wife begged Rivers to take his case - ...

  • Man-Killer

    Her real name was Vicky Hustin, but to the people of Big Hominy she would always be ''that uppity mountain gal, that piece of hill trash who thinks she’s so high and mighty.'' And when her ex-husband was found brutally murdered, they had still anot...

  • The Smasher

    A telephone rang - and Steve Griffin recognized the distant, terrified voice of his wife. ''He’s trying to run me down with a car. He’s trying to smash the life out of me, Steve.'' But who her pursuer was Maureen never lived to tell.What would dr...

  • Start Screaming Murder

    My name is Ed Rivers.I live in Tampa, Florida, where I work as a private cop. I’m six feet tall, weigh in at about one ninety, and am forty years old.When I look in the mirror I see a heavy, bearish face, dark-tanned and creased, the thick lids giv...



  • Black Cat Thrillogy #2

    Welcome to the second volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s "Thrillogy" series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. This time we focus on the work of Talmage Powell (1920-2000). Included are: EASY MARK LIFE SENTENCE REWARD FOR GENIUS A...

  • The Big One

    They planned to kidnap a little boy, hold him for ransom, and collect a big payoff. Nothing would happen to the kid -- Garvin promised. What could possible go wrong with their big score? A classic crime novella ripped from the pages of the Sept. 1960...

  • Till Death Do Not Us Part

    As constable of Grande Isle Parish, Louisiana (Jerem Jenks is the name), I’ll naturally stick to bald facts when I write the official report. I’ve pieced together details of the killing out at the Deveau place without much trouble. It was a simpl...

  • Somebody Cares

    Veteran detective Odus Martin believes there’s always somebody who cares about a death, that no one is truly alone. When he and a rookie investigate the death of a shy orphan with no friends, they discover her landlady, her boss, and the head of t...

  • Death of a Daughter

    Fred started the motor but didn’t put the car in gear right away. “It won’t happen here, Marcia. I believe in Leacock. And Leacock understands. He knows I can’t take on the job and do it halfway.” A crime novella originally published in the...

  • Mind the Posies

    "You don’t know me," a thin, taut, male voice said, "and my name’s not important. What I’ve got to say concerns your husband -- and a girl."...

  • Murder Goes to the Dogs

    She was young, beautiful -- and dead. And now they had to find her killer....

  • Sudden, Sudden Death

    Barlow drove too fast, didn't stay in his own lane, abused other drivers on the road, and even drank too much for safe driving. A story of menace, danger - and horror!...

  • A Way with a Will

    When enough money is involved, there is more than one way to bend a will to one's desires.......

  • Last Run of the Night

    A young woman, the last passenger on a late night bus, gets to talking with a kindly bus driver about two murders that recently occurred....



  • Gator Bait

    When Chat, a boy living in the Bayou,, goes out "Gator Baiting" with his stepfather, he is reluctant, but his abusive "Pa" steamrolls over him....

  • In the House of Rats

    An invalid old man overhears his family plotting to murder him, and begins to envision them as rats. What he really needs is a cat to protect him!...

  • A Beautiful Babe and Money

    I was bone-tired when I locked the last gas pump, turned off the lights and closed the garage door. It had been a long day. One of an endless number of days. I crossed the concrete apron, got in my jalopy and started the motor. I gave the filling sta...

  • The Beautiful Miss Borgia

    Bob could see Pam’s thoughts mirrored in her eyes: Please. Bob. Steve’s a regular guy. He hated to do what he did to you. But he was a cop. He had to....

  • A Break in the Weather

    When an old-timer tells the sheriff he found the body of a woman frozen in Lake Poco, the sheriff expresses his doubts. Of course, he's obligated to investigate...no matter where it leads!...

  • The Jury Caper

    Eddie was too smart for his own good. He cooked up a scheme to collect 25 Grand from a boy's father by rigging a jury and finding the kid innocent. But it's a dog eat dog world out there......

  • Deadliest Enemy

    The most dangerous power you can give someone is the legal right to take a gun and go after their deadliest enemy!...

  • Return No More

    Connors watched the cheap electric clock on the mantel. It was almost nine o’clock in the morning. He lighted a cigarette. His hands were shaking badly. She would leave at nine o’clock. And he would be alone in the apartment. He hadn’t been alo...

  • The Dame Across the River

    There was a house across the river. It meant nothing at first. Too many other things were real, thirty one-thousand dollar bills in each of the money belts Trantham and I wore day and night -- and Ingram....

  • The Favor

    She wasn't an ordinary woman -- and what he did to her wasn't ordinary, either. A noir classic ripped from the pages of Manhunt (Septempter 1957 issue)....



  • Next!

    He's standing over you holding a razor. It's sharper than the sharpest knife…...

  • Classified

    The story is told through a series of classified ads, which begin with an advertisement of a rich bereaved widow looking for a renter for her estate. Further ads show evidence of a possible conspiracy and the marriage of the widow, Mrs. Thelma McCars...

  • A Friendly Exorcism

    When their house appears to be haunted, a young couple goes to extraordinary means to solve the mystery....

  • A Mother's Heart

    She’d now carried the imagined pregnancy -- the product of rape and a mental breakdown -- through the two years of padded cells, shock treatment, chemotherapy, and psychoanalysis. So powerful was her obsession that her menstrual periods had altered...

  • Murder on the Rocks

    The founder of a loan company for a small town confronts the conman who stole their $100,000....

  • One Unnecessary Man

    Janet's first husband has always had dependent tendencies. Now that he's stalking her, she's had enough and isn't going to protect him any more…...

  • Parole Violation

    A mugger released on parole rankles against the indignities of his new job and despises the cruel heel of his parole manager. What's a guy to do? Run away with his girlfriend -- but only after one last job…...

  • Crime Gets a Head

    A private detective hired to investigate a husband's death that was ruled a suicide tangles with mobsters -- and a missing dog....

  • A Woman's Job

  • A Time To Kill

    "
    Jim Lassiter rode his long trail patiently, for he knew that, to an honest man, the time to kill may also be -- a time to die!"...



  • Every Possible Motilve

    Three frightened people waited in that darkened room. Three, and a grim unwanted guest -- Murder! A classic mystery story....

  • False Start

    Nick Ramey, a gangster money handler, finds himself at the wrong end of a bellhop's gun, when he's robbed of a case full of money. But Nick may have the last laugh after all!...

  • The Case of the Lewd Nude

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    At Florida's free-loving artists colony, everyone enjoyed the pose that refreshes—until a panting painter put the lewd nude on canvas and a gun-toting killer decided to paint the town b-l-o-o-d red!...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Talmage Powell has published 42 books.

Talmage Powell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, False Start, was published in January 2022.

The first book by Talmage Powell, Written for Hitchcock, was published in May 1989.

Yes. Talmage Powell has 1 series.
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