William J. Palmer

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1990
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens

1 - The Detective and Mr. Dickens (Oct-1990)
2 - The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens (Sep-1992)
3 - The Hoydens & Mr. Dickens (Feb-1997)
4 - The Dons and Mr. Dickens (Nov-2000)

Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • The Detective and Mr. Dickens

    Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens - 1

    "[A] delightful hot toddy of a winter's read." -- LA TIMESIt was the best of times, it was the worst of crimes in this delightful Dickensian romp, with the canonical author teaming up with a famous upstart to solve a devilish murder.In Victorian Lon...

  • Good Republic

    Baltic emigre Jacob Balthus's quiet London life is disrupted and his memories of the past are unleashed by an act of violence, a disruption that heightens when Balthus is invited home again by the renascent nationalist movement...

  • The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens

    Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens - 2

    Charles Dickens helps hunt for a double murder on the gritty streets of London in a historical mystery with “plenty of Victoriana” (Booklist).   It was the best of times, it was the worst of crimes . . .   The ghastly dou...

  • The Hoydens & Mr. Dickens

    Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens - 3

    Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins reveal the darker side of Victorian London -- and a killer’s identity -- in this “well-crafted adventure” (Publishers Weekly).   Charles Dickens is smitten with Ellen Ternan, a teenage actress, and heads ...

  • The Dons and Mr. Dickens

    Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens - 4

    An Oxford don’s death in an opium den is investigated by the literary detective duo -- with some help from fellow author Charles Dodgson . . .   One dank November night, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins are called to a part of...

  • The Wabash Trilogy

    Fiction. THE WABASH TRILOGY includes three new novels by William J. Palmer: The Wabash Baseball Blues, The Redneck Mafia, and Civic Theater. Each novel shows Palmer at his most poignant and hilarious as he tracks his characters through the tragicomed...

  • The Uses of Money

    In post-hurricanes, post-earthquake Haiti, a rich American on an impulsive mission trip meets and falls in love with a nurse practitioner who doctors for a whole area of the Haitian massif. When his love is kidnapped for ransom by a vuoduo-influenced...

  • Two Cities

    A bi-coastal political eco-thriller, it is set in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles in the near present. Played out against the backdrop of a dysfunctional government and the lobbying power of Big Oil, two brothers, one a Washington political activi...

  • Eidetic Transubstantiation

    Drawn into the Cuban Missile Crisis, point man to President Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas, undercover amongst the radicals at Berkeley, Michael Edwards is embedded as an active participant in the turmoil of 1960s and 70s America. Then, in the 19...



  • Golf. Tennis. Murder.

    At the end of the weekly 9 holes of the WDGA (Wednesday Drunken Golf Association) Nick Jones, a.k.a Sherlock to his golf partners, finds a well-dressed potential client waiting for him. Nicknamed “The Suit” by one of the friends, the client came ...

  • Cars. Stars. Murder.

    It's the Pandemic, the film industry is on unwelcome hiatus, and Hollywood's brightest star, Mandy Troy, is receiving death threats and compromising photos out of her past. Sherlock's former Marine Corps Sergeant is Mandy's bodyguard and lover.Suspec...

  • Slots. Plots. Murder.

    The gambling worlds of L.A. and Las Vegas converge in this third Sherlock Jones novel. Sherlock and his WDGA (Wednesday Drunken Golfers Association) Disreputables head to Las Vegas to search for the murderer of the primary investor in a major Santa M...

  • Diamonds. Doubles. Murder.

    Ron Reed, the ace pitcher of the L.A. Wave, the newest franchise in major league baseball, hires our Celebrity PI to surveille his lingerie model wife who he suspects is cheating. This fourth novel in the Sherlock Jones series of contemporary L.A. mu...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William J. Palmer has published 13 books.

William J. Palmer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Diamonds. Doubles. Murder., was published in February 2024.

The first book by William J. Palmer, The Detective and Mr. Dickens, was published in October 1990.

Yes. William J. Palmer has 1 series.
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