Order of Nameless Detective Books
The Nameless Detective series is a detective fiction series by American author Bill Pronzini. Pronzini’s character has no name, is sort of an everyman character – middle-aged, out-of-shape and a couch potato.
Bill Pronzini began his Nameless Detective series with The Snatch in 1971. After nearly 40 novels (plus plenty of short stories), the series is still ongoing. Below is a list of Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective books in order of when they were first published (which is also their chronological order):
Publication Order of Nameless Detective Books
The Snatch | (1971) | |
The Vanished | (1973) | |
Undercurrent | (1973) | |
Blowback | (1977) | |
Twospot | (1978) | |
Labyrinth | (1980) | |
Hoodwink | (1981) | |
Scattershot | (1982) | |
Dragonfire | (1982) | |
Bindlestiff | (1983) | |
Quicksilver | (1984) | |
Nightshades | (1984) | |
Double | (1984) | |
Bones | (1985) | |
Deadfall | (1986) | |
Shackles | (1989) | |
Jackpot | (1990) | |
Breakdown | (1991) | |
Quarry | (1991) | |
Epitaphs | (1992) | |
Demons | (1993) | |
Hardcase | (1995) | |
Sentinels | (1996) | |
Illusions | (1997) | |
Boobytrap | (1998) | |
Crazybone | (2000) | |
Bleeders | (2001) | |
Spook | (2002) | |
Nightcrawlers | (2005) | |
Mourners | (2006) | |
Savages | (2007) | |
Fever | (2008) | |
Schemers | (2009) | |
Betrayers | (2010) | |
Camouflage | (2011) | |
Hellbox | (2012) | |
Nemesis | (2013) | |
Strangers | (2014) | |
Vixen | (2015) | |
Zigzag | (2016) | |
Endgame | (2017) |
Publication Order of Nameless Detective Short Stories/Novellas
Booktaker | (2011) | |
Kinsmen | (2012) | |
Femme | (2012) |
Publication Order of Nameless Detective Collections
Casefile | (1983) | |
Spadework | (1994) | |
Scenarios | (2003) |
Note: Twospot was co-authored with Collin Wilcox. The novel Double was co-authored with Marcia Muller.