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Joe Gores
(Joseph Nicholas Gores)
(1931 - 2011)JOE GORES was the author of the acclaimed DKA series of street-level crime and detection, as well as the stunning suspense novels Dead Man and Menaced Assassin. Born in 1931, he served in the U.S. Army-writing biographies of generals at the Pentagon-was educated at the University of Notre Dame and Stanford, and spent twelve years as a San Francisco private investigator. The author of dozens of novels, screenplays, and television scripts, he won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards and Japan's Maltese Falcon Award.
Genres: Mystery
Series
DKA File
1. Dead Skip (1972)
2. Final Notice (1973)
3. Gone, No Forwarding (1978)
4. 32 Cadillacs (1992)
5. Contract Null and Void (1996)
6. Stakeout on Page Street (2000)
7. Cons, Scams, and Grifts (2001)
1. Dead Skip (1972)
2. Final Notice (1973)
3. Gone, No Forwarding (1978)
4. 32 Cadillacs (1992)
5. Contract Null and Void (1996)
6. Stakeout on Page Street (2000)
7. Cons, Scams, and Grifts (2001)
Novels
A Time of Predators (1969)
Interface (1974)
Hammett (1975)
Come Morning (1986)
Wolf Time (1989)
Dead Man (1993)
Menaced Assassin (1994)
Cases (1999)
Glass Tiger (2006)
Spade & Archer (2009)
Interface (1974)
Hammett (1975)
Come Morning (1986)
Wolf Time (1989)
Dead Man (1993)
Menaced Assassin (1994)
Cases (1999)
Glass Tiger (2006)
Spade & Archer (2009)
Collections
Honolulu, Port of Call (1974)
Mostly Murder (1992)
Speak of the Devil (1999)
Lost Stories (2005) (with Vince Emery and Dashiell Hammett)
Mostly Murder (1992)
Speak of the Devil (1999)
Lost Stories (2005) (with Vince Emery and Dashiell Hammett)
Anthologies edited
Series contributed to
Awards
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