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Joe Gores


(Joseph Nicholas Gores)
USA flag (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)
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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)
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Collections
   Honolulu, Port of Call (1974)
   Mostly Murder (1992)
   Speak of the Devil (1999)
   Lost Stories (2005) (with Vince Emery and Dashiell Hammett)
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Anthologies edited
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Joe Gores recommends
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The Doom That Came to Dunwich (2017)
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Anthologies containing stories by Joe Gores
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San Francisco Noir 2 (2009)
The Classics
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Peter Maravelis
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The Best American Mystery Stories 3 (2004)
(Best American Mystery Stories)
edited by
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (2002)
(Best American Mystery Stories)
edited by
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler

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Awards
Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1987) : Come Morning
Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1993) : 32 Cadillacs


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