McClendon, Lise Sprague, Gretchen The Bluejay Shaman, 1994 Death in Good Company, 1998 Crime and Nordic Nights, 1999 Maquette for Murder, 2000 Blue Wolf, 2001 Death by Thunder, 2005 (HR only) Mystery One O’Clock Jump, 2001 Fiction by Thompson, Jim McGerr, Patricia (HR only) The Criminal, 1986 (1953) Nebraska Murder is Absurd, 1967 The Killer Inside Me, 1991 (1952) Stranger With My Face, 1968 After Dark, My Sweet, 1990 (1955) Writers Pick Your Victim, 1976 Thrasher, L.L. In Nebraska, the historical giants of McKimmey, James (HR only) Cat's Paw, Inc., 1991 crime fiction are Mignon Good Blue Mascara Tears, 1965 Charlie’s Bones, 1998 Eberhart (1899-1996) and Jim A Circle in the Water, 1965 Thompson (1906-1977). Eberhart was Wiltse, David a classic creator of fictional detectives McPherson, Scott The Serpent, 1983 who combined her mysteries with A Step Ahead of Death, 2011 Prayer for the Dead, 1992 elements of the romance novel. With Congo Mission, 2013 Heartland, 2001 † some 59 novels to her credit, she is the The Hangman’s Knot, 2002 † most prolific Nebraska novelist ever. By Potts, Jean (HR only) the late 1940s Eberhart was the third Death of a Stray Cat, 1955 Winslow, Don. highest earning woman mystery writer in An Affair of the Heart, 1972 California Fire and Life, 1999 the world, after Agatha Christie and Mary The Troublemaker, 1972 Death and Life of Bobby Z, 1997 Roberts Rinehart. Go, Lovely Rose, 1988 The Power of the Dog, 2005 Savages, 2010 Jim Thompson’s writing had a much Reynolds, William J. The Gentlemen’s Hour, 2011 sharper bite than Eberhart’s. Growing up Moving Targets, 1986 † Satori (authorized sequel to Trevanian’s in Oklahoma and in the Sandhills around Money Trouble, 1988 † Shibumi 2011 Burwell, Nebraska, Thompson knew a The Nebraska Quotient, 1986 † The Kings of Cool, 2012 dark, unforgiving world of labor and want. Drive-By, 1995 † Thompson came to himself as a writer in Lincoln in the 1930s, under the tutelage Salzmann, Cynthia The Jane Pope Geske Heritage of Lowry Wimberly. His writing explored Dying to Decorate, 2005 Room of Nebraska Authors the dark side of the American Crime & Clutter, 2007 [email protected] experience, the inner world of the (402) 441-8516 criminally insane, or the fatal inspirations Shields, Jody of a half-formed, trapped, and The Fig Eater. 2000 Bennett Martin Public Library uncomforted American everyman. 136 S. 14th St. Readers and critics have a greater Lincoln, NE 68508 appreciation for his work today than they 2/2014 mm/sdc did during his lifetime. Dooling, Richard Kaewert, Julie If Mignon Eberhart’s heroines all find their Bet Your Life, 2002 † Unsolicited, 2000 way from some exotic setting, to middle Brain Storm, 1998 Unbound, 1997 class dreams and ideals, Jim Thompson’s Untitled, 1999 stories corrode middle class dreams and Doolittle, Sean Uncatalogued, 2002 distort them into nightmares. Dirt, 2001 Burn, 2003 Kava, Alex Nebraska’s contemporary writers of crime Rain Dogs, 2006 † A Perfect Evil, 2000 † and mystery fiction include writers now The Cleanup, 2006 † Split Second, 2001 recognized as among the genre’s most Safer, 2009 One False Move, 2004 † popular and distinguished American Lake Country, 2012 A Necessary Evil, 2006 practitioners. Among them: Richard Damaged, 2010 Dooling, Sean Doolittle, Julie Kaewert, Eberhart, Mignon G. Hotwire, 2011 Alex Kava, Harley Jane Kozak, Lise The Patient in Room 18, 1929, 1994 Fireproof, 2012 McClendon, William J. Reynolds, David While the Patient Slept, 1930, 1995 Stranded, 2013 Wiltse and Don Winslow. While the Patient Slept, DVD, 2012 The Mystery of Huntings End, 1930, Kozak, Harley Jane Here, together with works by Eberhart and 1998 Dating Dead Men, 2004 Thompson, is a sampling of crime and From This Dark Stairway, 1931, 1996 Dating is Murder, 2005 mystery fiction from Nebraska writers. Death in the Fog, 1933, 1996 Dead Ex, 2007 Dead Yesterday & Other Stories, 2007 A Date You Can’t Refuse, 2009 † indicates books set in Nebraska Eickhoff, Randy Lee (HR only) Lawrence, Margaret Ashbrook, Harriette (Heritage Room only) A Hand to Execute, 1987 Hearts and Bones, 1996 The Murder of Steven Kester, 1931 The Gombeen Man, 1992 Blood Red Roses, 1997 Murder Comes Back, 1940 The Burning Bride, 1998 Frisbie, Jo, with Gunnar Horn (HR only) Browne, Howard (HR only) Murder in the Old Mill, 1979 † Lewandowski, Lois Halo in Brass, 1947, 1988 † The Fatal Heir, 2007 The Taste of Ashes, 1957, 1988 Garcia, Ricardo (HR only) The Burden of Truth, 2009 Pork City, 1988 Coal Camp Justice, 2005 Scotch on the Rocks, 1991 Lorens, M. K. Greenlief, K.C. Ropedancer's Fall, 1990 Clausen, Lowen Cold Hunters Moon, 2002 Dreamland, 1992 First Avenue, 1999 Death at the Door, 2003 Sweet Narcissus, 1993

Horn, Gunnar, with Jo Frisbie (HR only) Cohen, Mark Murder on Maple Street, 1984 The Fractal Murders, 2004 Bluetick Revenge, 2005