NOVELS

Death Turns A Trick (Walker & Co.) 1982
The Sourdough Wars (Walker & Co.) 1984
True-Life Adventure (Mysterious Press) 1985
Tourist Trap (Mysterious Press) 1986
Huckleberry Fiend (Mysterious Press) 1987
New Orleans Mourning (St. Martin's Press) l990
The Axeman's Jazz (St. Martin's Press) 1991
Dead in the Water (Ivy) l991
Jazz Funeral (Fawcett/Columbine) 1993
Other People's Skeletons (Ivy) 1993
New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine) l994
House of Blues (Fawcett/Columbine) 1995
The Kindness of Strangers (Fawcett/Columbine) 1996
Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Coumbine) August, l997
82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine) September, l998
Louisiana Hotshot (Forge) June, 2001
Louisiana Bigshot (Forge), August, 2002
Mean Woman Blues (Forge) August, 2003

P.I. On A Hot Tin Roof (Forge) July, 2005

SHORT STORIES

"Grief Counselor", Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine 1978; reprinted in Miniature Mysteries, 100 Malicious Little Mystery Stories, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (Taplinger) 1981; also reprinted in Last Laughs, The 1986 Mystery Writers of America Anthology, edited by Gregory Mcdonald (Mysterious Press) 1986
"The Wrong Number", Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine 1979
"Crime Wave in Pinhole", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 1980, reprinted in The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, edited by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, and Martin H. Greenberg (Arbor House) 1981
"Project Mushroom", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1983; reprinted in 101 Mystery Stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg (Avenel) 1986
"Red Rock", Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration, edited by Byron Preiss (Knopf) 1988
"Blood Types", Sisters In Crime, edited by Marilyn Wallace (Berkley) 1989
"Cul-de-Sac", Sisters In Crime II, edited by Marilyn Wallace (Berkley), 1990
"Montezuma's Other Revenge", Justice for Hire, edited by Robert J. Randisi (Mysterious Press), 1990
"A Marriage Made in Hell," Eye of a Woman, edited by Sara Paretsky (Delacorte Press), l991
"Silk Strands," Deadly Allies, edited by Marilyn Wallace and Robert J. Randisi (Bantam), l992
"Strangers on a Plane," Unusual Suspects, edited by James Grady, (Black Lizard Press) 1996
"The End of the Earth," Detective Duos, edited by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini (Oxford University Press), 1997
"Where The Boys Are", Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, September, l998
"Too Mean to Die," Blue Lightning, edited by John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press, scheduled for 1998
"Fresh Paint," Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera (HarperCollins) 1999
"Always Othello," Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, June, 1999 (link)
"Let's Go Knock Over Seaside", Murder and Magnolias, HarperCollins, 2000

"Kid Trombone", Murder And All That Jazz ,  Signet, 2004

 

ESSAY

"Splendor in the Mildew", A Place called Home, edited by Mickey Pearlman (St. Martin's Press) 1996

 

PROGRESSIVE NOVEL

I'd Kill For That  (St. Martin's), 2004

 

SKIP LANGDON MYSTERIES

TALBA WALLIS MYSTERIES