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African-American Mysteries

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• Alexandria, Vincent: Joe Johnson series
  
  1. If Walls Could Talk
     
  2. Postal Blues
     
  3. Black Rain
     
• Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers (edited by Otto Penzler)
  
• Bland, Eleanor Taylor: Marti McAllister series
  
  1. Dead Time
     
  2. Slow Burn
     
  3. Gone Quiet
     
  4. Done Wrong
     
  5. Keep Still
     
  6. See No Evil
     
  7. Tell No Tales
     
  8. Scream in Silence
     
  9. Whispers in the Dark
     
  10. Fatal Remains
      
  11. A Cold and Silent Dying
      
• Brown, Elaine Meryl: Lemon City
  
• Carter, Charlotte: Nanette Hayes series
  
  1. Rhode Island Red
     
  2. Coq au Vin
     
  3. Drumsticks
     
• Chambers, Christopehr: Angela Bivens series
  
  1. Sympathy for the Devil
     
• Edwards, Grace F.: Mali Andersen series
  
  1. If I Should Die
     
  2. A Toast Before Dying
     
  3. No Time To Die
     
  4. Do or Die
     
• Garland, Ardella: see Joe, Yolanda (below)
  
• Hambly, Barbara: Benjamin January series
  
  1. A Free Man of Color
     
  2. Fever Season
     
  3. Graveyard Dust
     
  4. Sold Down the River
     
  5. Die Upon a Kiss
     
  6. Wet Grave
     
  7. Days of the Dead
     
  8. Dead Water
     
  9. Dead and Buried
     
• Hardwick, Gary: Color of Justice
  
• Hayes, Teddy: Devil Barnett series
  
  1. Blood Red Blues
     
  2. Dead By Popular Demand
     
• Haywood, Gar Anthony: Aaron Gunner series
  
  1. You Can Die Trying
     
  2. Not Long for This World
     
  3. Fear of the Dark
     
  4. It's Not a Pretty Sight
     
  5. When Last Seen Alive
     
  6. All the Lucky Ones Are Dead
     (short stories) Lyrics for the Blues
     
• Henry, Angela: Kendra Clayton series
  
  1. The Company You Keep
     
  2. Tangled Roots
     
• Hime, James: Jeremiah Spur & Clyde Thomas series
  
  1. The Night of the Dance
     
  2. Scared Money
     
  3. Where Armadillos Go to Die
     
• Joe, Yolanda (writing as Ardella Garland): Georgia Barnett series
  
  1. Details at Ten
     
  2. Hit Time
     
  3. Video Cowboys
     
• Kelley, Norman: Nina Halligan series
  
  1. Black Heat
     
  2. The Big Mango
     
• Lamar, Jake: If 6 Were 9
  
• Lamar, Jake: Rendezvous Eighteenth
  
• Mallette, Gloria: Promises to Keep
  
• Mickelbury, Penny: Carole Ann Gibson series
  
  1. One Must Wait
     
  2. Where to Choose
     
  3. The Step Between
     
  4. Paradise Interrupted
     
• Mosley, Walter: Easy Rawlins series
  
  1. Devil in a Blue Dress
     
  2. A Red Death
     
  3. White Butterfly
     
  4. Black Betty
     
  5. A Little Yellow Dog
     
  6. Gone Fishin'
     
  7. Bad Boy Brawly Brown
     
  8. Little Scarlet
     
  9. Blonde Faith
     (short stories) Six Easy Pieces
     
• Neely, Barbara: Blanche White series
  
  1. Blanche on the Lam
     
  2. Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
     
  3. Blanche Cleans Up
     
  4. Blanche Passes Go
     
• Nelscott, Kris: Smokey Dalton series
  
  1. A Dangerous Road
     
  2. Smoke-Filled Rooms
     
  3. Thin Walls
     
  4. Stone Cribs
     
  5. War at Home
     
  6. Days of Rage
     (short story) A Smokey Dalton short story appears in Chicago Blues (edited by Libby Fischer Hellmann)
     
• Norman, Hilary: Sam Becket series
  
  1. Mind Games
     
  2. Last Run
     
  3. Shimmer
     
• Phillips, Gary: Ivan Monk series
  
  1. Violent Spring
     
  2. Perdition, U.S.A.
     
  3. Bad Night is Falling
     
  4. Only the Wicked
     (short stories) Monkology
     
• Sallis, James: Lew Griffin series
  
  1. The Long-Legged Fly
     
  2. Moth
     
  3. Black Hornet
     
  4. Eye of the Cricket
     
  5. Bluebottle
     
  6. Ghost of a Flea
     
• Shades of Black (edited by Eleanor Taylor Bland)
  
• Walker, Blair S.: Darryl Billups series
  
  1. Up Jumped the Devil
     
  2. Hidden in Plain View
     
  3. Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes
     
• Walker, Persia: Harlem Redux
  
• Wesley, Valerie Wilson: Tamara Hayle series
  
  1. Devil's Gonna Get Him
     
  2. No Hiding Place
     
  3. When Death Comes Stealing
     
  4. Where Evil Sleeps
     
  5. Easier to Kill
     
  6. The Devil Riding
     
  7. Dying in the Dark
     
  8. Of Blood and Sorrow
     
• West, Chassie: Leigh Ann Warren series
  
  1. Sunrise
     
  2. Killing Kin
     
  3. Killer Riches
     
  4. Killer Chameleon
     
• Woods, Paula L.: Charlotte Justice series
  
  1. Inner City Blues
     
  2. Stormy Weather
     
  3. Dirty Laundry
     
  4. Strange Bedfellows