Jack Dwyer

Created by Ed Gorman (1941-2016)

Midwestern private eye JACK DWYER is a former cop who developed a taste for acting, and quit the force, figuring being a gumshoe would give him more time to pursue his passion. He displays considerable compassion and a gentle humour as he plies his trade in a thinly-disguised version of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A good series, worth checking out.

Author Gorman, besides writing the Dwyer series, has created a few other notable P.I.s, particularly Jack Walsh and Sam McCain, and is one of the better known editors of anthologies in the crime and mystery field. He also co-founded, along with Robert J. Randisi, Mystery Scene Magazine. His fiction output also includes several westerns.

NOVELS

Rough Cut (1985) .. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
New, Improved Murder (1985) . Buy this book.. Kindle it!
Murder in the Wings (1986) .. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
The Autumn Dead (1987).. Buy the book.. Kindle it!
Murder Straight Up (1987) .. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
A Cry of Shadows (1990) .. Buy this book

SHORT STORIES

"Failed Prayers" (1987, Mystery Scene Reader #1; also 1989, Felonious Assaults)
"The Reason Why" (1988, Criminal Elements; also The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories)
"Eye of the Beholder" (1996; included in omnibus edition of The Autumn Dead and A Cry of Shadows)

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.

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