10 The Sam McCain Mysteries books in order

Sam McCain is a penniless young lawyer who earns most of his keep by doing investigative work for the imperious Judge Eleanor Whitney. The weekend Buddy Holly is killed will prove to be a memorable one for Sam.'

When a McCarthy-era writer with Communist sympathies turns up dead, Sam McCane has to prove that, this time, it's personal-not political.

When police find Susan Squires, the county attorney's wife, in the trunk of a Ford Edsel while the town is engaged in a parade sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, private investigator Sam McCain agrees to take the case.

As Black River Falls, Iowa, prepares for a presidential election campaign visit from Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, Reverend John Muldaur is stirring up the town with both his anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic circulars and his snake-handling ceremonies. When Muldaur drops dead on his altar, however, it’s not from a snakebite but… show more.

It’s Christmastime 1960 in Black River Falls, Iowa, but with an Indian summer keeping the temperature at 75 degrees, it sure doesn’t feel like winter. It’s so warm, in fact, that the Lucky Star Drive-In is still open, and Rick Conroy is still drag-racing the nights away with his friends… show more.

With nuclear holocaust always threatening in the background, in this mystery novel--sixth in the popular Sam McCain mysteries--the private investigator struggles to the defend the daughter of his nemesis from charges of murder.

In America's heartland, Sam seeks justice for a black college student who's found dead in a car trunk at the drive-in, while thousands gather in the nation's capital for the March on Washington with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

For small-town Iowa lawyer Sam McCain the year 1965 is not a sweet one. His father is gravely ill. His elitist boss is just now coming out of rehab. The brilliant lawyer he'd hoped to start a relationship with has gone back to her husband in Chicago. And first young… show more.

A hippie commune has invaded Black River Falls. While the majority of the townspeople believe that the bohemians have to right to stay-despite how bizarre some of their ways can seem-as always there is a minority that constantly accuses them of everything from criminal activities to Satanism.

As usual, lawyer… show more.

When we last saw Sam McCain he had been drafted to fight the war in Vietnam. But Sam's military career ended in boot camp when he was accidentally shot in the head and forced to spend three months in a military hospital to recover.

Sam returns to his hometown of… show more.