 William John Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California. He also writes under the pseudonyms 'Jack Foxx' and 'Alex Saxon'. He also writes together with Jeffrey Miner Wallmann under the joint pseudonyms 'Robert Hart Davis' and 'William Jeffrey'. Together with his wife Marcia Muller, he writes the 'Carpenter and Quincannon' series featuring a man and woman detective agency in late nineteenth century San Francisco. He is the creator of the 'Nameless Detective', a private detective. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 'Nameless Detective' Novels | |
| 1) The Snatch | 1971 |
| 2) The Vanished | 1973 |
| 3) Undercurrent | 1973 |
| 4) Blowback | 1977 |
| 5) Twospot (with Collin Wilcox) | 1978 |
| 6) Labyrinth | 1980 |
| 7) Hoodwink (Shamus Award) | 1981 |
| 8) Scattershot | 1982 |
| 9) Dragonfire | 1982 |
| 10) Bindlestiff | 1983 |
| 11) Casefile (short stories) | 1983 |
| 12) Quicksilver | 1984 |
| 13) Nightshades | 1984 |
| 14) Double (with Marcia Muller) | 1984 |
| 15) Bones | 1985 |
| 16) Deadfall | 1986 |
| 17) Shackles | 1988 |
| 18) Jackpot | 1990 |
| 19) Breakdown | 1991 |
| 20) Quarry | 1992 |
| 21) Epitaphs | 1992 |
| 22) Demons | 1993 |
| 23) Hardcase | 1995 |
| 24) Sentinels | 1996 |
| 25) Spadework (short stories) | 1996 |
| 26) Illusions | 1997 |
| 27) Boobytrap (Shamus Award) | 1998 |
| 28) Crazybone | 2000 |
| 29) Bleeders | 2001 |
| 30) Spook | 2002 |
| 31) Scenarios (short stories) | 2003 |
| 32) Nightcrawlers | 2005 |
| 33) Mourners | 2006 |
| 34) Savages | 2007 |
| 35) Fever | 2008 |
| 36) Schemers | 2009 |
| 37) Betrayers | 2010 |
| 38) Camouflage | 2011 |
| 39) Hellbox | 2012 |
| 40) Femme (novella) | 2012 |
| 41) Kinsmen (novella) | 2013 |
| 42) Nemesis | 2013 |
| 43) Strangers | 2014 |
| 44) Vixen | 2015 |
| 45) Zigzag (novellas and short stories) | 2016 |
| 46) Endgame | 2017 |
| 'Carpenter and Quincannon' Novels | |
| 1) The Bughouse Affair (with Marcia Muller) | 2013 |
| 2) The Spook Lights Affair (with Marcia Muller) | 2013 |
| 3) The Body Snatchers Affair (with Marcia Muller) | 2015 |
| 4) The Plague of Thieves Affair (with Marcia Muller) | 2016 |
| 5) The Dangerous Ladies Affair (with Marcia Muller) | 2017 |
| 6) The Bag of Tricks Affair | 2018 |
| 7) The Flimflam Affair | 2019 |
| 8) The Stolen Gold Affair | 2020 |
| 9) The Paradise Affair | 2021 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) The Stalker | 1971 |
| 2) Panic | 1972 |
| 3) Snowbound | 1974 |
| 4) Games | 1976 |
| 5) The Running of Beasts (with Barry N. Malzberg) | 1976 |
| 6) Acts of Mercy (with Barry N. Malzberg) | 1977 |
| 7) Nightscreams (with Barry N. Malzberg) | 1979 |
| 8) A Killing in Xanadu (short stories) | 1980 |
| 9) Prose Bowl | 1980 |
| 10) Masques | 1981 |
| 11) The Cambodia File | 1981 |
| 12) The Gallows Land | 1983 |
| 13) Starvation Camp | 1984 |
| 14) The Eye (with John Lutz) | 1984 |
| 15) Quincannon | 1985 |
| 16) San Francisco | 1985 |
| 17) Beyond the Grave (with Marcia Muller) | 1986 |
| 18) The Lighthouse (with Marcia Muller) | 1987 |
| 19) The Last Days of Horse-Shy Halloran | 1987 |
| 20) Small Felonies (short stories) | 1988 |
| 21) Graveyard Plots (short stories) | 1988 |
| 22) The Hangings | 1989 |
| 23) Firewind | 1989 |
| 24) The Texans | 1989 |
| 25) The Best Western Stories of Bill Pronzini (short stories) | 1990 |
| 26) Stacked Deck (short stories) | 1991 |
| 27) Day of the Moon | 1993 |
| 28) With an Extreme Burning | 1994 |
| 29) Blue Lonesome | 1996 |
| 30) A Wasteland of Strangers | 1997 |
| 31) Carpenter & Quincannon, Professional Detective Services (short stories) | 1998 |
| 32) Nothing But the Night | 1999 |
| 33) Oddments: A Short Story Collection (short stories) | 2000 |
| 34) Night Freight (short stories) | 2000 |
| 35) In an Evil Time | 2001 |
| 36) Step to the Graveyard Easy | 2002 |
| 37) Burgade's Crossing | 2003 |
| 38) Problems Solved (with Barry N. Malzberg) (short stories) | 2003 |
| 39) The Alias Man | 2004 |
| 40) Quincannon's Game | 2005 |
| 41) The Crimes of Jordan Wise | 2006 |
| 42) The Other Side of Silence | 2008 |
| 43) The Hidden | 2010 |
| 44) The Violated | 2017 |
| 45) The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave | 2019 |
| 46) Small Felonies 2 (short stories) | 2022 |
| As 'Robert Hart Davis' (with Jeffrey Miner Wallman) | |
| 1) Charlie Chan in the Pawns of Death | 2002 |
| 2) Charlie Chan in the Temple of the Golden Horde | 2002 |
| As 'Jack Foxx' | |
| 1) The Jade Figurine | 1972 |
| 2) Dead Run | 1975 |
| 3) Freebooty | 1975 |
| 4) Wildfire | 1978 |
| As 'William Jeffrey' (with Jeffrey Miner Wallman) | |
| 1) Day of the Moon | 1983 |
| As 'Alex Saxon' | |
| 1) A Run in Diamonds | 1973 |