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Walter Satterthwait

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male

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http://www.satterthwait.com

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Walter Satterthwait (b. 1946) is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age, he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s, he wrote his first book: an adventure novel, Cocaine Blues (1979), about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers.

After his second thriller, The Aegean Affair (1982), Satterthwait created his best-known character, Santa Fe private detective Joshua Croft. Beginning with Wall of Glass (1988), Satterthwait wrote five Croft novels, concluding the series with 1996’s Accustomed to the Dark. In between Croft books, he wrote mysteries starring historical figures, including Miss L...more

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Books by Walter Satterthwait

Average rating: 3.69 · 367 ratings · 75 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Miss Lizzie 3.89 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Escapade 3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wilde West 3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Masquerade 3.66 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Perfection 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	At Ease with the Dead: A Joshua Croft Mystery 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Cavalcade 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Flower in the Desert: A Joshua Croft Mystery 3.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Wall of Glass: A Joshua Croft Mystery 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Hanged Man: A Joshua Croft Mystery 3.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	My rating: