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Standalone Novels Series
Complete164 books
Ben Blue wrote 164 standalone novels between 1960 and 2009, with the series now complete. These works span multiple genres including science fiction, crime, and literary fiction, and should be read in publication order starting with The Mercenaries. Each novel functions independently, allowing readers to enter at any point, though following the publication sequence provides a chronological view of the author's evolving style across five decades.
Start with The mercenaries, the first of 164 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories |
| 2 | 3rd Culprit |
| 3 | A Girl Called Honey |
| 4 | A good story and other stories |
| 5 | Actor |
| 6 | Anarchaos |
| 7 | Call Me A Cab |
| 8 | Campus Doll |
| 9 | Castles in the Air / The Green Ripper / Casa Madrone (Detective Book Club) |
| 10 | Comeback and Flashfire |
| 11 | Comfort Station |
| 12 | Crime Novels : Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 |
| 13 | Dancing Aztecs |
| 14 | Dearest John |
| 15 | Don't Lie to Me |
| 16 | El cazador |
| 17 | El golpe |
| 18 | Ex Officio |
| 19 | Forever and a death |
| 20 | From me to you |
| 21 | Give till it hurts |
| 22 | Good Behavior; A Cut in Diamonds; An Excellent Mystery |
| 23 | Great Science Fiction Stories |
| 24 | HISTOIRES A FAIRE DRESSER LES CHEVEUX SUR LA TETE - Stories to Make the Hair Stand Up on Your Head |
| 25 | Hallucination Orbit |
| 26 | High Jinx |
| 27 | Humans |
| 28 | I gave at the office |
| 29 | Jade in Aries |
| 30 | Just One of Those Days |
| 31 | Killy |
| 32 | Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death |
| 33 | Les Meilleures Nouvelles policières 2001 (French Edition) |
| 34 | MURDER AMONG CHILDREN |
| 35 | Matadero |
| 36 | Memory |
| 37 | Murderous schemes |
| 38 | Mystery Fancier March-April 1984 |
| 39 | Mystery for Halloween |
| 40 | Never Shake a Family Tree |
| 41 | Office Olympic Games |
| 42 | Ordo |
| 43 | Parker |
| 44 | Philip |
| 45 | Religion and society |
| 46 | Richard Stark's Parker |
| 47 | Richard Stark's Parker The Outfit |
| 48 | Sacred monster |
| 49 | Senior Sleuths |
| 50 | Slayground / The Chandler Policy / A Conflict of Interest |
| 51 | Sniff |
| 52 | So Willing |
| 53 | Sour Lemon Score |
| 54 | Sport and recreation for the disabled : an index of resource materials = |
| 55 | Spy in the Elevator and Three More Stories |
| 56 | Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine |
| 57 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2000 |
| 58 | The Donald Westlake Omnibus (A&B Crime) |
| 59 | The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ® |
| 60 | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1964 |
| 61 | The Risk Profession |
| 62 | The Scared Stiff |
| 63 | The Sour Lemon Score |
| 64 | The Sour Lemon Score and Deadly Edge |
| 65 | The Spy in the Elevator |
| 66 | The comedy is finished |
| 67 | The getaway car |
| 68 | The grifters |
| 69 | The stepfather |
| 70 | They Also Serve |
| 71 | Transgressions |
| 72 | Transgressions Vol. 3 |
| 73 | Transylvania Station |
| 74 | Umani |
| 75 | Up your banners |
| 76 | Wax apple |
| 77 | We Are in This Together |
| 78 | Who stole Sassi Manoon? |
| 79 | la Compañía |
| 80 | The mercenaries 1960 |
| 81 | Killing time 1961 |
| 82 | 361 1962 |
| 83 | Pity Him Afterwards 1964 |
| 84 | The Fugitive Pigeon 1965 |
| 85 | The Spy in the Ointment 1966 |
| 86 | The busy body 1966 |
| 87 | God save the mark 1967 |
| 88 | The Damsel 1967 |
| 89 | The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution 1968 |
| 90 | Music of the Spansh Folk Plays in New Mexico 1969 |
| 91 | Somebody owes me money 1969 |
| 92 | The Blackbird 1969 |
| 93 | The Dame 1969 |
| 94 | Adios, Scheherazade 1970 |
| 95 | The hot rock 1970 |
| 96 | Slayground 1971 |
| 97 | The mourner 1971 |
| 98 | Bank Shot 1972 |
| 99 | Cops and Robbers 1972 |
| 100 | Plunder squad 1972 |
| 101 | Under an English heaven 1972 |
| 102 | Gangway 1973 |
| 103 | The sour lemon score 1973 |
| 104 | Butcher's Moon 1974 |
| 105 | Deadly Edge (Violent World of Parker, No 6) 1974 |
| 106 | Help I Am Being Held Prisoner 1974 |
| 107 | Jimmy the Kid 1974 |
| 108 | Brothers keepers 1975 |
| 109 | Two Much 1975 |
| 110 | Enough 1977 |
| 111 | Nobody's Perfect 1977 |
| 112 | Castle in the air 1980 |
| 113 | 7th 1981 |
| 114 | A New York dance 1981 |
| 115 | Stark Mysteries 1981 |
| 116 | The man with the getaway face 1981 |
| 117 | The outfit 1981 |
| 118 | The score 1981 |
| 119 | Kahawa 1982 |
| 120 | Stark's Russian for the Traveler 1983 |
| 121 | Why Me 1983 |
| 122 | A Likely Story 1984 |
| 123 | Levine 1984 |
| 124 | The rare coin score 1984 |
| 125 | Good Behavior 1985 |
| 126 | High Adventure 1985 |
| 127 | The Handle 1985 |
| 128 | The Black Ice Score (Allison & Busby American Crime Series) 1986 |
| 129 | The Jugger (Allison & Busby American Crime Series) 1986 |
| 130 | The Seventh 1987 |
| 131 | The Green Eagle Score (American Crime) 1988 |
| 132 | Trust me on this 1988 |
| 133 | Tomorrow's Crimes 1989 |
| 134 | Drowned hopes 1990 |
| 135 | The Perfect Murder 1992 |
| 136 | Don't Ask 1993 |
| 137 | Baby, Would I Lie 1994 |
| 138 | Smoke 1996 |
| 139 | What's the worst that could happen? 1996 |
| 140 | Comeback 1997 |
| 141 | The Parker Omnibus 1997 |
| 142 | The ax 1997 |
| 143 | Backflash 1998 |
| 144 | Deadly Feasts 1999 |
| 145 | The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback) 1999 |
| 146 | Religion and Society, Volume I 2000 |
| 147 | The hook 2000 |
| 148 | All That Screaming and Yelling, or, When Grand (?) Opera Came to the Emerald (?) City 2001 |
| 149 | Bad news 2001 |
| 150 | Firebreak 2001 |
| 151 | Flashfire 2001 |
| 152 | Put a lid on it 2002 |
| 153 | The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime 2002 |
| 154 | Breakout 2003 |
| 155 | Money for nothing 2003 |
| 156 | Nobody runs forever 2004 |
| 157 | The Road To Ruin 2004 |
| 158 | Thieves' dozen 2004 |
| 159 | Watch Your Back! 2005 |
| 160 | Lemons Never Lie (Hard Case Crime) 2006 |
| 161 | Ask the Parrot 2007 |
| 162 | What's So Funny? 2007 |
| 163 | Dirty Money 2008 |
| 164 | Get real 2009 |
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