Gordon DeMarco

Riley Kovachs

Pluto published two of the three Riley Kovachs novels. The sequence in terms of publication is

October Heat '79
Canvas Prison '82 (not published by Pluto)
Frisco Blues '85

and in terms of setting is

October Heat '34
Frisco Blues '46
Canvas Prison '47

A further Riley Kovachs story, The Five Pin Stands Alone, set in the 1950s, can be found in Red Handed: An anthology of radical crime stories, ed. Jon E. Lewis.

An obituary, originally for the Guardian, can be found on Bob Biderman's website, another of the Pluto crime authors. The obituary notes that he founded West Coast Crime.

Other Detectives

In addition to the Riley Kovachs novels Gordon DeMarco published two other novels, Elvis in Aspic and Murder at the Fringe, as well as non-fiction.