Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fancy Anders Goes To War: Who Killed Rosie The Riveter? | 2021 | Max Allan Collins | Buy |
Max Allan Collins’ Fancy Anders series features a female detective working on the American home front during World War II. The first book, Fancy Anders Goes To War: Who Killed Rosie The Riveter? (2021), places Fancy in a wartime factory where women have stepped in to do the work of men who have gone overseas. When a murder disrupts the factory, Fancy takes on the investigation.
Collins has a deep love for the Golden Age of mystery fiction, and the Fancy Anders series reflects that. The book is set in a period Collins knows well from his extensive historical crime fiction work, and the wartime setting gives the story a distinct atmosphere. The female detective lead is a departure from some of Collins’ other series, and the home front mystery angle makes this a fresh entry in his large body of work.