Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Highway / The Oklahoma Punk | 1976 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 2 | The Hider | 1980 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 3 | Aces and Eights | 1981 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 4 | The Wolfer | 1983 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 5 | Mister St. John | 1983 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 6 | This Old Bill | 1984 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 7 | Gun Man | 1985 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 8 | Bloody Season | 1987 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 9 | Peeper | 1989 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 10 | Sudden Country | 1991 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 11 | Billy Gashade | 1997 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 12 | Journey of the Dead | 1998 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 13 | The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association | 1999 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 14 | The Master Executioner | 2001 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 15 | Black Powder, White Smoke | 2002 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 16 | The Undertaker’s Wife | 2005 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 17 | The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion | 2006 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 18 | Gas City | 2008 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 19 | The Branch and the Scaffold | 2009 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 20 | Roy & Lillie: A Love Story | 2010 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 21 | The Confessions of Al Capone | 2013 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 22 | Ragtime Cowboys | 2014 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 23 | The Long High Noon | 2015 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 24 | Nearly Nero | 2017 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 25 | The Ballad of Black Bart | 2017 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 26 | The Eagle and the Viper | 2021 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
| 27 | Paperback Jack | 2022 | Loren D. Estleman | Buy |
Loren D. Estleman’s standalone novels show the full range of his interests, from frontier westerns to crime fiction set in various periods of American history. His earliest standalones, like Red Highway (1976) and The Hider (1980), were rough-edged westerns. Aces and Eights (1981) and Bloody Season (1987) brought more polish, fictionalizing the stories of Wild Bill Hickok and the Earps at the O.K. Corral respectively.
Later standalones moved between genres freely. Billy Gashade (1997) and Journey of the Dead (1998) returned to the West, while Gas City (2008) and The Confessions of Al Capone (2013) tackled organized crime in different eras. The Eagle and the Viper (2021) is a historical thriller about an assassination plot against Napoleon, and Paperback Jack (2022) is a love letter to the pulp fiction industry. Throughout, Estleman’s research and prose quality remain consistent, even as he moves between very different settings.