
Michael Kurland
Author · 27 books
aka Jennifer Plum Michael Kurland has written many non-fiction books on a vast array of topics, including How to Solve a Murder, as well as many novels. Twice a finalist for the Edgar Award (once for The Infernal Device) given by the Mystery Writers of America, Kurland is perhaps best known for his novels about Professor Moriarty. He lives in Petaluma, California.
Series
Books

Who Thinks Evil
A Professor Moriarty Novel
2014

The Infernal Device
1978

A Gallery of Rogues
Portraits in True Crime
1994

Death by Gaslight
1982

Ten Little Wizards
1988

The Unicorn Girl
1969

Too Soon Dead
1997

Whatever the Cost
2021

The Whenabouts of Burr
1975

Sherlock Holmes
The American Years
2010

How to Solve a Murder
1995

Irrefutable Evidence
A History of Forensic Science
2009

The Great Game
2001

Pluribus
1975

How to Try a Murder
1997

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries
2000

Psi Hunt
1960

Button Bright
1990

The Girls in the High Heeled Shoes
1998

Tomorrow Knight
1976

A Study in Sorcery
1989

Princes of Earth
1978

The Empress of India
A Professor Moriarty Novel
2006

Victorian Villainy
2011

The Bells of Hell
2019

The Last President
A Novel of an Alternative America
2013

Transmission Error
1970