Works by Dick Lochte

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Sleeping Dog
Type of work: Novel
Published by: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001
ISBN: 1-890208-51-5
Setting: Throughout California.
Brief plot description: When teen Serendipity Dahlquist's dog is snatched, she's
determined not to lose her hold on this one memento of her dead father. She
tries to hire Private eye Leo "The Bloodhound" Bloodworth. Though he refuses,
he's forced by circumstance to join her a corpse-ridden cross-California search
for both dog and Serendipity's mother.
Character notes: 14-year-old Serendipity Dahlquist and middle-aged private eye Leo J. Bloodworth.
Other notes: Named by the Independent Mystery Booksellers' Association as one of
the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century.
Awards: Nero Wolfe Award; nominated for Edgar®, Shamus.

Laughing Dog
Type of work: Novel
Published by: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001
ISBN: 1-890208-79-5
Setting: Southern and Northern California, London, Venice.
Brief plot description: The second adventure of Serendipity and Leo finds them
helping New Orleans detective Terry Manion locate his missing niece.
Character notes: 14-year-old Serendipity Dahlquist, middle-aged private eye Leo J.
Bloodworth, and New Orleans detective Terry Manion.

The Trials of Nikki Hill
(co-written with Christopher Darden)
Type of work: Novel
Published by: Warner, 2000 (hardcover); 2001 (paperback)
ISBN: 0-446-52326-7 (hardcover); 0-446-60798-3 (paperback)
Setting: Los Angeles.
Brief plot description: African-American Deputy District Attorney Nikki Hill gets the
high-profile case of her career, prosecuting the suspected murderer of TV tabloid news hostess Maddie Gray.
Character notes: Nikki Hill, smart and ambitious Deputy District Attorney, LAPD
homicide detectives Ed Goodman and Carlos Morales.

L.A. Justice
(co-written with Christopher Darden)
Type of work: Novel
Published by: Warner, 2001
ISBN: 0-446-52327-5
Setting: Los Angeles and the Sequoia Mountains.
Brief plot description: Deputy District Attorney Nikki Hill prosecutes the son of a
wealthy Los Angeles industrialist who's accused of murdering his fiancé, while
her lover homicide detective Virgil Sykes searches for the murder of a young
prostitute.
Character notes: Deputy D.A. Nikki Hill, LAPD Detective Virgil Sykes.

Lucky Dog and Other Tales of Murder
Type of work: Short story collection
Published by: Five Star, 2001
ISBN: 0-7862-2688-9
Setting: Southern California, New Orleans.
Brief plot description: Nine short stories and an introduction.
Character notes: Leo Bloodworth and Serendipity Dahlquist, Terry Manion, J.J.
Legendre.

"Catnip"
Type of work: Short story, in Murder Most Feline
Published by: Cumberland House, 2001
ISBN: 1-58182-215-4
Setting: New Orleans.
Brief plot description: New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Billy Quinlan gets help
from his wife, Jenny, in trying a woman accused of murdering a millionaire who
left her fortune to her cat.
Character notes: Assistant District Attorney Billy Quinlan and his wife, Jenny, a
former cat burglar.

"In The City of Angels"
Type of work: Short story, in Flesh & Blood
Published by: Mysterious Press, 2001
ISBN: 0-446-67777-9
Setting: Los Angeles and Malibu.
Brief plot description: Mace, an ex-con, has been brought back to L.A. by a friend
and former partner who wants him to follow a young woman and report on her
every move.
Character notes: Mace, a former convict; Paulie Lacotta, his old partner and now a
top dog in his corporation.

"Rappin' Dog"
Type of work: Short story, in The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories
Published by: Forge, 2000
ISBN: 0-312-87480-4
Setting: Los Angeles and Santa Monica
Brief plot description: Serendipity Dahlquist and Leo Bloodworth hire on as
bodyguards for rap recording artist B.A. "Big Apple" Dawg.
Character notes: Teenager Serendipity Dahlquist and middle-aged private eye Leo
Bloodworth.

Interview with Robert Mitchum
Type of work: Interview, in Mitchum in His Own Words
Published by: Limelight, 2000
ISBN: 0-87910-292-6
Brief description: The late actor, Robert Mitchum, talks about his film career.

Los Angeles
Type of work: Entry in The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing
Published by: Oxford, 12/99
ISBN: 0-19-507239-1
Brief description: A brief survey of authors who have set their crime fiction in Los
Angeles.

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