J.T. Edson

J.T. Edson was one of the highly respected novelists from The United Kingdom. He was fond of writing his novels and short stories based on the escapism adventure, western, as well as the police procedural genres, writing around 137 novels in his career. Author Edson was born on February 17, 1928, as John Thomas Edson and died on July 17, 2014.

The best place to start is The Floating Outfit series, the earliest of J.T. Edson's multi-book series: it opens with The Fortune Hunters (1965) and runs to 71 books across 1965–1996, ending with Arizona Gun Law (1996). J.T. Edson's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

J.T. Edson has 144 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1965 and 2011. 134 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being The Floating Outfit series with 71 books — and 10 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. J.T. Edson's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Floating Outfit (1965–1996, 71 books), Waco (1966–1982, 7 books) and Civil War (1968–2011, 14 books), plus 6 more.

This guide splits J.T. Edson's 144 books into 9 named series and 10 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Floating Outfit (71 books, 1965–1996); Civil War (14 books, 1968–2011); Calamity Jane (13 books, 1968–1986); Rockabye County (11 books, 1968–1997); Waco (7 books, 1966–1982), plus 4 further series.