Roderick Thorp

Roderick Thorp is a thriller and mystery fiction author that was born in the Bronx on September 1936. He attended City College of New York which is where he began writing. It was at this time that he would become the winner of the Theodore Goodman Short Story Award.

The best place to start is the Joe Leland series, the earliest of Roderick Thorp's multi-book series: it opens with The Detective (1966) and runs to 2 books across 1966–1979, ending with Nothing Lasts Forever / Die Hard (1979). Roderick Thorp's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Roderick Thorp has 17 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1961 and 2014. 4 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Die Hard series with 2 books — and 13 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. Roderick Thorp's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Joe Leland (1966–1979, 2 books) and Die Hard (1979–1987, 2 books).

This guide splits Roderick Thorp's 17 books into 2 named series and 13 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Die Hard (2 books, 1979–1987); Joe Leland (2 books, 1966–1979).