Terry Harknett

Terry Harknett is an English author of 200 books, mainly pulps in the crime and western genres. He wrote books for Peter Haining and published under the pen names Jane Harman, Charles R. Pike, William Pine, James Russell, David Ford, Thomas Stone and Frank Chandler.

The best place to start is the Steve Wayne series, the earliest of Terry Harknett's multi-book series: it opens with The Scratch on the Surface (1962) and runs to 7 books across 1962–1973, ending with Upmarket Affair (1973). Terry Harknett's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Terry Harknett has 173 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1962 and 2015. 165 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being the Edge series with 61 books — and 8 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. Terry Harknett's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Steve Wayne (1962–1973, 7 books), Fortune (1970–1973, 4 books) and Edge (1972–1989, 61 books), plus 6 more.

This guide splits Terry Harknett's 173 books into 9 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Edge (61 books, 1972–1989); Adam Steele (49 books, 1974–1989); Apache (27 books, 1974–1984); Steve Wayne (7 books, 1962–1973); Edge: The Return (6 books, 2011–2012), plus 4 further series.