Bill Pronzini has written so many novels, and compiled so many anthologies, that a complete listing is difficult to achieve. The following is a list of his best-known fiction.
Nameless Detective novels
- See Nameless Detective for complete list
Pseudonymous works
- William Hart Davis (joint work with collaborator Jeffrey Wallmann) (one novel, Charlie Chan in The Pawns of Death)
- Jack Foxx (four novels, Dead Run, Freebooty, The Jade Figurine, Wildfire)
- William Jeffrey (joint works with collaborator Jeffrey Wallmann) (three novels, Border Fever, Day of the Moon, Duel at Gold Buttes)
- Alex Saxon (one novel, A Run in Diamonds)
Anthologies
- Twenty-three collections, mainly mystery.
- with Barry N. Malzberg: four science fiction collections.
- with Martin H. Greenberg: fifty-six collections, mainly mystery and western.
- with Marcia Muller: twenty collections, mainly mystery, suspense, and western.
Short stories
More than three hundred, appearing in
Argosy, generally considered the first American pulp magazine;
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine;
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction;
Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology; The 1890s Western detective short stories
Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services (1998) regarding Sabina Carpenter, a Pinkerton detective widow, working in her fallen husband's profession.