Joe Gores: Stakeout on Page Street (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
In 1955, aged twenty-three and fresh from a Master's in English Literature, Joe Gores knew he wanted to be a writer. In the meantime, he had to pay the bills.

He became a repo man for L. A. Walker, later going into partnership with Walker's San Francisco manager, Dave Kikkert. The inspiration for Gores's DKA Files series was born.

Gores fictionalises his repo man days in these twelve 'cases'. Some of the stories were published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and were written throughout a distinguished career. Gores won an Edgar Award in 1969 for A Time for Predators, and wrote TV scripts for Columbo, Kojak and Magnum, PI among others.

Joe Gores: Stakeout on Page Street. Orion Books / The Murder Room, ISBN: 9781471917554 (June, 2016), eBook, 0.84 MB (240 p.),£4.99.

Joe Gores: Stakeout on Page Street (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
ALL THE DKA FILES STORIES
More than 30 years ago a young private investigator named Joe Gores was encouraged by the great mystery critic Anthony Boucher to record his experiences in a series of short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Thus began the first series of tales that looked at a PI's cases as they actually happened, from the very serious (for instance, when the actions of a repo-man -- someone who repossesses cars when loans are in default -- can send a woman to suicide) to the comic (as when the Dan Kearny Associates have to grab a fire engine that hasn't been paid for). And the characters are just as colorful, ranging from professional conmen to a gypsy who issues a curse as her car is driven away.

Since writing the DKA short stories, Joe Gores has become famous as Edgar winner for Best First Novel (A Time for Predators, 1969), the author of such novels as Hammett (and the screenplay based upon it) and the creator of telescripts for Columbo, Kojak, Magnum, P.I., and many other programs.

Stakeout on Page Street includes a new introduction and prefaces to each story by the author, and a complete checklist of Joe Gores's mystery novels and short stories.

Cover painting by Carol Heyer
Cover design by Deborah Miller

Joe Gores: Stakeout on Page Street. And Other DKA Files. Crippen & Landru, ISBN: 1885941447 (December, 2000), 182 p., $16.00.