John Billheimer Books in Order
John Billheimer has written 10 books, published between 1998 and 2019. The first book is The Contrary Blues (1998) and the newest is Hitchcock and the Censors (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1998–2019
- Pages on record
- 2,100 in 7 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 35–53 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,100 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
John Billheimer writes mystery fiction and nonfiction. Catalogue subjects name Owen Allison as a recurring fictional character and record government investigators, government spending policy, public finance, West Virginia, baseball and sportswriters. Two series are listed: Owen Allison and Lloyd Keaton Mystery. The 10 catalogued books run from The Contrary Blues (1998) to 2019, taking in Highway Robbery (2000), Dismal Mountain (2001), Drybone Hollow (2003), Stonewall Jackson's Elbow (2006), Field of Schemes (2012) and A Player to Be Maimed Later (2013). Baseball and the Blame Game (2007) and Hitchcock and the Censors (2019) sit outside the fiction.
How many John Billheimer books are there?
John Billheimer has 10 books, released between 1998 and 2019. They include 2 series and 1 title listed outside any series.
John Billheimer Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 John Billheimer books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119982281/4
- 22000–1/4
- 320013041/4
- 420032841/4
- 520063731/4
- 6Baseball and the Blame Game: Scapegoating in the Major Leagues2007 · 216 pages · confirmed 1/420072161/4
- 72012–1/4
- 820133111/4
- 92019–1/4
- 1020193841/4
John Billheimer books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Owen Allison in order
6 booksLloyd Keaton Mystery in order
2 booksScreen Classics in order
1 bookStandalone books
1 book1 John Billheimer title here is not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read John Billheimer books in order?
You only need to read John Billheimer books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with John Billheimer
Start with The Contrary Blues (1998), the earliest published title.
What is the newest John Billheimer book?
Hitchcock and the Censors (2019) is the newest John Billheimer book released so far.
Is there a new John Billheimer book coming?
No next John Billheimer book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
John Billheimer at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest John Billheimer title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- John Billheimer books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,100 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most John Billheimer books, 5 of 10, were published in the 2000s.
What the John Billheimer books are about
8 of the 10 John Billheimer books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: government investigators is tagged on 3 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Government investigators 3 of 8 books
- Mystery & detective 3 of 8 books
- Owen Allison (Fictitious character) 3 of 8 books
- Allison, owen (fictitious character) 2 of 8 books
- Baseball 2 of 8 books
- Baseball stories 2 of 8 books
- Sportswriters 2 of 8 books
- West virginia 2 of 8 books