Janet Evanovich - Best-selling Mystery Author

Janet Evanovich - Mystery Author - Number Mysteries

The mystery novels of Janet Evanovich each use a catchy numberical phrase. The first novel was One for the Dough that came out in 1995. The protagonist is Stephanie Plum, a female bounty hunter.

The books have been very popular best-sellers. Ms. Evanovich has had one novel published each year. Her latest is Lean, Mean, Thirteen. My wife has read a few and has enjoyed them.

I asked Jim back in 1998 about collecting the series. He had the first book but was somewhat neutral about the series. I did not have it and the price was about $75 at the time.

Just like Michael Connelly's first book ... I did not buy it and have regretted it. Now it is around $250. In ten years it has tripled in price.

Here is a list of the Stephanie Plum novels:

Title	Year Published	Publisher
One For the Money	1995	Scribner's
Two For the Dough	1996	Scribner's
Three to Get Deadly	1997	Scribner's
Four To Score	1998	St. Martin's Press
High Five	1999	St. Martin's Press
Hot Six	2000	St. Martin's Press
Seven Up	2001	St. Martin's Press
Hard Eight	2002	St. Martin's Press
To The Nines	2003	St. Martin's Press
Ten Big Ones	2004	St. Martin's Press
Eleven On Top	2005	St. Martin's Press
Twelve Sharp	2006	St. Martin's Press
Lean Mean Thirteen	2007	St. Martin's Press
Plum Lucky	2008	St. Martin's Press
Fearless Fourteen	2008	St. Martin's Press

The following two bar charts show the prices for Ms. Evanovich's first two books. Her first book was popular and she won the John Creasey Best First Crime Novel for it. So Two for the Dough had a much larger printing - as can be seen in the higher supply and much lower prices.

Fearless Fourteen which came out in June 2008 had a first printing of 2 million copies. This was a record until John Grisham's latest book came out with 2.8 million copies of the first printing.

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