Dirty Harry novels

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Dirty Harry novels include film tie-ins and original stories based on the Dirty Harry film series. Like the films, they feature Inspector Harry Callahan as he fights criminals. The first four film novelizations appeared between 1971 and 1983: Dirty Harry (Phillip Rock, 1971), Magnum Force (Mel Valley, 1973), The Enforcer (Wesley Morgan, 1976), and Sudden Impact (Joseph Stinson, 1983). After Clint Eastwood said he wouldn’t make more Dirty Harry films after The Enforcer, Warner Books started a new line in 1981 under the Dane Hartman pen name, a collective pseudonym used by several authors, and published twelve novels roughly every two months: Duel for Cannons; Death on the Docks; The Long Death; The Mexico Kill; Family Skeletons; City of Blood; Massacre at Russian River; Hatchet Men; The Killing Connection; The Blood of Strangers; Death in the Air; The Dealer of Death. The Hartman books were written by writers including Ric Meyers and Leslie Alan Horvitz. Warner Bros. also licensed tie-in novelizations of the first four Dirty Harry films. The series ended in 1983, the same year Sudden Impact was released. In the 1990s, Jean-Paul Schweighaeuser translated the novels into French for Éditions Fleuve Noir as Collection Supercops.