Stephen Dobyns is an American poet and novelist. Born in 1941, Dobyns has written many detective stories about a character named Charlie Bradshaw who works at the Saratoga racetrack and then as a private eye. Bradshaw is unusual as a private eye, being just an ordinary type of man who was once a policeman. All the books have the word "Saratoga" in the title.

Bibliography

Poetry

• Concurring Beasts (1972)
• Griffon: Poems (1976)
• Heat Death (1980)
• The Balthus Poems (1982)
• Cemetery Nights (1987)
• Body Traffic (1990)
• Black Dog, Red Dog (1990)
• After Shocks/Near Escapes (1991)
• Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1992 (1994)
• Common Carnage (1996)
• Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides (1999)
• The Porcupine's Kisses (2002)

Fiction

• A Man of Little Evils (1973)
• Saratoga Longshot (1976) #
• Saratoga Swimmer (1981) #
• Dancer With One Leg (1983)
• Saratoga Headhunter (1985) #
• Cold Dog Soup (1985)
• Saratoga Snapper (1986) #
• Cemetery Nights (1987)
• A Boat Off the Coast (1987)
• Saratoga Bestiary (1988) #
• The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini (1988)
• Saratoga Hexameter (1990) #
• The House on Alexandrine (1990)
• Black Dog, Red Dog (1990)
• After Shocks/Near Escapes (1991)
• Saratoga Haunting (1993) #
• The Wrestler's Cruel Study (1993)
• Saratoga Backtalk (1994) #
• Saratoga Fleshpot (1995) #
• The Church of Dead Girls (1997)
• Saratoga Strongbox (1998)
• Boy in the Water (1999)
• Eating Naked [SS] (2000)

# Charlie Bradshaw series

Nonfiction

• Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry (1996)