Thomas Haftmann

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Created by Robb White
Pseudonyms include Terry White, Robb White

Brooding Ohio gumshoe THOMAS HAFTMANN, hangs out his private investigator shingle in the allegedly sleepy resort town of Jefferson-on-the-Lake in Ohio, while trying to keep his various issues (alcohol, gambling, mental health, etc.) in check.  Like his creator, he’s a full-time Catholic and a part-time existentialist. But when push comes to shove, the former Cleveland Homicide dick knows how to handle himself.

Which is a good thing, because the author really puts the guy in some creepy and disturbing places.

Seriously…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert T. White grew up in Ashtabula, Ohio, and has worked in grocery and department stores, sailed as a deckhand on ore boats around the Great Lakes, worked as a mold puller in a plastics factory, and on the cleanup crew at Mexican Original, a taco factory in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He writes genre fiction, mostly crime, noir, and horror, including two–count ’em!– two ongoing series. Besides the Haftmann series, he writes another featuring Finnish-American P.I.  Raimo Jarvi. His Betray Me Not, a collection of revenge tales, was selected by the Independent Fiction Alliance as a Truly Best Independent Book of 2022, and several of his other novels and short stories, including “Inside Man,” which was selected for inclusion in the annual Best American Mystery Stories of 2019, and The Russian Heist, another suspense thriller, was awarded first place by Thriller Magazine in its Best Novel category of 2020. He once spent two extraordinary weeks in China, but it’s now clear that Ashtabula is the hill he’s chosen to die on and that’s fine by him.

UNDER OATH

  • “… grabs you by the soul and doesn’t let go.”
    — Simon Wood on Haftmann’s Rules.

SHORT STORIES

  • “The Kneeling Woman” (1994, Words of wisdom 14)
  • “The Riding Boy” (Summer 1996, Rock Falls Review; also November 1998, The Thrilling Detective Web Site)
  • “Nocturne for Murder” (March 2005, Hardboiled; aka “No Escape, No Turning Back”)
  • “The Last Outlaw” (October 2003, The3rdegree; 2010, Sex and Murder Magazine)
  • “Strawberry Girls” (May 2005, Noir Originals)
  • “The Slave Master’s Dungeon” (March 12, 2010, Powder Burn Flash)
  • “A Woman with Tea-Colored Eyes” (August 2010, A Twist of Noir)
  • “She Played Bach in the Piano Bar” (December 2010, Sex and Murder Magazine)
  • “The Dog Returneth to His Vomit.” (2010, Thrillers, Killers ‘n’ Chillers)
  • “The Bride from Paradise Park” (2011, Midwest Literary Magazine)
  • “Welcome to the Piggy Palace” 2011, Under the Stairs)
  • “Rock Me to Sleep” (January 2011, Darkest before the Dawn [unpublished?])
  • “The Last Case of James Revelle” (2014, Pulp Modern: Thieves and Liars)

NOVELS

COLLECTIONS

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.

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