Arcane Casebook Reading Order: Dan Willis's Gaslamp Noir

June 7, 2026

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Dan Willis’s Arcane Casebook series is a delight for fans of magic-meets-noir — runewright private detective Alex Lockerby solves cases in an alternate 1930s New York where magic is real and rationed. Pulpy, clever, and hugely bingeable. Read in publication order.

#1
In Plain Sight Arcane Casebook Dan Willis
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The complete reading order

  1. In Plain Sight (2018)
  2. Ghost of a Chance (2019)
  3. The Long Chain (2019)
  4. Mind Games (2020)
  5. Limelight (2020)
  6. Blood Relation (2020)
  7. Capital Murder (2021)
  8. Hostile Takeover (2022)
  9. Hidden Voices (2022)
  10. Pound of Flesh (2024)
  11. Equal & Opposite (2024)
  12. Gangster (2025)

The series is best read in publication order.

Where to start

In Plain Sight (book one). Gaslamp detective fantasy at its most moreish.

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