LABOR DAY AND LABOR UNION MYSTERIES: Updated Lists

Labor Day Weekend! With the holiday weekend beginning, I give you my updated lists of Mysteries that take place during the holiday weekend, as well as Labor Union Mysteries. These lists are quite expanded since last year, but I appreciate any updates. 

LABOR DAY CRIME FICTION

Susan Wittig Albert's The Darling Dahlias

Sandra Balzo's Running on Empty

Laurien Berenson's Peg and Rose Play the Ponies

Nancy Coco's Forever Fudge

Carrie Doyle's Death on Bull Path

Seraphina Nova Glass's Too Close to Home

Rachel Howell Hall's City of Saviors

Lee Harris's Labor Day Murder

Tonya Kappas's Forests, Fishing, & Forgery
Gilly Macmillan's The Long Weekend

Meg Macy's Bearly Departed

Sharyn McCrumb's Highland Laddie Gone

Korina Moss's Fondue or Die

Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People

Daphne Silver's The Tell-Tale Homicide

There's also the short story "Labor Day" by R.T. Lawton in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. 

There are a few other "Summertime Mysteries" that take place Labor Day, but not as the main theme.

Labor Unions, on the other hand, are rife with settings and situations for crime fiction. This is an UPDATED Crime Fiction list involving Labor Unions with links to two great articles. Please let me know any books that should be added to this list.

LABOR UNION CRIME FICTION

The Knife Behind You by James Benet (Department Store Union Organizer)
For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen (Garment Workers Union)
White Hot by Sandra Brown (Labor Dispute)
Big Boned by Meg Cabot (Graduate Student Union)
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain (Insurance)
All Men Fear Me by Donis Casey (IWW)
Beneath It All by Lee Conrad

Cactus Blood by Lucha Corpi (Farm Workers' Union)
Airframe by Michael Crichton (Union Trouble)
Red Herring by Jonothan Cullinane (Waterfront Strike)- coming out this Fall
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle (Union Group called the Scowrers)
Third Strike by Philip Craig and William Tapply (Steamship Authority Strike)
Murder in Burnt Orange by Jeanne M. Dams

October Heat by Gordon DeMarco (1934 San Francisco General Strike-Longshoremen)
Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle (The Scowrers)
The Bramble Bush (aka Worse than Murder) by David Duncan (San Francisco General Strike)
American Tabloid by James Ellroy (Teamsters)
LA Quartet by James Ellroy (Movie Unions)
The Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. (investigative reporter -shipyards)

A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett (Coal Mines)
The Peripheral Son by Dorien Gray
Dead Reckoning by Patricia Hall (Union Strike)
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (IWW organizer & Copper Workers; Strike Breaking)

"Busting Red Heads" by Richard Helms in EQMM (short story)
A More Perfect Union by J.A. Jance (Iron Workers' Union)
As Dead As it Gets by Cady Kalian (Creative Artists' Union)
Forests Fishing ad Forgery by Tonya Kappes

The Longer the Thread by Emma Lathen (Garment Workers)
Death at the Old Hotel by Con Lehane (Hotel Workers' Union); Murder in the Taxi Drivers' Union
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane (Police Union)
Through a Glass Darkly by Donna Leon (Unsafe environmental pollution in Venetian glass factories effecting workers) 

Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (Long Shoremen's Union)
Deadly Dues by Lulu Malone (Actors' Union)
Stiff by Shane Maloney (Meat Packing)
Lorraine Connection by Dominique Manotti  (Union rep in Cathode-ray Tube industry)
Champawat by Lia Matera A Novella in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Labor Unions & the Clash between Anarchists & Democrats)
Organize or Die! by Laura McClure (Union organizing)
Conferences are Murder by Val McDermid (Journalists' Union); Darker Domain (UK Miners Strike)
A Sense of Entitlement by Clara McKenna

Death at Pullman by Frances McNamara (American Railway Union)
Violation of Trust by Hugo D. Menendez
The Viewless Winds by Murray Morgan (Murder of a Labor Leader's wife)
A Red Death by Walter Mosley (Aircraft Manufacturer and Labor Union organizer)

Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely (Domestic Workers)
The Thursday Murder Club Series by Richard Osman (Ron uses his union organizing skills to solve murders)
Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky
The Union by Peter David Perry

Mr Campion's Fault by Mike Ripley (Mineworkers)
Death and Blintzes by Dorothy and Sidney Rosen (Garment Workers Union)
A Bitter Feast by S. J. Rozan (Restaurant Workers' Union)

Waterfront by Budd Schulberg
Some Cuts Never Heal, All Bleeding Stops Eventually, One Foot in the Grave, This Won't Hurt a Bit and others (The Shop Steward Series) by Timothy Sheard (Shop Steward)
Judas Incorporated by "Kurt Steel" (Rudolf Kagey) (Pro-Union)
The Big Both Ways by John Straley (Lumber)
The Labor Union Murder aka Fourth of July Picnic by Rex Stout (novella)
The Guernica Project by Glenn A. Sunness

Absolute Rage by Robert K. Tanenbaum (Coal Miners' Union)

Fallout by Paul Thomas
The Porkchoppers, Yellow Dog Contract by Ross Thomas (Politics & Unions)
Union Jacked by Diane Vallere
Byline for the Dead by Ray Welling
Killy by Donald Westlake (Manufacturing Union)

Short Story: Richard Helms's Busting Red Heads (EQMM)

For further reading:

The Strange Connection Between Detective Fiction and Union Busting by Erica Eisen

Radical Noir: 26 Activist Crime Novels by Molly Odintz

Have a great Labor Day Weekend!