Oliver Dean Spencer is a multi-media artist and an award winning international crime fiction writer who spends his time between Catania, Sicily and Montreal, Quebec.

To date, he’s published three novels as part of the James Cartwright PI series (The Spencer Files, Call of the Nightingale, and The Case of the Runaway Orangutan) through Original Press as well as The Crossing (Book 1 in the Devon West mystery series)

Spencer is presently working on a collection of speculative, dark fiction (short stories) entitled Tales from the PI Café, to be released in late 2025 and on the fourth James Cartwright novel, Theory of a Deadman – release date 2025-26.

Oliver Dean Spencer received his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa (2010) and his BFA in Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal (2008).

Published Works

The DEVON WEST Mystery Series

The Crossing, A Devon West Mystery, Oliver Dean Spencer, 2023 – READ EXCERPT

The Crossing, A Devon West Mystery, Oliver Dean Spencer, 2023
The Crossing, A Devon West Mystery, Oliver Dean Spencer, 2023

A James Cartwright P.I. Mystery Series

The Case of the Runaway Orangutan, (Book 3 of 3), 2020 – READ EXCERPT

The Case of the Runaway Orangutan, Book Cover, Oliver Dean Spencer, 2020
The Case of the Runaway Orangutan, Book #3, Oliver Dean Spencer, 2020

Call of the Nightingale, (Book 2 of 3), 2020 – READ EXCERPT

Call of the Nightingale, Book Cover, Oliver Dean Spencer, 2020
Call of the Nightingale, A James Cartwright P.I. Mystery (Book 2 of 3)

The Spencer Files, (Book 1 of 3), 2018 – READ EXCERPT

The Spencer Files, A James Cartwright P.I. Mystery, Book 01, Spencer. 2018
The Spencer Files, A James Cartwright P.I. Mystery, Book 01, Spencer. 2018

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