I stick to mysteries because they're more satisfying to me......

I looked up Donaldson and he has written a few mysteries. They feature Mick "Brew" Axbrewder, and the review doesn't specify a location. My library has 3 of them and may try one of them:

The Man Who Fought Alone (2001)
The Man Who Risked His Partner (1984)
The Man Who Tried to Get Away (1990)

They don't have The Man Who Killed His Brother (1980)

http://www.reviewsbygavrielle.com/axfiles.shtml for an exhaustive review....

Fantastic Fiction has almost all of his books listed, but not his mysteries for some reason:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/stephen-donaldson/

Found his mysteries here under Reed Stephens:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/S_Authors/Stephens_Reed.html

Have you read any of his mysteries?

Will start with Risked His Partner...

He wrote them under a pen name, for various reasons, so they're not often lumped in with his fantasy fiction.

The mysteries are well written. I don't think the plots were all that great nor were they particularly mysterious. More like a seedy detective series. I felt like he was trying too hard to be gritty, and make his stories edgy and brutal. Donaldson goes to great lengths to make his characters go through total hell, but not in an absurd way. They face real problems like alcoholism, shame, and depression. Semi-spoiler: [font color=white]The part where the main character has to button his wife's shirt for her because she only has one arm is all the more painful because he's partly responsible for her lost limb. Or, at least, he blames himself. (And she's none too happy about it either...) [/font]

So they're not exactly Ross Poirot or Nancy Drew. But they are well written, and if you don't mind the darkness and melancholia you'll probably like them.

Relate to the Hercule Perot that ran for president?

Gave me a smile.

back in the day started out trying to keep track of words in Gene Wolfe's novels.