Naked Came the Phoenix

Naked Came the Phoenix: A Serial Novel
	First edition cover
Author	Nevada Barr, Mary Jane Clark, Diana Gabaldon, J. A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Laurie R. King, Val McDermid, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Anne Perry, Nancy Pickard, J. D. Robb, Lisa Scottoline, and Marcia Talley
Language	English
Genre	Mystery
Publisher	Minotaur Books
Publication date	August 15, 2001 (1st edition)
Pages	320 (Hardcover 1st edition)
ISBN	978-0-312-25194-9

Naked Came the Phoenix: A Serial Novel is a 2001 mystery novel written in serial installments by thirteen popular female authors, including collaboration editor Marcia Talley. The title was intended to evoke 1969's famously-collaborative Naked Came the Stranger rather than the 1996 parody Naked Came the Manatee.^[1]

Authors

All thirteen authors have been featured in The New York Times Book Review.^[2] The authors included:^[3]

Chapter 1 by Nevada Barr
Chapter 2 by Nora Roberts, credited as J. D. Robb
Chapter 3 by Nancy Pickard
Chapter 4 by Lisa Scottoline
Chapter 5 by Perri O'Shaughnessy, pen name of Mary O'Shaughnessy and Pam O'Shaughnessy
Chapter 6 by J. A. Jance
Chapter 7 by Faye Kellerman
Chapter 8 by Mary Jane Clark
Chapter 9 by Marcia Talley
Chapter 10 by Anne Perry
Chapter 11 by Diana Gabaldon
Chapter 12 by Val McDermid
Chapter 13 by Laurie R. King

^ Hahn, Robert C. (2 July 2001). "PW Talks with Marcia Talley". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
^ Managing the Mystery Collection: From Creation to Consumption by Judith A. Overmier, Rhonda Harris Taylor, Psychology Press, 2006, page 186
^ Naked Came the Phoenix by Marcia Talley et al, Minotaur, 2001, page ix

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