It begins in the small Iowa town of Steubenville, where a seemingly respectable citizen takes a head-over-heels tumble on a department store escalator. As if on cue, Cadillacs — 31 in all — start disappearing from lots in the San Francisco Bay...
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In 1953 Pierce Duncan leaves college as an innocent and sets off to see America. His road trip will take him from the savagery of a Georgia chain gang to a wild ride through Texas to the darkest side of the Las Vegas fight game — and, finally, to...
Runyan had spent eight years in San Quentin, but now he was out and ready to lead a quiet life, an honest life. But while he was away there were people planning for the day of his release, people who wanted the two million dollars in diamonds Runyan...
On a Hollywood studio lot a dancing bear does a little pickpocketing on the side. In Son Francisco the repo men of Daniel Kearny Associates ore on a nonstop campaign to repossess twenty-seven classic cars from twenty-seven people who will go to...
It’s not the best of times for the repo men and skip tracers of DKA. The big boss has been thrown out of the house by his wife, landing, for the foreseeable future, in Larry Ballard’s apartment. Ken Warren has fallen into the grasp of the...
Life is a wondrous game for twenty-eight-year-old Eddie Dain. There’s phone chess with his beautiful wife, Marie. There’s the joy of his three-year old son. There’s his career using software to ferret out soft-core bad guys without ever...
Dead Skip is the first novel in a remarkable new series Ellery Queen calls “authentic as a fist in your face.” With it, Joe Gores, the double Edgar-winner who spent twelve years as a private investigator, shows just how fresh and compelling the...
The first DKA File novel, Dead Skip, was called “superb in its swift, to-the-point plotting and on-the-mark dialogue. Dan Kearny’s detectives are Lew Archer in concert, and Joe Gores’ novel ranks at the head of its class.”
— O. L....
“I’m going to have your license, shamus!” The line is as familiar to television viewers and readers of detective fiction as the blonde in the bedroom or the bottle in the drawer. But when the State of California cold-bloodedly sets out to grab...
