SHIELD FOR MURDER is a hard-hitting story about a rogue cop who ran with the hare while he hunted with the hounds — and so caught himself in the squeeze between the underworld and the law. Barney Nolan had a long record with the force. Some of it...
Every man, and every community, has its breaking point. This is the arresting and powerful idea which is examined by William P. McGivern in his new novel, Savage Streets. The suburban development of Faircrest had seemed a model of contemporary...
When May Laval, a hostess able to satisfy most appetites, decides to “go public” with her diaries, her good friend Dan Riordan hires public-relations expert Jake Harrison to defend his honor. But when May is found murdered, Jake’s suspicions...
Black Dove...
The identity of the notorious criminal, Black Dove, still baffles the officers of Interpol, the Surete and Scotland Yard. But there is nothing to connect him with Peter Churchman, an Englishman living quietly in Southern Spain with...
When Mark Weir, a Chicago homicide lieutenant, starts investigating a series of murders of army servicemen, he comes on a smuggling “loop” set up by two army sergeants between Frankfurt, Germany, and Chicago. With the help of a striking Chicago...
“Murder on the Turnpike” takes place over a single night when a serial killer (before there was a term for that) is stalking, abducting, and killing motorists along a 100-mile length of interstate highway stretching south from New York. The...
This is a story of the most heart-rending of crimes — the kidnapping of a little child. First the author lets us see the crime itself. Then we watch the anguish of the parents as they discover their loss, the arrival of the ransom note, the...