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...
Neil Fargo was a hard-nosed private investigator with a business on the side: heroin. The investigating he did on his own; the drug line he shared with a man called Walter Harriss. Fargo was strong enough, cool enough, to live in two worlds, and...
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...
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...
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...
Dr. Paul Prye’s wedding was dramatically interrupted when Jane Stevens, a bridesmaid, became ill in the church vestibule. Some thought it was a convulsion. Prye knew it was poison. Jane’s brother Duncan, a smooth bully, didn’t care what it...
Alice told the psychiatrist about her blind sister. “She has built a wall of eyes around her, the good eyes of the rest of us, the eyes of the people who hate her and watch her and wait for her to die. That’s what she says, that the eyes are...
Gordon Foster’s activities took a sudden bounce off the track of his daily pattern of staid middle-class living when a girl asked him for a match in the lobby of a San Francisco hotel. In a matter of weeks the girl Ruby followed Gordon home to...
Virginia Barkeley spoiled child of a wealthy family, sat it a Michigan jail cell and refused to answer even her lawyer’s questions. Her husband knew that she had been intimate with Claude Margolis. Her mother knew that Virginia was capable of...
In this remarkable novel, Margaret Millar returns to the themes of death and terror which first made her reputation as a writer. It concerns a New York family who rented a house on the California coast in the hope of a tranquil summer. Mark Banner...