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...
They asked him to fight again. There would be no second chance at the crown, but a friend needed help, and it might be a second chance for the woman he...
Other Times, Other Worlds
Among these superb stories—
A Child Is Crying
— A frightening look at a seven-year-old boy whose intelligence far surpasses that of top military experts...
Flaw
— An intensely dramatic story that...
Considering the late John D. MacDonald’s obvious love for boating and the sea, it’s surprising that so few of his short stories had nautical backgrounds. This one, published in a yachting magazine just a few months after his death, makes fine...
A young woman starting a new life in the city turns her fantasies into reality
In her erotically charged daydreams and journal entries, she calls herself Jennifer Starr and she knows what makes her hot. But as a shy woman in her early twenties,...
“A Problem in Adultery” might aptly be the subtitle of Ellery’s latest case.
Who is pretty Mrs. Lawrence’s lover? And how can the young, rich Broadway producer be saved from the folly of her infidelity and the fury of her husband Dirk,...