That was Gil Best all over, a tough nut to crack and hard as nails. With brains to boot, as the chiseling legal staff of Airline Stage ways soon found when they tried their gyp-artist tactics on the shock-proof investigator’s own pet...
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More than fifty years ago, Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short story caught the eye of the great Ruth Rendell, whose praise ignited Lovesey’s life-long passion for short-form crime fiction.
More than a hundred...
For some people the night is a cloak, helping them to hide; for others, it’s a bright light, exposing things best left unseen. For some people, the darkness is comforting, giving them time to think and plan; for others, it’s where nightmares...
Bid welcome to a memorable new McBain hero — Benjamin Smoke, an unlicensed private investigator with a very special preoccupation. Smoke quit the police force three years ago with a gold detective-lieutenant’s shield and a well-earned reputation...
Shivers of menace . . . Whispers or death . . . Restless spirits, doomed to a hell of...
Charles Horne, who stuck his neck out to solve the puzzle of the Chinese doll, sticks it out again in Wilson Tucker’s second mystery, TO KEEP OR KILL. In fact, he sticks his whole head out of his office window and becomes one of the victims of a...
The radio reports of the sudden tropical storm into which the freighter was heading caused the captain to order a change of course. “We’ll miss both Rio and Santos,” he told the mate. “And also the worst of the storm.”
This news made...
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention’s a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once were, there are those who will never forget the past... and who can still find...
Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, drops out of sight while attending an exclusive school for retarded young people. Shortly before her disappearance she had gone to the office of Tom Aragon, a young Hispanic lawyer, for what...
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This could have happened to anyone. The heat, the nagging frustration of a dozen things made Dan Hunter a creature without reason, a man who could blindly...