Lt. James Reardon is a good cop, aggressive, hard working. He likes his job and knows when to follow his hunches. But in the case of Ralph Crocker, maybe Reardon’s hunch is just the aggravated imagination of a guy who’s had a fight with his best...
That suave fly in the ointment of the underworld, Paul Pry, never guessed how close he’d come to pushing up daisies when he Started to chisel in on a suitcase full of hot ice. His one-armed camera-eye side-kick, Mugs Magoo, tried to warn him he...
Prostitution, dope, gambling, and murder!
As a town, St. Cecilia was anything but saintly — prostitution, dope, gambling, the works.
Matt Rudd of the Vice Squad had the lurid inside story. But he was helpless as long as crooked politicos...
The author of Phantom Lady and Deadline at Dawn, both made into smash motion picture hits, presents here a superb collection of spine-chillers, each a polished example of the art of detection, in which Mr. Irish again proves his unique ability to...
**Edward Ashton's *Antimatter Blues* is the thrilling follow up to *Mickey7* in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.**Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping,...
THE DEVIL’S DOZEN...
An opium smuggler. A cheap hired gun. A homicidal psychopath. A pair of terrified informers. The kingpin of the New York Mafia. His daughter, as beautiful as she is promiscuous. A cop on the take. A hard-nosed syndicate...
When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store’s shutter. This seemingly simple request for advice sets the trio on a journey...
January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at fifty years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world... and then...
An unexpected meeting and a simple landscaping job swiftly pull Miguel into a dangerous new world...
This story originally appeared in Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories edited by Don...