With Day of the Guns Mickey Spillane introduces a master hero, a man as forceful as his name. Tiger Mann is afraid of no one, and he is backed by so powerful a group that he can set his own rules. For Tiger is not merely a sleuth but a major...
Ruth couldn’t commit murder—
• When Dave Tully returned from a business trip that night he found the house dark. At first he thought that Ruth, his wife, was out playing bridge and had been delayed. Then he had a caller.
• The...
THE CLOCK IS TICKING...
Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job — working on Oldcastle’s biggest ongoing murder investigation: Operation Telegram, hunting the ‘Fortnight Killer’.
Every two weeks another...
In the six years since the start of the hit British TV show Swift, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune, beginning with the star actress’s pulling out of the show before it began. By now there have been multiple injuries by fall,...
THE HUNT FOR THE TRUTH IS THE DEADLIEST GAME.
Former Marine sniper Lew Gale, now a detective with the Orange County, California, Sheriff’s Department, is assigned to track and shoot a mountain lion that has killed a man in the rugged country...
1946, the first post-World War II year, finds Tribune police reporter Snap Malek hip deep in a murder case. Someone has stabbed his cousin’s British war bride to death in their Bohemian neighborhood home in Pilsen. As the prime suspect, the meek...
In the shadowy metropolis that is 1938 Chicago, Steve Malek is a Tribune police reporter in a city gripped by the Kelly-Nash political machine and the post-Capone crime syndicate. In Malek’s depression-era world, the Tribune is the largest of the...
Autumn 1948 — the final tense days of the Presidential campaign between incumbent Harry S Truman and Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. As Truman prepares for a visit to Chicago, Tribune police reporter Steve “Snap” Malek is warned of a...
THE MARILYN TAPES is a powerful novel of the days just after Marilyn’s death... and how J. Edgar Hoover, Louella Parsons, the Mafia and the Kennedy brothers battle each other for possession of the provocative tape recordings secretly made in...