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...
Lights! Camera! Action! Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler’s new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood hits are made of.
Otto Penzler delivers the director’s cut of classic short stories that inspired some of...
Mr. L. A. G. Strong’s new story of murder and sudden death has many striking and unusual qualities. It is in essence a novel of high distinction. Mr. Strong concentrates on what is psychologically the most interesting part of every murder...
Where there’s a will there’s a way — at least that was old A. B. Carr’s reasoning until Doug Selby appeared and mapped out another course...
Obviously the young lawyer, Inez Stapleton, had bitten off more than she could chew. It isn’t...
When Archie Goodwin’s life is threatened, Wolfe must find the gunman or lose his right-hand man
Archie Goodwin is chipper as he strolls home from his weekly poker game, money in his pocket and a smile on his lips. He has just reached Nero...
When the daughter of a steel magnate disappears, Nero Wolfe and Archie must forge ahead with an investigation.
Archie Goodwin’s very good friend, Lily Rowan, spends much of her time — and considerable financial resources — helping women...
Ellery Queen is back in Wrightsville — the town that his thousands of admirers will remember as the scene of many of the brilliant detective’s most striking triumphs, including CALAMITY TOWN and TEN DAYS’ WONDER.
Ellery has never had a...
Black-eyes, blackguards, and glamorous blondes galore, land Perry Mason and Della Street in a pretty sweet pickle — soured beyond repair by the reappearance of Sergeant Holcomb...
Diana Regis was a stunner — and she had a shiner. But the...
THE CLIENT: Blonde Edna Hammer, worried about her uncle, Peter Kent, who walked in his sleep with a carving knife in his hand. Is a man who walks in his sleep criminally responsible for what he does while sleepwalking? Edna wondered... So did Perry...
Lest we give you an unfair advantage or send you off on a false scent, we tell you nothing about this story in advance except that the clues go back over three hundred years in one of the most ingenious deductive problems that ever confronted a...