Who murdered Lucille Balu, a rising young film star, found strangled to death in a hotel elevator? Set against the background of the fabulous Cote d’Azur and the Cannes Film Festival, James Hadley Chase’s new thriller tells the story of a young...
Nobody robs banks in Belfast without the IRA getting a cut --- not even former Provo James “Ructions” O'Hare. But when word gets around that O'Hare may be up to something, the pressure from the IRA begins. Ructions trusts his crack squad of...
Casey Morrow, un giovane intento ad annegare nel whisky i suoi dispiaceri, viene abbordato nel bar da una bella sconosciuta che gli chiede di sposarla offrendogli in compenso una cospicua somma.
L’indomani Casey si sveglia con la sensazione di...
A varied collection of stories by Shamus Award-winner Bill Pronzini.
Rich in character, incident, and exceptional storytelling, this collection of Oddments is the best evidence of why the Private Eye Writers of America honored Bill Pronzini with...
Dot and Edith's happiness in their home stands in the way of their neighbors' decisions to sell to the Millpond Corporation so it can build another blight on the landscape. A campaign of intimidation, at first merely irritating, escalates to murder...
Duffy Dombrowski is not your average New York social worker. When he's not counseling sex addicts and drug users, you can find him crooning Elvis tunes, getting "Schlitzed" with his friends, or fighting ex-Olympians in the boxing...
Stanley Bentworth is not all that tough. Previously a homicide cop, he drank his way out of a job and now runs a one-man private eye agency finding people who don’t want to be found. He doesn’t accept tough-guy assignments, calling himself a...