She was as conniving a blonde as ever tried to steal another girl’s husband... Now she was dead, found murdered in a lonely lovers’ lane. And the police wanted to know...
Unfortunate that Phineas Slack should die of sunstroke on the night of his reconciliation with his black-sheep nephew... and strange that the sun shone so strongly that...
The Los Angeles police department has often suspected that private detective Otis Beagle is not above making “business” to bring in a profitable client. And they are quite right.
But not even Otis and his hired hand, Joe Peel, would have...
OVER 40 NEW STORIES FROM BRITAIN’S LEADING CRIME WRITERS
Leading editor and reviewer Maxim Jakubowski has compiled another beguiling collection of the year’s best new short crime fiction from the UK. Ian Rankin’s perennially popular...
Facing life alone, they had turned to crime together.
Dolly Rawlins, Shirley Miller, Linda Pirelli and Bella O’Reilly set out to do the impossible, hold up an armed security wagon.
Using Dolly Rawlins’ husband’s plans, they succeed and...