At ten o’clock “straight up”, just as the Channel 3 newscast begins, TV anchorman David Curtis clears his throat, looks into the camera, smiles — then falls face-first across his desk, murdered. Cyanide. The likely suspect is a teenage...
It's spring in Michigan's Upper Peninsula – an exciting season of rising temperatures, budding romances, and the turkey-hunting opener. But for sheer adrenaline value, neither love nor turkeys can compete with the Credit Union being held up at...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” March 15, 1933.
Millions of dollars, soaked in the blood of innocent victims, mark the path of this Murder...
"Brooklyn is my kind of detective! She loves books, wine, chocolate – and solving mysteries!" – Maureen Child
When she receives an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra from her best friend, Robin, to appraise and restore, Brooklyn Wainwright...
First came Perry Mason... then Douglas Selby the “D.A.”... and now TERRY CLANE, a new sleuth from America.
Jacob Mandra had a million-dollar apartment on the fringe of Chinatown — and a reputation.
Early one morning they found him...
The acclaimed author of A Taste for Murder, A Dash of Death and A Pinch of Poison brilliantly captures the charms of small-town life in Upstate New York. Big trouble comes to Hemlock Falls when a sleazy ex-senator holds his wedding reception at...
This delightful husband-and-wife collaboration features three stories by two-time Shamus award-winner Max Allan Collins, four stories by acclaimed short-story writer Barbara Collins, and two stories that the couple co-wrote.
Among the...