In their heyday, the true-crime pulp magazines spawned many of the masters of American detective fiction. These early gems have been unearthed and collected here for the first...
This first collection of Pierre Chambrun stories features the small, dark French-born manager of New York's Beaumont Hotel in thirteen ingeniously solved cases, involving murderous entrepreneurs, TV personalities, and...
The annual steeplechase races at Montpelier, once the home of James and Dolley Madison, are the high point in the social calendar of the horse-mad Virginians of cozy Crozet. The race meet offers a cracking good time with old friends and a chance to...
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...
As the only holiday-themed mystery series in print, Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian mysteries have been a rousing success. Her first Demarkian mystery was nominated for both an Edgar and an Anthony for Best Novel. Now she has come up with a devious...