A Good Foundation ... For Murder
Pix Miller, Faith Fairchild's next-door neighbor, expects to find more than a hole in the ground when she goes to check on the progress of the summer cottage the Fairchilds are having built on Maine's Sanpere...
A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world's largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find our how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperare...
Something is amiss at Maus
Haus. Not just the mystery of an
unsolved "suicide" which hangs
over the old mansion, but
something ominous in the
present-day residence. When Qwilleran moves in to work on
his new gastronomical
assignment, strange...
A new Sherlock Holmes mystery worthy of the master Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself.In 1891, the British public was horrified to learn that Sherlock Holmes had perished in a deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty at the...
Two poisonings and two shootings at the Shore mansion on the thirteenth of October are no mere coincidence. Nor is the presence, in the neighborhood, of that celebrated man-about-murder, Perry Mason. Warned by the local police to stay off the Shore...
The Valley of the Fox (1980) was the final entry in Joseph Hone’s quartet of ‘Peter Marlow’ spy novels, all now reissued as Faber Finds.
Marlow believes he is done with the insane world of espionage, having found a haven in the Cotswolds...
On a winter's evening, a trio of unruly teenagers board a bus, ganging up on Luke Murray, hurling abuse and threatening to kill him. The bus is full but no one intervenes until Jason Barnes, a young student, challenges the gang. Luke seizes the...
In a daring plan, the Confederate Secret Service sends a group of cavalrymen to kidnap, or kill, President Abraham Lincoln by seizing the train secretly carrying him to Gettysburg on the eve of his famous Address.
Colonel Arthur Percy leads the...