Private detective Bart Anderson is hired by Russ Hamel, a millionaire author, to shadow his beautiful wife, Nancy. For Hamel has been receiving poison pen letters claiming that his wife has been having an affair. But as Bart’s investigation...
Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year’s most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Elmore Leonard tells the tale of a young woman who’s fled home...
When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington’s office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. It’s a business where a rare...
Normally, the arrival of an art
exhibition at the Mayville
Heights library would be cause
for celebration. But thanks to
the overbearing curator and
high-tech security system that comes with it, Kathleen’s life
has been completely disrupted.
Even...
Hannah is returning from a charity luncheon in Washington, DC, when her train is involved in a horrific crash. Although her arm is broken, she remains at the side of her critically injured seatmate until help arrives – but when she is later...
Eva Magnus is a struggling artist and the divorced mother of a seven-year-old child, Emma. One afternoon she and Emma are walking by the river when an unknown man's body floats to the surface of the icy water. She tells her daughter to wait...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” January 15, 1933.
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows!"
The lure of gold — that lust which has made men kill throughout the ages — had gripped the...