A young transvestite in a beautiful red dress is found strangled in a Havana park. Conde’s investigation into a violent murder exposes a stifling, corrupt society, a Cuban reality where nothing is what it seems.
A dark and fascinating world of men...
THE GARAUCAN SWINDLE was originally published in the September 15, 1934 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
An entire nation's economy was in peril. Millions were at stake — but to The Shadow, it was a matter of lives and reputations, not money,...
Transgressions is an amazing collection of original crime novellas, compiled by Ed McBain, one of the most illustrious names in crime fiction.
This collection includes original stories from Jeffery Deaver, Joyce Carol Oates and Ed McBain...
Carole Nelson Douglas's Cat in an Alien X-Ray takes the Las Vegas gang on a science-fictional roller-coaster ride, as Midnight Louie, feline PI, and company encounter UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy nuts who are too bizarre even for tin foil hat...
Wealthy, powerful, conscienceless, a band of supercriminals wage death-filled battle with the master of crime detection. Originally published in SHADOW Magazine, Volume II, Number 1, February...
In the stories of Havana Noir, authors uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria, in a city characterized by ironic and wrenching ...