Gary Griswold, cheerily dim gadfly scion of Albany old money, late of the Key West artists colony, goes missing, and his ex-wife wants to know what's happened to him - not to mention his 38 million dollars in cash. Turns out that religious...
With the kids packed off on their summer road trips, it's an ideal time for Jane Jeffry to pursue other interests, so the harried suburban mom enrolls in a writing course at the community college. But when an obnoxious aged classmate keels over...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” March 1, 1934.
A thrilling story of death in New York City’s Times Square — death which baffles even The...
Lew Archer #4 Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever. A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down...
Midnight Louie is back!...along
with the human the black
tomcat condescends to spend
his days with: Temple Barr, a
redheaded publicist whose love
for expensive shoes is matched only by her affinity for trouble.
This time trouble shows up on
her...
On the autobahn in Vienna a taxi leaves the carriageway and strikes the crash barrier, flinging its male and female passengers out of its back doors as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost control; only saying that the...