Matthew Hope spotted her on North Sabal Beach, one of those fabulous Gulf Coast keys that yearly draw ever more people to condo life in the Sunshine State. She was spectacular, “carved of alabaster, pale white exquisite face framed by ebony...
Carmine Canucci (“Ganooch” to his friends) was a retired soft-drinks magnate with a nice estate in Larchmont and influence in, well, certain circles. Which was precisely why Nanny Poole, the English governess he had hired to look after his...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” July 15, 1933.
They planned to let loose a silver scourge; to flood the world with false wealth that would deceive all. But they had not counted upon The...
In Santa Felicia County, California, Cully Paul King, the attractive Caribbean captain of a private yacht — a black man, a ladies’ man — is on trial for first-degree murder. Madeline Pherson, a married woman whose body was found in the ocean,...
The fourth Blue Murder novel written by the creator of the hit ITV police drama starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.
A well-respected family GP is found shot dead outside his surgery; who could possibly want to kill him? As DCI Janine...
An African woman with a blue-eyed baby arrives in Foggy Point looking for Aiden Jalbert. Within days, she's been murdered, and so is the man who claimed to be her husband. As if that weren't enough, the supposedly African toddler Loose Thread...
Abducted by a shadowy figure he never sees, chloroformed and taken to a remote mountain cabin, the Nameless Detective is told by that figure before he is deserted, that the mission is one of revenge. Nameless has destroyed his mysterious...
Moving into Chawton Cottage, Jane Austen gets an unexpected and mysterious Bengal chest as a legacy. But before she has time to study its contents, a corpse is...