Baguettes, bodies, and haute couture galore! Shoe designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer is at it again-this time in fabulously fashionable Paris.
When Europe's designer du jour, Jean Luc LeCroix, invites Maddie to show her creations at...
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...
It’s a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence – it’s business as usual for the Unit’s cantankerous...
A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has lost one of its key members, and Claude Whelan—one-time head of MI5's Regent’s Park—is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads...
Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services is a fixture in San Francisco at the dawn of a new century. While the future is unclear, Sabina and John know one thing for certain; they will protect their clients from flimflammers,...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” July 15, 1934.
Like the multiple-headed Hydra of ancient times, so works this new, modern organization of crime, a Chain of...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” March 15, 1934.
A dying convict gasps a last message to his cellmate — a message which brings about a strange change in the events of a thriving community. The Shadow, master of crime...
A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavík’s National...
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer,...