Mrs Henry Thorsen, a wealthy widow, has reason to believe her retarded daughter is being blackmailed. She hires the Acme Detective Agency to find out why and who the blackmailer is.
The assignment is given to Dirk Wallace and his aide, Bill...
L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen...
They were dead, the husband and wife. Both were shot in the face at close range with a shotgun. The husband, in fact, still had his finger on the trigger, the barrel pointing toward what used to be a significant portion of his head. It was clearly a...
Here’s a PERRY MASON story, with a murder hinging on as ingenious a trick as has appeared in a mystery in a long time, and containing some of the most exiting courtroom scenes Erle Stanley Gardner has even written.
It’s about:
Alden E....
Lambda Literary Award Nominee
Lieutenant Franco faces a psychotic killer.
Case closures are up and homicide rates are down for LAPD's 93rd Homicide Squad. "Frank", Lieutenant L.A. Franco, is revitalizing her depleted detective crew while quietly...
Nate Heller is a cop trying to stay straight in one of the most corrupt places imaginable: prohibition-era Chicago. When he won't sell out, he's forced to quit the police force and become a private investigator. His first client is Al Capone. His...