Urbane Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano, whose exploits have sold more than four million copies in Europe, makes his long overdue U.S. debut in this spare and spry English translation of the first novel in the series. When two garbage...
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...
From the national bestselling novelist the Houston Press calls“One of today’s best suspense writers” comes a electrifying storyof murder, greed, and revenge. Ex-cop Tony Valentine has a score tosettle. Decades before, his brother-in-law was...
The staff of Hillmaston School are gathered to choose the next production to be performed by the Musical, Operatic and Dramatic Society. After some argument they agree on The Mikado and, to everyone’s surprise, the meek and self-effacing...
A crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Morse, in which Morse and his assistant Sergeant Lewis are called upon to investigate the murder of a young woman who was shot from close range through her kitchen window. After a visit to his doctor, Morse...
Nero Wolfe, the brilliant orchid-growing gourmet detective, and his inimitable confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, are America’s most beloved detection team. Now they are back in a splendid new murder mystery that takes up where Rex Stout left...