We are delighted to present our second collection of Talmage Powell mystery short stories! Talmage Powell (1920–2000) was one of the all-time great mystery writers of the pulp magazines (and later the digest mystery magazines). He claimed to have...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” December 1, 1933.
Jewels — crooks and clinics — death and danger. All pack a terrific punch in this amazing story of The Crime...
Lew Archer #10 Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man’s suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is...
It’s the summer of 1973. Disco is King and the New York mob is at the peak of its power. John Albano, an out of work construction worker with child support and rent payments he can’t keep up with, is driving for a local car service when his...
“That was no accident.”
Escaping Los Angeles and
theugly memories of her son’s
recentmurder, Maudie Toola
returns to her childhood home
of Molena Point with her orphaned grandson, facing the
upcoming Christmas holiday
with trepidation. But she...
Based on the author’s first-hand experience as an ambulance driver during World War I, this first novel is noteworthy for its vivid and colorful portrait of France at that time and for its passionate indictment of war. The author’s...