Following a routine delivery in a rooming house, turn-of-the-century midwife Sarah Brandt discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been murdered and, despite the hindrance of the girl's powerful family, joins forces with Sergeant Frank...
A Reg Wexford mystery. When Elizabeth Nightingale was beaten to death, it seemed a straightforward enough case. But Detective Chief Inspector Wexford discovered that beneath the placid surface of the Nightingales' lives there were undercurrents and...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” December 15, 1934.
A master crook, whose machinations of crime leads The Shadow on a trail from the heart of New York to the Latin Quarter of New...
From New York Times bestselling author Jan Burke comes the last of six short story collections – sure to please fans of suspense masters Patricia Cornwell, Sue Grafton, and Robert Parker.
Case Closed is a mini-anthology containing a brand-new...
One Man's Obsession…
Pharmacy clerk William Dremmel is hooked-on drugging pretty young women and lulling them into slow, blissfully quiet deaths. Then he packs his victims in luggage-a nod to the cops that he works alone. Dremmel's no fool, he's...
At first it seemed as though only The Madman Theory could explain the brutal shotgun slaying which lay in wait for the friendly group of back-packing hikers.
But Inspector Omar Collins, lean, gloomy-eyed, black-haired, was a painstaking man.
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