What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? “Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing, and sex,” said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or...
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Talmage Powell (1920–2000) was one of the all-time great mystery writers of the pulps (and later the digest mystery magazines). He claimed to have written more than 500 short stories (and I have no reason to doubt him — I am working on a...
Neil Fargo was a hard-nosed private investigator with a business on the side: heroin. The investigating he did on his own; the drug line he shared with a man called Walter Harriss. Fargo was strong enough, cool enough, to live in two worlds, and...
Mary...
From the bestselling mystery series Lee Child calls “Top classsuspense ... must reads for me, and one of my favorite series.”comes a novel of murder, mobsters and a police detective whodoesn’t know when to say quit. It’s 1979, and the...
Murder...
A troubled cop obsessively searches for a young girl's killer The young girl lies in a ditch without a scratch on her—a white high school student stretched out dead in the black part of Atlanta. She was a rich girl from a cold family, too genteel...
The Big...
В книге представлены рассказы о захватывающих детективных приключениях отца Брауна из сборников «Тайна отца Брауна» и «Скандальное...
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