Jane Jeffry, suburban sleuth extraordinare, and her friend, Detective Mel VanDyne, have braved a blizzard to join her friend Shelley at a Colorado ski resort. In spite of having all their kids along, Jane and Shelley imagine a few mindless days...
Take a Mexican political party that demands the territorial return of Texas... and New Mexico... and Arizona... and California.
Add a Chinese paper exporting operation that exports a fine engraver’s surface for the familiar five-dollar...
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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Two years after his celebrated collection The Good Old Stuff, John D. MacDonald treats us to fourteen more of his best early stories!
In short, here is one of America’s most gifted and prolific storytellers at his early best — a...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” November 15, 1933.
Who was Mox? What was behind the strange doings in his home, and the disappearances of various men? The Shadow...
In this book Margaret Millar returns to the wry mixture of imaginative farce and queasy horror which first won the hearts of mystery fans. It has a firm, fast plot and a rich variety of characters that are as real as they are amusing. They are...
There’s something special about Max. He may look like your regular ginger flabby tabby, but unlike most tabbies, he can actually communicate with his human, reporter for the Hampton Cove Gazette Odelia Poole. Max takes a keen interest in the...