RESOURCEFUL YOUTH wanted to assist detective. Low pay, long hours, hard work, demanding employer. Familiarity with tropical fish helpful but not absolutely necessary. An excellent opportunity for one man in a million... I didn’t know if I was one...
Perry Mason, world-famous lawyer and sleuth, keeps a lady in mink under wraps in... Perry Mason and Della Street were in the middle of a rare steak when the mink coat appeared in the hands of a puzzled restaurant proprietor. The coat belonged, he...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S HOW-TO-DO-IT BOOK Including: • How to solve your marital problems —(poison) • How to dress properly when admitting to first degree murder —(black tie) • How to take off a few...
In this volume, guest editor Sue Grafton and series editor Otto Penzler offer up their choices for the best suspense, crime, and mystery stories of the year. Included in these thrilling tales is Scott Bartels’s dark and violent “Swear Not by the...
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of...
From Peter James, #1 bestselling author of Perfect People and the Roy Grace series, comes an unforgettable collection of nine short stories. From a woman intent on revenge to a restaurant critic with a fear of the number thirteen, and from an...
The magnificently mustached
local columnist Jim Qwilleran
(along with his two Siamese
cats, Koko and Yum Yum) has
his hands full with numerous
projects associated with the town's 150th birthday. But
when an aspiring young
architect visiting from...