In 1897, New York City teems with hustlers and freshly made millionaires, fine artists and con artists, criminals and immigrants. Among them is a rabbi's son who calls himself Houdini. He is struggling to make it in the brutal entertainment...
Quincannon’s pursuit of two con men who have absconded to Hawaii with a considerable sum of his employer’s assets dovetails nicely with Sabina’s vision of a second honeymoon.
But neither is wont to stay out of trouble, and Sabina...
Not to be read in one sitting... Beware of long-lost friends, sleepy cats, and Santa’s grotto. Think twice about gypsy curses, squawking parrots, and peach-coloured thermal underwear — for any one of them can confound your expectations and...
Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan head to the Canadian city of Victoria to investigate a series of petty crimes. But when a woman goes missing and a body is discovered, it would appear that the petty crimes have turned deadly — and Dorothy and...
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...
Tallinn, March 1933.
Estonia, a small country trying to survive – caught between the jaws of Germany and Russia.
And political crisis looms when a senior policeman is found impaled on the roof of a kiosk.
Chief Inspector Jüri...
Bestselling authors Rita Mae
Brown and her feline partner,
Sneaky Pie Brown, are back for
the holidays in a mystery
featuring Mary Minor “Harry”
Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and
corgi Tee Tucker. Can they...
Racing fans have never seen anything like it-and they've seen plenty-the first all-women's team in stock-car racing history. Already a national sensation, the spotlight heats up when financial challenges force Team 86 to hire a male "wheel man."...