The author of Phantom Lady and Deadline at Dawn, both made into smash motion picture hits, presents here a superb collection of spine-chillers, each a polished example of the art of detection, in which Mr. Irish again proves his unique ability to...
Impresario Maxie Jones knew a good gimmick when he saw it. The Dance of Kali was sure-fire: a beautiful, exotic girl doing a spectacular dance — sexy but dignified, you understand — and to cap it, a legend that death struck when the dance was...
Ed Gorman has established himself as a writer whose “lean prose and deep compassion set his books apart from everything else in the genre,” in the words of Loren D. Estleman. Now, in The Night Remembers, Gorman delivers his most powerful work to...
James Tyrone was the troubleshooting raving correspondent of the Sunday Blaze, a newspaper dedicated to exposing scandals in the noisiest (and most profitable) way. Ty was accustomed to hot water, but from the day a Fleet Street colleague died after...
In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit — a cold case squad — to catch the criminals nobody else can.
In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner — convicted of forgery and theft — was pronounced...
Wednesday, April 16th — 8:32 A.M.
Frank and I sped over to West Sixth and Bixel. When we got there the shooting was over. One cop was dead, another wounded. No sign of either suspect.
We exchanged grim looks. The gang’s take was now...
Archie Goodwin leaves Manhattan for the Midwest to find out who put a bullet into a banker.
Archie Goodwin’s aunt Edna is about to lure him away from his work at Nero Wolfe’s New York brownstone. After an ominous phone call, he heads off to...