Thanks to a bungled robbery at a fancy hotel, the already-married Eva Griffin has been caught in the company of a prominent congressman. To protect the politico, Eva’s ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid his hush money. But Perry Mason...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” November 15, 1935.
Sinuous coils of crime envelop The Shadow as he battles The Python. But within the folds of a black cloak is a body with a strength to crush the serpent’s...
Why crime? Why exists this fascination with crime and why, above all, exists this fascination with crime on the part of female writers? Bestselling novelist Elizabeth George poses this question in her Introduction, answers it with her customary...
From one of P. D. James's favorite mystery authors comes the third Shardlake novel
Autumn 1541. A plot against the throne has been uncovered, and Henry VIII has set off on a spectacular progress from London to York, along with a thousand...
Close to a motorway service station, the body of a young woman is discovered. She appears to have no family, no friends, no one to identify her.
DI Anna Travis is brought onto the team of investigators by DCS James Langton, who already suspects...
Summer in Paradise, Massachusetts, is usually an idyllic season—but not this time. A Hollywood movie company has come to town, and brought with it a huge cast, crew, and a troubled star. Marisol Hinton is very beautiful, reasonably talented, and...