David Miller is in a funk. He recently slumped down the journalistic food chain from the Wall Street Journal to a finance rag called Manhattan Business. The reason for Miller's fall: his unhealthy obsession with his sister only increased after...
Perry Mason is presented with a strange bag of tricks in THE CASE OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOLL.
Dorrie Ambler was a beauty. She also proved to be one of the most startling clients in Mason’s career — she insisted that he carefully inspect her...
Erle Stanley Gardner — creator of Perry Mason — was the bestselling author of detective fiction of all time. Many of his best early short novels originally appeared in the famous Black Mask magazine alongside Dashiell Hammett and Raymond...
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...
For Jonathan Lethem, “crime stories are deep species gossip.” He writes in his introduction that “they’re fundamentally stories of power, of its exercise, both spontaneous and conspiratorial; stories of impulse and desire, and of the turning...
Plenty of dead ones get dragged out of the dark, roily water that runs through the greatest city in the world. The Harbor Police take only routine notice. But when the cadaver conies in installments — a torso, a leg, an arm — that’s murder......
A friendly feline and a feisty librarian merrily roll along in the newest Bookmobile Cat mystery...until murder stops them in their tracks!
It's the summer season in Chilson, Michigan, and the town is packed with tourists ready for a fabulous Fourth...
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...