Police Captain Bartholdi sometimes indulged himself in a harmless fantasy. His thoughts, he would imagine, were irresponsible imps that wriggled out of his head and scampered around with an abandon that was often embarrassing. A woman had been...
Police divers winch Donna's body from a reservoir. She'd been a beauty, and had seemed an artless and popular young woman, so who would want to strangle her? Investigator Frank Crane soon finds evidence of a dark side to her life. There have been so...
One last mission
When crisis looms and politics and red tape conspire against effective measures, the International Intelligence Agency plays its hidden hand. Now the spymasters of Room 59—dedicated, dangerous and willing to push the limit—get...
A dark spirit threatens the Pennyfoot's shiny and bright Christmas…
The Christmas Angel is a welcome sight during the winter season-but not this year. A killer is afoot in Badger's End, cutting a lock of hair from his victims and sticking a gold...
Special: distinguished by some unusual quality…
Circumstances: a piece of evidence that indicates the probability or improbability of an event…
Barbara Everette, homemaker living in a small town in Mississippi, had the perfect life. Perfect...
When Will Beauchamp locked the door of his antique shop in Bangkok for the last time and quietly disappeared, he left behind a family in Toronto and a lot of questions.
When fellow antiques dealer Lara McClintoch tries to find him in Thailand,...
Nero Wolfe is back in all his orchid-growing, gourmandizing glory! In The Bloodied Ivy and two previous bestsellers. Robert Goldsborough re-creates Stouts sedentary supersleuth and his energetic aide. Archie Goodwin, so convincingly that even the...