In this novelette Perry Mason solves the case of the death of a blackmailer and the disappearance of an amnesiac wife. This, the first book by Erle Stanley Gardner to be published posthumously, is a collection of short works selected from the...
Detective Sully Heath had to obtain a mysterious music box for his entry fee to the McCullochs' tower of terror. But when Heath heard the ghoulish tunes that eerie clockwork picked off, he knew the price of the tower's secret was...
“I want you to get a snake out of my house. Out of my family.” Thus spoke millionaire Otis Jarrell, offering Nero Wolfe ten thousand dollars in cash as a retainer. If it hadn’t just happened that Jarrell called on Wolfe during a time when...
Business is booming at Clare Cosi's Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare's life.
Now...
Some roommates from college draw Lara McClintoch into an encounter with an old lover and the mystery surrounding a twenty-five thousand year-old statue.
To find if the antiquity is real or fake, Lara traces the path of a nineteenth-century...
Jackson Lamb and the bad spies of Slough House are caught in a deadly battle between MI5’s secret past and its murky future in this gripping, hilarious, and heartbreaking thriller by Mick Herron.
“Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies...
Perry Mason and Della Street are writing love letters this time — to a girl they’ve never seen. In fact they don’t even know her name. But they’ve seen a letter she wrote to a Lonely Hearts Magazine. According to her, she’s both attractive...
Staying alive becomes a precarious task for Inspector Kurt Wallander as he plays both hunter and hunted in a terrifying game of money and power.
Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol fuelled depression after killing a man in the...