A Messerschmitt 109 aircraft crashes on a remote Scottish mountainside and a lone parachutist descends. On landing, he demands to see the Duke of Hamilton, whose castle is nearby. It is 1941, and a bizarre mission, one so sensitive that its full...
Lt. James Reardon is a good cop, aggressive, hard working. He likes his job and knows when to follow his hunches. But in the case of Ralph Crocker, maybe Reardon’s hunch is just the aggravated imagination of a guy who’s had a fight with his best...
The Corbins had plenty of money — and plenty of trouble. Most of the trouble came in a pert package marked Eleanor.
In this particular case, Eleanor made the headlines by wandering seminude in a public park. Mason was hired to save the family...
For the “Nameless Detective,” investigations involving matters of the heart are to be avoided. But when an old poker buddy asks him to help frazzled and distraught Kay Runyon, whose husband, Victor, is having a clandestine affair with a mystery...
Rumpelstiltskin. An old fairy tale. Straw spun into gold, a dwarf with a wicked temper. A dwarf who covets a child. A woman is found murdered, her daughter is missing. Who is madman enough to kill the mother and steal away the child?
Matthew...
Ed McBain, the legend of contemporary suspense, returns to Calusa, Florida, in a novel that weaves multiple points of view into a tantalizing, brilliant plot.
Matthew Hope has been shot — taking two bullets outside a bar in Calusa’s seediest...
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...