Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian...
1946, the first post-World War II year, finds Tribune police reporter Snap Malek hip deep in a murder case. Someone has stabbed his cousin’s British war bride to death in their Bohemian neighborhood home in Pilsen. As the prime suspect, the meek...
When a fellow officer is kidnapped, Lieutenant Jim Reardon, of the San Francisco Police Department, finds himself facing the toughest case of his career...
The victim has no enemies, no money, and no rich relatives. He’s just a good, decent...
Once again James Hadley Chase achieves an epic of tough writing that easily exceeds anything that he has previously written. Here are all the ingredients that you have come to expect from him — pace, punch and ferocious realism.
This is a...
That long arm that Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg are on is Coincidence (see jacket). Can they help it if they happen to be deeply in borrasca* when a healthy piece of mazuma comes flying in the window? Can they help it if Johnny tears his pants just...
Marcia Muller created one of the first modern female detectives in the memorable Sharon McCone over two decades ago. Now, in a major departure from her critically acclaimed series, she introduces us to a new heroine, one who wears a badge and a gun,...
THE DEVIL’S DOZEN...
An opium smuggler. A cheap hired gun. A homicidal psychopath. A pair of terrified informers. The kingpin of the New York Mafia. His daughter, as beautiful as she is promiscuous. A cop on the take. A hard-nosed syndicate...
Had it been kidnaping? Pregnancy? Suicide? Or Murder?
The Doris Delaney case was no ordinary challenge, not even for Tom Alder, who specialized in finding missing heirs. The girl had disappeared from her boarding school some twenty-two years...