The economy has hit the private investigator business hard, even for Leonid McGill. Lately, he is getting job offers only from the criminals he’s worked so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, his personal life grows ever more complicated: his...
Ellery Queen is back in Wrightsville — the town that his thousands of admirers will remember as the scene of many of the brilliant detective’s most striking triumphs, including CALAMITY TOWN and TEN DAYS’ WONDER.
Ellery has never had a...
Prostitution, dope, gambling, and murder!
As a town, St. Cecilia was anything but saintly — prostitution, dope, gambling, the works.
Matt Rudd of the Vice Squad had the lurid inside story. But he was helpless as long as crooked politicos...
Archie Goodwin leaves Manhattan for the Midwest to find out who put a bullet into a banker.
Archie Goodwin’s aunt Edna is about to lure him away from his work at Nero Wolfe’s New York brownstone. After an ominous phone call, he heads off to...
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...
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...
James Tyrone was the troubleshooting raving correspondent of the Sunday Blaze, a newspaper dedicated to exposing scandals in the noisiest (and most profitable) way. Ty was accustomed to hot water, but from the day a Fleet Street colleague died after...
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...