An icon of noir anti-heroes. Max Allan Collins’s taciturn hit man known only as Quarry made his mark in more than a dozen novels in the 1970s and ’80s. Along the way he gained a popular following and appeared in a few short stories as well,...
A Hell of a Finale to a Decade of Assassination
It began with John F. Kennedy in 1963. Then Malcolm X in 1965. Martin Luther King in April 1968. And then, in June of the same year, President Kennedy’s brother Robert fell before an assassin’s...
I’m a private eye in Tampa. My card reads:
Nationwide Detective Agency
Southeastern Division
Agent in Charge: Ed Rivers
It all started during Gasparilla Week, when our city re-enacts the good old days when that lusty pirate, José...
DEADLY WELCOME — a high-tension mystery of a tough man on a tough assignment; a woman, impatient for the man who could melt her; a town that knew how to handle strangers and local girls who took up with...
Charles Horne, who stuck his neck out to solve the puzzle of the Chinese doll, sticks it out again in Wilson Tucker’s second mystery, TO KEEP OR KILL. In fact, he sticks his whole head out of his office window and becomes one of the victims of a...
The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st-century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973.
Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation — this time on Long Island to help look after his...
He was a middle-aged, medium-sized, unobtrusive sort of man, with the stamp of upper-class conservatism on his clothing and features and he lay sprawled on his back on a sidewalk in Miami Beach, Florida with a bullet-hole between his eyes.
There...
The radio reports of the sudden tropical storm into which the freighter was heading caused the captain to order a change of course. “We’ll miss both Rio and Santos,” he told the mate. “And also the worst of the storm.”
This news made...
Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying Squad, or ‘the Sweeney’. But the Dirty Dozen is a notorious boys’ club, and Jane’s new colleagues make it clear that they don’t think a...