An original John Rebus story and the stage debut for one of crime fiction’s greatest creations.
John Rebus may have retired but he’ll always be a detective.
Coming home one night, he finds a young woman waiting for his neighbour. He...
Where there’s a will there’s a way — at least that was old A. B. Carr’s reasoning until Doug Selby appeared and mapped out another course...
Obviously the young lawyer, Inez Stapleton, had bitten off more than she could chew. It isn’t...
Lawrence Block’s new collection assembles seven works of fiction written over a period of sixty years.
“Hard Sell,” a story ghost-written under Craig Rice’s name, appeared in the first issue of Ed McBain’s Mystery Magazinein 1960, and...
Bill Pronzini has been praised as “a master of suspense” by the Los Angeles Times, and his novels called “realistic and explosive” by the likes of Robert Ludlum. These same qualities distinguish his short fiction.
Graveyard Plots brings...
IF YOU WANT SOMETHING BADLY ENOUGH, YOU’LL GET IT...
Bernie Rhodenbarr may be New York’s most charming bookseller (by day) and its most skillful burglar (by night), but the modern world isn’t kind to either of his vocations. How is a...
In this page-turning short story from international bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, senior detective Jon Avery inherits a deeply troubling case. At an off-campus party, university professor Rose Taylor is drugged, undressed, and photographed on a...
Chester Newton is a successful racehorse syndicate organiser and his company, Victrix Racing, is having its best year yet. When his prized horse, Potassium, wins the world-famous Epsom Derby, Chester is set to become the next big thing in British...
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...