Ruth couldn’t commit murder—
• When Dave Tully returned from a business trip that night he found the house dark. At first he thought that Ruth, his wife, was out playing bridge and had been delayed. Then he had a caller.
• The...
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...
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...
Special Agent Constant Marlowe is in pursuit of “Mr. X,” a key player in organized crime. Her mission is to collar him and flip him into a cooperating witness. The only problem? Marlowe doesn’t know who he is or even what he looks like. It...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world’s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters...