That was Gil Best all over, a tough nut to crack and hard as nails. With brains to boot, as the chiseling legal staff of Airline Stage ways soon found when they tried their gyp-artist tactics on the shock-proof investigator’s own pet...
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In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit — a cold case squad — to catch the criminals nobody else can.
In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner — convicted of forgery and theft — was pronounced...
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...
Bid welcome to a memorable new McBain hero — Benjamin Smoke, an unlicensed private investigator with a very special preoccupation. Smoke quit the police force three years ago with a gold detective-lieutenant’s shield and a well-earned reputation...
The toughest detective in 1939 Atlanta is a woman by the name of Violet Cambridge. And she knows her job like she knows herself. All the shadows and alleys, the light and the dark. But when the search for a missing sister and the brutal murder of...
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...
Lt. James Reardon is a good cop, aggressive, hard working. He likes his job and knows when to follow his hunches. But in the case of Ralph Crocker, maybe Reardon’s hunch is just the aggravated imagination of a guy who’s had a fight with his best...
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...
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,...
Against the ominous backdrop of America’s entry into World War II, the navy still reels from the devastation wreaked at Pearl Harbor and the crushing defeat of US ground troops in the Philippines.
On the home front, scientists at the...