That suave fly in the ointment of the underworld, Paul Pry, never guessed how close he’d come to pushing up daisies when he Started to chisel in on a suitcase full of hot ice. His one-armed camera-eye side-kick, Mugs Magoo, tried to warn him he...
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...
A Messerschmitt 109 aircraft crashes on a remote Scottish mountainside and a lone parachutist descends. On landing, he demands to see the Duke of Hamilton, whose castle is nearby. It is 1941, and a bizarre mission, one so sensitive that its full...
Savvy and sure of herself, private eye Sharon McCone has enough on her hands without a murder case. Her old friend, Linnea Carraway, has moved lock, stock, and barrel into Sharon’s tiny apartment. And Lieutenant Greg Marcus, head of Homicide, who...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’m told you have your own methods of solving problems. That you don’t always go by the book. Well, you’ll be dealing with people who also don’t follow rules... Do you have any questions?
Captain José Da Silva of the Brazilian Federal...