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...
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...
Ed McBain, the legend of contemporary suspense, returns to Calusa, Florida, in a novel that weaves multiple points of view into a tantalizing, brilliant plot.
Matthew Hope has been shot — taking two bullets outside a bar in Calusa’s seediest...
In the wake of a huge nor’easter, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man’s, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But within feet of...
Erle Stanley Gardner dons his other cap and comes up with superior fare for A. A. Fair fans.
Bertha Cool was purring like a kitten. A client had just hired the agency to investigate a suspected insurance swindle, and in Bertha’s glittering...
How could a man have been murdered when he was found alone in his study, a gun in his hand, and the door locked from the inside? It had to be suicide, the police figured, for although there was no suicide note there was a letter proving conclusively...