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...
Mr. L. A. G. Strong’s new story of murder and sudden death has many striking and unusual qualities. It is in essence a novel of high distinction. Mr. Strong concentrates on what is psychologically the most interesting part of every murder...
He was a middle-aged, medium-sized, unobtrusive sort of man, with the stamp of upper-class conservatism on his clothing and features and he lay sprawled on his back on a sidewalk in Miami Beach, Florida with a bullet-hole between his eyes.
There...
James Tyrone was the troubleshooting raving correspondent of the Sunday Blaze, a newspaper dedicated to exposing scandals in the noisiest (and most profitable) way. Ty was accustomed to hot water, but from the day a Fleet Street colleague died after...
PI Sunny Randall owes a favor. Her landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed, and it is up to Sunny and her best friend, Spike, to ensure her protection. But as Sunny looks into the identity...
THE CLIENT: Blonde Edna Hammer, worried about her uncle, Peter Kent, who walked in his sleep with a carving knife in his hand. Is a man who walks in his sleep criminally responsible for what he does while sleepwalking? Edna wondered... So did Perry...
Impresario Maxie Jones knew a good gimmick when he saw it. The Dance of Kali was sure-fire: a beautiful, exotic girl doing a spectacular dance — sexy but dignified, you understand — and to cap it, a legend that death struck when the dance was...
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...