Autumn 1948 — the final tense days of the Presidential campaign between incumbent Harry S Truman and Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. As Truman prepares for a visit to Chicago, Tribune police reporter Steve “Snap” Malek is warned of a...
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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 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...
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...
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 49, No. 6. Whole No. 283, June...
It’s the summer of 1949 and Steve “Snap” Malek has been assigned by his editors to cover the Chicago Railroad Fair. For three months this sprawling and lavish event will draw visitors to the showcase on the city’s beautiful Lakefront. Malek,...
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 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...
Lest we give you an unfair advantage or send you off on a false scent, we tell you nothing about this story in advance except that the clues go back over three hundred years in one of the most ingenious deductive problems that ever confronted a...
QUARRY’S VIOLENT PAST COMES LOOKING FOR HIM
The professional hitman known as Quarry — star of the Cinemax TV miniseries of the same name — has put killing behind him. But after a beautiful writer of true-crime bestsellers drops by to...