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...
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...
What do you do when a criminal — a violent man who seeks revenge — turns up after fourteen years and menaces you and your entire family?
Sam Bowden’s testimony had helped put Max Cady, a rapist, behind bars during World War II. Now Cady...
The author of Phantom Lady and Deadline at Dawn, both made into smash motion picture hits, presents here a superb collection of spine-chillers, each a polished example of the art of detection, in which Mr. Irish again proves his unique ability to...
Ellery Queen is back in Wrightsville — the town that his thousands of admirers will remember as the scene of many of the brilliant detective’s most striking triumphs, including CALAMITY TOWN and TEN DAYS’ WONDER.
Ellery has never had a...
Chief Fire Marshal Ben Pedley sniffed plenty of tell-tale clues among the charred ruins of the Maison Elegant. But he soon learned that some fires are too hot to handle — even after they’re...