Against the ominous backdrop of America’s entry into World War II, the navy still reels from the devastation wreaked at Pearl Harbor and the crushing defeat of US ground troops in the Philippines.
On the home front, scientists at the...
A recipe for the James Hadley Chase Pot-au-feu.
Cover the bottom of a large casserole with expectation. Heat gently. Put an old lady’s will in the casserole and reduce the expectation.
Add the following ingredients:
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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...
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 DEVIL’S DOZEN...
An opium smuggler. A cheap hired gun. A homicidal psychopath. A pair of terrified informers. The kingpin of the New York Mafia. His daughter, as beautiful as she is promiscuous. A cop on the take. A hard-nosed syndicate...
Black-eyes, blackguards, and glamorous blondes galore, land Perry Mason and Della Street in a pretty sweet pickle — soured beyond repair by the reappearance of Sergeant Holcomb...
Diana Regis was a stunner — and she had a shiner. But the...