The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a...
Miranda Lovelady, Dr. Bill Brockton's protégée, is spending the summer helping excavate a newly discovered chamber beneath the spectacular Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France. There she discovers a stone chest inscribed with...
Rechercheur Albert Versteegh ontvangt een briefje met het verzoek een bezoek te brengen aan een oude man die zijn einde voelt naderen. Versteegh vindt de briefschrijver in een verwaarloosd kamertje, te midden van dertien katten. Volgens de oude...
“Consolation,” which appeared in Mystery Monthly, is one of his more recent tales; this powerful, uncompromising, and sexually explicit story of two small-time criminals named Colley and Jocko was later revised and incorporated into the McBain...