Wealthy, insecure Helen Clarvoe, living alone in a California town, first thought she was the victim of an unknown lunatic. But soon it turned out that the threatening voice on the telephone belonged to none other than Evelyn Merrick, a former...
Lawrence Block’s new collection assembles seven works of fiction written over a period of sixty years.
“Hard Sell,” a story ghost-written under Craig Rice’s name, appeared in the first issue of Ed McBain’s Mystery Magazinein 1960, and...
When Santosh Wagh isn’t struggling out of a bottle of whisky, he’s head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest investigation agency.
In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times.
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Had it been kidnaping? Pregnancy? Suicide? Or Murder?
The Doris Delaney case was no ordinary challenge, not even for Tom Alder, who specialized in finding missing heirs. The girl had disappeared from her boarding school some twenty-two years...
Jon Talbot is a history professor who makes sense of the past by examining facts. He also knows how to speculate about the what-ifs. Jon’s doing both following the death of his wife, Pax. Driving home late from a volunteer assignment, she plunged...
A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station discovers the body of a man entombed in ice.
The dead man is investigative reporter, George Younger, missing for three months after vanishing during what he claimed was a hill-walking...
Bill Pronzini has been praised as “a master of suspense” by the Los Angeles Times, and his novels called “realistic and explosive” by the likes of Robert Ludlum. These same qualities distinguish his short fiction.
Graveyard Plots brings...
Some will know how it begins...
Her name is Sandy. You might know her as the loving wife of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.
But there’s more to her than meets the eye. A woman with a dubious past, a complicated present and an uncertain...