Comely hula dancers go “around the island,” lanky cowboys go around the town, and the police go round and round, when Lester Leith interests himself in the mystifying case of the drugged...
In this thrilling, ingeniously plotted mystery, Rex Stout relates another adventure of the detective he introduced in DOUBLE FOR DEATH. Tecumseh Fox lives in a big place out near Brewster, New York, and he grows things there. But he’s interested...
FRANK DURYEA, the young D. A., was on the spot. Elections were coming on. The ranchers in Petrie, California, were up in arms over a loophole in the law. A mysterious and seemingly impossible murder was making a confused situation even more...
THREE RECENTLY DISCOVERED NERO WOLFE CLASSICS Now, with the aid of the Stout estate and Stout’s official biographer, John McAleer, Bantam Books is proud to publish for the first time in book form this newly discovered collection of three Nero...
Assumed dead, Lady Anne Jocelyn meets varying degrees of welcome when she returns from Occupied France to her old life in England. Though her husband Sir Philip is not overjoyed to see her, he agrees to a trial reunion. But a murder raises his...
Amateur burglar extraordinary — that’s what George Brokay wanted to be — and he got his wish! But he never knew there could be so many angles to a simple job of house-breaking until he stepped into that darkened room — just...
Ross Craddock was just the type to be murdered. The new landlord of Craddock house, he begins by giving eviction notice to his aunt Lucy. He threatens the doorman with dismissal. He makes a violent and unwelcome pass to his cousin Mavis. He is...
A recipe to delight every gourmet of mystery fiction...
Take a proxy fight and a series of mysterious phone calls from an unknown female who said her name was Rosalind.
Add a couple of guns and a very dead blonde in a bare hotel room.
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A bit snobbish and a trifle high-strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern and hiring the best gardener. In fact, she is rapturous over the new asparagus beds when a visit from her unwelcome stepson sends...