Virginia Barkeley spoiled child of a wealthy family, sat it a Michigan jail cell and refused to answer even her lawyer’s questions. Her husband knew that she had been intimate with Claude Margolis. Her mother knew that Virginia was capable of...
There was the heat of money. There w as the heat of wanting. There was the heat of the Bahamas and Golden Coast of Florida after the season had ended. Texas money had gone to the Bahamas by pleasure boat for a dirty purpose. Enough unrecorded cash...
Here are those two old favorites, Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg, in their usual strategic position, up to their necks in the soup. The boys are back at that beloved caravanseric, the Forty-fifth Street Hotel, and appear likely to stay there for some...
Tobin, a five-foot-five, red-headed film critic — co-presenter of a syndicated movie-review TV show — is in trouble. He’s been found kneeling over the body of his dead partner, fingering the knife that’s sticking out of the dead man’s...
A.D. 72: To many, Rome is the center of the Empire. To Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial spy and casual informer, it is the home of his mother, the domineering matriarch who has kept the Didius clan together since her husband absconded with a redhead...
Erle Stanley Gardner — creator of Perry Mason — was the bestselling author of detective fiction of all time. Many of his best early short novels originally appeared in the famous Black Mask magazine alongside Dashiell Hammett and Raymond...