The dead man was lying face down in a puddle of blood and rainwater...
When private investigator Adam Lapid finds Nathan Frankel dead in the street, he makes a quick decision:
He will discover who murdered Nathan and punish the killer...
With an iron-clad defense, Ralph Smith still had to remain silent when his last mile came. For a murder he’d never committed had trapped him hopelessly in the steel jaws of homicide...
After Mike Hammer witnesses Wall Street superstar Vincent Colby getting clipped by a speeding red Ferrari, the shaken victim’s stockbroker father hires Hammer to find the driver. But the toughest private eye of them all soon is caught up in a...
First came Perry Mason... then Douglas Selby the “D.A.”... and now TERRY CLANE, a new sleuth from America.
Jacob Mandra had a million-dollar apartment on the fringe of Chinatown — and a reputation.
Early one morning they found him...
A new Gardner character — Bill Eldon! These two CLUE stories — each with a crime so calculated, so cold-blooded, that it came near being perfect — will establish human, kindly Sheriff Eldon as a dangerous rival for Perry Mason and Doug Selby.
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When we found Perry Mason, we called SEVEN! When we met the “D.A.” — Douglas Selby — we shouted ELEVEN! They’re both naturals — and though Perry Mason does not take part in this novel, it marks the appearance of Erle Stanley Gardner’s...
Blondes’ Requiem is a thriller with a surprise, by a writer who can always hold the suspense to the end.
When Marc Spewack, private investigator, arrives in Cranville, he is aware of the terror, violence and sudden death that are to come. He...