With gold-toothed thugs threatening him with sub-machine guns and the corpses piling up, Jack Irish needs to find out what is going on and fast.
From Publishers Weekly
Australian Jack Irish—ex-lawyer and sometime debt collector,...
It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasn’t thrown a punch. He hasn’t held, much less fired, a gun. He hasn’t threatened or been threatened. He hasn’t called his friend Win,...
Charteris's own stay in the Canary Isles and his command of Spanish allow him to portray this romp around pre-war Tenerife with a wealth of entertaining detail and local colour.
Following, from Madrid via Cádiz, the lead of some stolen...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” January 1, 1933.
Gangsters and millionaires — businessmen and politicians — men of the street and The Shadow — all engrossed in this thrilling story of crime and international...
Dick Francis "Versteck",originaltitel: "High Stakes".
Ist es nicht mysteriös, daß Favorit Energise immer dann verliert, wenn Besitzer Steven Scott besonders hoch gewettet hat? Zufall? Scott ist blind den Tips seines Trainers Jody Leeds...
Dick Francis "Unbestechlich", originaltitel: "Straight".
"Unbestechlich" ist ein klassischer Francis: eine komplexe und fesselnde Story voller Intrigenspiel und Schurkerei, in der der Einsatz so hoch ist wie die Handlung rasant.
Derek Franklin,...