Jerry Stevens, an out-of-work bit-part movie actor - with several lousy Westerns to his credit - is offered a job at one thousand dollars a day to impersonate John Merril Ferguson, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. It is...
The greatest crime fighter of the forties returns!
In the roaring heart of the crucible, steel is made. In the raging flame of personal tragedy, men are sometimes forged into something more than human.
It was so with Dick Benson. He had been...
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve crimes in between wisecracks and martinis. FROM THE PUBLISHER Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” May 1, 1934.
Innocent people enter unknowing into the Tower of Death. Who knows the secret? Only The...
American gambler Nick Cain (Raft) arrives at the town of San Paola, and befriends shoe-shine boy Toni. He discovers he has been framed for the murder of a U.S. Treasury Agent. He escapes with Kay Wonderly to a village, leaving her to hide out....
Short story collection
"Killer in the Rain" "The Man Who Liked Dogs" "The Curtain" "Try the Girl" "Mandarin's Jade" "Bay City Blues" "The Lady in the...
A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide.
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to...
It’s the story of Ben Grace, a small-time chiseler in the rackets – not crooked, not straight, just in between – who, full of grievances, makes the most of his inside information as Sol Caspar’s chauffeur to aid and abet the opposing...