“Hit and Run” is a satisfying, well-written story that leads to unexpected places, a story that in the hands of a good writer resonates and stays with you long after you’ve finished reading...
The conference was over. Quinn, in the background, beamed. The three Texas money men looked at Molly in delighted wonder. This delicious blonde had the brain of an IBM...
The bugs eat metal and leave people and animals alone—unless you crush one, and then they’ll swarm and destroy everything they touch. When Kimball comes upon twelve-year-old Thayet, she’s been stuck on a rock in a river of bugs for two days,...
In the year that the Second World War broke out, James Hadley Chase (1906-85) published his crime novel, No Orchids For Miss Blandish (1939), which subsequently became one of the best-selling mysteries of all time. “The Mirror in Room 22” is...
Target Practice brings together for the first time the complete short works of fiction that Rex Stout wrote for All-Story Magazine, the famous journal which published the cream of his early writings. Including “Secrets,” the first crime fiction...
The sexes battle, the mind feuds with emotions it cannot control and crime extorts and strikes and kills but it does not pay in this collection of stories by Rex Stout at the outset of his celebrated career in mystery and suspense. Again and again...
...is the author of more than 500 short stories and some 50 novels, including the bestselling Travis McGee series. Added together, the number of his books is now approaching the astonishing total of 30 million printed copies. Few authors in history...