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Pander wore dark glasses and fancy suspenders and he moved into the San Pietro rackets like a sandblaster gone berserk. <P> Fell, the boss, was mysteriously away and Pander grabbed the chance to bury his hands in the heavy money. Then Fell came back. At his side was Cripp, the human adding machine with the beautiful face and the twisted leg. <P> With them came murder… wholesale.
| Автор | Peter Rabe |
Every time Johnny Liddell tried to keep a date with his blond, beautiful, and famous client, the whole neighborhood got sprayed with machine-gun bullets. Sometimes, Johnny figured, it didn’t pay to get out of bed—especially when it was filled with a willing companion … and the cops yelled murder when he killed a couple of hoods who’d been trying to shoot him full of holes.
| Автор | Frank Kane |
A new Joe Friday detective story, taken from the files of the Los Angeles police. In The Case of the Crime King, by Richard Deming, Lieutenant Joe Friday knew who the Crime King was and how he operated – but not where he was. And the victims wouldn't talk!
| Автор | Richard Deming |
It was noon and the stocky detective with the swarthy face waited in the corridor of the City Hospital. He was a middle-aged man with heavily defined features. His coarse dark hair was salted with gray and a little string of sweat beads glistened on his forehead. His heavy shoulders drooped from fatigue. His eyes were large and dark and there was weary compassion in them as if they had looked upon the thousand faces of human life, neither with despair nor hope, but only with a patient...
| Автор | David Alexander |
Think of Jasper Shrig as a 19th century Sherlock Holmes. Thrilling events follow each other with the starling rapidity of machine gun fire on a still night. The hero’s villainous Uncle is found with a dagger run through his throat. Shrig is almost strangled to death in a subterranean passage. A ghost walks. Young David, the hero, knocks out several Goliaths with his American trained fists, and beautiful girls are often in peril of their virtue. Although the book contains much dialog written in...
| Автор | Jeffery Farnol |
The detective “team” in this story, Tommy Twotoes and Terry Bob Rooke, known as “Soldier,” were introduced in my first two mystery novels, Most Men Don’t Kill and Murder in Black and White, both published by Random House in 1951. The main character, Tommy Twotoes, was (aside from his 300-pound avoir-dupois) based upon my great good friend, the late “Sunny Jim” Coffroth. Coffroth was without question the greatest sports promoter of all time, and I’m not forgetting Rickard or any of the others....
| Автор | David Alexander |
Pete Hobbs, a fisherman's son in the Florida Keys, and Susan Frost, a go-getter from Tallahassee, join forces one summer to investigate strange happenings in Dolphin Inlet. Their quest will ultimately lead them into danger – with a sunken treasure as the ultimate reward…if they can find it – and keep it! This book is one of two original Young Adult novels written by James Holding (the other being The Mystery of the False Fingertips). In addition, Holding wrote the Ellery Queen, Jr....
| Автор | James Holding |
Take a nice guy with healthy instincts…put a dead man's eyes in his head…and you have the recipe for a nightmare!<P> Zachary Anders meant no harm. He was a blinded veteran who had been willed the eyes of an executed murderer. But with Zachary's regained sight came an obsession – he had the clear the name of the dead man who had allowed him to see again.<P> When Zachary began to look around, trouble started. He saw a foul nest of assault, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder....
| Автор | Henriette Martin |
A hard-hitting story of a woman trapped by violence and terror.
| Автор | Richard Deming |
A slightly shady congressmen… His sulky 18-year-old daughter… A dead bodyguard… And blackmail!<P> It's all in a day's work for Mac, the Chicago detective. Another classic entry in the detective series that could have been ripped from today's headlines – but written in 1964. #11 in the classic series.
| Автор | Thomas B. Dewey |
Three ambitious men had three things in common. Each was called Curly. Each aimed to marry the town's tempting heiress. Each had made love to Avis Pisano – the wanton whose mangled body was fished out of the swamp. Each one was capable of cold, ruthless action if his plans for the future were threatened…but only one was capable of murder!
| Автор | Fletcher Flora |
Savage was a hard man, a big, strong, clean-shaven Englishman, Yorkshire born, and ungiven to promiscuous friendships. He had pushed his way in the world. He had come here to trade on his own, and felt quite capable of standing on his own feet. Still, in a place like Maneta there are numerous little things that an inhabitant can do for a stranger. Little things that make for comfort in a place where comfort is made up of little things. <P> Stacpoole, author of the classic novel The Blue...
| Автор | H. De Vere Stacpoole |
"International smuggling, vicious gangsters, beautiful girls … sparkling, intriguing, outstanding." – Phoenix Republic <P> "Adventure, suspense, and just good fun." – Dallas News <P> "Excitement, plot … once started the ball of adventure becomes a rolling stone … the young professor does enough first-hand research in the underworld to satisfy anybody." – Chicago Tribune <P> "Mr. Wylie meant to entertain, and he succeeds beautifully." – Houston Post
| Автор | Philip Wylie |
Alan Orloff is one of the most popular emerging mystery writers. His work has been nominated for Derringer and Agatha Awards, and one of his stories was selected for The Best American Mystery Stories (2018). For his debut appearance in the Black Cat THRILLOGY series, he has selected three of his best short stories:<P> "House Call"<BR> "Stormy, With a Chance of Murder"<BR> "The Last Loose End"<P> Previous volumes of the Black Cat THROLLOGY series...
| Автор | Alan Orloff |
It is possible to suggest that Her Britannic Majesty’s Foreign Office was moved more by ancestral instinct than by its computers in selecting Sir Vyvyan Bultivant, to be the Governor General of the Pacific island kingdom of Ceruliana, which just might be the closest thing to a Paradise on this Earth. He was just the man for the job. <P> For nearly two decades prior to his appointment Sir Vyvyan had assisted materially in the dissolution of his nation’s once-mighty Empire. Did a newly...
| Автор | Jacob Hay |
When Mac, renowned Chicago private eye, took on his newest case, it looked like he was going to earn an easy ten grand fee. His assignment was to deliver one million dollars in cool cash to the daughter of his client, notorious ex-gangster Marco Paul, upon the man's eventual death. <P> However, Mac's client was a cold corpse before he had a chance to tell Mac where the money was stashed. <P> From then on, his life wasn't worth two cents. Someone thought Mac knew...
| Автор | Thomas B. Dewey |
