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.
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...
Deadline sends Mac to a small town on a tight deadline to save a boy from execution for a brutal murder. Mac makes a beautiful job of it despite the townsfolk's violent hostility. <P> #13 in the Mac detective series! <P> "Mac is one of our best private eyes." – San Francisco Chronicle <P> "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini <P> "Mac has been called one of the most believable and...
So unmoving was the girl sitting on the wet rocks that, at first, she seemed a permanent feature of the rugged seascape. She was wearing an expensive evening dress and high-heel slippers. She seemed to be in a deep trance, her gaze fixed on the sea, motionless except for the tossing of her delicate blond hair in the morning breeze. And as his steps brought him closer, he thought he had never seen anything so strange, so lovely, so vulnerable … until he caught sight of the gun in her hand!
#2 in the Singer Batts mystery series, by Thomas B. Dewey.<P> Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!<P> The Boston Herald called the first book «well paced and lively,» and The Saturday Review called it, «lively, lurid, and outspoken.» Author Dorothy Hughes said: «It's murder and mayhem...
They hopped a boxcar and made a run for it. He was a wanted man – she was a woman who thought she's found her man. It was an outlawed passion, and it was doomed from the start…for crime always has a cost, and a life on the run is no life at all – unless you're willing to risk everything!
The girl had lost her guitar-playing boyfriend, but he had left her the most deadly legacy of all – fear. And now it was up to me to protect her from the gun-carrying thugs who were relentlessly tracking her down. Hoodlums, hootenannies, and homicide! <P> #10 in the Mac detective series! <P> "Mac is one of our best private eyes." – San Francisco Chronicle <P> "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini ...
