To that mix, add glamorous personalities, prominent Texas businessmen, gangland reprobates, and a whole parade of medical experts. At once a documentary account of events and a novelistic reconstruction of encounters among the cast of colorful characters, this anatomy of murder first chronicles the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death in 1969 of Joan Robinson--the pampered daughter of a Texas oil millionaire and the wife of plastic surgeon Dr. John Hill--then examines the bizarre consequences that followed it. For in 1972, having been charged by his father-in-law with Joan's death and having survived a mistrial, John Hill himself was killed, supposedly by a robber. So was the robber, by a cop, supposedly for resisting arrest. From the exclusive haunts of Houston's super-rich to the city's seamy underworld of prostitutes, pimps, and punks, author and investigative journalist Thomas Thompson tracks down all the leads and clues. And in a brutal tale of blood and money he uncovers some shocking and bitter truths.

    Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap–each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself.

    Determined to prove Donald’s innocence, Todd trails a set of clues from England to Australia to New Zealand, only to realize that someone is trailing him. Someone with every intention of taking him out of the picture for good…

    A hot hustler is searching for a million-dollar Aztec sculpture that is accidentally mixed with cheap plaster copies. From Harlem to Greenwich, a motley cast chases the lost piece.

    When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it.

    Two weeks later, his team was banned from every casino in France—not because they had cheated or behaved badly, but simply because they had won—methodically and consistently. Thirteen Against the Bank is a wry and detailed account of a true event that all expert opinion deemed impossible: beating the bank at roulette. It reveals how Leigh assembled and bankrolled his crew of thirteen, instilling in them the discipline and stamina to bring off this coup and then apply it using a system known as the Reverse Labouchere betting progression. An all-time casino gambling classic.

    

    OVER THIRTY YEARS AFTER its publication, Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct remains the definitive account of the vicious cycle of violence that has griped urban America over the past century.A swollen head floating down the Bronx River, a junkie murdered for stealing a woman's wig, a French Connection-style chase through blind alleys, police barricaded inside their precinct as a wild mob lays siege to the station - and, above all, mindless violence that seemed to erupt in profusion for no apparent reason against the cops who faithfully served and cared deeply about the neighborhood that was rapidly imploding.

    Ehrengraf, who takes criminal cases on a contingency basis, and never loses. A small-press limited edition, luxuriously produced, and long since sold out. Seven of the eight stories were originally published in EQMM annual, 1978- ; one story originally published in Mike Shayne mystery magazine.

    

    

    V řešení záhad se střídají slečna Marplová, bohatá na životní zkušenosti, a Hercule Poirot, známý svouprecizní psychologickou metodou.The Tuesday Night Club from The Thirteen ProblemsThe Idol House of Astarte from The Thirteen ProblemsIngots of Gold from The Thirteen ProblemsThe Bloodstained Pavement from The Thirteen ProblemsMotive v. Oportunity from The Thirteen ProblemsThe Thumb Mark of St. Peter from The Thirteen ProblemsThe Blue Germanium from The Thirteen ProblemsA Christmas Tragedy from The Thirteen ProblemsThe Affair at the Bungalov from The Thirteen ProblemsDeath by Browning from The Thirteen ProblemsThe Strange Jest from Three Blind MiceThe Case of the Perfect Maid from Three Blind MiceThe Case of the Caretaker from Three Blind MiceThe Theft of the Royal Ruby from Adventure of the Christmas PuddingThe Third-Floor Flat from Three Blind MiceDouble Sin from Double Sin and Other StoriesThe Market Basing Mystery from Underdog and Other StoriesTriangle at Rhodes from Murder in the Mens

    The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably America’s most famous bank robber, Willie never injured a soul, but took on almost a hundred banks and departed three of America’s most escape-proof penitentiaries. This is the stuff of myth—rascally and cautionary by turns—yet true in every searing, diverting, and brilliantly recalled detail.