The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion—and sets off a mystery that's an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue, and murder.

    It's the chief of police calling—Felicity Dill worked for him; she was a homicide detective. Dill is there that night, the beginning of his dogged search for her killer. What he finds is no surprise to him, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do—but it's a real surprise to the reader. As Newsday said when the novel was first published, "One sure thing about Ross Thomas's novels: A reader won't get bored waiting for the action to start."

    Then an SS lieutenant is found, throat cut ear to ear. The Gestapo orders the Berlin Criminal Police to solve these crimes.The hunter is Paul Bach, Chief Homicide Inspector, a widower and wounded combat veteran of the Russian Front, a man at odds with evil. And the hunted is 'the Angel of Zin,' a killer who always leaves a clue in a note. As hunter closes in on hunted, this daring and unusual novel offers an answer to the question all supposedly decent men and women at some time must ask themselves: "If I had been a German then, and realized what was happening, what would I have done?"

    Ike Tucker has come to look for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike's search takes him on a journey through a twisted world of crazed Vietnam vets, sadistic surfers, drug dealers, and mysterious seducers. Ike looks into the shadows and finds parties that drift towards pointless violence, joyless vacations and highs you might never come down from ... and a sea of old hatreds and dreams gone bad. And if he's not careful, his is a journey from which he will never return.

    Blue Eyes, the first book in Jerome Charyn's legendary crime series, introduces Isaac Sidel — the toughest, most incorruptible police inspector in the biz. In Marilyn the Wild, Isaac confronts the hot-headed daughter of the first deputy police commissioner. The Education of Patrick Silver tells the story of a giant shoeless Irishman who becomes just another pawn in the war between Isaac and a gang of Peruvian pimps. And in Secret Isaac, a scar on a prostitute's cheek sends Isaac on a desperate trip to Ireland in search of relief from the tightening grip on his soul. "Packed with manic energy, peopled with bizarre characters and outrageous situations. [Charyn] sounds like a ... Jewish Philip Marlowe." — Chicago Sun-Times "These books constitute the highest kind of novelistic art ... absolutely unique among contemporary writers." — Los Angeles Times

    Tree's Thrilling Detective Stories #1-3).

    Who mans the rampart against such onslaughts?A legion of interrelated health services, professional and amateur, guard us. Linked by training, interest and technology, they gather data and share resources to disarm these diseases before they get started.This is the second of two collections that bring together the best of Berton Roueche's ANNALS OF MEDICINE narratives.Originally published in The New Yorker magazine, the stories are classics of literary and medical lore.

    Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Robert van Gulik, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, Edmund Cripn, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Ray Bradbury, P.D. James, Donald Westlake, and Ed McBain. From Zangwill's 1892 classic The Big Bow Mystery to James's never-before-published “The Murder of Santa Clause,” these detective stories offer every kind of tension, shock and intrigue—a century's worth of excitement.The New York Times has called Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer novels “the best series of detective novels by an American,” and The Chill is vintage Archer. His investigation of the disappearance of a bride on her honeymoon leads him to a small southern California college and to three related murders spinning two decades and half a continent.In Ruth Rendell's Death Nothes, Inspector Wexford is called upon to investigate the accidental death of a world-famous flutist. As he probes the case, he discovers false identities, odd coincidences, and the certainty that the death was no accident, but a meticulously planned murder.Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Spade appears only in The Maltese Falcon—and in three short stories, “A Man Called Spade,” “They Can Only Hang You Once,” and “Too Many Have Lived.” All three are included here—together for the first time in decades.Featuring Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey, and the formidable Ellery Queen, Great Detectives assembles the star sleuths of the last century and a dazzling array of tales—the best by the best.Contents: Foreword / David Willis McCullough — The Big Bow Mystery—Israel Zangwill — The Queen’s Square—Dorothy L. Sayers — The Invisible Man—G. K. Chesterton — The Girl in the Train—Agatha Christie — The Murder on the Lotus Pond—Robert van Gulik — Hand Upon the Waters—William Faulkner— The Sam Spade Stories—Dashiell Hammett— A Man Called Spade—Dashiell Hammett — They Can Only Hang You Once—Dashiell Hammett — Too Many Have Lived—Dashiell Hammett — The Hunchback Cat—Edmund Crispin — Trouble is My Business—Raymond Chandler — The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue—Ellery Queen — See No Evil—Rex Stout — Yesterday I Lived!—Ray Bradbury — The Chill—Ross Macdonald — The Murder of Santa Claus—P. D. James — Never Shake a Family Tree—Donald E. Westlake — Death Notes—Ruth Rendell — Sadie When She Died—Ed McBain

    On the seat of a London taxi Miss Mallard, the duck detective, finds a knitting bag containing secret plans for a new high-powered missile.

    A revised edition of Murder Ink with plentiful new material.

     It seems like a simple road accident to everyone except the man's grieving daughter, Angie. She becomes obsessed with the possibility of a conspiracy to murder her vulnerable, colour blind father. Detective Sergeant Harry Kyle had promised a favour to a friend - Angie’s exasperated husband. He persuades Harry to visit Angie and convince her that her suspicious are groundless, lest she becomes mad. But the more that Harry probes into the circumstances surrounding Gledwyn Griffiths's death, the more suspicious he in turn becomes and the fonder he grows of Angie... And the more credible a murder plot becomes. As the evidence leads Harry to the culprit, an attack will leave him ‘Seeing Red’. ‘Seeing Red’ is a complex crime thriller with will keep readers guessing until the very end. Praise for Roger Ormerod: “Ingenious whodunit based on red-green colour blindness” – Irish Times (on ‘Seeing Red’) “The Detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod’s skilful hands’ – The Spectator “Taut, suspenseful...Agatha Christie with class” – Books “What more can a book offer, or a reader ask?” – Books & Bookmen Roger Ormerod is the author of over twenty novels. He was born in 1920 and left school at seventeen to join the Civil Service in which he spent most of his working life. He retired in 1970 and later worked as a postman and in the production control department of a heavy industry factory. He lives in Wolverhampton. His other novels include ‘A Shot At Nothing’, ‘Third Time Fatal’, ‘The Key to the Case’ and ‘The Night She Died’. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

    Herein are answered questions which have plagued loyal readers for decades, including: What is the truth about the mysterious menace of Sumatra? What occurs when Holmes must pursue an extra-terrestrial? Stories by authors: Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Philip Jose Farmer; Sterling Lanier, Gene Wolfe, Edward Wellen and others, for your amusement and edification.(back cover)Introduction: Sherlock Holmes / Isaac Asimov --The Adventure of the devil's foot / Arthur Conan Doyle --The Problem of the Sore Bridge among others / Philip Jose Farmer --The Adventure of the global traveler / Anne Lear --The Great dormitory mystery / F.N. Farber --The Adventure of the misplaced hound / Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson --The Thing waiting outside / Barbara Williamson --A Father's tale / Sterling E. Lanier --The Adventure of the extraterrestrial / Mack Reynolds --A Scarletin study / Philip Jose Farmer --Voiceover / Edward Wellen --The Adventure of the metal murderer / Fred Saberhagen --Slaves of silver / Gene Wolfe --God of the naked unicorn / Richard Lupoff --Death in the Christmas hour / James Powell --The Ultimate crime / Isaac Asimov.

    John Putnam Thatcher, a troubleshooter for Sloan Guaranty Trust proves a suicide is really murder, faces a scandal in the grain futures market, and investigates bigotry and murder on the New York Stock Exchange