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The Ryer Avenue Story: A Novel (Murder Room Ser.)
Par Dorothy Uhnak. 1993
On a snowy night in 1935, a decades-old secret begins with a killingWalter Stachiew has powerful arms, matinee-idol looks, and…
an easy charm that he uses to distract his neighbors in the Bronx from his bad habits, which include a love of liquor and a fondness for teenage boys. When he is found one night, beaten to death with a shovel, the natural suspect is his drinking buddy, Stanley Paycek, who is tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in the electric chair. He is just a few minutes from death when his son Willie whispers the truth about who killed Walter Stachiew.Willie is a hateful boy, rat-faced and ostracized, but he and a few of his schoolmates know more about Stachiew&’s death than they will ever tell. As they grow into men, finding success all over the globe, the secret of that night binds them together forever. As the hate festers in Willie&’s heart, it threatens to one day destroy them all.The Detective
Par Roderick Thorp. 1966
In this bestselling book that inspired the hit movie by the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, an apparent suicide forces…
a PI to reconsider his most famous case Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full of medals, but his greatest honor came after he traded his pilot&’s wings for a detective&’s shield. Catching the Leikman killer made Joe a local hero, but the shine quickly wore off, and it wasn&’t long before he left the police force to start his own private agency. Years after his greatest triumph, Joe has a modest income and a quiet life—both of which may soon fall apart. When Colin MacIver dies at the local racetrack, the coroner rules that he took his own life, but his widow knows better. Because MacIver&’s life insurance policy doesn&’t cover suicide, his wife is left broke, desperate, and afraid for her safety. She hires Leland to find out who could have killed her gentle, unassuming husband—a simple question that will turn this humble city inside out.The Moonstone: Large Print (The works Of Wilkie Collins #Vol. 6)
Par Wilkie Collins. 1868
The novel that T. S. Eliot called &“the first, the longest, and the best of the modern English detective novels&”Guarded…
by three Brahmin priests, the Moonstone is a religious relic, the centerpiece in a sacred statue of the Hindu god of the moon. It is also a giant yellow diamond of enormous value, and its temptation is irresistible to the corrupt John Herncastle, a colonel in the British Army in India. After murdering the three guardian priests and bringing the diamond back to England with him, Herncastle bequeaths it to his niece, Rachel, knowing full well that danger will follow. True to its enigmatic nature, the Moonstone disappears from Rachel&’s room on the night of her eighteenth birthday, igniting a mystery so intricate and thrilling it has set the standard for every crime novel of the past one hundred fifty years.Widely recognized, alongside the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, as establishing many of the most enduring conventions of detective fiction, The Moonstone is Wilkie Collins&’s masterwork and one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.Murder Most Mellow (The Kate Jasper Mysteries #3)
Par Jaqueline Girdner. 1992
Kate Jasper, Marin County, California&’s own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this third mystery in the series.Everyone in Marin…
County has a hot tub, or so it seems. In Murder Most Mellow, Kate hosts a &“human potential&” group meeting in her hot tub. It goes swimmingly for at least one of the members, the belligerently optimistic computer programmer Sarah Quinn. But Sarah spouts, &“you create your own reality,&” one time too many to the wrong person after the meeting. Sarah&’s human potential is permanently short‑circuited when she is electrocuted in her own hot tub by one of her programmable robots. And there's a killer human behind the killer robot. Is it a business associate, a lover, a relative, or worse yet . . . a member of Kate&’s group? Kate is in hot water for real in this one, and it is on the boil.Scarlet Night (The Julie Hayes Mysteries #2)
Par Dorothy Salisbury Davis. 1980
A Manhattan woman visits a Soho gallery and stumbles into a mystery in this novel by an Edgar Award winner…
who &“can build suspense to a sonic peak&” (Los Angeles Times). It starts innocently enough. Julie Hayes and her husband have just returned to Manhattan from a month in Paris. Julie looks forward to spending quality time with Jeff, whose career as a journalist takes him away from home for months on end. Now if they could just find the perfect work of art to hang over their mantel. Julie&’s quest takes her to a trendy SoHo gallery where she meets an itinerant artist named Ralph Abel. Julie instantly falls in love with one of his paintings, Scarlet Night, and is stunned to discover that itcan be hers—for a mere one hundred dollars. But then the artist disappears and it becomes apparent that somebody else wants the painting . . . and will do whatever it takes to possess it.Scarlet Night is the second novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis&’s Julie Hayes mystery series, which also includes A Death in the Life, Lullaby of Murder, and The Habit of Fear, as well as the stories &“The Puppet&” and &“Justina&” in the collection In the Still of the Night.The Shattered Raven: A Novel
Par Edward D. Hoch. 1970
At a gathering of the nation&’s foremost mystery authors, death takes the stageDozens die each year for the sake of…
the annual Mystery Writers of America banquet. Heiresses are poisoned, captains of industry are stabbed, and private detectives are gunned down in the street. To mystery authors, these fictional murders are nothing but good fun. But at the annual presentation of the MWA&’s prestigious Edgar and Raven awards, real-life death is about to intrude.Ross Craigthorn&’s nightly news program has made him one of the most well-respected men in the country, but deep in his past lies a terrible secret—one he shares with only a few others. They have done their best to forget their long-ago crime, but when Craigthorn decides to come clean, his old accomplice knows that the time has come for murder. When a room full of mystery authors witnesses a killing, which of them will have the nerve to play detective?The Penguin Pool Murder (The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries #1)
Par Stuart Palmer. 1931
On a trip to the New York Aquarium with her third-grade class, a teacher discovers a dead body: &“One of…
the world&’s shrewdest and most amusing detectives&” (The New York Times). For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New York Aquarium, they get much more excitement than they bargained for. A pickpocket sprints past, stolen purse in hand, and is making his way to the exit when their teacher, the prim Hildegarde Withers, knocks him down with her umbrella. By the time the police and the security guards finish arguing about what to do with Chicago Lew, he has escaped, and Miss Withers has found something far more interesting: a murdered stockbroker floating in the penguin tank. With the help of Detective Oscar Piper, this no-nonsense spinster embarks on her first of many adventures. The mystery is baffling, the killer dangerous, but for a woman who can control a gaggle of noisy third graders, murder isn&’t frightening at all. The Penguin Pool Murder is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes Murder on the Blackboard and Murder on Wheels.The creators of Sherlock Holmes and Alice in Wonderland unite to solve a sea captain&’s murder in a historical mystery…
&“that will appeal to Anne Perry fans&” (Booklist). The reverend Charles Dodgson comes to Portsmouth hoping for rest, relaxation, and a few days&’ peace in the company of his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and aspiring author of mysteries. But within a minute of their reunion, Doyle is talking about murder. One of his patients, a gout-ridden ex-sailor, has dropped dead in his study, and Doyle is not convinced by the coroner&’s verdict of natural causes. Besides being the author of Alice in Wonderland, Dodgson is a renowned mathematician, and Doyle begs him to use his deductive brilliance to find the man who snuffed out the old sea dog. When an Indian raja arrives to accuse the dead man of stealing treasures from India, a local mystic volunteers to help unravel the case. Doyle and Dodgson are wary of taking help from a psychic, but they will soon find that it may take more than logic to solve this case.Fair Warning
Par Mignon G. Eberhart. 1935
Trapped in an evil man&’s house, a young wife searches for an escapeThough she can&’t admit it to anyone, the…
day of her husband&’s car accident is one of the best days in Marcia Godden&’s short life. After three years of marriage to Ivan, she has seen his darkest side, and now his very footsteps are enough to make her shudder. A guilty thrill goes through her when she hears of his accident, only to be replaced by terror when she learns that her husband is going to live. For four glorious, peaceful weeks, Ivan remains in the hospital. In the relief of this temporary freedom, Marcia confides in her neighbor, cheerful, handsome Robert Copley, and soon falls in love with him. Not long after her husband&’s return from the hospital, Marcia finds Ivan stabbed in the chest, and police suspicion falls on her. To save herself from prison, she must prove herself innocent of the murder of the one man she most wanted dead.Ride the Pink Horse (Murder Room Ser.)
Par Dorothy B. Hughes. 1946
During the annual Fiesta, three desperate men converge in a perilous New Mexico town in this &“extraordinary&” crime novel (The…
New Yorker). It takes four days for Sailor to travel to New Mexico by bus. He arrives broke, sweaty, and ready to get what&’s his. It&’s the annual Fiesta, and the locals burn an effigy of Zozobra so that their troubles follow the mythical character into the fire. But for former senator Willis Douglass, trouble is just beginning. Sailor was Willis&’s personal secretary when his wife died in an apparent robbery-gone-wrong. Only Sailor knows it was Willis who ordered her murder, and he&’s agreed to keep his mouth shut in exchange for a little bit of cash. On Sailor&’s tail is a cop who wants the senator for more than a payoff. As Fiesta rages on, these three men will circle one another in a dance of death, as they chase truth, money, and revenge.Dead Aim (The Lt. Hastings Mysteries #3)
Par Collin Wilcox. 1971
A pair of murders leaves Hastings torn between following his orders and listening to his gutAfter nearly a decade as…
a San Francisco cop, Frank Hastings is becoming something of a stranger to kindness. He feels perfectly at home in the Draper household—a rundown Victorian not far from the streets on which he grew up—where a social worker has been beaten to death by a man hiding in the bushes. The crime looks like a mugging, but something in the husband&’s manner tells Hastings there are secrets hidden in this shabby middle-class home.He&’s closing in on the answers when a double homicide in posh Pacific Heights draws his attention away. Fearing bad publicity, his superiors tell him to drop everything and focus on this new killing, but Hastings can&’t get his mind off the death of Susan Draper. As he divides his time between the two murders, Hastings finds that for a man at home with cruelty, kindness can be terrifying.American Skin: A Novel
Par Ken Bruen. 2008
At the beginning of Bruen&’s dark tribute to the Irish fascination with the American dream, Stephen Blake is on the…
run after a bank heist, hoping to disappear in the desert near Tucson. Blake has the money and his girlfriend, Siobhan, knows how to launder it. All he has to do is change his accent and his skin and pass as an American. But John A. Stapleton, contract killer for the IRA, wants more than his share of the swag—and the psychotic Dade, obsessively devoted to the music of Tammy Wynette, is wandering the Southwest like a slaughter wagon. Noir master Bruen (The Guards) effortlessly moves his storyline back and forth in time, all his trademark pop-culture references in place, the banshee of existential agony wailing loudly.The Spy and the Thief: A Jeffery Rand and Nick Velvet Collection
Par Edward D. Hoch. 1971
A double-barreled collection—two of Edward D. Hoch&’s most ingenious creationsIn the headquarters of Britain&’s Foreign Office, a secretary spies a…
television actor making a copy of a top-secret key. In an island republic, an intelligence operative is murdered just minutes before exposing a Communist mole. And in a bustling eastern city, the Cold War reaches a turning point over a piece of film the size of a pinhead. These are cases for C. Jeffery Rand, the fixer inside Britain&’s secret service. He is bright, ruthless, and smart enough never to be surprised by the depths to which an enemy spy might sink.Where Jeffery Rand is hard-nosed, Nick Velvet has a supple touch. A master thief, Velvet has a particular skill for stealing unusual items. Where ordinary thieves might be content with jewels or bank notes, Velvet pilfers rare tigers, water from swimming pools, and the letters on a company sign.In this collection, you will find seven stories of Rand and seven of Velvet—two brilliant men, one on either side of the law, each with a knack for doing the impossible.Find Her a Grave (The Alan Bernhardt Novels #4)
Par Collin Wilcox. 1993
To honor a dying don&’s last wish, a mob lieutenant searches for hidden diamondsAfter seven years ruling his empire from…
prison, Don Carlo remains as powerful as ever, but his heart is beginning to fail. On the verge of death, he begs his right-hand man, Bacardo, to look after his family. Not his wife and children, the don explains, but Louise and Angela—his daughter and granddaughter from a beloved mistress who died long ago.To Louise, the don bequeaths one million dollars in diamonds, hidden in a cemetery in a tiny California town. Securing her inheritance will mean mortal danger for Louise, Bacardo, and the private investigator they hire to help them—a moonlighting director named Alan Bernhardt. Bernhardt understands the risks, but also knows that the theater and the mafia have two things in common: the understanding that a professional is only as good as his word, and that the only way to survive is to act without fear.The Chocolate Cobweb (An american Mystery Classic Ser. #0)
Par Charlotte Armstrong. 1948
Investigating her mysterious birth leads a bright young artist into perilFor a few hours after her birth, Amanda Garth had…
two fathers. One was John, the kind, forthright man who would raise her. The other was Tobias Garrison, a well-known California artist who, because of a mix-up in the hospital&’s nursery, briefly thought Amanda was his. The confusion was straightened out, and the misunderstanding is forgotten for twenty-three years, when questions about her birth cause Amanda to approach the Garrisons. This could prove a deadly mistake. Someone in that poisonous family is plotting a murder, and the last thing they want is another heir to the massive Garrison fortune. The quest for truth could mean death for the girl whose birth was shrouded in secrecy.The Lady in the Morgue (The Bill Crane Mysteries #3)
Par Jonathan Latimer. 1936
A vanished corpse leads a hard-drinking PI on a madcap chaseMore than forty corpses fill the cold Chicago basement, but…
no crime has been committed here. After all, there are supposed to be bodies in the city morgue. Tonight, one is attracting particular attention: a beautiful young woman whose apparent suicide captured the imagination of every newspaper editor in town. Learning how and why she died is too great a task for any cub reporter. Only Detective Bill Crane is up to the job.A few minutes after Crane wakes from a nap in the morgue, the mysterious woman&’s body has disappeared. With the howls of the mental patients as a soundtrack, Crane leads the police on a wild search through the hospital and across Chicago, stopping for a nap or a cocktail whenever the situation demands. It may be a matter of life and death, but that is no reason to rush.Grave Doubt (The Jacob Lomax Mysteries #5)
Par Michael Allegretto. 1995
Lomax chases an accountant who has come back from the dead to blackmail his widowThe plane went down outside Tucson,…
and all aboard were burned beyond recognition. The sole passenger was Martin Blyleven, an accountant employed by a Colorado televangelist with shady business partners, but the death was ruled an accident, and $400,000 in insurance money went to the widow. Four years later, she begins getting phone calls from a man claiming to be Martin. He has risen from the dead, but unlike the saints in his old boss&’s sermons, he has come back demanding cash.Private investigator Jacob Lomax is hired to find out who is impersonating Blyleven, and how he learned the private details that make his act so convincing. But when the TV preacher&’s criminal backers get wind of the investigation, they come down hard on Lomax. If he can&’t wrap this up quickly, he may be in need of a resurrection of his own.Too Sweet to Die (The John Easy Mysteries #4)
Par Ron Goulart. 1972
A vanished jungle princess forces John Easy to visit the capitol of kook: San FranciscoThe jungle scenery is costing Marco…
Killespie a cool hundred thousand dollars. A stickler for quality, this king of television advertising doesn&’t mind writing big checks, but his latest masterpiece—a root beer commercial—is in serious danger of going over budget. Everything was going fine until his leading lady, the up-and-coming Jill Jeffers, disappeared. When a blonde goes missing in 1970s Los Angeles, it&’s best to call John Easy. A too-cool private eye whose wardrobe is in better shape than his worn-out VW, he knows every hiding spot in California. The first thing he learns is that Jill is a senator&’s daughter. Next he discovers that she&’s gone to San Francisco, the weirdest place on Earth. Finding her there will be just as simple as a walk in the jungle.Death with Blue Ribbon: A Carolus Deene Mystery (Tales of the PanCosmos)
Par Leo Bruce. 1969
Death on Allhallowe'en: A Carolus Deene Mystery (Tales of the PanCosmos)
Par Leo Bruce. 1970
Carolus Deene is summoned to a small Kentish village where the presence of a possible coven of witches lends an…
eerie aura to the presumed "accidental" death of a young local boy a year ago on Hallowe'en. Before his work is completed, Carolus Deene has the answers to this and two other deaths.