9 great reads for a lonely night of thrills and chills! <P> In Sydney J. Bounds's «The Book Miser» has detective Josephine «Jo» Royal trying to thwart an unscrupulous book collector who's taken advantage of an innocent seller. In «The Purple Glove Murders,» by Mary Wickizer Burgess, attorney Gail Brevard is asked to solve a killing that appears to be linked to another murder from decades earlier. <P> In Victor Cilinca&a ...
The Idyllic life in Eden, Devon County, home of Spig and Molly O'Leary, is suddenly menaced by the spectre of a long-forgotten death and the grim reality of imminent murder. Meanwhile, the march of 'progress' in the form of a new bridge, a super highway, and a real estate boom – complete with rumors that their neighbors are planning to sell part of their land to a gambling syndicate – hangs over everything… ...
Working with the great Mark Twain is a job Wentworth Cabot relishes – especially when it includes a first-class boat trip, a visit to Europe, and a steady paycheck. But Cabot hopes his third adventure with the renowned author won't involve any murders… <P> The genial company of Twain's friend Rudyard Kipling seems to guarantee smooth sailing. A German prince, a pretentious Italian art critic, and a rich young lout from Philadel ...
Who is following Diana McClane, the young friend of Miss Emily Jackson and her brown Burmese cat Mandalay, and why? Miss Emily asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to investigate, and they uncover a menace rooted in her family’s history. Can they keep Diana safe from the growing threats of the violent past? ...
He had found her in a quiet bar – a sulky-mouthed, awkward, green-eyed kid trying desperately to pick up a man. He taught her how to dress, to walk, to laugh, made her into the kind of woman who makes every man reach into his pocket for hundred-dollar bills. <P> Looking at her now, Sam was proud of himself. He had done a good job on her.<P> He was almost sorry she had to die… ...
Lieutenant Kenmore's exciting solution of the murder of the nude beauty in an aquarium. Classic detective fiction!<P> "Clark's bad guys tend to be self righteous types, like high priced lawyers or smooth talking authors, whose mask their crookedness in a stream of noble sounding verbiage. It makes for a gentler tone, and a vein of satire." – Mike Grost ...
Johnny Phelan had two corpses behind him – «Three and you're out, Johnny,» the cops told him. «Out of this world, real gone cool on a marble slab . . . worth a hot quarter-million bucks in small kills . . .» So in the land of masquerade and make-up, Hollywood's toughest private peep ducked wild bullets and wilder babes – to learn the hard way that – YOU CAN ALWAYS DIE TWICE! <P> "This is hard-boiled mystery with all the ...
