Who murdered Lucille Balu, a rising young film star, found strangled to death in a hotel elevator? Set against the background of the fabulous Cote d’Azur and the Cannes Film Festival, James Hadley Chase’s new thriller tells the story of a young...
Casey Morrow, un giovane intento ad annegare nel whisky i suoi dispiaceri, viene abbordato nel bar da una bella sconosciuta che gli chiede di sposarla offrendogli in compenso una cospicua somma.
L’indomani Casey si sveglia con la sensazione di...
A varied collection of stories by Shamus Award-winner Bill Pronzini.
Rich in character, incident, and exceptional storytelling, this collection of Oddments is the best evidence of why the Private Eye Writers of America honored Bill Pronzini with...
Dot and Edith's happiness in their home stands in the way of their neighbors' decisions to sell to the Millpond Corporation so it can build another blight on the landscape. A campaign of intimidation, at first merely irritating, escalates to murder...
Duffy Dombrowski is not your average New York social worker. When he's not counseling sex addicts and drug users, you can find him crooning Elvis tunes, getting "Schlitzed" with his friends, or fighting ex-Olympians in the boxing...
Michael O’Shea is a member of Ireland’s police force, known as the Guards. He’s also a sociopath who walks a knife-edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops...
Victor Dermott, a successful playwright, rent an isolated ranch house in the Nevada Desert where he plans to write another play. With his wife, baby, a Vietnamese servant and a dog, he settles down in the ranch house to work. For the first two...