Mayhem is on the rise at the Witt’s End Resort, especially Cabin 14, where no guest ever leaves alive.Okay, is that a great hook or what? And the book is about-a death coach. Who solves murders.To add to it, the reason the guests...
Dime-store novelist William Magee has gone to Baldpate Inn to do a little soul-searching in an attempt to write a serious work. Thinking he will be alone and uninterrupted, Magee arrives at the inn in the dead of winter. But he discovers that there...
Who stole Sassi Manoon?
Ask Kelly Bram Nicholas IV, the world’s youngest mad scientist, who gets all his answers from Starnap, the seagoing computer.
Or ask Jigger Jackson, the girl who wants to be a movie star so bad she’d sell somebody...
This is EVAN HUNTER whose powerful and controversial first novel, THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, was a book, magazine and motion-picture sensation last year. Despite his youth (29), he has sold many short stories, a play, seven mysteries and several...
Chicago, 1947. Nathan Heller, formerly of the United States Marines, currently head of the A-1 Detective Agency, is settling happily into post-war suburban prosperity in the company of his lovely, pregnant wife. But when a client’s child turns up...
As a child Edward Lincoln had had the run of a racing stable, and as a young man he had earned his living riding horses in films. So when a sick friend asked him to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he knew more or...
As "Death Vows" opens, Strachey, a hard-boiled detective in Albany, N.Y., is enlisted to investigate the mysterious Barry Fields, who may or may not be a violent con man and gold digger, preparing to marry an older man named Bill Moore just over...
White House executive chef Ollie Paras has to put her own interests on the back burner when a kindly electrician is electrocuted to death, and the First Lady's nephew dies in an apparent suicide less than 24 hours after cleaning shrimp with...
Some cases never leave you. For John Rebus, forty years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. Murdered in her hotel room on the night a famous rock star and his entourage were staying there,...