Banned in the UK! Author and Publisher Fined! Not seen in 70 Years!
This is the story of Miss Callaghan. Not of any particular Miss Callaghan, but of the hundreds of Miss Callaghans who disappear from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and...
JAMES HADLEY CHASE has a reputation second to none for giving his readers one hundred per cent escapism. The worst his critics can say of his books is ‘I couldn’t put the wretched thing down.’
His first novel, “No Orchids for Miss...
For years, the operations of a mysterious and ruthless extortioner, who called himself " The Tortoise", had baffled Scotland Yard and the police forces of Europe. But the Tortoise made a mistake of interfering with Don Micklem, millionaire...
It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she'd been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she'll get to the bottom of what's been...
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young...
George Fraser is a lonely man, and a bored man. But he has exciting dreams. In his dreams, he lives in a thrilling world of gangsters, guns, fast cars and beautiful women. And of course, in his dreams, he is the toughest gangster of them all. George...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” November 15, 1933.
Who was Mox? What was behind the strange doings in his home, and the disappearances of various men? The Shadow...
MURDER MARSH was originally published in the October 1, 1934 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
A mysterious mansion set on an island in the center of a foggy old marsh. There, scientists looked for the Ignis Fatuus, crooks looked for wealth, the Law...
A failed attempt on his life by a contract killer gets Mike Hammer riled up. But it also lands him an unlikely job: security detail for a Hollywood producer having a party to honor his beautiful fiancée, a rising Broadway star. But it’s no walk...