Toby March, the famous masked impersonator, begins an engagement in New York's plush Hotel Beaumont. The next day the housekeeper finds Toby's room a wreck, bedclothes smeared with blood, but no sign of Toby, dead or alive. And Frank Pasqua, his...
Worldly, sophisticated hotel manager Pierre Chambrun faces a crisis of conscience when his beloved secretary is kidnapped by a group that wants Chambrun to betray a famous journalist, a guest at the hotel, who knows too...
Rich, beautiful, lonely and in trouble, Valerie Summers arrived at New York's luxurious Hotel Beaumont dragging a trail of murder that baffled even the Beaumont's legendary manager, Pierre Chambrun. First, her mother, then a man she had crush on,...
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...
The greatest crime fighter of the forties returns!
In the roaring heart of the crucible, steel is made. In the raging flame of personal tragedy, men are sometimes forged into something more than human.
It was so with Dick Benson. He had been...
This first collection of Pierre Chambrun stories features the small, dark French-born manager of New York's Beaumont Hotel in thirteen ingeniously solved cases, involving murderous entrepreneurs, TV personalities, and...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” March 15, 1933.
Millions of dollars, soaked in the blood of innocent victims, mark the path of this Murder...
Coben to współczesny mistrz thrillera, którego przyrównuje się zarowno do Agaty Christie, jak Roberta Ludluma. Precyzyjnie skonstruowana intryga, mistrzowsko stopniowane napięcie, fałszywe tropy prowadzące...