In order to commit the perfect crime, Jerry Forbes has to spend a week impersonating a man he doesn’t resemble… whom he helped murder.
The victim is a neurotic Midwestern businessman on vacation in Florida, so the plot — hatched...
Nobody ever walked across the bridge at night. But on the foggy night that Hammer took that chance, his encounter with a gun-toting thug and a girl on the lam ended with both strangers dead. Soon Hammer is caught in a web of sinister gangsters...
The rain clawed at the windows of the bar. Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone. But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse. By the time...
He was a nice guy. Now he's dead. That's all Hammer knows about the stiff in the hotel room. But that isn't enough because Hammer suspects murder while the cops are calling it a suicide. Without a license or a gun, Hammer is pushing his way...
House Dick is one of Hunt’s very best, a classic hardboiled story of a detective in a Washington D.C. hotel (no, not that hotel) investigating a twisty tale of burglary and murder, of skullduggery under cover of darkness, of deception and...
It Began As a Burglary – And Ended As a Nightmare
When Lee Scarborough came upon the brunette sunbathing topless in her back yard, getting involved in a heist was the last thing on his mind. But somehow that’s where he found himself –...
An American buys a black-market passport to get into post-war Budapest, only to find himself mistaken for the murdered man the passport belonged to and on the run with the dead man's beautiful...
Til death do us part... Marcy Addwatter killed her husband — there's no question about that. Shot him dead in the motel room where he was trysting with a blonde hooker. Shot the hooker, too.
But where the cops might see an open-and-shut case,...
"FRIEND, YOU'RE TALKING TO A GUY
WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD AND
THE POLICE AT HIS BACK..."
Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, $75,000 may not sound like much. But it's all the money in the world to the...
Extortion, larceny and unscrupulous heirs keep The Saint busy from Broadway to Hollywood - with ingenues and starlets for every occasion.
A collection of short stories featuring the Robin Hood of modern crime, Simon Templar a.k.a. The Saint.
Thus...