Lew Archer #10 Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man’s suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is...
When three immigrants are found dead in a grisly tableau, a Florida attorney defends the man who insists he’s innocent… though he’s thrilled to see the trio...
THE DARK DEATH was originally published in the February 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
"Beware, dark men! Doom awaits you! That is the message in the crystal." Or so warns Cuyler Willington. And when he says "dark men" he refers not to...
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...
Blood is thicker than water and that's doubly true for the King family who have built a considerable fortune through decades of ruthless violence and bloodshed such as Oklahoma has never seen. Ike King taught his boys well: when you see something...
Gil Vine is a house officer in a N.Y. city hotel which witnesses the murder of a man in the suite of Tildy Millett, gimmick girl on a video show. From Tildy’s love for Dow Lanerd who plays around but not for keeps, to Lanerd’s murder which is to...
From the moment Lee Dedrick, husband of the fourth richest woman in the world, disappears, believed kidnapped, Vic Malloy of Universal Services is snarled up in a vicious vortex of murder, glamorous women and violent non-stop action. The curtain...
I swung the wet, flat money belt, enjoying the slap of it against my leg.
I had gone through a lot to get that belt. I had consorted with midgets and freaks. I had been lied to, framed, been offered the bribery of a beautiful but depraved...
NO MAN ESCAPES THE SINS OF HIS PAST
Six years after quitting the Florida Mob, Peter Mallory is about to be dragged back in.
Stalked by a vicious killer and losing his hold on power, Mallory’s old boss needs help – the kind...