Good old Stanley, always willing to do a favor. Stanley Hastings, the worst private detective in New York--maybe in the known universe--enters the big league. When asked to investigate Sergeant MacAullif's son-in-law, Stanley gets himself into trouble yet again. Doing favors can create a lot of problems ... more »

If One L is the book to read before law school, Relentless Pursuit is the book to read after-a real-life legal thriller that shows, from the inside, a prosecutor's quest to deliver justice to a family devastated by murder. What happened to Diane Hawkins and her daughter Katrina-a brutal double murder ... more »

The worst that can possibly happen . . . has. A beautiful child is dead -- defiled and murdered in a lonely graveyard on a fog-shrouded evening. It is the sort of horrific crime Chief Inspector Alan Banks fled the city to escape. But the slaying of a bright and lovely teenager from a wealthy, respected ... more »

Pulp-master John Peter Drummond's Ki-Gor, Lord of the Jungle, brings back the most acclaimed jungle hero the pulp magazines produced. Born Robert Kilgour, the child of missionaries killed in Africa, Ki-Gor grew up in savagery, but developed a noble, generous spirit. When red-headed Helene Vaughn's plane ... more »

When novelist Taylor Madison discovers a mysterious letter among her late mother's effects, she heads for West Texas in search of her father's identity. But small, sleepy towns don't appreciate rude awakenings and Taylor soon finds herself up to her neck in rattlesnakes and long-kept secrets--a deadly ... more »

Violet only had one year of pretty; the year before her boyfriend shot her in the face. She went on to put her life back together and find a man to care for her despite her scars. But now, as an adult, her mother has died and she must arrange the funeral. She had no idea that he would show up at the ... more »

Sheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to do -- especially now that death has invaded Bisbee, Arizona, and has shattered the small desert town's fragile peace. A gun dealer has died violently, and his stock ... more »

Dr. Amy Prescott has just one clue, a mysterious message left to her from Simon Kittredge, a rogue reporter hot on the trail of a sticky stock scam. The snag is he's disappeared in the run-down mining town of Rock Springs, Idaho. Amy rushes into the fray only to find fierce resistance from the town folk ... more »

Wollie Shelley -- the endearing, idiosyncratic heroine of the award-winning Dating Dead Men and Dating Is Murder -- returns in a funny murder mystery set in the world of television soaps. When David Zetrakis, the producer of a popular soap opera, is found shot to death the day after Christmas, Wollie ... more »

The Pacific slept; a vast, vague swell flowing from far away down south under the night, lifted the Northumberland on its undulations to the rattling sound of the reef points and the occasional creak of the rudder; whilst overhead, near the fiery arch of the Milky Way, hung the Southern Cross like a ... more »

The LAPD's organized crime unit is oddly uninterested, but Harry thinks they're wrong. He follows the money trail from the producer's office to Las Vegas, where he quickly finds evidence of Mafia involvement. But something about the case doesn't add up, and Harry follows a string of odd clues -- glitter ... more »

Conned into kidnapping a young woman, Burke Thomas, free-wheeling private investigator of things from the long past and part-time treasure hunter, has to free her. Before he can do so he finds the client who hired him dead. Then a gang is after him, the local sheriff is asking embarrassing questions ... more »