It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address -- an audiocassette recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice chanting: Bad love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love. For Alex Delaware the tape is the first intimation that he is about to enter ... more »

Gary Soneji is every parent's worst nightmare. He calls himself the son of Lindbergh. His family and colleagues know him as a mild-mannered, unassuming guy, and would find it impossible to imagine him as a psychopath, a serial murderer, and now, the perpetrator of the most notorious kidnapping of the ... more »

Amidst the neon and the big special ugly of Las Vegas, mild-mannered Frank Fontaine is beating the brains out of the Acropolis Casino. The house cops think the dealer, a blonde named Nola, is part of the con, but no one can prove a thing. For Tony Valentine, it's the first new scam he's seen in decades ... more »

Years ago, Lou Boldt's wife Liz had an affair with David Hayes, a young computer specialist at the bank where she is an executive. When Liz ended the relationship after reconciling with Lou, Hayes partook of a daring embezzlement scheme. Now, years later, Hayes is trying to retrieve the money he hid ... more »

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In Cat in a Midnight Choir the black cat detective is hunting a mysterious and possibly murderous organization of renegade magicians called the Synth, which has been making Las Vegas too hot for some of Louie's human friends. Louie's daughter, Midnight Louise, and her friends, join the nation's number ... more »

Set on Capitol Hill, this is the story of Sandler Harris, a young man who, over the course of the decade he has worked as a Congressional staffer, has seen his idealism and initial zeal for the job fade into a sense of disillusionment.  To relieve his boredom and growing lack of enthusiasm, Sandler ... more »

Two brothers. Three secret service agents. And millions for the taking. Charlie and Oliver Caruso are brothers who work at Greene and Greene, a private bank so exclusive there’s a $2 million minimum to be a client. But when the door of success slams in their faces, the brothers are presented with an ... more »

Adam Pray's older brother, Julian, disappeared from his life when Adam was twelve years old. Now, years later, Adam gets a card from Julian asking him to meet on the island of Corfu, in the Mediterranean. Drawn by curiosity and a longing for reunion with the brother who was a childhood hero, Adam goes ... more »

A bumbling American smuggler inadvertently involves a beautiful woman from the World Health Organization in his mounting list of problems when a bag containing millions worth of opium is substituted for his at a train station. After a corpse appears in his hotel room, police, drug dealers and a motley ... more »

Accused of an unspeakable crime, respected high school teacher Mike Chadwick retreats to the lonely isolation of the north woods, where he attempts to salvage his career, reputation and sanity. There is no rest for the weary, however. Relentless detective, Pat Donegal, locates and questions Chadwick ... more »

... version of the famous Jebb translation, which has been called "the most carefully wrought prose version of Sophocles in English."* *Moses Hadas From the Paperback edition. more »