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The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu Sax Rohmer
At the twilight of the British Empire, Dr. Fu Manchu again comes up against Nayland Smith, the one man who can stop his sinister plans to destroy the Western world and remake it in the glorious image of the East, with Fu Manchu… More
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Case of the Dixie Ghosts A. A. Glynn
America’s bloody Civil War is over, leaving a legacy of bitterness, repercussions, intrigues, and many forms of villainy, not all acted out on the American continent. When the last ship of the old Confederacy docks … More
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Honky-Tonk Girl Charles Beckman
Honky-Tonk Street—a dark, lonely, sordid edge of town where doom and despair reign supreme—a place where Johnny Nickles and the members of his jazz band are playing hot sets in seedy clubs among the whores, winos, and… More
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The South Lawn Plot Ray O'Hanlon
Nick Bailey considers himself a hardboiled reporter for London’s hungriest tabloid. But even Bailey is left reaching for answers when he gets a midnight assignment to investigate a body hanging from the infamous… More
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Hollywood Heat Arlette Lees
The year: 1956. The place: Los Angeles, California. When six-year-old Daisy Adler vanishes from her upscale Hollywood Hills home during a crowded New Year’s Eve party, LAPD Detective Rusty Hallinan enters … More
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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective in Dead Ends Robert Leslie Bellem
This volume collects two stories featuring Dan Turner, hardboiled Hollywood detective. In “Death Ends the Scene,” a washed-up movie-director is going to knock himself off in order to give his no-good bride a double-indemnity… More
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A Gunman Close Behind A. A. Glynn
Mike Lantry, the tough, hard-bitten chief of World Wide Investigations, is on his way back to New York after a restful vacation when he gives a ride to a lone girl on an Indiana highway. Lantry’s up to his neck in from… More
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Death Smells of Cordite Gordon Landsborough
Russ Farran has a plush mansion and millions stashed away in the bank, all garnered from his 1950s Los Angeles aeronautics empire. But that empire is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, due to a series of persistent … More
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Deadline Istanbul (The Elizabeth Darcy Series) Peggy Hanson
Elizabeth Darcy is in the world’s most intriguing city to cover for old friend and fellow correspondent Peter Franklin, found dead in the Bosphorus. She’s convinced it wasn’t an accident. But uncovering… More
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Deadline Yemen (The Elizabeth Darcy Series) Peggy Hanson
Called to Yemen to help her old friend Halima, correspondent Elizabeth Darcy combines work with the chance to repay an old debt. But the narrow, mysterious streets are populated with armed men and veiled women; who can… More
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Old River Clyde Linsley
Sheriff John Sprenkel has only lived in Concordia Parish, Louisiana for six years and has never had to investigate a murder. . . until now. The badly beaten body of a young woman dumped beside the banks of the Mississippi… More