Dead Man's Handle reveals Modesty at her most resourceful fighting not only the mad logic of a shattered mind but the very elements themselves. Sizzles with action from cover to cover. This latest installment in the Modesty Blaise pulp-fiction series opens with Willie Garvin, Modesty's loyal lieutenant, rescuing a Hong Kong businessman from a Red Chinese jail. The thrills continue when Willie is kidnapped by Sibyl Pray and held prisoner at the Hostel of Righteousness, the headquarters for delusi...
Baltimore County homicide sergeant Harold Lenhardt faces a baffling case involving three former high school friends, including one who is comatose from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and another who continuously changes her story.
Who held the old-fashioned brass candlestick that struck down "the Bounder"--and set mystery a-throbbing in the quiet suburb of Stanwick? Bat Scanlon, athletic trainer and good sport, found a clue in the dark hotel office where the little Swiss sharpened his murderous knife. But it was Ashton-Kirk who discovered the part a beautiful woman played in the drama.
A serial killer is on the loose... in the first book in Shirlee McCoy's FBI: Special Crimes Unit series After Special Agent Adam Whitfield's ex-wife is nearly killed when she stops an abduction, the serial killer that Adam's been hunting turns his focus on Charlotte Murray for getting in his way. Now, as the Night Stalker closes in, Adam has two missions: bring the murderer to justice and save Charlotte - because failure isn't an option.
The Pulp Fiction Megapack
by Robert Leslie Bellem, Hugh B Cave, and Ray Cummings
Ray and Manny, two friends from juvie almost twenty years ago, have a great scam running: with a couple of fake badges and some DEA windbreakers they found at a secondhand store, they target small-time drug dealers, pose as federal agents, confiscate the money and the drugs, and disappear before anyone is the wiser. It's a perfect sting; the dealers are too small to look for revenge, and too guilty to call the police. No one dies, no one innocent ends up a victim, and Ray and Manny score plenty....
The Case of the Kidnapped Angel (The Masao Masuto Mysteries, #6)
by Howard Fast
The Complete Cases of the Arson Dick (Dime Detective Library, #27)
by Leslie T White
"Merciless but honest about being monstrous, Wilson is worthy to stand next to Loren Estleman's Peter Macklin and Donald Westlake's Parker." - Publishers Weekly A phone call brought Wilson and nine other men to a job in New York. At first, he couldn't see a way to make the heist work, but the score - millions of dollars in diamonds - kept him looking. Wilson came up with a plan he knew would work ...until the inside man got killed and took the job with him. With no way inside, the crew walks awa...
The Case of the Rolling Bones (Perry Mason, #15) (Lythway Large Print Books)
by Erle Stanley Gardner
Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to grow his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Millicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, they commit their affluent kin to a sanitarium on a trumped-up charge. Then Leeds escapes, only to end up in the company of Emily's blackmailing brother, John, a manufacturer of fixed dice, rolling bones that always come up seven. But when John is murdered, with Leeds...