Джон Лутц0.0 Fred Carver is hired by his good friend, Lieutenant Alfonso DeSoto of the Orlando police to investigate the death of his uncle at Sunhaven, a local nursing home. Carver is harassed by Raphael Ortiz, a viciously depraved thug bent on discouraging Carver from investigating Sunhaven.
Before he can solve this shocking case he must battle to stay alive, and confront some personal demons of his own in the process.
Коллинз Макс Аллан0.0 Война закончилась, и бывший морской пехотинец, а ныне снова владелец частного сыскного агентства А-1 Натан Геллер, поселившись в окрестностях Чикаго с молодой красивой женой, намерен наслаждаться покоем. Но жизнь распоряжается иначе - убийство маленькой дочки его клиента заставляет детектива снова вступить в борьбу с преступлениями, переставшими быть "привилегией" мафии.
Сара Парецки2.3 Роман современной американской писательницы Сары Парецки "Смертельный удар" - детективное расследование деятельности чикагской промышленной мафия, блестяще проведенное женщиной-детективом Ви. Ай. Варшавски.
Эрл Эмерсон0.0 When seventeen-year-old Todd Steeb has been missing for eight days, his wealthy parents hire Thomas Black to investigate. Faith Steeb is worried by her son's obsession with suicide, though her husband dismisses it as youthful "deviance." Aided by his lawyer friend Kathy Birchfield, Black finds forgotten crime, buried treasure, possible murder, and enough "deviant" behavior to blow Seattle off the map.
Джеремайя Хили0.0 When a man took a swan dive from a 12th-story window, he left behind a dead prostitute--and Detective John Cuddy's gun. The Boston police will not believe that Cuddy's innocent, and a volatile Caribbean drug lord thinks he has stolen the dead man's stash of prime cocaine.
John Birkett0.0 Nasty horseplay at the Derby lands Rhineheart in a race against time to stop a murderous scheme …
Michael Rhineheart is a Louisville private eye with a taste for bourbon and a nose for trouble. He's as tough and savvy as they come. His sleuthing secretary, Sally McGraw, is desperate to learn the ropes. Their pal Farnsworth is a crusty old pro who hasn't lost his touch.
Together this hardboiled trio sets out to solve a mysterious disappearance at the racetrack. Soon they are galloping onto a trail of lust, greed, and murder … and enough dirty deeds to turn Kentucky's bluegrass red with shame.
Gaylord Dold0.0 A young girl in a small town wants Mitch Roberts to free her brother on death row.
Gaylord Dold is the author of fifteen works of fiction including the highly acclaimed private detective series featuring Mitch Roberts, a well as numerous contemporary crime thrillers. Many of his novels have been singled out for awards and praise by a number of critics and writer’s organizations.
Гэр Энтони Хэйвуд0.0 Winner of the prestigious Best First Private Eye Novel contest sponsored by the Private Eye Writers of America, Fear of the Dark is a hardboiled mystery that digs into the lairs of Los Angeles politicos, a radical black power organization, and a contentious right-wing sect.
Wayne D. Dundee0.0 When Junior Odum turned from his mother's grave, I stepped out of the shadow of the gnarled old cemetery oak and stood where he could plainly see me. The low-hanging full moon cast bluish highlights up and down the barrel of the .45 automatic I held leveled on the bail-jumper.
"It's a hell of a ways from Hatchaloo County back to Rockford," he told me. "We're at one end of the state, it's at the other, and Illinois is one long damn stretch of real estate. You got near four hundred miles to haul me. And if I've a mind to, I guarantee I can make that a pain-in-the-ass, fight-you-every-inch-of-the-way trip you'll wish you'd never started.
"Or … you do a job of work for me while you're down here. It's somethin' I can't very well take care of myself on account of bein' a fugitive and all, and somethin' your snooper skills should make you better suited for anyway. You do that, then I go back peaceful as a lamb. Hell, I'll even drive the car, you can stick your feet out the window and nap in the back seat if you want."
Don't ask me to explain it. I'm a born-again skeptic who's laughed in the face of a-hell-of-a-lot-slicker pitches than that one, but this time for some reason my reaction was different. Something about the tall young man with his knocked-around, Howdy Doody features and his earnest, pale eyes reached me. Maybe it was helped along by the uneasiness I felt over having waylaid him at his mother's graveside in the first place. Or maybe the rural setting had stirred my boyhood memories deeply enough to unearth some still-innocent, still-naive part of me that hadn't yet been soured on mankind. Or maybe I just read too damn many Robin Hood stories when I was a kid.
Like I said, don't ask me to explain it because I can't.
All I know is that fifteen minutes later, after I'd heard the rest of what he had to say, I walked away from that cemetery without Junior Odum in my custody. I went one way, Odum went another. I'd agreed to spend forty-eight hours on Junior's "job of work." At the end of that time—whether I was successful or not—he'd given his word to return peaceably with me.
That's right, his word.
They were without question the most bizarre circumstances under which I had ever taken on a client.
Walter Satterthwait0.0 Joshua Croft wasn't looking for trouble. It just managed to find him. While Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft wasn't exactly comfortable fencing a stolen diamond necklace, he did have a living to make. But when the small-time cowboy who'd offered him the deal was murdered, Croft knew he was into something hotter than hot ice.
In the posh section of Santa Fe, raw earth is as chic as sushi, and the trail of dirt Croft follows leads to even dirtier secrets, kinky sex, drugs, and double dealings--and a second murder that strikes just a little too close for comfort.
Филип Ли Уильямс0.0 With crackling action and razor-sharp dialogue, award-winning author Philip Lee Williams brings the dark side of Atlanta to life with private detective Hank Prince. A former AAA baseball player, Prince has lately fallen on hard times and is thinking of bailing out of the private-eye business when he learns an old friend is missing.
