Гарольд Иннис0.0 Carl Wilcox really does try to stay out of trouble - he's had enough of it over the years - but the times being what they are, the choice isn't always his. For now, though, he's taken a job painting signs for the town of Hope, South Dakota. It beats hanging around his folk's hotel in Corden and gives him the chance to earn an honest dollar. Then, late one July day, the McGillacuddy kid rides up on his bike and tells him that there's a body in the sandpit outside of town. Nothing about the death was natural. Everyone knew Felton Edwards, but there didn't seem to be many who liked him, except for some of the women. And while the local police were willing to let matters just go their own way - without any help from Carl - the mayor had a different idea. It seems that Edwards left town about fifteen years ago and his last known location was Edenberg, but before he left, he'd had his way with some of the women in town, never giving any thought to whether they were married. Now, if Carl would just do some investigating on the mayor's behalf, well, there just might be some other work available around town. One of the first things Carl discovers in Edenberg is that Felton Edwards's reputation was deserved. The second thing he discovers is another body - and another warning to steer clear of doing any investigating on his own. Still, most of the people Carl will have to talk to are women, and there was the promise of more work . . . There were lots of people with cause to kill the man who was taller than God, but only one of them did it. There were also some people taking potshots at Carl Wilcox. But a puzzle or a fight just broke up the tedium of a long summer day. . . .
Роберт Крейс4.3 Элвис Коул - удачливый частный детектив, именно поэтому один из самых модных режиссеров Голливуда Питер Алан Нельсон, прозванный Королем Приключений, обращается к нему с просьбой найти бывшую жену и ребенка, которыми знаменитый кинодеятель обзавелся еще в начале своей карьеры. Легкое на первый взгляд дело оборачивается для Коула настоящим кошмаром. Ведь когда детектив находит бывшую жену режиссера в маленьком сонном городишке в Коннектикуте, то оказывается, что та запуталась в своих связях с мафией, и перед Элвисом Коулом открываются мрачные перспективы закончить свое расследование на дне Гудзона...
Джеремайя Хили0.0 The seventh acclaimed John Cuddy novel, released to coincide with the new hardcover, Foursome. Beautiful Amerasian model Mau Tim lies dead--murdered by an intruder. But Cuddy soon realizes it isn't nearly so simple when he discovers mob connections.
Джерри Кеннили0.0 he continues an investigation that takes him from London to San Francisco and Canada and into the vicious underworld of pornography, smuggling, kidnapping, and murder.
Марель Дэй0.0 Claudia Valentine has been hired to look after Dolores Delgado. Hanging out with this exotic and beautiful creature is more like fun than work - until the day Dolores drops dead.
Catherine Dain0.0 Pilot and private eye Freddie O'Neal is back on the job when ex-chorus girl Joan Halliday asks her to check up on Halliday's elderly father's caretakers, who, his daughter is certain, are conning their charge.
Wayne D. Dundee0.0 Hired by the jealous wife of "Terrible" Tommy McGurk to look into the wrestler's activities when he's not in the ring, Detective Joe Hannibal uncovers a dangerous game of love and violence--beginning with sweet kisses and ending with a body-slam into sudden death.
Джон Стрэйли0.0 Sitka, Alaska, is a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains. In addition to honest work, there is a lot of alcohol consumed and other people's money appropriated. Bars are loud, fights are mean. Rowdy youths party in the ancient Russian cemeteries, sitting on overturned gravestones. Sitka is hardly straight-laced, but murder is uncommon enough to be widely noted—like the Indian big-game guide killed by an ex-miner obeying voices from the earth's center. The victim's mother, a Tlingit Indian, summons to her nursing home a local investigator named Cecil Younger. The case is old and ostensibly solved. She wants him to investigate anyway. What he unearths is a virtual fairytale contrived to hide a primal conspiracy.
Carol Lea Benjamin, Джеймс Саллис0.0 Take a little James Lee Burke, a touch of Ross Macdonald, and a dash of Raymond Chandler, the conventions of the classic American detective story and the fine, thoughtful writing of an original new talent - and you still don't quite have The Long-Legged Fly. This is a smart, tough novel teeming with life and always on the verge of igniting from its own energy. In steamy modern-day New Orleans, black private detective Lew Griffin has once again taken on a seemingly hopeless missing persons case. The trail takes him through the underbelly of the French Quarter with its bar girls, pimps, and tourist attractions. As his search leads to one violent dead end, and then another, Griffin is confronted with the prospect that his own life has come to resemble those he is attempting to find; he is becoming as lost as the frail identities he tries to recover. Waking in a hospital after an alcoholic binge, Griffin finds another chance in a nurse who comes to love him, but again he reverts to his old life in the mean streets among the predators and their prey. When his son vanishes, Griffin searches back through the tangles and tatters of his life, knowing that he must solve his personal mysteries before he can venture after the whereabouts of others. The Long-Legged Fly is exciting, visceral entertainment that takes the reader into a corner of society where life is fought for as much as it is lived. James Sallis has written a compelling novel that succeeds both as detective fiction and worthy literature.
Бенджамин Шутц0.0 "Mary, Mary, Shut the Door" is paired with a series of spellbinding tales of violence and deceit, starring sleuths from all walks of life, each marked by the gripping psychological realism that is Schutz's trademark.
