Wilfred Jefferson Jellicoe is nowhere to be found. And the person missing him most, his ex-wife, hires Shell Scott to find him. Though alimony payments may be her motive to pursue his trail, Hollywood producer, Gideon Cheim, has another reason for calling on Scott to track this man down. For Cheim has entrusted Jellicoe with his autobiography, only to be published post-mortem. Is it coincidental that the Cheim manuscript has disappeared with the man...

Trois cadavres découverts et un vol de voiture ammènent le Sénateur à faire appel à Franckie Marciano. Quand trois cadavres sont découverts en quelques jours dans un coin perdu de cette France dite périphérique... Quand, loin de là, le vol d'une automobile plutt voyante oblige à fournir des efforts fastidieux afin d'en retrouver l'emprunteur... Quand le Sénateur, toujours bronzé même en octobre, fait appel aux services du dénommé Frankie...

Someone's poisoning an artificial sweetener and people across the country are dying at random. It's part of a plot to get back at Bob Mitchell, the company's president, a decorated war hero trailed by a past, whose secrets, if exposed, could blow up his future. The police have nothing, the body count's nine, and Mitchell's got four days to track down the killer or the man kills and again explodes Mitchell's life. From Hollywood, where death is just...

Tomas Aleciades has a big handicap. He's nearly blind. That doesn't stop him from doing what he most loves…gardening. What will stop him, though, is being accused of murder. MacFarland is asked by his good friend Jacinto Gomez to prove that Aleciades is innocent. To do that, MacFarland will have to contend with a very naughty thirteen-year old girl, an angry father, crooked cops, and his own doubts and uncertainty. * * * The problem was, he had...

The Fatal Garden, first published in 1949, is book no. 49 in the series of mysteries featuring private detective Dr. Priestley and Scotland Yard's Superintendent Waghorn. Author John Rhode, a pen name of Cecil Street (1884-1964), was a prolific writer of mostly detective novels, publishing more than 140 books between 1924 and 1961. From the dustjacket: "Yes, the initial murder in this book was certainly committed on a path in a garden; but it is possible...

Sur les traces des cadavres amputés... Le retour du Commissaire Hippolyte Maertens : des cadavres amputés sont retrouvés en France, en Angleterre et en Allemagne mais il semble bien que Calais soit une nouvelle fois l'épicentre de l'intrigue. Hippolyte Maertens, Julie Glioni et Karim Metjoub, ses fidèles lieutenants, accompagnés de la psychologue Eva Bernstein vont mener l'enquête... Plongez-vous sans plus attendre dans une enquêtes passionnante...

A chance encounter. A plea for help. A detective too tired to care. Brandon Beck hanged himself, or did he? Was it suicide or cold blooded murder? On a cold dark night in February, Harry Starke runs into someone he hasn’t seen in almost 25 years. The man has a problem. He asks Harry for help. Harry turns him down, and thus becomes the last person to see Brandon Beck alive. Did Beck hang himself? Was he murdered? Either way, why? Harry Starke,...

The Man Who Was Murdered Twice, first published in 1937, is a fast-paced hardboiled murder mystery featuring private detective Simon Crole. From the dust-jacket: Ned Anderson, wealthy young playboy of San Francisco, comes back from a trip around the world to find that James Gillespie, whom he had granted power of attorney before leaving on his trip, had swindled him of his fortune. In his attempt to recover his fortune, and to find Gillespie's secretary...

Best known in peacetime for his bumbling ways as a private eye, Dick DeWitt finds himself inducted into the U.S Army during World War II. Somehow, the military sends him to the West Coast to uncover spies, fifth columnists, and saboteurs. What poor DeWitt is not aware of is that while he is looking for the enemy, the enemy is looking for him.

Greed. Desire. Murder. This is a collection of short stories from mystery and crime writer M.E. Purfield, best known as the creator of the highly rated and long running 'Miki Radicci' series, which reveals Purfield's continued talent for quirky, unconventional characters struggling through realistic, tense, and desperate situations. A young girl trapped in a cage finds salvation in the darkest corner of an abandoned hospital, a thief with a bag...