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New Releases


 
Just Published:  The Last Crimes of Charles Mistinguett
New on Kindle:  Blood Relations
New on Kindle:  Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection
New on Kindle:  Love and Night
New on Kindle:  Honors Due
New on Kindle:  With Distinction
New Review:  Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection
Nominated: Blood Relations receives Anthony nomination
On TV: Cinemax orders pilot for Quarry series
Nominated: Blood Relations receives Agatha nomination
Nominated: Long Pig receives 2012 Shamus nomination


 
 
COMING SOON TO A TV SCREEN NEAR YOU

 
CINEMAX ORDERS PILOT OF MAX ALLAN COLLINS'S QUARRY
 
http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/cinemax-orders-contract-killer-drama-pilot-based-on-max-allan-collins-quarry-books/#comment-5824840
 
 

 
 
 

 

"Violent and volatile and packed with sexuality." 
                                                                                        USA Today
 
 
 
Get them at your favorite bookstore
or at Amazon or other on-line retailers.
Also available on Kindle.
 
 
 
Nobody's harder-boiled than Quarry.
 
See all our Max Allan Collins titles.
 
 

 
 
 
"Charming thriller . . . chases across Europe
and tightly written gun battles. A delight for anyone
who enjoys French crime cinema from the 1970s."
 Publishers Weekly
  

 
James L. Ross
202 pages  Trade Paperback  $15.95
ISBN: 9781935797463
  
A retired criminal, who wants nothing more
than to be left alone to enjoy his ill-gotten gains . . .
Charles Mistinguett would never claim to be
innocent of all things, only of the charges laid
against him by the French government:
 
Murder. Extortion. Terrorism.
 
Useful lies if agents of the state plan
to execute a man without trial.
 _____________________ 

 
"Charles is everybody's fall guy, but he's not
quite ready to fall--and definitely not ready to see
his mistress, daughter, and son fall with him.

"This slick thriller combines the noirish cool of French cinema
(think Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai)  with an almost
jaunty, witty charm (Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief and
Charade). Stylishly written and cleverly plotted crime fiction."

Booklist
   
 

 
 
Publishers Weekly:

"Considering the wealth of professional and personal
information, it's tempting to call this definitive."




Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine:

Four Stars "A fully satisfying account of the life
and career of Ellery Queen . . . with humor and affection."

Steve Steinbock


Mystery Scene Magazine:

"There is more biographical material on the Queen
team than has appeared in print anywhere else,
drawing on files of their correspondence, 12 pages
of photographs, plus a full novel-by-novel,
story-by-story critical survey.

"Also given full coverage are editorial work; film, radio
and television adaptations, and the ghost-written
paperbacks of the 1960s. Appended are 'EQMM: The
Dannay Years' and 'At Work and Play with Fred
Dannay,' an account of Nevins' personal relationship
with Ellery Queen's editorial half. A 35-page primary
and secondary bibliography and a 24-page index
round out this meticulously researched, highly
 readable, and important book."

Jon L. Breen

 
 
 

2013 Anthony Nominee
Best Nonfiction
-
2013 Malice Domestic
 Agatha Award Nominee
                        


"What a treasure! . . . literally a blow-by-blow account of
the creation of three of the strongest Queen novels."

                                                         Francis M. Nevins

The writing team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee
 (better known by their joint byline of Ellery Queen) produced
some of the most ambitious mystery novels of the mid-20th Century.
 
Yet their relationship was acrimonious, marred by pain,
financial and professional dependency and mistrust.

Here, culled from the Dannay archives by author
 and dramatist Joseph Goodrich,
is the selected correspondence of these two
 volatile men during a period of their most important
 creative achievements.
 
With a Foreword by longtime television producer-writer
William Link (Columbo, Ellery Queen, Murder, She Wrote).


"A superlative book . . . jaw-dropping revelations."
                                                               William Link


BLOOD RELATIONS:
The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen
1947-1950
JOSEPH GOODRICH, EDITOR

WILLIAM LINK, FOREWORD
150 PAGES  TRADE PAPERBACK  $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-38-8
 

"Highly recommended!"
 
                        I Love a Mystery


 
 

 

 Includes 2012 Shamus Nominee

"A Bullet from Yesterday"

 
 

 
"Good writing and plotting."  Jon Breen,  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Includes the never-before-published "Sleep Big,"
in which Elliott cracks a case that famously eluded
both Philip Marlowe and his creator.

 In "Garbo's Knees" a paving slab signed by
the reclusive screen legend has gone missing.
But was it Garbo's slab the thief was after?

Chasing stray actresses, hot jewelry, and
a gun that may have started a war, Scott Elliott
takes us on a tour of Hollywood as the sun sets.
With an introduction by the author.


"Faherty writes this era like he was there."

                                                     Crime Spree


 TRADE PAPERBACK  246 PAGES  $14.95  ISBN: 978-1-935797-08-1

Available at Amazon, at our Book Store (20% off)

and on Kindle at $3.99.


 


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On this mammoth, 160,000-word collection
by two-time Edgar winner Francis M. Nevins



Ranging from  classic whodunits to bone-chilling
 suspense, here are twenty-eight adventures
 of Nevins’s popular series characters:
 lawyer-sleuth Loren Mensing, scamster Milo Turner,
 lady cop Gene Holt, along with a bevy of  stand-alones,
 including “Open Letter to Survivors.”
Fittingly, as many of the stories appeared first
in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nevins provides
 an introduction recalling fondly his early mentoring
by EQMM’s founding editor Fred Dannay. The author
 adds historical notes in an afterword to each story.

NIGHT FORMS
by Francis M. Nevins
378 pages. $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-00-5

 

"Tricky, stark, brutal."  Publishers Weekly

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"If [it] moved any faster you'd have to nail it down
to read it."    Elmore Leonard on Eye in the Ring
  

BEATEN TO A PULP
202 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-41-8
 

FULL CONTACT
204 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-43-3

EYE IN THE RING
186 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-40-1

 
A boxer hangs up his gloves to become
a private eye . . . and the real rough stuff begins.
 

 

SEPARATE CASES
180 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-45-6
 

STAND-UP
184 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-44-9

HARD LOOK
194 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-42-5

 
"Randisi's Jacoby is a chip off Lawrence Block."  Boston Globe
 
"Each of Randisi's novels is better than its
 entertaining predecessor."  Booklist
 

 
 

 

 2012 Shamus Nominee

Private Eye Writers of America
Best Novel Originally Published in Paperback

 
 

The President's dirty little secret
is worth your life.
 
Hayes Rutherford did his stint in Vietnam, flying a rescue chopper
that earned him the nickname "Last Chance." And he was a standup
 guy forty years later when someone had to take the fall
for a Pentagon billing scandal.
 
After 18 months in a federal pen, Hayes figures he's done
with the Washington crowd. Working for his daughter
 at a Hollywood P.I. firm, his biggest challenge is
keeping the talent's nose out of the candy.
 
But when rumors ping the White House that somebody
 is shopping an ugly movie script about the war-hero President,
 Hayes looks like suspect number one. He's about
to have his show cancelled for good, because there are some
 stories that political spin doctors can't fix. 
 

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LONG PIG by James L. Ross
  320 PAGES $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-935797-10-4
 
 
And look for James L. Ross's Death in Budapest:
 
"Twists straight out of a John le Carré novel. . . . Sardonic wit."
                                              Publishers Weekly
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Hanrahan's first case
 
A philosophy professor is dead, and Chess Hanrahan suspects
foul play. But as a college-town police chief, he's out of his
element in ivy-covered halls that conceal worse crimes
than homicide.
 
"A great introduction to a great character!"
Booklist
 
 

WITH DISTINCTION
EDWARD CLINE
152 PAGES  TRADE PAPERBACK  $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-21-0

 
 
 
"Cynical and perverse under the skin."
 
The New York Times on The Neon Smile
  

BLUE BAYOU
254 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-33-3

THE NEON SMILE
254 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-34-0 

"Dick Lochte is a superb craftsman. . . .
The Neon Smile, with its tantalizing blend
of past and present, is Lochte at his best."
 Sue Grafton
  
"The Neon Smile is as colorful and entertaining as
any police thriller ever inspired by the Big Easy."
 Joseph Wambaugh
 
"Chockful of dark humor, wordplay and subtle clues,
the novel is rich enough to reward multiple readings."
 Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
 
"I couldn't put The Neon Smile down. Terry Manion grabbed me
. . . and pulled me deeper and tighter with every passing line!
Dick Lochte is an artist; the book is literate, intelligent,
funny, loving and a helluva good read."
 Robert Crais
 
 
 

 
 
"There's nobody better at the American crime novel
 than Max Allan Collins."     The Big Book of Noir
  

FLY PAPER
162 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-22-7
 

HARD CASH
150 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-23-4

HUSH MONEY
180 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-24-1

Nolan wants a piece of the American dream . . .
 and he'll take it at gunpoint.
 

MOURN THE LIVING
172 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-25-8

SCRATCH FEVER
164 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-26-5

SPREE
212 PAGES $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-27-2

 
"Witty, hardboiled prose." Entertainment Weekly

 
 
 
                      Publishers Weekly:
 
"A mix of old-line Commies, red-diaper babies
  and more recent Russian emigres. . . . Engaging."
 
 

 
"Tamar Gillespie, a young artist with a disabled husband, lives
 in a rural Connecticut village  . . . and paints dog portraits for a living.
The village population includes Ultra-Orthodox Jews as well
 as old Communists and red-diaper babies who consider
 Prague Spring a betrayal. When the  community board offers
a run-down house to a family of Jewish refugees from the new Russia,
 old political feuds reappear. . . . Historical-mystery readers who enjoy
political debates will find much  to appreciate here."  Booklist 
 

THE MAN WHO KNEW BRECHT 
JOHN C. BOLAND
200 PAGES  TRADE PAPERBACK  $12.95 
 ISBN: 978-1-935797-32-6

 
 
 
 
"Blasting out of a time warp, straight from
the 1940s. It's set in modern Hollywood, but it's old -time
California noir, right down to its Bakelite heart. . . . Luscious."
 
                                                                           Booklist

 

 

Long-time character actor
Clive Rosengren
(Cheers, Seinfeld, Ed Wood) pens a lively
 private-eye tale about Hollywood
and one of its dirty little secrets:

What some people won't do
 to sleep with a star.


MURDER UNSCRIPTED  
CLIVE ROSENGREN 
  122 PAGES  TRADE PAPERBACK  $8.00
  ISBN: 978-1-935797-19-7

 
"So entertaining I wished it had continued
for at least another hundred pages. Think you'd like
to be a movie star? Think again. . . . Purrs along fast
and smooth, and the ending delivers . . . a sweet surprise."
 
                                                                           Betty Webb, Mystery Scene

 

 
 
"This isn't a book you'd want to give to your best 
friend who loves cozies . . . a collection full

of the real hardboiled thing." 
                                    
                                                                    Bill Crider, Mystery Scene
 


Here, from an extraordinary writer  equally at home
 in California noir and bayou dope deals (with zombies),
 is a sharp, profane and stunning collection of short fiction.

As NPR said, some of these crime stories
 would cause Nancy Drew to faint into her plate
 of cucumber tea sandwiches.

"Highly entertaining selections . . .
spotlight the hip urban scene Phillips has

made his own. . . . Those looking for a fun romp
amid crime and killers will be satisfied."
                                       Publishers Weekly
""
TREACHEROUS
GARY PHILLIPS

230 PAGES  TRADE PAPERBACK   $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-20-3


 
 
"Highly recommended!"
 
                        I Love a Mystery


"What a treasure! . . . literally a blow-by-blow account of
the creation of three of the strongest Queen novels."

                                                         Francis M. Nevins

The writing team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee
 (better known by their joint byline of Ellery Queen) produced
some of the most ambitious mystery novels of the mid-20th Century.
 
Yet their relationship was acrimonious, marred by pain,
financial and professional dependency and mistrust.

Here, culled from the Dannay archives by author
 and dramatist Joseph Goodrich,
is the selected correspondence of these two
 volatile men during a period of their most important
 creative achievements.
 
With a Foreword by longtime television producer-writer
William Link (Columbo, Ellery Queen, Murder, She Wrote).


"A superlative book . . . jaw-dropping revelations."
                                                               William Link


BLOOD RELATIONS:
The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen
1947-1950
JOSEPH GOODRICH, EDITOR

WILLIAM LINK, FOREWORD
150 PAGES  TRADE PAPERBACK  $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-38-8

 


 
 


Publishers Weekly: 

"Fans of hard-edged spy novels will hope that this outing for disgraced
Wall Street banker Patrick  McCarry is but the first of many
 from Ross (Long Pig). . . . Twists straight out
of a John le Carré novel . . . [and ] sardonic wit." 

Patrick McCarry, a down-on-his-luck Wall Street
  banker, can't expect much sympathy back home. 
A hedge fund has blown up, and  McCarry looks
  just the right size for a federal prison cell.
 
Hanging out in Europe, he hooks up
 with a folksy Midwesterner who wants help
 picking through failed businesses. Chester Holt
 and his ample wife Charity have a homily
 for every occasion.
 
One of them is "Don't be a doom and gloomster!" 

That means: If you're right on the doorstep
 of the Balkans,  pretty soon somebody is going
 to want  to buy guns from you.


DEATH IN BUDAPEST
JAMES L. ROSS
180 PAGES  TRADE PAPERBACK  $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-17-3

 


 

 

"One of suspense fiction's best storytellers,"
says Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
 
Dean Koontz adds:
 "Gorman's writing is strong, fast and sleek as a bullet."
 

 In the deep woods, a well. In the well, a Voice . . .

The Voice speaks of lust, and blood, and murder
 to any who listen.

Under the spell of Cindy Brasher,
almost every young man will listen.


CAGE OF NIGHT   ED GORMAN 
 192 PAGES  TRADE PAPERBACK   $9.95
  ISBN: 978-1-935797-18-0


 

"Fun through the last wry line." 
Publishers Weekly


Two capers by the suave (and if he does admit it, handsome) scam
artist Milo Turner, who has been entertaining readers
 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for decades.

In THE 120 HOUR CLOCK, the love of Turner's life (a scamstress,
 of course) dies in the middle of a complicated scheme.
 Suspecting murder, Milo sets out for revenge . . . and money.

In THE NINETY MILLION DOLLAR MOUSE, Milo Turner takes on
 a religious cult, hoping to prove a high-tech mogul's
 handwritten will is a forgery. All he has to do is walk into the
 cult's home town and snatch a bundle of love letters
the mogul supposedly wrote as a teenager. Easy enough. 

It's not as though anyone would try to kill him . . . 

These new editions contain Afterwords by the author, two-time
Edgar winner Francis M. Nevins, as well as reprints of the early
short stories that inspired the novels.

THE 120 HOUR CLOCK 
FRANCIS M. NEVINS 
134 PAGES $8.00  ISBN: 978-1-935797-37-1

THE NINETY MILLION DOLLAR MOUSE
  FRANCIS M. NEVINS
134 PAGES $8.00  ISBN: 978-1-935797-36-4
 


 
    
        Publishers Weekly Starred Review:

                  "Superior science thriller. . . . Boland's taut atmospherics are top-notch,
                  and the evolutionary themes he explores are easily accessible to
                  nonscientists."
 


       Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine:

               4 Stars "A tightly written thriller." 

 
       Mystery Scene Review:

               "A riveting scientific suspense novel on the order of the popular Preston
                  and Child thrillers. . . . Boland makes complicated theories about DNA
                  and genetically linked illnesses easily understood. And in contrast to
                  many science-heavy suspense novelists, Boland also has the ability to
                  create three-dimensional characters. [The hero's] love life is a mess; Silas
                  Merton, the island's mayor and only clergyman, is also the town drunk; 
                  and even brutish Luther turns out to be much, much more than your
                  average killer. . . . Hominid never fails to make for exciting reading."
                                                                                                          (
Betty Webb) 



Three coffins . . .

 

Archaeologist David Isaac joins a team excavating a crypt
 on a remote island where a colonial-era family lies buried.
 By local lore, the family were "devils." The expedition's
 leader hopes to revive his career by proving
 they were murdered by neighbors in a burst
 of religious hysteria.
 
But these cadavers harbor an older and deadlier secret.
 And nobody is prepared for what is about to emerge.

HOMINID  JOHN C. BOLAND  350 PAGES  $15.95  ISBN: 978-1-935797-16-6

"Roars along like a BMW in heat."  Kirkus on DEATH IN JERUSALEM

 


 
 

 

LOVE AND NIGHT
Unknown Stories by Cornell Woolrich
Edited by Francis M. Nevins
192 PAGES  $12.00 ISBN: 978-1-935797-35-7

 


 
 

Down on the bayou . . . murder

In steamy Shreveport, Louisiana, two musical
legends-in-the-making come together: a whiskey-soaked
 country singer named Hank Williams and blues artist Muddy Waters.
 What they've got in common, over several hectic days of drinking,
 singing and whoring, is an interest in staying alive despite
 local mobsters, bent cops, a truckload of Ku Klux Klansmen, and a bayou
full of alligators. (Did we mention a bankrobber's lusty daughter?)

HANK & MUDDY arrives with advance praise:

“A terrific novel!  One of my favorite writers . . . a born storyteller . . . Enjoy!”

                                                                                                                    MAX ALLAN COLLINS (ROAD TO PERDITION, QUARRY)

          
Booklist lauded Mertz's earlier  novel,  THE KOREAN INTERCEPT, as
  


“An adrenaline rush!” 

HANK & MUDDY  STEPHEN MERTZ  214 PAGES  $12.95  ISBN: 978-1-935797-13-5


 
 

* Booklist Starred Review:

"Chess Hanrahan, the book-loving New York City
gumshoe who's prone to tunnel vision when something
gets under his skin, deserves a much wider readership. . . .

"Hanrahan is a great character, a guy who values literature,
loves movies, despises stupidity and duplicity, and, when
he gets working on a puzzle, absolutely will not stop
until he's solved it.

"Fans of detective fiction . . . will love this novel--
and all of Cline's work."
                                              David Pitt, Booklist May 2011


 
 

The new Nick Delvecchio mystery

* Starred Review: Booklist

"The final entry in Randisi's Brooklyn trilogy
is dark, brooding, and thoroughly compelling [with] . . . clever
 plotting and an engaging narrative voice. Randisi has written
 hundreds of crime stories and earned numerous awards.
This is among his finest efforts."
                                                                    Wes Lukowsky, Booklist May 2011


 
 

"Like a great twelve-bar blues--the comfort of a familiar form
 jazzed by a fresh key and an exciting new voice."
 Lee Child on NO TIME TO MOURN


The Pink Tarantula
A Novel in 9 Episodes

Tim Wohlforth


Crip and Henrietta aren't your typical
 California private eyes. Crip's real name
 is Tom Bateman. His sometime sidekick
 with body piercings and spiked green hair,
 Henrietta,  calls him "Crip" because
he rides a wheelchair.  When she isn't
mocking him, Henrietta
 grows marijuana, hangs with jailbirds,
and brings in cases that reek
 of trouble--and weed--at first sniff.
 
In nine closely related episodes, we watch
 their relationship grow as both characters
 struggle to bridge chasms of bitterness
 and mistrust.
 
174 pages. Trade Paperback. $12.95.  ISBN: 978-1-935797-11-1

 


Prize-winning western writer Troy Smith
makes a dazzling crime-novel debut.

"Drugs, murder, a little Voodoo,  and the blues. Check it out."
                   
Bill Crider

"One of the best crime novels  I've read in a long time."

James Reasoner
 

_______________________

Roy Carpenter, blues-playing harmonica man
in 1957 Nashville, knows great music when he hears it.

He also knows a dangerous woman when he looks
at her . . . and finds her looking back.  
Beautiful Sallymae's got a brutal husband,
just the kind of guy to wind up dead
 with Roy taking the fall.
 
Here is a sharply observed novel steeped
 in the atmosphere of character and place,
 of sexual passion and the blues.

________________________

 

TRADE PAPERBACK  198 PAGES  $13.95  ISBN: 978-1-935797-09-8


 


"Faherty writes this era like he was there."

                                                     Crime Spree


 
"Good writing and plotting."  Jon Breen,  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Includes the never-before-published "Sleep Big,"
in which Elliott cracks a case that famously eluded
both Philip Marlowe and his creator.

 In "Garbo's Knees" a paving slab signed by
the reclusive screen legend has gone missing.
But was it Garbo's slab the thief was after?

Chasing stray actresses, hot jewelry, and
a gun that may have started a war, Scott Elliott
takes us on a tour of Hollywood as the sun sets.
With an introduction by the author.


 TRADE PAPERBACK  246 PAGES  $14.95  ISBN: 978-1-935797-08-1


 
 


"Gorman showcases the darker side

 of his talents in this solid collection."

                                              
                                                         -- Publishers Weekly





"One of our finest contemporary
short story writers regardless of genre."

Jon Breen   Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine


250 pages  $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-5-4

____________________________

13 dark tales of murder and revenge
_______________________________

"The Baby Store"   "Comeback"   "Flying Solo" "Aftermath"
"A Little Something to Believe In" (with Larry Segriff)
 "Loose Ends"   "Killing Kate"   "Favor and the Princess"
"Heritage" (with Terence Butler)   "The Long Way Back"
   "Rafferty's Comeback" "That Day at Eagle's Point"
   "Such a Good Girl"

 


Two-time Edgar-winner Nevins's 28 tales
 of mystery and suspense




Ranging from  classic whodunits to bone-chilling
 suspense, here are twenty-eight adventures
 of Nevins’s popular series characters:
 lawyer-sleuth Loren Mensing, scamster Milo Turner,
 lady cop Gene Holt, along with a bevy of  stand-alones,
 including “Open Letter to Survivors.”
Fittingly, as many of the stories appeared first
in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nevins provides
 an introduction recalling fondly his early mentoring
by EQMM’s founding editor Fred Dannay. The author
 adds historical notes in an afterword to each story.

NIGHT FORMS
by Francis M. Nevins
378 pages. $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-00-5

 

The Best Writers . . . The Best Private Eyes . . .
The Toughest Cases

The SHAMUS WINNERS

America's Best Private Eye Stories
_________________________

"If you're a fan of private eye short fiction,
these books are must-have items."
                            James Reasoner

 Volume I  (1982-1995)

336 pages  $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-4-7


 Volume II (1996-2009)

282 pages  $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-6-1
 


 
 

Ideas that kill . . .


Chess Hanrahan is back in a challenging new novel.
It's 1987 and a cabal of social scientists are shaping
 American thought, while Soviet agents make a grab
 for an obscure computer company. When a woman
 working undercover is murdered, the FBI is ordered
 to keep "hands off" the politically charged case.

Enter Chess Hanrahan, a
"thinking man's Mike Hammer."
 
Chess doesn't like dictatorships, or social theorists,
 or devious intellectuals. (He's not sure about  a sexy
short-story writer who has dropped into his life.)

The Russians and their friends are about to run smack into
a private detective who uses both his mind and his fists.
Because Hanrahan knows the cold truth:

Ideas can kill.

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PRESENCE OF MIND
 TRADE PAPERBACK  198 PAGES  $14.95  ISBN: 978-0-9825157-0-9

 


FIRST PRIZE

Edward Cline

With a new preface by the author.

A
brilliant novelist wins 
 a literary award and disappears.
  Private investigator Chess Hanrahan, a "thinking
 man's Mike Hammer" who reads books and
people,
 turns up more than murder  in this sharp-edged,
 provocative tale by the author of the
 popular Sparrowhawk series.





"A striking tale."

Allen J. Hubin
The Armchair Detective


198 Pages $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-7-8






 
 

The Guilt Edge

15 hard-boiled stories by "one of the last
 true pulp writers" (Booklist)


"He's one of the best."
MICHAEL CONNELLY

"A masterful writer."
JAMES W. HALL

"Skillful, uncompromising."
JOHN LUTZ


232 pages  $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-3-0

 


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Or ask your bookseller.

 

Cop on the run . . .


in a new bare-knuckled novel by

ROBERT J. RANDISI


Jake Gilmartin's pals

on the NYPD are out
to
kill him.  The only man
he can turn to is his son
. . . who hates his guts
.


the bottom
 of
every bottle

186 pages  $12.95
  ISBN: 978-0-9825157-1-6



 "NO FAT ON ITS BONES. NEVER SLOWS DOWN."
Bill Crider


" . . . ROCKETS ALONG. A GOOD, TOUGH COP THRILLER."
 James Reasoner


 

Novice sleuth Meggie Trevor is so broke
she'll take on any client who pays cash. . .



LAST ISLAND SOUTH



 JOHN C. BOLAND

International Thriller Writers finalist
Two-time Shamus nominee


244 pages  $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-8-5
 

 
 
 
Meggie's new client  aims to be Porn King
of the Florida Keys.


OUT OF HER DEPTH

JOHN C. BOLAND


International Thriller Writers finalist
Two-time Shamus nominee
 
255 pages  $12.95
  ISBN: 978-0-98251257-9-2
 

"Roars along like a BMW  in heat."
Kirkus on Death in Jerusalem

 
 

" . . . style, substance, and versatility."

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine


 
24 chilling stories from
Hitchcock's and Ellery Queen's
 mystery magazines . . . 

30 YEARS IN THE PULPS


 JOHN C. BOLAND

International Thriller Writers finalist
Two-time Shamus nominee
  
346 pages  $14.95
  ISBN: 978-0-9825157-2-3