This fast detective story gives a well-rounded picture of small town in the grip of a political boss who rules, plunders, and murders. A series of crimes surrounding and deriving from a bank robbery that offered a juicy opportunity for the boss comprises the case that must be cracked in this mystery. Its intricate coalition between crime and politics is a miniature of large scale metropolitan evil. The only opposition not cowed by the power of t ...
The first collection of Stan Wade short stories assembles five tales of this 1950s Los Angeles private detective! Included are:<P> A Wisp of Memory<BR> The Bad Sleep<BR> The Magnificent Score<BR> Double Injeopardy<BR> A Private Eye's Worst Day<P> Also features a new introduction by John Hegenberger.<P> The series has won The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award (2016, for Spyfall). ...
Mr. and Mrs. Benson were enjoying their cruise around the world, oblivious to the criminal types around them. After all, as Americans, they had nothing to worry about. Not even in Los Angeles, last stop before the Orient. Or did they? ...
Strange doings on an ore boat! Ted and Nelson to go undercover as unskilled deck hands on the S.S. Shamrock unravel the truth. Is it just bad luck, or is something more nefarious afoot? Stir in a stowaway, a realistic shipping setting, and a series of puzzling events and you get a classic entry in the Ted Wilford series. ...
VIOLENCE… INTRIGUE… DEATH… A grotesque, diabolical old doctor with a terrifying hypodermic needle that packs a special wallop… A barrel-shaped man of mystery with dark glasses and darker motives, involving the fate of nations… A beautiful brunette with soft, creamy skin and a lovely pearl-handled revolver, out to «get her man» in an unlovely way… You'll meet them all in A SHOT OF MURDER, a tale of mystery and mayhem which begins in Paris an ...
