When struggling actor Glenn Harley helps starlet Nancy Rhymer cover up the death of another actor, he finds himself caught in a web of blackmail, murder, and betrayal. ...
IN THE MANSION OF MURDER… <P> A self-made millionaire, whose true story was not fit to print… <P> His beautiful «friend»… <P> His wife, and her friend, a very suspect psychiatrist… <P> And a man from the haunted past, with his father's blood on his hands, and every reason in the world to kill and kill again… <P> "You'll find screams at midnight, multiple slaughter, knockout drops, love and m ...
Retired hitman and gangster, escaped convict, former Marine, outlaw biker, and French Foreign Legionnaire Tommy Atkins is hiding out in the Florida Everglades. When a chance encounter leads him to rescue beautiful freedom blogger Maria Elena from rape and murder, they find themselves on the run from a rogue ex-pat Cuban anti-revolutionary militia group, the U.S. Marshal Service, a CIA and FBI joint task force, an infamous Mexican hitman, and the ...
$100,000. What would you do if you found so much money on the back seat of a taxicab? <P> Eddie Doran figured he'd keep it. The money was all in small bills. Untraceable. Probably a payoff of some kind. Or a pick-up. Racket money. Dirty money. <P> Dirty or not, Eddie needed that dough. He was broke. Dead broke, and through as a fighter. <P> The briefcase with the money in it was like manna from heaven. <P> O ...
Trouble struck the schooner Griselda at 9:40 on an April evening. It was not the fault of the weather or the sea or the soundness of her hull. The trouble was human. A woman. Her name was Julia Parks, though in the beginning she insisted it was Lambert. <P> It was hard to blame Howard Crane for bringing her aboard, because Julia always got what she wanted. What she wanted in this case was money. Keith Lambert’s—her ex-husband’s—money. Th ...
DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU! <P> A madman has marked you for death. <P> He follows you in the woods. He climbs the tree outside your window. He knocks on your door at midnight. <P> He lusts for you. His raging desire will not rest until his lovely knife finds your delicious body. He has killed before. <P> He will kill again, and it will be you. <P> He takes the form of someone you know well. He lures you to a de ...
This is a tale of tragedy and terror invading the pleasant life of a big coeducational medical college. It is exactly what the title says – murder among friends. For they were all friends, a little group of intimates who were drawn to lovely, sparkling Garnet Dillon, secretary to the Dean. Then disaster struck – struck like a great tidal wave of horror, leaving five murders and a gripping fear in its wake. But Detective Tuck knew that in this se ...
Alan Orloff is one of the most popular emerging mystery writers. His work has been nominated for Derringer and Agatha Awards, and one of his stories was selected for The Best American Mystery Stories (2018). For his debut appearance in the Black Cat THRILLOGY series, he has selected three of his best short stories:<P> "House Call"<BR> "Stormy, With a Chance of Murder"<BR> "The Last Loose End"<P> Previou ...
