Only one man could satisfy Glorie Leadler’s craving for love and affection. And though this golden-haired bit of feminine dynamite could have had a dozen men at her feet for the asking, it was a solitary Oriental who made her heart beat fast. When jealous rivals tore that midnight love from Glorie’s arms, her over-heated emotions burst forth in a volcano of love-stricken vengeance that rocked Florida and left a mark on many men’s souls. The characters of this novel are entirely fictional and any resemblance to actual persons or situations is accidental

Один из ведущих мастеров британского нуара Дэвид Пис признает, что его интерес к криминальной беллетристике был вызван зловещими событиями, происходившими в его родном Йоркшире — с 1975 до 1981 г. местное население жило в страхе перед неуловимым серийным убийцей — Йоркширским Потрошителем. Именно эти события послужили поводом для создания тетралогии «Йоркширский квартет», или «Красный райдинг» (райдинг — единица административно-территориального деления графства Йоркшир), принесшей Пису всемирную славу. «1974» — первый том тетралогии «Йоркширский квартет». 1974 год. Ирландская республиканская армия совершает серию взрывов в Лондоне. Иэн Болл предпринимает неудачную попытку похищения принцессы Анны. Ультраправые из «Национального фронта» проходят маршем через Уэст-Энд. В моде песни группы «Бэй Сити Роллерз». На экраны выходят девятый фильм бондианы «Человек с золотым пистолетом» с Роджером Муром и «Убийство в Восточном экспрессе» по роману Агаты Кристи. Графство Йоркшир, Англия. Корреспондент криминальной хроники газеты «Йоркшир пост» Эдвард Данфорд получает задание написать о расследовании таинственного исчезновения десятилетней девочки. Когда ее находят зверски убитой, Данфорд предпринимает собственное расследование зловещих преступлений, произошедших в Йоркшире. Чем больше вопросов он задает, тем глубже погружается в кошмарные тайны человеческих извращений и пороков, которые простираются до высших эшелонов власти и уходят в самое «сердце тьмы» английской глубинки

1977 год. Год «двух семерок». Британия готовится к серебряному юбилею – 25-летию коронации Елизаветы II. В моде панк-рок – «Клэш» и «Секс Пистолз». Авиакомпания «Бритиш Эруэйз» совершает регулярные полеты Лондон-Нью-Йорк на сверхзвуковых «Конкордах». Опубликован роман Джона Ле Каре «Почетный школьник». Йоркширский Потрошитель собирает кровавую жатву. В графстве Йоркшир убивают проституток. Сержант полиции Боб Фрейзер и журналист Джек Уайтхед пытаются во что бы то ни стало найти и остановить серийного убийцу. Их связывает одно: и полицейский и журналист влюблены в представительниц древнейшей профессии из йоркширского Чапелтауна. По мере того как убийства множатся, становится очевидным: Фрейзер и Уайтхед – единственные, кто подозревает, что чапелтаунский убийца действует не и одиночку

Книга повествует историю о двух друзьях, гениальном детективе и не менее одаренном химике, которые попали в непростую ситуацию. Химик «Картер» создал химический наркотик, под воздействием которого главные герои помогли преступникам успешно нарушить множество законов. За содеянное им, вероятнее всего, грозит смертная казнь, однако героям удается скрыться от правительства Вашингтона, и после этого они решают раскрывать собственные преступления

Here is a smashing, red-blooded mystery yarn, packed with fast action. This is crime as the police in “open” towns know it; hard-boiled detectives and as tough a collection of criminals as can be found in any metropolitan line-up. Torrey sets a speedy pace and the book tears to a climax you won’t forget. Shean Connell, a private detective, sets out to clear up a divorce case in Reno, and finds that he has been framed by the man who is boss of the town’s criminals. After he views the woman in the morgue and has the tip of his ear shot away, he realizes that murder and not divorce is being plotted. Why wouldn’t Tod Wendel’s wife speak to him? Between the wealthy society woman and her husband stood the forces of the underworld — gangsters, white slavers, dope runners — and Shean Connell breaks the case in the hardest-hitting, lustiest mystery novel since Dashiell Hammett

Лето 2013 года. В Москву идут шифровки разведслужб о том, что радикальные националисты Западной Украины готовят вооруженный переворот в Киеве и для этого им нужно очень много денег. С Воронцовского завода цветных металлов в России начинает «уплывать» во Львов золото наивысшей пробы, которое затем перепродается полякам. Чтобы поймать окопавшегося на «золотой фабрике» львовского резидента и ликвидировать утечку драгметалла, в Воронцово отправляют офицера ФСБ Антона Крымова по прозвищу Седой и следователя по особо важным делам Геннадия Ярового. «Важняк» раскручивает дело о хищении с завода эталонного золотого слитка 999,9-й пробы, а тем временем Седой под видом столичного криминального авторитета внедряется в местные банды, оседлавшие «золотую фабрику», чтобы уже через них выйти на львовского шпиона и его пособников в городе…

A mysterious voice from the telephone; a beautiful Chinese girl shot dead; a rich old man with a troubled conscience; a private investigator involved in murder; a Chinese prostitute who talked too much; and a coffin. These are some of the intriguing ingredients of James Hadley Chase’s splendid thriller. It is definitely a book to keep you awake long after your bedtime

Amazon.com Review Matt Scudder, the recovering alcoholic private eye from The Devil Knows You're Dead and A Ticket to the Boneyard, embarks on another descent into the nightmarish quarters of New York, this time to investigate the sex-for-sale industry. Hired by the brother of an heiress to investigate her rape and murder, Scudder tails her husband to a boxing match and notices another man whom he saw on video a few months earlier on a different case involving a snuff film. As Scudder calls on old friends for assistance and tours New York's dark physical and social landscapes, Block masterfully builds the pressure that leads Scudder to the violent resolution in this winner of the 1992 Edgar Award for best mystery novel. From Publishers Weekly Block masterfully builds the pressure in this Edgar Award winner, as newly sober Manhattan PI Matt Scudder investigates the death of a TV producer's wife

"'Skilful and ingenious' Irish Times; 'I love Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone novels… you are never disappointed' Guardian; 'Will keep you awake until the last page has been turned' Daily Mail" 'My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator, licensed by the state of California. I'm thirty-two years old, twice divorced, no kids. The day before yesterday I killed someone and the fact weighs heavily on my mind…' When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. A slick divorce attorney with a reputation for ruthlessness, Fife was also rumoured to be a slippery ladies' man. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had reason to want him dead including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect and the Jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her husband. But the trail has gone cold and there is a chilling twist even Kinsey didn't expect…"Skilful and ingenious". – "Irish Times". "I love Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone novels…you are never disappointed." – "Guardian". "Will keep you awake until the last page has been turned" – "Daily Mail"

From Publishers Weekly The newest Matt Scudder novel by the blessedly prolific Block is right up to his usual standards. It takes a while to set up the situation (someone in an exclusive male dinner club that meets once a year is killing off the members at an alarming rate), but once it's established, Matt gets his man by his usual patient attention to detail and sheer doggedness. He almost misses him, however (giving rise to a matchless last line), and the punishment meted out to the villain is a highly unusual variant on the kind Scudder thinks up when the law, as sometimes happens, is helpless to act. His ex-call girl companion, Elaine, is her usual comforting self, and there's a brilliant portrait of an offbeat New York lawyer, obviously modeled on William Kunstler, who specializes in representing the underdog. The scene where the lawyer and suspicious ex-cop Scudder get to know and like each other is alone worth the price of the book. Those who become impatient with Scudder's determined pursuit of AA meetings-and it's possible to do so-should note his publisher's assertion that he now has a strong following not only among mystery buffs but also in "the recovery community."

The first novel from iconic X-Files star Gillian Anderson and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Rovin: a science fiction thriller of epic proportions. Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the daughter of India’s ambassador to the United Nations, starts speaking in tongues and having violent visions. Caitlin is sure that her fits have something to do with the recent assassination attempt on her father—a shooting that has escalated nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan to dangerous levels—but when teenagers around the world start having similar outbursts, Caitlin begins to think that there’s a more sinister force at work. In Haiti, a student claws at her throat, drowning on dry land. In Iran, a boy suddenly and inexplicably sets himself on fire. Animals, too, are acting irrationally, from rats in New York City to birds in South America to ordinary house pets. With Asia on the cusp of nuclear war, Caitlin must race across the globe to uncover the mystical links among these seemingly unrelated incidents in order to save her patient—and perhaps the world

En la memoria de Mario Conde todavía brilla el recuerdo de su visita a Cojímar de la mano de su abuelo. Aquella tarde de 1960, en el pequeño pueblo de pescadores, el niño tuvo la ocasión de ver a Hemingway en persona y, movido por una extraña fascinación, se atrevió a saludarlo. Cuarenta años más tarde, abandonado su cargo de teniente investigador en la policía de La Habana y dedicado a vender libros de segunda mano, Mario Conde se ve empujado a regresar a Finca Vigía, la casa museo de Hemingway en las afueras de La Habana, para enfrentarse a un extraño caso: en el jardín de la propiedad han sido descubiertos los restos de un hombre que, según la autopsia, murió hace cuarenta años de dos tiros en el pecho. Junto al cadáver aparecerá también una placa del FBI. Mientras Conde trata de desentrañar lo que sucedió allí la noche del 2 al 3 de octubre de 1958, la novela nos permite asistir a los últimos años del escritor norteamericano, a sus obsesiones, miedos y a su entorno habanero, desde donde refulgen algunos objetos inquietantes, como ese revólver del calibre 22 que el escritor guarda envuelto en una prenda íntima de Ava Gardner. Con el mismo tono crepuscular y melancólico de La neblina del ayer, y la misma eficacia envolvente de sus novelas anteriores, Adiós, Hemingway es un ajuste de cuentas de Mario Conde con su vida y con sus ídolos literarios, pero también una punzante e inolvidable recreación del Hemingway ególatra y contradictorio, acorralado por sus recuerdos y remordimientos, en los días previos a su suicidio

If you don't shudder with every twist and sudden thrust of these 16 terror tales… if you are able to turn off your bedside lamp after closing this volume and drift off to a deep, dreamless sleep… if you can drink your morning coffee without thinking there just might be a peculiarly bitter taste to it, or turn your back on your spouse or best friend without feeling a funny itching between your shoulder blades… then that lovable old master of menace, Alfred Hitchcock, apologizes and personally guarantees you your full payment in horror. All you have to do is meet him in the cemetery under the next murderer's moon…

THE NATIONAL DEBT In which the Saint disguises himself as a dusty professor in order to save a lovely damsel from the clutches of a sinister conspiracy. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT DIE In which the Saint's well known sensitivity to the adventurous possibilities of any situation lead him to pursue the current fortunes of the extraordinary Miles Hallin, a seemingly unimpeachable man about whom it has been said that if Miles Hallin could have walked a tight rope he would have walked a tight rope stretched across the crater of Vesuvius as a kind of appetizer before breakfast

Two novels in one trade volume. There are so many mysteries hidden in the fog off the Pacific Coast. Jimmy Miles has been hired to solve them. But they're not the only things keeping him up at night… In The Quick, an investigation into a long-ago murder leads to his discovery of the Sailors — restless strangers who roam the night, trapped between the world of the living and dead. In The Next, still haunted by the Sailors, Jimmy becomes obsessed with a sudden rash of murders, and a never-forgotten love affair that may hold the clue to his future

Angst und Unsicherheit gehen um auf dem Rennplatz von Dunstable. Art Mathews schießt sich unter den Augen seiner Jockey-Kollegen eine Kugel in den Kopf. Doch er ist nur das erste Opfer einer mysteriösen Unglücksserie. Erst Rob Finn, ein ziemlich Neuer im Geschäft, macht sich an des Rätsels Lösung und gerät prompt in Lebensgefahr

La investigadora privada Kinsey Millhone tiene problemas para llegar a fin de mes el día en que no tiene más remedio que aceptar el rutinario encargo de buscar a la hermana de Mrs. Danziger, Elaine. Ahora bien, cuando llega al apartamento de ésta y se encuentra con que lo ocupa otra enigmática mujer, cuando Mrs. Danziger le pide de pronto que abandone el caso, cuando se entera de que, pocos días antes de la desaparición de Elaine, su vecina y compañera de bridge ha sido brutalmente asesinada y su casa ha desaparecido bajo las llamas, cuando el sobrino drogadicto de ésta sabe más de lo que dice, cuando se producen misteriosos registros, extrañas injerencias y, finalmente, otro asesinato, a la obstinada y meticulosa Kinsey Millhone el asunto le va pareciendo todo menos rutinario. Y cuanto más investiga, más se ve envuelta en un diabólico laberinto de espejos en el que nada -excepto el peligro- es en realidad lo que parece ser

Wise-cracking, female private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, is hired to find a missing sister. However, when the trail leads to Florida, Kinsey finds herself caught up in a dangerous case involving fire-raising, burglary and murder

Studentka Kathy Culver znika w tajemniczych okolicznościach na terenie kampusu uniwersytetu. Jej poplamniona krwią bielizna zostaje odnaleziona w koszu na śmieci. Daje to podstawę do przypuszczenia, że padła ofiarą gwałtu i zabójstwa. Osiemnaście miesięcy później ktoś zamieszcza zdjęcie Kathy w piśmie pornograficznym. Były narzeczony dziewczyny Christian Steele, wschodząca gwiazda amerykańskiego futbolu, odbiera zagadkowy telefon – w słuchawce słychać głos zaginionej. Kiedy z rąk mordercy ginie ojciec Kathy, jej starsza siostra, dawna ukochana Myrona – piękna pisarka Jessica – prosi go o pomoc. Myron przekonuje się, że każda z osób zamieszanych w sprawę ma coś do ukrycia – łącznie z Kathy, której przeszłość skrywa wiele tajemnic…

Myron Bolitar przyjmuje propozycję właściciela klubu New Jersey Dragons i zgadza się odnaleźć gwiazdę drużyny, Grega Downinga, swojego rywala z czasów studenckich, który przepadł jak kamień w wodę. W zamian otrzyma szansę powrotu do zawodowej koszykówki. Być może Greg uciekł przed gangsterami poszukującymi go za długi hazardowe, albo przed policją w związku z zabójstwem Carli, kobiety, która go szantażowała. W domu zaginionego Myron znajduje ślady krwi zamordowanej, które niebawem ktoś usuwa, podobnie jak ślady obecności tajemniczej kobiety, z którą Greg żył po rozstaniu z żoną. Okazuje się, że cała sprawa ma związek z wydarzeniami z jego własnej przeszłości…

Lew Archer #13 When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who’s run off with his client’s girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the untanned skin of Southern California’s high society

Ken Corning, fighting to break a murder frame, tangles with the killers

Полицейский участок юго-восточного Лондона охвачен гневом и ужасом: маньяк-убийца, вооружившись молотком, выслеживает копов одного за другим. В лучших традициях Гая Ричи и Квентина Тарантино стражам порядка придется спасать свои шкуры и пытаться остановить сумасшедшего Блица. «Blitz. Без компромиссов» — новый роман Кена Бруена, одного из самых успешных авторов нуар-детективов. Сюжет, крепкий, как ирландский виски, покорил не только читателей по всему миру, но и кинозрителей. В экранизации роль дикого и беспощадного крутого Бранта сыграл брутальный Джейсон Стэтхем

Returning to her South Side alma mater for a reunion, private detective V.I. Warshawski becomes involved in the search for a former classmate's long-lost father, a quest that uncovers a web of corruption, danger, and murder

He was a son who hadn’t known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder – his father’s murder. Johnny Weather was home from a war and wandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father’s seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors. The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weather was going to solve this murder – by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown

A Jack Reacher Novel – #24 Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child. It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right. In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn’t counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch. Reacher is trained to notice things. He’s on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... hoping to get rich quick. As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in. The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher’s offer to help him home. He’s vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble. What hold could the gangs have on the old guy? Will Reacher be in time to stop bad things happening? The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EVENING STANDARD “Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.” – Ken Follett “Reacher is so irresistible a character that he draws fans from every demographic.” – Booklist (starred review) “Child is at the top of his game in this nail-biter.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O'Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron. Dennis Lehane (Mystic River , The Given Day) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the city-the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between. Lehane’s own contribution-the longest story in the volume-is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader. In 2003, Lehane’s novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island, the film based on Lehane’s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen

By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles’s Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade. Inspired by this notorious true crime, Edgar®-winning author Megan Abbott’s novel Bury Me Deep is the story of Marion Seeley, a young woman abandoned in Phoenix by her doctor husband. At the medical clinic where she finds a job, Marion becomes fast friends with Louise, a vivacious nurse, and her roommate, Ginny, a tubercular blonde. Before long, the demure Marion is swept up in the exuberant life of the girls, who supplement their scant income by entertaining the town’s most powerful men with wild parties. At one of these events, Marion meets—and falls hard for—the charming Joe Lanigan, a local rogue and politician on the rise, whose ties to all three women bring events to a dangerous collision. A story born of Jazz Age decadence and Depression-era desperation, Bury Me Deep—with its hothouse of jealousy, illicit sex and shifting loyalties—is a timeless portrait of the dark side of desire and the glimmer of redemption

Kto mógł porwać syna Jacka Coldrena, znanego golfisty, który z ogromną przewagą prowadzi w mistrzostwach USA? Podejrzenia padają na dawnego asystenta Jacka, Lloyda Rennarta. Tymczasem okazuje się, że Rennart pół roku wcześniej popełnił samobójstwo. A jeśli żyje i tylko upozorował własną śmierć? A może Chad sfingował porwanie? Myron Bolitar podejmuje się odnaleźć chłopca – po raz pierwszy bez swojego niezawodnego przyjaciela Wina, który z niewiadomych powodów odmawia udziału w śledztwie. Jedyny trop, jakim dysponuje, to karta kredytowa zaginionego, z której ktoś ciągle korzysta. I tym razem klucz do wszystkich zagadek kryje się w przeszłości…

Kinsey Millhone acepta ayudar y proteger a Bobby Callahan, un reservado joven que conoció en el gimnasio. Él está convencido de que, tras el accidente que le dejó amnésico y con el cuerpo zurcido de cicatrices, alguien quiere matarle, aunque nadie le cree. Pero tres días después Bobby aparece muerto. Y ahora a Kinsey le toca encontrar al asesino

From Publishers Weekly The corpse in private eye Kinsey Millhone's third adventure ("A" Is for Alibi and "B" Is for Burglar is that of Bobby Callahan, a young man she first meets while both are working out in a local gym. Bobby is convinced the car crash he'd been injured in was really an attempt on his life and, fearful of another assault, persuades Kinsey to investigate. A few days later, Bobby is indeed killed, and Kinsey stays on the case. She is befriended by Bobby's wealthy mother, his opportunistic stepfather and druggie, anoretic stepsister. She learns Bobby was having an affair with a friend of his mother's whose first husband had been killed in a suspicious burglary, and whose second is county pathologist. While the almost hard-boiled Kinsey ferrets out the ugly secrets behind Bobby's death, she's also trying to save her elderly landlord from the schemes of the scam-operating senior lady he's smitten with. Kinsey Millhone is nobody's fool; she's also sensitive, funny and very likable. Writing with a light, sure touch, Grafton has produced a fast-moving California story about quirky, believable people

A young Miami insurance executive can’t remember whether or not he’s a killer. He remembers a red-headed man who once said, “Murder is my business.” That’s how Mike Shayne gets into the case of amnesia, alibis, and anguish in Miami Beach and the Florida Keys

In these two novellas, crooked charity collectors and bent boxing promoters attract the Saint's attention... and will wish they hadn't

It's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women – one per year, for seven years. And when the suicide victim is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders, the news turns Elvis Cole's world upside down. Three years earlier Lionel Byrd was brought to trial for the murder of a female prostitute named Yvonne Bennett. A taped confession coerced by the police inspired a prominent defense attorney to take Byrd's case, and Elvis Cole was hired to investigate. It was Cole's eleventh-hour discovery of an exculpatory videotape that allowed Lionel Byrd to walk free. Elvis was hailed as a hero. But the discovery of the death album in Byrd's lap now brands Elvis as an unwitting accomplice to murder. Captured in photographs that could only have been taken by the murderer, Yvonne Bennett was the fifth of the seven victims – two more young women were murdered after Lionel Byrd walked free. So Elvis can't help but wonder – did he, Elvis Cole, cost two more young women their lives? Shut out of the investigation by a special LAPD task force determined to close the case, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike desperately fight to uncover the truth about Lionel Byrd and his nightmare album of death – a truth hidden by lies, politics, and corruption in a world where nothing is what it seems to be. Chasing Darkness is a blistering thriller from the bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime writing

I’m a private eye in Tampa. My card reads: It all started during Gasparilla Week, when our city re-enacts the good old days when that lusty pirate, José Caspar, sailed up Tampa Bay and took over the city. Well, Caspar was only a memory now, and the atmosphere of the city was not unlike Mardi Gras. Gaiety ruled. Wine flowed. And people danced in the streets. That was fine with me, though beer is really my tipple. Until I discovered that somewhere in that mass of pleasure-mad humanity a diabolic killer was on the prowl. He’d already killed once. Could I discover his identity amongst all those mummers before another corpse turned up in the morgue?

Манхэтон. Детективы полиции Глория Берч и Брайн Уйэн, готовы рискнуть жизнью, чтобы выйти на след сумасшедшего художника, который с необъяснимой жестокостью, безжалостность и методичностью, убивает молодых девушек необычным способом. Ситуация осложняется тем, что сама детектив Берч, может стать следующей жертвой убийцы. Детективы не сразу понимают, как далеко в прошлое уходят корнями эти леденящую душу преступления. Каждый в городе становиться подозреваемым, тем самым осложняя поиски убийцы

From Publishers Weekly "D" is for Detective Kinsey Millhone, given $25,000 of stolen drug money by a drunkard named Daggett who then dies in a drowning. When she decides to deliver the money to Daggett's designee, a young man who was the sole survivor of an auto accident perpetrated by Daggett, Kinsey finds herself in a dilemma: too many "D's" are after the loot. There are two Mrs. Daggetts, a daughter, the drug dealers and a determined killer who soon claims a second life. At this point, Grafton's lively, well-written adventure develops a deadly flaw. Kinsey comes upon the second victim shortly after he's been shot. Though dying, he is conscious and coherent. Why, then, doesn't she ask who did it? When asked the same thing by the police, she says, "I didn't want the last minutes of his life taken up with that stuff"a humane but unlikely rejoiner from any private eye. Even so, the pleasure of this story comes through. Let's give it a "D" for Dandy

Gil Vine is a house officer in a N.Y. city hotel which witnesses the murder of a man in the suite of Tildy Millett, gimmick girl on a video show. From Tildy’s love for Dow Lanerd who plays around but not for keeps, to Lanerd’s murder which is to follow, this turns up other angles- and curves, for a final solution in blackmail and an indiscretion which ended in illegitimacy

From Publishers Weekly One of a handful of novels he was working on at the time of his death, this fine, perhaps final, work from hard-boiled fiction icon Spillane (1918–2006) was prepared for publication by Hard Case vet Max Allan Collins. In it, NYPD detective Jack Stang receives word that his old fiancee, Bettie, who supposedly died in a kidnapping-gone-wrong 20 years earlier, is still alive and residing in a small Florida coastal community. The good news is countered by the fact that, in the car crash that was supposed to have killed her, she lost her eyesight and all her memories. Even worse, the men who had her kidnapped in the first place have perfectly good memories and are still looking for her—and willing to kill for the information locked in her damaged brain. This is a more sentimental Spillane than readers might expect, but the women are still dolls, the bad guys are still louses, and the hero still packs a helluva punch (along with his trusty .45, natch). Spillane always said he wrote for his fans, not for the critics, but both should be pleased with this late addition to the writer's canon. Product Description THE FINAL CRIME NOVEL FROM THE KING OF PULP FICTION! For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend’s death in an attempted abduction. But what if she didn’t actually die? What if she somehow secretly survived, but lost her sight, her memory, and everything else she had… except her enemies? Now Jack has a second chance to save the only woman he ever loved – or to lose her for good