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Lady--here's your wreath: A reporter witnesses an execution and gains a clue from the condemned man about who the real killer is.Author: James Hadley Chase, Gregory ShepardPublisher: Stark House...

Two gritty New York mysteries, the first involving a young cop who sets out to solve a murder that everyone else thinks is just a random killing, and the second the story of an unlikely detective who...

LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE When Evan returns to his Midwestern home from life in the city, he finds that nothing much has changed. Everyone's a little bit older, and they still talk about the weather...

SIN PIT"She was very young and very pretty and very dead...and as naked as a fully clothed person could be." Barney Black is a tough cop in a tough town, but when he goes looking for the dead woman's...

LITTLE CAESARRico is a small, pale man, but he has guts, endurance and a steely single-mindedness. When Vettori sends the gang out to rob a local nightclub, Rico shoots a cop who pulls a gun on him...

LIZ Liz Allen isn't going to take it anymore. Men have been trying to victimize her all her young life. But that ends when the fat local sheriff strips her and whips her alone in a cell. It ends with...

Burt Wulff, after two years in the army, most of it in Vietnam, had been entitled to something nice for his trouble, so they had made him a narco. A New York City narcotics cop, with the freedom and...

Come on, Wulff said after a while. "You can talk now. Tell me." Díaz lay there. It would be interesting to study the psychology of a man who had reached absolute hopelessness, Wulff thought, but he...

Burt Wulff, after two years in the army, most of it in Vietnam, had been entitled to something nice for his trouble, so they had made him a narco. A New York City narcotics cop, with the freedom and...

Some innocent people were going to be badly hurt. But he had to remember that there was no innocence in this trade, that anyone and everything touched by junk became irretrievably rotten and then had...

A million dollars' worth of heroin, Delgado said to the silent men. "Let's call it what it is, gentlemen ... the most addictive and dangerous of all the hallucinatives used by humanity, a drug whose...

The 7th and 8th books in Malzberg's vigilante series, The Lone Wolf, originally published by Berkley Books in the early 1970s under the name "Mike Barry." Burt Wulff has gone beyond fear, beyond...

Carrying nothing but a big sackful of heroin and a few hundred dollars, Wulff had grabbed a hitch on the outskirts of Los Angeles and was now heading toward Chicago. With plans, of course, to...

Two exotic thrillers originally published in 1952 and 1963 by Gold Medal Books.Author: Sid FleischmanPublisher: Stark House PressPublication Date: May 12, 2016Number of Pages: 266 pagesLanguage:...

LUST QUEEN Joey Baldwin's got it made. He's got a beautiful fianc , Lisa, and now he's got the perfect writer's commission as well. All he has to do is pack up in New York and head for Los Angeles,...

Booklist reviewed Ollerman's first book as having "all the slam-bang anyone might want." They called his second book, Truth Always Kills, "a moody novel with a sullen authority." His latest is a...

A lone driver picks up a beautiful woman and gets more than he bargained for, and the perfect heist is made complicated when a drunken neighbor climbs in the wrong window. From the author of Clean...

MEN, WOMEN AND RATTLESNAKESWelcome to Menham. Perhaps you should start your tour by dropping by Lem Witherbee's saloon where all the customers have their own private drinking mugs which they talk to...

In this superb coming of age story from the author of One for Hell, we meet 15-year-old Jeff Carr as he learns to cope with the harsh realities of life while growing up in Texas in the 1930's. Filled...

Danny didn't mean to kill Jerry. He didn't even want to fight him. But once Jerry gets a few drinks in him, he has to prove how tough he is. It had always been like that, ever since they were kids...

MRS. HOMICIDEEveryone in the homicide squad knows that Herman Stone's wife Connie is cheating on him. They'd all seen her with Lyle Cary. So when she is arrested in Cary's apartment, drunk and nude,...

MURDER IN MONACO"It began as one of those casual dates...I'd met her the night before in Monte Carlo." So begins agent Hart Muldoon's latest mystery. Nancy Trippe works for National Alert, a tell-all...

Two stories of people caught up in a world of organized crime in Chicago.Author: Peter RabePublisher: Stark House PressPublication Date: May 16, 2016Number of Pages: 302 pagesLanguage:...

MURDER NEEDS A NAMEThe radio show has ended for the day, and the actors and writers are out for dinner, including their sponsor, Abner Ridenour. After the dinner breaks up, Jane and Abner announce...

MURDERS IN SILKTie Bixby spots the woman with the red hat getting on the train. But the guy she's trying not to be seen talking to is strictly a lug. After she comes out of the ladies' room and...

Two excellent thrillers originally published in 1960 and 1957, both of which involve characters dealing with prison getaways.Author: Peter Rabe, George TuttlePublisher: Stark House PressPublication...

Originally written as by "Marco Malaponte" and published by Beacon Books in 1963, these two Rabe rarities offer a look into the private side of suburbia that, according to author Rick Ollerman, "read...

NIGHT BOAT TO PARISPost war life in England hasn't been kind to Duncan Reece. So when Boyler offers to pay him to retrieve a special bit of microfilm that the Reds also want to get ahold of, he...

Night of the Horns is a seedy tale of a lawyer whose life is ripped apart when he agrees to do a job for a racketeer, and Cry Wolfram is the story of cross-and-double-cross affair that takes place on...

NIGHT WITHOUT MORNINGThe million-dollar robbery would have gone off without a hitch except that two of Willie Madden's partners decided to shoot it out with the cops. Now there are only five of them...