Jako trzyletnie dziecko Patricia Traymore przeżyła koszmar: jej rodzice zginęli zastrzeleni w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach, a ciężko ranna dziewczynka długo walczyła o życie w najlepszych waszyngtońskich szpitalach. Po latach, jako znana dziennikarka telewizyjna, powraca do Waszyngtonu, aby zrealizować program o senator Abigail Jennings, pierwszej kobiecie mającej szansę zostać wiceprezydentem Stanów Zjednoczonych. Przede wszystkim jednak Pat chce poznać prawdę o tragicznej śmierci rodziców. Ale jest ktoś, komu nie podoba się pomysł nakręcenia filmu o bezkompromisowej pani senator i kto uczyni wszystko, aby powstrzymać dociekliwą dziennikarkę przed ujawnieniem tajemnic z przeszłości.

Here, for the first time in one volume, are the best stories of the year from Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine — featuring the incomparable Mike Shayne himself.

Whether you prefer your crimes brutal, clever, daring or disastrous... whether you relish a case with infinite complications or of deceptive simplicity, you will enjoy this superior collection by and for connoisseurs of crime.

Police Chief Arly Hanks finds her small town, Maggody, has some new inhabitants when she returns from vacation. Soon, Robin Buchanon, local prostitute and moonshiner, disappears, and Arly finds her bloody body at the edge of a marijuana field.

Maggody police chief Arly Hanks investigates the death of a local resident who fell from an eighth-floor hotel balcony while on an Elvis Presley Pilgrimage to Memphis.

Banned in the UK! Author and Publisher Fined! Not seen in 70 Years!This is the story of Miss Callaghan. Not of any particular Miss Callaghan, but of the hundreds of Miss Callaghans who disappear from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and are seen no more by those who knew and loved them.This is also the story of Raven, who played with clockwork trains, the leader of the White Slave Ring in East St. Louis, who was responsible for the keeping to full strength the army of women for the service of men.James Hadley Chase needs no introduction now. He has established a reputation for unmitigated toughness and plain writing. Under his blunt treatment, the traffic of women in America is shown to be what it is—a loathsome, corrupt stain on the pages of American history.

How come a New York reporter like Ross millan was combing half of Mexico looking for old man Shumway’s missing daughter? Millan had asked himself the question a dozen times-and when he found her, he asked himself a whole lot more questions. For the shapely blonde he’d seen in the photograph turned out to be a fast-talking lady who packed a punch like a prize-fighter, did a little magic on the side, and just happened to be a dip-a very efficient pickpocket. From the day little Miss Myra Shumway walked into Millan’s life things were never quite the same…

When James Lessiter returns to Lenton after many years to claim his family estate, his reappearance opens old wounds never healed. Then he is found bludgeoned to death by a fire poker and the suspects are too numerous to count. Thank heavens Miss Silver is in town to visit a friend.

Elizabeth MacPherson must solve a mystery that links the present to the past when she takes a tour of the famous crime scenes of the British Isles, and the tour itself becomes the scene of the crime.

Literary crime fiction master Tom Franklin curates this volume of stellar noir from the Deep South.

El Royal Mermaid es el flamante buque que sirve de escenario a Mary Higgins, una vez mas acompañada de la pluma de su hija Carol, para contarnos una historia de suspense, e intriga, y porque no tambien cargada de humor, el anfitrion del crucero de lujo, ha querido invitar a personas que tienen algo en común, estan comprometidas con nobles causas humanitarias.Entre tanto filántopo, tambien han recibido una invitación de navidad para formar parte del pasaje, la detective amateur Alvirah Meehan y la investigadora privada Regan Reilly, ambas acompañadas por sus maridos, uno de los cuales no es otro que el jefe de brigada Jack Reilly.Para que la trama se pueda sustentar, dos peligrosos criminales fugados, a quienes ayuda el hijo del capitan, se disfrazan de Papá Noel, para pasar desapercibidos, una fuerte tormenta azota el barco, y una pasajera dice haber visto el fantasma de un famoso escritor, un pasajero acecha una valiosisima antigüedad, que será arrojada al mar en una ceremonia fúnebre.Repleta de humor y suspense, la novela te atrapa desde el principio, nuestros protagonistas iran uniendo las piezas que los llevaran a desentrañar el ‘ misterio en alta mar’ y no se puede hacer otra cosa que esperar el desenlace final, a la vez conmovedor y espeluznante, que tiene lugar la última noche del año.