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In this masterful Macdonald mystery, the desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness, and only Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. The era is the 1970s, the settin, Southern California. Private investigator Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a...

Ross Macdonald is one of the “Big Three” in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett. In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living. Archer’s investigation leads him...

Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man’s suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all, Ross Macdonald’s private eye is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of...

A hitchhiker stumbles to his knees on the side of a dark road. Private detective Lew Archer stops his car. When he gets to the young man, Archer realizes that he has stumbled into a mess—for the hitchhiker is dying of a gunshot wound. In a matter of hours, Archer is suspected by the law, hired...

Detective-story master Dashiell Hammett gives us yet another unforgettable read in Red Harvest. When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty—even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel...

Boone Daniels lives to surf. Every morning he's out with the Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is. Or nearly. They have "real jobs": Boone works as a PI just enough to keep himself in fish tacos, and in the water whenever the waves are "epic macking crunchy...

When the recently orphaned Anne Beddingfield moves to London to live with her late father’s solicitor and his wife, she is ready for adventure to find her, and find her it most certainly does. While waiting for the tube after a failed job interview, Anne witnesses a man fall off the...

Sleeping Beauty plunges private detective Lew Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the southern California coast. It leads Archer into a load of trouble involving ransom, a lethal dose of Nembutal, the death of a stranger found floating off shore...

Lew Archer knew he shouldn’t have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid’s loving new bride Dolly had just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity—and her safety. So Archer reluctantly agreed to help Kincaid find her...

Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with tycoons and...

A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O’Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit.

Chicago, 1899. Amid the tireless work of the women's rights movement, a wealthy heiress suffragist's desire to escape an unhappy marriage draws detective Harriet Morrow into a whirlpool of deception, lies, and murder . . . Chicago detective Harriet Morrow's new assignment is strictly...

Dan Corrigan wants to disappear, but life has other ideas. Burnt out by the pressures of London life, Dan escapes to a Devonshire village, but he soon discovers an intriguing mystery. An ancient legend, a coded message carved in stone, and a secret swept beneath the carpet by an upper-class...

Thomas Maitland has returned to Dorset. After an interlude in Venice with an Italian architect, he's seen a ruined chapel by the sea for sale and he imagines a new life with his dog and his woman -- without the death and distress of his old police job. But after a tragic encounter with the land...

Lorne isn’t convinced his new psychic detective agency is a good idea but when he receives a call from a boarding school, sat in the shadow of Clatworthy Reservoir he reluctantly agrees to help. The wisdom of teenagers has caused a problem at the school. The students decided the Ouija board...

A Village, A Murder, A Mystery. And a Keen-eyed Amateur Detective. In a quiet Dartmoor village, ex-corporate troubleshooter Dan Corrigan is a fish out of water. He's also an excellent amateur investigator. Dan never walks away from a mystery, so when a murder is committed, he knows what he must...

Eine verschwundene Frau. Ein tödliches Geheimnis. Ein Mord, der nie ans Licht kommen durfte. Der fesselnde zweite Fall für Privatdetektiv Christopher Diecks Nach seinem ersten großen Erfolg will Christopher Diecks seine Detektei in Hamburg endlich etablieren. Der Auftrag der Unternehmerin...

Miss Marple está entediada em suas férias à beira-mar. O sol até ajuda com seu reumatismo, mas nada divertido acontece. Até que finalmente seu interesse é despertado pela história de um assassinato contada pelo Major Palgrave, mas, justo quando ele ia lhe mostrar uma foto do homicida, o...

Michael Mammay’s iconic character Colonel Carl Butler once more finds himself caught up in the machinations of colonial oppressors, corrupt corporations, and an alien race that will do whatever it takes to prevent xenocide—in the action-packed sixth installment of the Planetside series...

Im neunten Band der kulinarischen Krimireihe von Tom Hillenbrand reist der Luxemburger Koch Xavier Kieffer in die Normandie. Als ein alter Freund verschwindet und ein neues Restaurant abbrennt, beginnt Kieffer zu ermitteln und stößt auf dunkle Geschäfte mit Fisch. Ein ehemaliger Kollege von Xavier Kieffer eröffnet ein Restaurant am Meer und lädt den Luxemburger Koch zur Premierenparty ein. Das Besondere an dem neuen Lokal: Es gibt nur nachhaltig produzierten Fisch. Kurz darauf brennt das Restaurant bis auf die Grundmauern nieder.