Steep detective

“I heard that you are a hardened scoundrel who does anything for money, and always with success,” the client declares from the doorway to private investigato...

The novels of the master of the detective genre Ed McBain “Struck by Lightning” and “The White Lady” are published in our country for the first time. The act...

Dashiell Hammett, the bestselling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of America’s most influential and entertaining autho...

A beautiful brunette on the beach clearly overheard the conversation. Jerry Forbes, interested in the attention to his person, decided to get to know her bet...

When dancer Caroline, the gangster leader's lover and the only witness to his death, disappeared, the local sheriff went to Uncle Sagamore's farm, deciding t...

Harry Godard, who survived a shipwreck on a tiny raft, is left alone with the Pacific Ocean. He is picked up by a cargo ship. It would seem that everything i...

Yacht owner Stuart Rogers was called to the police and presented with the mutilated corpse of his assistant Kiefer for identification. During the last voyage...

Former police officer Chatham is forced to stay at the Magnolia Lodge motel, the owner of which is considered involved in the murder of her husband. Mrs. Lan...

Currently, Ross Thomas is undoubtedly the greatest master of the adventure genre of American literature. His novels are characterized by a brilliantly constr...

James Hadley Chase (real name Rene Brabazon Raymond) is the author of more than eighty detective novels. J. H. Chase is a master of the “open” detective stor...

From the publisher During his lifetime, Horace McCoy, an American journalist, writer and screenwriter, gained great fame not in America, but in Europe, where...