An unexpected phone call prevented a girl from committing suicide. No, she has not changed her mind, she will do it again the next evening, and now she will ...

The fourth collection, “Cool Detective USA,” includes two novels. The author of the first, “The Phantom Lady,” Cornell Walrich wrote more than forty detectiv...

Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre fr...

"Cursed City" is a collection of the best police detective stories created by the "fathers" of pulp fiction, a genre that flourished in the first half of the...

An innocent man was executed for the murder of a policeman. But the real criminal remained free. And the police know this, but - politics, politics - it is i...

A tragicomic story about how a young man helped his father hide a murder.

The main characters of the story are blind Martin Campbell and his disabled dog, who, against their will, find themselves drawn into a criminal adventure. Bu...

Ginger is a dancer from a dance club. One evening her friend Julia did not come to work at the club. A little later it turns out that she became the third vi...

In the story “Rear Window,” filmed in 1954 by Alfred Hitchcock (“Rear Window”), the protagonist, confined to a wheelchair, solves a crime taking place in the...

The book continues the series that opened with the collection “Stories Told in Whispers.” The short stories included in it, belonging to different genres, ha...

Following the commercial success of the original Manhattan Noir, mystery titan Lawrence Block explores the historic literary roots of this dark island.Fea...