What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? “Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing, and sex,” said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blo...

The collection includes three works of the detective genre: the novel by the American writer Dick Francis “Courage” (translated by E. Krivitskaya), the story...

Lew Archer #17 In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands – including a...

Seven stories of Lew Archer’s investigations.

In the last days of World War II, a sailor discovers a transcontinental conspiracy. It is February 1945, and the war in the Pacific is nearing its climax....

On the home front, two wartime lovers reunite under a cloud of paranoiaIn 1937 Munich, an American must be careful when he smokes his pipe. Robert Branch,...

He was a son who hadn’t known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder – his father’s murder. Johnny Weather was home from a war and ...

The seventh issue of the collection “Tough Detective USA” includes works by recognized masters of this genre - Ross MacDonald (“The Ferguson Case”) and Richa...

Lew Archer #19 No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on – a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person – the trail always leads to tangled f...

Lew Archer #4 Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever. A hard-fa...

Lew Archer #5 Las Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would think to stop. But after private investigator Lew Archer plays the good Samaritan and picks u...

Lew Archer #6 The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by...