The best-selling mystery writer Lawrence Block proves his point with the twenty outstanding stories he has chosen for this volume. For fans of the traditi...

Back in ’68 they made killer music…now their music is killing them.

It’s been thirty years since Joe Portugal put his electric guitar away. Maybe t...

Nature. Nurture. Murder.

L.A. actor Joe Portugal just wants to keep the mealybugs off his cacti, give a little boost to his love life, and maybe ma...

Joe Portugal's experienced killing before. He's seen gunmen mow down a friend on little more than a whim. He's known greed and ambition to drive his frien...

In a city of fast cars and movie stars, these folks are crazy about cacti. Until a killer joins the club . . .

Joe Portugal likes people. But he li...

You may be disturbed — or possibly titillated — to discover what can happen once you cross the Orange Curtain...