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Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table

by Otto Penzler

If ever a subject begged to be associated with crime it is gambling, writes Otto Penzler in his introduction to this collection of short stories set at the poker table and beyond. In Walter Mosley’s Mister...


Learning to Kill: Stories

by Ed McBain

Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before that time. All but five of them were first published in the detective...


The Best American Noir of the Century

by James Ellroy & Otto Penzler

A treasure trove of a hundred years’ worth of the finest noir writing selected by James Ellroy


The Best American Mystery Stories 2011: The Best American Series

by Harlan Coben & Otto Penzler

A collection of the best mystery writing published in 2009 culled from a variety of sources.


The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie

Agrand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century...


Double Sin and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits. . . . A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed. ....


The Regatta Mystery And Other Stories

by Agatha Christie

There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind...


The Golden Ball And Other Stories

by Agatha Christie

Is it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to a magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a...


Crime Where the Nights are Long

by David Skene-Melvin

Stories and tales taken from collections and magazines from the period known as "The Age of the Storytellers."


The Finder

by Alex Woolf

Introducing Waldo Mars - former model, failed inventor, and the best finder east of Alpha Centauri, or at least Uxbridge. Waldo is impeded, rebuked and generally resented at every turn by his put-upon assistant,...


The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes

by June Thomson

Scandal, intrigue and cunning crime. Delve into the world of the immortal Sherlock Holmes.

In Sherlock Holmes’s London, reputations are fragile and scandal can be ruinous. In order to protect the names of the...


Old Flames Sometimes Die

by Hamilton Waymire

Romy was his high-school sweetheart; then she broke his heart. Twenty-five years later, she drops by his office as if nothing has happened, and asks for protection. Despite Romy's considerable charms, L.A. private...


Child's Play

by Carl Metzger

When a young man meets a woman in a bar, he believes she wants to have a baby and share a life together. Fatherhood, however, can be a mighty scary thing, and his alarm and anger grow as he develops a relationship...


False Alarm

by Rekha Ambardar

When Officer David Zellner is called in to investigate a burglary at a jewelry store, he soon discovers that although the employees and owner seem happy on the outside, each of them has their own motive for...


The The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes

by June Thomson

Murder, deception and the long shadow of Moriarty. All in a day’s work for the great Sherlock Holmes.

The unpublished manuscripts of Dr John Watson, concealed for years in the depths of a Charing Cross bank...


Slay Belles: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery (An eSpecial from New American Library)

by Nancy Martin

A classic Blackbird Sisters novella, available digitally for the first time!

Whoever coined the phrase “Shop till you drop” certainly never meant “Shop till you drop dead.” But premier personal shopper...


Arrow From Nowhere

by Robert Leslie Bellem

There was only one man on the set who could have shot the arrow, yet Dan hated to think Jeff could be guilty. Motive tumbles over motive, and suspect waltzes around with suspect-but there still remains the question:...


Knight of Swords

by Ian Breckon

Winter 1944: northern Italy is a battlefield, with Communist partisans locked in vicious conflict with the forces of Mussolini’s fascist Republic of Salò. Brookes, a wounded fugitive, finds shelter in an...


The Girl in the Portrait

by Rekha Ambardar

Peggy Maynard goes down to the basement one morning to find her husband working on the painting of a young woman. He covers the painting as if to conceal it from her. Then, one day, both Will and the painting...


Hardly Knew Her

by Laura Lippman

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular...