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Joe Ruddy (rhymes with bloody) was a former military policeman. New to the Dallas Police Department and even newer to the detective division, Joe found himself being assigned to all the shitty cases the veterans did not want to investigate. Joe was a self-conscious alcoholic who wrote songs and sang in bars and honky tonks. He did not consider himself a professional singer but enjoyed singing as a hobby. His hobby made Joe the prime candidate for reopening an old homicide case.

Meet Max Malone—Nashville’s #1 homicide detective, barbecue aficionado, and consummate jackass. In just one week in May, a series of suspicious deaths propels Max to unravel a time-critical mystery. Aided by his ukulele-wielding partner, Vince Wilson, and brilliant beat cop, Helen Hanover, they pursue a self-righteous vigilante playing judge, jury and cunning executioner of targets in high and low places. A select task force scrambles to protect the public and prevent the relentless reapers's next hit.

The Sloan is advertising on the local New York expansion team broadcasts after doing so previously on symphony events. Thatcher gets involved to prevent President Brad Withers making an outrageous statement and winds up in a murder. Thatcher solves the murder by cutting through the emotions to get to the money cause of the murder.

The Sloan Wall Street bank gets caught up in their mortgage commitment to a new apartment building in a closely tied community that opposes it because it displaces a long-important local parochial school. Emotions run high, but John Putnam Thatcher cuts through them to solve the murder for financial purposes.

Lawrence Block's 17 Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world - along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and it's all here, from a pair of late-'70s novelettes ("Out the Window" and "A Candle for the Bag Lady") through "By the Dawn's Early Light" (Edgar) and "The Merciful Angel of Death" (Shamus), all the way to "One Last Night at Grogan's", a moving and elegiac story never before published.

Xeno City, a cross roads in a sprawling multi-species galaxy, is also a city brimming with greed, corruption and murder. Wading through this murky cesspool is J. Azize "Jazz" Singer. A private detective pursuing an honest, or not so honest, buck. When Jazz is told of the death of his childhood friend, Erta L’Hotzuma, a death the local law fails to investigate, he sets out to find out who is responsible and why. His investigation, however, soon meets strong and violent resistance and he begins to suspect he has stumbled onto something bigger than just the death of a friend.

John Putnam Thatcher goes to Puerto Rico to settle a jurisdictional battle been international and the Sloan’s inside garment expert and finds murder - including a political contest, industrial sabotage, and more. Rollicking, witty, insightful fun.

This fourth Wall-Street mystery starring John Putnam Thatcher by Emma Lathen focuses on the car industry, the anti-trust department, and IPOs.

Matthew Scudder and his wife, Elaine, talk of the night they met while listening to music in various places around their part of New York.

Am Grunde des Sees erwartet sie nicht nur ein versunkenes Dorf, in dem eine Diebesbande vor über 20 Jahren ihre Beute aus einem Juwelenraub versteckt hat, sondern auch ein schreckliches Geheimnis. Unheimliche Wächter wachen über den Schatz. Und wer sich seinem Versteck nähert, wird das blanke Grauen am eigenen Leibe erleben.

Eine Kletterpartie in den Bergen West Virginias verwandelt sich für die Freunde Jordan, Abby, Deacon, Zoe und Javier in einen Albtraum, als die Gruppe nach einem Unfall bei schlechtem Wetter Unterschlupf in einer Höhle suchen muss, die ein düsteres Geheimnis birgt, das nicht für ihre Augen bestimmt ist. Schon bald müssen die jungen Bergsteiger erbittert um ihr Leben kämpfen. Wird es einem von ihnen gelingen, dem unsagbaren Schrecken zu entrinnen?

Nacht für Nacht träumt Priscilla von einer geheimnisvollen alten Frau im Sumpf. Zusammen mit ihrem Freund Jay macht sie sich auf die Suche. Zu ihrer Überraschung trifft das Paar auf weitere Personen, die ebenfalls den Ruf der Alten im Traum empfangen haben. Als die Gruppe in den Sümpfen South Carolinas tatsächlich fündig wird, erwartet sie statt der erhofften Antworten der blanke Horror, denn wer das Schrumpfkopfhaus der alten Marcia betritt, verlässt es in der Regel nicht mehr lebend ...