Unified by themes of love, hope and freedom, Blackwood explores the implications of the coming Age of Aquarius in two books written after he had experienced the horrors of World War I.
Raymond Chandler called Holding "the top suspense writer of them all." These two mysteries illustrate one of her main themes, how a simple lie can magnify a situation into a miasma of doubt
Andrew Coburn is the author of the Sweetheart Trilogy featuring the Edgar-nominated Goldilocks. The Babysitter is a reprint of his second novel, originally published by W. W. Norton in 1979.
The final three novels in the Dan Port series, Rabe's fictional study of the use and abuse of power. Port used to be second-in-command to an East Coast gangster—now he's a free agent, alone and availa
Two white hot thrillers from the 1950s, the first a seedy tale of a Southern California lawyer whose life is ripped apart when he agrees to do a job for a racketeer, the second the story of cross-and-
A group of eight people all converge on a small ghost town on the outskirts of the Mexican border, each with their own demons and dilemmas. They all want something they've lost: freedom, a lost wife,
Originally published as by the actor George Sanders, this domestic mystery by science fiction author Leigh Brackett is the story of a rich heel who comes back to get even with those who thought they h
The King in Yellow and The Mystery of Choice offer a collections of loosely related horror tales influenced by the Decadent movement that still resonate today.
Rohmer created Fu Manchu and other superb villains. In these two mysteries, we are introduced to Gaston Max, a Parisian detective and a master of disguise, hot in the pursuit of two criminal mastermin
A lone driver picks up a beautiful woman and gets more than he bargained for, and the perfect heist is made complicated when a drunken neighbor climbs in the wrong window. From the author of Clean Bre
Lion Books in the 1950s was a mini-powerhouse of hard-boiled and noir paperback original crime fiction. They published just over 200 books in their main series, mostly crime and westerns—but even thei
John D. MacDonald created the tremendously popular Travis McGee series. This is the single, most complete biography of MacDonald thus far, available for the first time in paperback.
Go, Lovely Rose won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1954, and The Evil Wish was an Edgar runner-up in 1963. Both novels have been out of print for over 50 years, and are long overdue for redis
Originally published in France as Ascenseur Pour l’Échafaud in 1956, this edition was translated to English by R. F. Tannenbaum as Frantic and published by Gold Medal Books in 1961.
Two gritty New York mysteries, the first involving a young cop who sets out to solve a murder that everyone else thinks is just a random killing, and the second the story of an unlikely detective who
An emotionally charged social drama from 1922 involving an impulsive woman who marries for love, then has to cope with the consequences; plus stories in a similar vein from the same period. From the a
