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-
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
Robert W. Chambers is most famous for his classic collection of weird horror stories, The King in Yellow. This two-fer offers a secondary collection of strange tales, The Maker of Moons, published ear
Our fifth collection of superb suspense novels from the author of The Blank Wall. Holding creates characters who start with a simple lie and soon find themselves involved in murder. As the critic for
