Classic crime and mystery fiction

Joe Gores collects here fourteen stories spanning the five decades of his varied writing career.

Honolulu: Port of Call is a unique collection of short stories of the Hawaiian islands brought together by Joe Gores: thirteen tales by legendary writers including Jack London, Herman Melville, W.

Brendan Thorne, ex-army Ranger and master CIA sniper, has turned his back on violence.

It's 1953, and Pierce Duncan leaves college an innocent.

It began with the murder of a beautiful woman, the adulterous wife of a mild-mannered professor.

Once Eddie Dain had a life: a beautiful wife, a happy young son and a thriving business catching soft-core bad guys by computer.

Hollis Fletcher has no idea why someone has tried to kill him.

After eight hard years in San Quentin prison, Runyan is out and ready to lead a quiet life - an honest life.

The gang was restless, just looking for idle fun.

On a Hollywood studio lot, a dancing bear - a Gypsy in a fur suit - does a little sly pickpocketing.

In 1955, aged twenty-three and fresh from a Master's in English Literature, Joe Gores knew he wanted to be a writer.

Their job is to bring back the goods bought but not paid for by San Francisco's deadbeats.

A respectable citizen trips on a store escalator.

The facts: an 'irregular' collection could cost Dan Kearny his shield.

The bank gives Chandra the dancer final notice; Daniel Kearny Associates take her red Caddy, then the trouble starts.

Ballard has seventy-two hours to find out who attacked his partner, Bart Heslip, who's lying in the hospital in a coma.

'Rewarding, inventive and enjoyably perplexing' Sunday TimesA colleague writes an obituary for a fellow scientist and Nobel Prize winner, somewhat relishing his death; a train in the Scottish Highlands takes the wrong track during a snowstorm, resulting in a death, possibly murder; a publisher's reader reports on a hospital romance novel that bizarrely ends with a gory, Ripper-style murder.

A gothic tale of deception, murder and mystery set in Victorian England.

One of them is the link to Davidian.

Jose Aragon is a ranch hand between jobs.

'Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell, and she's never done it better' San Francisco Chronicle'An excellent novel .

One-way ticket to death .

Private First Class Johnnie Brown is on a break in New York, with just two days to spend however he likes before shipping out to fight the Nazis.

Diplomatic corps man Piers Hunt watches the glittering lights of Broadway from his Hotel Astor room.

Who killed Louie Lepetino?

Griselda and Con Satterlee are spending a second honeymoon in a cottage on Long Beach, and it's not going well.

Alone in New York City, Lizanne Steffasson comes face to face with reality when her dream of acting on Broadway collapses.

Superb Art Deco suspense set in the glamorous world of high society New York from 'An author with a flair for terror' The New Yorker'If you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don't say we didn't warn you' New York TimesOnce the dashing, top-hatted twins, Danny and David, who share nice college boy laughs, have the marble, they will do to Griselda what they have done to the others.

Oldtown is a picturesque, historic place, with a square of characterful houses nestling at its centre, and is home to retired colonial masters and friendly locals.

The roar of a lion is not the kind of music one expects to hear at night in the stillness of the English countryside.

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At four o'clock on a misty October afternoon in London, Evelyn Cross, blonde, nineteen and fashionably dressed, vanishes into thin air.

Every morning, Miss Loveapple blesses her good fortune.

On what trivialities the big things in life hang.

Anna, a young Englishwoman, is drawn to visit Russia partly out of interest, to see for herself the 'proletarian experiment', and partly by Otto, a glamorous but faithless newspaper editor.

Caroline Watts has accepted a post as games mistress at the prestigious Abbey School in the west of England.

Reporter Sonia Thompson discovers threads linking prominent members of Riverpool society with the chamber of horrors in a neglected waxworks museum.

Charlie Baxter has never been a success.

In a lovely English village of flowers, Tudor cottages and cobbled streets, Joan Brook works as companion to Lady d'Arcy, living in at the huge mansion with its surrounding park.

Behind the ominous walls of Jamaica Court, Anthea Vine rules as a provincial Queen Elizabeth, imperious and wealthy, vain and pathetic.

Dark family secrets can be murder .

When Charles is given just twelve months to live, his doctor sister takes him to a small Cornish village to end his days.

'Waiting for her, he was on edge with expectation.

A beautiful Cornish coastal village is the setting for a highly sinister conspiracy involving a kidnapped baby, mysterious monks and an almost irresistible new perfume.

An inheritance comes with its own sinister dangers.

A child in danger, an isolated house - and a killer on the loose.

The Second World War produced numerous acts of self-sacrifice, but it also made many people rich.

With the war over, the forties, fifties and sixties have the aura of a golden age.

'Donald Thomas introduces us to the slums and fetid courtyards of nineteenth-century London and in doing so provides a sweeping portrait of the vast world that did not accept "e;Victorian Values"e;.