WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER, THERE'S ALWAYS A CHOICE…The only thing more varied than how people are killed is the many, many ways people try to get away with this terrible crime. Now masterful mystery writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings together 23 classic stories of crime and suspense, whodunits and detective stories from some of the finest authors of the 1950s.Ross Macdonald's classic P.I. Lew Archer takes a chilling case in California, where the mob isn't ...

THE FAIRER SEX? NOT THESE LADIES…The female of the species is absolutely deadlier than the male in these 14 cunningly-crafted tales of suspense, crimes of passion, and murder, all by women writers. Edited by MWA Grandmaster and bestselling mystery author John D. MacDonald, these bone-chilling stories show the depths that men and women will stoop to in pursuit of what they want. Christianna Brand brings us a story of two sisters who engage in the ultimate c...

The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind, 'The Spider', find themselves at the country residence Feltham Abbey where a fancy-dress ball is in full swing. In the tumult of revelry, Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead. Not the atmosphere bewildered guest Tony was expecting, he sets out make sense of the night's activities and the motives of the other guests. Among them is Hilary, an independently minded socialite still in her...

'An unusually well told mystery tale' - NEW YORK TIMESA haunting country-house mystery of jealousy, secrets, and betrayal from the Golden Age of detective fiction.When celebrated painter Simon Chandos is found dead in his secluded Sussex home, what first appears to be a suicide soon unravels into something far darker. Around him swirl a cast of uneasy souls: his beautiful but distant wife, her reckless admirer, a mysterious woman in black, and a house fille...

When Helen Davenport is found strangled in her London flat, the news shocks even those who thought they knew her well. Beautiful, charming, and surrounded by gossip, Helen had lived a life that drew both admiration and quiet resentment.As questions begin to surface, Scott Egerton, a Member of Parliament with a sharp eye for trouble, starts looking more closely at the people around her. What first appears to be a simple crime soon reveals a tangled history and a circle of suspects w...

A big black handbag, two bunches of daffodils, and a sharp-faced young man with pointed shoes. When a purse goes missing on a London-bound coach, an elderly passenger named Elsie steps in to fix the mess. But in Anthony Gilbert's rain-slicked urban world, charity is rarely free, and a successful heist is only as good as the final hand-off. A sharp, bite-sized mystery where everyone is playing a game, and the real winner is the one who leaves the bus first.