Jack Dwyer is hired to deal with "some problems" caused by residents of a homeless shelter located near a chic, downtown restaurant. Before Dwyer can even act on his orders from one restaurant owner, he is fired by a second. Then, several days later, the first owner, a man named Coburn, is murdered, and his gorgeous, none-too-grieving widow re-hires Dwyer to locate the killer. Lots of people have a motive: Coburn was a womanizer and a snob. The restaurant staff hated him for being abusive ...

From Hollywood's Golden Age to a rock 'n' roll tragedy, this pair of detective novels from two award-winning maestros of mystery hits all the right notes.From Edgar Award–winning author Stuart M. Kaminsky, Dancing in the Dark shines a light on the 1940s Los Angeles dancing scene. Paired with Ellery Queen Award–winning author Ed Gorman's "gripping, amusing, thoughtful and hugely entertaining" The Day the Music Died, these two kooky and delightful m...

Iowa lawyer Sam McCain is out to solve the murder of a Korean War vet in this 1960s-era mystery by the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Moon Rising .Iowa, 1965. For small-town lawyer and part-time investigator Sam McCain, the free love era isn't all that free or loving. The alcoholic judge he works for just finished a stint in rehab; the beautiful colleague he'...

NO ONE COULD FIND HERNO ONE COULD SAVE HERSweet, innocent Deirdre was missing. But no one in the small, quiet town of Burton wanted to find her. They had waited a long time for the perfect sacrifice. And now they had found it...SHE COULDN'T HEAR ITSHE COULDN'T SEE ITBut she could feel it. The breath of darkness along her tender flesh. The eyes of the beast piercing her heart. Deirdre cried out in terror. For she knew that when the evil entered her so...

The first book in the new Noah Ford Western series by Spur Award winner Ed Gorman. A blend of the classic television series The Wild, Wild West and the USA show Peacemakers.Noah Ford made a serious mistake in the eyes of his family when he joined the Union forces—and his Rebel brother David took it the worst of all. And to make matters worse, now that the war was over, Noah had taken up as a federal agent, working for the very government that his southern family fought tooth and na...

Roger Daye, a stockbroker whose wife suddenly left him, has changed his appearance in hopes of changing his life for the better. His longing for Amy, a childhood flame, is rekindled when he sees her at a dance in his old hometown. However, his attention is soon drawn to another attractive woman -- and that woman is Amy's daughter.Jealousy and revenge come to the forefront in this dark tale as Roger confronts the demons of his past, present and future.

There is a body in a gazebo, and the chief suspect is not long for this worldSmall-town lawyer and private detective Sam McCain is enjoying a cocktail party, dancing with a lovelier specimen than his five-foot-five-inch frame usually attracts, when the hostess confronts him with a problem the likes of which Good Housekeeping has never seen. There is a corpse in the backyard gazebo, and the party is definitely over.The murdered girl was the twenty-yea...

A BLAST FROM THE PASTEx-cop, security guard and sometime actor Jack Dwyer feels a familiar buzz when, after fifteen years, he sees Karen Lane, his old high school flame. But things are going so well with his girlfriend Donna, that he's pretty sure Karen is not what he needs right now. Still, he agrees to retrieve a suitcase for her which she'd left with her last lover, Glendon Evans, a psychiatrist.When Jack goes to Evans's ritzy house, he discovers the doctor out cold. Jac...

More than 200,000 words of the best mystery and suspense fiction from around the worldThe world's Finest Mystery and Crime StoriesEach year, editors Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg cast their net far and wide, across the seas, throughout the world to catch the best-the most suspenseful, most original, intriguing, confounding, downright entertaining stories of crime and mystery. Edgar winners from the U.S., Silver Dagger winners from the U.K., and stories fr...

At the height of the Cold War, a dead woman turns up in a bomb shelterBlack River Falls used to be a boring small town, but at the pinnacle of the Cuban Missile Crisis, nowhere in America can be boring anymore. As the country awaits nuclear annihilation, Iowa gubernatorial favorite Ross Murdoch has a crisis of his own: There is a dead woman in his bomb shelter.Murdoch tells his lawyer, Sam McCain, that the corpse was planted there by his enemies in the local ...

Award-winning author Ed Gorman is back with political consultant and troubleshooter Dev Conrad, in this riveting sequel.When Dev Conrad agreed to work with Congresswoman Susan Cooper, member of a prominent political family, he didn't know that the worst threat her reelection campaign would face would come from Cooper herself. The congresswoman has a secret she's not willing to share with Dev, forcing him to follow her the way a detective would. But the campaign is burdened with oth...

Spur Award-Winning AuthorED GORMANSometimes a man’s reputation can kill him...A MAN IS INNOCENT—UNTIL HANGED...Andy Malloy has always known his father, Tom, is a no-good louse. He drove away his first wife by cheating on her—and has been driven to drink by his second wife. So when bride number two is brutally killed while Tom is on a bender, the blame k easy to place.Painful as it is, even Andy suspects his own father is guilty—so it's no wonder the ...