The classic mystery that inspired the Academy Award-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock."Le Chat" is a legend. He is a mystery. He is a jewel thief, famous and elusive for being able to swipe anything and get away clean. He is John Robie, retired and living a quiet life, tending his rose garden in the South of France.But his retirement plans are thrown for a loop when a series of robberies too closely resemble the work of "Le Chat," and the police start digging ...

Globetrotting detective Al Colby makes his debut in this dazzling mystery from the author of To Catch a Thief.Al Colby, an American expatriate working as a private investigator in Mexico City, is contacted by an old acquaintance in Los Angeles who hands him a cold case involving a missing person. Robert Parker's mysterious disappearance is tying up a family fortune and is enraging his abandoned wife who can't tap the family coffers without proof of death. ...

A CPA in 1940s San Francisco searches for his partner's killer in this witty and "hard-hitting" mystery by the author of the classic To Catch a Thief ( Time).The first in the series of noir mysteries starring hard-drinking accountant Whit Whitney, Death and Taxes follows the calculating amateur detective as he looks into the murder of George MacLeod—a top tax consultant who was a close colleague of Whitney's, at least until his body was s...

It takes a thief…"Le Chat" ("The Cat"), an infamous thief, has come out of retirement and is again liberating expensive jewelry from wealthy tourists on the FreRch Riviera. Or is it a "copycat" who is stealing fortunes?John Robie thought he had left his larcenous past behind. Once responsible for a string of daring thefts and escapes, he was caught and sent to prison just before the outbreak of World War II. Freed during the German occupation of France, Robie joined the Fre...

This witty novel of a con man on the run, from the author of To Catch a Thief, "ends with a gratifying twist" ( Publishers Weekly).When a handsome swindler working the French Riviera meets a beautiful heiress on the beach at Cannes, sparks fly. But so do bullets—and soon he's forced to flee the country with both the police and the heiress on his trail.From the casinos of Monaco to the jungles of Brazil, from Tangier to Marrakech to Peru, t...

This globe-spanning treasure-hunt adventure is filled with "action, suspense, and excitement . . . Pure escape" ( San Francisco Chronicle).Al Colby should never have said yes. When asked to smuggle a package from Chile to Peru, he should have run in the other direction. But he needed money, and he wanted the adventure. Now a man is dead, and two beautiful women seem out to seduce Al or kill him—or maybe both.A handful of gunmen, however, definitely...

China has historically cut itself off from interaction with the global business community for all but the last thirty-eight years. During this isolation, Chinese society and businesses developed their own morality, ethics, cultural leanings, and business practices.Philosophically, culturally, and business-wise Chinese companies operate on a different plane than businesses in other areas of the world. As a result, the methodology of performing forensic due diligence in China can var...

It takes a thief …"Le Chat" ("The Cat"), an infamous thief, has come out of retirement and is again liberating expensive jewelry from wealthy tourists on the French Riviera. Or is it a "copycat" who is stealing fortunes?John Robie thought he had left his larcenous past behind. Once responsible for a string of daring thefts and escapes, he was caught and sent to prison just before the outbreak of World War II. Freed during the German occupation of France, Robie joined the Fr...

Moscow's gone to the dogs in the "imaginative" Edgar Award–winning crime series about a conscientious Russian cop (The New York Times Book Review).With packs of stray wild canines roaming Moscow, it was inevitable that enterprising criminals would find a way to get rich. As dogfighting became big business, the Mafia got involved, and venues upgraded from alleys and garages to private arenas with padded seats. Police Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has assigned...

Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead, under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert and Cec, appeal to her for help. They were part of this group of soldiers in 1918 and they fear for their lives and for those of the other three men. It's only as Phryne delves into the investigation that she, too, remembers being in Montparnasse on that very same...

The BRAND NEW deliciously dark thriller from Sarah Bonner, bestselling author of How to Slay at Work! Must-read for fans of Katy Brent, Bella Mackie and Julie Mae Cohen ☀️️You’d kill for a holiday like this one…Chloe has spent months planning the murder of her husband, Scott. Everything is ready, but first she must create the perfect alibi to avoid any suggestion of her involvement in his death. And what better way to avoid suspicion than playi...

This award-winning debut mystery introduces a Boston PI who’s “one of the most sparkling, most irresistible heroines ever to grace the pages of a whodunit” (Chicago Sun-Times).Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post).Let go from the Beantown police force for insubordi...