Crime & Mystery
Crime and Mysteries. Gangsters, Spies, Killers and Mobsters. Sleuths and Detectives.


The Glittering Coffins by Robert Sidney Bowen
The Glittering Coffins - On a manhunt for three escaped fugitives, Special Agent Dan Fowler coincidentally meets a very lovely former acquaintance who was once involved in an old case.…
Dynamite – Five Stories by J. Lane Linklater
Dynamite - Five Stories by J. Lane Linklater - Murder, kidnapping, and blackmail, on the high seas, in a private mountain compound, in the middle of the city. There's always…
I’m a Dead Man – Four Stories by W.T. Ballard
I'm a Dead Man - Four novelettes of murders committed to cover up fraud and to exact revenge. But as smart as the murderers think they are, they always make…
The Continental Op -1925-26 by Dashiell Hammett
The Continental Op -1925-26 - The seven Continental Op stories that Dashiell Hammett wrote during 1925 and 1926 for The Black Mask magazine.
The Complete Chet Lacey by Robert Sidney Bowen
The Complete Chet Lacey - Eleven stories of the cases of Private Detective Chet Lacey. He finds murder, blackmail, and the seamy side of life even in the "nicest" parts…
42 Days For Murder by Roger Torrey
42 Days For Murder - It takes six weeks or 42 days to get a quickee divorce in Reno. A lot can happen in 42 days.
Sleep With The Devil by Day Keene
Sleep With The Devil - Ferron was part hoodlum, part gigolo, a guy who'd break your arm as quick as he'd look at you. Suddenly his whole world began to…
Chet Lacey: Guns Are Handy Things by Robert Sidney Bowen
When Chet Lacey, Private Investigator, deals with the low life grifters that surround high society he finds that guns can be handy things.
Tong Law by Edmund Snell
Tong Law - When Valtier is poisoned on the riverboat Madelon, Roper and Walters join forces to track down the legend of the 'Hanoi Emerald.'