Maybe Sargent cried all the way home, coming up here; he was damned if Dorrie would follow the same pattern. “Before you bring the coffee, Uncle Chuck—” She caught at his hand. “Why did she do it? Just briefly and quickly—I can't ...
This book shows what sustainable development means for the business community and presents best practice approaches in environmental management from Japan, the USA, Brazil and seven European countries.
Taut, suspenseful, and gritty, many consider Sleep with Strangers to be Dolores Hitchens’ best novel.
Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in this classic thriller from 1958, only to get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control.
The two men swung together, catching the sudden movement, and she saw that Wyse was pale and strained and that Neece was black and angry. Amy looked at Wyse. “I just came from your sister. She's taken a drug of some sort in an effort to ...
This volume, the second of a two-volume collector’s set, gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to today’s leading crime writers.
Two Southern California mysteries from the early 1950s in which feisty heroines must deal with murders that stem from the secrets of the past.
Sleep with a Slander is a novel in the classic hardboiled tradition, tough, compassionate, and tautly told.
The Watcher expertly explores the resulting mood of anguish and mutual suspicion, and the vulnerability of the young people who are the inexplicable targets of violent evil.
Reissued for the first time in over half a decade, the book, written pseudonymously by the author better known for her hardboiled and suspense novels, is the first in the long-running Rachel Murdock series.