Bill Pronzini

A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window', the inspiration behind Alfred Hitchock's classic film.

The Nameless Detective is called upon to find out how rare books and maps are being stolen from an antiquarian bookshop with a faultless alarm system....

Few characters have the loyal readership of Bill Pronzini's "Nameless Detective." The 14 stories in this collection span his entire 35-year life on the printed page....

In his first chronicled adventure, the Nameless Detective hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doesn't trust the police....

"Checkmate." That was the last word uttered to Charlie Chan and Prefect of Police Claude DeBevre by a dying reporter....

Twenty-three of Shamus Award-winning author Bill Pronzini's stories, all of which display his versatility, his clean, crisp narrative style, and his keen awareness of detail....

The big, sort-of-sloppy, brew-loving P.I. opens up his files on some of his most fascinating cases....

The Nameless Detective is hired by a young wife to find out whether her husband has been having an affair. He trails the husband to a motel of cabins in a small village....

Spadework was published on the 25th anniversary of The Snatch, the first Nameless Detective novel....

These are the places where fear lives, where the chill in the air has nothing to do with the temperature, and where Death can be someone you've already met....

This is a collection of 50 short stories by veteran mystery and crime writer Bill Pronzini, best known as the creator of The Nameless Detective series....

He's just gotten some bad news, and its impact has made him immobile and fearful....

Nameless is called in by his friend, police lieutenant Eberhardt, when a dead woman's purse contains Nameless's business card....

As Eberhardt answers the door, the detective hears two sharp echoing reports - gunshots; they could only be gunshots....

Carmody, a sometimes detective who also works as a freelance bodyguard and smuggler, operates off the Mediterranean island of Majorca....

His name was Roy Sands, and he had everything to look forward to....

The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years...and these two will test his agency's resources....

Zigzag is an original novella in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme....

Former pulp writer and current hack Russell Dancer invites Nameless to the first annual Western Pulp Convention in San Francisco....

When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter....