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“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action, and expert writing.”—The New York Times Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman with a lot of enemies. Spenser is a tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thinks that kind of code is obsolete. Privately, they will never see...

The sensational novel which launched Collins’ Detective Story Club in 1929 was by Edgar Wallace, who wrote more crime stories in the 1920s, and more films, than any other author. This new edition of The Terror, with its original jacket artwork, also includes another classic Wallace text, White Face. A dangerous gang of criminals is imprisoned after a daring robbery, although the ringleader who masterminded the crime disappears with the loot.

Lieutenant Dan Welko of Seattle PD is a no-nonsense, highly respected detective. He brings his own kind of justice to his city and it works well. He has the drug gangs and organized crime following his rules, if they want to do business. Till a new team of serial killers come to town testing Dan and his resources. One an apprentice, the other the mentor who believes they are the next Ripper. With his two oldest friends at his side he must survive attacks at every turn all while having the woman of his dreams tear all his walls down.

A blackmail plot at the end-of-season wrap party for middling detective series Bankwood turns fatal - because another member of the cast has a plan of their own. The setting: a spectacular underground Masonic Hall beneath the City of London, with many tunnels, no phone signal ... and only one...

Auf einer verschneiten Straße wird ein Toter gefunden. Sowohl ein Anwalt als auch der Privatdetektiv J.G. Reeder waren auf dem Weg zu ihm. Als notorischer Schnüffler lässt Reeder sich nicht abhalten, die Geheimnisse dieses Mordes und der an seinem Haus angebrachten Spielkarten zu untersuchen. Ein kurzer und knackiger Fall für den immer wieder bei Wallace (auch in "Zimmer 13") auftretenden Privatdetektiv.