Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singular achievement. A bestselling master of suspense himself Jeffery Deaver had the enviable task of selecting from the thousands of stories written over the past one hundred years those which best represented the classic form, as well as the justly celebrated authors whose ironic twists and stunning payoffs left a lasting, vivid, and unnerving impression. The result is a triumph. In this ambitious anthology you’ll revel in the sardonic, overtly amoral plotting of Patricia Highsmith. You’ll rediscover the strangely poignant and surprising turns of Stanley Ellin, and the profoundly underrated Margaret Millar, a genius who mixed savage social satire with brooding horror. You’ll be treated to Stephen King at his chilling best. You’ll find yourself on the violent urban streets of Ross Macdonald and Mickey Spillane, and seeped in the ominous regional flavor of Sharyn McCrumb and Tony Hillerman. You’ll marvel at the cunning webs spun by Lawrence Block, Ruth Rendell, Anthony Boucher, and Sara Paretsky, all of whom defy expectations as they reinvent the genre. And you’ll understand the awesome reputations of those authors who set the standard, such as the legendary Harlan Ellison, Fredric Brown, the master of the twist ending, and James M. Cain, uncannily skilled at knowing what went on between men and women behind closed doors. (The darker the room the better.) Delivering everything from the one-two punch of the detective story to the ingeniously precise trappings of the police procedural, from the disquieting corners of the criminal mind to sheer dread-inducing horror, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a rich anthology of this popular literary genre, a stunning tribute to the art of storytelling, and to the men and women who have done it best

In Port City, Iowa, Mallory is a writer of detective stories, not a detective, but once again real-life crime comes to divert him from the fictional variety. In the middle of the night, he gets a call from Sheriff Brennan; the sheriff summons him to the outskirts of town to where Ginnie Mullens’s body has just been discovered. Mallory and Ginnie had grown up together. After high school, however, Ginnie became a prototypical hippie, and when the wave of the sixties receded, she continued to live outside of convention. Ginnie made her own rules. “Best friends” since babyhood, she and Mal have grown almost completely apart. Brennan’s call now brings back a flood of old memories, old resentments, old regrets to Mallory. The sheriff is not satisfied that Ginnie. as it appears, has killed herself; he suspects murder. Unable to act on his suspicion officially, he asks Mallory to sec what he can learn from the people Ginnie has been involved with. Soon, Mal finds himself questioning ex-flower children whose adjustment to the eighties has been to overlay activities like dope dealing with the material trappings of middle-class life. Mallory also encounters Ginnie’s ex-partner and ex-lover, who has bought out her successful boutique; her estranged husband, a gentle poet who is caring for their four-year-old little girl; and some high school classmates in whom the fifteen years has made drastic changes — some for the better. In his search for the real reason behind Ginnie’s death. Mallory comes to see that the dreams of the children of Aquarius have died. What he doesn’t expect to find is the cause of a very immediate threat to his own life as well

Five Star authors (and husband and wife Barbara and Max Allan Collins team up again on the novel Bombshell, about a star-crossed meeting between a man who held the fate of the world in his hand, and the woman who became America's most unlikely diplomat, in a history mystery that just might have happened. September 1959 — the height of the Cold War. As American school children "duck and cover" in classroom drills, Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev suddenly announces he wants to visit the United States. President Eisenhower, eager to defuse the mounting tension — and show the communist ruler the advantages of capitalism — agrees to the history-making trip. Khrushchev has only two demands: he wants to see Disneyland… and Marilyn Monroe. He was, for security reasons, refused his first request; the second request, a meeting with Hollywood's blonde bombshell, was arranged… This much is historical fact. According to the authors of Bombshell, “The events mat transpired on the cool autumn evening that Khrushchev met Marilyn were never reported by the media; only the CIA and KGB really knew what had happened during those early morning hours. Now, with recent government declassifications, the rest of the world can... and will... know." Marilyn, aware of an attempt to assassinate Khrushchev at the Beverly Hills Hotel, has only hours to convince Jack Harrigan—a stubborn State Department agent in charge of the premier—of the covert plot which would unquestionably launch the two superpowers into World War III. When Harrigan at first refuses to take her seriously, the sex goddess takes it upon herself to rescue the famous Russian, spiriting him away for a midnight visit to the theme park he longs to see. At once an historical novel, espionage thriller, and comic mystery, Bombshell accomplishes something few if any of the scores of books on these two icons of the 20th century manage: to bring to life the great movie star and the Russian dictator as real people... human, flawed, and, in their own individual ways, heroic

Chicago, 1947. Nathan Heller, formerly of the United States Marines, currently head of the A-1 Detective Agency, is settling happily into post-war suburban prosperity in the company of his lovely, pregnant wife. But when a client’s child turns up murdered, a detective who thinks he’s seen it all finds he hasn’t. The dead little girl is apparently the handiwork of a serial murderer whose lipstick-scrawled cry for help — “Catch Me Before I Kill More” — is a pledge Heller intends to help the killer keep. In the novella “Dying in the Post-War World,” Max Allan Collins — who, says best-selling suspense author Andrew Vachss, “blends fact and fiction like no other writer” — presents a fresh and powerful look at one of Chicago’s most famous crimes. In Dying in the Post-War World, Max Allan Collins ably demonstrates why Chicago Magazine has dubbed him “the master of true-crime fiction.” And Nathan Heller shows himself to be not only a classic private detective in the Hammett/Chandler tradition, but a man as well-flesh and blood, flaws and all

“To the world, she was Amelia Earhart, but to me, and only me, she was Amy.” Detective Nathan Heller has taken on some of the most sensational crimes of the twentieth century. In Flying Blind, he returns to the one unsolved case of his career: the disappearance of America’s most famous aviatrix. The year is 1970. Nathan Heller has retired from his distinguished career as a private investigator. But now a stranger has come knocking at his door. He wants Heller to travel to Saipan, the last place Amelia Earhart may have been seen alive. For Heller, it is an offer he can t resist — the chance to find out what really happened to the woman he once loved... It was a scene right out of a 1930s movie script: Amelia Earhart arriving in Heller’s hometown of Chicago to receive the key to the city in a gala tribute to her upcoming flight around the world. The champagne is flowing, the Cole Porter music is playing, and Nathan Heller has just been hired by Amelia’s publicity-hungry husband to uncover who has been sending Amelia threatening letters. Yet not even Nathan Heller can protect Amelia once she boards the plane that will carry her toward the horizon... only to vanish into the night and into history. Now, decades later, Heller is determined to discover what really happened on that final, fateful flight. It is a journey that will take him to distant, deadly shores, into a world of international intrigue, espionage, betrayal, and finally, to a stunning secret buried at the bottom of the sea, locked away in the vaults of time. A suspenseful novel of dazzling invention that sweeps from the star-studded nightclubs of Hollywood to the exotic tropical islands of the South Pacific, Flying Blind offers a brilliantly realized conclusion to one of history’s most spellbinding puzzles

A FAMILY AFFAIR Just when Nolan’s looking for a way out of his dead-end job, trouble comes knocking, and he’s back in business. Someone harboring an old grudge has just picked off Joey DiPreta. a crooked businessman with ties to the mob. and the guy’s family is out to get whoever’s responsible. So is Nolan’s Family — in Chicago — and they offer him big bucks and a piece of a swank hotel if he II protect their interests. Only this time Nolan’s gotten into more than he bargained for. The hit man turns out to be a Vietnam vet convinced he’s launched a holy war against vice and corruption — and the son of one of Nolan’s friends. The melodramatic bastard’s got hard evidence of graft in high places, and he’s set himself up as some kind of avenging angel. His master plan calls for more hits, and there’s no telling when he’ll stop. Meanwhile, Nolan’s pal Jon is courting disaster in a motel room, and a couple of innocents are kidnapped as a ploy to lure the hit man into the open. Somehow Nolan’s got to untangle the whole mess — and see that no one gets hurt. But with both sides out for blood, there’s no room for heroes, and he’ll have to be damned careful — and lucky — not to get nailed in the crossfire

WHO PUT QUARRY IN THE CROSSHAIRS? Formerly a Marine sniper in Vietnam, the man known professionally as Quarry has spent the past decade killing for money, first in the service of an agent called the Broker, and then as a freelance hitman. But he’s always been on the right side of those contract kills — until now. It seems someone has taken out a contract on Quarry himself. But who? And why? And how does a mysterious figure from his past figure in? Quarry will find the answer — or die trying

On a lively night at the Victory saloon in Trinidad, New Mexico, Sheriff Caleb York interrupts his poker game to settle a minor dust-up that raises the stakes into major trouble. The wounded miscreant he ushers to the hoosegow spills the secret behind the mysterious disappearance of a certain stage coach. Bound for Denver, the stage carried three important passengers — beautiful ranch owner Willa Cullen, lovely temptress Rita Filley, and wealthy banker Raymond L. Parker. The two women are rivals for the lawman’s love, while Parker is a key investor in Trinidad’s future. But all are gone, with only the corpses of fellow passengers as bullet-ridden clues. York follows a trail of blood to a ghost town known as Hell Junction. To rescue his lady friends and the banker, he must infiltrate an outlaw den... and pray no one among the thieves, killers, and kidnappers will recognize him. With only his desert rat deputy to back him up, York must free the captives, round up the badmen — and, whenever necessary, send them straight to Hell

The first video arrives by email. An unidentifed man. A naked woman. Her scream caught in a freeze-frame. The producers of TV’s Crime Seen! can’t believe what they’re witnessing — an all-out sadist “auditioning” for a starring role in reality television. And if he doesn’t get it, he’ll kill again. To meet the demented demands of the self-proclaimed “Don Juan,” former sheriff and TV host J.C. Harrow has no choice but to spotlight him along with another ruthless maniac who has captivated millions of viewers. Now two killers are locked in a bloodthirsty competition. For fame. For notoriety. For victims

Where does a hit man draw the line? With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate civil rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he’s working for. The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren’t made for taking orders — and when Quarry strikes off on his own, God help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter

Memphis, 1975. “Raunchy” doesn’t begin to describe Max Climer’s magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. Evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max’s career permanently. Only another hit man — the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax — can keep Climer from becoming a casualty in the Sexual Revolution

Lake Tahoe, 1973: Michael Satariano — who as a young man fought the Capone mob in Chicago — has reached a comfortable middle age, with a loving wife at home, a talented teenage daughter in high school, and a son earning medals in Vietnam. Now running a casino for the mob, Michael thinks he’s put his killing days behind him — after all, he’s made a respectable life for himself and his family... and plenty of money for the boys back in Chicago. So when godfather Sam Giancana orders him to hit a notoriously violent and vulnerable gangster, Michael refuses. But when the hit goes down anyway, Michael is framed for murder; to save his family, he must turn state’s witness under the fledgling Witness Protection Program. Relocated to the supposed safety of Paradise, a tract-housing development in Arizona, Michael soon finds himself facing a wrath so cruel that even the boy raised by a hitman father is unprepared. And with his teenage daughter in tow, Michael must return to the road and a violent way of life he thought he had long left behind. In this stunning third installment of a trilogy so gripping and masterfully written that it could only come from “[among] the finest crime writers working today” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), we once again have a spellbinding window into a time of heroes and villains — and, above all, a journey along a road on which a man’s greatest crimes are all a part of his lifelong struggle for redemption

THEY CALL HIM THE ANGEL OF DEATH. His real name is Michael Sullivan, professional hit man bound to the criminal underworld of the 1930s and an enigmatic idol to his adoring young sons. He’s also a man who knows that loyalties vanish in the dark — a violent lesson learned one rainy night when his wife and youngest son are killed. Now Sullivan and his last surviving child are about to face off against the most notorious crime syndicate in history — on a journey of revenge and self-discovery

It’s 1942 and — from the Atlantic to the Pacific — the world is torn apart. Ten years ago Michael O’Sullivan accompanied his gangster father on the road, fleeing from the mobsters who killed his mother and young brother. After an idyllic upbringing by loving adoptive parents in a small Midwestern town, Michael is now deep in the jungles of Bataan, carrying a tommy gun like his father’s, fighting the Japanese. When brutal combat unearths deep-buried feelings of violence and revenge, Michael O’Sullivan returns to the homefront, a battle-scarred veteran of twenty-two, ready to pick up his old war against the Chicago Mob. Suddenly, Michael “Satariano” must become one of the enemy, working his way quickly up to the trusted side of Frank Nitti, Al Capone’s heir, putting himself — and his soul — in harm’s way. Leaving behind his heartbroken childhood sweetheart, the war hero enters a limbo of crime and corruption — his only allies: Eliot Ness, seeking one last hurrah as a gangbuster; and a lovely nightclub singer playing her own dangerous game. Even as Michael embraces his father’s memory to battle the Mob from within — leaving bodies and broken lives in his wake — he finds himself sucked into the very way of life he abhors. In a parallel tale set in 1922, Michael O’Sullivan, Sr., chief enforcer for Irish godfather John Looney, is about to become a father. The bidding of Looney — and the misdeeds of the ganglord’s crazed son Connor — put the happy O’Sullivan home at risk. Both Michaels reach a crossroads of violence and compromise as two tales converge into the purgatory of good men trapped in bad lives

Recent almost-college-grad Fred Kitchen and his eccentric six-foot-four pal, Wheaty, pay off a poker debt with a prank — showing their stuff in the then-current fad of streaking. Soon they are under arrest and in jail, killing time by playing cards with a couple of hardened criminals, unwittingly racking up a new debt... one that can only be paid off by participating in a bank robbery during a small-town festival. Written as a tribute to the comic novels of his mentor Donald E. Westlake, Shoot the Moon is a fast, funny crime novel written early in his career by Max Allan Collins

A legendary and retired police chief lies in a New York hospital bed, visited by two strangers: the first is ex-cop-turned-PI Mike Hammer, whose life was saved more than once by the old man. To the detective, the chief gives a mysterious key. The second visitor murders the chief, mere days before he would have died from natural causes. Someone is trying to tie up loose ends, and Mike Hammer is the only one with the evidence and calculation to ferret him or her out

Nolan, the reformed thief, has finally gotten his life in order. He has a restaurant and a beautiful lady friend. Then Coleman Comfort shows up and makes things clear immediately. He and his son have kidnapped Nolan’s girlfriend, and if Nolan does not do what they say, Sherry is dead

In “Strike Zone,” tells the story of a particularly peculiar crime — the murder of the most famous pinch hitter in history, who happened to be a midget — and also explores the colorful legend of baseball Bill Veeck

Have yourself a crooked little Christmas with The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries. Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories — many of which are difficult or nearly impossible to find anywhere else. From classic Victorian tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy, to contemporary stories by Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain, this collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant. Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and Ngaio Marsh; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing, stories by pulp icons John D. MacDonald and Damon Runyon; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you’re in the mood for — suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural — can be found in these pages. FEATURING: — Unscrupulous Santas — Crimes of Christmases Past and Present — Festive felonies — Deadly puddings — Misdemeanors under the mistletoe — Christmas cases for classic characters including Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Inspector Ghote, A.J. Raffles, and Nero Wolfe

From New York Times bestselling authors Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins — the legend of Caleb York continues as the renowned gunslinger fights to bring justice to the blood-soaked streets of Trinidad, New Mexico. Caleb York has made up his mind and packed his bags. He’ll be on the next stage, bound for San Diego and a new life as a Pinkerton man. But before Caleb can say a proper goodbye to his sweetheart, Willa, a peaceful morning erupts into blazing gunfire. Someone has to bring law and order to the wild little town of Trinidad, even as a band of outlaw brothers rides the vengeance trail and a new cattle baron sets his sights on more land... and on Willa, too. Looks like Caleb will be staying on for a while. With his Colt loaded for justice, and a sheriff’s badge on his chest, Caleb York emerges as a classic Western hero who knows just how to stand up to the deadliest of enemies — and win

Mickey Spillane’s larger-than-life lawman Caleb York is back — in the latest tough-as-nails Western novel from New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins. This time Caleb may be outnumbered... but not outgunned. The Santa Fe Railroad wants to build a spur through Trinidad, New Mexico, linking the town to the cattle trade. Only one man stands against it — rancher George Cullen. At the request of the town council, Sheriff Caleb York rides out to the Bar-O to reason with his old friend. Even Cullen’s daughter Willa, Caleb’s former flame, is for the railroad. But the stubborn blind rancher won’t budge. Cullen’s former partner, Burt O’Malley, has recently returned from a twenty-year stint in the pen for manslaughter. And hired gun Alver Hollis, the much-feared Preacherman, has also shown up with two cronies, claiming they’re in town for the biggest poker game in the territory. With murder in the wind, the whole town’s in danger. Who will be the next target? To bring a killer to justice, and protect the woman he loves, Caleb York must strap down his Colt .44, enter the big game, and bet his life on the turn of a card... and the speed of his draw

Chicago, 1934. Corruption and intrigue run rampant among the cops and the politicians, who vie for power with organized crime. Sally Rand dances at the World’s Fair, gangster Frank Nitti holds court in a posh hotel suite, Baby Face Nelson and Ma Barker and her boys terrorize the countryside, and G-man Melvin Purvis makes J. Edgar Hoover’s reputation while the street in front of the Biograph Theater runs red with blood. Into this turbulent and dangerous world steps Nathan Heller, a tough but honest private eye trying to make a living in hard times. But his search for a farmer’s-daughter-turned-gun-moll catapults him into the midst of a daring assault on Hoover’s empire and a police plot against the elusive John Dillinger that leaves some crucial questions unanswered. Heller’s investigations send him undercover into the bucolic world of farmhouse hideouts and dusty back roads — until, back in Chicago’s Loop, the sound of machine-gun fire brings the curtain down suddenly on an entire outlaw era

Small-town sheriff J. C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential assassin — only to come home that night and find his wife and son brutally murdered. This tragic twist of fate launched his career as the host of reality TV’s smash-hit, Crime Seen! But while media star Harrow tracks down dangerous criminals coast to coast — with the help of viewers’ tips — a killer with a twisted agenda is making his own bloody path to fame

Неожиданный великолепный подарок для поклонников Агаты Кристи. Детектив с личным участием великой писательницы. Автор не только полностью погружает читателя в мир эпохи, но и создает тонкий правдивый портрет королевы детектива. Днем она больничная аптекарша миссис Маллоуэн, а после работы — знаменитая Агата Кристи. Вот-вот состоится громкая премьера спектакля по ее «Десяти негритятам» — в Лондоне 1942 года, под беспощадными бомбежками. И именно в эти дни совершает свои преступления жестокий убийца женщин, которого сравнивают с самим Джеком-Потрошителем. Друг Агаты, отец современной криминалистики Бернард Спилсбери, понимает, что без создательницы Эркюля Пуаро и мисс Марпл в этом деле не обойтись… Макс Аллан Коллинз — американская суперзвезда криминального жанра. Создатель «Проклятого пути», по которому был снят культовый фильм с Томом Хэнксом, Полом Ньюманом, Джудом Лоу и Дэниелом Крэйгом. Новеллизатор успешнейших сериалов «C.S.I.: Место преступления», «Кости», «Темный ангел» и «Мыслить как преступник»

Книга и тайна, книга и преступление – истории, вошедшие в этот сборник, связывает книжная тема. Вы узнаете о незваном госте, явившемся к Зигмунду Фрейду, о том, как знаменитый Коломбо разоблачил убийцу из книжного магазина, как любовь к книге сгубила главу мексиканского наркокартеля и как Лондонская библиотека оказалась хранилищем смертельно опасных тайн… В эту антологию, составленную по инициативе Отто Пенцлера, лауреата премий «Эдгар», «Эллери Куин» и «Ворон» за вклад в развитие и пропаганду детективного направления в литературе, вошли оригинальные работы известных мастеров остросюжетного жанра. Среди авторов и такие «крутые» авторы, как Кен Брюен, Рид Фаррел Коулмен, Лорен Эстлеман, Микки Спиллейн, Макс Аллан Коллинз, и создатели книг-бестселлеров Нельсон Демилль, Энн Перри, Джеффри Дивер, и лауреаты премии «Эдгар» Чарльз Дж. Бокс, Томас Кук, Лора Липпман

В центре повествования романа «Двойник» – неуловимый Джон Диллинджер, гангстер № 1, скрывающийся под разными именами, которого разыскивают по всей Америке

Озеро Тахо, 1973 год. Майклу Сатариано, который в молодости сражался с бандой Капоне в Чикаго, исполнилось пятьдесят лет, и теперь он управляет казино, которое принадлежит Синдикату. Когда крестный отец мафии Сэм Гьянкана приказал Майклу убить известного своей жестокостью гангстера по прозвищу Бешеный Сэм, он отказался это сделать. Однако Бешеный Сэм убит, и в происшедшем обвинили Майкла. Чтобы спасти семью, он соглашается стать свидетелем обвинения и воспользоваться Программой защиты свидетелей…

По мотивам популярного телевизионного сериала BONES Специальный агент Силли Бусс вне себя от гнева: ему позарез нужно найти похищенного свидетеля по делу криминальных авторитетов Чикаго Раймонда и Винсента Гианелли, а он вынужден заниматься поисками сумасшедшего, который оставляет на улицах города… скелеты с сопроводительными записками. Расследовать «Дело о скелетах» Буссу помогает антрополог Темперанс Бреннан по прозвищу Бонз (Кости), специально прилетевшая из Вашингтона. В ходе расследования Бусс и Бреннан постоянно сталкиваются с труднообъяснимыми фактами, а число скелетов все растет… Кто стоит за всем этим – безумный маньяк или расчетливый преступник? Удастся ли Бреннан и Буссу собрать все части этой головоломки – пазлы из костей?

Натан Геллер расследует одно из самых загадочных и жестоких преступлений XX столетия — убийство в Нассау мультимиллионера Гарри Оукса

Мумия возвращается в ваши дома неистовой бурей древних магических песков. Она принесет с собой античных монстров и невиданные чудеса. Горячим ветром далекой пустыни повеет со страниц этой книги, и вы забудете о реальности! Остатки древнего зла все еще теплятся внутри саркофага. После десятилетнего заточения могущественный фараон Имхотеп вновь оказывается на свободе. Кровавый царь жаждет мести и воцарения на земле сил Зла. Спасти человечество может только чудо. Или старый знакомый Имхотепа - отважный Рик О'Коннелл! Он остается последней надеждой погружающейся во мрак планеты…

Эта книга продолжает популярную серию «БЕСТСЕЛЛЕРЫ ГОЛЛИВУДА», в которую вошли получившие мировую известность лучшие произведения в жанрах детектив, фантастика, мистика, приключения, авантюрный и любовный роман, одновременно ставшие литературной основой либо созданные по мотивам самых популярных кино- и видеофильмов. В книге два романа: «НА ЛИНИИ ОГНЯ» Макса Аллана Коллинза по оригинальному сценарию Джеффа Магуайра: «На линии огня» — потрясающая история об охотнике и добыче. Причем герои романа — агент Секретной службы Фрэнк Хорриган и загадочный убийца Митчел Лири — попеременно оказываются то в роли преследователя, то преследуемого. Оба они втянуты в жесткую и интригующую игру, цена которой — жизнь президента США. (Одноименный фильм стал одним из кассовых рекордсменов Америки 1993 года. Режиссер Вольфганг Петерсен, в главных ролях Клинт Иствуд и Джон Малкович). «СЛЕПОЙ С ПИСТОЛЕТОМ» Честера Хаймза: Два крутых полицейских детектива с экзотическими именами Могильщик и Гробовщик расследуют цепь таинственных убийств. Однако, неуловимому убийце легко затеряться в дремучих дебрях Гарлема, района похоти и поножовщины, любви и смерти. (Художественный фильм «Слепой с пистолетом» вышел на экраны США в 1972 году)

В книге увлекательно рассказана потрясшая в свое время Америку история похищения годовалого ребенка легендарного летчика Чарльза Линдберга, первым совершившего перелет через Атлантический океан. В очередном романе о детективе Натане Геллере Макс Аллан Коллинз вновь возвращается к событиям 30-х годов нашего столетия и с присущим ему мастерством воссоздает тревожную атмосферу эпохи

1932 году на Гавайях расследуется предполагаемое изнасилование белой женщины пятью цветными парнями, а также убийство одного из этих парней родственниками пострадавшей. Защиту в деле об убийстве ведет старый опытный адвокат, а расследование для него проводит Натан Геллер

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Америка 30-х... В Чикаго, где вот-вот должна открыться Всемирная выставка, бесчинствует мафия. Сыщик Натан Геллер вместе с двумя опытными коллегами получает задание арестовать бандитов... Роман «Синдикат» открывает так называемый «геллеровский цикл» Макса Аллана Коллинза, автора захватывающих детективов, построенных на документальном материале

Война закончилась, и бывший морской пехотинец, а ныне снова владелец частного сыскного агентства А-1 Натан Геллер, поселившись в окрестностях Чикаго с молодой, красивой женой, намерен наслаждаться покоем. Но жизнь распоряжается иначе — убийство маленькой дочки его клиента заставляет детектива снова вступить в борьбу с преступлениями, переставшими быть «привилегией» мафии

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