These three stories--Picket Line, Chick Killer and Ice Man--show Elmore Leonard at his most terse and harsh, able to conjure up a sense of profound unease and injustice in just a few words. The main story Picket Line describes a t...Daugiau...
A lean and mean thriller about one man and the Mob from the crime laureate INDEPENDENT The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later hes ba...Daugiau...
As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as youll find . . . The action never stops, the language sings and stings Washington Post Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Detroit stre...Daugiau...
From the bestselling author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN a thriller spiced with blackmail and revenge Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell is a self-made man, happily married for over twenty-two years and a pillar of the community. But th...Daugiau...
From Americas top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantinos hit film JACKIE BROWNJackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded...She’s just got busted smuggling larg...Daugiau...
A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore LeonardOrdell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap…They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit businessman and demand a n...Daugiau...
‘The Ten Golden Rules for Successful Armed Robbery’ if rigidly adhered to will catapult two trainee robbers—Frank and Stick—into Detroit’s criminal elite. But for how long can they maintain the Rules’ austere...Daugiau...
What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else? Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains...Daugiau...
Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead man Most people would refuse the job of Magistrate at the lonely port town of Peng-lai especially as the last occupant of the post has been found poisoned in his library, his...Daugiau...
James Bond, the secret services most lethal agent, is a marked man Deep inside the Soviet Union, a plot is taking shape. Under the fiendish Colonel Rosa Klebb, the Russian counter-intelligence organisation SMERSH are laying a tr...Daugiau...
Can an ace detective outwit a thief with many faces?They call him ‘Gold Mask’: a fiendishly clever master of disguise whose crime spree has shocked Tokyo. The dogged detective Akechi Kogoro is on the trail, and soon the tw...Daugiau...
Who stole George Matthews life? Doctor, I think Im losing my mind When a wealthy young man turns up at respected psychiatrist Dr George Matthews office uttering these words, it changes his safe existence forever. Sudd...Daugiau...
A missing plane resurfaces and so do long-submerged secrets An RAF Dakota, presumed lost at sea during World War Two, has just been discovered at the bottom of a drained lake over twenty years later complete with the skeletal...Daugiau...
Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murdererSix years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic – everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They l...Daugiau...
To catch a criminal, he must become one Jonathan Pine, night manager of a luxury Swiss hotel, has a secret. He knows that the guest he awaits, billionaire trader Richard Roper, is the worst man in the world. And he knows why. Pi...Daugiau...
Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. Hes either innocent or a very good liar. So why was the body of a diamond merchant found at his isolated mansion? Why is his sister always shut away in her room?...Daugiau...
Private Detective Lew Archer doesnt believe in coincidences A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old so...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA master criminal and a master detective are locked in battle. Who will win?They call her the Dark Angel. Queen of Tokyos underworld, Mme Midorikawa is famed for her beauty,...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A First World War battlefield hides a deadly secret - one that some are willing to kill for Paul Mitchell is a young military historian whose life is changed forever when two m...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesAn impostor has a fortune to win - but he may be in danger of losing his life...Twenty-one-year-old Brat Farrar is an orphan, alone in the world without friends or family. So w...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series For wise-cracking Private Eye Philip Marlowe, murder is all in a days work... There are no streets meaner than those of L.A.s underworld - but luckily one detective has more...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A crime novelist has found the perfect subject - but it may cost him his life English writer Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when a police inspector tells him about t...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A Russian mole has infiltrated the British establishment - and the spymaster Smiley must dig them out... George Smiley, formerly of the Secret Intelligence Service, is contempl...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A stolen weapon. A troubled young man. A race against time... Inspector Maigret receives a call from his wife to say he has a visitor at their apartment. But when he gets home,...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor two secret agents, theres no such thing as a quiet life in the countryside...In a peaceful Kent village, Mr Behrens lives with his aunt at the Old Rectory, where he plays...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series For the unlikely crime-busting duo Leo and Serendipity, a missing dog is only the start of their troubles... Leo Bloodworth, the Bloodhound, is a world-weary L.A. gumshoe wit...Daugiau...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesThere is nothing more dangerous than a desperate manBank clerk William Marble is facing financial ruin - until a visit from a wealthy young relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a...Daugiau...
The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect Daily TelegraphAbducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she clai...Daugiau...
The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect Daily Telegraph 1940. An unassuming English engineer has travelled to Turkey on business. And somebody wants him dead. It...Daugiau...
The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect Daily TelegraphA mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves. But is he hunter or hunted?The chance meetin...Daugiau...
