Edward D Hoch: 19 books
by Edward D. Hoch
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Edward D. Hoch was and is the undisputed master of the mystery short story. His total output of published short fiction hovers just under 1,000 stories (estimates are in the neighborhood of 960 stories). Hoch (pronounced "Hoke") is best remembered for his fair-play and impossible crime short stories,...
by Edward D. Hoch
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
A dozen marvelous tales of deduction, featuring history’s most famous detective, by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Edward D. Hoch.
In a heavily mortgaged country house, an heiress’s sinister guardian attempts to trap her in a bedroom with a rare Indian swamp adder—a murder averted...
I.D.
Crimes of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
***Winner of the National Crime Short Story Prize***
Robert Barnard's contribution 'Sins of Scarlet' won the National Crime Short Story Prize.
Featuring:
Michael Jecks, Bill Kirton, Peter Lovesey, Stuart Pawson, Christine Poulson, Zoe Sharp, Frank Tallis, Yvonne Eve Walus, Carla Banks,...
The Night My Friend
Stories of Crime and Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
An incredible assortment of stories from one of history’s masters of short fiction
On the morning of the merger, fog shrouds the offices of Jupiter Steel. On the twenty-first floor, the board of directors gathers to follow the commands of Billy Calm, an unequaled titan of finance. But a few...
The Night People
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Twenty tales of deceit, murder, and madness from the king of short mysteries
They find the third body facedown in the wet grass, its head nearly split in half by the axe. The psychopath has claimed three in twenty-four hours—a sickening toll that forces the police department to let the aging...
The Crooked Road, Volume 2
Ellery Queen Presents Stories of Grifters, Gangsters, Hit Men, and Other Career Crooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
In this anticipated follow up to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’s first digital-only anthology, you’ll once again take the “low road” of grifters, hit men, and other career crooks, and come out with new insights into crime, revenge, and justice. Your path—led by stars like Mystery Writers...
Women's Wiles
Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
NOTHING'S WHAT IT SEEMS IN THIS SLYLY SINISTER COLLECTION OF DAMES DONE WRONG...AND DOING THE SAME!
Shocking surprises, chilling comeuppances, and mercies that are anything but tender are just part of what to expect from these memorable stories of women's wills...and wiles. Choosing them with...
The Spy and the Thief
A Jeffery Rand and Nick Velvet Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
A double-barreled collection—two of Edward D. Hoch’s most ingenious creations
In the headquarters of Britain’s Foreign Office, a secretary spies a television actor making a copy of a top-secret key. In an island republic, an intelligence operative is murdered just minutes before exposing...
The Thefts of Nick Velvet
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Thirteen stories of outrageous heists starring one smooth thief from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Shattered Raven.
The dictator of the island of Jabali wants a baseball team, and he doesn’t care how he gets it. He has assembled nine of the finest players on the island, and is about...
City of Brass
And Other Simon Ark Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Three stories starring Simon Ark—one of history’s most unusual detectives
In a college in upstate New York, a professor is carrying out devilish experiments. At Grand Central Station, a student named Cathy Clark corners a friend of her sister’s who runs a large publishing company. She...
Leopold's Way
Detective Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
From the Edgar Award–winning author: A collection of short detective stories featuring baffling crimes and the brilliant sleuthing of Captain Leopold.
On his way to the circus, a young boy named Tommy pauses for fifteen minutes in a grassy vacant lot. It begins to rain, and by the time the...
The Shattered Raven
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
At a gathering of the nation’s foremost mystery authors, death takes the stage
Dozens die each year for the sake of the annual Mystery Writers of America banquet. Heiresses are poisoned, captains of industry are stabbed, and private detectives are gunned down in the street. To mystery authors,...
The Spy Who Read Latin: And Other Stories
A Jeffery Rand Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In the thick of the Cold War, a British spy will do anything to keep the peace
Father Howard steps off the plane in Albania, relieved to be out of China at last, but knowing that until he reaches Paris, he is not safe from the Communists. As he makes his way across the tarmac, two bullets strike...
The Quests of Simon Ark
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
When ancient evil emerges, it can only be stopped by a two-thousand-year-old sleuth
Ten years ago, Douglas Zadig emerged from the mist on an English moor, his clothes tattered, his speech slurred, and his mind completely blank. Since then, he has reinvented himself as an expert on good and...
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