St Swithin Press imprint: 20 books

The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice, the first mystery writer to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. "Mass murder of postmen in a posh Chicago suburb interests lawyer Malone, Jake and Helene Justus, and other well-remembered Riceomaniacs. Plot and people as wacky as ever, with...

Name Your Poison by Helen Reilly, an Inspector McKee MysteryAs McKee follows the trail of a very ambitious poisoner, he finds the next victim on her way from a Connecticut mansion...stuffed in a trunk. "Svelte story...The gentle Scot, McKee, gets at the truth after many consequences. [Reilly's]...

The Dead Can Tell, an Inspector McKee mystery"The letters forming the name ‘Sara Hazard' and the word ‘murdered' were written large caps."The death of Sara Hazard, a Manhattan socialite, was first deemed an accidental drowning. This patch-work letter claimed otherwise...

"Nell Shevlin's womanly intuition works overtime after she arrives at her old homestead to rest and ponder a proposal of marriage. ...Miss Reilly again reveals her artistry by producing a tale in which terror and menace are well sustained and provide a congruous background for McKee to wind...

Better Corpses, by Carroll John Daly, the man who founded the hard-boiled detective genre.Erle Stanley Gardner calls Daly's hero, Race Williams, "incomparably hard-boiled, bone-crushing, and fast shooting," and The New York Times describes Daly's writing as filled with "swift action,...

Tell Her It's Murder, an Inspector McKee mysteryRecollection began to come back. It wasn't a lumpy mattress he was lying on, it was a dead man—a man called Midnight Mike. ...His pain-filled mind curled in terror. It threw him two years back in time—before he was sent to jail—to...