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The Governor of Kentucky hires the Pinkerton Agency to get involved in the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. He wants Devil Anse Hatfield, the head of the family, brought to justice. But after two Pinkerton Ops disappear, Robert Pinkerton tells the governor there's only one man he can think of to take on the job...

No one in Crossfork Landing would dare call Powder River Bill Beedle a liar... he just stretches the truth a mite sometimes. Still, Clint Adams counted Bill as a friend—he'd trust him with his life, if necessary. But the Gunsmith isn't so sure about the fancy-talking English lord who's just...

Kidnap proves only the prelude to a diabolically clever scheme of fraud and murder in this vivid tale of taut suspense. Private investigator Alo Nudger didn't have to think twice about accepting the 2,500 fee from Gordon Clark, whose seven-year-old daughter had been "kidnapped" by...

A murderer is stalking the streets of St Louis, and the only thing linking his victims is a system of special nightlines used by the phone company to test equipment. Lonely people use them to make contact with one another—but these people are dying. Praise for John Lutz "One of...

Spur Award-Winning Author ED GORMAN Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord... Father Pete Madsen is a man torn by conscience. Ever since the Civil War, he has devoted his life to the church in an attempt to make penance for his bloody deeds of heroism—with his faith as his only...

"One of the most original thriller writers around." —Kirkus Reviews DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEAD AND OTHER TALES A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love A lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is death Children who...

Wanted for Murder: The Marshal's Wife Marshal Lane Morgan is an honorable man who isn't about to let anyone dodge the law—not even the son of Paul Webley, the most crooked figure in Skylar, Colorado. Lane is all set to testify against Webley's boy—until Webley himself starts digging into...

Brian guessed he should have been grateful when Mr. Stockbridge pressed the tin soldier into his hand. It wasn't every child at Windhaven Orphanage who received a present from the formidable Raymond Stockbridge. But Brian wasn't happy at all. In fact, Brian was scared... His best friend Davey...

"With the best of these stories, Ed Gorman not only transcends the genre of crime fiction, he takes it on an entirely new direction."—REFLECTIONS PRISONERS & OTHER STORIES In a recent interview, Ed Gorman said that his work is essentially about "Outsiders trying...

When the powerful and blood-hungry Jeremiah Belden went gunning for revenge against Evelyn, the beautiful woman he blamed for his son's death, only Mitch Coldwell stood in his way. But the trouble was that Mitch had demons in his life. So much so that the legendary sharpshooter had taken to...

John Frederick Quincannon, a former United States Secret Service agent, and Sabina Carpenter, one of the first female Pinkerton operatives, joined forces to form the firm of CARPENTER AND QUINCANNON, PROFESSIONAL DETECTIVE SERVICES. Their various cases take them all over the American West in the 1890s....

In his first chronicled adventure, the Nameless detective hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doesn't trust the police to deal with the man who snatched his 9-year-old son from his military prep school, nor is it clear that he trusts the members of...

The "Nameless Detective" and Sharon McCone join forces at a San Diego private detective convention to investigate a case involving multiple murder, a crime ring dealing in smuggled fugitives, and bizarre, kinky lifestyles.

In his 24th and most intriguing appearance, the "Nameless Detective" finds himself involved in two intricate and emotional investigations. The first is intensely personal: the unexpected death of his estranged friend and former partner, Eberhardt. Although there seems to be no question that...