In 1942, Pearl Harbor has been bombed and the war is very much in evidence, but it would seem to have little to do with Frank Boyle, a respected Bronx born insurance investigator. He's a man who can keep secrets, and no one suspects that his boyhood friend local mob boss Nicky Brooks is his lover. When Brooks accidentally kills Frank's younger brother in a shootout, Frank must choose between his affair with Nicky and revenge for his brother's life.

After Frank betrays Nicky, police detective Sam Lipinski, a Bronx native who has long carried a torch for Frank, makes a move against the...

In the frigid winter of 1891, with the nation still reeling from the Barings bank crisis, Inspector Philemon Raft returns from an involuntary sabbatical, tasked with solving the kidnapping of highly placed peer Miriam Dewberry. Thrust into a sordid underworld where the upper classes indulge in disreputable overseas investments designed to fatten their pocketbooks, Raft finds himself at loose ends without his companion, Constable Freddie Crook. Far from offering their help, the ton use every asset at their disposal to keep Raft from discovering the truth about hapless kidnap victim Miriam...

In the tradition of novel noir, nothing is ever quite as it seems.

Novelist and war hero Tony Leonard sees private investigator Edwin Malory being mugged outside a seaman s mission in downtown Los Angeles, so he takes him home and gives him clean clothes and access to a hot shower. It doesn t take him long to discover Malory was hired by wealthy industrialist Linton Vanderbilt Stirling, the father of Tony s estranged wife, Janet. The reason for this is simple: Tony s father-in-law suspects him of drinking away his daughter s personal fortune.

On a whim, Tony drops in on Janet one...

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When Feldwebel Horst Stussel is murdered in Jake Plenty s Moroccan brothel, local police chief Nicolas Renard suspects Jake s involvement in the crime. Renard has loved Jake since their service in the Legion Etrangere during the Great War, but in this era of concentration camps, gas chambers, and the infamous pink triangle, his love for the American dare not speak its name.

When sadistic Nazi officer Major Danzig, a fanatic who excels at the arts of torture and interrogation, comes to Maarif, it isn t because of the Feldwebel. He is in search of Christophe Picard,...

Durant l'hiver glacial de 1891, alors que la nation est encore sous le choc de la crise bancaire de Baring, l'inspecteur Philemon Raft revient d'un congE sabbatique involontaire, et se retrouve chargE de rEsoudre l'enlEvement de Miriam Dewberry, une jeune fille de bonne famille. ProjetE dans un milieu sordide oU les classes supErieures se livrent A des investissements honteux, de l'autre cOtE de l'ocEan, pour engraisser leur compte en banque, Raft se retrouve perdu sans son compagnon, le constable Freddie Crook. Loin d'offrir son aide, l'Elite cherche A tout prix A empEcher Raft de...