Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who's looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes... He falls - and falls hard. Soon he's working with her, against his employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from her husband and put millions in her bank account. But can they do it without landing in jail? And once he's kindled his taste for...
Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like pos...
LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man D...
Ex-cop Matt Scudder is off the booze, but he still spends time with some of his old drinking buddies, including Mick Ballou. Two of Mick's henchmen have been killed during a raid on one of his bourbon warehouses and Mick wants Scudder on the case, but someone else wants Scudder off the job.
Ex-cop Matt Scudder is off the booze, but he still spends time with some of his old drinking buddies, including Mick Ballou. Two of Mick's henchmen ha...
Private Eye Matthew Scudder gets involved in a case of the rape and murder of a young woman. The woman's husband is the suspect. Scudder finds himnself in a world of sleaze, where anything is permitted and everything has its price.
Private Eye Matthew Scudder gets involved in a case of the rape and murder of a young woman. The woman's husband is the suspect. Scudder finds himnsel...
The Spinner was a blackmailer, but that didn't give someone the right to bash his head in and leave him to rot in the river. There are three suspects, all blackmail victims, but which one was desperate enough to silence the Spinner for good?
The Spinner was a blackmailer, but that didn't give someone the right to bash his head in and leave him to rot in the river. There are three suspects,...
NYPD cop Jerry Broadfield has turned on his own, collaborating in a Special Prosecutor's investigation into police corruption. It's a move that lands him in a jail cell on a murder rap and Scudder has his work cut out trying to free Broadfield.
NYPD cop Jerry Broadfield has turned on his own, collaborating in a Special Prosecutor's investigation into police corruption. It's a move that lands ...
In this reissue, a young girl is killed, the prime suspect is found dead in his cell and the NYPD consider the case closed. Ex-cop Scudder, hired to look into the case by the girl's father is up to his neck in sleaze, corruption, religious cults and murderous lust. In New York's underbelly, children pay for their parents' most unspeakable sins.
In this reissue, a young girl is killed, the prime suspect is found dead in his cell and the NYPD consider the case closed. Ex-cop Scudder, hired to l...
Eight girls died at the hands of a psychopath armed with an ice-pick but the killer has never been brought to justice, even though nine years have passed. Scudder is hired to track the maniac down, but does following a trail that old mean that the killer is long gone, or just waiting in the scenes?
Eight girls died at the hands of a psychopath armed with an ice-pick but the killer has never been brought to justice, even though nine years have pas...
