Hard Case Crime: Blackmailer (18 page)

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LAWRENCE BLOCK:

“The narrative is layered with detail, the action is handled with Block’s distinctive clarity of style and the ending is a stunning tour de force.”

— New York Times

“Block is awfully good, with an ear for dialogue, an eye for lowlife types and a gift for fast and effortless storytelling that bear comparison to Elmore Leonard.”

— Los Angeles Times

“Wonderful.”

— USA Today

“Lawrence Block is a master of entertainment.”

— Washington Post Book World

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Nominated for the Edgar® Award and the Shamus Award!

by
RICHARD ALEAS

Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor.
So how did she wind up dead on the roof of New York’s seediest strip club?

Ten years earlier, Miranda had been P.I. John Blake’s girlfriend. Now he must uncover her secret life as a strip tease queen. But the deeper he digs, the deadlier the danger... until a shattering face-off in an East Village tenement changes his life forever.

LITTLE GIRL LOST is the stunning debut novel from RICHARD ALEAS, a writer whose stories have been selected for
Best Mystery Stories of the Year.
It features a brand new cover painting by legendary pulp artist Robert McGinnis, creator of the posters for
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
and the original Sean Connery James Bond movies.

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LITTLE GIRL LOST:

“Excellent...[a] machine gun-paced debut [with] the style and spirit of the classic detective novel.”

— Chicago Sun-Times

“Combine[s] the noir sensibility with emotional depth and superior writing.”

— Baltimore Sun

“Little Girl Lost is
classic pulp.”

— January Magazine

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by
RICHARD S. PRATHER

OVER 40,000,000 BOOKS SOLD

In the cutthroat world of organized crime, Tony Romero was headed straight for the top. But his path was littered with bodies and broken dreams—some of them his.

by
RICHARD POWELL

AUTHOR OF ‘A SHOT IN THE DARK’

Bill Wayne’s bus tour through the West becomes more than he bargained for when bodies start turning up at every stop!

by
DAVID DODGE

AUTHOR OF ‘TO CATCH A THIEF’

From the casinos of Monaco to the jungles of Brazil, from Tangier to Marrakech to Peru, the chase is on when a handsome swindler tries to escape the beautiful heiress out to reform him.

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by
ED MCBAIN

MWA GRANDMASTER

Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives.

by
PETE HAMILL

ACCLAIMED JOURNALIST

Terrorists from Northern Ireland plan to strike in New York City—and only one newspaper reporter stands in their way.

by
DONALD HAMILTON

CREATOR OF ‘MATT HELM
’

When Navy lieutenant David Young came to in a hospital bed, his face was covered with bandages and the nurses were calling him by a stranger’s name...

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by
LAWRENCE BLOCK

MWA GRANDMASTER

Con man Joe Marlin accidentally steals a suitcase full of heroin, then plots to kill the man he stole it from—with help from the man’s wife!

by
ERLE STANLEY GARDNER

CREATOR OF PERRY MASON

The client had a perfect alibi for the night Maureen Auburn disappeared—but nothing made P.I. Donald Lam suspicious like a perfect alibi.

by
MAX ALLAN COLLINS

AUTHOR OF ‘ROAD TO PERDITION’

After 16 years on the run, will Nolan bury the hatchet with the Mob—or will they bury him first?

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