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John Doe: A Rizzoli & Isles Short Story
by Tess GerritsenRazor-edge suspense in this original eBook short story from "one of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today" (The Providence Journal) It should have been a night to remember, but Maura Isles can't recall a thing. Maura is longing to ditch a ritzy cocktail party, along with her four-inch heels, when a handsome, charming stranger appears. But somewhere between sipping a fresh glass of champagne and waking up the next day on her sofa lies a black hole of forgotten time. As Boston's medical examiner, Maura regularly teams up with police detective Jane Rizzoli on homicide investigations, and Jane's latest case makes Maura's blood run cold. A brutally murdered man has been found in a city park with Maura's address tucked in his pocket. Maura IDs the victim as the charmer she met at the party. Her alarm turns to terror when she learns the murdered man was a predator with victims of his own. Fearing she may be guilty of a lethal crime she can't recall, Maura races to recover the missing hours that hold the truth--and that hide a shocking secret. Don't miss the thrilling preview of Tess Gerritsen's new Rizzoli & Isles novel, Last to Die.
John Godey Thrillers: The Snake, The Taking of Pelham 123
by John GodeyJohn Godey's fast-paced, no-frills prose keeps the action intense as New York City authorities rush to react as crisis approached. These books combine chilling suspense with action that’s sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats.The Snake: On a steamy night in Central Park, a sailor returning from South Africa gets mugged. What the mugger doesn't know is that the sailor is carrying a deadly Black Mamba-the most poisonous snake in the world. The sailor is murdered, the mugger is bitten, and the snake slithers off into the underbrush-and becomes the terror of Central Park. The Taking of Pelham 123: Four men seize control of a New York City subway train holding its passengers hostage for $1 million. They’ll stop at nothing to get what they want, but each must face his own flaws if the group is to have any chance at success.
John Grisham (3-Book Bundle): The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber
by John GrishamThe #1 New York Times bestselling master of legal suspense, John Grisham has electrified readers with his white-knuckle narratives for more than two decades. Assembled here in a convenient eBook bundle are three of his classic thrillers: The Firm, the runaway hit that ignited his writing career, The Appeal, and The Chamber. Read back-to-back or enjoyed separately, these edge-of-your-seat novels show why John Grisham is--beyond a reasonable doubt--one of the most beloved authors of all time. THE FIRM When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray--doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail--already knew: You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice--if he wants to live. THE APPEAL In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict--or reverse it. The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough to his interests. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice. THE CHAMBER In Chicago's top law firm, a young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. Cayhall has run out of chances--except for one: a determined lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather, and while the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets--including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life . . . or cost Adam his.
John Grisham Omnibus: The Brethren And A Painted House
by John GrishamTHE BRETHREN: The perfect scam: the wrong victim. Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. The money is pouring in. Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and The Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over. A PAINTED HOUSE: The land is as unforgiving as its people. September 1952. The cotton is almost ready in the fields of Arkansas. The harvest will soon begin. Luke Chandler is a seven-year-old who lives with his family in a small, unpainted house on rented land. In the next six weeks, the Chandlers and a hired band of hill people and Mexicans must bring in the cotton that is their livelihood and the guarantee of their survival on the land. Soon heat, rain, fatigue, a killing and the unraveling of a family secret threaten to destroy the Chandlers' hopes and will transport Luke abruptly from childhood innocence to experience.
John Grisham Omnibus: The Chamber And The Rainmaker
by John GrishamFrom the world’s number one bestselling author; two more electrifying legal thrillers in one bumper volume. THE CHAMBER: Adam Hill is a rookie lawyer at a top Chicago firm. The world is at his feet. So why does he volunteer to represent a KKK terrorist under threat of execution? And why is the defendant happy to put his life in a novice's hands? The answer lies twenty years in the past, but there are darker, more shocking secrets to be uncovered... THE RAINMAKER: Rudy Baylor is a rookie lawyer about to take on a career-defining case, fighting for justice for a young man whose death could easily have been prevented. This case has the power to change everything for Rudy - eliminate his debts and save his legal practice. But he has never argued a case in court before. And he is up against the most expensive lawyers that money can buy. Can Rudy win against the odds? Or will the truth be buried forever?
John Grisham Omnibus: The Client, The Street Lawyer
by John GrishamTHE CLIENT: The Law, the Mob, a murder - and the mind of an eleven-year old child... An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Only one lawyer can save him from these twin threats. Together with Mark she must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer. THE STREET LAWYER: Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake + Sweeney, a giant Washington law firm. The money was good and getting better and a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star, with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers, no time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived, his assailant did not. Who was this homeless man? Michael did some digging and found a dirty secret and the secret involved Drake + Sweeney. Soon Michael was in the street, a thief, on the run from the very dreams he once valued above everything else…
John Grisham Omnibus: The Partner and The Runaway Jury
by John GrishamTHE PARTNER: They kidnapped him in a small town in Brazil. He had changed his name and his appearance, but they were sure they had their man. Four years before, he had been called Patrick S. Lanigan. He had died in a car crash in February 1992. He had been a partner at an up and coming law firm, had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million had disappeared from the law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive, and the long pursuit began... THE RUNAWAY JURY: In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and one juror is convinced he’s being watched. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors’ odd behaviour. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so by whom? And more importantly, why?
John Grisham Omnibus: The Pelican Brief And A Time To Kill
by John GrishamTwo electrifying legal thrillers in one bumper volume from the author of The Firm. The Pelican Brief: Two Supreme Court Judges are dead. Their murders are connected only in one mind, and in one legal brief, conceived by that mind. Law student Darby Shaw thinks she has found the obscure link between the two murders and in a meticulous but wildly speculative brief she names the suspect. Realizing her life is threatened she goes underground until journalist Gray Grantham discovers new evidence, which leads him to believe that Darby has stumbled upon the biggest cover-up since Watergate. Their only aim is to stay alive to expose the real truth behind The Pelican Brief. A Time to Kill: When a black man guns down the two whites who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of Clanton, Mississippi see their town fill with an angry mob. The young defence lawyer Jake Brigance may be risking more than his career when he takes the case.
John Grisham Omnibus: The Summons and The King Of Torts
by John GrishamTHE SUMMONS: Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. Ray reluctantly heads south. But the meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else. THE KING OF TORTS: The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit Washington D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles upon a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king of torts.
John Inman Sammlung: Payback, Zebrochenes Glas, Worte
by John InmanRache. Wiedergutmachung. Überleben. Liebe. Als Tylers Leben von einem furchtbaren Verbrechen erschüttert wird, sehnt er sich nach Rache. Erst mithilfe von Detective Christian Martin sieht Tyler die Möglichkeit eines neuen Lebens – aber er muss sich entscheiden, ob er weiterhin an seiner Rache festhält und dabei jede Hoffnung auf eine Zukunft mit Christian opfert. Gordon geht davon aus, dass seine Tage gezählt sind, denn durch seine Schuld kam bei einem Autounfall ein Mann ums Leben. Doch als Squirt – ein Obdachloser, der sein eigenes Päckchen zu tragen hat – ihn rettet, findet Gordon ein neues Licht, dem er folgen kann. Gordon hätte nie gedacht, dass er einen Weg finden würde, sich selbst zu vergeben. Doch indem er das tut, öffnet er sein Herz – für die Liebe eines Mannes, den er am meisten verletzt hat. Angetrieben durch den Austausch von Kreativität leben Milo und Logan in der Welt der Schriftsteller, Leser und Rezensenten. Sie genießen ihre grenzenlose Liebe zu Büchern und dem geschriebenen Wort, doch manchmal treffen Worte ihr Ziel zu heftig. Und wenn das passiert, muss dafür zwangsläufig der Preis gezahlt werden. Was für Milo und Logan als eine Zeit der neuen Liebe und romantischen Entdeckungen beginnt, wird zu einem Wettlauf um ihr Leben. Wer hätte damit gerechnet, dass eine wunderschöne Sache wie geschriebene Worte zum Auslöser für Rache werden könnte? Und letztendlich … für Mord? Dieses Bundle enthält drei spannende Romane von John Inman.
John Inman's Greatest Hits (Dreamspinner Press Bundles #6)
by John InmanHit author John Inman presents five novels of romance, from tongue in cheek to seriously chic--Shy: Funny what a couple of guys can accomplish when they're crazy about each other. Not even nine hundred chickens can stand in the way of true love.--Loving Hector: Hector's evil ex is dead set on holding on--even if it means kidnapping Hector to keep him from Dill forever! Now Dill has to pull an army together to rescue Hector, and just where the hell is he supposed to find an army? Gads, if only Dill could write books this interesting!--Hobbled: Danny had plans to come out this summer--maybe even get laid! He doesn't have time for ankle monitors and serial killers! Then ginger-haired Luke Jamison moves in next door. Gee. If Danny can survive it, this summer might not be so bad after all.--Serenading Stanley: Welcome to the Belladonna Arms, a rundown little apartment building perched atop a hill in downtown San Diego, home to the city's lost and lovelorn. While Roger tries to batter down Stanley's defenses, Stanley turns to his new neighbors to learn about love.--Spirit: Toss a murder, a hot young stud, an unexpected love affair, and a spooky-ass ghost with a weird sense of humor into Jason's summer plans, and you've got the makings for one hell of a ride.
John Lescroart: The Dismas Hardy Collection
by John LescroartHard Evidence: In his third appearance, San Francisco bartender Dismas Hardy returns to the practice of law to star in a gripping courtroom drama that may well be Lescroart's breakthrough novel.-Publishers Weekly<P> The 13th Juror: In John T. Lescroart's brilliant new novel, The 13th Juror, Dismas Hardy, lawyer/investigator, undertakes the defense of Jennifer Witt, accused of murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as well as her first husband, who had died nine years earlier from an apparent drug overdose. <P> Nothing But the Truth: Fans of John Lescroart's series hero Dismas Hardy, the thoughtful and likable San Francisco lawyer, will welcome this meditation on marriage served up as a murder mystery. In previous outings, Hardy has been a cop, a bartender, and even an assistant prosecutor, so he knows that, "Sometimes the whole truth is the last thing you want to hear." But then his wife Franny goes to jail for refusing to tell what she knows about the husband of a murdered environmental activist.
John Lescroart: The Dismas Hardy Novels
by John LescroartJohn Lescroart The Dismas Hardy Collection New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart "creates compelling, credible characters" (Publishers Weekly), none more so than San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy, a man who seeks out the truth-no matter the cost. These are three of his top-tier thrillers featuring Dismas Hardy and his colleagues in the quest for justice in the courtroom-and when necessary, outside it. Hard Evidence The 13th Juror Nothing but the Truth
John Macnab
by John Buchan Andrew GreigIn 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, "John MacNab"; three high-flying men -- a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker -- are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon in a given time. They sign collectively as 'John McNab' and await the responses. This novel is a light interlude within the "Leithen Stories" series - an evocative look at the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.
John Puller Series 4 Books Collection Set: Zero Day, The Forgotten, The Escape and No Man's Land
by David BaldacciZero Day: Distinguished as a top investigator in the US government, John Puller is called in to conduct an enquiry into the brutal murders of a family in a remote area of West Virginia. It soon becomes clear that the case has wider implications and as the body count rises he teams up with local homicide detective Samantha Cole. The Forgotten: Criminal investigator John Puller is drawn closer to home when his aunt is found dead in her house in Paradise, Florida. The local police have ruled the death as an accident, but Puller finds evidence to suggest that she may well have been murdered. The Escape: Military CID investigator, John Puller, has returned from his latest case in Florida to learn that his brother, Bobby, on death row at Leavenworth Military Prison for national security crimes, has escaped. No Man's Land: John Puller is the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father – a highly decorated army veteran – may have murdered his wife.
John Rebus: A Mysterious Profile (Mysterious Profiles)
by Ian RankinThe New York Times–bestselling author tells the story behind Inspector Rebus, the hard-edged Edinburgh cop and &“superbly drawn character&” (The Times, London). In this short work, Edgar and Diamond Dagger Award winner Ian Rankin delves into DI John Rebus&’s origins as a character, as well as his own origins as a writer. While author and character share a love of literature and a deep affection for Scotland&’s capital city, they differ in other ways, as Rankin entertainingly testifies, while revealing how this &“compelling figure&” has developed over the course of his long-running series of gritty crime novels (Kirkus Reviews). &“[A] hard-drinking, chain-smoking, terminally melancholic hero . . . trapped in a world where mavericks are an endangered species.&” —Booklist &“Rebus is without doubt one of the funniest among the classical fictional detectives.&” —The Guardian &“With his stubborn insistence on tying up the frayed ends of every knotty clue, and iconoclastic refusal to be a team player . . . Rebus is a bane to his superiors but a blessing to readers.&” —Publishers Weekly
John Sandford Lucas Davenport Novels 1-5
by John SandfordSuspense fans will love this "sterling quintet"* of novels featuring Minneapolis homicide investigator Lucas Davenport from "one of the most consistently entertaining crime writers working today" (Booklist). The first five in the # 1 New York Times bestselling series, with introductions by John Sandford included. *Publishers Weekly Rules of Prey Shadow Prey Eyes of Prey Silent Prey Winter Prey
John Sandford Lucas Davenport Novels 6-10
by John SandfordNight Prey: A savage psychopath is playing cat and mouse with Lucas Davenport. But both killer and detective find themselves at odds with a female investigator who has intensely personal reasons for catching the killer herself-and fast.<P> MInd Prey: Davenport matches wits and wills with an obsessed kidnapper whose victims are edging ever closer to a fate worse than any nightmare...<P> Sudden Prey: After a vicious female bank robber named Candy dies in a shootout with police, her violent associates vow revenge, targeting the loved ones of the police officers involved, and it is up to Lucas Davenport to stop the nightmarish killings.<P> Secret Prey: A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea.<P> Certain Prey: When a wealthy socialite is murdered, the brilliant killer sets her sights on the one man who can solve the case--Lucas Davenport.
John Sandford: Lucas Davenport 11-15 (A Lucas Davenport Novel)
by John SandfordEasy Prey: In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone had imagined--one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared.... <P> Chosen Prey: Art history professor James Qatar's hobby was taking secret photographs of women. At night when he was all alone he'd dream about them and indulge his fantasies. Then one day his fantasy went too far. Now it's Qatar's turn to become an obsession--of Davenport's. And for both men there's no turning back.<P> Mortal Prey: Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local druglord, and while the boy's father vows vengeance, Rinker knows something he doesn't: The boy wasn't the target-she was-and now she is going to have to disappear to find the killer herself. The FBI and DEA draft Davenport to help track her down, and with his fiancie deep in wedding preparations, he's really just as happy to go-but he has no idea what he's getting into. For Rinker is as unpredictable as ever, and between her, her old bosses in the St. Louis mob, the Mexican druglord, and the combined, sometimes warring, forces of U.S. law enforcement, this is one case that will get more dangerous as it goes along. And when the crossfire comes, anyone standing in the middle won't stand a chance.... <P> Naked Prey: In Naked Prey, John Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special troubleshooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. In addition, Lucas is now married and a new father, both of which are fine with him: he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay-and he's waiting for the bill.<P> Hidden Prey: Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Orslov is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why, everybody-the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves-has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan.
John Sandford: Lucas Davenport Novels 16-20
by John SandfordBroken Prey: The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad love affair.<P> Invisible Prey: A wealthy woman and her maid are murdered. Robbery would seem the likely scenario, except that none of the clues are coming together for Lucas Davenport. At least not those he can see.<P> Phantom Prey: A widow comes home to find blood on the walls and her college-age daughter missing. She begs Lucas Davenport's wife to get Lucas involved, which he reluctantly does, until a Goth is slashed to death and Lucas starts working hard on the case. <P> Wicked Prey: The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention. Throwing a big party is supposed to be fun, but crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather stayed away. Chief among them is a crew of professional stickup men who've spotted several lucrative opportunities, ranging from political moneymen with briefcases full of cash to that armored-car warehouse with the weakness in its security system. All that's headache enough for Lucas Davenport-but what's about to hit him is even worse.<P> Storm Prey: When a simple robbery turns deadly, the thieves close in on the only witness: Lucas Davenport's wife...
John Sandford: The Kidd Novels 1-4
by John Sandford"Crime fiction doesn't have nearly enough droll master thieves like Kidd and his stunning partner in righteous crime, LuEllen" (Los Angeles Times). Enjoy the adventures of computer genius Kidd and cat burglar LuEllen in the first four novels from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport series. The Fool's Run The Empress File The Devil's Code The Hanged Man's Song
John Sandford: Virgil Flowers Novels 1-4
by John SandfordLucas Davenport's colleague, Minneapolis investigator Virgil Flowers, takes center stage for the first time in Dark of the Moon, "an adrenaline rush peppered with laugh-out-loud moments" (Booklist)--and the rush continues through all four suspense-packed novels in this set from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport novels John Sandford. Dark of the Moon Heat Lightning Rough Country Bad Blood
John Sandford: Virgil Flowers Novels 1-4
by John SandfordLucas Davenport’s colleague, Minneapolis investigator Virgil Flowers, takes center stage for the first time in Dark of the Moon, “an adrenaline rush peppered with laugh-out-loud moments” (Booklist)—and the rush continues through all four suspense-packed novels in this set from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport novels John Sandford. Dark of the Moon Heat Lightning Rough Country Bad Blood
John Thorndyke's Cases
by R. Austin FreemanThe stories in this collection, inasmuch as they constitute a somewhat new departure in this class of literature, require a few words of introduction. The primary function of all fiction is to furnish entertainment to the reader, and this fact has not been lost sight of. But the interest of so-called "detective" fiction is, I believe, greatly enhanced by a careful adherence to the probable, and a strict avoidance of physical impossibilities; and, in accordance with this belief, I have been scrupulous in confining myself to authentic facts and practicable methods. The stories have, for the most part, a medico-legal motive, and the methods of solution described in them are similar to those employed in actual practice by medical jurists. The stories illustrate, in fact, the application to the detection of crime of the ordinary methods of scientific research. I may add that the experiments described have in all cases been performed by me, and that the micro-photographs are, of course, from the actual specimens.
John Thorndyke's Cases (The Dr. Thorndyke Mysteries #2)
by R. Austin Freeman&“It would be difficult to find anywhere more nearly perfect stories of scientific deduction than the Dr. Thorndyke tales of R. Austin Freeman.&” —The New York Times Visiting a lonely hamlet perched on a cliff above the English coast, forensic detective Dr. John Thorndyke goes for a walk on the long, deserted beach. In the sand he finds two sets of footprints, made some hours apart. They lead to a crime scene. A man has been found stabbed through the heart, his body thrown from the cliffs above. The local police are on the hunt for clues, but Thorndyke is certain the killer&’s identity can be determined from the footprints in the sand. With the tide coming in, he has only a few hours to catch his man. Packed with clever tales of crime and science, John Thorndyke&’s Cases is an indispensible entry in one of the mystery genre&’s most popular and influential series. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.