There is a dusty little desert town straddling the Utah-Nevada border fringing the southern edge of I-80. A ninety minute run from Salt Lak...

Max Allan Collins has been writing about his hardboiled former Chicago cop turned private dick Nathan Heller for 30 years, which translat...

The Decoy is a paperback original published by Gold Medal in 1951. It is as by “Edward Ronns,” a pseudonym of Edward S. Aarons who is best...

The Peninsula is “a comma of land hooking into the sea southeast of Melbourne” in Victoria, Australia. It is a tourist destination known ...

The Way You Die Tonight is the ninth Rat Pack mystery featuring smooth operator and Sands’ pit boss Eddie Gianelli. This time Eddie G. h...

Ed Gorman has been a full time writer for nearly 30 years. His first novel, Rough Cut , was published in 1985, and since then he has publi...

In July 2009 Hard Case Crime reissued a cold war era thriller titled Passport to Peril , which at face value isn’t unusual, but what is u...

Unknown Man No. 89 is Elmore Leonard’s 13 th published novel. It was originally published in the U. S. in 1977 by Delacorte Press, and in...

Strangers is the 39 th —by my count—Nameless Detective novel, and it is something of a throwback. Nameless revisits his past, in both tec...

“Bud Turley, called Bud Squirrelly by those who thought he had a lot of peculiar ideas, put the gigantic tooth down on Sheriff Dan Rhod...

Save the Last Dance for Me is the fourth Sam McCain novel—and my favorite simply because it is the first in the series I read—written by...

Shortly after Isaac Asimov’s death in 1992 his memoir  I. Asimov  was released by Doubleday.  It is a series of essays Asimov wrote, seem...

Fort Sumner, New Mexico is a tiny agrarian village 160 miles southeast of Albuquerque. It was originally an internment camp for the Navaj...