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Johnny Maguire is back in his third adventure -- a hurricane of guys, gals and gunsThe wife of the biggest mob boss in town walks into Johnny's office with a suitcase full of stolen cash and a plea for help. She's also Johnny's first love, the woman who ripped out his heart ten years ago. He knows he should say no...but he can't stop himself.

A sprawling, action-packed epic about the war for Canada...and the legendary men who fought it.It's 1759. Duncan Crosbie, exiled Scotsman, soldier of France, loves war. He's driven by his unrelenting determination to defeat the English, who killed his father at the Battle of Culloden. But Crosbie is not getting much of an opportunity to fight anymore. The French king lolls in his palace, under the witchery of Madame de Pompadour, and the army ...

The fourth and final novel in the incredible Steve Ashe series.The ocean tide washed the body up on the beach. It was a woman's nude body- without a face or a left hand. And when Steve Ashe discovered the remains of the once-beautiful redhead, he vowed to find her killer and hound him to the gallows.But to do it, Ashe has to tangle with a crooked private eye, an insanely jealous photographer, and a kill-crazy police chief..."Steve Ashe is a ba...

A superior thriller from start to finish. The conclusion is hair-raising." Hartford CourantDavid Campbell is on a cross-country railroad trip when his train stops briefly late one night at a snowy, deserted station in Kansas. He steps off to make a quick call and glimpses two men carrying a covered body on a stretcher from the train to a waiting car. For an instant, the sheet slips from the corpse and he recognizes the lifeless face of John W....

An uproariously funny adventure in the tradition of Dr. Strangelove, M*A*S*H and Catch-22. Anthony Bridges is a hapless, over-sexed, unemployable Brit who lives in London with a wealthy young woman who is eager to marry him...a fate he'd like to avoid, but he can't afford any other options. Lucky for him, her father doesn't want the wedding to happen either, and offers Anthony a well-paying job abroad in exchange for ditching his daughter. Ant...

The acclaimed, 1979 bestseller is back for a new generation... revealing with humor, heart, and piercing insight what dating, career, and motherhood was like then for working, divorced women...and how, in some startling ways, things haven't changed in forty years. This warm, funny and truthful book is one to reach for in the middle of the night when he knows and she knows the relationship isn't working. Anyone who has ever had to pick up the p...

Edgar Award finalist Margaret Moseley, the Fannie Flagg of mystery, returns with the third novel in the refreshingly original, delightfully funny Honey Huckleberry series. Free-spirited book rep Honey Huckleberry turns detective when her $4 million inheritance, her accountant and her fiancé disappear. To solve the mystery, she teams up with her bookseller-friend Janie and a PI who is as strange as his name -- Sledge Hamra. Their quest takes th...

Fast-paced, streetwise, and sharp as a garrote." Kirkus ReviewsDip Dippolito, a low-level thug, is in the wrong place at the right time, and takes a bullet meant for Jimmy Montello, the teenaged son of mob boss Tony Montello. Grateful, Tony puts Dip on the fast-track to becoming a made man by assigning him to help wayward Jimmy focus on graduating high school instead of running his own little numbers racket. The promotion doesn't wow Dip's gir...

A light-hearted, very funny glimpse into the underworld. LIvely, authentic dialogue and a breakneck pace make this a thoroughly enjoyable performance." Publishers Weekly Frank Fontana runs a Queens supper club that is neutral ground for mob families. Everything is good for Frank...until things get too good. He wins big at craps in Atlantic City, then wins even bigger in a private poker game, before he realizes that the games are rigged and he'...

A gritty, insistent voice grabs the reader from the first sentence in this superior suspense novel. The action never lets up in this fast-paced thriller." Publishers WeeklyEx-accountant Frank Fontana is the bartender at the mob-owned Skyview Lounge near LaGuardia airport. He secretly witnesses the murder of his boss, who has left behind a ledger of drug deals that could put a lot of people in jail. Now Frank is caught between the cops, hitmen,...

The stunning, fifth crime novel in the ground-breaking Delilah West series by Maxine O'Callaghan, winner of the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. Delilah West is hired to find a missing teenager, who may have witnessed the murder of her next-door neighbor and could be on-the-run from the killer...if she isn't dead already. "Nothing daunts Delilah West and nothing short of a bullet between her ribs can stop her for lo...

The sixth and final novel in the ground-breaking Delilah West series by Maxine O'Callaghan, a Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award honoree.It's tough times for P.I. Delilah West. She kills a mass shooter at a shopping mall, is hired by a twelve year-old to find his missing Dad...and then she and her wealthy boyfriend's teenage daughter are taken hostage by a brutal kidnapper. But Delilah's troubles are only just beginning....

An awesome opening installment to the Steve Ashe series. There are plenty of outstanding action set pieces. This is a balls-out, hardboiled, action paperback. It's really something special, " The Paperback WarriorIt's winter, 1954. Steve Ashe is hitching a ride to Omaha in a big rig driven by his friend Scotty when they are sideswiped on a snowy highway by a car that's spinning out-of-control. The men rush over to the car and are shocked to di...

Edgar Award finalist Margaret Moseley, the Fannie Flagg of mystery, returns with the second novel in the refreshingly original, delightfully funny Honey Huckleberry series.The upbeat, free-spirited, yet ever-so-slightly O.C.D. book rep Honey Huckleberry has big problems when Twyman Towerie, the number-two best-selling author in the world, attends a luncheon and drops dead, face-first in his mashed potatoes. It's murder, and the list of suspect...

She Was Sweet as Sin...and Twice as DeadlyIt's 1955 in Neon City, USA. The vice syndicate's slimy tentacles stretched everywhere through the corrupt city and only reporter Steve Ashe knows the dark story behind the multi-million dollar traffic in dope and white slavery. And because he knows...he's a walking dead man. "This powerful story of a reporter destroying a vicious dope ring is raw and electric with suspense from beginnig to end." Real ...

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Johnny Maguire is a struggling lawyer who falls into a passionate affair with the widow of one of his clients. She disappears... supposedly taking a suicide dive into the ocean. But Maquire doesn't buy it and starts searching for her...a quest that pits him against the mob and spirals into a twisted story of sex and murder. This was originally published in 1950 as the second title in the Fawcett's legendary Gold Medal line of paperbacks. "In i...

Her Love Nest Was a Murder TrapIt's 1956 in hopelessly corrupt Neon City, USA. Reporter Steve Ashe investigates when a cop-friend of his is thrown off the force on trumped-up charges. His relentless quest for the truth pits him against the mob...and makes him the target of ruthless killers...one of whom may just be the beautiful woman in his bed."Steve Ashe is a badass." The Paperback Warrior"A hard-hitting story of reporter Steve Ashe's one-m...

A searing novel of erotic obsession that was a scandalous sensation when it was released in 1956... becoming a rarity that has been desperately pursued by collectors for the last sixty years.This is the story of five people...of Elizabeth Carnes, driven by a desperate, aching passion to a mysterious lover who is the only one who can give her the physical release her devoted husband can't provide....of George Carnes, spurned by his wife and for...

The long-lost, never-before-published, thirteenth novel in the legendary Hardman series. Jim Hardman will do just about anything for a buck, short of a felony, though he has been known to push the line. It's a career choice that takes a big toll on his soul and leads him to a shocking discovery that breaks his heart. That's when a high-powered lawyer hires him to go to London to find the missing heir of a wealthy Georgia industrialist. The ti...