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  • The Eighth Circle

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    In this Edgar Award winner from "one of the modern masters of the genre," a private detective gets too close to the case while investigating a crooked cop (Edward D. Hoch).The investigators of the Conmy-Kirk detective agency don't work in trench coats, drink on the job, or carry pistols. They are researchers who comb newspapers and government records in search of the tiny details that could make ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Key to Nicholas Street

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    A grisly murder reveals the hateful secrets that lie beneath a small town's surfaceThe locals call her the Ballou. An illustrator for a high-fashion magazine, she has been the talk of the upstate town of Sutton ever since she first appeared, paying cash for one of the finest houses on Nicholas Street. Daring, gaudy, and grand, she inspires envy in the women and lust in the men. And in one member ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Luxembourg Run

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    A young drug runner gets revenge on a crime syndicate in this novel of deception and international double crosses from an Edgar Award–winning author.By the time David Hanna Shaw is shuttled off to an Ivy League school by his preoccupied mother, the brilliant young linguist is already fluent in a half dozen languages. He's also a quick study in international swindling, deceit, drug smuggling, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Star Light, Star Bright

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    Series Book 1 - The John Milano Mysteries
    From a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master: A Manhattan PI heads to Florida to deal with movie stars, a mysterious guru, and murder.New York City private eye John Milano's new client is an old flame—and the fire is still burning in Miami Beach. It wasn't too many years ago that superstar Sharon Bauer dumped John for an aged and infirm billionaire at the instruction of her very persuasive yogi, ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Very Old Money

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    Two servants discover family skeletons behind the closed doors of a forbidding Manhattan mansion in this mystery by a three-time Edgar Award–winning author.In dire financial straits, young couple Mike and Amy Lloyd—a former cab driver and a New York prep-school teacher, respectively—have signed away their independence to become live-in servants for one of the city's wealthiest and most private ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Dreadful Summit

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    His father humiliated, a teenage boy vows bloody revengeEvery sports fan in New York knows Al Judge, the hard-bitten reporter whose column is the scourge of gamblers, gangsters, and corrupt players across the city. Sixteen-year-old George LaMain is Judge's biggest fan—right up until the night he decides the writer has to die. George is in his father's saloon, waiting for his dad to give him his ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Panama Portrait

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    From a three-time Edgar Award–winning author: Local rituals and a lost painting draw a New York businessman into intrigue on a remote Pacific island.Ben Smith, a market researcher from New York City, has arrived on Santo Stefano, an island two hundred miles off the coast of Peru. At the behest of his company's seafood division, he's gauging the potential profitability of the island's abundance of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Valentine Estate

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    Edgar Award Finalist: A former Miami Beach tennis pro discovers the dangerous price of marrying for money in "one of the year's best chillers" ( The New York Times Book Review).There was a time when Davis Cup winner Chris Monte had it all. Now, down and out in Dade County, restringing racquets at a South Beach tennis shop and hiring himself out for an occasional lesson, he's dead broke. Then, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Dark Fantastic

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    Series Book 2 - The John Milano Mysteries
    In a desolate part of Brooklyn, a retired history professor plots mass murderThe withered old man speaks into a tape recorder. This is not a confession, he explains, but a presentation. He is Charles Witter Kirwan, a former academic who has lived his whole life in the same house and watched his childhood neighborhood turn from white to black. Now, stricken with terminal cancer, Kirwan has decided ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Bind

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    From a three-time Edgar Award–winning author: A private eye trails a blackmailer, a missing Florida widow, and a double-indemnity swindler.Freelance private investigator Jake Dekker and his lovely assistant, Elinor, are kicking back in Biscayne Bay as they plan their next move on a new case: masquerading as newlyweds and insinuating themselves into the confidence of South Miami Beach's highly ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Winter After This Summer

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    In the wake of a tragic accident, a young college student haunted by guilt moves to New York City to shake the past and discover his destiny.After three years at Temple University, Dan Egan was still trying to find out who he was. Frustratingly unmoored, he moved from engineering to fine arts and finally to humanities, plowed under each time. He was the one in the back row, sleeping behind dark ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Specialty of the House

    by Stanley Ellin ...
    In a quaint old restaurant, a chef relies on a devilish secret ingredientIn Sbirro's restaurant, there is no electric lighting, no music, and no menu. The only sound is the contented sighs of the regulars, who come every night in hopes that Sbirro will treat them to his signature dish, the famed lamb Amirstan, which comes from a beast so rare, only Sbirro knows how to obtain it. Tonight, two ... Read more

    $11.59 USD