Hard-Boiled Mystery
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Andrew Vachss

“ALL I can do is give you a stack of rule-outs, partner.” The consultant’s voice came through the van’s multi-speaker system. “I’ll take whatever you have, Doctor,” the blond man ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-02-15 | Author:Jim Thompson

17 It was mid-morning when I awakened. I lay with my eyes half-closed for a time, letting the sunlight seep gradually under the lids, putting the day off as long ...
( Category: Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Robert B. Parker

32 I sat with Quirk in an interrogation room in the new police headquarters, across the table from the two guys Hawk had collared. One had a big, rapidly discoloring ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

“There was always the chance you’d come out of it.” “I feel as if I had.” “She seems to be an exceptional person.” “Gretel? Yes. Yes, she is. I like ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

Chapter Twelve I awoke, and the candles had burned out. I could hear the sea and, approaching across the sea, a hard night rain, a bumble and thud of thunder. ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

Fourteen TOUGH LISA DISSAT was not gone for more than ten minutes, it was full night when she came back a velvet beach under a brilliance of stars. There were ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

Twelve MONDAY wws hiatus. A quiet day, useful as a compress on an ugly bruise. Meyer was up early by prearrangement and braved the traffic in our rental to go ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

12 I HAD A hell of a night. Hundreds of dreams and from what little I could remember of them, they all had the same pattern. Either somebody was running ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

Eleven ON SATURDAY before noon I looked through the stowage areas for fifteen minutes before I found my gadget. It is called the McGee Electric Alibi. The two D cells ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

NINE FRNSISCO SMITH woke me up with his phone call at quarter past eight on Tuesday, that thirteenth day of December. “Got something to write on?” he asked. “Hold on,” ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

Ten AT A little past noon I was back aboard the Busted Flush. I leave the air conditioner set to cycle when the inside temperature gets past ninety. I put ...
( Category: Heist March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

Ten AFTER EXPOSURE to Boone Waxwell, the look of Chook and Arthur on the early afternoon beach had the flavor of a great innocence. She was hovering around him, cheering ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

Thirteen AFTER BREAKFAST I sat in umbrellaed shade while Nora swam, shirt and slacks covering the thorn wounds, my curled hand concealing the random stigmata, the girl-bite bandage also hidden ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

Eight INVESTIGATING A cold cold trail can be deadly dull and very discouraging. This one worked pretty well, perhaps because there were two of us, two sets of hunches, two ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:John D. MacDonald

Seven I FOUND the small house of Juan Estobar on a quiet street in the heat of the mid-morning. It was a small frame house, freshly painted pink and white, ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )