Compellingly and compulsively readable, "Hard-bolied: An Anthology of American Crime Stories" is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Included are thirty-six superbly suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessenti
Contents:Introduction / Edward GormanThe used / Loren D. EstlemanA cold foggy day / Bill PronziniSwamp search / Harry WhittingtonTake care of yourself / William Campbell GaultA matter of ethics / Robert J. RandisiTough / John LutzThis world, then the fire
The third volume in the Civil War Battle Series of novels spanning the war, Antietam brings the war to within view of the Brannon family farm in Culpeper County, Virginia. When the Federals intercept the Rebels near Antietam Creek, two of the Brannon brot
The fourth book in the Civil War Battle Series, Chancellorsville brings the war in Virginia to early 1863 to the wooded wilderness of the Rappahannock and a confrontation between the two armies near a roadside inn.
On a quiet, dead-end residential street on the outskirts of Omaha, Nebraska sits an old house called Tanglewood. In its front yard a large old ash tree casts its shadow across shrubs and flowerbeds and a lawn that have all long ago surrendered any pretens
First book in the Wind River series. After buffalo hunter and former army scout Cole Tyler arrives in Wind River, a primitive outpost in the wild Wyoming Territory, he is unwittingly drawn into taking the unwelcome and dangerous job of town marshal. Marsh
A discovery deep inside the Great Sphinx of Egypt reveals a secret that will send Gabriel Hunt racing to the Greek Isles of Chios and then on to a deadly confrontation atop Sri Lankas ancient rock fortress of Sigiriya.
Praise for the first Damn Near Dead anthology:"Some [of the stories] are hilarious; many are sad; all are the kind of stuff that makes Miss Marple look like a Girl Scout."—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune"The best anthology I've read this year."—Jennifer J