murder

The Fabulous Clipjoint is a coming-of-age story that begins when Ed’s father is murdered in a back alley in Chicago. Ed and his Uncle Ambrose investigate and Ed learns a great deal about life and death.

English Knife – Four Stories: A kidnapping for love, a ship full of Nazi spies, a robbery/homicide and a man who snapped. A full line-up of crime.

The Deadly Ones – Three stories about murders and the sociopaths that commit it. A corrupt politician accidentally kills his ex-secretary and has to disappear; an accomplice to fraud gets the the tables turned on her when she tries to kill her partner in crime; and all of the murders surrounding a secret new gunsight.

Chet Lacey- Private Investigator – Five stories of the cases of Private Detective Chet Lacey. He finds murder, blackmail, and the seamy side of life even in the “nicest” parts of society.

When Chet Lacey, Private Investigator, deals with the low life grifters that surround high society he finds that guns can be handy things.

My Brother’s Widow – For four years, Gevan Dean had refused to face Niki, the woman who’d hurt him. But now he had to—because her husband, Gevan’s brother, had been murdered.

Flight of the Tiger – Ben Morrow went to visit Helen MacLane, widow of his best friend, only to find that she was on the run from killers…. Ben tried to find Helen but he was being stalked by the killers, and they knew he would lead them straight to her.

Mission: Murder – Conspiracy, theft, murder and the love of a good woman are the key ingredients to these stories by John D. MacDonald

Cocktails or Corpses? – Five stories of murder, betrayal, attempted murder, blackmail and setups. And a lot of thoroughly bad people.