He Who Hesitates (1965), Blood Relatives (1975), Long Time No See (1977) and The Big Bad City (1999).
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
Novels Cry Hard, Cry Fast (1955), Murdering the Wind (1956), Slam the Big Door (1960), A Flash of Green (1962), and the astonishingly good The End of the Night (1960) were among his finest work. There...
Even souvenir seekers. One of the worst contaminants was fellow officers, especially brass grandstanding if reporters were present and eager to grab a video bite to slap on the twenty-four-hour news c...
All he could about the men who had defiled her
You’re sure it was Loving? Yes. That’s exactly the kind of strategy he’d choose. There’s no doubt it was him. I was aware of the corollary to that conclusion: Loving would know too—because of the esca...
Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.
Which one I like better? That’s the question, Mr. Tour Guide. I felt suddenly awkward, like I was being tested on something I hadn’t studied for. I didn’t really know which one I liked more. The only...
When innocent people find themselves in situations that require the presence and protection of people like me, their reaction more often than not is as much bewilderment as fear. Mortality is tough to...
What he was really asking was this: Was he making the right decision in assigning me, and not someone else, to the job of guarding principals from Henry Loving? In short, could I be objective when the...
The office, high above downtown Manhattan, looked out over Jersey. The crap in the air made the sunset absolutely beautiful.
Pulaski said, Even psycho killers need to do home repairs. Probably it’s not related to the case.
Our SUV and four other cars accelerated fast and skidded up over the grass on Professor Peter Yu’s property, tearing up the lawn and destroying shrubs. I’m told that this dramatic entrance, which you’...
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My opponent . . . what is he going to do? In game theory analysis the followers of eighteenth-century statistician Thomas Bayes hold that the world is made up of constantly changing knowledge, and in...
Every case I worked is closed. All the principals were either abducted and resettled . . . or zeroed, she said, using a verb that I’d heard from time to time if my principal was in a similar line of w...
Donald E. Westlake It’s an accepted fact that Donald E. Westlake has excelled at every single sub-genre the mystery field has to offer—humorous books (Scared Monster); terrifying books (The Ax, about...
Bond
Already sweating though it was just nine in the morning, Amelia Sachs pushed through a stand of tall grass. She was walking the strip search—what the Crime Scene people called it—an S-shaped pattern....
The Matt Scudder novels (dark), including Eight Million Ways to Die, The Devil Knows You’re Dead, and the Edgar-winning A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, and the Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries (humorous), i...