n Portrait in Smoke, a collection agent specializing in missing persons falls in love with the photograph of a missing woman, and a man hunts down his wife's killer in The Tooth and the Nail. DATE WITH MURDER A beautiful doll arrives in New ...
PORTRAIT IN SMOKEDanny April is obsessed. He buys out a little collection agency in Chicago, and that’s how he first meets Krassy. He’d never seen anyone so beautiful. She was Krassy Almauniski then, when he first runs across her picture in his f...
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION, Signet New American Library #D2674, published May 1965. First Edition, First Printing, so stated, no previous hardcover. Author's first of five Joaquin Hawks spy thriller novels. Plot summary: Something from the jung...
AN OLD-FASHIONED CRIME… It started out that way. An armored car knocked over, a quarter of a million snatched, and Bryce Patch told to recover the loot, no questions asked. But then the action swung from mobsville to hippyland. And patch was ...
THE BODY IN THE BEDBarr Breed doesn't want to take the case at first. When Mr. Gibbs comes to him with a story about finding his mistress strangled in her bed, and not wanting to go the cops about it, Breed turns him right down. He doesn't want to ge...