"Jailed for a joke. It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this practical joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careeers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose..."...

A rerelease of a classic tale by the New Yorker journalist and author of The Postman Always Rings. Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a...

Block?s short stories are intelligent and respectful of the reader yet often take an unexpected turn. He plays fair. If you reread the story, you?ll find that he left you little clues about the final destination but didn?t connect the dots. Block is a master of the long-form mystery, and this collection proves he?s got the short form locked down as well. Brings together seventeen never-before-collected tales of murder and desire in a deluxe hardcover...

As an expert handler of venomous snakes, Charles Raynaud is accustomed to danger, so the job of bodyguarding an old acquaintance shouldn't make him break a sweat. But when an attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed, he suspects he himself is the real target.

To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?

"December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." -- As the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor...

"Sometimes you bury the past. Sometimes it buries you. Every professional thief knows you never return to the scene of a crime. But what if you have no choice? In this intense heist story - appear in bookstores for the first time in three decades - MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins brings veteran theif Nolan and his young partner in crime Jon back to rob the same bank they targeted in their debut novel, Two For The Money, at the behest of an embezzling...