Robert J. Randisi Books In Order

Angel Eyes Books In Publication Order

  1. The Miracle of Revenge (1985)
  2. Death’s Angel (1985)
  3. Wolf Pass (1986)
  4. Chinatown Justice (2012)
  5. Logan’s Army (2012)
  6. Bullets and Bad Times (2012)
  7. Six-Gun Angel (2013)
  8. Avenging Angel (2013)
  9. Angel for Hire (2013)

Blaze! Western Books In Publication Order

  1. The Deadly Guns (2015)
  2. Blaze! Bitter Valley (By:Wayne D. Dundee) (2015)
  3. Blaze! Zombies Over Yonder (By:Stephen Mertz) (2015)
  4. Blaze! A Son of the Gun (By:Stephen Mertz) (2016)
  5. Blaze! The Christmas Journey (By:Stephen Mertz) (2016)

Decker, the Bounty Hunter Books In Publication Order

  1. Double the Bounty (2008)
  2. The Lawman (2008)
  3. Beauty and the Bounty (2009)
  4. Bounty on a Baron (2009)
  5. Broadway Bounty (2010)

Detective McQueen Books In Publication Order

  1. The Sixth Phase (1999)
  2. Cold Blooded (2005)

Gamblers Books In Publication Order

  1. Butler’s Wager (2007)
  2. Denver Draw (2007)
  3. Texas Bluff (2008)

Gil and Claire Hunt Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. Murder Is the Deal of the Day (By:Christine Matthews) (1999)
  2. The Masks of Auntie Laveau (2002)
  3. Same Time, Same Murder (2005)

Hitman with a Soul Books In Publication Order

  1. Upon My Soul (2013)
  2. Souls of the Dead (2015)
  3. Envy the Dead (2017)

Hot Blood Books In Publication Order

  1. Hot Blood (1989)
  2. Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror (1991)
  3. Hottest Blood (1993)
  4. Deadly After Dark (1994)
  5. Seeds of Fear (1995)
  6. Stranger by Night (1995)
  7. Fear the Fever (1996)
  8. Kiss and Kill (1997)
  9. Crimes of Passion (1997)
  10. Hot Blood X (1998)
  11. Fatal Attractions (2003)
  12. Strange Bedfellows (2004)
  13. Dark Passions (2007)

Housesitting Detective Books In Publication Order

  1. Dry Stone Walls (2015)

Joe Keough Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. Alone with the Dead (1995)
  2. In the Shadow of the Arch (1997)
  3. Blood on the Arch (2000)
  4. East of the Arch (2002)
  5. Arch Angels / Blood of Angels (2004)

John Headston PI Books In Publication Order

  1. The Headstone Detective Agency (2019)
  2. Headstone’s Folly (2020)

Miles Jacoby Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. Eye In The Ring (1982)
  2. The Steinway Collection / Beaten to a Pulp (1983)
  3. Full Contact (1984)
  4. Separate Cases (1990)
  5. Hard Look (1993)
  6. Stand Up (1994)

Mountain Jack Pike Books In Publication Order

  1. Mountain Jack Pike (1988)
  2. Rocky Mountain Kill (1989)
  3. Comanche Come-On (1989)
  4. Crow Bait (1989)
  5. Green River Hunt (1990)
  6. St. Louis Fire (1990)
  7. The Russian Bear (1991)
  8. Hard for Justice (1991)
  9. Big Gun Bushwhacker (1991)
  10. Bulls Eye Blood (1992)
  11. Deep Canyon Kill (1992)
  12. Fire in the Hole (1993)
  13. High Country Climax (1993)
  14. Trail Heat (1993)
  15. Rough Trade (1993)

Nashville PI Books In Publication Order

  1. The Honky Tonk Big Hoss Boogie (2013)
  2. The Last Sweet Song of Hammer Dylan (2019)

Nick Delvecchio Books In Publication Order

  1. No Exit from Brooklyn (1987)
  2. The Dead of Brooklyn (1991)
  3. The End of Brooklyn (2011)

Rat Pack Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime (2006)
  2. Luck Be a Lady, Don’t Die (2007)
  3. Hey There ,You with the Gun in Your Hand (2008)
  4. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Kills You (2009)
  5. I’m a Fool to Kill You (2011)
  6. Fly Me To the Morgue (2011)
  7. It Was A Very Bad Year (2012)
  8. You Make Me Feel So Dead (2013)
  9. The Way You Die Tonight (2014)
  10. When Somebody Kills You (2015)
  11. I Only Have Lies For You (2018)

Ryder Books In Publication Order

  1. Buffalo Gal (1987)
  2. Longhorn Sisters (1987)
  3. Ryder’s Army (1987)
  4. Tong War (1987)
  5. The Flaming Arrows (1987)
  6. Badlands Blood (1987)
  7. Showdown (1987)
  8. Blood Vengeance (1987)
  9. Range War (1987)

Session Man Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. The Session Man (2012)

Shelter Books In Publication Order

  1. Prisoner of Revenge (1980)
  2. Chain Gang Kill (1980)
  3. China Doll (1980)
  4. Circus of Death (1981)
  5. Lookout Mountain (1981)
  6. The Bandit Queen (1981)
  7. Apache Trail (1982)
  8. Blood Mesa (1983)
  9. Comanchero Blood (1983)
  10. The Hard Men (1984)
  11. Saddle Tramp (1984)
  12. Shotgun Sugar (1985)
  13. Fast-Draw Filly (1985)
  14. Wanted Woman (1985)
  15. Tongue-Tied Texan (1986)
  16. The Slave Queen (1986)
  17. Treasure Chest (1986)
  18. Heavenly Hands (1987)
  19. Lay of the Land (1987)
  20. Bang-Up Showdown (1987)
  21. Whistlestop Wench (1988)
  22. Hot and Spicy (1988)
  23. Tattle-Tail (1989)
  24. Wyoming Wench (1989)

Soldiers of Barrabas Books In Publication Order

  1. Barrabas Run (By:Jack Hild,Alan Bomack,Jack Canon,Robin Hardy) (1983)
  2. The Barrabas Run (By:Jack Hild,Alan Bomack,Jack Canon,Robin Hardy) (1983)
  3. Plains Of Fire (By:Ron Lesser,Alan Philipson,Jack Hild) (1984)
  4. Butchers Of Eden (By:Alan Philipson,Jack Hild) (1984)
  5. Show No Mercy (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1984)
  6. Gulag War (By:Alan Philipson,Jack Hild) (1985)
  7. Red Hammer Down (By:Alan Philipson,Jack Hild) (1985)
  8. Rivers Of Flesh (By:Ron Lesser,Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1985)
  9. Eye Of The Fire (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1985)
  10. Some Choose Hell (By:Ron Lesser,Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1985)
  11. Vultures Of The Horn (By:Alan Philipson,Jack Hild) (1985)
  12. Agile Retrieval (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1986)
  13. Jihad (By:Alan Philipson,Jack Hild) (1986)
  14. No Sanctuary (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1986)
  15. Red Vengeance (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1986)
  16. Death Deal (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1986)
  17. Firestorm U.S.A. (By:Ron Lesser,Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1986)
  18. Point Blank (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1987)
  19. Sakhalin Breakout (By:Jack Garside,Jack Hild) (1987)
  20. Skyjack (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1987)
  21. Alaska Deception (By:Jack Garside,Jack Hild) (1987)
  22. No Safe Place (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1987)
  23. Kremlin Devils (By:Jack Hild,Robin Hardy) (1987)
  24. The Barrabas Edge (1988)
  25. The Barrabas Raid (By:John Preston,Jack Hild) (1988)
  26. The Barrabas Fix (By:Jack Hild,William Baetz) (1988)
  27. Pacific Payload (By:John Preston,Jack Hild) (1988)
  28. The Barrabas Creed (By:John Preston,Jack Hild) (1988)
  29. The Barrabas Heist (By:Roland J. Green,Jack Hild) (1989)
  30. The Barrabas Fire (By:Jack Hild,Rich Rainey) (1989)
  31. The Barrabas Thrust (By:Jack Hild,Rich Rainey) (1989)
  32. The Barrabas Kill (By:Jack Hild,William Baetz) (1989)

Sons of Daniel Shaye Books In Publication Order

  1. Leaving Epitaph (2004)
  2. Vengeance Creek (2005)
  3. Pearl River Junction (2006)
  4. Return to Vengeance Creek (2018)

Talbot Roper Books In Publication Order

  1. Bullets and Lies (2012)
  2. The Reluctant Pinkerton (2013)

Texas Hold’em Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. The Picasso Flop (2007)
  2. The Judgment Fold (2008)

Tracker Books In Publication Order

  1. The Winning Hand (1983)
  2. Lincoln County (1983)
  3. The Blue Cut Job (1983)
  4. Chinatown Chance (1983)
  5. The Oklahoma Score (2012)
  6. The Barbary Coast Tong (2012)
  7. Huntsville Breakout (2013)

Trail Drive Books In Publication Order

  1. The Goodnight Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1992)
  2. The Western Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1992)
  3. The Chisholm Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1993)
  4. The Bandera Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1993)
  5. The California Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1994)
  6. The Shawnee Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1994)
  7. The Virginia City Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1994)
  8. The Dodge City Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1995)
  9. The Oregon Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1995)
  10. The Santa Fe Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1997)
  11. The Old Spanish Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1998)
  12. The Green River Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1999)
  13. The Deadwood Trail (By:Ralph Compton) (1999)
  14. The Dakota Trail (By:Robert Vaughan) (2001)
  15. The Alamosa Trail (By:Robert Vaughan) (2002)
  16. The Bozeman Trail (By:Robert Vaughan) (2002)
  17. The Abilene Trail (By:Dusty Richards) (2003)
  18. Trail To Fort Smith (By:Dusty Richards) (2004)
  19. The Palo Duro Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2004)
  20. The Ogallala Trail (By:Dusty Richards) (2005)
  21. The Ellsworth Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2005)
  22. The Tenderfoot Trail (By:Joseph A. West) (2006)
  23. Trail to Cottonwood Falls (By:Dusty Richards) (2007)
  24. The Amarillo Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2011)
  25. The Omaha Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2012)
  26. Big Jake’s Last Drive (2020)
  27. The Badlands Trail (By:Michael Newton) (2020)
  28. The Kelly Trail (By:Terrence McCauley) (2020)
  29. Drive for Independence (By:Lyle Brandt) (2020)
  30. Red Trail (By:John Shirley) (2020)
  31. The Empire Trail (By:Jeff Rovin) (2021)
  32. The Too-Late Trail (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2021)
  33. Terror Trail (By:Ralph Compton,Lyle Brandt) (2021)
  34. Ralph Compton the Sagebrush Trail (With: Ralph Compton) (2021)

Widowmaker Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. Invitation to a Hanging (2003)
  2. Turnback Creek (2004)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Targett (1971)
  2. The Disappearance of Penny (1980)
  3. The Ham Reporter (1986)
  4. Ute Revenge (As: Paul Ledd) (1986)
  5. Once Upon A Murder (With: Kevin D. Randle) (1987)
  6. Backshooter (1989)
  7. Texas Iron (1991)
  8. Blood Trail To Kansas (1991)
  9. Mountain Man’s Vengeance (As: R. Lake) (1993)
  10. The Sportsman (1994)
  11. The Ghost with Blue Eyes (1999)
  12. Miracle of the Jacal (2001)
  13. Curtains of Blood (2002)
  14. The Offer (2003)
  15. Lancaster’s Orphans (2004)
  16. The Funeral of Tanner Moody (2004)
  17. Trapp’s Mountain (2005)
  18. The Money Gun (2007)
  19. Gallows (2009)
  20. The Bottom of Every Bottle (2010)
  21. The Further Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (2012)
  22. McKenna’s House (2014)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Goodly Race (2015)
  2. Henry and the Idiots (2015)
  3. Like a Stranger (2015)
  4. A Matter of Ethics (2015)
  5. Turnabout (2015)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Writing the Private Eye Novel (1997)

The Destroyer Books In Publication Order

  1. Created The Destroyer (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1971)
  2. Death Check (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1972)
  3. Chinese Puzzle (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1972)
  4. Mafia Fix (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1972)
  5. Dr. Quake (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1972)
  6. Death Therapy (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1972)
  7. Union Bust (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1972)
  8. Summit Chase (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1973)
  9. Murder’s Shield (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1973)
  10. Terror Squad (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1973)
  11. Kill or Cure (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1973)
  12. Slave Safari (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1973)
  13. Acid Rock (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1973)
  14. Judgment Day (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1974)
  15. Murder Ward (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1974)
  16. Oil Slick (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1974)
  17. Last War Dance (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1974)
  18. Funny Money (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1975)
  19. Holy Terror (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1975)
  20. Assassin’s Play Off (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1975)
  21. Deadly Seeds (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1975)
  22. Brain Drain (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1976)
  23. Child’s Play (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1976)
  24. King’s Curse (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1976)
  25. Sweet Dreams (By:Richard S. Meyers,Warren Murphy) (1976)
  26. In Enemy Hands (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1976)
  27. The Last Temple (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1977)
  28. Ship of Death (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1977)
  29. The Final Death (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1977)
  30. Mugger Blood (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1977)
  31. The Head Men (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1977)
  32. Killer Chromosomes (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1978)
  33. Voodoo Die (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1978)
  34. Chained Reaction (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1978)
  35. Last Call (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1978)
  36. Power Play (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1979)
  37. Bottom Line (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1979)
  38. Bay City Blast (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1979)
  39. Missing Link (By:Warren Murphy) (1980)
  40. Dangerous Games (With: Warren Murphy) (1980)
  41. Firing Line (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1980)
  42. Timber Line (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1980)
  43. Midnight Man (With: Warren Murphy) (1981)
  44. Balance of Power (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran) (1981)
  45. Spoils of War (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran) (1981)
  46. Next of Kin (By:Warren Murphy,Molly Cochran) (1981)
  47. Profit Motive (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1982)
  48. Skin Deep (By:Warren Murphy,Molly Cochran) (1982)
  49. Killing Time (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran) (1982)
  50. Dying Space (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran) (1982)
  51. Shock Value (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran) (1983)
  52. Fool’s Gold (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1983)
  53. Time Trial (By:Warren Murphy,Molly Cochran) (1983)
  54. Last Drop (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran) (1983)
  55. Master’s Challenge (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran) (1984)
  56. Encounter Group (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy) (1984)
  57. Date with Death (By:Warren Murphy,Molly Cochran,Ed Hunsburger) (1984)
  58. Total Recall (With: Warren Murphy) (1984)
  59. The Arms of Kali (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1984)
  60. The End of the Game (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1985)
  61. Lords of the Earth (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1985)
  62. The Seventh Stone (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Ed Hunsburger) (1985)
  63. The Sky Is Falling (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1986)
  64. The Last Alchemist (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1986)
  65. Lost Yesterday (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1986)
  66. Sue Me (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1986)
  67. Look into My Eyes (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1987)
  68. An Old-Fashioned War (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1987)
  69. Blood Ties (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy) (1987)
  70. The Eleventh Hour (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Molly Cochran) (1987)
  71. Return Engagement (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy) (1988)
  72. Sole Survivor (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy) (1988)
  73. Line of Succession (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy) (1988)
  74. Walking Wounded (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1988)
  75. Rain of Terror (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1989)
  76. The Final Crusade (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1989)
  77. Coin of the Realm (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1989)
  78. Blue Smoke and Mirrors (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1989)
  79. Shooting Schedule (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1990)
  80. Death Sentence (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1990)
  81. Hostile Takeover (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1990)
  82. Survival Course (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1990)
  83. Skull Duggery (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1990)
  84. Ground Zero (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1991)
  85. Blood Lust (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1991)
  86. Arabian Nightmare (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1991)
  87. The Ultimate Death (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1992)
  88. Dark Horse (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1992)
  89. Ghost in the Machine (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1992)
  90. Mob Psychology (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1992)
  91. Cold Warrior (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1993)
  92. The Last Dragon (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1993)
  93. Terminal Transmission (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1993)
  94. Feeding Frenzy (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy) (1993)
  95. High Priestess (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1994)
  96. Infernal Revenue (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy) (1994)
  97. Identity Crisis (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1994)
  98. Target of Opportunity (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1994)
  99. The Color Of Fear (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1995)
  100. Last Rites (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir) (1995)
  101. Continental Divide (By:Warren Murphy,R.J. Carter) (2018)
  102. Monumental Terror (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,R.J. Carter) (2019)

The Gunfighter Books In Publication Order

  1. Reunion in Hell (By:Ralph Compton,Carlton Stowers) (2020)
  2. Blood of the Hunters (By:Jeff Rovin,Ralph Compton) (2020)
  3. Broken Rider (By:John Shirley,Ralph Compton) (2020)
  4. Return to Gila Bend (By:Ralph Compton,Carlton Stowers) (2020)
  5. Death Valley Drifter (By:Jeff Rovin,Ralph Compton) (2020)
  6. Ride for Justice (With: Ralph Compton) (2020)
  7. Ride the Hammer Down (By:Ralph Compton,Terrence McCauley) (2020)
  8. Frontier Medicine (With: Ralph Compton) (2021)
  9. Face of a Snake (By:Bernard Schaffer,Ralph Compton) (2021)
  10. Dalton’s Justice (By:Ralph Compton,Carlton Stowers) (2021)
  11. Shot to Hell (By:Jackson Lowry,Ralph Compton) (2021)
  12. Hell Snake (By:Bernard Schaffer,Ralph Compton) (2021)
  13. The Wrong Side of the Law (With: Ralph Compton) (2021)
  14. Guns of the Greenhorn (By:Matthew P. Mayo,Ralph Compton) (2021)
  15. The Devil’s Snare (By:Ralph Compton,Tony Healey) (2021)
  16. Blood on the Prairie (By:Ralph Compton,Tony Healey) (2021)
  17. Die Trying (By:Ralph Compton,Tony Healey) (2021)

Ralph Compton Western Books In Publication Order

  1. Blood and Gold (By:Joseph A. West) (2004)
  2. For the Brand (By:David Robbins) (2005)
  3. Rio Largo (By:David Robbins) (2006)
  4. Guns of the Canyonlands (By:Joseph A. West) (2006)
  5. Texas Empire (By:Ralph Compton) (2006)
  6. By the Horns (By:David Robbins) (2006)
  7. Deadwood Gulch (By:John Edward Ames) (2006)
  8. The Bloody Trail (By:Marcus Galloway) (2007)
  9. A Wolf In the Fold (By:David Robbins) (2007)
  10. Bluff City (By:David Robbins) (2007)
  11. Blood Duel (By:David Robbins) (2007)
  12. Death of a Bad Man (By:Marcus Galloway) (2008)
  13. Ride the Hard Trail (By:David Robbins) (2008)
  14. Bullet for a Bad Man (By:David Robbins) (2008)
  15. The Convict Trail (By:Joseph A. West) (2008)
  16. Rawhide Flat (By:Joseph A. West) (2009)
  17. Outlaw’s Reckoning (By:Marcus Galloway) (2009)
  18. The Man From Nowhere (By:Joseph A. West) (2009)
  19. Bounty Hunter (By:Joseph A. West) (2009)
  20. Fatal Justice (By:David Robbins) (2009)
  21. Stryker’s Revenge (By:Joseph A. West) (2010)
  22. Death of a Hangman (By:Joseph A. West) (2010)
  23. North to the Salt Fork (By:Ralph Compton,Dusty Richards) (2010)
  24. Rusted Tin (By:Marcus Galloway) (2010)
  25. The Burning Range (By:Joseph A. West) (2010)
  26. The Last Manhunt (By:Joseph A. West) (2011)
  27. The Stranger from Abilene (By:Joseph A. West) (2011)
  28. The Ghost of Apache Creek (By:Joseph A. West) (2011)
  29. Dead Man’s Ranch (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2012)
  30. Slaughter Canyon (By:Joseph A. West) (2012)
  31. One Man’s Fire (By:Marcus Galloway) (2012)
  32. Tucker’s Reckoning (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2012)
  33. Down on Gila River (By:Joseph A. West) (2012)
  34. Brimstone Trail (By:Marcus Galloway) (2013)
  35. Straight Shooter (By:Marcus Galloway) (2013)
  36. The Hunted (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2013)
  37. Hard Ride to Wichita (By:Marcus Galloway) (2013)
  38. The Cheyenne Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2014)
  39. Double-Cross Ranch (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2014)
  40. Comanche Trail (By:Carlton Stowers) (2014)
  41. The Dangerous Land (By:Marcus Galloway) (2014)
  42. Vigilante Dawn (By:Marcus Galloway) (2014)
  43. The Evil Men Do (By:David Robbins) (2015)
  44. Straight to the Noose (By:Marcus Galloway) (2015)
  45. Shotgun Charlie (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2015)
  46. The Law and the Lawless (By:David Robbins) (2015)
  47. Brother’s Keeper (By:David Robbins) (2015)
  48. Texas Hills (By:David Robbins) (2015)
  49. Outlaw Town (By:David Robbins) (2016)
  50. Phantom Hill (By:Carlton Stowers) (2016)
  51. Ralph Compton the Hellbound Posse (With: Ralph Compton) (2021)

World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books In Publication Order

  1. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000)
  2. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
  3. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002)
  4. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 (2003)
  5. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 (2004)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Mean Streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1986)
  2. An Eye for Justice (1988)
  3. The Black Moon (1989)
  4. Under the Gun (1990)
  5. Hot Blood X (1998)
  6. The Shamus Game (2000)
  7. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
  8. Greatest Hits (2005)
  9. Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook (2006)
  10. By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2010)
  11. Six-Guns and Slay Bells (2012)
  12. Legend (2013)
  13. Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea (2017)
  14. The Great Filling Station Holdup (2021)

Angel Eyes Book Covers

Blaze! Western Book Covers

Decker, the Bounty Hunter Book Covers

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Double the Bounty

He almost paid the ultimate price for a crime he didn’t commit. Now Decker is determined to track down others wanted by the law. He’ll make sure the innocent have nothing to fear. But the guilty won’t stand a chance against THE BOUNTY HUNTER

Brian Foxx was a legend. According to numerous eyewitnesses, he’d held up a bank in Wyoming and one in Arizona on the exact same day at the exact same time. Decker has no idea how Foxx pulled it off, but he’s got a legend of his own to maintain: no matter how wily the opponent or impossible the crime, Decker always gets his man.

The Lawman

The bounty hunter known only as Decker is hot on the trail of a crooked sheriff, but a band of outlaws dogging his every step won’t make the catch easy.

Bounty on a Baron

No one knows much about the Baron. But one whisper in that cultured accent is enough to set even the most hardened of men shaking in their boots. He’s clearly cut from a different cloth than other hired killers in the Wild West. But he’s just as deadly. And that’s all Decker cares about. Because in the eyes of the law, all men are equal, and Decker will make sure the Baron faces American justice.

Cold Blooded

NYPD Detective Sergeant Dennis McQueen has his hands full with a very bizarre case. A series of dead bodies have been found, all frozenkilled by various methods, but disposed of in the same manner. Just a coincidence, or is there a serial killer at work? Things heat up when McQueen is sent to investigate a body found in the rubble of a fire and meets FDNY Fire Marshal Mason Willis. Willis is investigating it as an arson, but the medical examiners report makes it obvious that this is a case for McQueen. McQueen and Willis have no choice but to work together. Will even the combined efforts of the NYPD and the FDNY be able to stop the killeror killers?

Butler’s Wager

Ty Butler came from Eastern wealth& 8212but killers destroyed everyone who shared his name. Seeking a safe haven in the open West, he’s found a home among the outlaws, tinhorns, and fugitives who gather at the gaming table. His skill at reading faces and cards has kept Butler in the money& 8212and it’s kept him sharp and ready…
for the assassins who’re hunting him down. Working his way to Dodge City, Butler finds the town in an uproar. A new law’s in charge here where Bat Masterson carved his legend& 8212old, powerful, and dangerous grudges are about to explode& 8212and Ty Butler’s caught right in the middle. When the gunsmoke clears, he’ll have friends and enemies in all the wrong places. And to make it out of Dodge alive, he’ll need all the aces he can get his hands on.

Denver Draw

On the run from the assassins who murdered his family, Ty Butler found a new way to survive: with a few good hands, a loaded gun, and a little luck. But lying low and keeping out of his hunters’ gunsights is getting harder to do since he started earning a serious rep at the poker table and especially now that he’s made some new friends…
named Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday.

In Denver, Butler finds Holliday in the clutches of corrupt lawmen. Doc’s wanted for murder back in Tombstone, and he’d rather go out in a blazing gunfight than face an Arizona hanging judge. All Butler has to do is keep Doc breathing until Earp and Masterson arrive to spring him and that won’t be easy. The Gambler’s been dealt into a dangerous game with too many killers anteing up. And this time Ty Butler just might be drawing dead.

Texas Bluff

Professional gambler Ty Butler knows he should keep moving to stay ahead of the killers who wiped out his family and are now gunning for him. But when a serious card player finds a challenging game in an honest house, he wants to stay awhile. For Butler, a certain gambling hall is paradise though the emporium’s notorious owner, Little Luke Short, can’t seem to steer clear of Hell’s Half Acre, a corrupt and festering boil in the middle of Fort Worth. Short’s been waging an ongoing war with a crooked kingpin, and now he’s making it Ty’s fight as well. The stakes get higher when the criminal is murdered and the law comes gunning for Little Luke. But Ty Butler recognizes a bluff when he sees one not to mention the unmistakable hand of a hired killer. He may end up taking a bullet, but he’s not cashing out of this game until real justice is done.

Murder Is the Deal of the Day (By:Christine Matthews)

Gil and Claire Hunt, each married for the second time, both believe they’ve found the best of everything in each other. Determined to begin their lives anew and spend every possible minute together, they leave their respective residences and move to St. Louis. Gil owns and manages a secondhand bookstore. Claire is the host of a popular home shopping mall. Life is simple. But when three women are horribly murdered while watching tapes of Claire’s show, Claire and Gil’s quiet lives take a turn for the worst. Immediately the police are suspicious of Claire, convinced that she and her tapes are somehow linked to the murders. And so the nightmare begins…
. Can Gil and Claire prove Claire’s innocence while protecting themselves and others from this television crazed maniac? Written by two critically acclaimed mystery authors, Murder is the Deal of the Day is a tight knit bundle of suspense, emotion, and surprise.

The Masks of Auntie Laveau

When Claire Hunt is sent to host her home shopping program on location in the Big Easy she and her husband, Gil, cannot resist having him come along. A book dealer back home in St. Louis, Gil is eager for the chance to poke around in the French Quarter’s shops. The food, the history, the mystique all of it delights the couple…
until they’re meeting with the Voodoo Queen, Auntie Laveau. The strange woman presents the duo with a collection of miniature Mardi Gras masks, hoping Claire will sell them on the air during her show. However, when the real Auntie Laveau is found murdered the police begin an official investigation. As the Hunts unwittingly become entangled with Louisiana’s supernatural subculture Gil finds himself embroiled in the search for a missing girl who may or may not become the next victim. As he, himself, becomes endangered Claire and her son, Paul, frantically search the French Quarter for her husband before he can become a victim of the Voodoo Queen as well. But wait. Auntie Laveau is dead or is she?

Same Time, Same Murder

Another fun and charming mystery featuring husband-and-wife sleuth team Gil and Claire Hunt When Gil and Claire signed up to attend a mystery writers’ convention, the last thing they expected to encounter was a real-life murder. But when the convention’s star attraction, prominent hardboiled writer Robin Everly, is found dead in his hotel room, Gil and Claire find themselves hunting for a clever killer who is apparently just as skilled at con-struct-ing the perfect murder in real life as in his mysteries!

Hot Blood

Robert R. McCammon, Graham Masterton, Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell and other masters of the macabre take readers into their private world of fear, fantasy, and fatal attraction in 24 tales of dread and debauchery, riveting stories of sex and terror…
the fresh fusion that is fast becoming America’s obsession. Reissue.

Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror

In Hotter Blood, sex and horror are coupled to an ecstatic effect. This is the second in the provocative anthology series that defined a genre and spanned a generation. Grant Morrison’s Bram Stoker nominated The Braille Encyclopedia spearheads a collection of 24 original stories, with additional contributions from horror stars like Richard Laymon and Nancy Collins, comic book talents Kurt Busiek and John Byrne, and superstar horror director Mick Garris. Explore the dark side of having your lover in The Tub with you, find out when Confession isn t good for the soul, and feed your hunger for erotic horror with this delectable collection Cemetery Dance called Hotter Blood outstanding, Gauntlet labeled it aggressive and riveting, a virtual Who s Who of modern horror, and to 2AM Magazine, it s Amazing highly recommended.

Hottest Blood

A collection of erotic tales of horror features stories by Graham Masterton, Bentley Little, Rex Miller, Elizabeth Massie, David J. Schow, Matthew Costello, John Shirley, Thomas Tessier, Grant Morrison, and other established masters.

Deadly After Dark

The fourth sizzling collection in the Hot Blood series, no longer available in retail book stores. Here is terror and passion beyond the last taboo in an all new collection of erotic horror from today’s fright masters Jack Ketchum, Graham Masterton, Lucy Taylor and more.

Seeds of Fear

This is the original erotic horror anthology including works by Rex Miller, Bentley Little, J.N. Williamson, Billie Sue Mosiman, Edward Lee, Ronald Kelly, Kathryn Ptacek, P.D. Cacek and Stephen R. George, just to name a few. These top name horror writers bring you the freshest works guaranteed to raise goosebumps and scald the blood.

Stranger by Night

Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, Brinke Stevens, Brian Hodge, Edward Lee, Lucy Taylor, Mike Newton, and other conjurers of the darkest demons of the human id bring new stories to this series. Here are sex driven, horro laced, tales from master writers who follow no rules, except one hold back nothing.

Fear the Fever

An erotic horror anthology includes the works of such popular writers as Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Graham Masterton, Lucy Taylor, Bruce Jones, J. N. Williamson, P. D. Cacek, and Alan Brennert.

Kiss and Kill

Sixteen erotic horror stories include the tales of fantasy fulfilling cheerleaders, a modern den of sin and its centuries old acts of debauchery, and a competition over sexual conquest by two wives.

Crimes of Passion

This exciting installment in the erotic horror series takes readers into an underworld of provocative delights and painful demises, with bone chilling stories by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, and Ramsey Campbell.

Dark Passions

Not all love is innocent. Some desires swallow you whole…
There’s more than meets the eye to the twenty twisted pleasures collected here, with death and desire lying in wait behind every corner. One goth girl finds the man whose love can make her beautiful and whose body can bring her ecstasy if she can stomach the price…
A zombie apocalypse destroys a man’s family, but ’til death do us part’ is a vow his wife won’t forget even if she’s now more on the undead side. A vampire hunter wakes up the morning after and has to discover what forbidden pleasures he indulged in the night before he suspects they might involve the drop dead gorgeous bloodsucker next door…
These and many more tales of sinister passion lie inside if you aren’t afraid of the dark…
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Alone with the Dead

A brutal serial killer stalks young women in New York City as Joe Keough, a detective with nothing to lose, challenges the system to get to the truth and risks failure that could leave the city in the grip of fear.

In the Shadow of the Arch

Joe Keough, a former New York City police detective, moved to St. Louis to get away from the bloodshed of the Big Apple and start fresh. But five minutes into Keoughs new life, four-year-old Brady Sanders walked into his St. Louis police station, leaving behind a trail of bloody footprints. ‘Each of Randisis novels is better than its entertaining predecessor.’-BOOKLIST

That was only the beginning of a twisted trail of darkness and fear, from Brady’s missing parents and their blood soaked house, to the kidnapping of beautiful mothers and their small children. Were these hideous acts a series of unrelated coincidences, or was there a serial killer on the loose, stalking and killing the citizens of St. Louis? It wasnt long before Keough was forced to realize that death in the Midwest is no different from death in New York. Terror is terror, no matter where you live. ‘Randisi successfully combines dry humor and suspense to come up with one heckuva read. This man knows how people talk and think and it shows.’

Blood on the Arch

When a political aide, who is running for office is killed, it’s up to Detective Keough to solve the crime. As more secrets unfold Keough must dig deeper to uncover political scandal. Filled with modern images of St. Louis, Robert J. Randisi spins another multi layered murder mystery.

East of the Arch

Keough has been at his job in the Mayor’s office for a year and he’s not happy. He’s been involved in more political functions and fund raisers than investigations. But when bodies of pregnant women begin to pile up on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, the Mayor of East St. Louis asks for help. Now out on loan, Keough heads up the search for a serial killer with only a Mark Twain quoting sidekick and young female clerk as his ‘task force.’ At the worst possible time his ex girlfriend, Valerie, comes back into his life with a problem the little boy, Brady, who tracked bloody footprints into Keough’s life in In the Shadow of the Arch, is in trouble. And as if all this weren’t enough, Keough is still trying to adjust to the fact that he has diabetes. When an offer to leave St. Louis to join a special state wide serial killer squad comes his way, Keough has to make a decision that could change his personal and professional life forever. Throughout all this turmoil, Keough works frantically to discover the perpetrator of these increasingly sick and twisted crimes, before another young woman and her unborn baby are killed. Filled with modern images of St. Louis, Robert J. Randisi spins another thrilling, multi layered murder mystery.

Arch Angels / Blood of Angels

Young boys are being kidnapped and then strangled to death in Chicago, while the same is happening to girls in St. Louis. Is there one killer driving up and down I 55, or two separate killers? Detective Joe Keough and his partner, Harriet Connors, recently assigned to the federal Serial Killer Task Force, are dispatched from Washington, D.C., to find out. For Keough, it has been a long time since he was last in his hometown, St. Louis. Keough has been part of the task force for just over a year and is not happy. He is considering yet another career change. The task force may be opening a Midwest office where he would love to be transferred or it might be disbanded. A lot will depend on what Keough and Harriet can do about these two cases of serial murders. But Keough is distracted by his ongoing battles with diabetes and recurring memories from his past. Filled with modern images of St. Louis, Robert J. Randisi spins another fascinating, multilayered murder mystery.

Deep Canyon Kill

When a group of missionaries is stranded in hostile Indian territory, Pike agrees to lead them onward to search for some of their lost brethren fighting the tribes and falling for a camp girl on his journey.

Fire in the Hole

The twelfth smoking episode in the rough and randy Western series by the author of Texas Iron. When Jack Pike and his pard Skins McConnell set out to take their winter cache of skins to post, they meet up with some inexperienced campers under attack by a savage war party of Blackfeet. But Pike and the men soon bring the redskin horde to its knees.

Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime

Las Vegas, 1960. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford are the Kings of Cool the Rat Pack. Ocean’s 11 is their first movie together and they have taken Sin City by storm filming during the day and cavorting onstage at the Sands Casino at night. It’s clear not everyone is charmed, however, when Dean begins receiving anonymous threatening letters. Eddie Gianelli, also called Eddie G., is a pit boss at the Sands. After twelve years, he’s got the whole town wired. But he’s still surprised when Joey Bishop drops by his table and invites him to meet with Frank in the Rat Pack’s private steam room. Frank asks Eddie to find out who’s been sending the threats, as a favor to him and Dean. Eddie wants to politely decline, but caught between his boss, Jack Entratter’s, not so subtle nudging and being utterly starstruck by Dino, he agrees to look into it. He gets help from his P.I. best friend and a Jewish torpedo from Brooklyn. A few dead bodies and bruised ribs later, he remembers why he was reluctant. In a city of gamblers, Eddie has become the highest roller of all. The game is murder, and the stakes just may be his own life. Robert J. Randisi, the man Booklist claims ‘may be the last of the true pulp writers,’ takes his readers on a vivid, neon lit tour of back rooms, bars, and famed gambling dens of the desert mirage that was and still is Las Vegas. Broads, blackjack, and bourbon flow. Celebrities, from John F. Kennedy to Angie Dickinson, strut in and out of this amazing first in a series that Rat Pack fans and crime fiction lovers will not want to miss.

Luck Be a Lady, Don’t Die

Vegas, 1960. Gamblin , drinkin , and everybody’s misbehavin . Six months ago, while they were filming Ocean s 11, the Rat Pack needed Eddie Gianelli s help to track down the mug who was sending threatening letters to Dino. Now they re back for the premiere and it s Frank who needs Eddie s help. Seems a babe he was planning to meet in Sin City took a powder leaving behind her luggage and a stiff in the bathtub. She s on the lam, and it s up to Eddie to find her and figure out if she s a victim or a killer. Once again Eddie teams up with his P.I. buddy, Danny Bardini, and the Jewish New York torpedo, Jerry Epstein, who never met a pancake he didn t like. Together they scour the neon streets, smoke filled lounges, casinos, and seamy back alleys, dodging bodies and thugs with guns. But when Sam Giancana arrives on the scene, Eddie starts to wonder if he s going to be able to keep himself out of jail and alive. Celebrity cameos spice up the action, and Mo Mo Giancana brings a dark presence to the story. Once again, Randisi, the man Booklist says may be the last of the pulp writers, gives readers a tour de force of bright lights, hot dice, and drop dead gorgeous dames in this second novel in the exciting, acclaimed series.

Hey There ,You with the Gun in Your Hand

It’s 1961 and Las Vegas is still the place to be. Eddie Gianelli, pit boss at the Sands Casino, now considers the Rat Pack his friends. And this time, his friend Frank Sinatra wants him to help Sammy. Someone has an embarrassing photo of Sammy and wants $25 grand for it. All Eddie has to do is make the pay off and collect the photo. Easy, right? But at the rendezvous, in place of a blackmailer, Eddie finds a dead body greeting him instead. Pretty soon Eddie and New York torpedo Jerry Epstein are up to their elbows in bodies. There’s a double cross going on. Could the presence of the Secret Service mean that JFK is somehow involved? In this next installment, the Rat Pack is back in full swing. Celebrity cameos with Buddy Hackett and Marilyn Monroe add to the glamor. It’s certain the stars are out, and it’s up to Eddie to see that they don’t fall from the sky.

You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Kills You

Marilyn Monroe thinks she’s being followed. Eddie G, pit boss at the Sands Casino, is up for the job, but he is forced to leave buddy P I Danny Bardini to look after Marilyn.

I’m a Fool to Kill You

A Rat Pack Mystery When a rumour spreads that Frank Sinatra’s ex wife, Hollywood Goddess Ava Gardner, was seen in the Sands Hotel & Casino in a state of distress, sleuth Eddie G. is asked to check it out. Eddie tracks her down to LA, where he finds out that Ava’s afraid she did something horrible…
and it falls to Eddie to find out exactly what went down. But someone s after Ava who means her harm, and soon he s dodging bullets in Vegas in an attempt to keep Ava and himself alive.

The Barrabas Run (By:Jack Hild,Alan Bomack,Jack Canon,Robin Hardy)

The Soldiers of Barrabas mercenaries who fight a special war for a special man!

Leaving Epitaph

The sheriff of Epitaph, Texas, Dan Shaye was a hard but just defender of the law a devoted husband and father who kept the truth about his violent past from the townfolk he protected. But then the hardcase Ethan Langer gang galloped into town looking to rob the local bank. And when they rode out again, Dan’s beloved wife Mary was lying dead in the Texas dust. Now the time has come for Daniel Shaye to leave Epitaph, maybe for good, with his three motherless adult sons at his side. For the only justice that will serve is going to come from a rifle or a rope as the four Shayes band together to uphold a new law…
called revenge.

Vengeance Creek

Having lost a wife to violence and a son to retribution, onetime Texas sheriff Daniel Shaye has brought what remains of his shattered family two grown boys fiercely devoted to their father and justice to Vengeance Creek, Arizona. In a lawless town, they become the law, grieving for their slain loved ones while looking to start a new life free of further bloodshed. But destiny has other plans for the Shayes. Eight men ride into town with designs on the bank’s money and when they ride out, a dozen innocent people are dead and Dan Shaye is down with a gunshot wound. Now it’s up to his boys to settle one more score, riding hell for leather toward a final reckoning…
and a mystery. And if Death comes again for the sons of Daniel Shaye, so be it, because any man who won’t lay down his life for what is right is no man at all.

Pearl River Junction

A Debt to the DeadFor Daniel Shaye and his boys, the law comes second, family first. So when a letter an urgent cry for help arrives from a woman who claims to be the mother of a child sired by Shaye’s late son, Matthew, the former lawman and his clan saddle up and head out for Pearl River Junction. The desperate young woman may not be telling the whole truth lying instead about her boy’s parentage to get the Shaye guns behind her as protection from a cold killer and his bloodthirsty gang. There’s a whirlwind of death and destruction blowing in, and now Dan and his sons are directly in its path. But Shaye taught his sons well to stand up for justice and that even a town full of strangers is worth fighting for…
and dying for.

The Picasso Flop

From Vince Van Patten, host of the World Poker Tour, and mystery writer Robert J. Randisi comes a novel of chilling murder and riveting poker suspense. Just out of prison after ten years, professional poker player Jimmy Spain visits his wealthy former cell mate and listens to an offer he can’t refuse. The rich man wants the ex con to mentor his only child in the game of poker. In return, he’ll set Jimmy up and pay all of his buy ins on the poker tour. This deal looks like easy money, especially after Jimmy meets the kid a cocky and abrasive young girl named Kat who has some good, yet raw, poker skills. Soon Jimmy and Kat enter a World Poker Tour tournament at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Things are coming up aces…
until a player is found brutally slain with a Picasso flop three picture cards on his body. When suspicion points to Kat as the killer, it’s up to Jimmy to find the real culprit while fighting to remain in the tournament. As one ghastly murder after another knocks out other players, this hard bitten veteran of the felt knows that in this cutthroat world of card sharks, someone could eliminate him or Kat for good. On the clock, with the blinds escalating, and down to his last hand, Jimmy fears he may be drawing dead. Featuring the appearances of such poker luminaries as Mike Sexton, Doyle Brunson, and James Woods, and cowritten by a true impresario of the game, The Picasso Flop mixes money, mystery, and the adrenaline pumping excitement of Texas hold’em poker action, Vegas style. Shuffle up and read. Author Bio: Vince Van Patten is the current host and commentator for the nationally televised World Poker Tour, but his work as a poker ambassador is only one facet of a remarkably diverse career as an actor, screenwriter, producer, director, and world ranked tennis pro. He lives in Malibu, California.

The Goodnight Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they ll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey crazed Comanches. And come face to face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For McCaleb and his hard riding crew, the drive is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish where the brave reach glory or die hard.

The Western Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

The only riches Texans had left after the Civil war were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history blazing trail drives. Benton McCaleb and his band of bold sprited cowboys brave over a thousand treacherous miles to drive 2400 head of ornery cattle into Wyoming’s Sweetwater Valley. They’re setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. With the help of Shoshoni Indian tribe and Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they’ll wage the most ferocious battle of their lives to win the right to call the land their own.

The Chisholm Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ted Chisholm, the bold, half breed son of Indian scout Jesse Chsiholm, leaves New Orleans with a price on his head. His only crime loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates.

With a team of battle toughened cowboys and ex soldiers, and a vow to return to Priscilla and maker her his wife, Ten rides into the harsh Texas brakes and the heart of Comanche country. Now, he must round up wild longhorns and set off across the Red River, through a thousand miles of swollen rivers, angry Comanches and treacherous outlaw attacks on a brazen quest to open a new trail to Kansas on the savage frontier.

The Bandera Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

The only riches Texans has left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history blazing trail drives.

Set on rescuing their old friend Clay Duval who is trapped inside war torn Mexico, Gill and Van Austin, nephews of Texas founder Stephen Austin, cross the border after him and soon discover half of Mexico’s army wants them dead. Taken prisoner by Santa Anna’s soldiers, the brothers make a daring escape and head into Durango country, where they stumble on a valley full of longhorns and a chance to build a future north of the border. All they have to do now is break Duval out of prison and drive the cattle to safety.

But faced with outlaws, soldiers and the cunning plans of a beautiful woman, the Austins are finding out that this isn’t a trail drive, it’s a war to reach the Bandera Range alive. And the only way to do it is the Texan way figting for every bloody, dusty mile ahead.

The California Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

An extraordinary saga of the trail blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. Across the Pecos, the Rio Colorado and La Panza mountains, the Texans and their longhorns kept charging all the way to California gold!Between The Bandera Range And California, They Faced All The Challenges Of Man And God, But Nothing Could Ever Make Them Quit. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five millionmaverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive themnorth to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history making trail drives. The California TrailGold fever had hit California, and suddenly, the land was full of hungry pioneers. For Gil and Van Austin, two Texas brothers, it meant the chance to sell well grazed longhorns after years of hard ranching and a treacherous cattle drive up through Mexico. The only trouble was that California was on the other side of a searing desert, swollen rivers, a barrage of Indian attacks, and a whole passel of outlaw trouble. And while the Texans and their men were ready and willing to take it all on, there was one thing they weren’t prepared for: the ultimate act of treachery and deceit in a land of schemers, dreamers and gold!

The Shawnee Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

Stampedes, rustlers, and hostile Indians wouldn’t slow them down. They were bound for Kansas, and a Texas sized fight!The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maerick longhorns and the brains, brown and boldness to drive them north where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history blazing trail drives. The Shawnee TrailLong John Coons, the Cajun son of a conjuring woman, was driving 2,000 head of cattle north from Texas to the railroad in Kansas through Indian Territory and outlaw strongholds. At his side was a beautiful woman with a sordid past, three ex cattle rustlers, some renegate Indians, Mexican vanqueros and a straight laced young trail boss. And while Long John tried to keep his hot headed crew from killing each other before they reached the end of the line, the biggest dangers was waiting up ahead where an all out war in Kansas make the Texas fight together, or die at the same time.

The Virginia City Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

Through a thousand miles of dust, fists, and guns, they found the courage to keep on driving. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history making trail drives. The Virginia City TrailWith a dream of building a ranching empire in Montana, Nelson Story sets off on one of the most extraordinary journeys in frontier history. By his side was a bunch of misfits and renegades hard fighting, war bitten Texans with nothing left to lose. On his tail as the worst kind of enemy brutal outlaws fixing to bleed his trail drive dry. Pushing his way through four harsh territories and three brutal seasons, Story would defy the Union Army, get a hold of a hundred Remingtons, and take on a thousand riled up Sioux warriors, before he reached Virginia City and came face to face with the man who wanted him dead…

The Dodge City Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five millionmaverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive themnorth to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history making trail drives. The Dodge City TrailDodge City was a businessman’s dream. And a cattle drive north with thousands of unbranded longhorns and a remuda of stolen Mexican horses was a dream of Texans like Dan Ember, who’d come home from the war to find a rich man’s hired guns living on his land. Now Dan and his neighbors would risk everything on a drive across the Llano. Along the way, two bands of killers would fight over them, the gunslinger Clay Allison would join up with them, and Quanah Parker’s Comanches would try to thwart them in a bold adventure fueled by the courage to face death, the pride to keep going, and the knowledge that now, there was no turning back.

The Oregon Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

They Risked Their Lives To Bring Cattle to Missouri. Now They Faced A Journey Twics As Dangerous…
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five millionmaverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive themnorth to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history making trail drives. The Oregon TrailLou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their fourteen Texas cowboys briught a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer’s men were running out of time to reach the wide open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden in one of the pilgrims’ wooden wagons and outlaws circling like wolves there were miles of shooting and dying still ahead.

The Santa Fe Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

An extraordinary saga of the trail blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. They left Missouri and were headed to Santa Fe. Standing in their way was a parched desert, a land of outlaws and enemies and one man’s dangerous past. He was a wealthy englishman with two beautiful daughters. They were five dusty texans and a gambling man. And they were all on the ride of their lives. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history making trail drives. The Santa Fe TrailGavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: 3,500 longhorns and not one buyer. That’s where Gladstone Pitkin came in. A man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord’s cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive from Independence to Santa Fe. But with an ill fated gambler on the drive, the courageous, hardened riders weren’t just a thousand brutal miles from Santa Fe they were heading into a death trap.

The Old Spanish Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

An extraordinary saga of the trail blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the great frontier. Hard riding Texans were braving mountains, desert and Indian war for the promise of a golden land called California…
Over one million copies of Ralph Compton’s Trail Drive novels in print!Missouri was closed to Texas cattle. Santa Fe was closed by murder. Now, they had one choice: cross desert mountains and hostile Indian land to a place called California…
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn, and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph, Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history blazing trail drives. For the ranchers riding with Rand Hayes, things had gone from bad to worse. The Santa Fe man who’d contracted five thousand head of cattle was dead murdered by renegades. Now the Texans had a herd of longhorns and only one choice: cross two mountain ranges and the Mojave Desert to the gold fevered market at Los Angeles. A trail blazed by ancient Spaniards, this was a route that would lead through a brutal, wondrous land, where a hostile Ute nation was only one danger the cattle drive faced, and California was a shooting war away…

The Green River Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

The year was 1853. For handful of cowboys turned California Gold Rushers, it was time to go home. Then Lonnie Kilgore and his fellow Texans met Western legend and former mountain man Jim Bridger, who told them of a lush range waiting to be claimed in northern Utah. Now, the Texans have purchased land on the Green river and come to San Antonio to gather up some longhorns. But with Indian trouble, law trouble, and woman trouble along for the ride, the cowboys are finding out the truth about this paradise: to live on land you bought and paid for, you have to be willing to die…

The Deadwood Trail (By:Ralph Compton)

They had beaten the harsh odds of the frontier. But for the two powerful ranchers, the most formidable trail lay ahead. There had never been a trail drive like this before…
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn, and boldness to drive them to market along treacherous trails. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary series based on the history blazing trail drives. For veteran ranchers Nelson Story of Montana, and Benton McCaleb of Wyoming, it was an opportunity a man didn’t pass up. In gold camps of the Black Hills, miners were hungry for beef, at boomtown prices. But within the two outfits were Indians, gunmen, Texans, lovesick cowboys, and high spirited women. Worse, the drive would pass through Crow and Sioux territory, when Custer’s defeat at the Little Big Horn was just hours away. The drives were tangled by violent grudges, stampeding herds, and dangerous deception. The two brawling outfits had one thing in common: a deadly surprise awaiting them at the end of the trail…

The Dakota Trail (By:Robert Vaughan)

Desperate to save his destitute hometown, ex cavalryman Dick Judson plans a cattle drive run by greenhorn children. But a gang of merciless cutthroats is waiting for them and wants to stop them dead in their tracks…

The Alamosa Trail (By:Robert Vaughan)

The Trail Drive Series After the merciless Blizzard of 1886, times are tough, but on the Trailback Ranch, the cowboys are tougher. From horse racing to train robbing, they’ll survive on whatever schemes their wits can muster until a job comes their way…
And infamous gunslinger Clay Allison needs a few good men to rustle a herd up from Mexico into Colorado across the equally infamous Alamosa.

The Bozeman Trail (By:Robert Vaughan)

The Trail Drive Series A Spur Award winning Author James Cason, Duke Faglier, and Revelation Scattergood will drive a herd of cattle from San Antonio, Texas, to the Dakota Territory for one large payoff. But as they head off on the trail that leads through Sioux country, the Civil War rages, gold fever strikes, deadly enemies lurk and they’re not sure if they can trust one another. Available in Western 8 & 14 Series.

The Abilene Trail (By:Dusty Richards)

A former Confederate Army officer, Ben McCullough is now a rancher in the Texas hill country, hoping to earn enough money to settle down and marry. With eight hundred head of cattle to drive north, Ben is relying on his ex sergeant, Hap, and a bunch of greenhorns he’s recruited to help. But the stampedes and raging rivers are nothing compared to the gang of outlaws waiting to rustle the herd.

The Palo Duro Trail (By:Jory Sherman)

A favorite of western fans. Dagstaff has to drive 4,000 longhorns over a thousand miles up the Palo Duro trail, facing furious storms, Comanches, treacherous rivers and a hired killer among his drivers.

The Ogallala Trail (By:Dusty Richards)

The ranchers of Frio Springs are praying that veteran cowpuncher Sam Ketchum will succeed in driving their cattle to the rich markets of Nebraska. But ghosts still haunt Sam from his last drive and the road has only become tougher. Comanches, cattle, and notorious gunslingers wait to strike along the way. To make matters worse, Sam finds himself caught up in a deadly family feud that he may have to settle before his own trail comes to an end.

The Ellsworth Trail (By:Jory Sherman)

A longhorn traildrive becomes a road to revenge for ramrodder Jock Kane, out to avenge the death of his bride by chasing down her killer Jock’s own brother, Abel.

The Tenderfoot Trail (By:Joseph A. West)

The Whoop Up Trail is two hundred miles of rough terrain between Montana and Canada, littered with spiky brushwood, crawling with clawed and fanged critters of all shapes and sizes, and traversed by hostile Indians and vicious outlaws. But for Luke Garrett framed for a murder he didn’t commit, saddled with five mail order brides, driving what’s left of his cattle herd, and pursued by vigilantes it’s the only chance for survival.

Trail to Cottonwood Falls (By:Dusty Richards)

Ed Wright has one last chance to prove himself. The former cowboy and Ranger gets back on the horse to drive a herd of cattle from Texas to Kansas but must contend with a rival outfit who will stop at nothing to see him fail.

The Amarillo Trail (By:Jory Sherman)

Doc Blaine needs to drive 3,000 head of cattle from Texas to Kansas, and needs his sons Jared and Miles to help. Unfortunately, his sons are in love with the same woman and have vowed to kill each other on sight…

Invitation to a Hanging

IS THE WIDOWMAKER THE GUN…
OR THE MAN? John Locke has been many things lawman, bounty hunter, gun for hire. And when it comes to shooting, he’s a dead shot with a six gun or a rifle. Legends abound in the Old West depicting him as both a pillar of justice and a cold hearted killer. The only thing folks know for sure is that Locke’s dangerous and not to be crossed unless you have more guts than brains. Locke’s been hired to serve as a bastonero, the Master of Ceremonies, at the hanging of Ignacio Delgado a deadly bandit leader who, with his bandidos, has terrorized the town of Fredericksburgh, Texas. But while the townspeople are eager to see him hang, and his men are equally anxious to set him free, Locke discovers there are unseen forces manipulating events so that the wrong man may end up dead the Widowmaker himself!

Turnback Creek

THE WRONG ARM OF THE LAWWhen legendary gunfighter John Locke is hired to ride shotgun on a fat payroll wagon bound for Turnback Creek, Montana, it’s more than a job. It’s a chance to reunite with his old riding partner, ex Marshal Dale Cooper. The pair go back a ways, and though Coop no longer wears a badge, he wants to hit the trail one more time. But the going is not easy. There are sidewinders in the shadows, ready to pilfer the loot for themselves. Once they get to the ramshackle town, the trouble really starts, as the pair must make a perilous trek to the remote mining camp itself, with death lurking behind every boulder and crevice. Armed with hot lead, cold steel, and an iron will, Locke and Cooper know that in this fight, there will be no winners only survivors. But Locke soon learns that the true danger lies closer than he thought.

Texas Iron

When Sam McCall got word his pa had died, something seemed suspicious. And even though he and his brothers hadn’t been home in twenty years, they wanted the truth. But as soon as they got back to Texas, a posse of hired guns opened fire. Turns out the new owner of their old ranch didn’t exactly cotton to having them around. Yet they’re determined to find out what really happened to their pa–and make their hometown of Vengeance Creek live up to its name.

Blood Trail To Kansas

Ted Shea thought he was a goner for sure. All the years he’d worked to build his Montana spread and fine herd of prime beef meant nothing if he couldn’t sell them. And with a vicious rustler and his gang of cutthroats scaring all the hands, no one was willing to take to the trail. Until Dan Parmalee drifted into town. A gunman and gambler with a taste for long odds, he wasn’t about to let a little hot lead part him from some cold cash. But it doesn’t take Dan long to realize this isn’t just any run. This is a…
Blood Trail To Kansas.

The Offer

Robin Lobianco participates in a m nage trois with a married couple, expecting nothing more than one evening of wild sex. But when they profess their love for her and ask her to move in with them, she rejects them. Soon the couple begins stalking her. Will appeal to readers of Tami Hoag and Nora Roberts alike.

Gallows

When the abused wife of a brutal but popular man finally kills him, his friends in town want to try her for murder. Only Lancaster, a gunman who found the wife with the dead man’s body, is willing to fend off the townspeople and keep her alive and insure she sees a fair trial.

Created The Destroyer (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

When ex New Jersey cop Remo Williams is electrocuted for the murder of a dope dealing goon, CURE, a super secret government agency that doesn’t really exist, schemes to resurrect Remo as the ultimate killing machine that will carry out most of its dirty plans. Under the direction of expert assassin Master Chiun, Remo is transformed into the Destroyer and launches a series of secret plots to dissolve the underworld.

Death Check (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The big brains behind the business usually have many pots boiling on their stove, or running their think engines as the case may be. But when the business motto of the Brewster forum, ‘Pursuing Research Into Original Thought’, leads them to some eccentric affairs that throw them far enough off track, Remo Williams enlists the help of his Master Chiun to solve a harrowing crime.

Chinese Puzzle (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

A Chinese diplomat is decidedly deceased and the communist chairman’s advisor is shanghaied while burrowing in the Bronx. The State Department is seeing red and a sour situation gets spicy. Now Remo Williams and his Korean mentor, Master Chiun, must save the abducted adviser and compromise the conspiracy before the kung fu hits the fan. As the US and China prepare for nuclear battle and an assassin’s bullet has The Destroyer’s name on it, the fate of the world is as complicated to solve as a Chinese Puzzle.

Mafia Fix (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

When ten billion filthy drug dollars’ worth of hero*in pollutes the Jersey shore and threatens to make the Mafia a second Evil Empire, the president knows there’s just one man who can stop a Jersey Kingpin from destroying the country and that’s an ex Jersey cop resurrected and nicknamed the Destroyer. Remo Williams is on a mission to mainline death and destruction into the Cosa Nostra before Main Street gets stuck. But how will Master Chiun’s masterpiece of a human killing machine score? Will history’s biggest drug score go bust? With Remo on the mission you know he’ll sniff out the swine and cover his tracks but when he gets to the top will he find he’s gone too high and realize that the Mafia fix is in?

Dr. Quake (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Forber isn’t a mad scientist, he’s a tectonic technician with a touch for terror who goes by the name ‘Dr. Quake’. California’s touchy San Andreas Fault is in danger of being professionally provoked. But it’s not Dr. Quake’s fault, for someone has split with his earthquake machine. If this dastardly deviant doesn’t get a million dollars in cold hard cash he is going to shake down Southern California for a whole lot more. Luckily, shakedowns and natural disasters are just what the doctor ordered for Remo Williams, Korean death master Chiun’s trained killing machine, because when it comes to finding weapons of mass destruction, it takes one to find one. After our Destroyer sifts through the blackmail and terror it’s the pompous perpetrator who won’t be left standing.

Death Therapy (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Brilliant and dazzlingly beautiful Dr. Lithia Forrester is masterminding an undercover agency that is stealing America’s top secrets. The group is infiltrating the highest echelons of the U.S. government and planning to sell the information at an international auction, where every country’s ante is a billion in gold control of the USA going to the highest bidder. What the small army doesn’t know is they are subjects of Dr. Forrester’s mind control experiments. They are doing themselves in, while the lovely doctor reaps the rewards. That is, until Remo and Chiun crush the plot and save the country then both buyer and selling may be going…
going…
gone!

Union Bust (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

When a giant transportation union controlling all air, train and truck traffic is born, not only does this conglomerate pose a threat to the local leaders, but the entire country is at risk until Remo Williams moves in to dissolve danger in a deadly game.

Summit Chase (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The President of Scambia’s life is in danger when one sleezy goon schemes to assassinate not only a leader, but immobilize and destroy the entire country and transform its peaceful society into a thundering safe haven for international hoods. Master Chiun and his prot g Remo Williams descend on the scene to combat the treacherous plot…
but not without a fight.

Murder’s Shield (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

An army of renegade cops across the country have been assigned the task of squashing criminal cockroaches under their boots. It’s a dirty job and the White House entrusts it to only one man The Destroyer. Between Master Chiun’s exquisite sense of justice and Remo Williams’ knack for murder, they are ready to bring justice to town once and for all.

Terror Squad (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

A wave of global terrorism spreads as a result of one madman’s tyrannical powers. Even while the governments of three major world powers are on his trail, CURE, the United States’ top secret agency, knows of only one way to solve the problem The Destroyer. There’s little doubt that Master Chiun’s prot g Remo Williams is capable of waging any war, but when the mysterious radical assassin is out to kill, everyone runs for cover except the fearless and most powerful.

Kill or Cure (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

A plot designed by the United States’ top secret agency, CURE, to dispose of a certain corrupt politician, is revealed in what unravels into a national scandal. The agency must be dismantled before greater suspicions arise and one of the top leaders, The Destroyer, is finally destroyed himself. But Master Chiun’s days of work haven’t ended, and he’s not waiting around for his sidekick Remo to be out of a job either. The two are determined to do whatever possible to keep each other in business and continue to bring justice to society.

Slave Safari (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Chiun knows a secret and he isn’t even telling Remo, the Destroyer, whom he has taught all his skills and loves as a son, because America has committed a sin against him he cannot pardon. They are in Africa, where feuds that have smoldered over centuries are being resolved by death and massacre. But how many deaths? And why? The facts are bizarre. In a Baltimore cemetery a white woman of aristocratic birth, who had died as a slave in Africa many years ago, is supposed to lie buried. But it is not her body in the coffin and that can spark an international incident. It’s going to get hotter in Africa. America’s future seems dark indeed and only Remo, the Destroyer, can bring back the light.

Acid Rock (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The stage is set for murder, mayhem and deafening music. But the music isn’t loud enough to drown out the shots aimed at the gorgeous redhead on stage. Not that anybody is paying much attention, not in the screaming chaos of the world’s biggest rock festival ever. The girl likes to be near singers, the freakier and more spaced out the better. Some of them get too close and wind up permanently spaced out. Why? Someone wants to kill the beautiful girl with the long auburn hair. She is under contract for one million dollars. A big bounty is on her beautiful head. She has to be killed, and quick. But Remo and Chiun have other ideas. Their assignment from CURE says protect her at any costs and that means someone is going to have to pay a very high price.

Judgment Day (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The new director is ordering the Destroyer and his mentor Chiun to kill Smith, the director of CURE. They are searching for Smith, who is successfully hiding, when immediate trouble begins for the deadly duo, because Chiun doesn’t want to agree to the killing. Smith is Chiun’s emperor, the man who pays the salary that supports the ancient village of Sinanju. Chiun doesn’t know about CURE, just about Smith, and the cash always arrives on time. That’s enough. Remo is a company man though, a trained killer who works for CURE, the top secret agency that doesn’t exist, and if they don’t want Smith to exist any longer, it is his job to murder him. Orders are orders. But who is the new director? Who hired him and who fired Smith? Could there be another infiltrator? CURE’s security has been violated before, and there is always that possibility. There are a lot of questions to be answered before judgment day arrives.

Murder Ward (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The Robler Clinic is getting a reputation for too many deaths during routine operations. A gorgeous female administrator, Ms. Kathy Hahl, is discovering a profitable little racket, and her tame anaesthetist, Dan Demmet, is playing along nicely. When timid mother dominated Nathan David Wilberforce a subject of special interest to CURE comes to a premature death at the clinic, Remo and Chiun decide it is time to infiltrate…
And it is Remo who books in as the ‘patient’ exposing him to the rare and deadly ageing drug.

Oil Slick (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The Middle Eastern state of Lobynia had been supplying oil to the U.S.A. for years, but when Colonel Baraka takes over from the king after a coup, there is a change of policy and the cut off of oil threatens the whole American economy. Baraka has big plans but they bring him big trouble. First there is Remo, whose brief is to get the oil flowing again before American industry grinds to a halt. And then there is Chiun, Remo’s Korean friend and teacher. Chiun’s family holds a centuries old contract to protect the kings of Lobynia and Chiun takes his responsibilities very seriously…

Last War Dance (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The rebels from the Revolutionary Indian Party plan on capturing the small midwestern town of Wounded Elk, intent on a final showdown against the white man. But only CURE knows that just outside the city limits is the Cassandra the United States’ most secret nuclear installation, an atomic doomsday machine big enough to blow up the world. Remo and Chiun are needed to divert the Indian attack on the monument where the Cassandra is hidden. And to stop a ruthless KGB agent from finding the deadly weapon.

Funny Money (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The San Diego branch of the Secret Service is receiving some absolutely perfect counterfeit U.S. currency in the mail, and getting nervous. A flood of these bogus bucks could cripple the economy. But plans for using the funny money are more devious than that and it’s all the work of an utterly gorgeous impossible brilliant female scientist and her not quite human associate, Mr. Gordons. She’s holding the world’s monetary system, as ransom for a NASA space age computer program so advanced its use on earth is limited. In space? That’s another matter a matter for Remo Williams, the Destroyer, to settle before the future of America and the world becomes the property of a beautiful, diabolical creature and her unstoppable sidekick!

Holy Terror (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The Divine Bliss Mission in India is just another money hustle till its leader begins using his disciples to penetrate the higher U.S. echelons. The Blissful Master, alias whiz kid Dom, has a nice line in drug induced bliss for the converted and a sideline in painful death for unbelievers that have cost CURE four Agents. Remo and Chiun hit India, Dom flees, but curvaceous follower Joleen is prepared to embrace a new master the outraged Chiun. Leaving behind them a trail of blissful dead, the three head for home and more trouble.

Assassin’s Play Off (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

For centuries, the ancient House of Sinanju is recognized as the center of learning for all the martial arts. From the ancestral nucleus of Oriental power and prestige have come the world’s deadliest assassins and killers, also man’s greatest protectors and warriors. To become a Master of Sinanju, however, is to totally perfect one’s mental, spiritual, and physical powers. Very few mortals possess even a fraction of the necessary skills. Mere muscle or brains do not matter. Rarer still have been the men who dare to even approach the lowest steps of this shrine to violence and sudden death at Sinanju. The masters of Sinanju are the sun source and essence of the martial arts since prehistory. Recent upstart fighting techniques such as Kung Fu, Karate, Ninja, Aikido are but minor variations in the deadly armament of a Master. Only foreplay to the Grand Battle. And now, for the first time, a Westerner, a white man, Remo Williams, is defending the Holy Place against his relentless archenemy, Nuihc. Not since the Mongol invasions and the barbaric Chinese warlords has the land trembled in such anticipation. The scenario begins in New Jersey. The die is cast in a U.S. government submarine. Now Chiun and the Premier of Korea will witness the Grand Battle. And Remo Williams the Destroyer is being allowed but one blow. One split second opportunity to punch, slash, chop, smash or kick…
The ghosts of a thousand warriors dance in the dust as the two men face each other. And Chiun knows.

Deadly Seeds (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

James Orayo Fielding is a multimillionaire. He hates people. Considers them little more than bugs…
to be controlled or eradicated. Fielding also has a new way to solve the famine that is escalating in many overpopulated countries. It is a secret grain treatment that matures seeds in just one month. News of this spectacular process sweeps across the world. Starving nations of India, Asia, Africa, and South America literally ransom their treasures to be given the formula for this key to survival. Ecologists and world leaders are proclaiming Fielding as a hero to mankind. All this adulation merely bugs the wily old man. He’ll do as he pleases, when he damn well chooses to do so, and harvest all the profits himself. Foreign agents attempt to steal the formula. Even the Mafia attempts to get into the picture. Naturally, CURE is also involved. Is it really possible to feed the world at discount prices? Why would a millionaire delay the chance to make billions of dollars? Remo and Chiun discover a triple cross so sinister that even they are impressed, and decide that the world is worth saving after all. For a bowl of rice with a side order of raw bean sprouts to go.

Brain Drain (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Artists, composers, and writers are being mutilated and destroyed in the bloodiest murders in police history. This maniac is taking one thing their brains! The chief of CURE nearly ends up as the next corpse…
Remo and Chiun are acting fast, and discovering the killer’s an old enemy, stockpiling brains to extract the creativity he’s lacking…
They are tracking him to Hollywood top brain center where work can be fun! A sexy agent wants Remo for a new career…
Chiun meets his soap opera idol…
and there’s a great spectacle coming: irresistible force, Sinanju, meeting indestructible object, Mr. Gordons.

Child’s Play (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The government’s Witness Protection Program has been hitting a bit of a snag lately. Despite their brand new secret identities, certain loose lipped mob stoolies are getting blown away by a group of gun toting adolescents. And in an effort to save face, a big mouth Army bigwig’s been pointing the accusing finger at the wrong assassins Remo Williams and his mentor, Sinanju master Chiun! There’s a new kind of ‘baby boom’ going around. And before he plays dead for a bunch of homicidal half pints, the Destroyer is going to nip the poisonous peewee pandemonium in the bud!

King’s Curse (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

New York graffiti artists are leaving their marks everywhere. Even on museum exhibit Uctut, the massive stone idol of the Actatl tribe, who had secretly survived since Cortes and his conquistadors. They are avenging the insult by killing museum trustees and a congressman by the ancient ritual of cutting out their hearts! Remo and Chiun are entering the fray with ancient Sinanju, and Actatls biting the dust as the tribe musters to do battle with CURE. Meanwhile, Remo is acquiring two camp followers. One can’t keep her mouth shut, the other can’t keep her clothes on…
the odds are sure loaded against CURE.

Sweet Dreams (By:Richard S. Meyers,Warren Murphy)

When a brilliant professor invents the world’s first fantasy realization device, allowing anyone to watch their own secret fantasies on television, the Mafia are out to steal it, TV executives want to control it, and Remo and Chiun might be the only ones able to prevent it from killing everyone. As the death toll mounts, Remo, the Destroyer, and his teacher Chiun race to decipher the device’s dangerous and deadly effects. But will the secret agents be able to resist the lethal temptation to watch their own secret fantasies?

In Enemy Hands (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

A congressional committee investigates abuses by America’s spy network and winds up gutting our nation’s intelligence system. Suddenly the Russians are having a field day; their special killer teams roam Europe at will. American spies turn up dead. In capitals around the world, meetings are held to plan the next anti-American escapade. American is defenseless before the rest of the world…
Well, not quite defenseless. America’s two secret weapons, Remo Williams, the Destroyer, and his incredible Korean teacher, Chiun, a master assassin, are being thrown into the breach. They are being sent overseas to start restoring some sense of safety and sanity to the world’s balance of power. But the Soviets don’t give up that easily. They have a secret weapon too, and when they unleash it, Remo and Chiun find themselves poised for a battle to the death…
With each other!

The Last Temple (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The bodies of two murdered Israelis have turned up, hacked to bits and the pieces arranged in a bloody swastika – and Remo and Chiun are on their way to meet the leaders of an Israeli doomsday group, Zeher Lahurban. In the event of Israel losing the war with the Arabs, secretly stored atom bombs will drop on Arab territory. But a group of ex-Na*zis discover the plan, and see a way to destroy the Jewish nation once and for all – without any help from the Arabs. Remo and Chiun are up against fanatics with long memories, who are keeping Hitler’s schemes alive in their twisted minds.

Ship of Death (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Beware Greeks bearing gifts especially when it’s billionaire Demosthenes Skouratis selling the biggest pleasure cruise ship ever built to the United Nations for their headquarters. CHEAP! Over three times the size of the QE II, this huge vessel has everything from high tech offices and communications equipment to luxury spas, casinos, restaurants and palatial apartments. But the deal doesn’t include a dozen dead bodies and a hull full of bombs being rigged to explode the night of the opening gala! And Remo Williams, the Destroyer, plans to crash the party. Tipped off the plot when CURE director Harry Smith is getting beaten up by some tough crew members, Remo and Sinanju master Chiun blast full steam ahead, drowning the sleazy rats and save the UN from a watery grave.

The Final Death (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The fat’s in the fire when a Texas beef mogul is found skinned and gutted like one of his steers. Soon after, innocent people across the country are dying from eating meat injected with a powerful poison. Fearing a threat to national security, the White House orders Remo Williams, the Destroyer, to find the butchers and stop the killing. The grisly deaths are no mystery to Chiun, Remo’s Sinanju master, but the work of an ancient Chinese vegetarian cult of murderers sworn to kill the meateaters of the West. Now the Destroyer’s got to cut off the fanatics before they slaughter the U.S.!

Mugger Blood (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Word on the streets is don’t mess with the Lords. The Saxon Lords kill for cigarette money and rule the New York ghettos with fear. Even the cops stay off their turf. But one man can’t stay away when he reads about the brutal beating of an old woman in broad daylight. Remo Williams, the Destroyer, goes hunting for punks. Stalking the slums with Chiun, master Sinanju assassin, Remo starts his own program of urban renewal. The Big Apple will never be the same.

The Head Men (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Remo Williams, aka The Destroyer, is being summoned to the nation’s capital by the White House to expose a vicious plot to assassinate the President. The FBI and CIA are coming up empty in their investigation of a string of murderers of top executives around the country and now they need the special talents only The Destroyer can provide. Cutting to the core of the deadly conspiracy, Remo discovers a security leak on Capitol Hill itself and tightens his lethal noose. But, can he and Chiun, his Sinanju mentor, stop the killers before the President becomes the last corpse in the long line of The Head Men?

Killer Chromosomes (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

What happens when an insane female scientist discovers a genetic link between species and experiments on herself? She transforms into a tiger the man eating kind. Wild, beautiful and deadly, Dr. Sheila Feinberg tests her new savage nature and leaves a trail of mangled male corpses behind. Insatiable, she stalks the only man worthy of her hunger for power, Remo Williams, the Destroyer. Ordered to stop the menace, Remo becomes both hunter and bait for this she devil and winds up her prisoner, the stud she needs to create a new race. As Remo fights her bloodlust, master assassin Chiun circles in for the final kill to end the threat to humankind!

Voodoo Die (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Under the Communist President for Life, a voodoo priest named Generalissimo Sacrist Corazon, the natives of the Caribbean Isle Baqia aren’t complaining, thanks to a delicious drug they call ‘mung.’ When shot through with radiation, however, mung becomes a powerful weapon: it literally liquefies the opposition, and Generalissimo Corazon has no qualms about using it. After an innocent missionary becomes the latest victim of Corazon’s mung machine, the world is alarmed, and deadly forces are inspired. The Chinese, the Russians, and the CIA all vie to control the mung machine, while CURE’s own powerful weapons, Remo and Chiun, make their way to Baqia and further discover nuclear warheads aimed at the United States. Sacrist Corazon must be stopped, but has the Destroyer met his deadly voodoo match?

Chained Reaction (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Black is not only beautiful, it’s Ruby Gonzalez…
the wild CIA lady with a sure cure for what ails Remo and Chiun. Remo Williams just can’t seem to forget he was once a Newark cop. But when you’re the Destroyer you do need a little humility. Yellow, the worth of gold, the texture of parchment, the color of the sun source itself…
and, in the inscrutable, insuperable, Chiun, a veritable galaxy of wisdom and power. And fun at a riot. It will be all over when Southern idiots with whips and chains, and Northern madmen with money attempt to reduce business costs by raising slavery to new levels of efficiency. The Destroyer, with a little help from his two friends, proves that billions of dollars and armies of thugs just aren’t enough. Then bucks and Ruby will do…

Last Call (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

During a CIA budget war, a group of assassins mistakenly triggers an ingenious CIA plot originally planned in the 1950s and a worldwide killing spree of top level Russian officials begins…
Only the Destroyer, with the all wise Chiun and the ever wild Ruby, can stop them from reaching their primary target the Russian premier! However, in the midst of all this carnage, Chiun still wants Remo and Ruby to create a super baby as heir to Sinanju, before the government’s budget cuts wipe out welfare funds! How will The Destroyer cope with life and death, love and procreation, all at once?

Power Play (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Wesley Pruiss is a misunderstood and misled publishing entrepreneur. The dirtier his little magazine gets, the more money he makes. There seems to be no limit to the dirt of the money. His full color monthly, called Gross, soon spawns a chain of raunchy nightclubs ‘Grossouts’ and now a spectacular motion picture was being planned. Disgusting. UnAmerican, even. Enter Remo and Chiun. Not to destroy, but the protect! Disgusting, but very American. Who’d want to kill a dirty publisher? Why worry about the rottenest, most depraved publication in history? Because of the oil industry and their concern over the growth of solar energy, obviously. Oil makes the world go’round. It’d be perverse to think otherwise…
. as you’ll quickly learn in this thirty sixth volume in the violent chronicle of the Destroyer, the invincible shatterer of worlds from Sinanju.

Bottom Line (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The president is calling. Dr. Harold W. Smith, head of the secret agency known as CURE, took the phone from the bottom left drawer of his desk and answered with a sigh, ‘Yes, sir.’ The President of the United States could not directly assign CURE to do anything, he could only suggest. The one and only order any president could give CURE would be for its immediate dissolution. And five presidents now hadn’t quite done that. Though all five were often tempted. ‘What do you know about the Lippincott case?’ the Southern voice asked. Smith regurgitated a two page, single spaced capsule of hard information. ‘Uh, huh. Well, I hear there’s a plot to kill all the Lippincotts, and it has something to do with animals. Weird experiments, like,’ ‘I see,’ Smith gagged. ‘Yeah, and I think it involves my having the Lippincotts use their clout to open up new trading markets in China.’ The hint was clear. The White House would like the Destroyer to take a look at the situation. ‘You’ll be using those two, I suppose?’ Smith rolled his eyes upward, ‘I imagine so.’ ‘Whatever you say,’ he drawled, ‘just, er, um, tell them to keep the deaths down.

Bay City Blast (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

‘Yes,’ Smith said, ‘he is taking over the city. He is giving an open invitation to organized crime to move its operations into Bay City. He’s opening the piers so that contraband can move in and out easily, so drugs can flow freely. Mob interests are coming from all over the country…
setting up cutting rooms and jewelry factories for stolen diamonds…
printing facilities for counterfeit stock certificates and securities…
major counting rooms for what may become the nation’s biggest illegal gambling operations. It’ll be the crime capital of the U.S. within a few months!’ ‘Well, there’s capitalism at work again. Proving that our system works best,’ Remo said. ‘…
And we want you and Chiun to keep him alive. Of course, he won’t know who you are or who you work for,’ Smith said. ‘Or why. Which includes us, as usual. But that’s OK, if we can’t kill him with kindness, then we’ll CURE him,’ Remo said. ‘Let’s not get into that,’ Smith gasped.

Missing Link (By:Warren Murphy)

Beer for breakfast, that’s how the brother in law of the President of the United States starts his day. Beer is his food, his fuel, and his future, if not his finale. His sudsy philosophy immersed him in a continuing controversy, embarrassing the White House, and making him a media personality. It is also giving him some very lucrative consulting jobs for foreign governments. Like the Libyans. They want his help in obtaining plutonium…
For peaceful purposes, of course…
a Holy War against Israel being the furthest thing from their minds. Suddenly good old Bobby Jack is missing. And the list of suspects seems endless. America’s number one beer drinker is finally muzzled. But by whom? The Bad Guys or the Good Guys? Terrorists or patriots? The Libyans or the Israelis? The Secret Service or the Mafia? The Destroyer?

Dangerous Games (With: Warren Murphy)

The Olympics promise to be a rare relaxation in the tensions between the States and Russia, until a racial purist decides to punish America’s multi racial track and field team. The Americans, Russians, and Germans are confident that they can stop this racial terrorism until a bomb explodes in the super secure Olympic village, killing two Russian security guards just before the torch is lit. As the threats come racing in, CURE’s agents Remo and Chiun put on their running shoes. and join the U.S.’s Olympic team. Enlisting the aid of a beautiful and flexible Indian gymnast, Remo and Chiun race to track down the terrorists who vow to permanently disqualify America’s track and field squad. But when the terrorists turn on Remo and Chiun, it’s a sprint to the finish for CURE’s agents to keep the Olympic torch aflame.

Firing Line (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Ruby is too hot to handle, and Remo is being ordered to play fireman. But friendship comes first, even to a Master of Sinanju, and Remo is steaming mad. Mad enough, in fact, to walk out. It’s out of the frying pan and into the fire because Chiun, deferring to tradition, refuses to quit CURE. And they both know that soon he could be hot on Remo’s tail. But the heat’s really on when Remo meets up with Sparky, a walking Molotov cocktail. New York firefighters are walking off the job, and an arson gang, with Sparky in tow, has decided to strike while the iron’s hot. Unless they receive the ransom they demand, they’ll turn the city into the biggest backyard barbecue in history.

Timber Line (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Tulsa Torrent, America’s biggest lumber company, is stumped when a couple of its key scientists are axed. Seems the deceased were part of a team developing an oil producing tree, and a lot of interested parties have been looking to grease their palms. Before anyone else is pulped, Remo and Chiun are planted to see the project out of the woods. But danger sprouts at every turn, and when the environmentalist High Sierra Society enters the picture, determined to make Tulsa Torrent take a hike, the project rests on pines and needles. Somebody’s barking up the wrong tree, and Remo and Chiun must get to the root of the matter before the unknown hatchet man mulches America’s energy future into one big compost heap…

Midnight Man (With: Warren Murphy)

Now you see him, now you don’t! Law-enforcement officials think they’ve see everything until they bump into Elmo Wimpler, the inventor of a substance that can make anything invisible. Wimpler’s found his niche in life by dropping out of sight – literally – and killing with a device that crushes skulls. His victims are multiplying, there are no clues in sight, and authorities are groping in the dark. Under suspicion themselves, Remo and Chiun set out to play blindman’s buff with the killer no one can see, but they, too, draw a blank. As they stalk their quarry sight unseen, the assassin’s ultimate target materializes a deposed Middle Eastern sovereign with a $25 million price tag on his head. The United States has granted him asylum, and it’s up to Remo and Chiun to bring the curtain down on Wimpler’s operation before he sends the monarch to Kingdom Come…

Balance of Power (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

Remo and Chiun must focus on the dizzy series of event connecting the banana republic of Hispania, the Peaches of Mecca, and a luscious blonde named Gloria X. The missing link lies in the tequila soaked brain of Barney Daniels, an ex CIA agent who is spirited away to a mental hospital when he tips a few wild stories to the press. Under the influence of an intoxicating woman, the groggy sot becomes a hired assassin and gets into some tight situations. Every cutthroat in New York City is plying him with drinks to find out what he knows, and Daniels is having a high time…
until someone slips him a mickey. It all comes back to his staggering memory in a dream: it’s not the U.S. but the Russkies who are pouring missiles into the lush jungles of Hispania. Unless Remo and Chiun act fast, Washington, D.C. is likely to get blasted.

Spoils of War (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

The entire U.S. army is being forced to wage war on its own people by a pontificating ten preacher and the blonde Venus traveling as his wife. But, saints be praised, Remo and Chiun are of a different persuasion, and their unorthodox tactics leave many a zombie eyed Christian soldier prostrate on the ground. Chaplains are dying left and right…
an army base appears out of nowhere those answers to a higher authority than even the Pentagon. Agents of CURE postulate that a Mideast power may have created these apocalyptic events, but the facts are cloistered in secrecy. When Remo and Chiun look for answers, there’s no room for sacred cows and that’s the gospel truth!

Next of Kin (By:Warren Murphy,Molly Cochran)

Remo and Chiun arrive at the vacation paradise of St. Maarten, only to find they’re deep in Dutch. The beautiful island is a very ugly scene. A lot of corpses have been showing up, each one bearing the unmistakable stamp of Sinanju, the ancient Korean martial art known only to the two men. The trail of bodies leads to a strange castle…
and a young Dutchman a man, it turns out, who’s taken a blood vow to send both disciple and mentor to their deaths. A man who knows all their secrets…
and has a few of his own. It’s up to Remo and Chiun to stop him, but this time they’re skating on thin ice. And if they slip, the whole world may go under.

Profit Motive (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

It seems like a good idea at first a bacterium developed to consume oil spills at sea. But when the bug mutates, threatening to convert all the petroleum in the world into wax, Western civilization is suddenly up for grabs. And a lot of slimy characters are determined not to let it slip through their fingers. Which is where Remo and Chiun come in that is, until the Master of Sinanju cuts out…
joining the opposition. It seems that black gold generates a lot of the yellow kind and someone’s offering to send a little something extra to a certain Korean village…
Remo’s left in a real bind. And with his mentor bent on wiping out all that the ex cop stands for, now, more than ever, it looks as if the Destroyer and CURE are nearing the end of the road…

Skin Deep (By:Warren Murphy,Molly Cochran)

Just as world leaders are flocking to New York to discuss world peace, someone takes off with the U.S. Navy’s latest super weapon a top secret, atom armed jet bomber that can escape radar detection. Remo and Chiun launch an investigation, but they’re just winging it…
until unexpected turbulence forces them to an uncharted island off the Florida Keys. Then all at once peril is hovering over their heads, in the form of an ex Na*zi with BLITZKRIEG on his mind. His flights of fancy have the free world taxing toward disaster, with Remo and Chiun going along for the ride. Under constant attack, our heroes are flying by the seat of their pants. And this time it looks as if even the secrets of Sinanju won’t help them land on their feet!

Killing Time (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

America’s beautiful people are playing follow the leader with their latest guru, diet doctor Felix Foxx. As Foxx’s disciples are dropping pounds, however, U.S. military leaders are dropping like flies. Coincidence? Maybe. But CURE’s been counting causalities, and Remo and Chiun are being dispatched to muscle in and settle the score. They arrive too late at Foxx’s fat farm a fool’s paradise where the wealthy go to buy time. And where, it appears, the smart set are losing a lot more than cellulite…
Our heroes stumble onto an insidious plot one that’s eating away at the very core of Western civilization. And even racing against time, they’ve got a slim chance of stopping it…

Dying Space (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

When a garbageman in California is found skinned alive, Remo and Chiun figure it’s a dirty business. When the same man starts showing up in the company of a tipsy lady scientist, they know something’s really rotten. But finding out the new face belongs to an old foe a deadly enemy they killed themselves they know trouble’s heading right for their laps, and they’ve got to move fast to keep from landing down in the dumps…
for good. Hot on a trail littered with peril, Remo and Chiun head for Moscow where the KGB, the scientist, and the once dead enemy of Sinanju teach them just who’s going to bury whom? As they waste away in a Soviet prison, America’s future is coming to a head a warhead. And with Remo and Chiun incarcerated, the U.S. is going to be incinerated…
unless, somehow, the odds shift to give the good guys a fighting chance…

Fool’s Gold (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

It’s a routine archaeological find, on a routine archaeological dig until the strange inscription on a buried plaque is translated. Then all at once the entire world is prospecting for gold a whole mountain of it hidden centuries before by an ancient Latin American people. The U.S. is determined to stake a claim because that much gold, in the wrong hands, could destroy the free world’s economy. But nothing’s panning out, and the only person who can decipher the clues to the gold’s location might not live long enough to complete the task. It seems everyone’s trying to kill her…
There’s only one CURE for gold fever Remo and Chiun. But unless they strike it rich, this gold rush is bound to be a bust, and the free market along with it. Unfortunately, our heroes’ luck is about played out…

Last Drop (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

The High and the MightyIt’s enough to give a drug pusher nightmares: thousands upon thousands of sober citizens are suddenly turning on and dropping out for free and the illicit narcotics business has ground to a halt. Under other circumstances, the pushers’ plight would be cause for official celebration. But this time Washington’s good and worried. And when the rock ribbed Harold W. Smith, head of the supersecret agency CURE, knuckles under to the first buzz of his life, it’s clearly time for Remo and Chiun to take matters into their own hands. Trouble is, Remo’s suffering from a midlife career crisis, and he’s flirting with retirement…
. With the backbone of America melting into Silly Putty, will the land of the free be transformed into the land of the Lotus Easters? It;s a loaded question, and the answer lies with an 80 year old Korean assassin and his rebellious pupil…
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Dark Horse (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

An ordinary California political campaign turns into a thriller when someone begins killing off the candidates, and it is up to Remo and Chiun to stop him.

Feeding Frenzy (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy)

While searching for the lethal ingredient in a popular snack food, Remo and Chiun encounter an exotic beauty determined to make Chiun her instant enemy and Remo her love slave.

High Priestess (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

New Age diva Squirrelly Chicane the hottest channeler the side of Atlantis has made millions getting high on the afterlife. So when a delegation of Himalayan holy men convince a very stoned Squirrelly that she’s an incarnation of the Bunji Lama, she figures ruling their little country would be a kick. But big bad China is playing a game of turf war and Tibet is the unlucky first contestant. The holy underdogs hoped that an American national on the throne even one as nuts as Squirrelly would keep the bullies away. Not! Now, the U.S. is sitting on a powder keg. Solution: send in Remo and Chiun with some free tickets to paradise.

Infernal Revenue (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy)

When a smooth talking artificial intelligence computer chip known as Friend covertly hijacks the new computer system at CURE, Harold Smith and his supersecret crime fighting organization log on to turbo trouble. Friend’s fiendish strategy screws up the data base so efficiently that both Remo and Chiun quit bad timing now that Friend has released a stealth virus that will attack systems everywhere, holding the world hostage to techno terrorism. With CURE’s intelligence network rendered useless and the IRS at his door, Smith’s only option looks like a suicide pill. But Friend overplays his hand, and now a reluctant Remo and determined Chiun are back on the payroll powered up to foil the greatest threat CURE has ever faced

Identity Crisis (By:Will Murray,Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Could Dr. Harold Smith be Remo Williams’s biological father? Not only is Remo a few decades behind in Father’s Day cards, but the discovery has sparked the volatile relationship between Remo, and a very jealous Chiun, and Smith who can’t let his own son remain CURE’s expendable enforcement arm. But in his padded cell, one of CURE’s archenemies has been quietly regaining his extraordinary mental powers. His evil mind is culling gray matter and projecting diabolical illusions, putting a dizzying spin on real world events. The whole family ties freak out at CURE is his brainstorm…
and it may be enough to destroy the secret crime fighting organization forever.

Target of Opportunity (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

Remo is set to teach a few lessons in hospitality at Florida’s top tourist attraction, but his mind is made up. He is a free agent. No more CURE, no more trying to solve America’s problems. But the nation goes into a state of shock when a Lee Harvey Oswald look alike is nailed trying to shoot the President, and Remo can’t ignore the call of duty and a sense of d j vu. Soon, a meddling television anchorwoman and strange transformations at the White House leave him feeling that he has landed a role in a bizarre Hollywood thriller. With the direct line to the President still dead, and Chiun trying to give away the secret of CURE, Remo and Smith are hard pressed to protect the Man who threatened to shut down CURE for good…

The Color Of Fear (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

When a diabolical superfoe acquires a superlaser that uses hypercolor to control emotion, he throws the world into a kaleidoscope of deadly mood swings. CURE goes on red alert. And if things aren’t black enough, a rival nation has seen the mind blowing potential of beaming mood altering color form satellites…
and rendering entire nations defenseless. Color them crazy, but Remo and Chiun know they’ve got to thwart this bizarre color scheme. More than ever before they must rely on their sensory skills honed to a razor sharpness because the Destroyer is going to catch the enemy blindfolded.

Last Rites (By:Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir)

The Sinanju Rite of Attainment sounds like a nightmare for Remo Williams. But as the disciple of the last Korean Master, he can’t play hooky. Bounced around the world to perform the Labors of Hercules, Remo finds the days no joy and the nights sheer hell that stretch his warrior skills to the limit. And when the final challenge comes, Remo relizes that somebody’s dying is the only prize to be won..

Blood and Gold (By:Joseph A. West)

An inexperience cowpuncher with a solid work ethic, Dusty Hannah has earned the respect of his boss. Entrusted with $30,000 of the cattle rancher’s gold, he must take the fortune across Texas’s Red River by way of Indian territory, where the Apaches still reign. But the Apaches are the least of Dusty’s concerns once word of the money reaches the eras of every desperado in the Southwest. Saddled wit the gold, and suddenly responsible for protecting a father and daughter lost in hostile country, Dusty has to keep his wits about him and his aim steady if he hopes to see the trail’s end.

For the Brand (By:David Robbins)

Willis Lander was the T Bar ranch’s best bronc buster until a stallion shattered his leg. Unable to work as a cowboy, Willis was forced to mind a line shack forty miles from the ranch, secluding himself in the Wyoming wilderness. But when the T Bar is sold, Willis wonders whether the new owner will want to keep him on. Laurella Hendershot is a Texan rancher grateful for the opportunity to build a new life for herself. And she just may be Willis’ last chance.

Rio Largo (By:David Robbins)

FEUDING FRI: S For years, the Circle T ranch and the D/P ranch have existed in Sweet Grass Valley. Separated by the Rio Largo river, both ranches have managed to prosper mostly due to the ranch owners Kent Tovey and Dar Pierce, who are the best of friends. But all that is about to be challenged. Two new ranch hands are fomenting a cycle of violence between the ranches with a ruthless gang waiting to pick their bones clean after they destroy one another. One loyal cowboy caught in the carnage knows the truth. And when the Circle T and the D/P can no longer be protected, they must be avenged.

Guns of the Canyonlands (By:Joseph A. West)

The Gunfighter series continues.

Gunfighter Chance Tyree never looks for trouble. But in the Utah hills, he unknowingly rides into a war between small landowners and local rancher Quirt Latham. Now, with Latham determined to take him down, and a cold blooded corrupt sheriff out for blood, Tyree’s lightning fast draw is the only chance of stopping a tyrant from taking over.

Deadwood Gulch (By:John Edward Ames)

New in the bestselling gunfighter series Bounty Hunter Cas Everett’s family was slaughtered by outlaws. He has followed their bloody trail to Deadwood the most lawless town in the West and will stop at nothing to see that justice is served.

The Bloody Trail (By:Marcus Galloway)

Jeremiah Correy is leading his family in a wagon train to Oregon when his plans are waylaid by a group of bounty hunters led by Sam Madigan, who take a man from Correy’s party the quiet, unassuming Emmett Natham, who is actually a known fugitive. But Madigan also aims to nab the rest of the travelers and ransom them off.

Now, Jeremiah must stop Madigan and his greatest ally may be the mysterious and dangerous Emmett Natham, whose skills could save them all or lead them to their deaths…

A Wolf In the Fold (By:David Robbins)

EVEN BAD MEN CAN DO GOOD. Lucius Stark is just about the meanest mongrel in West Texas. But when Stark grows too fond of a woman he is hired to kill in a range war, his client shoots him in the back. He is saved by the very ranchers he was paid to eliminate. But when they end up slaughtered, Stark finds himself out to deliver his own brand of vengeance free of charge.

Bluff City (By:David Robbins)

Bluff City is a prosperous silver mining town and a place of opportunity for those willing to exploit its hard working citizens. Harve Barker is the wealthiest man in the territory, offering irresistible vices to anyone willing and able to afford them. Outlaw Jesse Stark has grown fond of the town’s surrounding mining camps, leading a gang of desperadoes on a violent spree of robberies and staying one step ahead of the law at all times. Between the megalomaniacal entrepreneur and the brutal bandit stands the enigmatic Clay Adams. And he has a score to settle with both of them.

Blood Duel (By:David Robbins)

Unable to read about his bloody exploits in the newspaper, serial killer Jeeter Frost finds a teacher to help him, while the townsfolk of Coffin Varnish, hoping to cash in on his infamy, put his victims on display, to which he strongly and violently objects.

Death of a Bad Man (By:Marcus Galloway)

The USA Today bestselling sundown rider series continues when the student is ready, the outlaw will appear…
When Solomon Brakefield decides living the straight and narrow just doesn’t pay, he seeks out Nestor Quarles, known killer and train robber, to teach him the tricks of the outlaw trade. The old outlaw has plenty to teach the new outlaw, but there’s a price to be paid and the currency is Solomon’s soul…

Ride the Hard Trail (By:David Robbins)

A national bestselling PhenomenonWanted brothers Lin and Chancy Bryce are hiding out from the law as cowpunchers on a widow’s ranch only to find themselves in the midst of an encroaching range war against a greedy cattle baron and his band of vicious gunmen…

Bullet for a Bad Man (By:David Robbins)

Boone and Eppley Scott are the sons of a prosperous Arizona ranching family and they couldn t be more different. Boone has a talent for the six shooter, but is content to raise cattle. Eppley is far more ambitious and deadly.

When Epp sends a killer after his unsuspecting younger brother, Boone’s lightning quick hands leave six dead men behind.

On the run, facing peril from all sides, Boone must fight to survive if he s ever going to make it to the final showdown with his own flesh and blood.

The Convict Trail (By:Joseph A. West)

Transporting six cold blooded convicts caged in a prison wagon across hard country, Deputy Marshal Logan Kane needs to watch his back and keep his Colt close at hand. There are rustlers, lynch mobs, and a New Orleans gang to contend with not to mention the convicts cronies looking to bust them loose.

Kane is about to have his own cage rattled as he tries to keep this ride from being his last…

Rawhide Flat (By:Joseph A. West)

U.S. Deputy Marshal Augustus Crane must escort convicted bank robber Judah Welsh to Virginia City. But the townsfolk of Rawhide Flat still want their $30,000 back from Welsh even if it means taking on Marshal Crane…

Outlaw’s Reckoning (By:Marcus Galloway)

When bandits Gus McCord and Doyle Hill stumble on the kidnapping of a shipping mogul’s daughter, they decide to do the unexpected the right thing.

The Man From Nowhere (By:Joseph A. West)

National bestselling Phenomenon When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the ‘respectable’ townsfolk began hanging those who weren’t. Town drunk E ddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill. Oates never thought he was a survivor. But now, he’s discovered a reason to go on and he’s about to unleash a raging fury upon those who would prey on the helpless, the hopeless, and those who others think aren’t worth fighting for…

Bounty Hunter (By:Joseph A. West)

Bounty hunter John Tone is good at his job. Some would say ruthless. If there’s killing to be done, he shows no mercy. In another time, far across the ocean, Tone lost the only person he’s ever loved — and he’s been dead inside ever since. That’s the hand fate dealt him, and he’ll play it out. But then a powerful criminal from San Francisco’s notorious Barbary Coast makes him an offer he can’t refuse, and Tone has to draw out six of his client’s worst enemies.

Fatal Justice (By:David Robbins)

Years ago Marshal Asher Thrall shot mad dog killer Ben Sharkey. And he’s just repaid the favor in spades. With a bullet still in his chest, Ash knows he’s a walking dead man. But he’s going to make sure Sharkey takes his last step first…

Stryker’s Revenge (By:Joseph A. West)

USA Today Bestselling Phenomenon Lieutenant Steve Stryker has a score to settle with Rake Pierce, who’s running guns to the Apaches. Pierce left him a scarred man and ruined his life. Now it’s payback time…

Death of a Hangman (By:Joseph A. West)

USA Today bestselling Phenomenon Charlie Pike is fulfilling Judge Henry Dryden’s dying wish by escorting him to Texas. But an outlaw out for revenge is on their trail, determined that they will never reach their destination…

North to the Salt Fork (By:Ralph Compton,Dusty Richards)

USA Today bestselling phenomenon Captain Jack Starr served the Confederate cause with honor for four years. The town of Lost Dog Creek promised an opportunity for the war veteran to rebuild his life and a woman to share it with. But not everyone is willing to roll out the welcome wagon…

Rusted Tin (By:Marcus Galloway)

Lawdog or Lapdog? Zeke Wolpert is sheriff of Keith County, Nebraska. But he turns a half drunk blind eye to outlaws who pay him for the privilege. Now the outlaws have set their sights on a Wells Fargo shipment. It’s a chance for Zeke to get enough money to retire from this unsavory business once and for all. But it’s also an opportunity for him to honor the badge he wears one last time…

The Burning Range (By:Joseph A. West)

A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town and the black gold beneath it and he’s willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake, and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. Together they’ll need to force feed the Fat Man a steady diet of hot lead, or Green Meadow will flow red.

The Last Manhunt (By:Joseph A. West)

Reporter Lester Booker joins legendary gunfighter Rance March on the trail of a dangerous outlaw to learn how the West was really won.

Slaughter Canyon (By:Joseph A. West)

Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles has to discover why Hatfield J. Warful is gathering every notorious gunslinger in the West at his home in Slaughter Canyon. And if his mission fails, it could result in a second Civil War.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The Shamus Game

From the Private Eye Writers of America comes this collection of all new stories by an all star lineup of Shamus Award winners and their literary PIs. Includes stories by: Jeremiah Healy Loren D. Estleman Max Allan Collins Jerry Kennealy John Lutz Parnell Hall Edward D. Hoch Gary Phillips Rick Riordan Les Roberts Christine Matthews S. J. Rozan Terence Faherty Bill Pronzoni

Greatest Hits

Featuring standout writers of mystery and suspense like Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, James W. Hall, Jeff Abbott, Max Allan Collins, and Lee Child all of them best selling authors, most of them winners of Edgar or Shamus awards or both this anthology comes with a chamberful of surefire stories. Loaded with tension, charged with uncertainty, these taut tales bring their unsuspecting or hunted and fearful marks into the deadly sight of a hired killer’s gun. The hit men, or women, meanwhile match their criminal wits with police detectives, seasoned private eyes, the resolute everyguy, or amateur sleuths to often unexpected and frequently startling ends. Every one of the stories here is a hit. Each of them is craftily calibrated and written expressly for this collection, They include new work by the popular, award winning Ed Gorman, the versatile writer editor Robert J. Randisi, and the recipient of the first ever Sherlock Award for best detective, John Harvey. Cunning inventive hit list authors such as Christine Matthews, Barbara Seranella, Marcus Pelagrimas, and Kevin Wignall further ratchet up the suspense to keep Greatest Hits true to its name, and aim.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook

After the Stoker Award nominated success of the Kolchak Chronicles and its various printings, we have a brand new collection of original creepy thriller Kolchak prose short stories! Again, we have culled the best and the brightest among horror/mystery novelists and comic writers! So listen in as Kolchak relays some of his most spine tingling cases about voodoo, myths, ghost towns, time conundrums, Vikings, haunted amuseme*nt parks, pirates, big fish and some startling revelations about Kolchak’s past!

By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year

In this annual staple of the crime fiction world, Ed Gorman and Martin Greenber collect the best short crime fiction of 2009.

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