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Meet Trygve Yamamura—judo expert, Samurai sword connoisseur, and private detective. He is a triple threat to San Francisco crime. These combined skills enable him to keep his own head attached while finding out who removed someone else's with an honorable Japaneses weapon. An old-fashioned detective story, a genuine whodunit, with a good deal of suspense thrown in.

A shut-and-opened case? The beautiful heiress had done a foolproof job on herself. After a large dose of sleeping pills, she'd slashed her wrists, then climbed into the tub and drowned. Only her fiance said suicide was impossible and begged Mac to help, at any price. And when Mac started to investigate, he found that even the police weren't so sure of suicide—if the cop on his tail was any indication. And there were other oddities. Huge periodic withdrawals in the dead woman's bankbook. The homosexual artist who said he'd loved her. The seamy world of the slums where she'd made secret visits for years. Each clue Mac uncovered sketched out a case that was anything open and shut - and a portrait of a dead heiress who had led two lives. This is the 12th suspense novel about Mac, the Chicago private eye, whom Anthony Boucher called "one of fiction's best private detectives, solidly and humanly in the Hammett tradition."

This stirring canine Robinsonade-cum-utopia with a trace of Animal Farm will evoke tears, laughter, horror—and a sense that turnabout is fair play when dogs rebel against the cruelties of humans. The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of science fiction and fantasy selected by acclaimed author and critic Paul Di Filippo.

With the delicate touch and deep sympathies of Ray Bradbury, Karen Joy Fowler or Jeff Ford, Alex Jablokov guides us through the remembered days of the 1960s when a teen boy and his family played host to an enigmatic and eccentric Russian exile named Vassily, whose spaceship-building past was full of hidden truths and treasures. The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of science fiction and fantasy selected by acclaimed author and critic Paul Di Filippo.

Scott Holden became the Betrayer, using his vast scientific skill and power to destroy all metal—thrusting mankind back to elementals to save it from knowledge that would mean annihilation!-

While visiting the Princess at the Palace Steinheimer in Vienna, Jennie investigates a huge gold heist. Sixth in the Victorian sleuth series. 

On a rainy afternoon in an out-of-the-way bar, the lives of three men—a small-time hustler, a bartender, and a mafia killer—come together in a way none of them could’ve expected. And one won’t live through the hour. The Barb Goffman Presents series showcases the best in modern mystery and crime stories, personally selected by one of the most acclaimed short stories authors and editors in the mystery field.

The Thrillogy series presents 3 works by a single author—in this case, one of the legends of horror pulp fiction. Seabury Quinn (1889–1969) was an American government lawyer, journalist, and pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales. Included are: "The Last Man," "Glamour," and "Birthright"—all from Weird Tales magazine.

"The Teacher from Mars" became an instant classic when it was published in the February 1941 issue of the classic pulp magazine, Thrilling Wonder Stories. It concerns a Martian who comes to Earth as a teacher, experiencing—in the wake of a devastating war—racism and intolerance. Told from the first person viewpoint of an alien, it was unusual for its time, and Eando Binder (the pseudonym of Otto O. Binder) selected it as his best work for the 1954 anthology, My Best Scieince Fiction Story.

"Fifth Freedom" is a classic science fiction story originally published in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943 issue.

This startlingly beautiful and exotic story has to do with one of the most wondrous and frightening things in the world: growing up. Such simple words for such a complex, weighty, never-ending process. It carries with it the realization of responsibilities, the maddening loss of one kind of security and the sometimes-reluctant gain of another, and so much isolation. “New Olympus” is undoubtedly about a good deal more than the loss of one’s childhood. Cross’s stories, his visions of life, are as complex as the finest poetry and similarly leave the reader with singular, recognizable, yet hard-to-define feelings. This one left us feeling awash in admiration.

Though he did work for a small-town newspaper, Ken Svederup had been around, and to him the expense-paid trip he had won for a front-page news beat seemed pretty phony. But never look a gift horse... He was off to meet the Big Boss in California—and no doubt he’d get the real story. Ken did meet the Big Boss, but he had not anticipated Clara Kelly, whose beauty and peppery temper made him forget the girls back home in Milquevais, Minnesota. And the story was revealed...through a body pulled from the pounding surf after what seemed a deep-sea accident...and Ken found himself on the trail of an underwater killer.

John Lux was an electronic scientist, a level-headed industrialist, an ordinary twentieth-century man—at least he thought he was an ordinary man...until he discovered he could teleport himself! ...Until he discovered that forces 200,000 years beyond his time were trying to destroy him! Until he discovered that civilization of the future was being pampered into extinction in a kindergarten world -- and he was the only man in all eternity who could save it!

Harold "Hap" Miller, whose parents owned the Hanging Rock Ranch, is best friends with Jim Hawn, a boy of the Yakima tribe. When a calf goes missing on the ranch, the two boys ride out to find it—and set off a chain of events that reveals a modern-day mystery! "Another fast moving Mary Adrian mystery. Like the others, into its plot is woven a lot of interesting information about life on a western ranch and an Indian reservation." —The Times Recorder

It’s been twelve years since we’ve heard of Mr. Evan Pinkerton, the little, timid man who seems to attract trouble, and continually harasses Inspector Bull of Scotland Yard. They’re back now in Homicide House. The story is laid in postwar London, and Mr. Pinkerton is living at No. 4 Godolphin Square. Despite the fact that he owns the apartment house, he shares meagre quarters on the top floor with the chef. Years of living with the penny-pinching Mrs. Pinkerton (now fortunately deceased) have accustomed him to discomfort, and Mr. Pinkerton is quite happy living where he is. One day a young American comes swinging along the Square. He attracts Mr. Pinkerton’s attention when he stops in front of No. 22, directly across from No. 4, and now a shell of a house with only a stairway leading nowhere. The American is so obviously distressed at the sight of the bombed-out house, that Mr. Pinkerton breaks a habit of longstanding and speaks to him. When the stranger tells him he is looking for a girl whom he met six years before in an air-raid shelter, and that he knows only that she lived at No. 22 Godolphin Square, Mr. Pinkerton comforts him by revealing that she is living quite safely at the very house in which he himself has rooms. It takes only one more innocent question to start in motion a train of singularly unpleasant events, and the stranger and Mr. Pinkerton find themselves in the midst of violence and murder.

When Margaret Thackrey, ex-government agent and writer, decides to pen her memoirs, she unwittingly gets the attention of a vicious assassin--a man whose nefarious deeds she'd nearly uncovered during her service. Now he must stop the publication of her book before his true character is revealed. He murders her husband, and stalks her from Oregon to Texas. There she must finally confront her past--and a determined, stone-cold killer! "A first-rate thriller—the almost unbearable suspense just ratchets up, chapter by chapter." —Robert Reginald.