His Name Was Death
by Fredric Brown | 
The Ferguson Affair
by Ross Macdonald | 
The wrong case
by James Crumley | 
Dancing Bear
by James Crumley | 
The Dain Curse
by Dashiell Hammett | 
Woman in the Dark
by Dashiell Hammett | 
The Last Good Kiss
by James Crumley | 
The Screaming Mimi
by Fredric Brown | 
The Far Cry
by Fredric Brown | 
The Mexican tree duck
by James Crumley | 
The Drowning Pool
by Ross Macdonald | 
The Bride Wore Black
by Cornell Woolrich | 
The Burning Court
by John Dickson Carr | 
The Goodbye Look
by Ross Macdonald |
My Gun Is Quick
by Mickey Spillane |
He was a son who hadn't known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder--his father's murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war andwandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father's seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors. Thedoors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve thismurder--by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown.