Pregnant, hunted, and alone, a young woman turns to the only man who can help Faith has just enough time to dodge the speeding car. She leaps backwards and falls onto the sidewalk, breaking her thumb in an attempt to protect her pregnant belly. When she picks herself up off the ground, the baby is safe, but Faith is anything but. Desperate for help from someone she can trust, she turns to her old friend Harry Ross, a frustrated writer with a dead-end job at a prestigious New York paper. He's hungry for adventure and about to get more than his fill. Faith claims that her dying husband's family wants the baby dead, to protect their inheritance. She's survived four attempts on her life...

Publisher's Weekly The third volume of DeAndrea's cold war espionage series, launched with Cronus and Snark, brings back his hero under the name Allan Trotter (he appeared previously as Driscoll, Dekker and Bellman). Trotter is a super spy who works for ''The Agency,'' which is run by ''The Congressman,'' who used to be ''The General'' and who reports only to the President. The Agency is an ultra-secret organization whose sole purpose is to keep the Soviets in check by combating liberalism in America, especially as it is fostered by the Cronus project, a communist plan to infiltrate the families of America's most powerful men. Azrael concerns the infiltration of the family that runs the...

Someone has doctored Dr. Herkimer's Ozono, sovereign remedy for gout, cancer, spastic colon, excessive wind, heart palpitations, and all other complaints and conditions. The potion might not have anything good in it, but it never killed anyone before now. For Lobo, a paralyzed former lawman, it's a puzzle: Why would Herkimer poison the goose that's laying the golden egg? When Le Four's sheriff becomes one of the potion's victims, Quinn Booker finds the badge pinned to his own chest, and while trying to keep the townspeople from lynching Herkimer, he discovers that he has another problem. Paul Muller, the last man arrested by Lobo before he was backshot, has escaped from prison and is on his...

In his lifelong study of the nature and causes of human evil, Professor Niccolo Benedetti does not concern himself with trifles. So when the U.S. government wants him to resolve a feud between elderly twin millionaires, he refuses - at first. He thinks the bird-loving Clyde and cat-loving Henry are two simpletons quite unworthy of his sophisticated talents. He becomes intrigued, however, when he learns that, by mysterious means, all the birds have inexplicably vanished from Clyde's nature preserve. Benedetti arrives ready to investigate, along with his married assistants, private eye Ron Gentry and psychologist Janet Higgins. He immediately finds himself enveloped in a tangled web of...

World-renowned criminologist Professor Nicolo Benedetti is called to the small, unassuming town of Sparta, New York, to solve a series of brutal murders. The only lead is a succession of notes delivered to the local newspaper, taunting the police, and enigmatically signed "HOG." Originally published in 1979, The HOG Murders received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

Matt Cobb's job as vice-president of special projects is a strange one. All of the network's problems end up on his desk. Over the past few years, these problems have included everything from dealing with murder and mayhem to making sure that the right person is picked up at the right time by the right car. After years of dealing with this as well as with the eccentric and arrogant personalities that only the world of network television could produce, Matt Cobb has had it. He's decided to call it quits. Unfortunately, Tom Falzet, president of the network, simply can't allow one of his key associates to leave - at least not permanently. Especially since, in addition to all the work he does,...

An electrifying puzzle, corporate sleuth Matt Cobb is set up in a TV-world murder This Edgar Award - winning debut novel introduces Matt Cobb, vice president of special projects at a large television network - where "special projects" means anything sensitive, or even fatal, that the company wants to keep quiet. Cobb's no stranger to following mysterious orders, so when he receives a telephone call asking him to visit a hotel room he obliges. The invitation, however, means a dead body, a sharp blow to the head, and suspicion from the police that he committed the crime. And while one of the detectives put on the case has known Cobb since he was a child, the other is convinced of his...

In the follow-up to Cronus, an American spy travels to London to locate a high-profile missing person, and is faced with terror from the past If they're going to take you, let them take you with your eyes open. That's the credo of Clifford Driscoll, the American spy at the center of Snark, the follow-up to William DeAndrea's Edgar Award - winning Cronus. Driscoll has gone by many names in his short, eventful life, and he's just borrowed another: that of Jeffrey Bellman, an agent his Russian enemies at Cronus consider dead. As the son of a formidable secret intelligence director, Driscoll/Bellman is used to all kinds of existential ducking and weaving. The new Bellman is sent to...

A onetime baseball catcher confronts the murder of a McCarthyist politician at Yankee Stadium In 1953 America, McCarthyism is everywhere. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is among the leaders who single-mindedly hunt down suspected Communists; he even claims that Communism has infiltrated America's favorite pastime. But while watching a Yankee game one afternoon, he becomes a target. As the crowd cheers for a homerun, Simmons is shot dead in his seat. The task of solving the crime falls to onetime ballplayer and Korean War veteran Russ Garrett, who collaborates with "Vicious Aloysius" Murphy, a Bronx homicide detective. The investigation won't be easy, since there are plenty of people...

Matt Cobb scrambles to save a celebrity event turned upside down by robbery and murder Matt Cobb may not be a detective by trade, but there are times when he sure feels like one. As the VP of special projects for a television conglomerate, Cobb is an expert at getting the network out of tricky situations. Now his company is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a weekend-long extravaganza, flying in dozens of celebrities for a prime-time party. And as the event approaches, egos flare, nerves fray, and someone sabotages the studio. First a reporter drowns in a TV star's pool. Then an actress's bowling ball - her lucky talisman - is stolen, and some important kinescopes disappear....