Альфред Хичкок — знаменитый режиссер и сценарист, которого по праву считают «королем ужасов». Он родился 13 августа 1899 года в Англии, работал в кино с 1919 года. В 1922 году снял свой первый фильм «№ 13, или Миссис Пибоди», а в 1960 году — свой самый знаменитый фильм «Психоз», успех которого превзошел все ожидания и сделал автора миллионером. Хичкок собирал свою коллекцию «странных повестей и рассказов», которые были изданы во многих странах и стали там бестселлерами. Вниманию российских читателей предлагается серия книг — сборников произведений из «ужасной» коллекции Хичкока, среди авторов которых Ф. С. Фицджеральд, Д. Уэстлейк, Э. Куин, Дж. Ричи, Д. Э. Коулмен и другие известные...

Hell Has No Fury — like a crossed-up dame, they say, and Burr thought he could use that adage to save a pal’s life. But with those dames — he’d better try first to save himself!

A girl like Brenda and fifty grand... Who could blame Cleo Constance for trying to make a killing? Certainly not Jeff Pitt, who knew Brenda... But who did not know just what kind of a killing Cleo would make.

A collection of suspense stories, puzzle stories, whodunits and tricky whydunits involving police detectives, private eyes, talented and sometimes lucky amateurs, armchair detectives, and ethnic detectives.

Lysistrata paced restlessly in the garden, nervously plucking at leaves. It had been seven months since she had seen her husband, Lycon — since he had left her to go off to war. Seven months of lonely days and empty nights — of aching heart and throbbing loins. Seven months of longing. But now a strange smile played around her lips. Tonight he was coming home—

Lisa Sheridan — a beautiful woman, alone and unfulfilled, driven by unnatural desires... Avery Lawes — only half a man because he had never loved a woman... They met, and each saw in the other a chance for escape. And so, in a frantic flight for normality, they were married. But they could not know the terrible depths into which their union would plunge them.

Dashiell Hammett and William Vollmann are just two treats in this stellar sequel to the smash-hit original volume of San Francisco Noir, which captures the dark mythology of a world-class locale.