The oil-rich Sultan of a feudal realm...a lady hijacker with a Roedean accent...a tribe of unspeakably primitive marshmen...systematic witchcraft—and a double murder whose only witness is a chimpanzee. These are the bizarre ingredients of this classic story of detection by ...

"Something has come up that may interest you, Dr. Oliver..." A French inspector has a mystery for Gideon Oliver that can turn a dull conference into a chilling murder investigation. A pile of human bones has been unearthed in the dank cellar of the ancient du Rocher estate on the ...

Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Movieland leftists on a collision course with a grand jury investigating team. Gangsters and cops and fixers and Hollywood grotesques in a noir novel of epic scope and depth. The Big Nowhere is the story ...

THEY WERE THE PREDATORS and when they finished with Paula Halstead, she felt she had no choice. She had to kill herself. Now, it was left to her husband, Curt, to bring about the justice the law would not provide. Now, HE WAS THE PREDATOR.

The Annual Owl Count is serious business at Balaclava Agricultural College. So why does a team that includes the redoubtable Professors Shandy, Stott and Binks also include a boorish avian ignoramus like Emory Emmerick? And how could Emmerick have had the temerity to get himself netted ...

While her art detective husband, Max Bittersohn, chases Watteaus in Argentina, Sarah Kelling lunches with the feuding eccentrics of the Wilkins private museum. Then feisty administrator—and talented art forger—Dolores Tawne is found dead with a hole in her head the size ...

Renowned art detective Max Bittersohn (who also happens to be the beloved husband of Boston socialite Sarah Kelling) is enjoying a summer stroll when he's accosted by Countess Lydia Ouspenska. That vintage vamp and faithful forger of Byzantine bibelots has just been inducted into ...

A dastardly gang of rogues is sneaking around Balaclava county, snaching priceless antique Praxiteles Lumpkin weathervanes. Before they disappear entirely, Helen Shandy decides to photograph several of them for the Balaclava Historical Society files. A good thing, too. Helen gets ...

The blood had turned the white damask tablecloth a terrible bright red. Later the newspapers would call the triple murder in the magnificent Kingsmarkham country home the "Tancred House massacre." When Chief Inspetor Reginald Wexford arrived at the isolated wooded estate, he indeed ...

"Crimes are more often committed out of fear than out of wickedness," said author Ruth Rendell in a New York Times interview. "People live frightened, desperate lives. . ." The trademark of a Ruth Rendell novel is fear...a fear connected to the evil that lies just beneath the veneer ...