Books like Deadly image by George Harmon Coxe

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

Philip Marlowe spins a hard‑boiled Los Angeles mystery that turns routine into a jewel‑caper, double murder, fortune‑teller intrigue and corruption.

In "The Postman Always Rings Twice," a drifter falls for a married woman, creating a deadly love triangle that spirals into murder, betrayal, and the inevitable tragedy of a postman's cruel warning.

Renowned detective Philip Marlowe investigates the mysterious disappearances of two wives in Los Angeles, revealing a tangled web of marriage, crime and intrigue.

Antonio Mercer, a seasoned private investigator, is drawn back into past romance when an old client surfaces, demanding help amid a dangerous crime network that threatens her family and his own safety.

In Scotland's Misfit Mob, DC Callum MacGregor faces a baffling case when an ancient mummy surfaces at the Oldcastle tip, linking a stolen museum artefact to three missing young men and a looming threat.

THhe odor of familiar perfume greeted him when he turned the knob on the door of Fay's bedroom, and in that first instant when he saw the limp, crumpled figure in the wicker chair he knew instinctively that his wife was dead. Dave Wallace had come to Trinidad to forget the past and his scheming, predatory estranged wife, Fay. But Fay had reneged on their divorce agreement and had followed him to the island, had moved in on him bag and baggage and begun running around with three different men. Now she was dead-strangled with her own necklace-and Wallace, who had quarreled with her only an hour before, still bore the scratch marks from her fingernails on the back of his hand. He knew that Fay had been winding up her affairs and planning to leave, that she had been playing her favorite game of blackmail, and that someone was paying her off. Steve Rand, the charter-boat captain, Neil Benedict, the gambler and night-club owner, and Joe Anderson, the real estate operator, had good reason to hate her. Yet of the men in Fay's life, he himself became at once the most logical suspect. For there had been another time when he had resorted to violence and attacked his wife with murder in his heart. If this became known while the police were investigating her death, who would believe he was innocent?

In a collection of seven tight, suspenseful tales, the Continental Op tackles deception, murder, and moral grayness, while Sam Spade revels in human darkness and a young detective probes a murder clouded by lies.