Henry Carter Hull

"A woman's wild story about killers from space leads two Chicago detectives into a bizarre case in this mystery by the Edgar Award -- winning author. Ed and Ambrose Hunter, nephew and uncle, have partnered up to open their own detective agency in early 1950s Chicago. With their experience solving the case of Ed's father's murder, among others, they have the skills to take criminals down. And as carnies, they've encountered all sorts of unusual characters....

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

Back on his family farm, John Marshall Tanner investigates a murder that hits very close to home It's been thirty years since John Marshall Tanner, private eye, returned to Chaldea, and he hasn't missed the farm -- three hundred acres of thin topsoil and ratty growth -- any more than he's missed his family. There's his sister, Gail, worn down by decades of trying to do the right thing; his brother Curt, wallowing in depression ever since his son,...

To clean up a rotten town, John Marshall Tanner goes after the city's most powerful villain El Gordo is a quiet little city just outside of San Francisco, with a charming town square, a few local businesses, and the most corrupt police force in the state of California. John Marshall Tanner has worked a case here before, and it nearly ended with him taking a beating. When the private detective returns to El Gordo, it will be his life on the line.  ...

John Marshall Tanner will go above and beyond to protect his secretary from a stalker John Marshall Tanner finds his secretary slumped over on the sofa, her arm draped across her face. This private eye has seen enough death that, for a moment, he thinks Peggy Nettleton has been murdered. Fortunately, after a moment's panic, he realizes she has simply dozed off. Tanner has worked alongside Peggy for eight years, and if something happened to her, it...

To save a small publishing company, John Marshall Tanner searches for an anonymous scribe John Marshall Tanner has spent most of his life avoiding parties -- an easy feat for San Francisco's most introspective private detective. Nevertheless, when one of his closest friends, publisher Bryce Chatterton, finds himself in desperate need of a private eye, Tanner joins him at the party thrown to announce Periwinkle Press's latest publication -- but there's...

John Marshall Tanner dives into San Francisco's roughest neighborhood to avenge a fallen friend John Marshall Tanner, PI, is a drinking man, and he prefers to imbibe in the comfort of a nameless San Francisco bar. Tanner has just one friend there, a social crusader named Tom Crandall who has just discovered that his wife, a celebrated chanteuse, is having an affair with one of the city's most powerful men: Richard Sands. Sands is a ruthless corporate...

Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients", he figured, the more money -- and more people eager to see him dead. So no one is surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River with his skull bashed in. And what's worse, no one cares -- except Matthew Scudder. The ex-cop-turned-private-eye is no conscientious avenging angel. But...

A New Orleans detective's investigation of a fellow cop's murder reveals surprises in this mystery from the USA Today -bestselling author of Thrill Kill . One of Quentin Archer's fellow officers has been shot dead in broad daylight, in his own squad car. A random cop killing ... or something more sinister? With no leads to go on, Archer turns to voodoo queen Solange Cordray for help. But is he prepared to take her advice? As Archer uncovers some surprising...

Ex-Dallas Cowboy Rick Bannion has been through the revolving prison door for drug trafficking and now hunts bail-jumpers. His old friend Jack Brendy has just been busted by the Feds for smuggling cocaine, and when Brendy's wife approaches him seeking a favor, Rick jumps at the chance to help. The favor?-keep the government's sleazy informer off the stand. Unfortunately, when things go wrong, Rick finds himself in the crosshairs of the Feds.