In den verrufensten Kneipen der Unterwelt wird Connie Stone von den Kollegen ihres Mannes gesehen. Alle wissen, dass Mrs. Stone ihren Mann betrügt, nur einer ahnt nichts davon: Herman Stone, der unbestechlichste...

Am Tag, als es Geld regnete, war der Jahrmarkt in Los Angeles ein Hexenkessel. Drehorgeln dudelten, Kinder kreischten, und auf dem Geldtransporter stand ein Clown, der mit vollen Händen Banknoten in die...

Seltsame Dinge ereignen sich am Vorabend einer erregenden Bürgermeisterwahl in Phelpsburg: Da werden ein merkwürdiger Zeitungshändler, ein aus Polen eingewanderter Schneider, ein Polizeibeamter und eine...

Alive, she was worth a fortune . . . dead, she was a racketeer’s life insurance!Mona Ambler sat in the death house with a secret that not even a decent guy like Mike Duval could extract. Just home from...

When Jim Charters drank, he talked too much. He claimed he could get Pearl Mantinover out of the death house because he could prove she was innocent. Shooting off his mouth this time led Jim into the...

On the day they gave the money away . . . the shopping center was a scene of confusion. A carnival had been set up nearby, and now a clown was throwing coins and bills to the eager crowd.Suddenly the...

They showed me the bone fragments, and the charred diamond, and everything else - but I said to hell with their theory.Wilma was alive and I knew it.She had to be. The newspapers were yelling that I had...

She had a plan . . .She would find the man that had done this terrible thing to her.She would get into her cream-colored Cadillac and drive until she came to Blairville - his town.She would look for his...

He was as rare as a three-dollar bill . . . an honest man in the town of French Bayou - that was crowding Phenix City out of corruption’s first place.He was young Deputy Sheriff Andy Latour, with enough...

She lived fast...and she loved fast.Everyone who knew Helene Camden had a good reason for wanting her dead: Hal Camden - her husband, who knew she was two-timing him all over Florida Tom Ferris - who...

Vor Jahren hatte Cora Royal noch in der erbärmlichen Hütte eines Büffeljägers gehaust, jetzt war sie Besitzerin einer der größten Ranches in Südtexas und die mächtigste Frau in der Stadt. Sie wurde von...

Man hat Emily vor Dan Moran gewarnt, aber sie schlug alles in den Wind. Denn für diesen Fremden, den sie eines Nachts in ihrem Zimmer versteckt hatte, ging sie jedes Risiko ein. Und dabei hatte sie viel...