Dell Shannon - Libros y biografía

The Manning Company is a big business, but although it was headed by Claire Manning, the founder's widow, before her death, her son John had been running the firm for many years and was the undisputed...

'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneThe Wilcox Street precinct is as busy as ever. Sergeant Maddox and his team face three tricky murder cases, with motives that turn out to be...

Spring fever has hit Luis Mendoza, both on the job and at home. But it hasn't erased the LAPD's endless caseload of bizarre crimes and difficult cases.'Dapper Dan', the rapist and murderer whose dashing...

Robert Kinsolving is healthy, wealthy and forty-one, and has asked Jesse Falkenstein to draw up a will leaving everything to his sister, just in case. However, before signing, Kinsolving is found dead...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesQueer cases run in batches in Los Angeles and Lieutenant Luis Mendoza has a few of them on his books. There's the case of the man who...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesThings begin to heat up in the Los Angeles Police Department when Lieutenant Luis Mendoza's stolid and good-natured colleague Sergeant...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesHas an innocent man suffered for another's crime? Is there, lurking in the background a cunning maniac killer, selecting his victims...

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza likes nothing better than to wrap up his homicide cases neatly. The latest Jane Doe is identified as Valerie Ellis, a spoiled rich kid who was left penniless when her parents died...

Sergeant Andrew Clock of Homicide is an honest policeman, but now there's a very grave charge against him: concealing evidence in a murder investigation in return for a bribe. The evidence seems damning,...

Ivor Maddox and his men of the Hollywood police department face, as ever, a formidable load of tricky and puzzling cases.An unknown woman walks into a lawyer's office and shoots him dead: who is she and...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesAn earthquake shakes Southern California and the Los Angeles Police Department. With no air-conditioning and a temperature around 98...

The weather in LA hasn't been living up to its sunny reputation - the murder of an unwanted newborn and the assault of a twelve-year-old girl don't make things pretty for the family-man cop, especially...

'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneRonnie and Ruth, a young couple engaged to be married, are shot dead. Someone hated their guts so bad he reloaded and pumped nine shots into...

'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneAs usual, crime is a boom industry in Los Angeles. A gunman walks into a café and shoots a waitress dead, seemingly at random. A schoolgirl...

It's Christmas, but there isn't much Christmas spirit in the Glendale Police Department. Delia Riordan's father has just died, Detective Jim Harvey's family have left for the holidays, there are power...

A perfect collection of short stories for Dell Shannon fans and mystery lovers everywhere, featuring eight cases of her popular Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, alongside six intriguing non-series tales.Mysteries...

Die Polizei von Los Angeles steht vor einer Katastrophe: Sieben Morde und Mordversuche ohne eine einzige brauchbare Spur!Oder hält Lieutenant Mendoza den Schlüssel zur Lösung der Verbrechen bereits in...

To a man, the members of the LAPD homicide department were yawning with unaccustomed inactivity. Then everything happened at once - a cop killed by a hit-and-run driver; the questionable suicide of a...

Someone in Glendale is murdering elderly housewives in their homes. The signs point to a serial killer but could the police be mistaken? In each case, the killer knew the victim's routine; but what possible...

It was strictly a duty call and Pat Carroll wasn't looking forward to it one bit. But she was in Wales and her fiance's family lived nearby. He was dead now, killed in an accident, and Pat felt that since...

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is tasked with solving a double murder, shrouded in strange rites. Acting on one of his famous hunches, he is drawn into the world behind the glitter of Hollywood and into the...

A nice young man is helping little old ladies with their groceries . . . then stealing their Social Security; an enormous 'ape man' with a face like King Kong is robbing liquor stores; 'Jack the Stripper'...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesLieutenant Luis Mendoza is beset by two insistent puzzlers: how does his team nail the pair who are staging hold-ups at the best restaurants...

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza celebrates his birthday with a more than usually exuberant outburst of murder and mayhem.What has happened to the abducted Nurse Bradley? What fiend could have tied up Lila Wescott...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesThere's no holiday from crime at the Los Angeles Police Department, not even at Christmas. Among a string of bizarre cases, there's the...

'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneTwenty years ago the five-year-old Traxler heir was kidnapped from his Hollywood home and never seen again. Now his widowed mother is overjoyed...

Herbst - die Tage werden kürzer...Herbst - die beste Zeit, innezuhalten und zu lesen...Dieses Buch enthält vier spannende und ausgewählte Top-Krimis aus den Krimi-Reihen des Apex-Verlags, geschrieben...

Winter - die Tage sind dunkel und kalt...Winter - die Nächte sind länger und laden ein zum Lesen...Dieses Buch enthält vier spannende und ausgewählte Top-Krimis aus den Krimi-Reihen des Apex-Verlags,...