Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Classics Series

Having unsuspectingly lifted the hottest gem in town, John Dortmunder becomes the prey of the FBI, the New York City police, terrorist groups from three nations, and all of New Yorkrsquo;s petty and not-so-petty crooks.

Mishaps and misunderstandings force comic crime hero Dortmunder and his gang of bungling thieves to steal a painting not once but twice in this hilarious misadventure.

From the Golden Age author of Green for Danger. "You have to reach for the greatest of Great Names to find Brand's rivals in the subtleties of the trade" (The New York Times). Sir Richard's family has spent years waiting for him to die, but despite his weak heart, the old man simply refuses to cooperate. In the meantime, he makes their lives miserable by changing his will every few months, depending on which of his strange brood he favors that moment. Now he calls them together to announce his most diabolical revision yet: complete disinheritance of all the wastrels who bear his name. But he never gets a chance to sign the papers-by morning, he's dead. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Cockrill, the only detective clever enough to unravel the family's tangle of jealousy and deceit. Each member had reason to kill Sir Richard, but which one plunged the syringe of poison into his heart? With a family this mad, nothing is as complicated as the truth.

Life imitates art in this caper featuring bungling criminals who base their kidnapping plan on a novel.

John Dortmunderrsquo;s one of the slyest burglars going. But while fleeing the police during his latest caper, he falls through the roof of the Silent Sisterhood of St. Filumena-and into the lap of trouble.

The Golden Age author of Green for Danger delivers "a mystery in the classic Christie-Carr-Queen manner . . . An outstanding tour de force" (The New York Times). Few were disappointed when Raoul Vernet was found with his head bashed in, dead in a pool of his own blood. On vacation in England, the Belgian seducer comes to visit Matilda, an old flame from a few years before. She agrees despite suspicions that Vernet has been deploying his legendary charm on another member of the family: young Rosie, who has returned from her Swiss boarding school carrying a child. None of the family members were in the house when Raoul was killed, but all were within a fog-choked London mile. Rosie calls in the brilliant Inspector Cockrill to clear the family's name, but what he finds is a twisted clan of seven people, each as likely to laugh at a murder as commit one.

When a shady politician frames three police officers by dredging up dirty allegations in order to gain the minority vote, investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen becomes determined to uncover the truth.

Ex-cop turned private detective Frank Clemons navigates the mean streets of New York City in a gripping story of two seemingly unrelated cases that spiral into a life and death nightmare.

A classic from MWA Master Stuart Kaminsky. P.I. Toby Peters guards a horror icon against a gang of crazed vampire enthusiasts.

A plot to murder Albert Einstein is uncovered, and Toby Peters is hired to solve the mystery. But if Einstein canrsquo;t figure it out, what chance does Toby have?

A killer terrorizes the San Francisco opera, and the maestro calls in Los Angeles detective Toby Peters to investigate-which might just set him up to be the next victim.

An old friend draws barman Mac McCorkle into a deadly international game.

Life has been strange ever since Toby Peters got a call from Salvador Dalirsquo;s wife. Peters was happy to look into the theft of three of Dalirsquo;s paintings, but he had no idea the investigation might end with his face being literally turned into something resembling abstract art.

Toby Peters joins forces with a famous crime writer to save the top general in America from career-ending scandal.

Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen looks into the decades-old murder of a controversial cop, unaware that she and her camera will uncover events in his past that may  be better left unknown.

Still haunted by the suicide of his teenage daughter, a troubled cop obsessively searches for answers to a young girl#8217;s death.

Filmmaker Maggie MacGowenrsquo;s eye sees things other people miss, often the dark reasons people get lost, hurt-or killed. When a young LA prostitute she befriended turns up murdered, shersquo;s driven to find out who the girl really is and why she died.

Transcendentalist scholar and former detective Homer Kelly agrees to defend a troubled young poet accused of killing her ex-loverrsquo;s new wife. To clear her name he must discover who set her up, and what happened during the two minutes of a Nantucket eclipse.

A Maggie McGowen Mystery. When her sister, Emily, is mysteriously shot in a Los Angeles alley and the evidence shows that it was not the result of random crime, filmmaker Maggie MacGowen must piece together the murder bit by bit.

Saloon owner Mac McCorkle and former CIA agent Mike Padillo team up to help a pair of bodyguards being pursued by assassins-who soon add McCorkle and Padillo to their hit list.

Following the trail of Mae West#8217;s scandalous-and missing-memoirs soon leads P.I. Peters into the midst of murder and mayhem.

Now living in New York, ex-cop Frank Clemons investigates the brutal murder of an elderly woman whose murky past leads him into the deadly shadows of a decades-old mystery.

When arson and murder strike the Emily Dickinson symposium, Professor Homer Kelly decides to investigate ldquo;the everlasting melodrama of human souls in conflict.rdquo;

A hotel murder and a $10,000 charity heist involve Toby Peters with two prominent Hollywood clients-John Wayne and Charlie Chaplin.