Bill Pronzini

A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window', the inspiration behind Alfred Hitchock's classic film.

Quincannon’s pursuit of two con men who have absconded to Hawaii with a considerable sum of his employer’s assets dovetails nicely with Sabina’s vision of a second honeymoon. But neither is wont to stay out of trouble....

Today, Bill Pronzini is famed for his private-eye stories, and Barry N. Malzberg is one of America's premier science fiction writers, but back in their salad days they collaborated on a number of stories. Problems Solved collects all their crime and mystery collaborations....

In response to a string of gold thefts in a Mother Lode mine, Quincannon goes undercover as a newly hired miner to identify and capture the men responsible....

A con man always has a bag of tricks, ready to fool the unsuspecting, and almost everyone is unsuspecting until they get taken....

Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that's just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it. Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he hasn't had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years. That is, until mid-October, 1914....

Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services is a fixture in San Francisco at the dawn of a new century. While the future is unclear, Sabina and John know one thing for certain: they will protect their clients from flimflammers, thieves, and murderers....

The first story, Trouble in Temescal, is set in Los Angeles in the days following the Mexican-American War, and tells the tale of two entrepreneurial mustangers, Hank Ashwood and Red Wolfe. The second story, King of the Defiances, is the story of Big Jim Jackson....

A double dose of Western action from one of the genre's acknowledged masters. Includes "The Rodeo Killer" and "Mission Creek"....

Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. Give-a-Damn Jones, a free-spirited itinerant typographer, hates his nickname almost as much as the rumors spread about him. He's a kind soul who keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time....

More Oddments features 14 more detective stories featuring characters such as Fergus O'Hara and the "Nameless" Detective....

The police said it was an accident. The dead woman's sister said it was murder...and that she knew who did it. Nameless isn't certain....

The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years...and these two will test his agency's resources....

Drug lords, missing millionaires, corrupt cops… just another day for Carpenter and Quincannon Detective Services....

Can the true identity of the Sherlock Holmes imposter be revealed at last? Listen to find out....

In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby....

When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter....

Zigzag is an original novella in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme....

When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden....

A debutante's missing body, murder most foul, and weird spectrallights in the fog make for a thrilling gas light-era tale of mystery and detection....