His first novel, The Good Detective, which is pretty much perfect, features a decent if flawed hero battling personal troubles while occupied with a murder case of great consequence to his community.
You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from?
The first book in the Detective Sergeant Best series.
This book is a must-read for those interested in the history of detective fiction and the evolution of detective work as a profession. Allan Pinkerton, a Scottish American detective and spy, founded the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1850.
In this bestselling book that inspired the hit movie by the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, an apparent suicide forces a PI to reconsider his most famous case Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full of medals, but his ...
From Poe's tales of mystery and imagination to P.D. James's A Taste for Death, Keating delivers a highly-readable evaluation of the 100 authors and their masterpieces. This collection is a must for all devoted mystery readers.
Each story is preceded by an author profile. Authors include Edgar Allan Poe, P.G. Wodehouse, and Agatha Christie. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR