"Checkmate." That was the last word uttered to Charlie Chan and Prefect of Police Claude DeBevre by a dying reporter....

In his first chronicled adventure, the Nameless Detective hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doesn't trust the police....

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....

The Flimflam Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's detective series. 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...

Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. And they certainly weren't all heroes. 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...

More Oddments features 14 more detective stories featuring characters such as Fergus O'Hara and the "Nameless" Detective. The stories included in this collection are: "Fergus O'Hara, Detective" "Chip" "Opportunity" "A Craving for Originality" "One of Those Cases (A "Nameless Detective" Story)"...

The Bags of Tricks Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in MWA Grand Master Bill Pronzini’s detective series. A con man always has a bag of tricks, ready to fool the unsuspecting, and almost everyone is unsuspecting until they get taken. When that happens, they turn to Carpenter...

The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years...and these two will test his agency's resources. The first involves a woman whose husband is accidentally killed in a remote cabin in the Sierras. The wife isn't buying that he was alone, and she's determined to uncover his secret and...

Matthew Cape has no time to worry about his fears; caught up in events not of his making, but inescapable, he does things he's never dared....

Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than 80 published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards - a clean sweep of the crime fiction awards field - and received rave reviews from critics. He crafts masterful stories, often from...

He's just gotten some bad news, and its impact has made him immobile and fearful....

The Nameless Detective is hired by a young wife to find out whether her husband has been having an affair. He trails the husband to a motel of cabins in a small village....

Former pulp writer and current hack Russell Dancer invites Nameless to the first annual Western Pulp Convention in San Francisco....

Three outlaws arrive in the country town of Big Tree, California, on a blazing hot day of a long dry summer....

Broke and fleeing his shattered marriage, Jack Lennox takes a bus towards the southwestern desert....

The sleepy town of Tule Bend came alive with terror after a drifter was found hanging....

Nameless is called in by his friend, police lieutenant Eberhardt, when a dead woman's purse contains Nameless's business card....

The gold miners' association is about to ship $70,000 of gold dust. The brutal and fearsome Burgoyne brothers are in the neighborhood....

As Eberhardt answers the door, the detective hears two sharp echoing reports - gunshots; they could only be gunshots....

Secret Service agent John Quincannon has found little joy in his life since the day his stray bullet killed an innocent young woman and her unborn child....