Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she’s under investigation by the FBI, only to find himself…

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone’s rise in Chicago gangdom…

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It’s not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there’s…

A woman reporter, a navy investigator, and a heavyset police detective come across a gang which scuttled a ship in order to loot her later, underwater, for a Navy money…

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time…