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A delusional woman involves her husband in a kidnapping so she can reveal the child's location during a seance, but in this macabre film things go wrong.
A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
When Inspector Felse arrests a woman for the murder of a beer tycoon, his son sets out to prove her innocence in this Edgar Award–winning mystery. Is a vulgarity ground for murder? Alfred Armiger had antagonized many with his greed and crass acquisitiveness. So when the ruthless beer baron is discovered dead, his head beaten in by a magnum of champagne, there is no shortage of suspects. All of Comerford is shocked when Detective...
A sadistic school headmaster is murdered by his wife and mistress, but when his body cannot be found, they are terrorized by his seeming presence everywhere.
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
In Raymond Chandler's sixth novel, which won an Edgar Award, Philip Marlowe becomes caught up in a case involving a battle-scarred alcoholic war hero, his nymphomaniac heiress wife, and both their suspicious deaths.
Police are baffled by random killings of women; Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion takes on a powerful crime syndicate; plans to rob a casino as a hoax by a group of friends go awry when one of them takes it very seriously; two hit men must explain the disappearance of a heroin stash to their boss; a normally pragmatic hit man finds he has misgivings when his next job is to kill a woman who is about to give evidence against his boss.
When Wallace Hunter is found murdered in a 1940s Chicago alleyway after an all-night bender, Hunter's teenage son, Ed, and carney brother, Am, decide to investigate for themselves when they realize some of the witnesses are hiding something.