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ROBERT WALLACE – The Corpse Parade. The Phantom Detective. First published in magazine form, December 1937. Reprinted as a paperback by Regency / Corinth in 1966.

A series of evil murders stalks the streets of New York City. The victims are all connected with the automotive and trucking industries, the bodies found with amputated arms, being d...


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My Top 10 PI Novels, by Tony Baer.

— One per author; private = no police detectives:

The Maltese Falcon
Long Goodbye
Galton Case
8th Circle (Ellin)
No Good from a Corpse (Brackett)
Solomon’s Vineyard (Latimer)
Death in a Bowl (Whitfield)
Last Good Kiss (Crumley)
Taste of Ashes (Browne)
I, ...


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WARREN MURPHY “Another Day, Another Dollar.” First published in Murder on the Run: Stories from the Adams Round Table (Berkeley, hardcover, February 1998). Reprinted in The Shamus Winners: America’s Best Private Eye Stories, Volume II: 1992-2009, edited by Robert J. Randisi (Perfect Crime Books, 2010).

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A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review
by Bill Pronzini

WILLIAM H. HALLAHAN – Catch Me, Kill Me. Bobbs-Merrill, hardcover, 1977. Avon, paperback, 1978. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel from the MWA in 1978.

A former creative director for a large New York ad agency. William Hallahan published his first ...


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ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE – February 1968. Overall rating: ***

STANLEY ELLIN “The Last Bottle in the World.” Novelet, A story that wine lovers will really enjoy the most. Ending a bit weak, but Ellin stands high above every other writer of the suspense story, (5)

DOROTHY L. SAYERS “A Matter of Tast...


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