ผู้เขียน: Dell Shannon

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune In the sixteenth century lived two queens about whom much has been written: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart. However, there are more than …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune New York in the days preceding the American Revolution was a dangerous place to be. Just ask sixteen-year-old James Bethune, who seems to …

‘This is a mystery readers’ mystery novel, and a beauty’ Anthony Boucher Walt Mc Lean, the proprietor of Walt’s Malt Shop, had been found dead by his niece. The attack did not appear to be motivated …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Jewel, a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl, has disappeared from her home in a squalid suburb of Los Angeles. A popular young salesman, Steven …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Ronnie and Ruth, a young couple engaged to be married, are shot dead. Someone hated their guts so bad he reloaded and pumped nine shots in …

‘The best American police procedural of the year’ Anthony Boucher Sergeant Ivor Maddox and the Wilcox Street precinct do not have time to rest on their laurels. Currently there is a curious wave of s …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune The Wilcox Street precinct is as busy as ever. Sergeant Maddox and his team face three tricky murder cases, with motives that turn out to …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Sergeant Ivor Maddox of the Wilcox Street precinct has more crime on his hands than even he is accustomed to: murders, con-men, a dismembe …

With a brief note to her employer, Dorrie Mayo left her job – and another note taped to a neighbour’s door claimed she was taking her baby to live with her in-laws on the other side of the U.S. A nat …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Helen is eighteen, respectable, modestly pretty; she disappears. Juanita isn’t much older, and a stunner; she picks men up in bars and the …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Famous LAPD husband and wife sleuths Sergeant Ivor and Detective Sue Maddox return again, this time juggling half a dozen investigations a …

Glamorous TV star Jan Warden is found gruesomely murdered in her bed. In her climb to fame, she has made plenty of enemies and the police are not short of suspects. It has fallen to Ivor and Sue Madd …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Ivor Maddox has his hands more full than ever, with his wife Sue expecting a baby. To add to this, he also faces several of the most compl …

In the Hollywood Division of the L.A.P.D., chief of detectives Ivor Maddox and his team have their hands full. There are the routine cases, including the TV actress who overdoses on drugs and alcohol …

Ivor Maddox and his men of the Hollywood police department face, as ever, a formidable load of tricky and puzzling cases.An unknown woman walks into a lawyer’s office and shoots him dead: who is she …

Mystery writer Brendan Monroe is tormented by the fear that his flamboyant fictional detective P. I. Roy Barron has come to life. Is the author losing his mind? Or is someone making it seem that way? …

It was strictly a duty call and Pat Carroll wasn’t looking forward to it one bit. But she was in Wales and her fiance’s family lived nearby. He was dead now, killed in an accident, and Pat felt that …

Beautiful Nell Varney was a newcomer to Contera – and to murder. Suddenly she found herself in a strange courtroom faced with seven pairs of hate-ridden, accusing eyes. Seven witnesses had identified …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Vic Varallo is an ambitious police officer. He and his wife Laura fix up a room for a guest, Ross Duncan, who seems extremely likeable but …

To the California police the murder of Lilian Blake seems an open-and-shut case. In less than twenty-four hours they have arrested and charged Harry Nielsen, a mentally disabled youth. At first only …

The neighbours all said ten-year-old Paul Brandon would grow up to be a detective: he was remarkably observant and inquisitive. But Paul doesn’t grow up to be a detective; after failing to return one …

Raymond Austin, a neat, discreet banker, was Jesse Falkenstein’s client. Jesse should only have been concerned with Austin’s wife, Tamar, because she was being sued for divorce. But then Tamar is fou …

The brutal and baffling murder of an elderly couple in their quiet suburban home, the kidnapping of two little girls, a bank hold-up, a jewel robbery from a big store – Vic Varallo and the Glendale p …

Sergeant Andrew Clock of Homicide is an honest policeman, but now there’s a very grave charge against him: concealing evidence in a murder investigation in return for a bribe. The evidence seems damn …

Someone in Glendale is murdering elderly housewives in their homes. The signs point to a serial killer but could the police be mistaken? In each case, the killer knew the victim’s routine; but what p …

As always, Jesse Falkenstein and Sergeant Clock have a score of cases on their hands, but Jesse is mainly interested in the murder of Margaret Brandon, a trance medium. He was her lawyer and liked he …

Lieutenant Charles O’Connor of the Glendale police bureau is warned by the Feds that Conway, a crook whose brother was shot by O’Connor during a hold-up, has escaped from jail and is probably bent on …

Jesse Falkenstein was just putting away his notes at the end of the day when he was visited by Mrs Lester, an acquaintance of his sister, who came to him claiming her husband, Glen, had been seen fre …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Ireland, 1749. Dennis Mc Dermott, a witty, charming and daring young man with shades of the Scarlet Pimpernel, lives two lives in eighteen …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times Lieutenant Luis Mendoza works with an outstanding team at the Los Angeles Police Department. They need to be. On their hands is a c …

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is tasked with solving a double murder, shrouded in strange rites. Acting on one of his famous hunches, he is drawn into the world behind the glitter of Hollywood and into the …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times Has an innocent man suffered for another’s crime? Is there, lurking in the background a cunning maniac killer, selecting his victim …

It all started with the baby shower that friends gave Sergeant Hackett. There, Alice Mendoza, bride of Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, met the insufferable Margaret Chadwick.But the next morning, Miss Chadw …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times Lieutenant Mendoza seems to be beset on all sides: at home, his wife Alison is convinced she is having twins; at the office his wor …

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza of the Los Angeles Police Department was vacationing in Bermuda with his wife when the call came. His friend Sergeant Art Hackett had been forced over the edge of a mountain r …

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza likes nothing better than to wrap up his homicide cases neatly. The latest Jane Doe is identified as Valerie Ellis, a spoiled rich kid who was left penniless when her parents …

It’s January in Los Angeles, and the city is experiencing a heatwave. Lieutenant Luis Mendoza’s homicide squad is depleted by the murder of one its members, and the crime-rate is rising as high as th …

The Death-bringers means tragedy for LAPD Homicide. One of Lieutenant Luis Mendoza’s friends is killed while going into a bank. Now Mendoza and his team of detectives are dealing with the loss of a f …

To a man, the members of the LAPD homicide department were yawning with unaccustomed inactivity. Then everything happened at once – a cop killed by a hit-and-run driver; the questionable suicide of a …

At first the murder of Nelson Jamison seemed fairly straightforward. He had been strangled, but next to his corpse lay a hand-printed card with the words The Vengeance is Just. Jamison, a rich ne’er- …

Two men involved in a heist are wanted for double homicide; the body of a young punk is found in an alley; the corpse of a girl lies in the dry riverbed. Everything is, in fact, more or less routine …

The rain brought problems – difficult, ugly, weird problems – for Lieutenant Luis Mendoza. Senseless killings, cold-blooded murders, suicides. To say nothing of a ruthless gang of B-girls whose knock …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is laid low with measles and the Homicide Squad of Los Angeles Police Department has to manage without its …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times Two little girls have been raped and murdered and every available officer in The Los Angeles Police Department is on the case.Lieut …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times When a con-man with many aliases is found shot dead in his car, there is only one clue – a single word that he had scrawled on a me …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times A beautiful Hollywood blonde inexplicably vanishes from the restaurant she is dining in with her fianc and is found with her neck b …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times Things begin to heat up in the Los Angeles Police Department when Lieutenant Luis Mendoza’s stolid and good-natured colleague Serge …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times One of Lieutenant Luis Mendoza’s most respected colleagues, young detective Tom Landers is under suspicion in a stolen car racket.I …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times An earthquake shakes Southern California and the Los Angeles Police Department. With no air-conditioning and a temperature around 9 …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times When a respectable young woman’s naked body is found far from her home, the case proves baffling for Lieutenant Luis Mendoza of the …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times There’s no holiday from crime at the Los Angeles Police Department, not even at Christmas. Among a string of bizarre cases, there’s …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times Queer cases run in batches in Los Angeles and Lieutenant Luis Mendoza has a few of them on his books. There’s the case of the man w …

‘A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense’ Los Angeles Times Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is beset by two insistent puzzlers: how does his team nail the pair who are staging hold-ups at the best re …

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is faced with a crime close to home when his four-year-old twins are kidnapped. Not even Mendoza’s crystal ball can help him while his colleagues explore every possible theory …

The Los Angeles Homicide Department is a revolving door of crime where Lieutenant Luis Mendoza has hardly time to grab a sandwich between the serial muggings of seven senior citizens, the disappearan …

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza celebrates his birthday with a more than usually exuberant outburst of murder and mayhem.What has happened to the abducted Nurse Bradley? What fiend could have tied up Lila We …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Charles O’Connor of the Glendale police and Vic Varallo are having dinner with their wives when they are interrupted by a call informing t …

Lawyer Jesse Falkenstein thought his secretary Miss Williams was a remarkably efficient typist, but he felt she had drawbacks as a legal secretary. She had an earnest face, unfashionable tight curls …

The bodies of three young children, abandoned on a bleak hillside, are discovered by Lieutenant O’Connor’s Afghan hound, and so begins another long and tough investigation for the Glendale Police Dep …

When Nonie Johnson kidnaps her daughter from the adoptive parents, Jesse Falkenstein is brought in. Something seemed wrong from the start – Nonie just wasn’t the maternal type, and then she suddenly …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Vic Varallo and the Glendale P.D. are startled by the latest addition to their team: a woman detective no less, and a very smart one at th …

Dick Tredgold has spent seven years in jail for a murder he insists he did not commit. Now eligible for parole, he refuses to apply, because he feels that by doing so he would acknowledge his guilt. …

Four years ago Wayne Burgess killed his parents, and his plea of insanity lead to a verdict of not guilty. Now, after four years in a mental institution, he has been released and is obsessively deter …

The Manning Company is a big business, but although it was headed by Claire Manning, the founder’s widow, before her death, her son John had been running the firm for many years and was the undispute …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune The Glendale P.D. have their hands full again. What with an epidemic of motel hold-ups, a rapist with a fixation on hospital nurses, a tee …

Old Vandeveer is an odd client for the famous Jesse Falkenstein; dressed head to toe in shabby clothes it seems like he can hardly afford Jesse’s standard fee to draw up a will. But when he and his w …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune As usual, crime is a boom industry in Los Angeles. A gunman walks into a caf and shoots a waitress dead, seemingly at random. A schoolgirl …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune Twenty years ago the five-year-old Traxler heir was kidnapped from his Hollywood home and never seen again. Now his widowed mother is over …

It’s Christmas, but there isn’t much Christmas spirit in the Glendale Police Department. Delia Riordan’s father has just died, Detective Jim Harvey’s family have left for the holidays, there are powe …

The Glendale Police Department are as busy as usual; crime, unlike the weather, is not seasonal. Detective Delia Riordan has moved into a new apartment with her parrot Harry after her father’s death, …

Robert Kinsolving is healthy, wealthy and forty-one, and has asked Jesse Falkenstein to draw up a will leaving everything to his sister, just in case. However, before signing, Kinsolving is found dea …

The body of a woman from respectable, conservative Glendale is found stashed under a ramshackle house in the middle of the inner city. Detective Luis Mendoza marks the rising heat by the crime and vi …

A bunch of kids from a Catholic School on a school trip to the Museum of National History seems like a safe day out. But when the nuns counted heads outside the building, young Joyce Mc Cauley was mi …

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and the LAPD homicide division tackle some of their most shocking cases to date. Half a million dollars is stolen from a fashionable department store; a young divorc e is murd …

Spring fever has hit Luis Mendoza, both on the job and at home. But it hasn’t erased the LAPD’s endless caseload of bizarre crimes and difficult cases.’Dapper Dan’, the rapist and murderer whose dash …

Death is everywhere. A child in a playground. A playboy in a cheap hotel. A John Doe in a freight yard. A nanny and her two charges in a church pew.After twenty-six years in homicide, Lieutenant Luis …

September is the worst month for heat in Southern California, and LAPD lieutenant Luis Mendoza is feeling the burn as the sweltering temperatures raise tempers and violence.Heading the list is the bi …

A nice young man is helping little old ladies with their groceries . . . then stealing their Social Security; an enormous ‘ape man’ with a face like King Kong is robbing liquor stores; ‘Jack the Stri …

An early June hot spell takes its toll as it fuels a wave of bloody and bizarre crimes for Luis Mendoza of the LAPD. Grisliest by far is the psycho they call the werewolf, who gets his kicks by killi …

The weather in LA hasn’t been living up to its sunny reputation – the murder of an unwanted newborn and the assault of a twelve-year-old girl don’t make things pretty for the family-man cop, especial …

A perfect collection of short stories for Dell Shannon fans and mystery lovers everywhere, featuring eight cases of her popular Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, alongside six intriguing non-series tales.Myst …

Ireland, 1651. A country ravaged by Oliver Cromwell’s Act of Settlement. Under it, Fergal O’Breslin, a young clan chief, and his fellow Irish citizens are forced to leave their ancestral lands and tr …

When American journalist Jon Harkness is reassigned to his paper’s London office, he quickly becomes embroiled in a bizarre tale involving an ancient family curse. Whilst out for a drive, his car is …

‘My favourite American crime-writer’ New York Herald Tribune In the quiet suburb of Santa Monica, eighty-eight-year-old Mabel Foster loses her husband to a stroke. Rather than move Mabel into a retir …

Ganz einfach: Man mischt dem Liebhaber ein Betäubungsmittel in den Cocktail – und dann: raus mit der Brieftasche! Diese Methode war Lieutenant Mendoza vom Mord-Dezernat Los Angeles bekannt. Was ihn j …

Another murder, another unanswered question. And Detective Mendoza hates to leave things undone.Hers was the kind of casual homicide that occurred every week in a city like Los Angeles in the sixties …

Ein Mann schleicht nachts durch dunkle Straßen… Er hat nur einen einzigen Gedanken: Hass! Wen hasst er? Und aus welchem Grund? Der Mann weiß es nicht. Aber das eine weiß er: »Ich muss töten…!« Li …

Herbst – die Tage werden kürzer… Herbst – die beste Zeit, innezuhalten und zu lesen… Dieses Buch enthält vier spannende und ausgewählte Top-Krimis aus den Krimi-Reihen des Apex-Verlags, geschrieb …

Die Polizei von Los Angeles steht vor einer Katastrophe: Sieben Morde und Mordversuche ohne eine einzige brauchbare Spur! Oder hält Lieutenant Mendoza den Schlüssel zur Lösung der Verbrechen bereits …

Winter – die Tage sind dunkel und kalt… Winter – die Nächte sind länger und laden ein zum Lesen… Dieses Buch enthält vier spannende und ausgewählte Top-Krimis aus den Krimi-Reihen des Apex-Verlag …

Der rätselhafte Kriminalfall der 23jährigen Valerie Ellis aus Los Angeles beansprucht Lieutenant Mendozas äußerste Konzentration. Wer war diese Frau? Was in aller Welt suchte sie in der Wüste von Ari …