MERELY HATE by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cab drivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th precinct must hunt down a killer before a city explodes in violence.
WALKING THE LINE by Walter Mosely: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.
WALKING AROUND MONEY by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all new tale featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something is too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he's left holding the bag.
WALKING THE LINE by Walter Mosely: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.
WALKING AROUND MONEY by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all new tale featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something is too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he's left holding the bag.
Three novellas - the one by Walter Mosley is outstanding.
Stories by McBain (87th Precinct), Westlake (Dortmunder) & Mosley can't be beat.