Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre from its beginnings in the hands of Edgar Allen...
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to...
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes...
