Bøger af Bruce Cassiday

It began like a game of drop-the-hanky. It ended with Cash Madigan fighting his way out of the arms of his brother Buzz's lovely widow - and out of the hot seat for his brother's murder, who had been found brutally murdered in Madigan's home. Why had Buzz died? Did it tie in with Madigan's investigation of a big-money robbery for a surety company? After he had buried his brother, Madigan swore vengeance and doggedly followed a tangled trail strewn with more murdered bodies, and people who were not who they said they were. Along the way to uncover the truth he survived several attempts on his own life ... but for how long would his luck hold out?

Peter Baron: Special Agent - the lead hero of Intrigue magazine in three adventures, from the height of the 1960s James Bond craze. The Cold War heats up as Peter Baron targets I.C.E., a rogue organization attempting to steer the world machine.I.C.E., International Combine of Entrepreneurs (commonly called International Combine for Evil), was a recent outgrowth of the Cold War. They profited monetarily from friction between East and West, recruiting agents from among the castaways of professional spies. Some were dismissed from one country or another for double-dealing, selling secrets, or for arcane diplomatic reasons.Against this international menace, Special agent Peter Baron embarks upon a trio of dangerous assignments: To retrieve 'Deep Sleep, ' a biological agent; to guard agent 'Red Fox' from the Russians; and to locate a spy satellite under the shadow of Kilauea volcano.

Two cases from 'The Ripperman Files'The Floater The man's skull had been beaten in. He was found floating in Coldwater River by an immigrant German fishing in the stream. The only clues to his identity were a laundry mark on his shirt and the results of a chemical analysis of his stomach contents.Coldwater was a quiet commuter town where violent crime was rare. But Captain of Police James Ripperman and his small team felt the pressure as lead after lead ended in a tangle of frustration. But no sooner had the floater's identity become known than maneuvers began to force him to close the case, and Ripperman uncovered the cancerous vein of violence and lust running beneath the placid surface of the seemingly idyllic community ...The HeisterIt was a warm night in Coldwater, Connecticut, but the stunning young woman did not notice the balmy air nor the appreciative glances of those who saw her. So angry was she at her own weakness and indecision that she strode past the center of town into the lower end without realizing it. And then, to complete the fiasco, she turned in at the Sea Girt Bar and Grill.Within seconds, Neil Sands introduced himself over a dry martini. There followed a nightmarish whirlwind of events. Christine Burke found herself at a vacant cottage she had been hired to decorate, and Sands was crushing her with his force of will ... and his overwhelming strength. Christine never had the opportunity to mention she had been hired by Ann Ripperman, wife of the Acting Chief of Police - or that James Ripperman could match a killer's cruelty when murder visited his neighborhood.

His fellow detectives on the Honolulu force didn't like Egan. They couldn't stomach his sick brutality, the unholy glee with which he trapped and roughed-up mugging suspects and other victims for his sadistic fists. But Egan had a reason for the way he was. Five years before, his wife had been raped, carved and killed by an unknown mugger. Now there was a new case for the force to tackle. The victim was blonde and female...and she was bloody and dead. And the case was dumped in Egan's lap.

Sometimes it's a very short flight indeed for a stool-pigeon. One slip of the lip and he's a dead bird. Bonding investigator Cash Madigan found that out when he went to Gotham, Missouri, to track down Royal Blaine, an informer who had tipped him off to an embezzler's whereabouts. It was all neat and well-timed, but Blaine's murder foiled the plot and landed Madigan in jail on suspicion of being the killer. Madigan didn't have an alibi, but a beautiful little rich girl came by and unblushingly provided one so good that Madigan wished it were true! But all it did was to turn Madigan free to be a pigeon himself ... a clay one!

A hardboiled mystery classicAt first, skip tracer Johnny Midas' mission to Mockridge was as familiar as an old tune-to find a missing bank clerk. But swiftly this changed-the search had a jazz beat to it now. For the only friend the bank teller had claimed in town was a has-been jazz trumpeter named Buck Legrande, a man desperately trying for a comeback. Though Buck himself swore he didn't know the missing man, he must have known a lot about some other shady people. Because Buck's comeback soon ended in his murder. Johnny knew that he would have to use everything he had to solve this one...but he didn't count on being as sharp with his ear as he would have to be with his gun!