Kirjahaku

The Luther McGavock stories are not your garden variety hard-boiled detective yarns. These Black Mask stories are so rich in place and detail that they almost seem a travelogue of small-town life in the Deep South. Having bounced around to just about every major agency in the country, Luther McGavock finally settled in the Atherton Browne Agency in Memphis, and his cases take him to small towns in the Tennessee hill-country. As an outsider, McGavock is our tour guide to this odd world of the Deep South. Written by one of the most polished writers to see print in Black Mask, author Merle Constiner's writing is vivid, his characters complex, and his mysteries deep. This edition collects the next four stories in the series.

The Dean returns-smarter, slipperier, and twice as charming. Part-time detective and consummate con man Dean Wardlow Rock makes his living as a faux fortune teller-his business card boldly promising pedomancy: "Fortunes Devined from the Soles of Your Feet." The fortune-teller act is a sales trick; the eccentric, archaic-word-dropping "living encyclopedia" is a mask. Underneath it all is a man who reads people as easily as he reads soles, using guile, showmanship, and a keen reporter's instinct to unmask thieves, blackmailers, jilted lovers-and killers. In The Complete Cases of The Dean, Volume 2, Merle Constiner's slyest sleuth returns in another set of twisty, hard-boiled yarns from the pages of Dime Detective. These stories pair pulp-era snap with crafty con-man brilliance: clever plots, sharp dialogue, and the kind of cunning that only a professional trickster can bring to justice. He'll tell your fortune. He'll solve your murder. Just don't believe everything he says.