Prologue Books imprint: 453 books

If things seem too good to be true, they probably are. A fateful car accident with a mysterious stranger sets a young man on a startling new path, tangled with promise, mystery, and danger. Presented with an offer too good refuse, working-class John Fell gives up his name to run with the rich...

Max Roper, durable investigator, is sapped, doped and imprisoned on a boat apparently used by a mysterious Oriental for business purposes. The point of this caper is to have Max carry a warning to basketball superstar Jo-Jo Gonzaga that he must throw the championship play-off. When Gonzaga is shot...

Big Bill Stanwood is a lost man since his beloved wife, Katie, died. He has left his job in the homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department; detective work has no interest for him anymore But Bill must keep the promise he made to Katie. He must travel to Ireland, find his wife’s younger...

When Donald Lawson, successful mystery-story writer, is murdered, suspects include almost everyone who ever knew him. He was a man who had no friends and deserved to have none. After his death, it was discovered that he had abandoned his wife, betrayed his friends, and double-crossed every human being...

When millionaire jockey Willie Rich is murdered immediately after winning the $100,000 Princess Stakes, his old friend Max Roper, successful investigator, decides to find out who-dunit. It was set up to look like an accidental death--Willie drowned in his own pool--but Max didn't believe that. Fortunately...

Max Roper is compelled to use all of his resources to stay alive long enough to last through the mystery of The Kissing Gourami. What starts out a fairly simple and even downgrading assignment, quickly becomes an obsessive search for a brutal killer, leading Roper a skill-numbing chase from Los Angeles...

The only uninvited guest was—murder! The host and the principal guests at the wildest, wickedest masquerade ball of the society season were: A playboy millionaire with more women than is good for the health of one man. A golden-limbed vixen who came masquerading as “Eve”—and wearing as little. A costumed killer with a murder in mind. And Peter Chambers, private eye...

A petulant blonde bombshell with a deadly taste for danger … A ham actor who stars dramatically in his own murder … A sharpshooting hoodlum who takes his killing casually … And a lady Greek philosopher with “the longest, shapeliest legs in New York” … These...

He pulled her to him in a fierce, sweaty embrace, and breathed into her parted lips. Set it up for me to see them, honey. Do it for me and I'll... take care of you... The set-up was cash - enough cash to kill for. But something went terribly wrong. And afterwards, blood had to pay for blood.

They were grandstand observers, living the free and easy life: Charley Martins, ex-pug turned remittance man, whose apartment was wired against intruders; Pascale, 18, ash-blonde, better looking than Bardot, a sex-kitten who worked in her father’s café and played with Americans only; Gil...

The proposition sounded like a pushover. All Peter Chambers had to do was find out where a teen-aged chorine had been for the past month and why. And for that information the girl’s father, a prosperous banker, would pay Chambers a cool thousand dollars. It was a quick way to earn...

Love brought them together—the mysterious blonde and the bitter, lonely piano player. Murder stood between them—her secret, reluctant role as an accomplice in the vicious plot that caused to brutal slayings! A wanton blonde’s clandestine romance sets police detective Sammy Golden...

A leggy torch singer of bawdy ballads with an eye-opening dance routine to match . . . A lady jewelry designer with an exclusive - deadly - clientele . . . A sweet young bride with a drawerful of illicit letters that her husband never wrote . . . And murder - three lush man-traps...

''She turned her head, young, pale, with enormous black eyes. She looked at me, but she didn’t see me. I saw her: the round smooth face and the deep black eyes and the full curved glossy mouth, a red underlip protruding in a pout that flicked at your libido despite the flung-about furniture and...