Merchants of Menace by Hillary Waugh (Editor)

English | 2019 | Mystery & Thriller | ePUB | 750 KB





Mystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy.



Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the tables on her blackmailer, only to find herself caught in a bigger web of lies than she could have imagined. From Robert Bloch comes a story of a man whose very best friend has the very worst plans for his wife. Miriam Allen deFord tells the mystery of a family that is disappearing off the face of the Earth, one by one. And master of suspense Cornell Woolrich takes us south of the border for a sultry tale of jealousy, death, and revenge from beyond the grave.

And now that the transaction is complete, there is nothing left but to open the book and lose yourself in any one of these twenty suspenseful stories, each written by a true merchant of menace.



H As In Homicide by Lawrence Treat

Domestic Intrigue by Donald E. Westlake

The Front Room by Michael Butterworth

The Real Bad Friend by Robert Bloch

Wide O— by Elsin Ann Gardner

Death On Christmas Eve by Stanley Ellin

Gone Girl by Ross Macdonald

The President’S Half Disme by Ellery Queen

Amateur Standing by Suzanne Blanc

The Peppermint-Striped Goodbye by Ron Goulart

Marmalade Wine by Joan Aiken

Counter Intelligence by Robert L. Fish

The Man Who Played Too Well by Don Von Elsner

Never Hit A Lady by Fred S. Tobey

Farewell To The Faulkners by Miriam Allen Deford

The Dead Past by Al Nussbaum

The Cries Of Love by Patricia Highsmith

Something Evil In The House by Celia Fremlin

The Tilt Of Death by Rod Amateau And David Davis

The Moon Of Montezuma by Cornell Woolrich