Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY:   James "Peter" Piper, bespectacled, lanky reporter "with an ugly face" working for the Herald  somewhere in ...

THE STORY:  The Illinois Grand Opera Federation is being plagued by gruesome deaths. The opera company's small group of divas are turnin...

US paperback edition Popular Library G291 (Dec. 1958) THE STORY: The murder of a farmer appears to be the work of a disgruntled hired ...

US 1st edition (Doubleday Crime Club, 1976) THE STORY: After his half brother Eddie dies in a motorcycle crash Morgan Astey travels to...

THE STORY: Murderous uncle Godfrey Winter does in his snooping nephew Eric and makes it look like natural causes. The victim’s sister ...

THE STORY: Ex-con burglar Bill Cuffy cannot resist what he thinks is an easy theft. He'll break in and steal as much as he can from n...

THE STORY: Francis McNab, crime reporter and amateur criminologist, receives a letter from Ann Cardew asking him to investigate her fathe...

THE STORY: Robin Bishop, California newsman, stumbles across a sport coat left on the beach late one night. Pinned to the jacket is a no...

  "Two forces. Interesting speculation indeed. But it had taken a small boy in search of a dog collar to identify the forces and uncove...