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Dan Holiday learned about crime as a hard-boiled newspaper reporter and writes about it as a best-selling mystery novelist. How does he find his plot ideas? He advertises for adventure! Sound like a man you'd like to know? Drop him a note care of Box Thirteen.

Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, we meet Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart...and Norman Conquest, the fast talking, hard hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble and a hell-rake disregard for danger, who keeps up good cheer while he biffs the baddies...and not forgetting Ben, the chivalrous and perky non-descript little man, whose thumbs itch just before ‘something ‘orrible ‘appens’.

Raymond Chandler gilt mit seinem umfangreichen Werk als Pionier des modernen amerikanischen Kriminalromans. Die Helden seiner zahlreichen Romane und Kriminalkurzgeschichten repräsentieren die Prototypen der sogenannten "hardboiled detectives": hartgesottene, zynische Männer, die nicht unbedingt gesetzestreu vorgehen, wenn sie ihre gefährlichen Fälle aufklären.

Cody Hoyt, flic en délicatesse avec sa hiérarchie déjà croisé dans "Trois semaines pour un adieu", a un petit problème avec l'alcool... Le jour où son "parrain" aux Alcooliques anonymes trouve la mort dans l'incendie de sa maison, le shérif décide sans hésiter qu'il s'agit d'un suicide - à l'approche des élections, un meurtre dans le secteur ferait mauvais effet. Tenant la preuve que son mentor a été assassiné, Cody fouine discrètement. Et découvre que le tueur, récidiviste de surcroît, se cache au sein d'une troupe de randonneurs partis découvrir à cheval les vraies joies de la vie sauvage dans le parc du Yellowstone. Là où la situation se corse, c'est que, par le plus grand hasard, le propre fils de Cody se trouve parmi eux. Il convient de le sortir de là au plus vite.

A New York City ex-cop with too many rules and a Spanish ex-spy with too few make the perfect bounty hunters to track down the world’s most wanted.

In The Eyes of Max Carrados, our blind hero, who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart, discovers a story of murder, suicide and a desperate daughter’s quest to clear her father’s name. As the First World War rapidly approaches, we arrive in a sleepy south coast town where Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective, is soon investigating the sudden death of the local museum curator. All is not as it seems, as our blind hero finds himself on the cliff top in a duel to the death.

Following the success of the popular BBC Drama series, Norman Conquest is back! Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour, our fast-talking, hard-hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble keeps up good cheer while he biffs the baddies in four action packed adventures.