Robert Lloyd Fish was een Amerikaanse auteur, voornamelijk bekend om zijn bijdragen aan misdaadfictie. Zijn verhalen kenmerken zich door meeslepende spanning en inzichtelijke verkenningen van de aard van misdaad en de daders ervan. Fish verweefde vakkundig ingewikkelde plotlijnen en creëerde personages die lezers meesleurden in de duistere wereld van criminele intriges. Zijn opmerkelijke prestaties in het genre onderstrepen zijn literaire vaardigheid en blijvende impact.
Fünfzehn Jahre haben zwei Männer auf den gleichen Tag gewartet. Für den Juwelenräuber McNeil öffnen sich an diesem Tag die Zuchthaustore. Und für Captain Da Silva kann endlich die Jagd auf McNeils versteckte Beute weitergehen. Doch plötzlich ist es der Detektiv, der durch die Hölle gehetzt wird und für den es weniger um Juwelen geht als ums nackte Leben ... (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)
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An SS Colonel plays out a savage masquerade from the death camps of the Third Reich to Israel's desperate fight for survival. 1944: as the German defeat becomes inevitable, SS Colonel Helmut von Schareder, 'The Monster of Maidanek', lays his plans to escape retribution. Through plastic surgery he becomes a Jew, enters Belsen and awaits liberation. But the war has still a year to run and the masquerade turns into a bitter struggle to survive. From the horrors of Belsen to the new state of Israel and, trapped in his own duplicity, Schraeder becomes a soldier for his new homeland and rises to the rank of General. For General Grossman life, with his beautiful Israeli wife, is good until ... the past re-emerges to confront him with its remorseless face as suddenly, for Benjamin Grossman, alias Helmut von Schareder, alias 'The Monster of Maidanek', the PURSUIT begins.
An anthology of mystery stories by the Mystery Writers of America.A taste for malice? Then feast on this cornucopia of crime. Twenty-four stories present a spectrum of the sinister ranging from the subtle art of impersonation to blackmail to the purest of all forms of malice—murder. Foreword / Robert L. Fish — The merciful / C. L. Sweeney, Jr. — Long shot / Henry Slesar — The letter of the law / Don Knowlton — Every litter bit hurts / Michael Avallone — Strictly diplomatic / John Dickson Carr — The impersonation murder case / Miriam Allen deFord — Always a motive / Dan Ross — The orderly world of Mr. Appleby / Stanley Ellin — Number One / John Holt — The release / Cornell Woolrich — The house at the end of the lane / Browning Norton — Command performance / Anthony Boucher — End of the day / Jane Speed — The reference room / John D. MacDonald — Sauce for the gander / Morris Hershman — Mr. Wickwire’s widow / Mignon Eberhart — Death by the numbers / Ed Lacy — The accident / Julian Symons — String of pearls / Robert Bloch — E = Murder / Ellery Queen — DARL I LUV U / Joe Gores — The inquisitive butcher of Nice / James Holding — The ring with the velvet ropes / Edward D. Hoch — Angelica is still alive / Walter Snow
