John Lutz

A major casino robbery turns sour when the getaway car breaks down in the desert. The robbers come across a nearby cabin but it is inhabited by an old loner....

Intrigue, crime, and murder create suspense in this edge-of-your-seat collection of cat mystery stories whose plots are all centered on a beloved feline, written by some of the finest, best-selling mystery writers of all time....

From master mystery author John Lutz comes this collection featuring a gripping man-on-the-run novel and four of his best pieces of short fiction. In The Truth of the Matter, Lou Roebuck is a successful advertising man with all the trappings....

An amateur ballroom dancer is targeted by a serial killer in this riveting mystery by veteran John Lutz....

When the men find him, the boy’s legs look like they were run through a wood-chipper. He’s bleeding heavily and near death, but he still has strength to tell them of the monster that attacked him....

Hattie Evans, a retired schoolteacher, isn’t one to fuss. When her husband drops dead of a heart attack, she does her best to move on without too many tears....

Martin Karpp was Alan Hobson, a compulsive thief. He was Willy Bennet, a flagrant homosexual. He was Jay Jefferson, a fanatic right-winger....

Wilson Capp is an honorable man in a dishonorable profession....

What was once New York's proudest skyscraper is now a heap of ruins, littered with the bodies of the dead and the dying....

Twelve tales of mystery from the pen of best-selling author John Lutz, Shadows Everywhere collects much of the author's early work....

Twenty-Seven short stories from Edgar Award-winning author John Lutz....

Thirty-five short stories by Edgar-winning novelist Lutz are included here, following a perceptive introduction by Nevins....

Alo Nudger, the St. Louis ex-cop whose office is just upstairs from Danny's Donuts, is both the most normal of all fictional private eyes and the most surprising....

Listen to mystery stories by today's top writers and the masters who inspired them. The idea for this collection...

He mutilates his victims. Slices their throats. And carves an X into their flesh. Five years ago, he claimed the lives of six women....

Fred Carver, an Orlando cop until a gunman's bullet shattered his kneecap, acquires a cane and a new career, private investigating....

When he meets Bob Ghostly, it’s hardly the first time that Fred Carver has been asked to find a missing spouse....

A local woman, Marla Cloy, has accused Joel Brandt of harassing her - but, Joel swears they've never et. He turns to Fred Carver to clear his name....

Private eye Fred Carver investigates the slaughter of an ex-cop, the murder of a man who was found stuffed to the gills with cocaine, and other crimes....

Along a beautiful stretch of beach sits a state institution for the criminally insane. When an inmate is found dead on the beach, the rest of the men eye each other coldly....