Robert Colby
Список книг автора Robert ColbyMake Mine Vengeance
Vengeance! His name is Gil Ballard. At 31 he is six feet two inches tall and weighs 203 pounds, much of it muscle, but he is easygoing and has not been mad enough to bruise anyone for years. <P> Until now. <P> Because a few weeks ago a handful the mobsters put him in the hospital. Over nothing! A stupid dispute in a bar over a song on the juke box, and they beat Gil to within an inch of his life. <P> And now Gil is out of the hospital. He's looking for the men who've got something to answer for. The whole damned mob is going to pay.
Run for the Money
The killers came for his money – of they would have his woman's life! A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! <p> "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." – Peter Enfantino <p> "He had a journalist's eye for his times. This was especially true in the novels he set in Hollywood. [The Captain Must Die] is his masterpiece. You will not be disappointed." – Ed Gorman
These Lonely, These Dead
Howie was a millionaire and he and Andrea were planning to be married. But he never got to walk to the altar – he was murdered first!
The Star Trap
When struggling actor Glenn Harley helps starlet Nancy Rhymer cover up the death of another actor, he finds himself caught in a web of blackmail, murder, and betrayal.
The Faster She Runs
She went looking for excitement – and found violence and danger instead! A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! <p> "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." – Peter Enfantino <p> "He had a journalist's eye for his times. This was especially true in the novels he set in Hollywood. [The Captain Must Die] is his masterpiece. You will not be disappointed." – Ed Gorman
The Quaking Widow
Burt Keating had been trying to make the acquaintance of his pretty red-headed neighbor but he wasn’t getting very far until the day she escaped from a strange roadside encounter. For when it turned out that murder had resulted from the affair, she threw herself hysterically into Burt's arms, pleading for his help. <P> It seems she had inherited a sealed box, whose contents were entirely unknown. Certain parties wanted that box badly. They had offered her a fortune – or sudden death. <P> Burt knew then that chivalry can go too far, for there was no longer any way out once he’d tangled with THE QUAKING WIDOW.
Murder Mistress
En route to Miami, Scott Daniels comes to the aid of a stranded woman whose date stranded her at a road house. He offers to giver her a lift, and she accepts. a lift, but come across the wrecked car of the man who abandonned her. Valerie begged Scott to save her good name by salvaging her suitcase from the wreck before the cops could find it. But no sooner had he done so, then he learned that instead of being filled with pink unmentionables, it was loaded with green negotiables – hundreds of thousands of them.
Curiosity being stronger than caution, Scott kept his eye on Valerie after dropping her off in Miami. And thus found himself the only element remaining between a gang of ruthless criminals and the perfect crime.A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! <p> "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." – Peter Enfantino <p> "He had a journalist's eye for his times. This was especially true in the novels he set in Hollywood. [The Captain Must Die] is his masterpiece. You will not be disappointed." – Ed Gorman
In a Vanishing Room
Paul Norris, an out-of-work advertising executive, finds himself on a cross-country job tracking down a shipping crate. The crate holds something valuable – but exactly what, exactly, no one will say. In the process of finding the crate, Paul finds himself caught between shady characters, beautiful women…and more than a few double-crosses!
Deadly Desire
Love…or murder – all it takes is two…<P> "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." – Peter Enfantino <P> "He had a journalist's eye for his times. This was especially true in the novels he set in Hollywood. [The Captain Must Die] is his masterpiece. You will not be disappointed." – Ed Gorman
Lament for Julie
Playing With Dynamite <P> Tormented by a satin-skinned package of dynamite who offered him ecstasy unfettered by convention…Bedeviled by another woman who wanted a master…Given 12 hours to get out of town–And then framed for murder… <P> This was the grim situation faced by Todd Corwin shortly after he came to Longport seeking Julie Steadman's killer. <P> If he cleared out of town he was sure of safety. If he stayed, nothing was certain except more trouble with the police and a deepening involvement with the Vollmer clan– <P> Austin, who owns everything in town including the cops…Joy, Austin's wife, who took men where she found them…and Gail, the step-daughter, who would risk anything to take Todd away from Joy."