The rich are very different from you and me. Blessed by great wealth, they can get what they want, even what they shouldn't have. Cursed by great wealth, they become the targets of others who will risk everything to become affluent. I...

This collection brings together some of the greatest short fiction in the crime genre from the past 100 years. Ruth Rendell and Frances Hegarty spearhead the modern genre, moving back through the popular and rarely recorded Graham Gre...

In 'The Dying Detective,' Sherlock Holmes comes close to death, or so his long-suffering colleague, Dr. Watson, thinks. In 'The Assassins' Club,' a murder occurs at a dinner table full of crime novelists. 'The Case of the Tragedies of...